Flexible nanoimprinted substrate integrating piezoelectric potential and photonic-plasmonic resonances.

Flexible substrates for sensing provide adaptable, lightweight, and highly sensitive platforms for detecting different substances. The flexibility of these substrates allows for seamless integration with complex shapes and dynamic surfaces, enabling monitoring in challenging conditions using methods such as surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS). Here we outline a flexible metamaterial array sensor formed from plasmonic silver-coated nanoimprinted piezoelectric polyvinylidene fluoride film.

p-Type Organic Semiconductor-Metal Nanoparticle Hybrid Film for the Enhancement of Raman and Fluorescence Detection.

Hybrid platforms of organic semiconductors and plasmonic metal nanostructures have the potential to form effective optical detection substrates. Here, we report the use of an organic p-type conducting polymer poly(3-hexylthiophene-2,5-diyl) combined with plasmon-active silver nanostructures to enhance both Raman and fluorescence signal intensities. This enhancement occurs when optically excited charge from the polymer is transferred to silver, causing an enhancement of the electromagnetic field and leading to an increase in both the Raman and fluorescence signal intensities.

Faculty perceptions of wellness at an academic medical center.

Background: Despite national recommendations and decades of literature highlighting the importance of faculty wellness, gaps at academic medical centers remain. Multilevel wellness initiatives are necessary to create change and optimally support academic faculty.

Objective: The purpose of this study is to examine faculty perceptions of factors contributing to lack of wellness and proposed solutions in the context of current resources at our academic medical center in the Mid-Atlantic region of the United States.

Water Contamination at an Ambulatory Surgical Center Leads to Severe Mycobacterium Fortuitum Prosthetic Joint Infections: A Case Series.

Prosthetic joint infections (PJIs) following total joint arthroplasties are relatively rare but devastating complications. To date, no cases of PJIs associated with contaminated water supplies have been reported in the literature. Our report details 5 patients with PJIs related to a contaminated water supply at an ambulatory surgical center.

A Digital Intervention to Address Sexual Health in Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Survivors.

Background: Interventions to address sexual health in hematopoietic stem cell transplant (HSCT) survivors are limited.

Methods: We conducted a pilot randomized trial of a digital app, SHIFT (Sexual Health and Intimacy Following Transplant), to address sexual dysfunction in HSCT survivors who were ≥3 months post autologous or allogeneic HSCT. Patients were randomly assigned to SHIFT or enhanced usual care.