「機能性単結晶の最近の進展」特集によせて(特集序文, 機能性単結晶の最近の進展)

Filtering the good from the bad: A focus on kidney development and disease to celebrate John Bertram's long‐standing career in anatomy and renal research

We are pleased to present this special issue of Langmuir titled “Zwitterionic Interfaces: Concepts and Emerging Applications”. The engineering of materials with zwitterionic interfaces has emerged as a highly effective and increasingly adopted strategy, particularly in the production of biocompatible and environmentally benign materials with nonfouling properties at the interfaces between materials and biological environments. This approach is motivated by biology, in particular, by the presence of zwitterionic or alternating-charged groups on cell membranes and protein surfaces. Recent advances have significant implications in fields including biomaterials, biosensors, medical devices, tissue scaffolds, drug carriers, membranes, and marine coatings. Langmuir authors have made important and timely contributions to this field in the past, and we would like to highlight that through this special issue featuring impactful new articles. We took inspiration for this issue, in part, from the Third International Conference on Bioinspired and Zwitterionic Materials (ICBZM 2017) held in Tokyo, Japan, October 18–20, 2017 and organized by Professors Kazuhiko Ishihara and Yasuhiko Iwasaki, two of the guest co-editors for this special issue. This conference brings together people with common research interests in order to share updates on the latest research, exchange ideas, and establish collaborations. The conference highlighted some of the most important advances in the field of zwitterionic materials and interfaces, from fundamental research to practical applications. As such, we wanted to bring this concept to Langmuir and feature a broad cross section of research in the field. Therefore, we extended an invitation to submit manuscripts to this special issue as an open call for papers. This special issue consists of both feature articles and primary research articles. These articles summarize past achievements and highlight the latest developments, present areas of future promise, and potential challenges. We thank all who contributed their articles for this issue as well as the Langmuir editorial office and ACS Publications for their assistance with and support in the preparation and publication of this special issue. We hope that this special issue inspires new ideas and new directions in this field. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

Toll-Like Receptor Signaling in Liver Diseases

Flow cytometry has seen the light: All of it.

Introduction to the special issue of “Advances in Molecular Imaging”

Microelectromechanical systems (MEMS) equipment and products have gradually penetrated into modern life due to recent advances in fabrication processes. Accompanied with the fast-growing power consumption and increasing integration, requirement for miniaturization, compactness, and high performance have become more and more remarkable, resulting in problems such as higher heat loads and higher thermal resistance. Thermal management has emerged as one of the critical bottlenecks for further development of diverse, robust, and ultracompact MEMS. Thermodynamics, fluid flow, and heat transfer are important physical processes in advanced MEMS and affiliated parts. A better understanding of the mechanisms of thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer in MEMS is desired for advanced MEMS thermal management.Extensive efforts have been directed toward advanced cooling schemes for removing high heat fluxes, e.g., direct and indirect liquid cooling, jet impingement, liquid-vapor phase change cooling, etc. MEMS thermal management demands high heat transfer coefficient, low pressure drop penalty, and low load-driven temperature nonuniformity. Besides, junction temperature rise and hot spots should be carefully manipulated. The main problems for single-phase cooling are temperature nonuniformity and relatively low heat transfer coefficient, while two-phase cooling is challenged by flow instabilities and possible associated large pressure drop penalty. Therefore, enhancement techniques might be incorporated in present cooling approaches for further heat transfer augmentation and flow stabilization. In an effort to synthesize recent development in MEMS thermal management and to improve our fundamental understanding of the involved scientific issues related to thermodynamics, fluid mechanics, and heat transfer, invitations were sent to a group of researchers, who have been actively involved in the research and development of MEMS thermal management, to submit their articles for the special issue of Journal of Electronic Packaging (JEP). After careful reviews of all the submissions following the standard reviewing process for regular JEP papers, 11 articles were finally accepted for this special issue.These articles address a variety of topics, including enhancement of single-phase cooling (e.g., enhancement by offset strip fins, pin-fins, grooves and obstacles, and dimples and protrusions), analytic and numerical models from microchannel heat sink level to system level (e.g., resistance-capacity network modeling of multicomponent systems, and porous media modeling of two-phase cooling with nonuniform power distribution), development of three-dimensional multicavity microprocessor chip stacks, a three-stage design approach for microchannel systems of multicore processors, on-chip power generation using ultrathin thermoelectric generators, etc. Recent advances and suggestions in integrated cooling systems were presented for three-dimensional integrated circuit. Besides, advances of wafer level packaging were reviewed.Although a wide range of topics are touched upon, it is not possible to cover the entire field of MEMS thermal management in a single journal issue. Some other important topics on thermodynamics, flow and heat transfer in MEMS, such as junction temperature rise, evaporative instability, two-phase cooling enhancement and thermodynamics of advanced electronic packaging, are not considered in this issue. However, no attempt was taken to make it a comprehensive review either. Instead, it is hoped that this special issue presents the readers with a snapshot of the recent trends and developments in thermodynamics, flow and heat transfer in MEMS. Most likely, these papers will generate and stimulate more interests and discussions, and consequently lead to more innovations and technology advances in MEMS thermal management and to promote the development of the next generation cooling schemes for MEMS.Finally, all the contributors of this special issue are gratefully acknowledged for their support and cooperation. I really appreciate the JEP Editor Professor Bahgat Sammakia for giving me the opportunity to edit a special issue on very timely topics. I also thank the assistant Editor Dr. Gary Miller for help to manage the process of the special issue. The present volume is the first special issue on thermodynamics, flow, and heat transfer in MEMS, and it is hoped that it forms the beginning of a series that will periodically stimulate researchers to publish the highlights and original articles reporting new advances in MEMS.

