This concept provides a general framework which includes almost all previously proposed mathematical models for Non-Newtonian fluids as special cases and also, of course, the classical theory of Navier-Stokes fluids. It turned out that only this general concept, and no special mathematical models, were needed to analyze the behavior of simple liquids (incompressible simple fluids) in viscometri...

We present a MEMS sensor aiming to enable continuous monitoring of glucose levels in diabetes patients. The device features a magnetically-driven vibrating microcantilever, which is situated in a microchamber and separated from the environment by a semi-permeable membrane. Glucose sensing is based on affinity binding principles using a solution of dextran concanavalin-A (Con A) as the sensing f...

The relaxation processes of a wide variety of soft materials frequently contain one or more broad regions of power-law–like or stretched exponential relaxation in time and frequency. Fractional constitutive equations have been shown to be excellent models for capturing the linear viscoelastic behavior of such materials, and their relaxation modulus can be quantitatively described very generally...

We use a combination of spectroscopic, calorimetric, viscometric and computer modeling techniques to characterize the binding of the aminoglycoside antibiotic, tobramycin, to the polymeric RNA duplex, poly(rI).poly(rC), which exhibits the characteristic A-type conformation that is conserved among natural and synthetic double-helical RNA sequences. Our results reveal the following significant fe...