Biological features such as the bumps on back of desert beetles and spikes cacti enable directional transport water droplets, creating conditions for their survival in nature. Inspired by interesting natural phenomenon, a novel design nanopillared surface with gradient density structural pillar matrix covered monolayer graphene is proposed to realize ultrafast self-driving droplets. The droplet...

We report the generation and manipulation of electrorheological (ER) droplets that exhibit the giant ER effect. The experiments were carried out on specially designed microfluidic chips, in which the ER droplets were generated by using the microfluidic flow-focusing approach. Both the size and formation rate of these droplets can be controlled through digitally applied electrical signals. The p...

We present a droplet-based microfluidic platform for carrying out sequential and multiple reactions. Flexible droplet formation, multiple injections of additional droplets into pregenerated droplets, addressing of droplets into incubation chambers, and dosing of additional droplets to incubated droplets were achieved by the forward/reverse flow direction control and flow path control with pneum...

Micronized droplets of olive oil loaded with docetaxel and coated with functional fibrinogen were administered intraperitoneally to mice bearing the fibrin(ogen)-rich ascites form of the TA3/St mammary tumor. When compared with docetaxel administered intraperitoneally as its commercial formulation (i.e., Taxotere), docetaxel-loaded oil droplets coated with murine fibrinogen prolonged the median...

The control strategies for the olive crop key pest, Bactrocera oleae, involve synthetic chemical insecticides and few eco-sustainable alternatives, such as ovideterrents lures. In last decades, interest concerning formulation of botanical based biopesticides increased, but little research investigated suitability these approaches B. oleae control. This aimed to investigate residual contact toxi...

Background: Echoes are frequently observed in cat bladder contents through ultrasonography and often mentioned as incidental findings. No comprehensive study has been conducted so far on the precise echoes nature in the bladder contents ultrasonography in cats. OBJECTIVES: The purpose of this study is to provide an accurate description of the cat bladder contents echoes and to specify the relat...

This paper developed and evaluated a quantitative image analysis method to measure the concentration of the nanoparticles on which alkaline phosphatase (AP) was immobilized. These AP-labeled nanoparticles are widely used as signal markers for tagging biomolecules at nanometer and sub-nanometer scales. The AP-labeled nanoparticle concentration measurement can then be directly used to quantitativ...

Droplets which stain like colloid occur in the cytoplasm of the thyroid follicular epithelium of the rat following stimulation of the gland by thyroid-stimulating hormone (TSH). The occurrence of droplets was remarkably reduced when the lumen became depleted of colloid. Acid phosphatase and esterase were localized in the thyroid droplets and, in addition, in granules largely around the nucleus....