Layered Structure and Complex Mechanochemistry Underlie Strength and Versatility in a Bacterial Adhesive.

While designing synthetic adhesives that perform in aqueous environments has proven challenging, microorganisms commonly produce bioadhesives that efficiently attach to a variety of substrates, including wet surfaces. The aquatic bacterium uses a discrete polysaccharide complex, the holdfast, to strongly attach to surfaces and resist flow. The holdfast is extremely versatile and has impressive adhesive strength.

Nanoindentation of Isometric Viruses on Deterministically Corrugated Substrates.

It has been just over 100 years since inventor Joseph Coyle perfected the egg carton-a package format that has known very little changes since its first appearance ( Dhillon , S. B. C.

Resolution of a stochastic weakly damped nonlinear Schrödinger equation by a multilevel numerical method.

We consider a stochastic nonlinear Schrödinger equation related to signal propagation in waveguides and optical fibers. We first describe the modeling of the problem and the desired objectives concerning the transmission. We then present a new multilevel numerical method for its solution, which is based on a separation between low and high frequencies.