Abstract: The present invention relates to an optimized in vivo delivery system with endosomolytic agents for nucleic acid of therapeutic interest conjugated to molecules facilitating endocytosis, in particular for use in the treatment of cancer.

Abstract: A photovoltaic device comprising: a plurality of photovoltaic cells, separated from each other; a support receiving the cells; and a light guide in contact with the cells and comprising a primary guide with a surface that is proximal to the cells, where the proximal surface is oriented towards the cells and the support. The photovoltaic device comprises, between the cells, areas located between the support and the primary guide which comprise a material with an index of refraction less than that of the proximal surface, where the material is in contact with the proximal surface.

Abstract: The invention relates to an endoscopic instrument (1) having an elongate body with a distal end (4) designed to be introduced into the body of the patient so as to come into proximity with an internal organ, the distal end carrying a tool (7) for intervention on the internal organ. The endoscopic instrument has a fool (10) rigidly connected to the distal end and designed to bear on the internal organ, and also controllable means (13) for conferring movements on the tool, at least in directions transverse to a longitudinal axis (X) of the distal end of the endoscopic instrument, when the foot is bearing against the internal organ.

Abstract: A method of regenerating a platinum bath by flow reaction, the method comprising the successive steps of: drawing off fluid from the platinum bath by means of a draw-off flow; complexing platinum by mixing together the draw-off flow and a regeneration solution flow containing platinum, mixing taking place in an intensified reactor; and feeding the platinum bath with the mixture resulting from the platinum complexing step, by means of a regenerated bath flow; all of these steps being performed as a continuous flow.

Abstract: Disclosed is an opto-electronic device including a semiconducting substrate, a layered interface including at least one layer, the layered interface having a first surface in contact with a surface of the semiconducting substrate and the layered interface being adapted for passivating the surface of the semiconducting substrate, the layered interface having a second surface and the layered interface being adapted for electrically insulating the first surface from the second surface, and a textured surface structure including a plurality of nanowires and a transparent dielectric coating, the textured surface structure being in contact with the second surface of the layered interface, the plurality of nanowires protruding from the second surface and the plurality of nanowires being embedded between the second surface and the transparent dielectric coating.

Abstract: A process for ultrasensitive in vitro detection and/or quantification of a substance of interest in a sample is performed by detecting the luminescence emission by photoluminescent inorganic nanoparticles. The process includes (i) use of photoluminescent particles comprising a photoluminescent inorganic nanoparticle consisting of a crystalline matrix having at least 103 rare-earth ions, and coupled to a targeting agent for the substance to be analyzed, under conditions conducive to their association with the sample substance to be analyzed; (ii) exciting the rare-earth ions of the particles by an illumination device having a power of at least 50 mW and an excitation intensity of at least 1 W/cm2; (iii) detecting the luminescence emission by the particles after single-photon absorption; and (iv) determining the presence and/or concentration of the substance by interpreting said luminescence measurement. This process can be used for in vitro diagnostic purposes and as an in vitro diagnostic kit.

Abstract: The invention relates to a heated sensitive layer sensor comprising an insulating substrate bearing the sensitive layer; two complementary measurement electrodes in the form of two adjacent conductive tracks configured in electrical contact with the sensitive layer; and a heating element in the form of a resistive track arranged on the substrate for uniformly heating an active area of the sensitive layer. The resistive track comprises at least three power supply points regularly spaced over the length of the resistive track, and each point of even rank is supplied at a first supply voltage and each point of odd rank is supplied at a second supply voltage.

Abstract: Layered double hydroxides organo-modified by 3-(4-hydroxyphenyl)propionic acid (HPPA), by 2-(4-hydroxyphenyl)ethylsulfonic acid or by a hydroxyphenylpropenoic acid, and to composite polymer materials having same. The composite materials are advantageously made of biosourced polymers such as poly(butylene succinate). These composite materials have improved properties over the polymers that make up the composition thereof, and over the composites of the prior art.

Abstract: Dissymmetric particles also called Janus particles of micron or submicron size and methods of synthesis of Janus particles by bipolar electrochemistry, based on substrates of isotropic or anisotropic shape. The particles include an electrically conductive substrate having at least a chemically and/or physically modified part by deposit of a layer of electrochemically depositable material, and a non-modified part. The particles are of isotropic shape, and the layer of electrochemically depositable material has a specific shape delimited by a precise contour.

Abstract: A system for the full-field interferential imaging of a sample, includes an illumination path with a light source, an interferometer with at least one first objective, and a separating element for receiving incident light waves via an input face and for forming an object arm for receiving the sample and a reference arm on which a reflection device is arranged, the reflection device being used to reflect incident light waves in a direction different from the direction of incidence. The separator element has a reflection coefficient and a transmission coefficient that are non-equal such that the proportion of the optical power of the incident light waves sent to the object arm is strictly larger than the proportion of the optical power of the light waves sent to the reference arm.

Abstract: A sizing composition for reinforcing fibres is provided which makes it possible to improve the adhesion of these fibres with respect to an organic matrix that forms, with them, a part made of a composite material and that results from the chain transfer polymerization of a curable resin. The sizing composition includes a polybutadiene prepolymer comprising at least two epoxide functions, a cross-linking agent comprising at least two reactive functions, at least one of which is a thiol function; and a catalyst comprising at least one tertiary amine function.

