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The role of elasticity on adhesion and clustering of neurons on soft surfaces

The question of whether material stiffness enhances cell adhesion and clustering is still open to debate. Results from the literature are seemingly contradictory, with some reports illustrating that adhesion increases with surface stiffness and others suggesting that the performance of a system of cells is curbed by high values of elasticity. To address the role of elasticity as a regulator in neuronal cell adhesion and clustering, we investigated the topological characteristics of networks o...

Real-Time Privacy-Preserving Average Consensus and Its Application to Secondary Control for AC Microgrid

—Recent studies of the privacy-preserving consensus guarantee the initial-value privacy but leave real-time running values of consensus states unprotected with respect to external eavesdroppers. In this article, a novel real-time privacy-preserving average consensus algorithm is proposed to fill this gap by utilizing the quasi-resonance (QR) algorithm and the mask function with real-time privacy-preserving property based on the multifrequency (MF) sinusoids. Several kinds of sinusoids are inc...

"LiNbO3-based Photonic FFT Processor: an Enabling Technology for SAR On-Board Processing

High Stability and Low Power Nanometric Bio-Objects Trapping through Dielectric–Plasmonic Hybrid Nanobowtie

: Micro and nano-scale manipulation of living matter is crucial in biomedical applications for diagnostics and pharmaceuticals, facilitating disease study, drug assessment, and biomarker identification. Despite advancements, trapping biological nanoparticles remains challenging. Nanotweezer-based strategies, including dielectric and plasmonic configurations, show promise due to their efficiency and stability, minimizing damage without direct contact. Our study uniquely proposes an inverted hy...