Inspired by the carnivorous Nepenthes pitcher plant, a range of highly liquid repellent lubricant-infused surfaces has been devised (low water droplet contact angle hysteresis and sliding values). This entails matching functional pulsed plasma polymer nanolayers with appropriate slippery lubricants. A molecular-level structure–behavior relationship is developed, highlighting importance favorabl...

Inspired by the reactivity of (per)chlorate reducing molybdoenzymes and encouraged lack molybdenum-containing functional models thereof, two molybdenum(VI) complexes type [MoO2L2] (L = pyrimidine-2-thiolate or 6-methylpyridine-2-thiolate) were found to be active homogeneous catalysts for reduction ClO4– ClO3– in CH2Cl2 using PPh3 as sacrificial oxygen acceptor. The subsequent stepwise Cl– is fa...

Topology optimization has been an interesting area of research in recent years.  The main focus of this paper is to use an evolutionary swarm intelligence algorithm to perform Isogeometric Topology optimization of continuum structures.  A two-dimensional plate is analyzed statically and the nodal displacements are calculated.  The nodal displacements using Isogeometric analysis are found to be ...

Nature-inspired algorithms such as genetic algorithms, particle swarm optimisation and ant colony algorithms have successfully solved computer science problems of search and optimisation. The initial implementations of these techniques focused on static problems solved on single machines. These have been extended by adding parallelisation capabilities in the vein of distributed computing with a...