Publications by authors named "F Cardano"
Interface properties of nanostructured carbon-coated biological implants: an overview.
Beilstein J Nanotechnol
August 2024
The interfaces between medical implants and living tissues are of great complexity because of the simultaneous occurrence of a wide variety of phenomena. The engineering of implant surfaces represents a crucial challenge in material science, but the further improvement of implant properties remains a critical task. It can be achieved through several processes.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFAn optical waveplate rotating light polarization can be modeled as a single-qubit unitary operator. This analogy can be exploited to experimentally retrieve a polarization transformation within the paradigm of quantum process tomography. Standard approaches to tomographic problems rely on the maximum-likelihood estimation, providing the most likely transformation to yield the same outcomes as a set of experimental projective measurements.
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- Imidazo[1,5-]pyridine is a stable chemical scaffold that is effective for creating fluorescent compounds used in fields like optoelectronics and chemical biology, making them promising cell membrane probes.
- Five fluorophores based on this scaffold were synthesized using a one-pot method and tested for their ability to indicate membrane dynamics and cellular health.
- The study found that these probes showed excellent solvatochromic behavior and successfully intercalated into liposomes, suggesting their potential for future research as fluorescent agents in membrane studies.
Accurately measuring mechanical displacements is essential for a vast portion of current technologies. Several optical techniques accomplish this task, allowing for non-contact sensing even below the diffraction limit. Here we introduce an optical encoding technique, dubbed "linear photonic gears", that enables ultra-sensitive measurements of a transverse displacement by mapping it into the polarization rotation of a laser beam.
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- The study focused on three ternary mixtures containing choline chloride (ChCl), ethylene glycol (EG), and various hydrogen bond donors (ethanol, 2-propanol, and glycerol) to assess their influence on band gap energy (BGE).
- A Design of Experiments (DoE) approach was used, particularly a three-component design, which helped identify how changing the composition affected BGE, analyzed through UV-VIS data and Tauc plot methodology.
- Findings indicated a significant drop in BGE for specific combinations, showing a low value of 3.85 eV for the mixtures of ChCl with ethanol and 2-propanol in a 1:1 ratio