g. jellyfish). One-way flexibility results in a rigid plate during the effective stroke while permitting a simple hinged articulation during the recovery stroke. The waveform used for the temporally asymmetric case consists of a basic triangle waveform which could generate faster effective strokes than recovery strokes. The results of the single-plate tests indicate that increased asymmetry introduced in the triangular wave actuation leads to increased pumping performance and energy consumption. In the case of flexible plates, the results show that a mass-specific pumping efficiency was higher for a higher actuation frequency at the same Reynolds numbers.The increasing demand for miniaturized, wearable, and flexible electronics has promoted the development of micro power sources such as microsupercapacitors (MSCs). This work reports a high-performance MSC based on Ti3C2Tx-layer/MnO2-nanorod with an ionic liquid gel electrolyte, achieving a high areal capacitance of 24.7 mF cm-2 within a wide voltage window of 2.5 V. The specific layer-rod interlaced structure of Ti3C2Tx/MnO2 is designed to solve the inaccessibility of large-sized ions in ionic liquids into Ti3C2Tx layers. As a result, the structure modification provides an enhanced capacitance because the expanded interspace enables a sufficient number of large-sized ions to intercalate/deintercalate. This work provides insightful guidance for the interlaminar modification of Ti3C2Tx MXene to accommodate high operating voltage electrolyte with large-sized ions to obtain high-performance MSCs.We report on a systematic analysis of phosphorus diffusion in silicon on insulator thin film via spin-on-dopant process (SOD). This method is used to provide an impurity source for semiconductor junction fabrication. The dopant is first spread into the substrate via SOD and then diffused by a rapid thermal annealing process. The dopant concentration and electron mobility were characterized at room and low temperature by four-probe and Hall bar electrical measurements. Time-of-flight-secondary ion mass spectroscopy was performed to estimate the diffusion profile of phosphorus for different annealing treatments. We find that a high phosphorous concentration (greater than 1020 atoms cm-3) with a limited diffusion of other chemical species and allowing to tune the electrical properties via annealing at high temperature for short time. The ease of implementation of the process, the low cost of the technique, the possibility to dope selectively and the uniform doping manufactured with statistical process control show that the methodology applied is very promising as an alternative to the conventional doping methods for the implementation of optoelectronic devices.The averaged absorbed power density (APD) and temperature rise in body models with nonplanar surfaces were computed for electromagnetic exposure above 6 GHz.  https://www.selleckchem.com/products/ki696.html  Different calculation schemes for the averaged APD were investigated. Additionally, a novel compensation method for correcting the heat convection rate on the air/skin interface in voxel human models was proposed and validated. The compensation method can be easily incorporated into bioheat calculations and does not require information regarding the normal direction of the boundary voxels, in contrast to a previously proposed method. The APD and temperature rise were evaluated using models of a two-dimensional cylinder and a three-dimensional partial forearm. The heating factor, which was defined as the ratio of the temperature rise to the APD, was calculated using different APD averaging schemes. Our computational results revealed different frequency and curvature dependences. For body models with curvature radii of >30 mm and at frequencies of >20 GHz, the differences in the heating factors among the APD schemes were small.An ideal decellularized allogenic or xenogeneic cardiovascular graft should be capable of preventing thrombus formation after implantation. The antithrombogenicity of the graft is ensured by a confluent endothelial cell layer formed on its surface. Later repopulation and remodeling of the scaffold by the patient's cells should result in the formation of living autologous tissue. In the work presented here, decellularized porcine pericardium scaffolds were modified by growing a fibrin mesh on the surface and inside the scaffolds, and by attaching heparin and human vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) to this mesh. Then the scaffolds were seeded with human adipose tissue-derived stem cells (ASCs). While the ASCs grew only on the surface of the decellularized pericardium, the fibrin-modified scaffolds were entirely repopulated in 28 days, and the scaffolds modified with fibrin, heparin and VEGF were already repopulated within 6 days. Label free mass spectrometry revealed fibronectin, collagens, and other extracellular matrix proteins produced by ASCs during recellularization. Thin layers of human umbilical endothelial cells (HUVECs) were formed within 4 days after the cells were seeded on the surfaces of the scaffold, which had previously been seeded with ASCs. The results indicate that an artificial tissue prepared by in vitro recellularization and remodeling of decellularized non-autologous pericardium with autologous ASCs seems to be a promising candidate for cardiovascular grafts capable of accelerating in situ endothelialization. ASCs resemble the valve interstitial cells present in heart valves. An advantage of this approach is that ASCs can easily be collected from the patient by liposuction.We investigate the lattice and electronic structures of the bulk and surface of the prototypical layered topological insulators Bi2Se3and Bi2Te3using ab initio density functional methods, and systematically compare the results of different methods of including van der Waals (vdW) interactions. We show that the methods utilizing semi-empirical energy corrections yield accurate descriptions of these materials, with the most precise results obtained by properly accounting for the long-range tail of the vdW interactions. The bulk lattice constants, distances between quintuple layers and the Dirac velocity of the topological surface states (TSS) are all in excellent agreement with experiment. In Bi2Te3, hexagonal warping of the energy dispersion leads to complex spin textures of the TSS at moderate energies, while in Bi2Se3these states remain almost perfectly helical away from the Dirac point, showing appreciable signs of hexagonal warping at much higher energies, above the minimum of the bulk conduction band. Our results establish a framework for unified and systematic self-consistent first principles calculations of topological insulators in bulk, slab and interface geometries, and provides the necessary first step towards ab initio modeling of topological heterostructures.