Magnetorheological elastomeric (MRE) material is a novel type of material that can adaptively change the rheological property rapidly, continuously, and reversibly when subjected to real-time external magnetic field. These new type of MRE materials c...
As an intelligent component, the high-performance MRE vibration isolator has great advantages, such as a wide vibration isolation frequency range and good performance in semi-active vibration reduction applications. In order to develop high-performan...
Fixed base structures subjected to earthquake forces are prone to various issues, such as the attraction of greater forces to structure, amplified accelerations to non-structural components, expensive design for better seismic performance, and so for...
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are composed of soft silicone rubber, carbonyl iron particles (CIPs), and various additives. This study designs and fabricates a novel hybrid-mode MRE isolator that can operate in both compression and shear modes...
This study evaluates the vibration isolation performance of an adaptive magnetorheological elastomer (MRE)-based dynamic vibration absorber (MRE-DVA) for mitigating the high frequency vibrations (100–250 Hz) of target devices. A simple and effe...
To address the critical challenge of 0–100 Hz low-frequency vibration control for marine hydraulic pipelines, this paper proposes a dedicated fiber-reinforced magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) isolator and a genetic algorithm-optimized fuzzy c...
Human operators in the transportation sector are exposed to whole-body vibration (WBV) while driving. Occupational exposure to WBV, predominant at low frequencies (<20 Hz), has been linked to spinal injuries and reduced functioning. This study aim...
The vibration and impact of a humanoid bipedal robot during movements such as walking, running and jumping may cause potential damage to the robot’s mechanical joints and electrical systems. In this paper, a composite bidirectional vibration is...
Continuous impact vibrations caused by uneven road surfaces (such as speed bumps) can significantly reduce the trajectory tracking accuracy of mobile manipulator. This study proposes for the first time an integrated framework combining a semi-active...
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) are a class of emerging smart materials in which their mechanical and rheological properties can be immediately and reversibly altered upon the application of a magnetic field. The change in the MRE properties und...
This paper proposes a mixed-mode (combining shear and squeeze working modes) vibration isolator using magnetorheological elastomer (MRE), which enables the isolator to have a larger working area and better isolation performance by combining the worki...
Recently, magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) has been paid increasingly attention for vibration mitigation devices with the benefits of low power cost, fail safe performances, and fast responses. To make full use of the striking advantages of MRE dev...
Traditional magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) often suffer from limited modulus tunability and insufficient energy dissipation, which restrict their applications. This study prepared a novel composite material by an MR gel (MRG) embedded within th...
Magnetorheological elastomers (MREs) have recently attracted significant attention for the development of adaptive vibration isolators and absorbers. Their ability to tune mechanical properties in response to external excitations makes them promising...
Marine renewable energy (MRE) is under development in many coastal nations, adding to the portfolio of low carbon energy sources that power national electricity grids as well as off-grid uses in isolated areas and at sea. Progress in establishing the...
Widespread use of the chlorotriazine herbicide, atrazine, has led to serious environmental and human health consequences. Current methods of detecting atrazine contamination are neither rapid nor cost-effective. In this work, atrazine-specific singl...
Magnetorheological elastomer (MRE) is a type of magnetic soft material consisting of ferromagnetic particles embedded in a polymeric matrix. MRE-based devices have characteristics of adjustable stiffness and damping properties, and highly nonlinear a...
A monitoring program to follow vibriosis incidents in the Greek marine aquaculture was implemented over the past 13 years. 273 isolates, from various cases originating from eight regions and nine hosts, were collected and characterized. The main aqua...
For several years, the determination of a differential cell count of a raw milk sample has been proposed as a more accurate tool for monitoring the udder health of dairy cows compared with using the absolute somatic cell count. However, the required...
This paper describes an experimental investigation conducted on magneto-rheological elastomers (MREs) with the aim of adopting these materials to make mounts to be used as vibration isolators. These materials, consisting of an elastomeric matrix cont...
Recently, the involvement of the nervous system in the pathology of allergic diseases has attracted increasing interest. However, the precise pathophysiological role of enteric neurons in food allergies has not been elucidated. We report the presence...
Background: In nuclear medicine, numerous cancer types are treated via internal irradiation with radiopharmaceuticals, including low-LET (linear energy transfer) beta-emitting radionuclides like Lu-177. In most cases, such treatments lead to low-dose...
Odorant-binding proteins (OBPs) are a group of small and soluble proteins present in both vertebrates and insects. They have a high level of structural stability and bind to a large spectrum of odorant molecules. In the environmental field, benzene i...
Peptidoglycan (PG) is essential for bacterial survival and maintaining cell shape. The rod-shaped model bacterium Escherichia coli has a set of seven endopeptidases that remodel the PG during cell growth. The gamma proteobacterium Candidatus Thiosymb...
Antibiotic resistance is one of the biggest health challenges of our time. We are now facing a post-antibiotic era in which microbial infections, currently treatable, could become fatal. In this scenario, antimicrobial peptides such as bacteriocins r...
This study, for the first time in Italy, analyses by WGS a Streptococcus agalactiae strain isolated from a non-pregnant adult affected by Meningitis and without common risk factors. The S. agalactiae strain was classified as a serotype II (SS2), sequ...
Ivory shell (Babylonia areolata) is a commercially important aquaculture species mainly found on the southeast coast of China. However, it has been greatly affected by vibriosis in recent years. In this study, FP17 (a potential pathogen) was isolated...
Early-life exposure of the myometrium to endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs) has been shown to increase the risk of uterine fibroid (UF) prevalence in adulthood. Vitamin D3 (VitD3) is an unique, natural compound that may reduce the risk of developi...
Two novel strains, CB1-14T and CB2-10, were isolated from the marine polychaetes Chaetopterus cautus from the Sea of Japan. Phylogenetic analysis based on the 16S rRNA sequences revealed that the two strains belong to the genus Vibrio, sharing 98.96%...