Coronary artery disease (CAD) is one of the major cardiovascular diseases and represents the leading causes of global mortality. Developing new diagnostic and therapeutic approaches for CAD treatment are critically ne...
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This paper reports a breakup regime of bubbles and droplets that is caused by a sudden channel expansion in a microfluidic device. In this regime, bubbles or droplets generated at a flow-focusing geometry periodically...
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This paper reports a breakup regime of bubbles and droplets that is caused by a sudden channel expansion in a microfluidic device. In this regime, bubbles or droplets generated at a flow-focusing geometry periodically breakup into smaller bubbles or droplets, respectively, upon entering an expansion. In addition to Capillary number Ca, which is previously shown to govern the dispersion breakup in such geometries, we find that, at a high-inertia regime, the Weber number We also plays a significant role in specifying the transition from non-breakup to breakup regimes. Furthermore, we identify different periodic breakup modes, for example, symmetric and asymmetric breakup, which are dictated by the Ohnesorge number. A power law of f0.5∝We0.1Ca0.2, where f denotes the frequency at which the dispersions arrive at the expansion region, governs when the droplets and bubbles breakup. This power law highlights the importance of inertia to the dispersion breakup in an expansion-mediated geometry. Our results demonstrate that, without modifying the geometry and by only tuning several dimensionless parameters related to the fluid flow, a microchannel expansion region can produce mono-, bi-, or tri-disperse bubble or droplet populations. These discoveries may find utility in the design of multi-disperse bubble or droplet populations using microfluidics.
In the real situations of supply chain, there are different parts such as facilities, logistics warehouses and retail stores and they handle common kinds of products. In this research, these situations are focused on ...
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In the real situations of supply chain, there are different parts such as facilities, logistics warehouses and retail stores and they handle common kinds of products. In this research, these situations are focused on as the background of this research. They deal with the common quantities of their products, but due to their different environments, the optimal production quantity of one part can be unacceptable to another part and it may suffer a heavy loss. To avoid that kind of unacceptable situations, the common production quantities should be acceptable to all parts in one supply chain. Therefore, the motivation of this research is the necessity of the method to find the production quantities that make all decision makers acceptable is needed. However, it is difficult to find the production quantities that make all decision makers acceptable. Moreover, their acceptable ranges do not always have common ranges. In the decision making of car design, there are similar situations to this type of decision making. The performance of a car consists of purposes such as fuel efficiency, size and so on. Improving one purpose makes another worse and the relationship between these purposes is tradeoff. In these cases, Suriawase process is applied. This process consists of negotiations and reviews of the requirements of the purposes. In the step of negotiations, the requirements of the purposes are share among all decision makers and the solution that makes them as satisfied as possible. In the step of reviews of the requirements, they are reviewed based on the result of the negotiation if the result is unacceptable to some of decision makers. Therefore, through the iterations of the two steps, the solution that makes all decision makers satisfied is obtained. However, in the previous research, the effects that one decision maker reviews requirements in Suriawase process are quantified, but the mathematical model to modify the ranges of production quantities of all decision ma
Future human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit will bring substantial changes and new requirements to the development of fully sustainable, healthy indoor human environments across a range of gravitational, radiative...
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Future human spaceflight beyond low-Earth orbit will bring substantial changes and new requirements to the development of fully sustainable, healthy indoor human environments across a range of gravitational, radiative, and thermal conditions. One key aspect is understanding (and potentially leveraging) microorganisms that must coexist with humans, plants, and animals in enclosed habitats (their microbiota or microbiomes). Modern, genome-resolved microbiome science provides an opportunity to better understand how we can utilize microbes to optimize space missions and protect human health and well-being long-term. Microorganisms will be critical to mission success due to their direct or indirect interactions with 1) humans, 2) other living systems (e.g., plant and animal life as a food source and for experimentation), and 3) the built environment. For example, the human gut microbiome is a complex community that has important implications for human health and performance that include mental health, nutrition intake, and immune system function. The health of plant microbiomes is also critical for sustainable, dependable, and nutritious food production. Humans, plants, and other living systems (e.g., animals used in experimentation) will also shed microbes into the built environment, which may impact human exposure, plant health, system integrity, and planetary protection from microbial contamination in both forward and reverse directions. Microbes from all three systems will interact, resulting in potentially important 'non-linear' system implications that must be understood for the overall long-term sustainability of hardware, crew, and other living systems. This paper discusses recent advances in technology that expand measurement capabilities to ultra-low-biomass samples and now allow for better understanding of microbial taxa, community structure and drivers, and functional capacity, which together will empower microbiome-optimized deep-space human exploration miss
A system for automatic detection of road damages is essential for logistics management. At the core of the system lies an algorithm for classification of damages. This work intends to establish such an algorithm. In t...
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The growing need for sustainable energy has encouraged researchers to emphasize on establishing strong electroactive catalysts for improved water-splitting processes. Water-electrolysis study demands electroactive cat...
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Printed microstructures face challenges when their applications require excellent mechanical strength and chemical stability at high temperatures. To maximize the service temperatures of printed microstructures, this ...
Printed microstructures face challenges when their applications require excellent mechanical strength and chemical stability at high temperatures. To maximize the service temperatures of printed microstructures, this study introduces a printable ceramic precursor for deriving SiBCN microstructures. The precursor possesses a high photosensitivity and high ceramic yield (76 wt%) because of the graft of acrylate and an increase of crosslinking degree, which is achieved by functionalizing polyborosilazane with 2-Isocyanatoethyl acrylate via nucleophilic addition reaction. The composition and chemical structure of the precursor and ceramic have been meticulously characterized. Moreover, a kinetics model has been established to describe the weight loss in pyrolysis, illuminating that the polymer-to-ceramic conversion is a diffusion-mediated growth process. Through two-photon lithography and pyrolysis, the photosensitive precursor can directly lead to SiBCN nano/microstructures with complex shapes and submicron (linewidth: ∼700 nm) features, which are the smallest SiBCN structures reported to date. At these microscales, it is revealed that shrinkage during pyrolysis is anisotropic and surface-area dependent and that the printed SiBCN micropillars can have an exceptional compressive strength of 3.59 ± 0.08 GPa. The potential applications of printed SiBCN microstructures were explored, including high-temperature embossing stamps for microlens and structural-color fabrication.
A body armor is vital for users in combat filed. Normally, the body armor have two components: soft and hard ones. This paper proposes feasibility assessment technique to evaluate contemporary materials: Kevlar, natur...
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Industry 4.0 has recently become an ubiquitous topic of study both by academics and practitioners. Beyond the technology application domain, one major issue that most organizations have to face when structuring their ...
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Printed microstructures face challenges when their applications require excellent mechanical strength and chemical stability at high temperatures. To maximize the service temperatures of printed microstructures, this ...
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