Metamaterials are attracting increasing attention due to their ability to support novel and engineerable electromagnetic functionalities. In this paper, we investigate one of these functionalities, i.e the extraordinary optical transmittance (EOT) effect based on silicon nitride (Si3N4) membranes patterned with a periodic lattice of micrometric holes. Here, the coupling between the incoming electromagnetic

Albumin nanoparticles (NPs) and PEGylated liposomes have garnered tremendous interest as therapeutic drug carriers due to their unique physicochemical properties. These unique properties also have significant effects on the composition and structure of the protein corona formed around these NPs in a biological environment. Herein, the protein corona formation on albumin NPs and liposomes was simultaneously

Cork is a renewable and sustainable material, highly porous and lightweight. We valorised waste cork and recycled wine stoppers to make pyrolysed/carbonised solid cork, for use as economic and sustainable microwave (MW) absorbers at the microwave X-band (8-12 GHz), without binder or additives. Although cork is already a very lightweight material (0.16 g/cm3), the pyrolysed cork is five-times less dense