Author(s): Brown, Degenhart; Milbourne, Karen E.; Gagliardi, Susan Elizabeth; Albrezzi, Francesca; Jeychandran, Neelima; Kirk, Johanna; Anderson, Samuel Mark; Edmondson, Scott M.; Sullivan, Elaine Ericksen; Hassnaoui, Amira; Peretz, Jeremy Jacob | Abstract:    &nbsp

The virtual colony count (VCC) microbiological assay has been utilized for over a decade to measure the antimicrobial activity of peptides such as defensins and LL-37 against biosafety level (BSL)-1 and BSL-2 bacteria including , , , and Escherichia coli Staphylococcus aureus Bacillus cereus Enterobacter . In addition, a modified pipetting technique was presented in a 2011 aerogenes study of de...

We have studied the morphological instability under AC electric field of a nematicisotropic interface confined between two electrodes set at different temperatures. The electrodes are treated for homeotropic anchoring so that, when the field is increased, the Ericksen elastic stress vanishes. In this limit, the instability resembles that observed in ordinary liquids. However, significant differ...

This paper studies the transformation properties of the spatial balance of energy equation for a dissipative material, under the superposition of arbitrary spatial diffeomorphisms. The study reveals that for a dissipative material the transformed energy balance equation has some non-standard terms in it. These terms are related to a system of microforces with its own balance equation. These mic...

The basic continuum model for polar fluids is deceptively simple. free energy integral consists of four terms: coupling polarization to an external field, the electrostatic induced electric field interacting with itself and stored quadratic in polarization. A local function density accounts mechanical state fluid. Viewed as a non-equilibrium functional number polarization, minimization these tw...

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In this paper, we establish a blow up criterion for the short time classical solution of the nematic liquid crystal flow, a simplified version of Ericksen-Leslie system modeling the hydrodynamic evolution of nematic liquid crystals, in dimensions two and three. More precisely, 0 < T∗ < +∞ is the maximal time interval iff (i) for n = 3, |ω|+|∇d|2 / ∈ Lt L ∞ x (R × [0, T∗]); and (ii) for n = 2, |...