Abstract: The present invention relates to compounds of the following formula (I), wherein: m represents an integer being equal to 0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5 or 6, X represents a simple bond or a radical —CHR1 wherein R1 represents:—a hydrogen atom, or—a linear or branched, possibly interrupted by up to 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S or N and/or possibly substituted, (C1-C12)-alkyl, R2, R3 and R4 represent independently from each other:—a hydrogen atom, or—a linear or branched (C1-C12-alkyl or (C1-C12)-acyl R5 represents:—a hydrogen atom, or—a linear or branched, possibly substituted, (C1-C13)-alkyi possibly substituted and possibly interrupted by up to 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S or N, R6 represents:—a hydrogen atom, or—a linear or branched possibly substituted (C1-C12)-alkyl, possibly substituted and possibly interrupted by up to 3 heteroatoms selected from O, S or N, for their use as antibacterial drugs for the treatment and/or the prevention of infection(s) caused by biofilm-forming bacteria.

Abstract: An electromechanical amplifying method including a transducing an electrical signal to a mechanical resonator having a mechanical resonance mode with an angular frequency ?0; transducing the non-linear oscillations of the resonator into a transduced electrical signal; and filtering the transduced electrical signal to obtain an output signal, the signal transduced to the resonator being obtained by adding a first input signal of a first amplitude and a first angular frequency ?s and a second pump signal of a second amplitude greater than the first amplitude and of a second angular frequency ?s that is different from the first angular frequency, the first and second angular frequencies being close to the angular frequency ?0 of the mechanical resonator and the second pump signal being chosen from a range of angular frequencies ?p and amplitudes in which the resonator is actuated in a non-linear regime.

Abstract: A photodetector includes a Helmholtz resonator and a photosensitive structure that is placed in an electric-field-concentrating interval forming part of the Helmholtz resonator. Such a photodetector is in particular suitable for imaging applications. The wavelength of the radiation to be detected is determined by dimensions of the Helmholtz resonator, within a detection spectral interval of the photosensitive structure.

Abstract: The invention relates to poly(oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate) microgels, to the process for preparing same and the uses thereof in various fields of application such as optics, electronics, pharmacy and cosmetics. These microgels have the advantage of being monodisperse, pH-responsive and temperature-responsive. They can carry magnetic nanoparticles or biologically active molecules. These microgels may also form transparent films, which have novel optical and electromechanical properties.

Abstract: The invention relates to a process for producing aromatic polyimides, comprising the following steps: (a) preparation of one or more solid salt(s) by reacting one or more aromatic tetracarboxylic acid(s) and one or more diamine(s) according to a mole ratio ranging from 0.95 to 1.05; (b) drying of the solid salt(s), (c) addition, to the dry salt resulting from step (b), of one or more compound(s) (C) comprising one or more group(s) chosen from a carboxylic acid group, an anhydride group, an ester group and an acyl chloride group; (d) solid-state polymerization of said solid salt(s) in the presence of the compound(s) (C).

Abstract: The disclosure relates to a layer comprising at least one hydrophilic part and at least one hydrophobic part, the layer comprising self-assembled amphiphilic molecules polymerized with each other on both the hydrophilic part and the hydrophobic part of the layer; a detecting device comprising a substrate and the above-mentioned layer; and a liposome, a micelle, transport system for a substance and a biomimetic system comprising the above-mentioned layer. The disclosure also relates to a process for producing a layer, the process comprising: providing amphiphilic molecules; allowing sufficient time for the amphiphilic molecules to self-assemble and form at least one hydrophilic part and at least one hydrophobic part of the layer; polymerizing the self-assembled amphiphilic molecules with each other on both the hydrophilic part and the hydrophobic part of the layer.

Abstract: The present invention relates to the compounds of formula (I) below: wherein: X represents an oxygen atom, a sulfur atom, a nitrogen atom or a CH radical, The bond X—Y and Y are absent if X represents an oxygen or sulfur atom, the bond X—Y and Y are present if X represents a nitrogen atom or a CH radical, When present, Y represents a group R if X represents a nitrogen atom, a hydrogen atom or a group —NR1R2 if X represents a CH radical, (Het)Ar is an aromatic ring selected from the group consisting of aryl and heteroaryl groups, R3, R4, R5, R6 represent, independently of one another, a hydrogen atom, a halogen atom, a —NR12R13, a —SR14 group, a —OR14 group or a —CF3 group, When Y is —NR1R2, the groups —NR1R2 and (Het)Ar are in the cis-conformation, or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, for use in the treatment of proliferative diseases, infectious diseases, allergies, inflammation and/or asthma.

Abstract: 1) Hydrocarbon-based copolymer comprising two end groups preceded by an ester function and chosen from a 2-oxo-1,3-dioxolan-4-yl (or cyclocarbonate), a dithiocyclocarbonate, an exo-vinylene cyclocarbonate and a 2-oxo-1,3-dioxolen-4-yl, the main chain of which comprises units (I) and (II) in which R0 is notably a methyl radical; and the number-average molecular mass Mn of which is between 400 and 100 000 g/mol. 2) Process for preparing said copolymer, comprising: (i) a step of heating a statistical bipolymer A chosen from a poly(butadiene-isoprene), a poly(butadiene-myrcene) and a poly(butadiene-farnesene); and then (ii) a step of heating the product formed, in the presence of a chain-transfer agent. 3) Use as adhesive, as a mixture with an amine compound comprising at least two amine groups.

Abstract: This execution method comprises the supplying of the machine code, this machine code being formed by a succession of base blocks, each base block being associated with a signature and comprising instructions to be protected, each instruction to be protected being immediately preceded or followed by an instruction for constructing the value of the signature associated with this base block, wherein: each construction instruction is coded on strictly less than N bits, and each word of the machine code which comprises at least one portion of one of said instructions to be protected also comprises one of said construction instructions so that it is not possible to load an instruction to be protected into an execution file, without at the same time loading a construction instruction which modifies the value of the signature associated with this base block when it is executed.