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The effect of Hofmeister anions on the surface properties of polyelectrolyte multilayers built from hyaluronan and chitosan by layer-by-layer deposition is studied by ellipsometry and atomic force microscopy. The thickness, roughness and morphology of the resulting coatings were found to depend on the type of the anion. Relationship between the surface properties and the biological response of the polyelectrolyte multilayers is established by assessing the degree of protein (albumin) adsorption.
Herein the optimization of the physicochemical properties and surface biocompatibility of polyelectrolyte multilayers of the natural, biocompatible and biodegradable, linear polysaccharides hyaluronan and chitosan by Hofmeister anions was systematically investigated. We demonstrated that there is an interconnection between the bulk and surface properties of HA/Chi multilayers both varying in accordance with the arrangement of the anions in the Hofmeister series. Kosmotropic anions increased the hydration, thickness, micro- and macro-roughness, and hydrophilicity and improved the biocompatibility of the films by reduction (2 orders of magnitude) of the films stiffness and complete anti-thrombogenicity.
This paper is concerned with the study, optimization and control of the moisture sorption kinetics of agricultural products at temperatures typically found in processing and storage. A nonlinear autoregressive with exogenous inputs (NARX) neural network was developed to predict moisture sorption kinetics and consequently equilibrium moisture contents of shiitake mushrooms (Lentinula edodes (Berk.) Pegler) over a wide range of relative humidity and different temperatures. Sorption kinetic data of mushroom caps was separately generated using a continuous, gravimetric dynamic vapour sorption analyser at emperatures of 25-40 °C over a stepwise variation of relative humidity ranging from 0 to 85%. The predictive power of the neural network was based on physical data, namely relative humidity and temperature. The model was fed with a total of 4500 data points by dividing them into three subsets, namely, 70% of the data was used for training, 15% of the data for testing and 15% of the data for validation, randomly selected from the whole dataset. The NARX neural network was capable of precisely simulating equilibrium moisture contents of mushrooms derived from the dynamic vapour sorption kinetic data throughout the entire range of relative humidity.
Knee osteoarthritis is a common complication and can lead to total loss of joint function in patients. Treatment by either partial or total knee replacement with appropriate UHMWPE based implantsis highly invasive, may cause complications and may show unsatisfying results. Alternatively, treatment may be done by insertion of an elastic interpositional knee spacer with optimized material characteristics.
We report the development of high performance polyurethane-based polymers modified with bioactive molecules for fabrication of such knee spacers. In order to tailor mechanical and tribological properties and to improve resist to enzymatic degradation we propose a core-shell model for the spacer with specifically adapted properties.
Organisationen sind immer mehr gefragt, auch digitale Arbeitsumgebungen bewusst zu formen. Neue Technologien und digitale Arbeitspraktiken verlagern den Ort, an dem eine gemeinsame Identität gebildet wird, zunehmend in virtuelle Räume. Bislang fokussieren sich Führungskräfte und Change Manager jedoch zu sehr auf Dinge, die sie anfassen und plastisch gestalten können. Die Autoren erörtern daher, wie Unternehmen auch in virtuellen Arbeitswelten die organisationale Identität gestalten und aufrechterhalten können, um auf diese Weise das Change Management zu unterstützen.
Analog-/Mixed-Signal (AMS) design verification is one of the most challenging and time consuming tasks of todays complex system on chip (SoC) designs. In contrast to digital system design, AMS designers have to deal with a continuous state space of conservative quantities, highly nonlinear relationships, non-functional influences, etc. enlarging the number of possibly critical scenarios to infinity. In this special session we demonstrate the verification of functional properties using simulative and formal methods. We combine different approaches including automated abstraction and refinement of mixed-level models, state-space discretization as well as affine arithmetic. To reach sufficient verification coverage with reasonable time and effort, we use enhanced simulation schemes to avoid conventional simulation drawbacks.
Die vorliegende Erfindung betrifft ein Verfahren zur Regelung einer Totzeit in einem Synchronwandler (100), in welchem ein zyklisches Schalten eines Steuerschalters (2) und eines Synchronschalters (3) erfolgen, wobei der Steuerschalter (2) mittels eines ersten Schaltsignals (S1) und der Synchronschalter (3) mittels eines zweiten Schaltsignals (S2) geschaltet werden. Das Verfahren umfasst ein Erfassen und Vorhalten eines Spannungswertes, welcher eine Spannung (VSW) über den Synchronschalter (3) zu einem bestimmten Zeitpunkt beschreibt, und ein Anpassen des ersten und/oder zweiten Schaltsignals (S1, S2) für einen folgenden Zyklus basierend auf dem vorgehaltenen Spannungswert.
An integrated synchronous buck converter with a high resolution dead time control for input voltages up to 48V and 10MHz switching frequency is presented. The benefit of an enhanced dead time control at light loads to enable zero voltage switching at both the high-side and low-side switch at low output load is studied. This way, compact multi-MHz DCDC converters can be implemented at high efficiency over a wide load current range. The concept also eliminates body diode forward conduction losses and minimizes reverse recovery losses. A dead time resolution of 125 ps is realized by an 8-bit differential delay chain. A further efficiency enhancement by soft switching at the high-side switch at light load is achieved with a voltage boost of the switching node by dead time control in forced continuous conduction mode. The monolithic converter is implemented in an 180nm high-voltage BiCMOS technology. At V IN = 48V, V OUT = 5V, 50mA load, 10MHz switching frequency and 500 nH output inductance, the efficiency is measured to be increased by 14.4% compared to a conventional predictive dead time control. A peak efficiency of 80.9% is achieved at 12V input.