The first controlled experiments measuring the growth of the magneto-Rayleigh-Taylor instability in fast (∼100  ns) Z-pinch plasmas are reported. Sinusoidal perturbations on the surface of an initially solid Al tube (liner) with wavelengths of 25-400  μm were used to seed the instability. Radiographs with 15  μm resolution captured the evolution of the outer liner surface. Comparisons with nume...

A new molecular motor is conceptually constructed from a doublewalled carbon nanotube (DWNT) consisting of a long inner singlewalled carbon nanotube (SWNT) and a short outer SWNT with different chirality. The interaction between inner and outer tubes is the sum of the Lennard-Jones potentials between carbon atoms in inner tube and those in outer one. Within the framework of SmoluchowskiFeynman ...

By controlling the traction between its body and the tube wall, a tube-dwelling polychaete can move efficiently from one end of its tube to the other, brace its body during normal functions (e.g., ventilation and feeding), and anchor within its tube avoiding removal by predators. To examine the potential physical interaction between worms and the tubes they live in, scanning electron microscopy...

Highly ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays are superior photoanodes for dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) due to reduced intertube connections, vectorial electron transport, suppressed electron recombination, and enhanced light scattering. Performance of the cells is greatly affected by tube geometry, such as wall thickness, length, inner diameter and intertube spacing. In this paper, effect of geome...

Nowadays, due to the escalation in construction of high-rise structures, the need for selecting a proper resistant structural system against earthquake and wind has increased significantly. These systems should show an optimized use of materials and should be presented as a hard and efficient structure. A good example of a high efficient system in high-rise buildings can be indicated is, the tu...

We describe a theoretical model of spatial representation in cortex, including computer simulations, that is compatible with data from single neuron recordings. Our proposed architecture, called a sinusoidal array, encodes a polar vector ~ v = (r;) as distributed activity across a neuronal population. We demonstrate how sinusoidal arrays might be used for vector computations such as addition, s...

In this paper, we consider an open tube of diameter ε > 0, on the side of which a small hole of size ε2 is pierced. The resonances of this tube correspond to the eigenvalues of the Laplacian operator with homogeneous Neumann condition on the inner surface of the tube and Dirichlet one the open parts of the tube. We show that this spectrum converges when ε goes to 0 to the spectrum of an explici...