Abstract While active systems possess notable potential to form the foundation of new classes autonomous materials (Zhang et al 2021 Nat. Rev. Mater. 6 437), designing that can extract functional work from surroundings has proven challenging. In this work, we extend these efforts realm designed liquid crystal/colloidal composites. We propose suspending colloidal particles with Janus anchoring c...

The antibacterial action of antibody (normal and hyperimmune), complement, and lysozyme has been studied by correlating the ultrastructural and biochemical changes that they cause in smooth Escherichia coli. Both normal and hyperimmune antibody, in the absence of lysozyme, produced complement-dependent release, into the suspending medium, of 63 to 72% of the (32)P-labeled phospholipid and 74 to...

The viability of pneumococcus, Type I, sprayed into the atmosphere from a liquid suspension was measured as a function of the relative humidity. When broth, saliva, or 0.5 per cent saline solution is employed as the suspending medium, a very high mortality rate is observed at relative humidities in the vicinity of 50 per cent. However, at humidities above or below this value the microorganisms ...

Some investigators have reported recently that platelet surface sialic acid is decreased during ADP-induced aggregation, whereas others have reported an increase. Since removal of sialic acid from the platelet surface shortens platelet survival, we have determined the survival of platelets that have been aggregatad by ADP. We have also measured the amount of sialic acid in the suspending fluid ...

The studies reported here describe the successful propagation of variola virus in spinner cultures of mammalian cells, and the factors which influence its growth. Five established cell lines were used for the propagation of variola virus in a spinner culture system. Low doses of virus did initiate an infection but virus yields did not approach those obtained when an intermediate inoculum was us...

Vacuoles were isolated from Acer pseudoplatanus cells that were incubated with [(14)C]1-aminocyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (ACC). The kinetics of [(14)C]1-(malonylamino)cyclopropane-1-carboxylic acid (MACC) formation are consistent with the interpretation that MACC is synthesized in the cytosol, transported through the tonoplast, and accumulated in the vacuole. Twenty hours after chasing the l...

Natural excipients can serve as alternative to synthetic products because of local accessibility, biodegradability, eco-friendly nature and cost effectiveness as compared to synthetic products. Therefore, it is a current need to explore natural excipients that can be used as an effective alternative excipient for the formulation of pharmaceutical dosage forms. Adansonia digitata (Malvaceae) has...

Many-core and heterogeneous architectures now require programmers to compose multiple asynchronous programming model fully exploit hardware capabilities. As a shared-memory parallel model, OpenMP has the responsibility of orchestrating suspension progression operations occurring on compute node, such as MPI communications or CUDA/HIP streams. Yet, specifications only come with task detach(event...

Insulator-based dielectrophoresis (iDEP) is an efficient technique with great potential for miniaturization. It has been applied successfully for the manipulation and concentration of a wide array of particles, including bioparticles such as macromolecules and microorganisms. When iDEP is applied employing DC electric fields, other electrokinetic transport mechanisms are present: electrophoresi...