Thioflavin T (ThT) is a fluorescent dye able to enhance significantly its fluorescence quantum yield upon binding to protein amyloids. ThT assay is widely used to detect and quantify amyloids in a variety of conditions, ...

This paper investigates the influence of asphalt mixture type (aggregate gradation) and compaction energy level on the degradation of aggregate during laboratory compaction. The most severe form of laboratory compaction ...

The research undertaken concerns the analysis of original Byzantine mortars and the study of new compatible lime-based mixtures, for conservation purposes, which present enhanced resistance to sulphates. The thesis focuses ...

The effect of amplitude and rate control constraints in active flutter suppression was analysed for a number of different linear and nonlinear control laws considering mathematical model of two degree-of freedom aeroelastic ...

The adhesion and material properties of diamond-like carbon (DLC), deposited by the radio-frequency plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition technique, can be significantly affected by the substrate material on which the ...

Low temperature plasma carburizing is a surface engineering technique developed for austenitic stainless steels to achieve combined improvements in tribological and corrosion resistant properties. However, very little ...