Abstract The objects of consideration are thin linearly thermoelastic Kirchhoff-Love-type circular cylindrical shells having a periodically microheterogeneous structure in circumferential and axial directions ( biperiodic ). aim this contribution is to formulate discuss two new averaged mathematical models for the analysis selected dynamic thermoelasticity problems under consideration: non-asym...

Three–dimensional, microperiodic scaffolds of regenerated silk fibroin have been fabricated for tissue engineering by direct ink writing. The ink, which consisted of silk fibroin solution from the Bombyx mori silkworm, was deposited in a layer-by-layer fashion through a fine nozzle to produce a 3D array of silk fibers of diameter 5 mm. The extruded fibers crystallized when deposited into a meth...

Poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-trifluoroethylene) (P(VDF-co-TrFE)) is an electroactive polymer with growing interest for applications in biomedical materials and flexible electronics. In this study, a solvent-free additive manufacturing technique called melt electrowriting (MEW) has been utilized to fabricate well-defined microperiodic structures of the copolymer (P(VDF-co-TrFE)). MEW highly visco...

The ability to pattern soft materials at the microscale is critical for several emerging technologies, including tissue-engineering scaffolds, photonic crystals, sensors, and self-healing materials. Hydrogels are an important class of soft materials that can be fabricated in the form of 3D microperiodic structures by colloidal templating or interference lithography. However, neither approach al...

Introduction Colloidal self-assembly has been widely explored as a route to photonic materials. Theoretical work has demonstrated that a three dimensional photonic band gap can be generated from an inverse FCC structure if fairly rigorous dielectric contrast conditions are met. It is because of this finding that a multitude of research groups are investigating the self-assembly of colloidal par...