The compressive resistance of truncated nanocone lattices produced by lithography and etching steps on Si or Ge wafers to get superhydrophobic antireflective light-transmitting windows, as well the protection efficiency alumina diamond coatings, is investigated numerical simulations elastic buckling, nanocompression tests. latter reveal limits an analysis, since stress at top cones high enough ...

Significance Structured functional liquids combine mechanical versatility of fluids with solid-state properties, such as ferromagnetism, and offer a route to synthesize control magnetic for adaptive liquid robotics. Studies on these intriguing materials are only in their nascent state, profound understanding the physical state is still lacking. We use hydrodynamics experiments probe how magneti...

This year, Italy hosted the VIII ESPS-NIS workshop. It was organized by the L-NESS Inter-University Laboratory (Politecnico di Milano and Università di Milano Bicocca) in Como (Italy) under the auspices of Prof. Leo Miglio. The program of 10 invited speakers, 30 contributed and numerous posters covered a wide range of topics, all connected with the study of substrate patterning and high index s...

We use wavelet-type discrete transforms for signal analysis on strings of finite length. We apply these transforms for edge and hidden Markov process detection. We also present new approaches for string matching and for measures of the diversity of chaotic strings.