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    • 1,2,3-Triazole Derivatives as Novel Antifibrinolytic Drugs 

      Bosch-Sanz, Oriol; Rabadà, Yvette; Biarnés, Xevi; Pedreño, Javier; Caveda, Luis; Balcells, Mercedes; Martorell López, Jordi; Sánchez-García, David (International Journal of Molecular Sciences, 23(23), 2022, 14942, 2022)
      Fibrinolysis is a natural process that ensures blood fluidity through the removal of fibrin deposits. However, excessive fibrinolytic activity can lead to complications in different circumstances, such ...
    • 15 años de laboratorios virtuales en química (I) ¿Qué son? ¿Para qué sirven? 

      Cuadros, Jordi (Alambique. Vol.76 (2014), p.55-62, 2014)
      Hace unos 15 años, entre 1997 y 2000, aparecieron un conjunto de entornos de simulación que representan un laboratorio de química. Se recogen en este artículo, el estado actual de siete de estas ...
    • 1H-Pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines: Synthesis and Biomedical Applications 

      Donaire-Arias, Ana; Montagut, Ana Maria; Puig de la Bellacasa, Raimon; Teixidó, Jordi; Borrell, Jose I. (Molecules 27(7), 2022, 2237, 2022)
      Pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines are a group of heterocyclic compounds presenting two possible tautomeric forms: the 1H- and 2H-isomers. More than 300,000 1H-pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines have been described which ...
    • 3D Printing of Silicone Organogel Elastomers for Structured Soft Biomaterials 

      Li, Yiqun; Nieva Esteve, Gloria; Borrós, Salvador; Texidó Bartes, Robert; Pena-Francesch, Abdon (ACS Biomaterials Science & Engineering 2025, 11 (3), 1806–1817, 2025-03-10)
      Creating customizable soft medical implants and devices tailored to patient-specific anatomy represents a significant challenge in healthcare, requiring 3D-printable materials with viscoelastic properties ...
    • 9-Aryl-phenalenones: Bioinspired thermally reversible photochromic compounds for photoswitching applications in the pico-to milliseconds range 

      Bresolí-Obach, Roger; Massad, Walter; Abudulimu, Abasi; Lüer, Larry; Flors, Cristina; Luis, Javier G.; Rosquete, Laura I.; Abad- Grillo, Teresa; Anamimoghadam, Ommid; Bucher, Götz; Nonell, Santi (Dyes and Pigments 2021, 186, 2021-02)
      Ultrafast photochromic molecules are being actively investigated to meet the demand for fast optical switching systems. Inspired on the irreversible cyclization of 9-phenylphenalenone plant metabolites ...
    • A near-infrared light-activatable Ru(ii)-coumarin photosensitizer active under hypoxic conditions 

      Ortega Forte, Enrique; Rovira, Anna; López Corrales, Marta; Hernández García, Alba; Ballester, Francisco José; Izquierdo García, Eduardo; Jordà Redondo, Mireia; Bosch, Manel; Nonell, Santi; Santana, María Dolores; Ruiz, José; Marchán, Vicente; Gasser, Gilles (Chemical Space 2023, 15(26), 2023-07-14)
      Photodynamic therapy (PDT) represents a promising approach for cancer treatment. However, the oxygen dependency of PDT to generate reactive oxygen species (ROS) hampers its therapeutic efficacy, especially ...
    • A novel fluoro-chromogenic click reaction for the labelling of proteins and nanoparticles with near-IR theranostic agents 

      Nonell, Santi; Planas, Oriol; Gallavardin, Thibault (Chemical Communications. Vol.51, n.26 (2015), p.5586-5589, 2014-12)
      Reaction of porphycene isothiocyanates with primary and secondary amines leads to the formation of thiazolo[4,5-c]porphycenes, with a substantial shift in the absorption and fluorescence spectra. The ...
    • A simple AI-driven process intensification protocol for active pharmaceutical ingredients synthesis 

      Barozzi, Marco; FERNANDEZ, JAVIER; Berzosa, Xavier; Sempere, Julián; Di Tomaso, Saverio; Copelli, Sabrina (Chemical Engineering Journal Advances 2025, 24, 2025-11)
      The synthesis of active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) traditionally relies on batch reactors, which often exhibit challenges in terms of both selectivity and heat transfer control. This study ...
    • Absolute environmental sustainability assessment of emerging working fluids in organic rankine cycles 

      Shirmohammadi, Reza; Vázquez Vázquez, Daniel; Calvo Serrano, Raul; Llovell, Felix; González Olmos, Rafael (ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering 2025, 13(18), 6685–6695, 2025-05-12)
      New working fluids (WFs) have been recently proposed to enhance the environmental performance of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORCs) in waste heat recovery systems. However, a critical gap remains in the ...
    • Acanthospermum hispidum and Its Metabolite Stigmasterol Modulates Anti-Inflammatory Antagonism of COX-1 and TGF-β 

      Adeboye, Onome; Sowemimo, Abimbola; Fageyinbo, Muyiwa; Adedokun, Oluwasegun; Basit, Abdul; Olatunji, Opeyemi Joshua; Epole, Ntungwe (Chemistry & Biodiversity 2026, 23 (1), 2026-01)
      Acanthospermum hispidum (AH) leaves have been widely used in traditional medicine for inflammation. In this study, the anti-inflammatory effect of AH was evaluated, and a possible mechanism was predicted ...
    • Accurate and model-free control function for a single stage transcritical refrigerator cycle 

