In cardiopulmonary bypass surgery, it is beneficial to avoid the use of a heart-lung machine and perform beating heart surgery instead. This is a difficult task even for the most skilled surgeons. To eliminate the risks associated with cardiopulmonary bypass on a beating heart, a motion compensation system can be used. We place markers on the heart surface, which we can use to track the complex...

To construct copper heap leaching structures, a stepped heap of ore is placed over an isolated sloping surface and then washed with sulphuric acid. The isolated bed of such a heap consists of some natural and geosynthetic layers. Shear strength parameters between these layers are low, so they form the possible sliding surfaces of the heaps. Economic and environmental considerations call for stu...

The preparation of typically thermodynamically unstable polymorphic structures is a challenge. However, solid surfaces are well established aids for the formation and stabilization of polymorphic structures within, for instance, organic electronics. In this study, we report the stabilization of a pharmaceutically relevant substance via a solid surface at ambient conditions. Form III of paraceta...

A wide range of biorelevant applications, particularly in pharmaceutical formulations and the food and cosmetic industries, require the stabilization of two water-soluble blended components which would otherwise form incompatible biphasic mixtures. Such water-in-water emulsions can be achieved using Pickering stabilization, where two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials are particularly effective due...

Electrostatic stabilization is reduced in its efficiency in an electrolyte-containing environment. The effect of electrolyte concentration is mostly described as negative factor for dispersion stabilization. Usually, zeta potential and physical stability decrease at increasing electrolyte concentration. The purpose of the present study was to measure the surface properties of nanotubes in aqueo...

We treat a surface finite element method that is based on the trace of a standard finite element space on a tetrahedral triangulation of an outer domain that contains a stationary 2D surface. This surface FEM is used to discretize partial differential equation on the surface. We demonstrate the performance of this method for stationary and time-dependent diffusion equations. For the stationary ...