Bio-inspired functionally graded cellular materials (FGCM) have improved performance in energy absorption compared with a uniform cellular material (UCM). In this work, sheet-based and strut-based gyroid cellular structures with graded densities are...
Cellular materials offer industries the ability to close gaps in the material selection design space with properties not otherwise achievable by bulk, monolithic counterparts. Their superior specific strength, stiffness, and energy absorption, as wel...
This paper deals with the study of cellular rubbers, which were filled with silica nanofiller in order to optimize the rubber properties for given purposes. The rubber composites were produced with different concentrations of silica nanofiller at the...
Polymer foams are promising for sound absorption applications. In order to process an industrial product, a series of polystyrene (PS) composite foams were prepared by continuous extrusion foaming assisted by supercritical CO2. Because the cell size...
This study investigates cellular negative stiffness honeycomb (NSH) structures in the prospect of energy absorption and vibration isolation. The energy absorption properties for different geometrical parameters have been investigated for a specific d...
Accurate determination of extra-cellular pH (pHe) and intra-cellular pH (pHi) is important to cancer diagnosis and treatment because tumor cells exhibit a lower pHe and a slightly higher pHi than normal cells. In this work, the characteristic absorpt...
This paper discusses the potential of using lightweight nature-inspired cellular structured designs as energy absorbers in crashworthiness applications for electric vehicles (EV). As EVs are becoming popular with their increased battery capacity, the...
To improve the oral bioavailability of oleanolic acid (OA), this study developed a menthol–fatty acid-based hydrophobic deep eutectic solvent (HDES) system. Through a comprehensive evaluation using in vitro simulated digestion and Caco-2 cell t...
A designer of metallic energy absorption structures using additively manufactured cellular materials must address the question of which of a multitude of cell shapes to select from, the majority of which are classified as either honeycomb, beam-latti...
Calcium is the most abundant mineral in human body and essential for the formation and maintenance of bones and teeth as well as diverse cellular functions. Calcium carbonate (CaCO3) is widely used as a dietary supplement; however, oral absorption ef...
Numerous studies have examined various geometric designs in cellular structures, yet the role of cross-sectional geometry remains underexplored. Cross-sections significantly influence the effective material properties of architected materials, where...
Aluminum-based cellular solids are promising lightweight structural materials considering their high specific strength and vibration damping, being potential candidates for future railway vehicles with enhanced riding comfort and low fuel consumption...
Cellular lattice structures have important applications in aerospace, automobile and defense industries due to their high specific strength, modulus and energy absorption. Additive manufacturing provides the design freedom to fabricate complex cellul...
The aim of the manuscript is to study the effect of volume fraction on the bending properties of selected thermoplastic cellular structures (Primitive, Diamond, and Gyroid) from a mechanical and energy absorption perspective, with a view to their pro...
Additive manufacturing, and particularly the vat photopolymerization process, enables the fabrication of complex geometries at high resolution and small length scales, making it well-suited for fabricating cellular structures (e.g., foams and lattice...
Polyurethane foams with a hybrid structure between closed cell and open cell were fabricated and fully characterized. Sound absorption measurements were carried out in order to assess their acoustic performance at different frequency ranges. The cell...
The use of luminescence in biological systems allows one to diagnose diseases and understand cellular processes. Molecular systems, particularly lanthanide(III) complexes, have emerged as an attractive system for application in cellular luminescence...
The drop hammer impact test was carried out to investigate the dynamic response of closed-cell Al foams. A relatively reasonable method was also developed to evaluate the velocity sensitivity of cellular material. The typical impact load–displa...
Tartary buckwheat (Fagopyrum esculentum) is widely used in the food industry due to its functionality, which is related to its high rutin content. However, rutin is easily converted into quercetin by an endogenous enzyme during processing, resulting...
This paper aims to assess the influence of encapsulated rejuvenators on plant-produced asphalt’s performance. The polymeric capsules are evaluated as cellular materials that deform and absorb energy while they experience a progressive collapse...
This study investigates the mechanical behavior and energy absorption capacity of a novel metamortar composite, developed by embedding re-entrant auxetic cellular structures into a cementitious mortar matrix. Auxetic materials, which exhibit a negati...
Selenocompounds (SeCs) are well-known nutrients and promising candidates for cancer therapy; however, treatment efficacy is very heterogeneous and the mechanism of action is not fully understood. Several SeCs have been reported to have albumin-bindin...
Candesartan Cilexetil (CC) is a prodrug widely used in the treatment of hypertension and heart failure, but it has some limitations, such as very poor aqueous solubility, high affinity to P-glycoprotein efflux mechanism, and hepatic first-pass metabo...
Classified as a Biopharmaceutical Classification System (BCS) class IV drug, amphotericin B (AmB) has low aqueous solubility and low permeability leading to low oral bioavailability. To improve these limitations, this study investigated the potential...
In comparison to monolithic materials, cellular solids have superior energy absorption capabilities. Of particular interest within this category are the periodic lattice materials, which offer repeatable and highly customizable behavior, particularly...