      Llovell Ferret, Félix Lluís; Garrido, José Matías; Quinteros-Lama, Héctor; González, Johan (ACS Omega. Vol.5, n.30 (2020) p.19217-19226, 2020-08)
      Transcritical cycles are a successful and probed system in engineering practices, particularly in refrigeration. Therefore, their optimization is a critical factor in the design, control, and operation ...
    • Activitats contextualitzades en el laboratori virtual 

      Cuadros, Jordi; Guitart, Fina; Artigas, Carme (Educació Química. N.14 (2013), p.48-55, 2013)
      En aquest article es presenten quatre activitats noves basades en la utilització del laboratori virtual de «The ChemCollective», destinades a l'ensenyament de la química a l'educació secundària, i se'n ...
    • Ag(I) ions working as a hole-transfer mediator in photoelectrocatalytic water oxidation on WO3 film 

      Monllor-Satoca, Damián; Choi, Wonyong; Park, Hyunwoong; Jeon, Tae Hwa; Moon, Gun–hee; Kim, Wooyul; Kim, Hyoung–il; Bahnemann, Detlef W. (Nature Communications. Vol. 11, n.1 (2020), 967, 2020-02)
      Ag(I) is commonly employed as an electron scavenger to promote water oxidation. In addition to its straightforward role as an electron acceptor, Ag(I) can also capture holes to generate the high-valent ...
    • Algebraic surrogate-based flexibility analysis of process units with complicating process constraints 

      Forster, Tim; Vázquez Vázquez, Daniel; Fons, Isabela; Guillén-Gosálbez, Gonzalo (Computers & Chemical Engineering. 2024;184:108630, 2024-03-11)
      Flexibility analyses are widespread in chemical engineering to quantify allowed deviations from nominal conditions. Standard approaches to perform flexibility analysis can be hard to apply if process ...
    • Ammonium trifluoroborate-modified poly(β-aminoesters): A case study for PET-guided in vivo pharmacokinetic studies of a non-viral gene delivery system 

      Cosialls, Raúl; Fernández, Odile; Simó , Cristina; Krishna Reddy, Pulagam; Guerra-Rebollo, Marta; Llop, Jordi; Fornaguera, Cristina; Cuenca, Ana Belen; Borrós, Salvador (Journal of Controlled Release. 2023;358:739-751, 2023-05-27)
      Nucleic acid-based therapies have become a game-changing player in our way of conceiving pharmacology. Nevertheless, the inherent lability of the phosphodiester bond of the genetic material with respect ...
    • An Ultra-Long-Lived Triplet Excited State in Water at Room Temperature: Insights on the Molecular Design of Tridecafullerenes 

      Ramos-Soriano, Javier; Pérez-Sánchez, Alfonso; Ramírez-Barroso, Sergio; Beatriz, Illescas; Rodriguez-Fortea, Antonio; Poblet, Josep M.; Hally, Cormac; Nonell, Santi; García-Fresnadillo, David; Rojo, Javier; Martín, Nazario; Azmani, Khalid (Angewandte Chemie International Edition, 2021-05-13)
      Suitably engineered molecular systems exhibiting triplet excited states with very long lifetimes are important for high-end applications in nonlinear optics, photocatalysis, or biomedicine. We report ...
    • Analyzing a virtual-lab based contextualized activity from action logs 

      Cuadros, Jordi; Artigas, Carme; Guitart, Fina; Martori Adrian, Francesc (Procedia - Social and Behavioral Sciences 182 (2015) 441-447, 2015-05-13)
      In this paper, we present and analyze a virtual-lab based activity oriented as an application of the stoichiometry concepts that appear in the first year of the Spanish Bachillerato (16-17 year old). ...
    • Análisis simultáneo de aflatoxinas y ocratoxina A en compost por HPLC-MS 

      Comellas Riera, Lluís; Agut, Montserrat; Broto Puig, Francesc; Navajas, H. (Afinidad. Vol.66, n.546 (2010), p.94-99, 2010-03)
      Las aflatoxinas y ocratoxina A son las micotoxinas más estudiadas debido a su elevada toxicidad y amplia distribución. En este trabajo se describe un método de análisis simultáneo de las aflatoxinas ...
    • Assessing the potential of photosensitizing flavoproteins as tags for correlative microscopy 

      Nonell, Santi; Ruiz González, Rubén; Torra, Joaquim; Rodríguez-Pulido, Alberto; Cortajarena, Aitziber L.; Flors, Cristina (Chemical Communications. Vol.52, n.54 (2016), p.8405-8408, 2016-06)
      Photosensitizing flavoproteins have great potential as tags for correlative light and electron microscopy (CLEM). We examine the photostability of miniSOG mutants and their ability to photooxidize ...
    • Bacteriophobic Zwitterionic/Dopamine Coatings for Medical Elastomers 

      Texidó Bartes, Robert; Cabanach, Pol; Kaplan, Richard; García Bonillo, Cristina; Pérez, Darío; Zhang, Shuo; Borrós, Salvador; Pena-Francesch, Abdon (Advanced Materials Interfaces, 2022, 9(30), 2201152, 2022)
      Despite modern advancements in sterilization and medical practices, bacterial infections remain a significant concern in the implantation of medical devices. There is currently an urgent need for ...