Mechanical forces play an important role in shaping the organization of the extracellular matrix (ECM) in developing and mature tissues. The resulting organization gives the tissue its unique functional properties. Understanding how mechanical forces influence the alignment of the ECM is important in tissue engineering, where recapitulating the alignment of the native tissue is essential for ap...

A portable powder-liquid high corrosion-resistant reaction cell has been designed to follow in situ reactions by X-ray powder diffraction and X-ray absorption spectroscopy techniques in transmission mode. The cell has been conceived to be mounted on the experimental stations for diffraction and absorption of the Spanish CRG SpLine-BM25 beamline at the ESRF. In the case of the diffraction techni...

Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV) has been employed to determine pseudo-turbulence characteristics of the flow field around bubble train forming in non-Newtonian caboxymethylcellulose (CMC) aqueous solution at low gas flow rate condition. The Reynolds stress and turbulent intensity of the liquid were investigated by means of Reynolds time-averaged method. The experimental results show that ax...

The latest progress in the design of water-cooled lithium–lead (WCLL) tritium extraction and removal (TER) system for European DEMO tokamak reactor is presented. implementation optimization conceptual TER are performed order to manage concentration LiPb ancillary systems, control chemistry, remove accumulated corrosion activated products (in particular, helium generated BB), store LiPb, empty B...

Systems of two immiscible liquid phases—aqueous phase (i.e., distilled water (dH2O) or phosphate-buffered saline (PBS)) and perfluorochemical perfluorodecalin (PFD))—were subjected to wave-assisted agitation, i.e., oscillatory rocked, in a disposable bag-like container ReadyToProcess WAVETM25 bioreactor, recognize oxygen transfer effects effectivity the surface aeration. According DoE methodolo...

Selected results of three Direct Numerical Simulations are presented, on relevant test cases for the thermal hydraulics liquid–metal-cooled nuclear reactors, encompassing a wide spectrum turbulent convection regimes. The first case is Rayleigh-Bénard cell at Grashof number Gr=5×107, representative conditions in unstably stratified layer coolant reactor pool both standard operating and emergency...