Microfluidic networks represent the milestone of microfluidic devices. Recent advancements in microfluidic technologies mandate complex designs where both hydraulic resistance and pressure drop across the microfluidic network are minimized, while wall shear stress is precisely mapped throughout the network. In this work, a combination of theoretical and modeling techniques is used to construct ...

The effects of two types carbon nanotubes, namely multiwall (MWCNT) and single-wall (SWCNT) nanotube, on the thermal mechanical properties acrylonitrile-butadiene-styrene (ABS) nanocomposites, have been investigated. ABS filled-CNT nanocomposites with various filler loadings 5–10 wt% were properly produced by a solvent-free process in blend compounding at 190 °C. Compression moulded plates extr...

Bridges are built in a variety of locations, many of which are susceptible to multiple extreme hazards (earthquakes, vehicle collisions, tsunamis or storm surges, and blasts are considered in this research since they are present as a minimum for some locations). This underscores the need to develop an innovative design concept for bridges from a multi-hazard perspective in which all hazards and...

INTRODUCTION Pulmonary ossification has been rarely observed in pulmonary fibrosis and in some chronic respiratory diseases such as chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. We report here a metaplastic ossification in the bronchial cartilage of a patient with multi-drug resistant tuberculosis. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 41-year-old Asian man from Korea with chronic multi-drug res...

The cell wall of higher plants has been studied in numerous species using methods of carbohydrate chemistry, biochemistry and cell biology portraying the wall as a dynamic structure composed of highly complex polysaccharides and structural proteins encoded by multi-gene families. The recent discovery of proteins involved in cell wall loosening has provided opportunities to elucidate the mechani...

The numerical simulation of domain wall quarks with the two-step multi-boson (TSMB) algorithm is considered. The inclusion of single quark flavours, as required for strange quarks, is discussed. The usage of computer memory can be kept relatively low, independently of the order of polynomial approximations. Tests are performed with two flavours (N f = 2) of degenerate quarks near the N t = 4 th...

To prepare the samples for Transmission Electron Microscopy (TEM) imaging and Atomic Force Microscopy (AFM) measurements, as-grown carbon nanotubes were dispersed in isopropanol and sonicated using HD2200 homogenizer with a power of 20W for 5 minutes. To characterize the nanotubes by HRTEM, a droplet of the suspension was put on a Cu TEM grid with a lacey C film. Alternatively, we deposited a d...