Traumatic brain injury is the leader in the ranking of mortality and invalidity. The surgical repair of a defect of the skull by cranioplasty has been practiced since ancient times, when materials of non-biological or...
Traumatic brain injury is the leader in the ranking of mortality and invalidity. The surgical repair of a defect of the skull by cranioplasty has been practiced since ancient times, when materials of non-biological origin were used for this purpose. New materials and processes are sought to improve osseintegration of implants. Like any surgical procedure, cranioplasty involves complications that may be related to the surgical technique and/or to the patient's tolerance to the material used. This work described a biocompatible medical device that include two supported meshes for providing mechanical strength and osseointegration properties of the implant, and a multiplayer porous material in between them that is loaded with the required bioactive antibacterial compound to promote a controlled and sustained release of the pharmaceutical agents at the site of surgical intervention. To increase osseointegration, meshes are designed with an open structure and coated with biocompatible materials such as hydroxyapatite. The composition gradient in the multilayer porous material is attained by loading successive layers of porous material with different amounts of bioactive materials and then stacking them to create a gradient of composition across the porous material.
The NSF-funded Redshirt in engineering Consortium was formed in 2016 with the goal of enhancing the ability of academically talented but underprepared students coming from low-income backgrounds to successfully gradua...
The NSF-funded Redshirt in engineering Consortium was formed in 2016 with the goal of enhancing the ability of academically talented but underprepared students coming from low-income backgrounds to successfully graduate with engineering degrees. The Consortium takes its name from the practice of redshirting in college athletics, with the idea of providing an extra year and support to help promising engineering students complete a bachelor's degree. The Consortium builds on the success of three existing "academic redshirt" programs and expands the model to three new schools. The Existing Redshirt Institutions (ERIs) help mentor and train the new Student Success Partners (SSPs), and SSPs contribute their unique expertise to help ERIs improve existing Redshirt programs. The Redshirt model consists of seven main programmatic components aimed at improving the engagement, retention, and graduation of students underrepresented in engineering. These components include: "intrusive" academic advising and support services, an intensive first-year academic curriculum, community-building (including pre-matriculation summer programs), career awareness and vision, faculty mentorship, NSF S-STEM scholarships, and second-year support. Successful implementation of these activities is intended to produce two main long-term outcomes: a six-year graduation rate of 60%-75% for Redshirt students, and increased rates of enrollment and graduation of Pell-eligible, URM, and women students in engineering at participating universities. In the first year of the grant (AY 16-17), SSPs developed their own Redshirt programs, hired and trained staff, and got their programs off the ground. ERIs implemented faculty mentorship programs and expanded support to Redshirt students into their sophomore year. In the second year (AY 17-18), Redshirt programs were expanded at the ERIs while SSPs welcomed their first cohorts of Redshirt students. This Work in Progress paper describes the Redshirt programs at e
The interconnect half-pitch size will reach ~20 nm in the coming sub-5 nm technology node. Meanwhile, the TaN/Ta (barrier/liner) bilayer stack has to be > 4 nm to ensure acceptable liner and diffusion barrier prope...
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In spite of considerable evidence of the effectiveness of active learning and other contemporary teaching methods, barriers to adoption of those methods, such as possible student resistance, continue to exist. This st...
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Scientometrics and bibliometrics, the subfields of library and information science, deal with the quantity and quality of research outputs. Currently, various scientometric indices are being used to quantify and compa...
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A pair of Dirac points (analogous to a vortex-antivortex pair) associated with opposite topological numbers (with ±π Berry phases) can be merged together through parameter tuning and annihilated to gap the Dirac...
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A pair of Dirac points (analogous to a vortex-antivortex pair) associated with opposite topological numbers (with ±π Berry phases) can be merged together through parameter tuning and annihilated to gap the Dirac spectrum, offering a canonical example of a topological phase transition. Here, we report transport studies on thin films of BiSbTeSe2, which is a 3D topological insulator that hosts spin-helical gapless (semimetallic) Dirac fermion surface states for sufficiently thick samples, with an observed resistivity close to h/4e2 at the charge neutral point. When the sample thickness is reduced to below ∼10 nm thick, we observe a transition from metallic to insulating behavior, consistent with the expectation that the Dirac cones from the top and bottom surfaces hybridize (analogous to a “merging” in the real space) to give a trivial gapped insulator. Furthermore, we observe that an in-plane magnetic field can drive the system again towards a metallic behavior, with a prominent negative magnetoresistance (up to ∼−95%) and a temperature-insensitive resistivity close to h/2e2 at the charge neutral point. The observation is consistent with a predicted effect of an in-plane magnetic field to reduce the hybridization gap (which, if small enough, may be smeared by disorder and give rise to a metallic behavior). A sufficiently strong magnetic field is predicted to restore and split again the Dirac points in the momentum space, inducing a distinct 2D topological semimetal phase with two single-fold Dirac cones of opposite spin-momentum windings.
Coherent light-matter interaction can be used to manipulate the energy levels of atoms, molecules and solids. When light with frequency ω is detuned away from a resonance ω0, repulsion between the photon-dressed (Fl...
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