provided by Board of the Swiss Federal Institutes of Technology;Universitat Zürich;the Laboratory of Composite Materials and Adaptive structures。
Despite continuous efforts to improve the robustness of cardiac valve implants,neither bioprosthetic nor mechanical valves fulfill both hemodynamic and durability requirements.This study discussed novel flexible leafl...
This book is about past stories of Xizang where life collides and warms up between humans and Tibetan mastiffs.The story begins with the early days of the founding of the People's Republic of China,when a Han Chinese ...
support via NSF grants NSF-19-04774,NSF-AST-2009776,NASA-2020-1241;NASA grant 80NSSC22K0628.DSB;HK acknowledge support from a Vajra award,VJR/2018/00129;a travel grant from Notre Dame International;support via AFOSR grant FA9550-20-1-0055;NSF grant DMS-2010107.
Higher order finite difference weighted essentially non-oscillatory(WENO)schemes have been constructed for conservation laws.For multidimensional problems,they offer a high order accuracy at a fraction of the cost of ...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Project(No.2022YFA1503000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22161142021 and 22175010).
Polymer composite fibers with superior properties such as excellent combined strength and toughness and biocompatibility can be used in high-tech applications of braided protective devices and smart wearable,however t...
support from the Argonne Leadership Computing Facility,which is a U.S.Department of Energy Office of Science User Facility operated under contract DE-AC02-06CH11357;support of ONR,United States Grant No.N00014-21-1-2475 with Dr.Eric Marineau as Program Manager.
A data-based reduced-order model(ROM)is developed to accelerate the time integration of stiff chemically reacting systems by effectively removing the stiffness arising from a wide spectrum of chemical time scales.Spec...
supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(No.2022YFA1503000);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Nos.22161142021 and 22175010).
One-dimensional(1D)aramid nanofiber(ANF)based nanocomposite films have drawn increasing attentions in various applications due to their excellent mechanical properties and impressive chemical and thermal stabilities.H...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (52263019);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (21961160720);the Yunnan Fundamental Research Project (202301AT070313);the Yunnan Provincial Department of Education Science Research Fund (2023Y0236);the National Key Research and Development Program of China (2022YFB3803300);the open research fund of Songshan Lake Materials Laboratory (2021SLABFK02)。
Organic electrochemical transistors(OECTs)have attracted attention due to their unique function of converting ionic and biological signals into electronic signals,high transconductance,low energy consumption(below 1 V...
support from the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.12102193);Shenzhen-Hong KongMacao Science and Technology Program(Category C)(SGDX2020110309300301);Key R&D Program from the Science and Technology Department of Sichuan Province(Key Science&Technology Project)(No.2022YFSY0001);Changsha Municipal Science and Technology Bureau under the Grant kh2201035.
Auxetic mechanical metamaterials are artificially architected materials that possess negative Poisson’s ratio,demonstrating transversal contracting deformation under external vertical compression loading.Their physic...
the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant No.32000951,51973129);the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(Grant No.2022YFS0147);the Science and Technology Achievement Transformation Fund of West China Hospital of Sichuan University(Grant No.CGZH19006);the Med-X Innovation Programme of Med-X Center for Materials of Sichuan University(Grant No.MCM202101);the 1.3.5 project for disciplines of excellence from West China Hospital of Sichuan University(Grant No.ZYJC21010);Med+Biomaterial Institute of West China Hospital/West China School of Medicine of Sichuan University(Grant No.ZYME20001).
Cellular behaviors and functions can be regulated by mechanical cues from microenvironments,which are transmitted to nucleus through the physical connections of cytoskeletons in the cells.How these physical connection...