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Volumetric muscle loss (VML) is the massive wasting of skeletal muscle tissue due to traumatic events or surgical ablation. This pathological condition exceeds the physiological healing process carried out by the muscle itself, which owns remarkable capacity to restore damages but only when limited in dimensions. Upon VML occurring, the affected area is severely compromised, heavily influencing the affected a person's quality of life. Overall, this condition is often associated with chronic disability, which makes the return to duty of highly specialized professional figures (e.g., military personnel or athletes) almost impossible. The actual treatment for VML is based on surgical conservative treatment followed by physical exercise; nevertheless, the results, in terms of either lost mass and/or functionality recovery, are still poor. On the other hand, the efforts of the scientific community are focusing on reconstructive therapy aiming at muscular tissue void volume replenishment by exploiting biomimetic matrix or artificial tissue implantation. Reconstructing strategies represent a valid option to build new muscular tissue not only to recover damaged muscles, but also to better socket prosthesis in terms of anchorage surfaces and reinnervation substrates for reconstructed mass.

European Union's Seventh Framework Program (FP7/2007-2013) under Grant agreement no. 608490. project M4CO 2 . CNR/FCT Italian/Portuguese Bilateral Project 2015-2016 "Advanced studies of the transport properties and gas separation by polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) and Ionic Liquid Gel Membranes via novel methods" and the CNR-CAS Bilateral Agreement 2016-2018 "Innovative polymeric membranes for pervaporation and advanced gas and vapour separations". ; A novel method to determine the individual diffusion coefficients of gases in a mixture during their permeation through polymeric membranes is described. The method was developed in two independent laboratories, using rubbery Pebax® and glassy Hyflon® AD60X membrane samples as standards, and validated using the Tröger's base containing Polymer of Intrinsic Microporosity, PIM-EA-TB. Monitoring of the permeate composition in real time by a quadrupole mass spectrometer allowed the analysis of the permeation transient for gas mixtures. Two operation modes, either with a vacuum in the permeate and a direct connection to the mass spectrometer via a heated restriction, or using a sweeping gas and a heated capillary sample inlet, give excellent agreement with the traditional time lag method for single gases. A complete overview of the method development, identification of the critical parameters, instruments calibration, data elaboration and estimation of the experimental accuracy are provided. Validation with PIM-EA-TB, shows that the method can also successfully detect anomalous phenomena, related to pressure and concentration dependency of the transport properties, physical aging or penetrant-induced dilation. Rapid online analysis of the permeate composition makes the method also very suitable for routine mixed gas permeability measurements. ; publishersversion ; published

Understanding/visualizing the established interactions between gases and adsorbents is mandatory to implement better performance materials in adsorption/separation processes. Here we report the unique behavior of a rare example of a hemilabile chiral three-dimensional metal–organic framework (MOF) with an unprecedented qtz-e-type topology, with formula CuII2(S,S)-hismox·5H2O (1) (hismox = bis[(S)-histidine]oxalyl diamide). 1 exhibits a continuous and reversible breathing behavior, based on the hemilability of carboxylate groups from l-histidine. In situ powder (PXRD) and single crystal X-ray diffraction (SCXRD) using synchrotron radiation allowed us to unveil the crystal structures of four different host–guest adsorbates (Ar@1, N2@1, CO2@1, and C3H6@1), rationalize the breathing motion, and unravel the mechanisms governing the adsorption of these gases. Then this information was transferred to implement efficient separations of mixtures of industrial and environmental relevance, CO2/N2, CO2/CH4, and C3H8/C3H6, using 1 in packed columns as the stationary phase and dispersed in a mixed matrix membrane. ; This work was supported by the MINECO (Spain) (projects CTQ2016-75671-P, MAT2017-86992-R, and MAT-80285-P and Excellence Unit "Maria de Maeztu" MDM-2015-0538) and the Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Università e della Ricerca (Italy). M.M. and E.T. thank the MINECO, and R.B. thanks the MIUR (project PON R&I FSE-FESR 2014-2020) for predoctoral grants. Thanks are also extended to the "Programa post-Ramón y Cajal de la Universidad de Valencia (E.P.)", the "Fondo per il finanziamento delle attivita base di ricerca" (D.A.), and the "Atracció de talent-contractes postdoctorals de la Universitat de Valencia" and "Juan de la Cierva-Incorporación-2017" programs (J.F.-S.). E.P. acknowledges the financial support of the European Research Council under the European Union's Horizon 2020 research and innovation programme/ERC grant agreement no. 814804, MOF-reactors.