Ye Cai

TL;DR: A low-temperature (650 °C) magnesiothermic reduction process for converting three-dimensional nanostructured silica micro-assemblies into microporous nanocrystalline silicon replicas that retained the starting three- dimensional frustule morphology is demonstrated.

TL;DR: The results suggested that the introduction of such nanoscale structures in combination with micro-/submicro-scale roughness improves osteoblast differentiation and local factor production, which indicates the potential for improved implant osseointegration in vivo.

TL;DR: Thermal conductivity data suggest that, unlike in drawn crystalline fibres, in the authors' fibres the dominant phonon-scattering process at room temperature is still related to structural disorder, so effective heat transfer at critical contacts in electronic devices operating under high-power conditions at 200 °C over numerous cycles is demonstrated.

TL;DR: It is suggested that the differentiation state of osteoblast-lineage cells determines the recognition of surface nanostructures and subsequent cell response, which has implications for clinical evaluation of new implant surface nanomodifications.

TL;DR: Through the selective binding of phage-displayed 12-mer peptides to TiO2 substrates, 20 peptides with an affinity for titania are identified and identified distinctly higher than for the overall peptide-bearing phage library.