Ab-initio materials modelling based on the Density Functional Theory is used to investigate the structural and electronic properties of a novel oxide material obtained by doping zirconium oxide (ZrO2 - zirconia) with Ta ...

In the attempt of studying the processes that lead to the building blocks of life, in this work the microwave spectroscopic survey conducted on 2-Propene-1-Imine will be presented. This molecule, a possible intermediate ...

Zirconia-toughened-alumina (ZTA) is one of the most used bioceramic material for artificial hip joints. Some of the reasons for its success are the mechanical properties of this material, in particular, the high flexural ...

Atomic Layer Deposition (ALD) is a bottom-up process for the manufacturing of inorganic nanostructured thin films, with thickness down to a fraction of a monolayer. Thanks to its unique mechanism of growth, ALD is a powerful ...

Cancer is a complex disease that can start mainly in any organ in the body when abnormal cells grow in an uncontrolled manner to invade neighbouring parts of the body to spread to other organs.The inhibition of proteins ...

Porous ceramics are a class of materials which have found a large number of applications in various industrial fields. Thanks to their interesting physico-chemical properties, these compounds have been exploited both in ...

Alcuni contaminanti ambientali sono non biodegradabili e pericolosi per la salute umana con effetti tossici su svariati target nell’organismo. Ad oggi diversi studi suggeriscono il legame di alcuni di questi contaminanti ...

Cancer is one of the leading causes of death throughout the world and the number of cases per year is reported to rise to 23.6 million by 2030. Amongst the different types of treatments available, chemotherapy represent ...

The commonly accepted protein folding mechanism hinges upon the idea that all the information required for a protein to reach the native conformation are encoded in its primary sequence. However, an equally important role ...

Short circulating half-life and poor plasma stability and solubility remain key challenges in the field of therapeutic peptide; to overcome these limitations we decided to take advantage of serum albumin, a protein that ...