We undertake steps to overcome four challenges that have hindered the understanding of ZnO/biomolecule interfaces at atomic scale: parametrization a classical force field, ZnO surface termination and amino acid protonation state in methanol, convergence enhanced sampling molecular dynamics simulations. predict adsorption free energies for histidine, serine, cysteine, tryptophan remarkable agree...

Immediately following the 1966 Parkfield earthquake a continuing program of fault displacement measurements was undertaken, and several types of instruments were installed in the fault zone to monitor ground motion. In the year subsequent to the earthquake a maximum of at least 20 cm of displacement occurred on a 30 km section of the San Andreas fault, which far exceeded the surfidal displaceme...

The mechanical response of the cornea subjected to a non-contact air-jet tonometry diagnostic test represents an interplay between its geometry, the corneal material behavior and the loading. The objective is to study this interplay to better understand and interpret the results obtained with a non-contact tonometry test. A patient-specific finite element model of a healthy eye, accounting for ...

We present an experimental study of a droplet interacting with an ultrasonic surface acoustic wave. Depending on the amplitude of the wave, the drop can either experience an internal flow with its contact line pinned, or (at higher amplitude) move along the direction of the wave also with internal flow. Both situations come with oscillations of the drop free surface. The physical origins of the...

We present a novel real-time method for geometric displacement mapping on arbitrary 2-manifold triangle meshes. It is independent of the surface resolution and allows very fine geometric details to be added. We first compute a local surface parameterization using barycentric particle tracing and a constrained mass-spring system. This system satisfies the hard constraint of keeping all mass poin...

The anisotropic materials as the acoustic wave propagating medium introduce the dependence of the phase velocity on the wave propagation direction, as opposed to the isotropic counterparts; in addition, the profile of the particle displacement components can be quite different, depending on the crystal type and propagation direction. The propagation of surface and bulk acoustic waves (SAWs and ...

BACKGROUND The eye globe exhibits significant regional variation of mechanical behaviour. The aim of this present study is to develop a new experimental technique for testing intact eye globes in a form that is representative of in vivo conditions, and therefore suitable for determining the material properties of the complete outer ocular tunic. METHODS A test rig has been developed to provid...

A highly sensitive surface enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrate with particle-film sandwich geometry has been developed for the label free detection of folic acid (FA) and methotrexate (MTX). In this sandwich structure, the bottom layer is composed of a copper foil decorated with silver nanoparticles synthesized by the galvanic displacement reaction, and top layer is constituted by silver...

When a nonvolatile liquid film dewets from a partly compatible liquid substrate, the advancing dewetting front leaves behind droplets formed through a Rayleigh instability mechanism at its rim. We have found that these droplets continue to move in the direction of the dewetting front for extended periods (of order one day) with an initial droplet velocity varying linearly with the droplet size,...

The tearing and healing of a one-dimensional crack in a solid, in the presence of external tectonic forces, pre-stress, static friction, cohesion and dynamic friction is investigated. It is found that cohesive forces have a strong influence on the velocity of rupture; the velocity of rupture is always less than or equal to the velocity of sound. The extension of the crack ceases either when the...