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Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals Showing High Birefringence

Advanced Science
High birefringence nematic liquid crystals are particularly demanded for adaptive optics applications in the infrared spectrum because it enable a thinner cell gap for achieving fast response time and improved diffraction efficiency.
Yaohao Song, Xiang Huang, Xinxin Zhang, Minghui Deng, Satoshi Aya, Mingjun Huang   +5 more
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Nonadditivity of critical Casimir forces

Nature Communications, 2016
The critical Casimir force, rising from fluctuating field confined between surfaces, is predicted to be nonadditive, but there is no experimental verification to date.
Sathyanarayana Paladugu, Agnese Callegari, Yazgan Tuna, Lukas Barth, Siegfried Dietrich, Andrea Gambassi, Giovanni Volpe   +6 more
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Cooperation in a fluid swarm of fuel-free micro-swimmers

Nature Communications, 2022
The authors introduce a light powered artificial micro-swimmers performing biological-like dynamics relevant for swarm robotics. The experimental dense swarms are shown to form artificial active clusters with internal fluid-like and turbulent dynamics ...
Matan Yah Ben Zion, Yaelin Caba, Alvin Modin, Paul M. Chaikin   +3 more
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Microfluidic electro‐viscoelastic manipulation of extracellular vesicles

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
The electro‐viscoelastic manipulation as a potential method for separation of particles based on size. The particles introduced as a sheath flow migrate to the channel center under the influence of simultaneously applied electric field and pressure driven flow.
Seyedamirhosein Abdorahimzadeh, Éva Bozó, Zikrullah Bölükkaya, Artem Zhyvolozhnyi, Anatoliy Samoylenko, Henrikki Liimatainen, Seppo J. Vainio, Caglar Elbuken   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of low viscosity gel material suitable for modeling with 3D gel printer and evaluation of mechanical properties

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2018
Our group has developed a 3D gel printer called "SWIM - ER" (Soft and Wet Industrial Material - Easy Realizer). Here we are aiming to improve the gel material used in the SWIM-ER system for problems related to free forming and mechanical ...
Taishi TASE, Azusa SAITO, Takafumi OTA, Kei SATO, Kyuichiro TAKAMATSU, Kazunari YOSHIDA, Masaru KAWAKAMI, Hidemitsu FURUKAWA   +7 more
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Diabetes‐induced vascular calcification is associated with low pyrophosphate and its oral supplementation prevents calcification in diabetic mice

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
Induction of diabetes in three different mouse strains uniformly resulted in an increase in TNAP activity and a reduction in pyrophosphate (PPi) in the circulation. Inhibition of TNAP restored plasma PPi. Diabetes‐induced calcification in the media layer of the aorta was detected only in the Abcc6−/− strain, which is predisposed to ectopic ...
Krisztina Fülöp, Eszter Kozák, Natália Tőkési, Lilian Kocsis, Anikó Kelemen, Zsuzsanna Geszti, Adriána Kutás, Mariann Harangi, Ágnes Diószegi, Zsolt Rapi, József Balla, Olivier Le Saux, András Váradi, Viola Pomozi   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

On the improved electrochemistry of hybrid conducting-redox polymer electrodes

Scientific Reports, 2017
The electrochemistry of poly(2,5-dihydroxyaniline) (PDHA), a novel hybrid molecular configuration with redox active sites and electrical charge conduction along the polymer chain, has been recently reported.
Louis Sieuw, Bruno Ernould, Jean-François Gohy, Alexandru Vlad   +3 more
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Impact of a senior research thesis on students' perceptions of scientific inquiry in distinct student populations

FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.
This study addressed how a senior research thesis is perceived by undergraduate students. It assessed students' perception of research skills, epistemological beliefs, and career goals in Biochemistry (science) and BDC (science‐business) students. Completing a thesis improved confidence in research skills, resilience, scientific identity, closed gender‐
Celeste Suart, Haley L. Zubyk, Michelle Ogrodnik, Caitlin E. Mullarkey, Felicia Vulcu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Organosilicon-grafted silica nanoparticles for vat photopolymerization: Evolution from organic/inorganic hybrid materials to ceramics

Open Ceramics
Three-dimensional (3D) printing ceramics based on vat photopolymerization (VPP) have attracted increasing interest in recent years because of their intrinsic properties and a wide range of potential applications.
Jun Tan, Jinchang Zhang, Hangyu Zhong, Hongli Hu, Xiwen Kou, Bo-xing Zhang   +5 more
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What is fluidity? Designing an experimental system to probe stress and velocity fluctuations in flowing suspensions

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2017
We develop a method to investigate the microscopic origin of granular fluidity. We design a Couette cell in which we can probe the flow of soft hydrogel suspensions.
Workamp Marcel, Alaie Sepideh, Dijksman Joshua A.   +2 more
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