Wheat and barley biology: Towards new frontiers.

It is a pleasure to present to you a collection of 18 papers highlighting Recent Advances on Composites and Heterogeneous Materials offered at the International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition, Orlando, Florida, November 2009.Collection of the “Recent Advances on Composites and Heterogeneous Materials” themed articles was focused on the broad, multidisciplinary and transformative nature of composites and heterogeneous materials. The material systems presented in this collection of papers are at the forefront of current science and technology and are expected to bring important breakthroughs in various technological fields.Topics in this special issue include multiscale characterization of multiphase composites and polycrystalline solids, studies on reinforced elastomers, constitutive modeling of cellular materials, mechanics of bimaterials and functionally graded materials, characterization of nanocomposites, micromechanics and damage of random fiber composites, virtual testing of composite structures, characterization and modeling of composites embedded with piezoelectrics, and structural health monitoring of heterogeneous materials.It is anticipated that papers found in this special issue will serve as reference articles in their respective topics and will contribute in the knowledge advancement of composite and heterogeneous materials.The editors would like to gratefully acknowledge the authors for their original scientific contributions, the reviewers for the insightful and constructive criticism, and the chief editor, Dr. Hussein Zbib, for his encouraging guidance. Their assistance in publishing this special issue in the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology has been invaluable.With warmest greetings,

During the 55th meeting of the American Educational Research Association (AERA, 2004) in San Diego, a symposium was organized on Recent Advances in Expertise Research. Most papers in this special issue of Applied Cognitive Psychology were presented in this symposium. The aim of this special issue is to provide a representative overview of recent developments and current directions in expertise research and to discuss their implications for theoretical and applied cognitive psychology, particularly, for learning and instruction. In addition, it covers some new and innovative theoretical and methodological approaches to the study of expertise. This introductory paper presents a short introduction on expertise research, and provides an overview of the contributions to the special issue. Copyright © 2005 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd.

Editorial preface to special issue: Recent advances in Indian Ocean paleoceanography and paleoclimate

Special Issue on the 40th Anniversary of University of Macau

Advances in Immunogenic Cell Death for Cancer Immunotherapy

BiotecVisions 2012, April

It is with great pleasure that we compiled the Special Issue Recent Advances in Micro, Nano, and Cellular Composite Materials of the Journal of Engineering Materials and Technology (JEMT). In this special issue, a total of 18 articles from leading research groups, covering the broad area of multidisciplinary materials in different length and size scales, are presented. All papers published in this special issue were selected from those presented at the ASME International Mechanical Engineering Congress and Exposition (IMECE) in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada during November 12–18, 2010.It is our expectation that the papers published in this special issue will be of lasting value for researchers and educators, and contribute to our understanding of micro, nano, and cellular composite materials.The editors would like to gratefully acknowledge the authors for their contributions and the reviewers for their insightful suggestions and criticisms. Finally, the editors acknowledge chief editor Dr. Hussein M. Zbib for his motivation and expert guidance throughout the publication process of this special issue.Sincerely,

A defining time for sepsis