Using materials for quasiparticle engineering

Engineering Controlled Low Strength Materials Using

An investigation was conducted to determine the influence of recycled scrap tire rubber on the engineering properties of controlled low strength material (CLSM). With control over the ultimate compressive strength of CLSMs being key for applications such as backfilling utility trenches where re-excavation is often necessary, incorporation of scrap tire rubber into the CLSM mixture is a viable w...

Designing ECM-mimetic materials using protein engineering.

The natural extracellular matrix (ECM), with its multitude of evolved cell-instructive and cell-responsive properties, provides inspiration and guidelines for the design of engineered biomaterials. One strategy to create ECM-mimetic materials is the modular design of protein-based engineered ECM (eECM) scaffolds. This modular design strategy involves combining multiple protein domains with diff...

Engineering Cellular Photocomposite Materials Using Convective Assembly

Fabricating industrial-scale photoreactive composite materials containing living cells, requires a deposition strategy that unifies colloid science and cell biology. Convective assembly can rapidly deposit suspended particles, including whole cells and waterborne latex polymer particles into thin (<10 µm thick), organized films with engineered adhesion, composition, thickness, and particle pack...

Quasiparticle properties of the possible superconductor materials LiBC and NaBC

– The quasiparticle band structures within the GW approximation of the possible superconductors LiBC and NaBC are presented. The GW correction to the LDA is shown to be strongly dependent on the degree of orbital localization, and the overall correction cannot be reproduced by a rigid band shift as in conventional semiconductors. Precise values of the interband transitions for high-symmetry poi...

Engineering Composite Materials