Brian J. Rodriguez

TL;DR: The cells showed enhanced proliferation rates and improved osteoblast function through mineral formation on the positively and negatively charged LN surfaces compared to electrostatically neutral x-cut LN and a glass cover slip control, highlighting the potential of LN as a template for investigating the role of charge on cellular processes.

TL;DR: In this article, piezoresponse force microscopy (PFM) was used to investigate the polarity distribution of GaN-based lateral polarity heterostructures with nanometer scale spatial resolution.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors quantitatively unravel the giant negative electrostriction of van der Waals layered copper indium thiophosphate (CIPS), which exhibits an electrostrictive coefficient as high as

TL;DR: In this paper, the plasmon active properties of Ag nanopattern arrays formed using ferroelectric lithography based on two separate approaches, i.e., periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) and periodically proton exchanged (PPE) template methods, were investigated.

TL;DR: The influence of macromolecular crowding (MMC)/excluding volume effect, a biophysical phenomenon that accelerates thermodynamic activities and biological processes by several orders of magnitude, in human corneal fibroblast (HCF) culture, indicates that MMC may be suitable not only for clinical translation and commercialization of tissue engineering by self-assembly therapies, but also for the development of in vitro pathophysiology models.