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There are limitations in current medications of articular cartilage injuries. Injectable bioactive hydrogels are promising options; however, they suffer from low biomechanical performance. Few solutions have been proposed to overcome these challenges, yet there are many considerations that need to be taken into account. In this study, an injectable composite hydrogel was made from chitosan and human acellular cartilage extracellular matrix (ECM) particles. In order to enhance the mechanical properties of the hydrogel, it was reinforced with microporous microspheres composed of the same materials as the structural building blocks of the scaffold. Articular cartilage was obtained from human donors and decellularized by a combinatorial physical, chemical, and enzymatic method. The decellularization efficiency was assessed by histological analysis and DNA content. The composite constructs were characterized in terms of storage modulus, gelation time, biocompatibility, and likely differentiation potential. Experimental results showed that the mechanical behavior increased by increasing the microsphere content and the sample with 10% microsphere showed an enhanced storage modulus up to 90 kPa. Biocompatibility and preliminary differentiation investigations revealed that the presented composite hydrogel might have potentials in cartilage tissue engineering.The use of polymeric additives supporting the growth of hybrid halide perovskites has proven to be a successful approach aiming at high quality active layers targeting optoelectronic exploitation. A detailed description of the complex process involving the self-assembly of the precursors into the perovskite crystallites in presence of the polymer is, however, still missing. Here we take starchCH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) as example of highly performing composite, both in solar cells and light emitting diodes, and study the film formation process through differential scanning calorimetry and in situ time-resolved grazing incidence wide-angle X-ray scattering, performed during spin coating. These measurements reveal that starch beneficially influences the nucleation and growth of the perovskite precursor phase, leading to improved structural properties of the resulting film which turns into higher stability towards environmental conditions.Objective. Neural communication or the interactions of brain regions play a key role in the formation of functional neural networks. A type of neural communication can be measured in the form of phase-amplitude coupling (PAC), which is the coupling between the phase of low-frequency oscillations and the amplitude of high-frequency oscillations. This paper presents a beamformer-based imaging method, beamformer-based imaging of PAC (BIPAC), to quantify the strength of PAC between a seed region and other brain regions.Approach. A dipole is used to model the ensemble of neural activity within a group of nearby neurons and represents a mixture of multiple source components of cortical activity. From ensemble activity at each brain location, the source component with the strongest coupling to the seed activity is extracted, while unrelated components are suppressed to enhance the sensitivity of coupled-source estimation.Main results. In evaluations using simulation data sets, BIPAC proved advantageous with regard tessing and neurodynamics, which are more subtle than active and attended task-driven processing.In this study, we developed a simple and cost-effective solvent film casting method to fabricate the ultrathin, flexible and lightweight Polyvinylidenefluoride (PVDF) based composites that provide high electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding performance.Y-type barium hexaferrite with general formula Ba2Co2Fe12O22 was firstly synthesized by the Sol-gel auto combustion method and then rGO was prepared by modified Hummers method. The crystal structure, morphology, elemental surface analysis and magnetic properties of the samples were systematically investigated using XRD, FT-IR, Raman spectroscopy, HRSEM, EDX, XPS and VSM. Then, the complex permittivity, complex permeability and the EMI shielding properties of the flexible PVDF/rGO/Ba2Co2Fe12O22 composite films with two different Ba2Co2Fe12O22 NPs content and fixed amount of rGO content were investigated using Vector network analyzer (VNA). The structural characterizations of resultant composite films show the formation of electroactive β-phase of PVDF with addition of Ba2Co2Fe12O22 nanoparticles and rGO content. The enhancement of β phase in the PVDF/rGO/Ba2Co2Fe12O22 nanocomposites has been explained from physicochemical viewpoint. Furthermore, electrically conductive and magnetic properties of rGO and Ba2Co2Fe12O22 NPs incorporated PVDF composite films exhibits a high EMI shielding effectiveness of 25.63 dB, with an absorption-dominated shielding feature in 8-12 GHz region. The enhanced absorption is attributed to the electrostatic interaction induced by β-phase fraction in the PVDF matrix, subsequently from multiple reflections and magnetic loss originated from the synergetic effect of rGO and Ba2Co2Fe12O22 NPs. This study paves a low-cost and scalable method for the design of novel, lightweight, flexible and efficient EMI shielding composite films with promising prospect for applications in construction, electronics and aerospace filed.In the present study, a novel silver nanoparticles-decorated three-dimensional graphene-like porous carbon (Ag/3D GPC) nanocomposite has been synthesized via the method of carbonization and reduction of silver ions at the same time. ATN-161 clinical trial This Ag/3D GPC nanocomposite possess an interconnected network of well crystalized and submicron-sized macropores with thin graphene walls of several nanometers, where silver nanoparticles distributing uniformly. The water based and ethylene glycol based Ag/3D GPC hybrid nanofluids have been prepared without any surfactant. The hybrid nanofluids with low concentration ( less then 0.8 wt%) can be steadily dispersed for more than six months. The thermal conductivity enhancement for the nanofluids with 0.1 wt% can reach 10.3% and 8.8% at 25℃ compared with pure water and ethylene glycol, respectively. The viscosity of nanofluids is investigated, the temperature dependence of the dynamic viscosity obeys an Arrhenius-like behavior. The prepared Ag/3D GPC hybrid nanofluids with good stability and thermal conductivity are promisingly considered to be used in heat transfer field.