Corneas In article number 2100972, Stefan Giselbrecht and colleagues review existing approaches for bioengineering corneal stromal constructs. There is a high demand bioengineered constructs to overcome global donor shortage, but unfortunately many of these fail clinical trials due poor biomechanical performance. This emphasizes the need more critically design analyze properties in future

The electronic properties of type II quasicrystals (QCs) in one dimension, namely ternary QCs which are generated by the cut-and-projection method, are analyzed. In particular, we present in detail the existence of a special kind of critical states called marginal critical states in these QCs. By the use of the exact real-space renormalization-group method, it is shown that the scaling properti...

After 20 years of innovation in techniques that specifically image the biomechanical properties of tissue, the evolution of elastographic imaging can be viewed from its infancy, through a proliferation of approaches to the problem to incorporation on research and then clinical imaging platforms. Ultimately this activity has culminated in clinical trials and improved care for patients. This rema...

A relatively new class of transition metal layered compounds Mn+1AXn, (MAX phases) where M is an early transition metal, A a group A element most likely Al, and X is C or N with n = 1, 2, 3 or 4. Due to their unique structural arrangements and directional bonding, these ternary compounds possess some very outstanding mechanical and chemical properties such as damageresistance, oxidation resista...