In vitro fertilization using small amounts of cryopreserved sperm would benefit from efficient microscale methods to sort "healthy" motile sperm from nonmotile ones. This paper describes a microfluidic syste...
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In vitro fertilization using small amounts of cryopreserved sperm would benefit from efficient microscale methods to sort "healthy" motile sperm from nonmotile ones. This paper describes a microfluidic system with embedded reservoirs that sorts sperm based on the ability of motile sperm to move out of their initial streamlines in a laminar fluid stream. The device has horizontally oriented sample inlet and outlet reservoirs with different relative heights that serve the dual purpose of also being a pumping system that pumps fluids by hydrostatic pressure and surface tension. Sperm sorting is necessary for cryopreservation and intracytoplasmic sperm injection of sperm from men with low viable sperm counts. Since they have few viable sperm, it is difficult to obtain the sperm in an efficient manner using current procedures.
Materials adopting the diamond structure possess useful properties in atomic and colloidal systems, and are a popular target for synthesis in colloids where a photonic band gap is possible. The desirable photonic prop...
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A polyhedral silsesquioxane (POSS)-methacrylate and poly(n-butyl acrylate) triblock copolymer (poly(MA-POSS)-b-BA-b-(MA-POSS)) prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) were synthesized and characterized...
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A polyhedral silsesquioxane (POSS)-methacrylate and poly(n-butyl acrylate) triblock copolymer (poly(MA-POSS)-b-BA-b-(MA-POSS)) prepared by atom transfer radical polymerization (ATRP) were synthesized and characterized. The molecular weight and composition of the triblock copolymer was determined from size exclusion chromatography and H NMR spectroscopy. The study aims to develop an understanding of the thermoplastic elastomeric properties as influenced by hard-block interactions and nanometer-scale organization in the materials.
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Ronald G. LarsonDepts. of Chemical Engineering
Mechanical Engineering Biomedical Engineering and Macromolecular Science and Engineering Program University of Michigan Ann Arbor MI 48103 (USA)
The formation mechanisms of aromatic compounds in flame are strongly influenced by the chemical and thermal history that leads to their formation. Indeed, the complex environments that characterize combustion systems ...
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Quasicrystals exhibit long-range order but lack translational symmetry. When grown as single crystals, they possess distinctive and unusual properties owing to the absence of grain boundaries. Unfortunately, conventio...
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Encapsulating a drug molecule into a water‐reactive metal–organic framework (MOF) leads to amorphous drug confined within the nanoscale pores. Rapid release of drug occurs upon hydrolytic decomposition of MOF in dis...
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Encapsulating a drug molecule into a water‐reactive metal–organic framework (MOF) leads to amorphous drug confined within the nanoscale pores. Rapid release of drug occurs upon hydrolytic decomposition of MOF in dissolution media. Application to improve dissolution and solubility for the hydrophobic small drug molecules curcumin, sulindac, and triamterene is demonstrated. The drug@MOF composites exhibit significantly enhanced dissolution and achieves high supersaturation in simulated gastric and/or phosphate buffer saline media. This combination strategy where MOF inhibits crystallization of the amorphous phase and then releases drug upon MOF irreversible structural collapse represents a novel and generalizable approach for drug delivery of poorly soluble compounds while overcoming the traditional weakness of amorphous drug delivery: physical instability of the amorphous form.
Ferroelectric materials exhibit switchable remanent polarization due to reversible symmetry breaking under an applied electric field. Previous research has leveraged temperature‐induced neutral‐ionic transitions in ...
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Ferroelectric materials exhibit switchable remanent polarization due to reversible symmetry breaking under an applied electric field. Previous research has leveraged temperature‐induced neutral‐ionic transitions in charge‐transfer (CT) cocrystals to access ferroelectrics that operate through displacement of molecules under an applied field. However, displacive ferroelectric behavior is rare in organic CT cocrystals and achieving a Curie temperature ( T C ) above ambient has been elusive. Here a cocrystal between acenaphthene and 2,3,5,6‐tetrafluoro‐7,7,8,8‐tetracyanoquinodimethane is presented that shows switchable remanent polarization at room temperature ( T C =68 °C). Raman spectroscopy, X‐ray diffraction, and solid‐state NMR spectroscopy indicate the ferroelectric behavior is facilitated by acenaphthene (AN) rotation, deviating from conventional design strategies for CT ferroelectrics. These findings highlight the relevance of non‐CT interactions in the design of displacive ferroelectric cocrystals.
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