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Cellular Responses to Mechanical Cues Across Scales: From Fundamental Insights to Translational Potential

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz, Manuel P. Kainz, Niklas Haider, Theresa Rienmüller, Kerstin Lenk, Rupert Kargl, Michele Terzano, Gerhard Sommer, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Julia Fuchs   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental Demonstration and Characterization of a Non-Mode Selective (De)Multiplexer Using Multi-Plane Light Converter (MPLC)

IEEE Photonics Journal
We experimentally demonstrate the use of a multi-plane light converter (MPLC) as a non-mode selective (de)multiplexer for converting Hermite-Gaussian (HG) modes into a Hadamard matrix of fundamental Gaussian spots and vice versa.
Shree R. Thapa, Seth Smith-Dryden, Zheyuan Zhu, Shuo S. Pang, Guifang Li   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Patient‐Derived 3D Heart‐On‐a‐Chip Model of Dilated Cardiomyopathy With Embedded Bead‐Based Mapping of Tissue Contractility

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A heart‐on‐a‐chip model of dilated cardiomyopathy is developed from patient‐derived induced pluripotent stem cells. The model recapitulates key disease phenotypes and enables functional assessment through integrated bead‐based tracking and pillar deflection measurements.
Ali Mousavi, Ludovic Mouttet, Shihao Cui, Yasaman Hekmatnia, Mehran Mottahedi, Ida Derish, Naimeh Rafatian, Mark Aurousseau, Gregor Andelfinger, Renzo Cecere, Houman Savoji   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Analysis of Optical Bottle Generation by Coherent Beam Combining

Optics Express
The study evaluates the feasibility of generating a closed optical trap (“optical bottle”) using coherent beam combining. A semi-analytical model, based on paraxial wave optics and truncated Gaussian beam approximation, was employed. Proposed configurations include: (1) simple bifocal tilt, (2) bifocal tilt + polarization switching, (3) bifocal tilt +
openaire   +2 more sources

Optical Detection of Cellular Signals at Material Interfaces

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Emerging functional materials are transforming optical detection of cellular signals. This review highlights optical techniques that exploit the unique optical properties of diverse materials to detect and quantify cellular electrical, chemical, and mechanical signals, and discusses key opportunities and challenges.
Xuchen Ren, Jitong Ren, Zixin Zhang, Koney Eungkon Kim, Francis L. Hong, Yuecheng Peter Zhou   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Experimental Research of Vortex Beam Mixer

Photonics
Based on the birefringence phenomenon of vortex beam in uniaxial crystals for optical path design, yttrium vanadate crystals and waveplates are used to realize coherent mixing of vortex beam.
Chenghu Ke, Xinwen Zhang, Xizheng Ke, Peng Li   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Thermal‐Driven Diode Polarity Switching From Competing Helical Superconducting States in WTe2/α‐Fe2O3 Heterostructures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A Nb‐proximitized Josephson junction based on a WTe2/α‐Fe2O3 heterostructure exhibits a robust superconducting diode effect with programmable polarity. The diode direction can be trained by magnetic fields and switched by temperature cycling, revealing tunable finite‐momentum pairing states and competing superconducting states in symmetry‐broken ...
Enze Zhang, Grant Z. X. Yang, Zi‐Ting Sun, Xinhou Chen, Shishun Zhao, Chufan Chen, Chenhui Zhang, Fanrui Hu, K. T. Law, Hyunsoo Yang   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

High-Power Laser Coherent Beam Combination Through Self-Imaging in Plasma Waveguides

Applied Sciences
A novel approach for laser coherent beam combination (CBC) utilizing the self-imaging effect in plasma waveguides is presented in this study, which enables the transmission of ultrashort laser pulses at intensities above the bulk damage threshold of ...
Yixuan Huang, Haitao Zhang, Zhuoyi Yang, Yanwei Wang, Yihang Huang, Xiaozheng Liu, Junyu Chen   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Azobenzene's Cross‐Scale Optics and Photonics: Molecular Photoswitching, Mesoscopic Material Motions, and Adaptive Devices

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Azobenzene photoswitches translate molecular‐scale E/Z photoisomerization into macroscopic material responses and device‐level photonic functions. This Review highlights how azobenzene research has evolved from molecular photochemistry to photoalignment, mass migration, photomechanics, and heat release, ultimately enabling holography, reconfigurable ...
Heeju Son, Soyul Kwak, Heerin Noh, Minsang Kim, Doyeon Noh, Subhayan Chakraborty, Jaewon Lee, YongDeok Cho, Kyeongsoo Kim, Taewoong Eom, Moonyoung Kim, Jangwon Kim, Hoyoung Lee, Soyoung Lee, Jaehun Kim, Grace G. D. Han, Shin‐Tson Wu, Stefano Oscurato, Arri Priimagi, Marina Saphiannikova, Seungwoo Lee   +20 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced Supermode Stability in Weakly Anti-Guided Dual-Cavity Photonic Crystal VCSEL Arrays

IEEE Photonics Journal
We report on 940 nm dual-cavity photonic crystal vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL) arrays fabricated at a commercial foundry. These arrays leverage an anti-guided design enabled by reduced electrical resistance between optically coupled ...
Dan W. Pflug, Chloe Armstrong, Erin Raftery, Nusrat Jahan, William North, Luke Graham, Jim Tatum, Kent D. Choquette   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source