A thermally stable, piezoelectric and pyroelectric polymeric substrate was prepared. This thermally stable, piezoelectric and pyroelectric polymeric substrate may be used to prepare electromechanical transducers, thermomechanical transducers, accelerometers, acoustic sensors, infrared sensors, pressure sensors, vibration sensors, impact sensors, in-situ temperature sensors, in-situ stresshtrain...

Conventional techniques to form selective surface energy regions on rigid inorganic substrates are not suitable for polymer interfaces due to sensitive and soft limitation of intrinsic polymer properties. Therefore, there is a strong demand for finding a novel and compatible method for polymeric surface energy modification. Here, by employing the confined photo-catalytic oxidation method, we su...

Mechanical force is one of the most important parameters in cellular physiological behavior. To quantify the cellular force locally and more precisely, soft material probes, such as bulk polymeric surfaces or raised individual polymeric structures, have been developed which are deformable by the cell. The extent of deformation and the elastic properties of the probes allow for calculation of th...

A family of 11 lytic transglycosylases in Pseudomonas aeruginosa, an opportunistic human pathogen, turn over the polymeric bacterial cell wall in the course of its recycling, repair, and maturation. The functions of these enzymes are not fully understood. We disclose herein that SltB3 of P. aeruginosa is an exolytic lytic transglycosylase. We characterize its reaction and its products by the us...

Protein modification with ubiquitin chains is an essential signaling event catalyzed by E3 ubiquitin ligases. Most human E3s contain a signature RING domain that recruits a ubiquitin-charged E2 and a separate domain for substrate recognition. How RING-E3s can build polymeric ubiquitin chains while binding substrates and E2s at defined interfaces remains poorly understood. Here, we show that the...

Recording properties of CoCrPt thin films sputter-deposited on polymeric substrates at room temperature were investigated. Typical frequency spectra of the readback signal from sputtered tapes at various recording densities revealed an appreciable amount of modulation noise, despite the fact that the sputtered tape is expected to be smooth and conformal with the substrate. Atomic force microsco...