The challenge of cleaning woven filter cloth in the beverage industry—wash jets as an appropriate solution

RA Werner, DU Geier, T Becker - Food Engineering Reviews, 2020 - Springer
Beverage production requires many different and complex unit operations. One crucial
procedural step is filtration. Typical filters are filter presses, candle filters, membrane filters …

Innovative silicon microgrippers for biomedical applications: Design, mechanical simulation and evaluation of protein fouling

C Potrich, L Lunelli, A Bagolini, P Bellutti, C Pederzolli… - Actuators, 2018 - mdpi.com
The demand of miniaturized, accurate and robust micro-tools for minimally invasive surgery
or in general for micro-manipulation, has grown tremendously in recent years. To meet this …

Surface modifications to polydimethylsiloxane substrate for stabilizing prolonged bone marrow stromal cell culture

YJ Chuah, ZT Heng, JS Tan, LM Tay, CS Lim… - Colloids and Surfaces B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) has been extensively used as a supporting material for
studies of cell mechanobiology, cell micropatterning and microscale-cell analysis in …

Tuning physio-mechanical properties of graded micropillar polydimethylsiloxane substrates for cellular attachment and guided migration

M Shahriar, MM Uddin, EP Mora, H Xu… - Journal of Materials …, 2023 - Springer
The study of cell–substrate interaction and cellular behavior is critical in tissue engineering
and microfluidic research. Since the substrate properties affect the cellular response, it is …

Local surface electric field's effect on adsorbed proteins' orientation

L Filali, Y Brahmi, JD Sib, Y Bouizem, D Benlakehal… - Surfaces, 2019 - mdpi.com
Hydrogenated nanocrystalline silicon, while being non-charged and non-polar, could be an
ideal candidate for the non-covalent and orientation-controlled immobilization of …

Conformational study of protein interactions with hydrogen-passivated amorphous silicon surfaces: Effect of pH

Y Brahmi, L Filali, JD Sib, A Bouhekka… - Applied Surface …, 2017 - Elsevier
Abstract The adsorption of Bovine Serum Albumin (BSA) proteins on amorphous silicon (a-
Si) surfaces was studied with respect to solution pH. Thin films of a-Si were deposited using …

Molecular hydrogen‐induced nucleation of hydrogenated silicon nanocrystals at low temperature

L Filali, Y Brahmi, JD Sib, F Kail… - Surface and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Highly crystallized hydrogenated silicon layers were obtained via the treatment of
hydrogenated polymorphous silicon films in a molecular hydrogen ambient. This contrasts …

Analysis increase in the efficiency of a-Si: H solar cell due to the addition of an intrinsic layer to the pin structure by ellipsometric spectroscopy

S PRAYOGI, Y Cahyono, D Darminto - 2021 - researchsquare.com
1. Background One of the main problems found in hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si: H)
based solar cells is the instability of their efficiency after being exposed to high intensity for a …