Intuitive self-assembly devices are of great significance to the emerging applications theory. In this paper, a novel intuitive device with an aerodynamic system is fabricated for experiment. Table tennis balls were used as objects be assembled during process. To understand more about system, two experiments designed—the directed assembly experiment was conducted organize specific structure and...

Hydrogels contain large amounts of water, making them useful in biomaterial applications. However, their inherent softness prevents direct use load-bearing By incorporating toughening mechanisms through the double network concept, mechanical properties hydrogels have been greatly improved. In this Focus Review, our goal is to consider recent attempts achieve hydrogel composites with further imp...

Conventional theories addressing the wave-dynamic behavior of plane-stratified multilayer environments usually involve wavenumber spectral and asymptotic techniques, which apply to layer thickness of the same “macroscale” order as the wavelengths in the spectrum of the excitation. However, in applications of multilayer bonded laminates (for example, in biological and other “exotic” materials”) ...

Abstract. In this paper we investigate the heterogeneous multiscale methods (HMM) for interface tracking and apply the technique to the simulation of combustion fronts. Our goal is to overcome the numerical difficulties, which are caused by different time scales between the transport part and the reactive part in the model equations of some interface tracking problems, such as combustion proces...

Correlation between results of a Conventional macroscale (5 ml of blood) atomic absorption procedure for lead determination and results of the Delves micro-scale (10 tl blood) atomic absorption method was high (0.96). Analyses of lead in capillary and intravenous blood samples also correlated well (0.93). The coefficient of variation of the Delves micro-scale method was 8% for a concentration o...

Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanoparticles (NPs) are widely used in paints, food colorants, cosmetics, pharmaceuticals, and many other applications. Due to their high refractive index, TiO2 NPs are common ingredients in sun protection products used to guard against UV exposure. However, the fate of NPs in the environment and the potential for toxic effects once absorbed into the body remain largely ...