Three dimensional acoustic tweezers with vortex streaming by Li, Junfei, Crivoi, Alexandru, Peng, Xiuyuan, Shen, Lu, Pu, Yunjiao, Fan, Zheng, Cummer, Steven A.

“…Acoustic tweezers based on single-beam focused acoustic vortices have attracted considerable attention due to their selective trapping capability, but have proven difficult to use for three-dimensional (3D) trapping without a complex transducer array and significant constraints on the trapped particle properties. …”
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Small-scale wind energy harvesting using piezoelectric materials by Zhao, Liya

“…A two degree-of-freedom galloping piezoelectric energy harvester (GPEH) is proposed which successfully enhances the output power in low wind speeds. A beam stiffener is employed as an electromechanical coupling magnifier, which is proved to be an easy but greatly effective efficiency enhancing method for energy harvesting from VIV, flutter as well as galloping. …”
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Antenna-enhanced and polarization sensitive photoresponse in arrays of silicon P–i–N nanowires by Salfi, J., Lin, F. K., Stewart, C., Nair, S. V., Chen, C. Y., Yongshun, S., Rusli, E., Yu, M., Singh, N., Sousa, C. F. d., Ruda, H. E.

“…Quantitative characterization of these resonances was performed by spectral and polarization-resolved photocurrent measurements on gratings with N = 500, 200 and 100 nanowires, aided by electron beam-induced current measurements, and in excellent agreement with electromagnetic scattering theory. …”
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Thermal characterization of nanoscale material by Ho, Weng Fei.

“…Thin gold layers were deposited on top of these samples through e-beam deposition process to enhance sample heat absorption during photothermal experiment. …”
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Prismatic, basal, and slip strengths of commercially pure Zr by micro-cantilever tests by Wilkinson, A

“…Single-crystal cantilevers ranging from 0.5 µm to 10 µm wide, oriented for single slip, were prepared using focused ion beam (FIB) machining and deflected using a nanoindenter. …”

Maneuvering angle rigid formations with global convergence guarantees by Chen, Liangming, Lin, Zhiyun, De Marina, Hector Garcia, Sun, Zhiyong, Feroskhan, Mir

“…Angle rigid multi-agent formations can simultaneously undergo translational, rotational, and scaling maneuvering, therefore combining the maneuvering capabilities of both distance and bearing rigid formations. However, maneuvering angle rigid formations in 2D or 3D with global convergence guarantees is shown to be a challenging problem in the existing literature even when relative position measurements are available. …”
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Shape-morphing structures based on perforated kirigami by Zhang, Yunlan, Yang, Jingyi, Liu, Mingchao, Vella, Dominic

“…We also examine the loading-bearing capacity of morphed structures via indentation tests in both FEM simulations and experiments. …”
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Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) and Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) for photodynamic therapy monitoring. by Siti Raudhah Matyasir.

“…The aim is to evaluate the relative tissue oxygen saturation (rStO2) and relative blood flow (rBF) of the tumour-bearing mice obtained from Diffuse Optical Spectroscopy (DOS) and Diffuse Correlation Spectroscopy (DCS) respectively in order to see if they have prognostic value in predicting tumour response. …”
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Role of posttranslational modifications of histone proteins in epigenetics by Raj, R

“…Using a "Tag-and-modify" approach, modified histone proteins bearing both modifications was synthesized, and was later used for nucleosome reconstitution. …”

Functional genetics of cancer and congenital disorders by Zak, J

“…An integrative analysis of cancer genomic data revealed that <em>PPP1R13B</em>, encoding ASPP1, bears many hallmarks of a tumour suppressor gene, despite being mutated at a low absolute frequency. …”

Targeting c-Met for endoscopic detection of dysplastic lesions within Barrett’s esophagus using EMI-137 fluorescence imaging by Huang, Y-J, Rieder, J, Tan, KV, Tenditnaya, A, Vojnovic, B, Gorpas, D, Quante, M, Vallis, KA

“…EMI-137 was tested in a dual xenograft mouse model bearing OE33 (c-MET high expression) and FLO-1 (c-MET low expression) tumors. …”

Single-Shot Quantitative Polarization Imaging of Complex Birefringent Structure Dynamics by Ge, Baoliang, Zhang, Qing, Zhang, Rui, Lin, Jing-Tang, Tseng, Po-Hang, Chang, Che-Wei, Dong, Chen-Yuan, Zhou, Renjie, Yaqoob, Zahid, Bischofberger, Irmgard, So, Peter T. C.

“…We propose polarized shearing interference microscopy (PSIM), a single-shot quantitative polarization imaging method, for extracting the retardance and orientation angle of the laser beam transmitting through optically anisotropic specimens with complex structures. …”
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Photonic engineering technology for the development of terahertz quantum cascade lasers by Zeng, Yongquan, Qiang, Bo, Wang, Qi Jie

“…However, the applications of THz QCL require good output characteristics in terms of the emission spectrum, beam quality, power efficiency, and polarization control, which are beyond the reach of the electronic engineering techniques. …”
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Experimental and numerical study of self-locking adaptable inter connection for modular steel structures by Nadeem, Gohar, Safiee, Nor Azizi, Bakar, Nabilah Abu, Karim, Izian Abd, Mohd Nasir, Noor Azline

“…The results showed that reinforced joints sustained 80% of the limit of the rigid joint at an inter-story drift ratio of 0.04 radian and satisfied the condition for strong column weak beam joint mechanism. Non-linear Finite Element Analysis (FEA) was conducted on this adaptable connection with a parametric study to study more influences of other related parameters. …”

Fabrication of gold nanotip arrays using anodic aluminium oxide (AAO) template by Lim, Xin Yuan.

“…They are usually fabricated by a combination of DRIE (Dry-Reactive-Ion-etching) and FIB (Focused-Ion-Beam) processes. However these processes require many fabrication steps, are high in cost and are limited in material choices. …”
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Effect of hydrogen peroxide sterilization on properties and degradation of poly (ε-caprolactone) and poly (L-lactide-co-ε-caprocaltone) by Sia, Denia.

“…There are several techniques available to sterilize biomedical devices such as autoclave, gamma and E-beam radiation. However, there are drawbacks in those techniques especially towards biodegradable polymers. …”
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Growth and characterization of III-V quantum dots on SI-based substrate by Leong, Yu Yan

“…Using the solid-source molecular beam epitaxy, a defect-free GaAs heteroepitaxy on Ge surface can be obtained by employing the low temperature migration enhanced epitaxy technique. …”
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Modelling the electrical characteristics of SiNWs/organic solar cells by Tay, Chiu Kee

“…Whereas, the test subject used in experiment is planar Si/MoOx heterojunction solar cell, which is fabricated by e-beam evaporation, with indium tin oxide as an antireflection coating at the top layer grown by radio frequency sputtering. …”
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Static elastic properties of composite materials containing microspheres by Jones, GW

“…Subsequently, we analyse the buckling criterion asymptotically in the limit as the thickness ratio tends to zero by analogy with the WKB analysis of a beam on a variable-stiffness substrate. To model the shell after buckling we consider the simplified case of an embedded shell with a crack around its equator. …”

Modular Morphing Lattices for Large-Scale Underwater Continuum Robotic Structures by Parra Rubio, Alfonso, Fan, Dixia, Jenett, Benjamin, del Águila Ferrandis, José, Tourlomousis, Filippos, Abdel-Rahman, Amira, Preiss, David, Zemánek, Jiri, Triantafyllou, Michael, Gershenfeld, Neil

“…The first is a morphing beam snake-like robot that can generate thrust at specific anguilliform swimming parameters. …”
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