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    • Advancements in sustainable natural dyes for textile applications: a review 

      Pizzicato, Barbara; Pacifico, Severina; Cayuela Marín, Diana; Mijas Vélez, Gabriela Dayana; Riba Moliner, Marta (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-08-08)
      Article
      Open Access
      The dyeing and finishing step represents a clear hotspot in the textile supply chain as the wet processing stages require significant amounts of water, energy, and chemicals. In order to tackle environmental issues, natural ...
    • Integration of ion exchange resins and membrane technology for purification of boron from seawater desalination brines 

      Figueira Alves, Mariana; Reig i Amat, Mònica; Cortina Pallás, José Luís; Valderrama Angel, César Alberto (Elsevier BV, 2023-05)
      Article
      Open Access
      Boron is considered a critical raw material (CRM) to the European Union (EU) due to its economic importance and supply risk. To ensure the sustainable supply of boron and other CRMs to EU industry in a circular economy ...
    • Machine learning-based recovery of thermophysical information from velocity data in supercritical fluids turbulence 

      Masclans Serrat, Núria; Vázquez-Novoa, Fernando; Bernades, Marc; Badia Sala, Rosa Maria; Jofre Cruanyes, Lluís (European Research Community on Flow, Turbulence, and Conbustion (ERCOFTAC), 2023)
      Conference report
      Open Access
      Recent research has shown the possibility to achieve microconfined turbulence utilizing supercritical fluids under high-pressure transcritical conditions. This has generated increasing interest in the hybrid nature of the ...
    • Coupling capillary-driven microfluidics with lateral flow immunoassay for signal enhancement 

      Azizian, Pooya; Casals Terré, Jasmina; Guerrero-SanVicente, Elena; Grinyte, Ruta; Ricart Campos, Jordi; Cabot, Joan Marc (Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute (MDPI), 2023-08-01)
      Article
      Open Access
      Microfluidics has emerged as a versatile technology that is applied to enhance the performance of analytical techniques, among others. Pursuing this, we present a capillary-driven microfluidic device that improves the ...
    • Quantum-inspired protocol for measuring the degree of similarity between spatial shapes 

      Urrego González, Daniel Fernando; Pérez Torres, Juan (2022-11)
      Article
      Open Access
      We put forward and demonstrate experimentally a quantum-inspired protocol that allows us to quantify the degree of similarity between two spatial shapes embedded in two optical beams without the need to measure the amplitude ...
    • Green approaches in rubber recycling technologies: present status and future perspective 

      Wisniewska, Paulina; Haponiuk, Josef T; Colom Fajula, Xavier; Saeb, Mohammad Reza (American Chemical Society (ACS), 2023-06-05)
      Article
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      As a consequence of massive production and consumption of rubbers, rubber blends, and rubber composites for myriad applications, elastomeric products have enormously accumulated and become an environmental threat. The ...
    • Operando high-pressure investigation of size-controlled CuZn catalysts for the methanol synthesis reaction 

      Jiménez Divins, Nuria; Kordus, David; Timoshenko, Janis; Sinev, Ilya; Zegkinoglou, Ioannis; Bergmann, Arno; Chee, See Wee; Widrinna, Simon; Karslioglu, Osman; Mistry, Hemma; Lopez Luna, Mauricio; Zhong, Jian Qiang; Hoffman, Adam S.; Anibal Boscoboinik, Jorge; Heggen, Marc; Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal E.; Roldan Cuenya, Beatriz (2021-03-04)
      Article
      Open Access
      Although Cu/ZnO-based catalysts have been long used for the hydrogenation of CO2 to methanol, open questions still remain regarding the role and the dynamic nature of the active sites formed at the metal-oxide interface. ...
    • Entropy-based early detection of critical transitions in spatial vegetation fields 

      Tirabassi, Giulio; Masoller Alonso, Cristina (International Academy of Sciences (NAS), 2023-01-03)
      Article
      Open Access
      In semiarid regions, vegetated ecosystems can display abrupt and unexpected changes, i.e., transitions to different states, due to drifting or time-varying parameters, with severe consequences for the ecosystem and the ...
    • La danza de Mondrian: una aproximación al dibujo y al dibujar 

      Gomes, Renata (2022-07-15)
      Article
      Open Access
      El artículo expone una experiencia didáctica en el ámbito del dibujo arquitectónico. Se procura estimular el dibujo y el dibujar asiente en las vertientes sensitiva, corporal y emocional frente a la generalizada tendencia ...
    • Flat roofs characterization in Barcelona's historic center 

      Cornadó Bardón, Còssima; Varela Conde, Ainhoa; Vima Grau, Sara; Domènech Rodríguez, Marta; Ravetllat Mira, Pere Joan (Springer, 2023-09)
      Part of book or chapter of book
      Restricted access - publisher's policy
      Historic centers usually have a dense urban fabric and little availability of open public space. After the covid19 pandemic, this lack has become even more apparent. In this context, the communal flat roofs of the buildings ...
    • Mapping life expectancy loss in Barcelona in 2020 

      Puig Oriol, Xavier; Ginebra Molins, Josep (2023-05-04)
      Article
      Open Access
      We use a Bayesian spatio-temporal model, first to smooth small-area initial life expectancy estimates inBarcelona for 2020, and second to predict what small-area life expectancy would have been in 2020 inabsence of covid-19 ...
    • Modeling Barcelona sidewalks: a high resolution urban scale assessment of the geometric attributes of the walkable network 

      Valls Dalmau, Francesc; Clua Uceda, Álvaro (Public Library of Science (PLOS), 2023-07-27)
      Article
      Open Access
      Within the framework of urban pedestrian networks, this paper presents a method of modeling the street network from the perspective of foot traffic, beyond the vehicle-focused street centerline representation approach in ...

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