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Multispot, label-free biodetection at a phantom plastic–water interface
Recognizing and quantifying specific biomolecules in aqueous samples are constantly needed in research and diagnostic laboratories. As …
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Bistability of nematic liquid crystals confined in 3D scaffold produced by two-photon polymerization
We show that nematic liquid crystals confined inside cubic scaffolds made by two-photon polymerization exhibit bistability and large …
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Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels
The confinement of liquid crystals in geometries with frustrating boundary conditions gives rise to nontrivial effects such as …
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Nematic Liquid Crystals Embedded in Cubic Microlattices: Memory Effects and Bistable Pixels
How Archer Fish Achieve a Powerful Impact: Hydrodynamic Instability of a Pulsed Jet in Toxotes jaculatrix
Archer fish knock down insects anchored to vegetation by hitting them with a precisely aimed jet of water. The striking force of the …
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Gradient-driven fluctuations in microgravity
Equilibrium fluctuations of thermodynamic variables, such as density or concentration, are known to be small and typically occur at a …
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Characterizing Concentrated, Multiply Scattering, and Actively Driven Fluorescent Systems with Confocal Differential Dynamic Microscopy
We introduce confocal differential dynamic microscopy (ConDDM), a new technique yielding information comparable to that given by light …
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Giant thermophoresis of poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) microgel particles
Thermophoresis is the rectification of Brownian motion induced by the presence of a thermal gradient ∇T, yielding a net drift of …
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Two-Dimensional X-Ray Beam Phase Sensing
We present a new method to analyze quantitatively the wave front of a partially coherent x-ray beam. The technique is based on the use …
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Effect of configuration of the microchannels fabricated by femtosecond laser micromachining on topological defects in confined liquid crystals
The Femtosecond laser micromachining is a versatile tool for fabrication of microfluidic channel network; we exploit the fast …
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Liquid crystal self-assembly of random-sequence DNA oligomers
Concentrated solutions of DNA oligomers (6 to 20 base pairs) organize into chiral nematic (NEM) and columnar (COL) liquid crystal (LC) …
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