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Morphodynamics of human early brain organoid development

Brain organoids enable the mechanistic study of human brain development and provide opportunities to explore self-organization in unconstrained developmental systems1, 2–3. Here we establish long-term, live light-sheet microscopy on unguided brain organoid ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

ECOSURF SA-9: A Biodegradable Alternative to Triton X-100 for Tissue Phantoms

Anja Skrivervik, Sujith Raman, Adrián Fernández Carnicero

Tissue phantoms are materials designed to mimic the dielectric properties of biological tissues. This work proposes eco-friendly tissue phantoms of cartilage, cerebrospinal fluid and stomach in the frequency range between 0.4 and 6 GHz. For reaching this p ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2025

Sustainable, recyclable and biodegradable castor oil-derived elastomers enabled by dynamic acetoacetyl formed amides

Youwei Ma

Developing sustainable, recyclable, and biodegradable elastomers with the mechanical properties comparable to commercial polymers presents a formidable challenge. To this end, we synthesize a kind of mechanically robust elastomers cross -linked by acetoace ...

Elsevier Science Sa2024

Effects of thermal, mechanical, and electrostatic perturbations on lipid membrane hydration investigated by second harmonic imaging

Seonwoo Lee

Hydrated lipid bilayer membranes are crucial components of cells and organelles, serving as the outer boundary that separates the cellular components from the extracellular environment. Lipid membranes regulate their structures and functions by dynamically ...

EPFL2023

Synthesis of polysiloxane elastomers modified with sulfonyl side groups and their electromechanical response

Holger Frauenrath, Yauhen Sheima

Dielectric elastomer transducers are elastic capacitors that respond to mechanical or electrical stress. They can be used in applications such as millimeter-sized soft robots and harvesters of the energy contained in ocean waves. The dielectric component o ...

Royal Society of Chemistry2023

Bottlebrush Dielectric Elastomers with Improved Properties for Actuation

Yeerlan Adeli

Dielectric elastomer actuators (DEA) are elastic capacitors composed of a pair of compliant electrodes and a soft dielectric elastomer film sandwiched in between. This kind of stretchable capacitors can be actuated when charged, can generate electricity fr ...

EPFL2023

Deep neural network automated segmentation of cellular structures in volume electron microscopy

Martin Weigert, Benjamin Tobias Gallusser

Volume electron microscopy is an important imaging modality in contemporary cell biology. Identification of intracellular structures is a laborious process limiting the effective use of this potentially powerful tool. We resolved this bottleneck with autom ...

Rockefeller University Press2022

Synthesis of polar polynorbornenes with high dielectric relaxation strength as candidate materials for dielectric applications

Frank Nüesch

Materials with high dielectric permittivity and dielectric relaxation strength are sought for thermal and pressure sensors and electrical energy generators. However, most polymers have either too low dielectric permittivity or are so polar that their glass ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Microstructure estimation from diffusion-MRI: Compartmentalized models in permeable cellular tissue

Jean-Philippe Thiran, Gabriel Girard, Erick Jorge Canales Rodriguez, Jonathan Rafael Patino Lopez, Rémy Marc M Gardier, Juan Luis Villarreal Haro

Diffusion-weighted magnetic resonance imaging (DW-MRI) is used to characterize brain tissue microstructure employing tissue-specific biophysical models. A current limitation, however, is that most of the proposed models are based on the assumption of negli ...

2022

Polysiloxanes Modified with Different Types and Contents of Polar Groups: Synthesis, Structure, and Thermal and Dielectric Properties

Holger Frauenrath, Yauhen Sheima

Polymers with high dielectric permittivity are promising for the construction of next-generation transducers and energy storage devices with improved energy density. Here, we report the synthesis, glass-transition temperature (T-g), and dielectric properti ...

American Chemical Society2021

ER-phagy responses in yeast, plants, and mammalian cells and their crosstalk with UPR and ERAD

Maurizio Molinari

ER-phagy, literally endoplasmic reticulum (ER)-eating, defines the constitutive or regulated clearance of ER portions within metazoan endolysosomes or yeast and plant vacuoles. The advent of electron microscopy led to the first observations of ER-phagy ove ...

Cell Press - Elsevier2021

Archetypal Soft-Mode-Driven Antipolar Transition in Francisite Cu3Bi(SeO3)(2)O2Cl

Helmuth Berger

Model materials are precious test cases for elementary theories and provide building blocks for the understanding of more complex cases. Here, we describe the lattice dynamics of the structural phase transition in francisite Cu3Bi(SeO3)(2)O2Cl at 115 K and ...

2020

Effect of input voltage frequency on the distribution of electrical stresses on the cell surface based on single-cell dielectrophoresis analysis

Philippe Renaud

Electroporation is defined as cell membrane permeabilization under the application of electric fields. The mechanism of hydrophilic pore formation is not yet well understood. When cells are exposed to electric fields, electrical stresses act on their surfa ...

Nature Research2020

Low voltage fast dielectric elastomer actuators

Xiaobin Ji

This thesis contributes to the field of Dielectric Elastomer Actuators (DEAs). DEAs are electrostatically driven soft actuators that are fast, capable of generating large actuation strains, high forces, and present high power density. A wide range of appli ...

EPFL2019

Deforming Tessellations for the Segmentation of Cell Aggregates

Michaël Unser, Daniel Sage, Aymeric Alexandre Galan, Anaïs Laure Marie-Thérèse Badoual

We present a new active contour to segment cell aggregates. We describe it by a smooth tessellation that is attracted toward the cell membranes. Our approach relies on subdivision schemes that are tightly linked to the theory of wavelets. The shape is enco ...

IEEE2019

SIMPLE code: Optical properties with optimal basis functions

Nicola Marzari, Paolo Umari, Gianluca Prandini

We present SIMPLE, a code developed to calculate optical properties of metallic and insulating extended systems using the optimal basis method originally proposed by E.L. Shirley in 1996. Two different approaches for the evaluation of the complex dielectri ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV2019

The Effect of the Lossy Material on the Modes in a Smooth Metallic Dielectric Loaded Gyrotron Beam Tunnel

Stefano Alberti

In this work, we have studied the effect of the dielectric material on the properties of the modes in a smooth metallic gyrotron beam tunnel partially filled with a lossy dielectric material. Two kinds of modes have been identified, one located inside the ...

IEEE2019