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Cell shape recognition by colloidal cell imprints: Energy of the cell-imprint interaction (2015)
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Borovicka, J., Stoyanov, S. D., & Paunov, V. N. (2015). Cell shape recognition by colloidal cell imprints: Energy of the cell-imprint interaction. Physical review. E, Statistical, nonlinear, and soft matter physics, 92(3), 1-8. https://doi.org/10.1103/physreve.92.032730

The results presented in this study are aimed at the theoretical estimate of the interactions between a spherical microbial cell and the colloidal cell imprints in terms of the Derjaguin, Landau, Vervey, and Overbeek (DLVO) surface forces. We adapted... Read More about Cell shape recognition by colloidal cell imprints: Energy of the cell-imprint interaction.

Artificial leaf device for hydrogen generation from immobilised C. reinhardtii microalgae (2015)
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Das, A. A. K., Esfahani, M. M. N., Velev, O. D., Pamme, N., & Paunov, V. N. (2015). Artificial leaf device for hydrogen generation from immobilised C. reinhardtii microalgae. Journal of Materials Chemistry A, 3(41), 20698-20707. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ta07112g

We developed a fully biomimetic leaf-like device for hydrogen production which allows incorporated fabric-immobilised microalgae culture to be simultaneously hydrated with media and harvested from the produced hydrogen in a continuous flow regime wit... Read More about Artificial leaf device for hydrogen generation from immobilised C. reinhardtii microalgae.

An environmentally benign antimicrobial nanoparticle based on a silver-infused lignin core (2015)
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Richter, A. P., Brown, J. S., Bharti, B., Wang, A., Gangwal, S., Houck, K., …Velev, O. D. (2015). An environmentally benign antimicrobial nanoparticle based on a silver-infused lignin core. Nature nanotechnology, 10(9), 817-823. https://doi.org/10.1038/nnano.2015.141

Silver nanoparticles have antibacterial properties, but their use has been a cause for concern because they persist in the environment. Here, we show that lignin nanoparticles infused with silver ions and coated with a cationic polyelectrolyte layer... Read More about An environmentally benign antimicrobial nanoparticle based on a silver-infused lignin core.

Nanotoxicity of polyelectrolyte-functionalized titania nanoparticles towards microalgae and yeast: Role of the particle concentration, size and surface charge (2015)
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Al-Awady, M. J., Greenway, G. M., & Paunov, V. N. (2015). Nanotoxicity of polyelectrolyte-functionalized titania nanoparticles towards microalgae and yeast: Role of the particle concentration, size and surface charge. RSC advances, 5(46), 37044-37059. https://doi.org/10.1039/c5ra05577f

We studied the nanotoxicity of titania nanoparticles (TiO₂NPs) of various hydrodynamic diameters and crystallite sizes towards C. reinhardtii microalgae and S. cerevisiae (yeast) upon illumination with UV and visible light. The cell viability was ass... Read More about Nanotoxicity of polyelectrolyte-functionalized titania nanoparticles towards microalgae and yeast: Role of the particle concentration, size and surface charge.

Sound absorption of porous cement composites: effects of the porosity and the pore size (2015)
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Rutkevičius, M., Austin, Z., Chalk, B., Mehl, G. H., Qin, Q., Rubini, P. A., …Paunov, V. N. (2015). Sound absorption of porous cement composites: effects of the porosity and the pore size. Journal of materials science, 50(9), 3495-3503. https://doi.org/10.1007/s10853-015-8912-5

© 2015, Springer Science+Business Media New York. We prepared sound absorbing cement–hydrogel composites using a hydrogel slurry templating technique. We air-dried the wet cement composites containing a varying percentage and size of entrapped hydrog... Read More about Sound absorption of porous cement composites: effects of the porosity and the pore size.