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...

We designed, fabricated, and characterized a thermo-optically tunable compact (10 μm × 10 μm) silicon photonic crystal (PhC) light modulator that operates at around 1.55 µm for TE polarization. The operational principle of the device is the modulation of the cutoff frequency in a silicon-based line defect PhC. The cutoff frequency is shifted because of the thermo-optic tuning of the silicon ref...

AIM We compared four commonly used, commercially available reverse phase nanoLC columns for identification/determination of Wnt/β-catenin-related pathway proteins. MATERIALS & METHODS The columns were: Chromolith® (silica monolith; Merke Millipore, MA, USA), PepMap™ (porous particles; Thermo Fisher Scientific, MA, USA), Accucore™ (solid core particles; Thermo Fisher Scientific) and PepSwift™ ...

Gelatin films were prepared by casting. Tensile strength (TS) and elongation at break (Eb) of the gelatin films were found to be 46 MPa and 3.5%, respectively. Effect of gamma radiation (Co-60) on the thermo-mechanical properties of the gelatin films was studied. 2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate (HEMA) was added to the gelatin during casting varying (10% 30% by weight) and found to increase the TS s...

We derive thermo-mechanical continuum equations from Molecular Dynamics (MD) equations using the Generalized Mathematical Homogenization (GMH) theory developed by the authors for 0 K applications. GMH constructs an array of atomistic unit cell problems coupled with a thermo-mechanical continuum problem. The unit cell problem derived is a molecular dynamics problem defined for the perturbation f...

In this paper we introduced the normal mode analysis for two–dimensional problems of the generalized linear thermo–viscoelasticity with one relaxation time. The exact expressions for the temperature distribution, the displacement components and the stress are obtained. The resulting formulation is applied to three different concrete problems. The first deals with a thick plate subjected to a ti...