Experimenting with mixtures of water ice and dust as analogues for icy planetary material: recipes from the ice laboratory at the University of Bern

A Pommerol, B Jost, O Poch, Z Yoldi, Y Brouet… - Space science …, 2019 - Springer
Due to its abundance and unique properties, water is a major actor in the formation and
evolution of many planetary surfaces as well as a sensitive and reliable tracer of past …

Hyperfine structure of regolith unveiled by Chang'E-5 lunar regolith penetrating radar

Y Su, R Wang, X Deng, Z Zhang, J Zhou… - … on Geoscience and …, 2022 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
This work presents the results of the Lunar Regolith Penetrating Radar (LRPR), installed at
the bottom of the Chang'E-5 (CE-5) lander, which is the first antenna-array radar deployed …

New volumetric CNT-doped gelatin–cellulose scaffolds for skeletal muscle tissue engineering

F Velasco-Mallorquí, JM Fernández-Costa… - Nanoscale …, 2020 - pubs.rsc.org
Currently, the fabrication of scaffolds for engineered skeletal muscle tissues is unable to
reach the millimeter size. The main drawbacks are the poor nutrient diffusion, lack of an …

Cometary dust analogues for physics experiments

A Lethuillier, C Feller, E Kaufmann… - Monthly Notices of …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
ABSTRACT The CoPhyLab (Cometary Physics Laboratory) project is designed to study the
physics of comets through a series of earth-based experiments. For these experiments, a …

Compressed perovskite aqueous mixtures near their phase transitions show very high permittivities: New prospects for high‐field MRI dielectric shimming

AL Neves, L Leroi, Z Raolison… - Magnetic resonance …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Purpose Perovskites are greatly used nowadays in many technological applications
because of their high permittivity, more specifically in the form of aqueous solutions, for MRI …

Coaxial probe for dielectric measurements of aerated pulverized materials

M Neumayer, M Flatscher… - IEEE Transactions on …, 2019 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Knowledge about the dielectric properties of materials, ie, the relative permittivity and the
conductivity, is important for various sensing applications and engineering. In pneumatic …

Characterization of the permittivity of controlled porous water ice‐dust mixtures to support the radar exploration of icy bodies

Y Brouet, L Neves, P Sabouroux… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The internal properties of porous and icy bodies in the solar system can be investigated by
ground‐penetrating radars (GPRs), like the COmet Nucleus Sounding Experiment by …

Determination of Broadband Complex EM Parameters of Powdered Materials: 1. MCMC‐Based Two‐Port Transmission Line Measurements

AL Boivin, CA Tsai, DC Hickson… - Journal of …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract We propose a Bayesian Markov Chain Monte Carlo parameter estimation
technique to determine frequency‐dependent complex dielectric permittivity and …

Evaluation of new MR invisible silicon carbide based dielectric pads for 7 T MRI

Z Raolison, M Dubois, M Luong, AL Neves… - Magnetic Resonance …, 2022 - Elsevier
Purpose The use of dielectric pads to redistribute the radiofrequency fields is currently a
popular solution for 7 T MRI practical applications, especially in brain imaging. In this work …

Detection of water content in honey by electromagnetics characterization measurements

F Sparma, S Sennoun, P Sabouroux - Progress Electromagnet. Res. Lett, 2023 - jpier.org
The quality of a honey can be affected by adulteration through the addition of often
unauthorized substances such as sugar syrups or water. The water content in honeys is …