The research in this paper entails the design of material systems with tunable energy-absorbing properties. Hollow glass microspheres of different densities are layered using dry powder printing and subsequently sintered to form a cellular structure....
Ferrites have been widely studied for their use in the biomedical area, mostly due to their magnetic properties, which gives them the potential to be used in diagnostics, drug delivery, and in treatment with magnetic hyperthermia, for example. In thi...
The clinical translation of magnetic hyperthermia (MH) needs magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) with enhanced heating properties and good biocompatibility. Many studies were devoted lately to the increase in the heating power of iron oxide MNPs by doping...
This investigation focuses on the interaction effect during the quasi-static axial crushing of circular and square thin-walled aluminium extrusions filled with polymeric foam or cork. The increment in the absorbed energy due to interactions between m...
This paper investigates the deformation mechanism and energy absorption behaviour of 316 L triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structures with uniform and graded wall thicknesses fabricated by the selective laser melting technique. The uniform P-s...
The development of composite materials with tunable dielectric properties that preserve mechanical performance is essential for next-generation radio engineering devices. In this study, composite filaments based on acrylonitrile–butadiene&ndash...
Design optimization through the integration of multiple functions into a single part is a highly effective strategy to reduce costs, simplify assembly, improve performance, and reduce weight. Additive manufacturing facilitates the production of compl...
In this paper, we study the capabilities of two additive manufacturing technologies for the production of lattice structures, namely material extrusion and vat photopolymerization additive manufacturing. A set of polymer lattice structures with diver...
Hollow sphere structures with perforations (PHSSs) in three different arrangements (simple cubic (SC), body-centred cubic (BCC), and face-centred cubic (FCC)) were fabricated through three-dimensional (3D) printing, and the mechanical behaviours of t...
Today, the rational combination of materials and design has enabled the development of bio-inspired lattice structures with unprecedented properties to mimic biological features. The present study aims to investigate the mechanical performance and en...
The physical properties of the cubic and ferrimagnetic spinel ferrite LiFe5O8 has made it an attractive material for electronic and medical applications. In this work, LiFe5O8 nanosized crystallites were synthesized by a novel and eco-friendly sol-ge...
Polyurethane (PU) foams are versatile materials with a broad application range. Their performance is driven by the stoichiometry of polymerization reaction, which has been investigated in several works. However, the analysis was often limited only to...
In recent years, 4-phenylbutyric acid (4-PBA), an FDA-approved drug, has increasingly been used as a nonspecific chemical chaperone in vitro and in vitro, but its pharmacodynamics is still not clear. In this context, we developed and validated a Liqu...
This study introduces RTEEMF (Real-Time Evaluation Electromagnetic Field)-PhoneAnts, a novel Deep Learning (DL) framework for the efficient evaluation of mobile phone antenna performance, addressing the time-consuming nature of traditional full-wave...
The aim of this study is to determine the mechanical behavior of 2D honeycomb cellular structures with deformation initiators subject to quasi-static compression testing. Two different loading directions were studied: in-plane (IP) and out-of-plane (...
This study aims to improve the energy absorption and mechanical properties of auxetic structures by optimizing their design and analyzing the influence of different resin matrices in composite fabrication. Auxetic materials exhibit unique deformation...
A lack of understanding of the processes determining the absorption and subsequent metabolism of coenzyme Q10 (CoQ10) has resulted in some manufacturers’ making incorrect claims regarding the bioavailability of their CoQ10 supplements, with pot...
Over the past two decades, a large number of metallic foams have been developed. In recent years research on this multi-functional material class has further intensified. However, despite their unique properties only a limited number of large-scale a...
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) is an emerging technique for the fabrication of triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structures in metals. In this work, different TPMS structures such as Diamond, Gyroid, Primitive, Neovius, and Fisher–Koch S w...
Due to their superior structural and mechanical properties, materials with negative Poisson’s ratio are of increasing interest to research scholars, especially in fuel-efficient vehicles. In this work, a new concave I-shaped honeycomb structure...
Triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) structures have unique geometries and excellent mechanical properties, which have attracted much attention in many fields. However, the relationship between different filling forms and different directions of fu...
We previously examined the cellular uptake of six types of vitamin D in human intestinal Caco-2 cells. Since vitamins D5–D7 were commercially unavailable, we synthesized these compounds organically before studying them. This process led us to u...
Metallic foams have drawn increasing attention in applications ranging from lightweight structures to energy absorption devices. Mechanical properties of metallic foams depend on both their microstructure and cellular structure. In situ Al-4.5%Cu-xTi...
The growing demand for sustainable and efficient energy harvesting and storage technologies has spurred interest in the integration of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) with supercapacitors (SCs). This combination offers a promising solution for p...
Cell-penetrating peptides (CPPs) have great potential to efficiently deliver drug cargos across cell membranes without cytotoxicity. Cationic arginine and hydrophobic tryptophan have been reported to be key component amino acids for cellular internal...
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