In the built environment, species of section Aspergillus are among the primary colonizers of building materials (Flannigan and Miller 2011). Modern heating systems are designed to remove humidity from buildings, creating opportunities for xerophiles to dominate indoor fungal communities. Also of concern...
energies Article A New Methodology for Assessing the Energy Consumption of Building Stocks Ilaria Ballarini * ID and Vincenzo Corrado Department of Energy, Politecnico di Torino, Corso Duca degli Abruzzi 24, 10129 Torino, Italy; vincenzo.corrado@polito.it * Correspondence: ilaria.ballarini@polito.it;...
The first one called "bottom-up" is based on building them from scratch, atom by atom [5]. Depending on the desired properties of the final product, the substrates may be atoms, molecules and colloidal particles. There is also the reverse concept of producing nanoparticles, called "top-down...