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Hierarchical Structure and Fabrication of Functionally Graded Biointerfaces in the Mussel Byssus

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
The byssus is a fibrous protein‐based holdfast consisting of mechanically distinct interfaces, which mussels use to anchor their soft living tissue to hard seashore surfaces. Here, multiscale methodologies were used to elucidate the compositional and structural features underlying these functionally graded interfaces and how they are fabricated through
Lucia Youssef, Jenaes Sivasundarampillai, Sydney Mikulin, Franziska Jehle, Matthew J. Harrington   +4 more
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Achieving great optical anisotropy with the well-directed alignment of π-conjugated groups due to hydrogen bonds

Journal of Saudi Chemical Society
Looking for novel UV birefringent units with great birefringence and discovering new candidates that are constructed by them have always been a hotspot in the field of optical materials.
Chenhui Hu, Junjie Liu, Jiale Qu, Jinghui Hu, Xiangzhan Jiang   +4 more
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Inflationary birefringence and baryogenesis [PDF]

International Journal of Modern Physics D, 2016
A decade ago, the first leptogenesis model based on inflation was proposed, where the complex phase of the inflaton field carries lepton number [S. H. S. Alexander, M. E. Peskin and M. M. Sheikh-Jabbari, Phys. Rev. Lett. 96 (2006) 081301, arXiv:hep-th/0403069 ].
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Cosmic birefringence fluctuations and cosmic microwave background B-mode polarization

, 2015
Recently, BICEP2 measurements of the cosmic microwave background (CMB) B-mode polarization has indicated the presence of primordial gravitational waves at degree angular scales, inferring the tensor-to-scalar ratio of r=0.2 and a running scalar spectral ...
Lee, Seokcheon, Liu, Guo-Chin, Kin-Wang Ng, Guo-Chin Liu, Seokcheon Lee, Ng, Kin-Wang   +5 more
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3D Printing of Highly Dense and Translucent Zirconia Parts for Dental Applications: Effect of Filament Overlapping

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This study formulated a 5Y‐PSZ zirconia paste for extrusion‐based additive manufacturing via direct ink writing, producing dense ceramic structures for dental applications. A colloidal approach with 47 vol% nanometric powder and tailored additives optimized rheology and printability.
Juliana de Freitas Gouveia Silva, Manuel Fellipe Rodrigues Pais Alves, Ana Carolina da Silva, Tiago Moreira Bastos Campos, Renata Marques De Melo, Susana Maria Henriques Olhero   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental investigation on the effect of crystal birefringence on the performance of nanosecond-pulsed diamond Raman laser

Functional Diamond
The impact of crystal birefringence on the performance of diamond Raman lasers has been studied previously at power levels slightly above the threshold.
Yongpeng Yan, Xuezong Yang, Muye Li, Yuxiang Sun, Huawei Jiang, Shulong Zhang, Chengchun Zhao, Yin Hang, Yan Feng   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electric birefringence studies of biopolymer systems

, 1977
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Important and novel electric birefringence measurements of immediate significance in the biomedical field are reported on a family of materials which form ...
Isles, Martin
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Large Faraday Rotation in Liquid Crystals With Embedded Paramagnetic Ions (Cu2+, VO2+) at Room Temperature

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Large Faraday rotation at room temperature is observed in thin films of discotic copper (Cu2+: 3d9) and vanadyl (VO2+: 3d1) enaminoketone complexes. The large Verdet constant originates from a high density of paramagnetic centers, metal‐ligand p−d hybridization and π orbitals involved in optical transitions (identified by DFT calculations), as well as ...
Karolina Łempicka‐Mirek, Adam Krówczyński, Mateusz Król, Nevill Gonzalez Szwacki, Paulina Rybak, Damian Pociecha, Paweł W. Majewski, Barbara Piętka, Jacek Szczytko   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polar Decomposition of Jones Matrix and Mueller Matrix of Coherent Rayleigh Backscattering in Single-Mode Fibers

Sensors
The Jones matrix and the Mueller matrix of the coherent Rayleigh backscattering (RB) in single-mode fibers (SMFs) have been derived recently. It has been shown that both matrices depict two polarization effects—birefringence and polarization-dependent ...
Hui Dong, Hailiang Zhang, Dora Juan Juan Hu   +2 more
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Effect of hydrostatic pressure upon the relaxation of birefringence in amorphous solids

, 1961
A study was made of the effect of hydrostatic pressure upon the relaxation of birefringence in two commercial plastics which were glasslike in nature. The birefringence was introduced into the materials by loading in uniaxial compression, and the decay ...
Waxler, Roy M.; Adams, Leason H.
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