It is common for small tandem peptide multimer genes to be indirectly inserted into expression vectors and fused with a protein tag. In this study, a multimer of the tandem angiotensin I-converting enzyme inhibitory p...
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Aqueous magnetorheological (MR) polishing fluids used in magnetorheological finishing (MRF) have a high solids concentration consisting of magnetic carbonyl iron particles and nonmagnetic polishing abrasives. The prop...
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Two series of size and shape-controlled type-II CdTe/CdSe/CdTe heterostructure nanorods with different geometrical structures were prepared by the colloidal sequential reactant injection technique. The samples, includ...
Two series of size and shape-controlled type-II CdTe/CdSe/CdTe heterostructure nanorods with different geometrical structures were prepared by the colloidal sequential reactant injection technique. The samples, including pure CdSe seeds, were optically analysed by steady state and time resolved photoluminescence spectra. The experimental results demonstrate that the energy and lifetime of the photoluminescence from charge-separated band structure can be tuned by the nature of nanorods' band edges in both 'linear' and 'core-shell' heterostructure nanorods. But between different groups of nanorod samples, the spectral properties show different variation tendencies with the increasing CdTe tip. As one possible explanation, the compensation between the variations of kinetic and Coulomb contributions was discussed by numerical calculations based on the effective mass and envelope function approximations.
Reactive adhesive microbial inks can be formulated from aqueous latex emulsions for drop on demand (DOD) piezoelectric deposition. Ink-jet printing of a high density of living microorganisms many be useful to generate...
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(纸本)9780841274488
Reactive adhesive microbial inks can be formulated from aqueous latex emulsions for drop on demand (DOD) piezoelectric deposition. Ink-jet printing of a high density of living microorganisms many be useful to generate microstructures for micro-biosensors, as biocatalytic coatings in micro-fluidic devices, or micro-channel bioreactors. Microbial inks are viable wet cell paste mixed with aqueous (organic solvent-free) emulsions of adhesive polymer particles that dry rapidly with arrested coalescence as thin, adhesive, nanoporous coatings. Latex ink viscosity (~1.5 to 3 cP) is semi-shear rate dependent. Nanoporosity is essential for the embedded microorganisms to retain viability and reactivity. The nanoporous latex inks in this study contain glycerol and sucrose added to a low Tg acrylate/vinyl acetate latex emulsion (particle dia. ~280nm, Tg ~10°C). The glycerol and sucrose arrest polymer particle coalescence during film formation (porogens) and also act as osmoprotectants. Viability and reactivity is measured by bioluminescence following deposition, drying, and rehydration in nitrogen-limited (nongrowth) media. As a model system, the reactivity of Escherichia coli (4 cfu/nl ink) containing a mercury (Hg+2)-inducible promoter-lux fusion was studied by printing patches, microwells and multi-layer dot arrays onto polyester using office ink-jet printers and a piezoelectric nano-plotter. E. coli can be printed at a density of ~1.5 cells/μm2. Reactivity (luminescence resulting from luxCDABE expression) is a function of drying conditions (temperature, relative humidity), nanoporosity following rehydration, Hg +2 concentration, and volume printed. Print resolution is determined by piezo tip aperture diameter (25 μm, ~0.2 nl/droplet;50 μm, ~0.5 nl/droplet) and drying rate. Profilometry of dry latex microstructures indicated significant surface-tension driven flow prior to ink drying. Viable Kluyveromyces fragilis (~12 μm diameter) have also been printed as a larger model mic
The University of California has recently funded a new Lead Campus program: Research and Education in Green materials, a multi-campus graduate fellowship program designed to bridge the disciplinary boundaries of engin...
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(纸本)9781424443246
The University of California has recently funded a new Lead Campus program: Research and Education in Green materials, a multi-campus graduate fellowship program designed to bridge the disciplinary boundaries of engineering, science, toxicology and social science. This paper describes the program and the graduate course on green engineering.
We show that classical many-particle systems interacting with certain soft pair interactions in two dimensions exhibit novel low-temperature behaviors. Ground states span from disordered to crystalline. At some densit...
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We show that classical many-particle systems interacting with certain soft pair interactions in two dimensions exhibit novel low-temperature behaviors. Ground states span from disordered to crystalline. At some densities, a large fraction of normal-mode frequencies vanish. Lattice ground-state configurations have more vanishing frequencies than disordered ground states at the same density and exhibit vanishing shear moduli. For the melting transition from a crystal, the thermal expansion coefficient is negative. These unusual results are attributed to the topography of the energy landscape.
Excitable cells can exhibit complex patterns of oscillations, such as spiking and bursting. In cardiac cells, pathological voltage oscillations, called early afterdepolarizations (EADs), have been widely observed unde...
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Excitable cells can exhibit complex patterns of oscillations, such as spiking and bursting. In cardiac cells, pathological voltage oscillations, called early afterdepolarizations (EADs), have been widely observed under disease conditions, yet their dynamical mechanisms remain unknown. Here, we show that EADs are caused by Hopf and homoclinic bifurcations. During period pacing, chaos always occurs at the transition from no EAD to EADs as the stimulation frequency decreases, providing a distinct explanation for the irregular EAD behavior frequently observed in experiments.
The atomic structure of the Ag/Ge(111)-(√3√3)R30 surface is studied by scanning tunneling microscopy (STM) and the density functional theory (DFT) calculations. Our STM images have shown a structure which is differe...
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Previous investigations of surface plasmons in Ag largely focused on their excitations in the visible spectral regime. Using scanning transmission electron microscopy with an electron beam of 0.2nm in conjunction with...
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