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The Coulter particle counting method has been in use for more than five decades. It records a change in resistance when a particle flows from a large reservoir through a narrow orifice to another reservoir, where the flow direction is aligned with an
Stephen J. Florczyk, Mylene H. Simon, Derek Juba, Patrick S. Pine, Sumona Sarkar, Desu Chen, Paula J. Baker, Subhadip Bodhak, Antonio Cardone, Mary C. Brady, Peter Bajcsy, Carl G. Simon Jr.
Three-dimensional (3D) cellular morphotyping is introduced for assessing and comparing the niches provided by biomaterial scaffolds. Many scaffold systems have been advanced to provide synthetic cell niches for tissue engineering and drug screening
Caglar Emiroglu, Bharath N. Natarajan, Jeffrey W. Gilman, James Alexander Liddle, Jan Obrzut
Cellulose nanocrystal films with different helical modulation lengths are characterized. Films are obtained by tuning the rate of evaporation and surface functionalization. Dielectric constant measurements are performed and the water confinement is
Richard J. Sheridan, Sara V. Orski, Ronald L. Jones, Sushil K. Satija, Kathryn L. Beers
We present a method for the direct measurement of the relative energy of interaction between a solvated polymer and a solid interface. By tethering linear chains covalently to the surface, we ensured the idealized and constant configuration of polymer
Ying Jin, Anthony P. Kotula, Chad R. Snyder, Angela R. Hight Walker, Kalman D. Migler, Young J. Lee
Multiple melting peaks of high-density polyethylene produced by complex thermal pre-treatment are investigated with variable temperature Raman spectroscopy and differential scanning calorimetry (DSC). We examine the origin of the observed multiple melting
Zoran S. Petrovic, Jelena Milic, Fan Zhang, Jan Ilavsky
Fast response shape-memory polyurethanes were prepared from bio-based polyols, diphenyl methane diisocyanate and butane diol. The bio-based polyester polyols were synthesized from 9-hydroxynonanoic acid, a product obtained by ozonolysis of fatty acids
Luis F. Vargas Lara, Marc L. Mansfield, Jack F. Douglas
The characterization of many objects often involves the determination of a basic set of particle size measures derived mainly from scattering and transport property measurements. For polymers, these basic properties often include the radius of gyration Rg
Veruska D. Malave, Jason Killgore, Edward Garboczi, John Berger
Indentation-based studies of inhomogeneous structural materials depend on indenting a surface by loading with a small indenter. The load versus displacement results are used to infer the local mechanical properties of the surface under the indenter tip
Ballistic clay is used as a backing material for standards-based ballistic resistance tests for the purposes of providing a measure of the energy transferred to the body when a threat is defeated. However, this material exhibits complex thermomechanical
Bharath N. Natarajan, Caglar Emiroglu, Jan Obrzut, Douglas M. Fox, Beatriz Pazmino, Jack F. Douglas, Jeffrey W. Gilman
A known deterrent to a large scale development and use of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) is their affinity for moisture, which has a profound effect on dispersion, wetting, interfacial adhesion, matrix crystallization and water uptake. To quantify the
Lewis M. Cox, Xiaohao Sun, Chen Wang, Nancy Sowan, Jason Killgore, Rong Long, Hengan Wu, Christopher N. Bowman, Yifu Ding
Covalent adaptable networks (CANs) are cross-linked polymer networks capable reconfiguring their network topology, enabling stress relaxation and shape changing behaviors. Reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) is one specific mechanism by
Philip Cheney, David McClatchy III, Stephen Kanick, Paul Lemaillet, David W. Allen, Daniel Samarov, Brian Pogue, Jeeseong C. Hwang
A hyperspectral dark-field microscopy technique has been developed for imaging spatially distributed diffuse reflectance spectra from light-scattering samples. In this report, quantitative scatter spectroscopy was demonstrated with a uniform scattering
Jeeseong Hwang, Hyun J. Kim, Paul Lemaillet, Dirk Grosenick, Thomas Gladytz, David McClatchy III, Kimberly A. Briggman, Brian Pogue
We report on a procedure to build and characterize solid tissue-mimicking phantoms of polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) polymers. Controlled inclusion of light scattering titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles enables the creation of phantoms having tunable light