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Hao Ma, Anouk Killaars, Frank W. DelRio, Chun Yang, Kristi S. Anseth
Valvular interstitial cells (VICs) are key regulators of the heart valve's extracellular matrix (ECM), and upon tissue damage, quiescent VIC fibroblasts become activated to myofibroblasts. As the behavior of VICs during disease progression and wound
Erkan NMN Senses, Siyam M. Ansar, Christopher L. Kitchens, Yimin NMN Mao, Suresh Narayanan, Bharath NMN Natarajan, Antonio Faraone
Using neutron spin-echo spectroscopy, X-ray photon correlation spectroscopy and bulk rheology, we studied the effect of particle size on the single chain dynamics, particle mobility, and bulk viscosity in athermal polyethylene oxide-gold nanoparticle
A porous metal-organic framework [Cu 2L(H 2O) 2]𔅛DMF𔅘H 2o (UTSA-90, H 4L = 2',5'-dimethoxy-[1,1':4',1"-Terphenyl]-3,3",5,5"-tetracarboxylic acid) functionalized with methoxy groups has been successfully constructed and structurally
Martin L. Green, Joshua B. Martin, Zachary T. Trautt
The Materials Genome Initiative, a national effort to introduce new materials into the market faster and at lower cost, has made significant progress in computational simulation and modeling of materials. To build on this progress, a large amount of
Digital holographic microscopy (DHM) is a surface topography measurement technique with reported sub- nanometer vertical resolution. While made commercially available recently, few studies have evaluated the uncertainty or noise in the phase measurement by
Mirjana NMN Dimitrievska, Federica Boero, Alexander P. Litvinchuk, Simona Delsante, Gabriella Borzone, Alejandro Perez-Rodriguez, Victor Izquierdo-Roca
This work presents a comprehensive analysis of the structural and vibrational properties of the kesterite Cu 2ZnSnS 4 (CZTS, I-4 space group) as well as its polymorphs with the space group P-42c and P-42m, from both experimental and theoretical point of
Andrei Jitianu, Sylvian Cadars, Fan Zhang, Gabriela Rodriguez, Quentin Picard, Mario Aparicio, Jadra Mosa, Lisa C. Klein
This study is focused on structural characterization of hybrid glasses obtained by consolidation of melting gels. The melting gels were prepared in molar ratios of methyltriethoxysilane (MTES) and dimethyldiethoxysilane (DMDES) of 75%MTES-25%DMDES and 65
There is a critical need for customized analytics that take into account the stochastic nature of materials internal structure at multiple length scales in order to extract relevant and transferable knowledge. Data driven Process-Structure-Property (PSP)
Allen B. Schantz, Patrick O. Saboe, Ian T. Sines, Hee-Young Lee, Kyle J. M. Bishop, Janna K. Maranas, Paul Butler, Manish Kumar
We examine the kinetics of polymer chain exchange between mixed polymer-detergent micelles, a system relevant to the synthesis of protein-containing biomimetic membranes. Although chain exchange between polymer aggregates in water occurs too slowly to
Edward J. Garboczi, Kenneth A. Snyder, Rolands Cepuritis, Stefan Jacobsen
The shape of concrete aggregate fines, with particle sizes between 3 µm and 250 µm, produced by high-speed vertical shaft impact (VSI) crushing of 10 different rock types from quarries in Norway, has been studied by both dynamic image analysis (DIA), which
Enric Menendez, Hiwa Modarresi, Claire Petermann, Josep Nogues, Neus Domingo, Haoliang Liu, Brian Kirby, Amir Syed Mohd, Zahir Salhi, Earl Babcock, Stefan Mattauch, Chris Van Haesendonck, Andre Vantomme, Kristiaan Temst
The combination of lithography and ion implantation is demonstrated to be a suitable method to prepare lateral multilayers. A laterally, compositionally and magnetically, modulated microscale patter consisting of alternating C (1.6υm-wide) and Co-CoO (2
Ab initio modeling of electrochemical systems is becoming a key tool for understanding and predicting electrochemical behavior. Development and careful benchmarking of computational electrochemical methods are essential to ensure their accuracy. Here
Mohsen Seifi, Michael Gorelik, Jess Waller, Nik Hrabe, Nima Shamsaei, Steve Daniewicz, John J. Lewandowski
As the metal Additive Manufacturing (AM) industry moves towards industrial production, the need for qualification standards covering all aspects of the technology becomes ever more prevalent. While some standards and specifications for documenting the
Recently, there has been great interest in 'ultrastable' glasses formed via vapor deposition, both because of emerging applications of these materials (e.g., active layers in light-emitting diodes and photovoltaics) and, theoretically, as materials for
Ren Zhang, Bongjoon Lee, Christopher Stafford, J. F. Douglas, Andrey V. Dobrynin, Michael R. Bockstaller, Alamgir Karim
Polymer-grafted nanoparticles (PGNPs) have attracted much attention due to the enhanced dispersion in polymeric materials via an interacting brush layer that enables unique functionality and stability. The miscibility and organization of nanoparticles
Nathan Mahynski, Marco A. Blanco Medina, Jeffrey R. Errington, Vincent K. Shen
We present a method of predicting the free energy landscape of fluids at low temperatures from flat-histogram grand canonical Monte Carlo simulations performed at higher ones. We illustrate our approach for both pure and multicomponent systems using two
The Frank-Bilby equation (FBE) can give many solutions for the dislocation content of a grain boundary (GB); most of them are considered to have little physical reality except in limited ranges of the angles which characterize low-angle GBs. We explore two
Clinton G. Wiener, Chao Wang, Yun Liu, R. A. Weiss, Bryan D. Vogt
The nanostructure changes associated with stress dissipation in a tough, supramolecular hydrogel were determined by small angle neutron scattering (SANS) and compared with stress-relaxation measurements to understand the molecular origin of the toughness
Jack F. Douglas, Esmael Haddadian1, Karl Freed, Hao Zhang
Karplus and coworkers have argued that proteins in their biologically active native state should exhibit a dynamics similar to surface-melted inorganic nanoparticles (NPs) because both types of NPs have a relatively dense, ordered, and immobile core
We use First-principles density functional theory total energy and linear response phonon calculations to compute the Helmholtz and Gibbs free energy as a function of temperature, pressure, and cell volume in the flexible metal-organic framework material
The fire blocking performance of barrier fabrics laminated to upholstery materials was investigated. The results are two-fold. The first involves information gathered directly from cone calorimetry tests conducted on foam/fabric composites to better
Yimin NMN Mao, Kai Liu, Chengbo Zhan, Lihong Geng, Benjamin Chu, Benjamin S. Hsiao
Nanocelluloses extracted from wood pulps using TEMPO (2,2,6,6-tetramethylpiperidine-1-oxyl radical)-mediated oxidation and sulfuric-acid hydrolysis methods were characterized by small-angle neutron scattering (SANS), small-angle X-ray scattering (SANS)