This work reports on the preparation and characterization of natural composite materials prepared from bacterial cellulose (BC) incorporated into a gelatin matrix. Composite morphology was studied using scanning electron microscopy and 2D Raman imaging revealing an inhomogeneous dispersion of BC within the gelatin matrix. The composite materials showed controllable degrees of transparency to vi...

Cardiovascular diseases are one of the major problems in medicine today and the number of patients increases worldwide. To find the most efficient treatment, prior knowledge about function and dysfunction of the cardiovascular system is required and methods need to be developed that identify the disease in an early stage. Mathematical modeling is a powerful tool for prediction and investigation...

As breast cancer tissues are stiffer than normal tissues, shear wave elastography (SWE) can locally quantify tissue stiffness and provide histological information. Moreover, tissue stiffness can be observed on three-dimensional (3D) colour-coded elasticity maps. Our objective was to evaluate the diagnostic performances of quantitative features in differentiating breast masses by two-dimensional...

carbon nanotube (cnt), due to extraordinary mechanical properties, is an effective stiffener as reinforcement in resin for fabricating of nanocomposites. it is demonstrated by adding a small amount of cnt to the matrix, the elastic modulus of matrix increases remarkably. in this paper, the elastic modulus of cnt reinforced nanocomposites is obtained two-dimensionally using a finite element meth...

Lokesh Singh1 1GD rungta college of Engineering & Technology, India [email protected] ABSTRACT A heterogeneous object is referred to a solid object made of different constituent materials. The object is made up of finite collection of regions having set of prescribed material classes of continuously or discontinuously varying material properties. These properties have an abrupt or gradual ch...

Bio-Inspired Metastructure Evolution In article number 2300019, Qianyun Zhang, Amir H. Alavi, and co-workers explore the principles of natural evolution for design discovery thousands metastructures with hitherto unknown structures new modalities operation. The evolutionary computational approach uses representative unit cells simple shapes to launch process morphologically evolves complicated ...

Under appropriate conditions, mixtures of cationic and neutral lipids and DNA in water condense into complexes in which DNA strands form local two-dimensional (2D) smectic lattices intercalated between lipid bilayer membranes in a lamellar stack. These lamellar DNA-cationic-lipid complexes can in principle exhibit a variety of equilibrium phases, including a columnar phase in which parallel DNA...