Abstract:
The present invention concerns the use of a thioether alkylation process for modulating the lower critical solution temperature of an elastin-like polypeptide comprising at least one methionine residue. It also concerns derivatives of elastin-like polypeptides and their preparation process.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method and system for visualising infrared radiation emitted by a source. According to the invention, the visualising system comprises a substrate, at least one solid temperature-sensitive layer containing thermochromic pigments having at least one transition temperature T H associated with a visible colour change, and at least one intermediate layer placed between the substrate and the solid layer containing thermochromic pigments; the substrate, said at least one intermediate layer and the solid temperature-sensitive layer containing thermochromic pigments forming a multilayer suitable for absorbing infrared electromagnetic radiation and for inducing a local temperature increase dT; and said at least one intermediate layer being suitable for transferring, by thermal conduction, said local temperature increase dT to a region of the solid temperature-sensitive layer, so as to induce a local change in the visible colour of the solid temperature-sensitive layer of thermochromic pigments.
Abstract:
The present invention relates to a method for exfoliating graphite in carbonaceous materials facilitated by a Diels-Alder reaction, and the applications of same, in particular for producing electronic or microelectronic components such as transparent conductive electrodes. The method of the invention is characterised in that it comprises a Diels-Alder reaction between a material containing graphite and an anthrone compound represented by the following formula (I), in which X, R 1 , R 2 , R 3 and R 4 are as defined in the description, in an organic solvent, in the presence of a base, and subjected to sonication, crushing and/or mixing, at a temperature of between 15°C and 65°C, to obtain the corresponding graphene Diels-Alder adduct.
Abstract:
Method for producing an active layer capable of emitting an electric current under irradiation The present invention concerns the field of organic electronics for photovoltaic energy, that is to say the conversion of light energy into electricity. The invention relates in particular to a method for producing an active layer capable of emitting an electric current under light irradiation, said layer combining a ferroelectric polymer material and a semiconductor polymer allowing the transformation of light energy into electricity.
Abstract:
The present invention concerns the use of a compound having the following formula (I):
for the preparation of a polymer. The present invention also concerns the polymers obtained from the polymerization of compound of formula (I), and their processes of preparation.
Abstract:
Accurate localization of isolated particles is important in single particle based super-resolution microscopy. It allows the imaging of biological samples with nanometer-scale resolution using a simple fluorescence microscopy setup. Nevertheless, conventional techniques for localizing single particles can take minutes to hours of computation time because they require up to a million localizations to form an image. In contrast, the present particle localization techniques use wavelet-based image decomposition and image segmentation to achieve nanometer-scale resolution in two dimensions within seconds to minutes. This two-dimensional localization can be augmented with localization in a third dimension based on a fit to the imaging system's point-spread function (PSF), which may be asymmetric along the optical axis. For an astigmatic imaging system, the PSF is an ellipse whose eccentricity and orientation varies along the optical axis. When implemented with a mix of CPU/GPU processing, the present techniques are fast enough to localize single particles while imaging (in real-time).
Abstract:
A method for the real-time estimation of the total consumption of a fluid, in particular water or gas, distributed from a unit (A) to users (b1, b2...) via a network of supply pipes (E) with a branch (d1, d2...), for each user, fitted with a counter (c1, c2...) of the fluid consumed by the user, which method involves defining cohorts of users having homogeneous behaviour with regard to the consumption of fluid; defining, for at least one of these cohorts, a sample of users from the cohort that is statistically sufficient to represent the cohort; fitting only the branches of the users of each sample with a remote reading device (t1, t2,...) for reading the consumption; also fitting remote reading devices to the branches of the users of the other cohorts that have not been sampled; and processing the information provided by the remote reading devices to obtain a real-time value representative of the total consumption of the network.
Abstract:
The subject matter of the invention is a condylar prosthesis (10) for a temporo-mandibular joint, the condylar prosthesis (10) comprising a mandibular implant (12), which is intended to be rigidly attached to the branch of a mandible, and a joint head (16), which is intended to serve as a replacement mandibular condyle, the mandibular implant (12) comprising an anchoring stem (14) permitting the use of an intramedullary connection in the summit of the branch of the mandible, and the distal end of the anchoring stem (14) being offset towards the front of the prosthesis (10) with respect to the joint head (16) and in a median plane of the prosthesis (10), the condylar prosthesis (10) being characterized in that the anchoring stem (14) follows a curved profile along its length and in the median plane of the prosthesis, the direction of curvature of the anchoring stem being oriented towards the front of the prosthesis.