The anisotropy exhibited by single-crystal silicon in nanometric cutting is very significant. In order to profoundly understand the effect of crystal anisotropy on cutting behaviors, a large-scale molecular dynamics model was conducted to simulate the nanometric cutting of single-crystal silicon in the (100)[0-10], (100)[0-1-1], (110)[-110], (110)[00-1], (111)[-101], and (111)[-12-1] crystal di...

The structural saturation and stability, the energy gap, and the density of states of a series of small, siliconbased clusters have been studied by means of the PM3 and some ab initio ~HF/6-31G* and 6-31111G**, CIS/6-31G* and MP2/6-31G*! calculations. It is shown that in order to maintain a stable nanometric and tetrahedral silicon crystallite and remove the gap states, the saturation atom or s...

Previous studies have shown that single-stranded RNA (ssRNA) mixed with protamine forms particles and activates immune cells through Toll-like receptors (TLRs). We have found that the size of protamine-RNA particles generated depends on the electrolyte content when mixing the 2 components. Moreover, we have evidenced that (1) nanometric particles induce production of interferon-alpha, whereas (...

This study investigated the effect of nanograins size on the R-phase transformation of a nanocrystalline Ti-50.2at%Ni alloy. The nanometric grain size was created by severe cold deformation and low temperature anneal. It was found that in the recrystallized state, nanograin sizes (<100 nm) was effective in suppressing the B2→B19’ martensitic transformation and revealing the B2↔R transformation....

A detailed analysis of the plasmonic excitations within a nanopatterned gold chiral biosensor element, measured by scanning transmission electron microscopy electron energy loss spectroscopy, is presented. We discuss aspects of data acquisition, processing, analysis and simulation. The localised surface plasmonic resonance modes in the structure are extracted using non-negative matrix factorisa...

This paper presents the on-chip cellular mechanical impedance measurement by OCAIN (On-Chip Impedance ANalyzer). Robochip(robot integrated microfluidic chip) is installed in OCIAN as a disposable microfluidic component integrated with robotic sensing unit. For the high throughput sensing of cellular specimens, they are flown in the microchannel of Robochip and continuous multi-parameter sensing...

Femtosecond pulses provide an extreme degree of confinement of light matter-interactions in high-bandgap materials because of the nonlinear nature of ionization. It was recognized very early on that a highly focused single pulse of only nanojoule energy could generate spherical voids in fused silica and sapphire crystal as the nanometric scale plasma generated has energy sufficient to compress ...

The purpose of this study was to analyze the behavior in water as well as the mechanical and surface properties of experimental composites designed for dental restoration. Studied materials were composed of a visible-light-cured monomer mixture as a matrix (bisphenol-alpha-glycidyl methacrylate with triethyleneglycol dimethacrylate or hydroxyethyl methacrylate) and either micrometric or nanomet...

To face the challenges of modern health care, new imaging techniques with subcellular resolution or detection over wide fields are required. Far field optical nanoscopy presents many new solutions, providing high resolution or detection at high speed. We present a new classification scheme to help appreciate the growing number of optical nanoscopy techniques. We underline an important distincti...

Drug resistance, difficulty in specific targeting and self-renewal properties of cancer stem cells (CSCs) all contribute to cancer treatment failure and relapse. CSCs have been suggested as both the seeds of the primary cancer, and the roots of chemo- and radio-therapy resistance. The ability to precisely deliver drugs to target CSCs is an urgent need for cancer therapy, with nanotechnology-bas...