Debt structure and strategy All our core borrowings of bonds and loans are green financed. As of 30 September 2024, 83% of our net debt was on a fixed rate. Most borrowings are long term with the exception of the bridge loan. In July 2024, the Group entered into a new €120m bridge...
A practical application is that the increase in female mortality could be used as an additional process to separate the sterile males from the females by keeping them for some days in the insectary following mechanical separation that results in 1% or more female contamination of the sterile male ...
Thus, more water molecules may have the opportunity to enter the protein and form new hydrogen bonds with hydroxyl groups in the proteins24. This may increase the water-holding capacity of decolored proteins. In addition, several studies have reported that hydrogen peroxide treatment exposes the ...
Furthermore, the utilization of artificial intelligence (AI)14,15 and hybrid functionalities16,17 is recently proposed as a promising direction for the application of wearable skin devices. AI can be employed to facilitate real-time assessment of the user’s physiological status by transmitting and ...
The negatively charged surface of the silica attracts Na+, causing a steric effect that allows H2O more access to the Si–O bonds, which dissolves the silica passivation layer more rapidly70,81,84. A mineralization experiment with steel slag produced 0.98 wt% more MgCO3 using 0.7 M ...
Lysozyme catalyzes the hydrolysis of glycosidic bonds of peptidoglycan. The antimicrobial action of histones has been attributed to the disruption of membrane integrity67. Furthermore, similar to histones, lysozyme and hGIIA can insert into negatively charged bacterial membrane forming pores52,68,69,70...
Fig. 5: Application examples of ion-beam-induced-film-wetting. a,bProof-of-concept gas sensing prototype.aOptical image of IBFW film that connects two droplets settled on Au electrodes.bResults of IBFW nano-circuit humidity sensor compared with a micrometer droplet circuit. The inset shows the...
could be caused by the formation of a metal-to-sulfur bond with DMSO. This effect is more pronounced for Cu and Sn than for Zn, but visible for all metals. Zn–S stretching vibrations should be located at 250 and274cm−1, but are missing, which emphasizes the lack of Zn–S bonds...
Hydrogen Bonding Analysis Hydrogen bonds formed between the protein and the ligands were mostly seen in the activation loop region of the protein during the simulation. Thus, they may play an essential role in stabilizing protein ligand complexes [50]. In this study, the hydrogen bonds that ...
Gels obtained through chemical interactions are generally resistant, as they are mainly formed by covalent bonds (primary forces), while gels resulting from physical interactions are less resistant, as they are maintained through different secondary forces, such as hydrogen bonds, hydrophobic interactions...