A thermo-responsive PNIPAAm-grafted-PDMS (PNIPAAm-g-PDMS) surface was used for cell culture. Cos7 cells could adhere to the PNIPAAm-g-PDMS surface and proliferated therein at 37 C. The cultured cells could detach from the surface at room temperature without trypsin digestion. The viability of cells harvested from the PNIPAAm-g-PDMS surface via lowering temperature was higher than that of cells ...

In this paper, we examine the coupled thermoporomechanical behaviour of a fluid-saturated porous medium of infinite extent bounded internally by a fluid-filled cavity. The mechanical behaviour of the porous skeleton can either be Hookean elastic or elasto-plastic, with a constitutive response corresponding to a modified Cam Clay plasticity model. The fluid within the cavity can be subjected sim...

A temperature sensor based on erbium-doped fiber cascaded peanut taper (EDFCPT) structure in ring laser (FRL) cavity is proposed and studied. The was fabricated by fiber. cladding mode core interference the strong thermo-optical effect of were used to realize high sensitivity measurement temperature. thermal effects EDFCPT a broadband super-continuous light source studied compared experimentall...

This note deals with concrete applications of the general treatment of anisotropic thermo-elasticity developed in the first part [M. Reissig, J. Wirth, Anisotropic thermo-elasticity in 2D A unified treatment, Asympt. Anal. ?? (????) ??–??]. We give dispersive decay rates for solutions to the type-1 system of thermo-elasticity for certain types of anisotropic media. 1. Elastic operators and ther...

Current research on room-temperature ionic liquids as lubricants is described. Ionic liquids possess excellent properties such as non-volatility, non-flammability, and thermo-oxidative stability. The potential use of ionic liquids as lubricants was first proposed in 2001 and approximately 70 articles pertaining to fundamental research on ionic liquids have been published through May 2009. A lar...

Thermo-diffusion effect on free convection heat and mass transfer from a vertical surface embedded in a liquid saturated thermally stratified non Darcy porous medium has been analyzed using a local non-similar procedure. The wall temperature and concentration are constant and the medium is linearly stratified in the vertical direction with respect to the thermal conditions. The fluid flow, temp...

Thermosensitive TRP (thermo TRP) channels are well recognized for their contributions to sensory transduction, responding to a wide variety of stimuli including temperature, nociceptive stimuli, touch, and osmolarity. However, the precise roles for the thermo TRP channels during development have not been determined. To explore the functional importance of thermo TRP channels during neural devel...

Thermo- and electro-optical properties of a photonic liquid crystal fiber (PLCF) enhanced by the use of dopants have been investigated. A 6CHBT nematic liquid crystal was doped with four different concentrations of gold nanoparticles (NPs), 0.1, 0.3, 0.5 and 1.0 wt %, for direct comparison of the influence of the dopant on the properties of the PLCF. The thermo-optical effects of the liquid cry...

ABSTRACT: In this paper, thermo optical properties of homologous series of hydrogen bonded liquid crystals: p-n alkyl benzoic acid (nBA): heptyl p hydroxybenzoate (7HB) (where n=5 to 10) have been investigated by means of applying Image analysis technique in conjunction with Polarizing Optical Microscope. Textures of liquid crystal complexes are captured. The changes in textural features as a f...

This paper reports the first derived thermo-optical properties for vacuum deposited infrared thin films embedded in multilayers. These properties were extracted from the temperature-dependence of manufactured narrow bandpass filters across the 4-17 µm mid-infrared wavelength region. Using a repository of spaceflight multi-cavity bandpass filters, the thermo-optical expansion coefficients of PbT...