A perspective on abiotic material encapsulation inside virus capsids is provided. The emphasis is on the physical principles of virus assembly relevant to packaging, strategies for encapsulation and capsid modification, and on emerging applications.

Controllable modification of nanoparticles wettability allows both understanding fine physical mechanism acting on their surfaces, and improvement of key properties in a number of nanotechnology applications. The modification of nanoparticles generating superhydrophobic state arouses especially a strong interest, since various physical phenomena, such as such as sticking, agglomeration, frictio...

Chiral perturbation theory supplemented by the Omnes function is employed to study the strength of the isoscalar central nuclear interaction, GS , in the chiral limit vs the physical case. A very large modification is seen , i.e. ηs = GS chiral/GS physical = 1.37 ± 0.10. This large effect is seen to arise dominantly at low energy from the extra contributions made by massless pions at energies n...

Behavior plays an important role in managing chronic illnesses, with e.g., smoking, unhealthy diet, and physical inactivity often causing or worsening chronic illnesses. To attain long-term healthy behaviors, personalized behavior modification programs are known to be effective. The design of such programs requires (a) developing a patient model that represents the patient’s health needs, behav...

Clinoptilolite is a natural mineral with exceptional physical characteristics resulting from its special crystal structure, mainstreamed into a large zeolite group called heulandites. An overall view of the research related to the synthesis, modification and application of synthetic clinoptilolite is presented. A single phase of clinoptilolite can be hydrothermally synthesized for 1-10 days in ...

We present the fabrication process of a tool that can be used in standard atomic force microscope (AFM) for in situ characterization of chemical, chemical–mechanical or physical surface modification performed with the same device. The image obtained during scanning contains information about the modified and unmodified topographies for each scanning line, thus quantification of surface topograp...