Effects of Temperature and Humidity on Energy Dissipation between Human Corneocytes and Nanoasperity Sliding Contacts.

Human haptic perception relies on the ability of sensory receptors underneath the skin corneocyte layer to sense external load, where adhesion and friction play an essential role in nanoscale solid-solid contact. Energy dissipation present at the surface interface due to the change of separation distance during sliding contact was uncovered, but the energy dissipation of human finger skin cell-nanoprobe contact under humidity and temperature conditions has not been investigated yet. In this paper, the energy dissipation of skin corneocyte-nanoprobe interface under variation of both humidity, 0.

Coherent momentum control of forbidden excitons.

A double-edged sword in two-dimensional material science and technology is optically forbidden dark exciton. On the one hand, it is fascinating for condensed matter physics, quantum information processing, and optoelectronics due to its long lifetime. On the other hand, it is notorious for being optically inaccessible from both excitation and detection standpoints.

Shariant platform: Enabling evidence sharing across Australian clinical genetic-testing laboratories to support variant interpretation.

Sharing genomic variant interpretations across laboratories promotes consistency in variant assertions. A landscape analysis of Australian clinical genetic-testing laboratories in 2017 identified that, despite the national-accreditation-body recommendations encouraging laboratories to submit genotypic data to clinical databases, fewer than 300 variants had been shared to the ClinVar public database. Consultations with Australian laboratories identified resource constraints limiting routine application of manual processes, consent issues, and differences in interpretation systems as barriers to sharing.

Surface haptic rendering of virtual shapes through change in surface temperature.

Compared to relatively mature audio and video human-machine interfaces, providing accurate and immersive touch sensation remains a challenge owing to the substantial mechanical and neurophysical complexity of touch. Touch sensations during relative lateral motion between a skin-screen interface are largely dictated by interfacial friction, so controlling interfacial friction has the potential for realistic mimicry of surface texture, shape, and material composition. In this work, we show a large modulation of finger friction by locally changing surface temperature.