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    • Corrosión: inexorabilidad vs. durabilidad 

      Diaz Tang, Isabel (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-10-03)
      In general, a material will tend to corrode in a specific environment when the corrosion products are more stable than the starting material or, when exposed to certain conditions, a corrosion process results favored. In ...
    • Enlazando química y biología: secuencias de proteínas 

      Laos, Roberto; Benner, Steven A. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-10-05)
      In the last twenty years, the number of complete genomes that have been sequenced and deposited in data banks has grown dramatically. This abundance in sequence information has supported the creation of the discipline known ...
    • Una molécula para los aficionados al fútbol 

      Rabinovich, Daniel (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-09-30)
      A molecule for football fans (The discovery of fullerenes and their appearance on stamps UK)
    • Poliimidas de alto rendimiento con forma angular 

      Cerrón-Infantes, Alonso; Unterlass, Miriam M. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-09-30)
      High-performance polymers (HPPs) play an important role in modern technology. Many efforts aim to develop cost-effective pathways to synthesize polymers without causing any harm to health and the environment. Polyimides ...
    • El porqué de que bebamos alcohol tiene sus raíces en nuestra evolución 

      Carrigan, Matthew A. (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-10-05)
      We have resurrected ancient enzymes from our primate ancestors and identified several mutations occurring approximately 10 million years ago that endowed our ancestors with an enhanced capacity to metabolize ethanol.  This ...
    • “Science and Art. The Painted Surface” de Antonio Sgamellotti, Brunetto Giovanni Brunetti y Costanza Miliani (Editores) 

      Gonzales Gil, Patricia (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-10-03)
      Short review of the most important and interesting sections of the multidisciplinary science book that we strongly recommend: "Science and Art. The Painted Surface”.
    • Superbacterias portan nuevo gen que les hace resistir a todos los antibacterianos 

      Marchese Morales, Adolfo (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-10-03)
      A group of Chinese scientists have found a new gene in gram negative bacteria, the MCR-1. This gene has given pathogenic bacteria resistance to colistin, which is the antibacterial that medical doctors use as last line of ...
    • Tesis de licenciatura y maestría Sección Química de la PUCP, 2016 

      Autores, Varios (Pontificia Universidad Católica del PerúPE, 2016-10-06)
      Master and "licenciatura" thesis defended at the chemistry section in 2016 (until september, also included)