To learn how tough a material is, engineers find its breaking point

A recent study examined a transparent material used in high-impact applications such as helicopter windshields at the ...
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A force controlled tribometer for pre-sliding measurements at the nanometer scale

In the pre-sliding friction regime, interfaces partially stick and partially slip. The pre-slip is thought to be locally initiated at regions of the interface where the ratio of shear stress to normal ...
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Microfluidic cell engineering on high-density microelectrode arrays for assessing structure-function relationships in living neuronal networks

Neuronal networks in dissociated culture combined with cell engineering technology offer a pivotal platform to constructively explore the relationship between structure and function in living neuronal ...
C&EN

A Background Assessable and Correctable Bimolecular Fluorescence Complementation System for Nanoscopic Single-Molecule Imaging of Intracellular Protein–Protein Interactions

Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Future Technology, Peking University, Beijing 100871, China Department of Biomedical Engineering, College of Engineering, Peking University, Beijing ...
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Replica-Exchange Umbrella Sampling Combined with Gaussian Accelerated Molecular Dynamics for Free-Energy Calculation of Biomolecules

Laboratory for Biomolecular Function Simulation, RIKEN Center for Biosystems Dynamics Research, Integrated Innovation Building N702, 6-7-1 Minatojima-minamimachi, Chuo-ku, Kobe, Hyogo 650-0047, Japan ...