Articles by Thamarasee Jeewandara
Tech Xplore / Self-sensing artificial muscle-based on liquid crystal elastomer and low-melting point alloys
Materials scientists and bioengineers at the intersection of regenerative medicine and bioinspired materials seek to develop shape-programmable artificial muscles with self-sensing capabilities for applications in medicine. ...
Phys.org / Generating high-resolution self-packaged liquid metal nanopatterns
In a new report now published in Matter, Licong An, and a team of scientists in materials engineering, industrial engineering, and the nanotechnology center at Purdue University, U.S., and Wuhan University, China, described ...
Phys.org / Laser annealing transmon qubits for high-performance superconducting quantum processors
Quantum physicists aim to scale the number of qubits during quantum computing, while maintaining high-fidelity quantum gates; this is a challenging task due to the precise frequency requirements that accompany the process. ...
Phys.org / A hybrid open-top light-sheet microscope for versatile multi-scale imaging
During image analysis, researchers use light sheet microscopy of cleared tissue as a preferred method for high throughput volumetric imaging. A flexible system can provide a range of sizes, resolution and tissue-clearing ...
Medical Xpress / The underlying neural basis of automatic action versus flexible movement exploration
Neuroscientists aim to understand how the primary motor cortex (M1) can regulate precise movements while supporting behavioral exploration that encounters consistent errors. While consistency in the environment can help animals ...
Phys.org / Non-invasive imaging of atomic arrangement at the sub-angstrom scale in 2-D hybrid perovskites
Materials scientists aim to identify the atomic arrangement of 2D Ruddlesden-Popper hybrid perovskites (RPP) using non-invasive imaging; however, the process is challenging due to the insulating nature and softness of the ...
Tech Xplore / Plant-inspired TransfOrigami microfluidics
The health of a plant's vasculature depends on its capacity to respond to environmental stimuli. Plant inspired synthetic microfluidic systems have only rarely demonstrated their environmental responsiveness. In a new report ...
Phys.org / Reactive microscopy with MicroMator software
Microscopic imaging analysis is a crucial component of biochemistry and medicine, with significant progress in accuracy and speed made due to machine learning methods and improved computation. These technical advances can ...
Phys.org / Building nanoalloy libraries from laser-induced thermionic emission reduction experiments
High-entropy nanoalloys (HENA) have widespread applications in materials science and applied physics. However, their synthesis is challenging due to slow kinetics that cause phase segregation, sophisticated pretreatment of ...
Phys.org / High coherence and low cross-talk in a superconducting qubit architecture
In a new report now published in Science Advances, Peter A. Spring and a team of scientists in physics at the Oxford University described qubit coherence and low cross-talk and single-qubit gate errors in superconducting ...
Phys.org / Kinematics of stretched sheets
In a new study now published as a report and also illustrated as the online cover-page of Science Advances, Julien Chopin, Arshad Kudrolli, and a research team in Physics in the U.S. and Brazil showed how twisted hyper-elastic ...
Medical Xpress / Real-time molecular imaging of near-surface tissue using Raman spectroscopy
Modern imaging modalities have facilitated a steady progress in medicine and treatment of diseases. Among them, Raman spectroscopy has gained attention for clinical applications as a label-free, non-invasive method to deliver ...
Phys.org / Assessing physical realism experimentally in a quantum-regulated device
In a new report now published in Nature Communications Physics, Pedro R. Dieguez and an international team of scientists in quantum technologies, functional quantum systems and quantum physics, developed a new framework of ...
Tech Xplore / Soft robotic origami crawlers
Materials scientists aim to develop biomimetic soft robotic crawlers including earthworm-like and inchworm-like crawlers to realize locomotion via in-plane and out-of-plane contractions for a variety of engineering applications. ...
Medical Xpress / Sequencing HIV proviruses from people on antiretroviral therapy using droplet-microfluidics
The infection of human immunology viruses (HIV) occurs by integrating its genome into infected cells to enter an inactive state of reversible latency that evades anti-retroviral therapy. The capacity to sequence such a provirus ...
