Templated Assembly of Pore-forming Peptides in Lipid Membranes.

Pore-forming peptides are of interest due to their antimicrobial activity and ability to form gateways through lipid membranes. Chemical modification of these peptides makes it possible to arrange several peptide monomers into well-defined pore-forming structures using various templating strategies. These templated super-structures can exert antimicrobial activity at significantly lower total peptide concentration than their untemplated equivalents.

Escaping the Ashby limit for mechanical damping/stiffness trade-off using a constrained high internal friction interfacial layer.

The development of new materials with reduced noise and vibration levels is an active area of research due to concerns in various aspects of environmental noise pollution and its effects on health. Excessive vibrations also reduce the service live of the structures and limit the fields of their utilization. In oscillations, the viscoelastic moduli of a material are complex and it is their loss part - the product of the stiffness part and loss tangent - that is commonly viewed as a figure of merit in noise and vibration damping applications.

Comparing Clusterings Using Bertin's Idea.

Classifying a set of objects into clusters can be done in numerous ways, producing different results. They can be visually compared using contingency tables, mosaicplots, fluctuation diagrams, tableplots, (modified) parallel coordinates plots, Parallel Sets plots or circos diagrams. Unfortunately the interpretability of all these graphical displays decreases rapidly with the numbers of categories and clusterings.