Investigation of mechanical properties and low-temperature degradation of dental 3Y-TZP ceramics fabricated by stereolithography in combination with microwave sintering.

The purpose of this study was to obtain dental ceramic materials with excellent mechanical properties and high resistance to low temperature degradation (LTD) via stereolithography (SLA) in combination with microwave sintering (MWS). The results have shown that the unaged MWS-1425 °C 3Y-TZP ceramics with uniform microstructure have high density up to 99.04% and excellent mechanical properties (Vickers hardness 14.

Synchronized fractionation and phase separation in binary colloids.

Fractionation is necessary for self-assembly in multicomponent mixtures. Here, reversible fractionation and crystallization are realized and studied in two-dimensional binary colloids which are supersaturated by enhancing the attraction between colloidal particles. As a deep and fast supersaturation results in gels with a uniform distribution of binary particles, a gradual quasistatic supersaturation process leads to a two-step crystallization in which small particles and large particles are fractionated as coexisting crystal and liquid phases respectively.

EPMLR: sequence-based linear B-cell epitope prediction method using multiple linear regression.

Background: B-cell epitopes have been studied extensively due to their immunological applications, such as peptide-based vaccine development, antibody production, and disease diagnosis and therapy. Despite several decades of research, the accurate prediction of linear B-cell epitopes has remained a challenging task.

Results: In this work, based on the antigen's primary sequence information, a novel linear B-cell epitope prediction model was developed using the multiple linear regression (MLR).