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Nanosecond electric pulses rapidly enhance the inactivation of Gram-negative bacteria using Gram-positive antibiotics
Physically disrupting microorganism membranes to enable antibiotics to overcome resistance mechanisms that inhibit or excrete antibiotics has great...
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Generation of Membrane Potential by Cytochrome bd
AbstractAn overview of current notions on the mechanism of generation of a transmembrane electric potential difference (Δψ) during the catalytic...
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Preservation of the Physical, Bioactive, and Sensory Properties of Sour Cherry Juice with Multiple Non-thermal Treatments
Sour cherry juice is one of the most popular and most consumed juice worldwide because of its unique color, flavor, aroma, and health-promoting... -
Bio-piezoelectricity: fundamentals and applications in tissue engineering and regenerative medicine
In recent years, smart materials have piqued the interest of scientists and physicians in the biomedical community owing to their ability to modify...
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Transduction of Signals
Communication between the cells of a multicellular organism is a necessity for its life. Signaling chains are needed for the coordination of the... -
Electro – Technologies
This chapter provides an overview of specific technologies used in nonthermal processing of food: pulsed electric field (PEF), cold plasma (CP),... -
Biophysical control of plasticity and patterning in regeneration and cancer
Cells and tissues display a remarkable range of plasticity and tissue-patterning activities that are emergent of complex signaling dynamics within...
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The Sensory World of Fish
In school, you probably learned that humans have five senses. These are the sense of sight, hearing, smell, taste, and touch. There are also a... -
Circular Dichroism
In our analysis of how an electromagnetic radiation field interacts with electrons, we have, to this point, considered only the oscillating electric... -
Energy storage in carbon materials synthesized from fir bark modified with graphite and zinc chlorine
The purpose of this study is to investigate the synthesis process of composite materials based on fir bark for thermochemical transformation and to...
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The Use of Optically Transparent Electrodes to Assess the Quality of Erythrocytes during Storage
AbstractUsing an electrochemical method based on the use of an optically transparent working electrode, it was shown that, under conditions of...
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Molecular dynamics study of Cl− permeation through cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR)
The recent elucidation of atomistic structures of Cl − channel CFTR provides opportunities for understanding the molecular basis of cystic fibrosis....
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Engineering Interventions for Climate-Resilient Forage Production
India is an agriculture-based society in which dryland agriculture is an integral part of the same. With use of excessive fertilizer and water there... -
Dynamic Stark effect in β and γ carotenes induced by photoexcitation of bacteriochlorophyll c in chlorosomes from Chloroflexus aurantiacus
Chlorosomes of green bacteria can be considered as a prototype of future artificial light-harvesting devices due to their unique property of...
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Clustering of charged colloidal particles in the microgravity environment of space
We conducted a charge–charge clustering experiment of positively and negatively charged colloidal particles in aqueous media under a microgravity...
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Controlled electron transfer by molecular wires embedded in ultrathin insulating membranes for driving redox catalysis
Organic bilayers or amorphous silica films of a few nanometer thickness featuring embedded molecular wires offer opportunities for chemically...
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Effects of sugar concentration on the electroporation, size distribution and average size of charged giant unilamellar vesicles
We investigated the effects of sugar concentration on the electroporation, size distribution and average size of giant unilamellar vesicles (GUVs)....
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Chemical Changes During Physical Treatments
Physical treatments generally induce changes only in the packing arrangements of starch polymer molecules within granules. However, some physical... -
Pulsed electric field inactivation of microorganisms: from fundamental biophysics to synergistic treatments
The growth of antibiotic resistant microorganisms and the increasing demand for nonthermal antimicrobial treatment in the food and beverage industry...
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Can electrostatic fields limit the take-off of tiny whiteflies (Bemisia tabaci)?
Electrostatic fields are abundant in the natural environment. We tested the idea that electrostatic attraction forces between tiny whiteflies ( Bemisia...