Back Cover: Article number 2100731 describes the fabrication of a micro-supercapacitor on printed circuit board. Volker Strauss, Alexander J. C. Kuehne, and co-workers develop laser-carbonization process for polyacrylonitrile films, leading to patterned, interdigitated carbon electrodes. The unexposed, non-carbonized areas film can be peeled-off fully expose carbonized electrodes an electrolyte...

Interest in inverse dynamical, spectral and scattering problems for differential equations on graphs is motivated by possible applications to nano-electronics and quantum waveguides and by a variety of other classical and quantum applications. Recently a new effective leaf peeling method has been proposed by S. Avdonin and P. Kurasov [3] for solving inverse problems on trees (graphs without cyc...

The defining morphological feature of chemical synapses is the vesicle cluster in the presynaptic nerve terminal. It has generally been assumed that vesicles closest to release sites are recruited first during nerve activity. We tested this by selectively labeling the "readily releasable" pool, those vesicles released first during physiological stimulation. The readily releasable vesicles were ...

1.5mm–Ni55Mn23Ga22 ferromagnetic thin films were deposited onto silicon substrates and silicon single beam cantilever using radio-frequency magnetron sputtering. As-deposited sample and heat-treated thin films were studied on their silicon substrates and peeled off to determine the influence of the stress. Post-heat treatment process allows at the films to achieve the shape memory effect (SME)....

This paper describes a method of functionalizing glass surface with a phosphorylcholine(PC)-based polymer that inhibits binding of proteins and cells inside a microfluidic channel (Fig.1). We coated 2-methacryloyloxyethyl phosphorylcholine(MPC)-polymers on a glass substrate, and then patterned it by an oxygen(O2) plasma using a poly(pxylylene)(Parylene) dry film mask, which is subsequently peel...

Esthesioneuroblastoma (ENB) is an extremely rare malignant neoplasm of the nasal cavity. We report the case of a middle aged man who presented with a 6-months history of progressive nasal obstruction, watering of the eye, headache and occasional epistaxis. A diagnosis of esthesioneuroblastoma was established by histopathology and confirmed by immunohistochemistry. On staging the mass was classi...

The effect of interfacial friction on adhesion was studied by using a model system, in which a thin strip of silicone elastomer was peeled from a PDMS (poly(dimethylsiloxane)) treated glass slide. The fluorescent particle tracking method revealed that the elastomer stretches and slides on glass well before the crack faces open up. Interfacial energy dissipation due to friction, which is the pro...