As continued progress towards faster, low power consuming microelectronic devices becomes increasing difficult due to the scaling challenges of electrical interconnects, it becomes even more critical to explore alternative technologies. Tunable porous silicon photonic bandgap structures are viable building blocks for optical interconnects, which present a possible long term solution to the inte...

In this work, the effect of immobilization of bread yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) by sol-gel technique combined with functionalized nanoporous silica was investigated in different weight ratios of silica containing materials (TMOS: LUS-1). The activities of immobilized yeast in days after immobilization were examined. The results showed immobilization maintain the yeast life for a longer tim...

The titled problem of coupled thermoelasticity for porous structure has been solved with an instantaneous heat source acting on a plane area in an unbounded medium. The basic equations of thermoelasticity, after being converted into a one-dimensional form, have been written in the form of a vector-matrix differential equation and solved by the eigenvalue approach for the field variables in the ...

Diffusion in pure gels and gels with immobilized cells was analyzed. A model of diffusion assuming a homogeneous cell distribution in gel was improved by introducing a tortuosity value. By theoretical analysis and numerical modeling it was shown that the tortuosity of a gel with immobilized cells is the product of two factors: (1) tortuosity generated by the cells, Tc, and (2) tortuosity of the...

In this work, the effect of immobilization of bread yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) by sol-gel technique combined with functionalized nanoporous silica was investigated in different weight ratios of silica containing materials (TMOS: LUS-1). The activities of immobilized yeast in days after immobilization were examined. The results showed immobilization maintain the yeast life for a longer tim...

Flow in porous Silicon Carbide (SiC) has been investigated in order to increase the understanding of the determining parameters. Porous SiC is used in the fabrication of ceramic membranes, for use in cross-flow and dead-end filtration. Therefore, a description of the flow would help to design more efficient filtration modules, and to improve the use of the existing modules. The investigation pe...

A simple and promising H2O2 biosensor has been developed by successful entrapment of horseradish peroxidase (HRP) in a gelatine matrix which was cross-linked with formaldehyde. The large microscopic surface area and porous morphology of the gelatine matrix lead to high enzyme loading and the enzyme entrapped in this matrix can retain its bioactivity. This biosensor exhibited a fast amperometric...

A tissue-engineering scaffold resembling the structure of the natural extracellular matrix can often facilitate tissue regeneration. Nerve and tendon are oriented micro-scale tissue bundles. In this study, a method combining injection molding and thermally induced phase separation techniques is developed to create single- and multiple-channeled nanofibrous poly(L-lactic acid) scaffolds. The ove...

Hierarchical macro-mesoporous silica materials co-incorporated with Cr and Ti 12 (MM-Si-Cr-Ti) were directly synthesized by adopting close-packed array of polystyrene 13 microsphere as hard template for macropore through a simple soaking-calcination way, where 14 the Si/Ti ratio was fixed at 200 and Si/Cr ratio varied from 200-10. Ti specie is highly dispersed 15 in the porous matrix and Cr spe...