Sara Laporte
A5069120269- Nuclear Physics and Applications
- Spectroscopy and Quantum Chemical Studies
- Radiation Detection and Scintillator Technologies
- Atomic and Subatomic Physics Research
- Protein Structure and Dynamics
- Ionic liquids properties and applications
- Phytochemicals and Antioxidant Activities
- Electrochemical Analysis and Applications
- Particle accelerators and beam dynamics
- Microtubule and mitosis dynamics
- RNA and protein synthesis mechanisms
- Electronic and Structural Properties of Oxides
- Plant Gene Expression Analysis
- Force Microscopy Techniques and Applications
- Dye analysis and toxicity
- Cassava research and cyanide
- Quantum, superfluid, helium dynamics
- Cellular Mechanics and Interactions
- High-pressure geophysics and materials
- Dyeing and Modifying Textile Fibers
- Antioxidant Activity and Oxidative Stress
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Advanced NMR Techniques and Applications
- Minerals Flotation and Separation Techniques
- Particle physics theoretical and experimental studies
University of Milano-Bicocca
2023-2024
National Research Council
2021
Scuola Internazionale Superiore di Studi Avanzati
2019-2021
Sorbonne Université
2015-2020
Institut de minéralogie, de physique des matériaux et de cosmochimie
2020
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2020
Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
2015
The color of food is critical to the and beverage industries, as it influences many properties beyond eye-pleasing visuals including flavor, safety, nutritional value. Blue one rarest colors in nature's palette-especially a cyan blue-giving scientists few sources for natural blue colorants. Finding dye equivalent FD&C No. 1 remains an industry-wide challenge subject several research programs worldwide. Computational simulations large-array spectroscopic techniques were used determine 3D...
We report a density-functional theory (DFT)-based study of the interface bulk water with prototypical oxide surface, MgO(001), and focus our on often-overlooked surface electric field.
Anthocyanins are a broad family of natural dyes, increasingly finding application as substitutes for artificial colorants in the food industry. In spite their importance and ubiquity, molecular principles responsible extreme color variability poorly known. We address these mechanisms by computer simulations photoabsorption experiments cyanidin-3-O-glucoside water solution, proxy more complex members family. Experimental results presented range pH 1-9, accompanied comprehensive systematic...
A key aim of the HighNESS project for European Spallation Source is to enable cutting-edge particle physics experiments. This volume presents a conceptual design report NNBAR experiment. would exploit new cold lower moderator make first search in over thirty years free neutrons converting anti-neutrons. The observation such baryon-number-violating signature be fundamental significance and tackle open questions modern physics, including origin matter-antimatter asymmetry. shows beamline,...
The European Spallation Source (ESS), presently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is a multidisciplinary international laboratory that, once completed at full specifications, will operate the world's most powerful pulsed neutron source. Supported by 3 M Euro Research and Innovation Action within Union Horizon 2020 program, design study (HighNESS) now underway to develop second source located below spallation target. Compared first source, which above target designed for high cold thermal...
Mineral surfaces are known for their catalytic properties, as they have lower kinetic barriers to reactions and modify chemical equilibria. Using ab initio molecular dynamics enhanced sampling methods, we predict that the MgO(001)–water interface thermodynamically favors formation of formic acid from carbon monoxide water. This occurs despite lack direct participation surface atoms, with reaction taking place beyond first adsorbed layer. Furthermore, application an external electric field on...
The European Spallation Source, currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is a multidisciplinary international laboratory. Once completed to full specifications, it will operate the world’s most powerful pulsed neutron source. Supported by 3 million Euro Research and Innovation Action within EU Horizon 2020 program, design study (HighNESS) has been develop second source located below spallation target. Compared first source, designed for high cold thermal brightness, new optimized...
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common and lethal brain tumor. GBM has a remarkable degree of motility able to infiltrate healthy brain. In order perform rationale-based drug-repositioning study, we have used known inhibitors two small Rho GTPases, Rac1 Cdc42, which are upregulated in involved signaling processes underlying orchestration cytoskeleton cellular motility. The selected (R-ketorolac ML141 for Cdc42 R-ketorolac EHT 1864 Rac1) been successfully employed reduce infiltration...
Tetrahydrofuran-containing clathrate hydrate is considered as a potential cold and very neutron moderator material. The fully deuterated form more promising because of the lower absorption cross section deuterium. In this work we present theoretical calculations scattering sections for hydrogenated clathrates at low temperature. are generated by using crystalline structure phonon density states obtained from functional theory calculations. serve to compare against existing or future...
The Arp2/3 molecular machine stimulates the generation of branched actin networks at cytosolic surface cellular membranes. is thus pivotal for cell motility and migration, its aberrant function implicated in cancer invasion metastasis. Here, all-atom multi μs-long dynamics simulations dynamical NetWork Analysis (NWA) unprecedentedly disclose terms regulation (activation/inhibition) by positive/negative allosteric modulators. After identifying crucial structural elements underlying Arp2/3′s...
The European Spallation Source, currently under construction in Lund, Sweden, is a multidisciplinary international laboratory. Once completed to full specifications, it will operate the world's most powerful pulsed neutron source. Supported by 3 million Euro Research and Innovation Action within EU Horizon 2020 program, design study (HighNESS) has been develop second source located below spallation target. Compared first source, designed for high cold thermal brightness, new optimized...
This paper describes the physical modelling of neutron scattering in two polycrystalline inclusion compounds, fully deuterated clathrate hydrate andC60, each with paramagnetic oxygen as guest molecules. For studying suitability these materials for moderation to very low energies, model includes, addition magnetic by oxygen, nuclear all constituents. The theoretical total cross sections are calculated based on phonon density states obtained functional theory and molecular dynamics...