Janus Droplets and Droplets with Multiple Heterogeneous Surface Strips Generated with Nanoparticles under Applied Electric Field

A novel method of fabricating Janus droplets and droplets with heterogeneous strips is presented in this article. These droplets were made by covering the surfaces of oil droplets with different nanoparticles under an electric field in a microfluidic chip. The microfluidic chip was used to control the delivery of nanoparticles, and the electric field was employed to assemble the nanoparticles adhering on the droplet. By controlling the delivery of nanoparticles in the microfluidic chip under the electric field, different nanoparticles accumulate on the droplet surface and the desired Janus droplets and droplets with heterogeneous strips can be formed. Because of the presence of charged nanoparticles on droplets’ surfaces, the Janus droplets and droplets with heterogeneous strips have unique electrokinetic properties. The electro-osmotic flow fields around Janus droplets and droplets with heterogeneous strips in different pH solutions were visualized, and the electrokinetic velocities of these droplets in a microchannel were measured as a function of the electrical field. On the basis of their specific electrokinetic properties, two applications of the droplets coated with nanoparticles were developed: flow focusing and microvalve. The experimental demonstrations indicate that the Janus droplets and droplets with heterogeneous strips offer great potential in sensing, actuating, and controlling fluid flow

RNA-Seq Profiling of Intact and Enucleated Oocyte SCNT Embryos Reveals the Role of Pig Oocyte Nucleus in Somatic Reprogramming - Fig 5

<p>Scatter plot of DEGs in (a) A vs. C; (b) B vs. D; (c) A vs. B; (d) C vs. D and GO functional classification of DEGs in (e) A vs. C and (f) B vs. D. Note: For A vs. C, A is the control group. Red points indicate genes up-regulated in C relative to A, green points represent genes down-regulated in C relative to A, and blue points represent genes that showed no differences or fold change below 2.</p

The shape of blastocysts generated from parthenogenesis, enucleated oocyte SCNT and intact oocyte SCNT.

<p>The shape of blastocysts generated from parthenogenesis, enucleated oocyte SCNT and intact oocyte SCNT.</p

Light-Reconfiguring Inhomogeneous Soft Helical Pitch with Fatigue Resistance and Reversibility

Active engineering and modulation of optical spectra in a remote and fully reversible light is urgently desired in photonics, chemistry, and materials. However, the real-time regulation of multiple optical information such as wavelength, bandwidth, reflectance, and polarization is still a longstanding issue due to the lack of an appropriate photoresponsive candidate. Herein, we propose an additional “degree-of-freedom (DOF)” in a photo-modulated soft helix, and build up an unprecedented inhomogeneous helical pitch length with light-reconfiguring property, fatigue resistance, and reversibility. For the working model, the intrinsic chiral photoswitch LBC5 is employed as an actuator to modulate the helical pitch length, which is proportional to the irradiation intensity, and the unique broadband absorbance photo-modulator BTA-C5 is incorporated as an attenuator of the transmitted light to decrease its intensity along the sample thickness, therefore successfully adding another controlled DOF on the pitch length distribution (i.e., homogeneous or inhomogeneous) apart from the common soft helix with only a single DOF on the pitch length. The absorbance photo-modulator BTA-C5 with a unique variable broadband absorption enables the light to reconfigure the helical pitch from homogeneous to inhomogeneous, thereby achieving the robust fatigue-resistance establishment of reversible spectral programming. The established light-reconfigurable inhomogeneous helical pitch with the photoresponsive modulator BTA-C5 can provide a breakthrough to control absorbance and chirality, especially for dynamically broadening and narrowing the bandwidth on demand, and further enable the ever-desired broadband NIR circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with a high dissymmetry factor glum of up to 1.88. The cutting-edge photoswitchable inhomogeneous soft helical pitch provides access to multi-freedom control in soft materials, optics, biophotonics, and other relevant fields

The influence come from mechanical trauma to the cleavage rate and blastocyst rate and blastocyst cell number of parthenogenesis.

<p>The influence come from mechanical trauma to the cleavage rate and blastocyst rate and blastocyst cell number of parthenogenesis.</p

Developmental potential of embryos reconstructed by injection of cumulus cells into intact and enucleated oocytes.

<p>Developmental potential of embryos reconstructed by injection of cumulus cells into intact and enucleated oocytes.</p

Light-Reconfiguring Inhomogeneous Soft Helical Pitch with Fatigue Resistance and Reversibility

Active engineering and modulation of optical spectra in a remote and fully reversible light is urgently desired in photonics, chemistry, and materials. However, the real-time regulation of multiple optical information such as wavelength, bandwidth, reflectance, and polarization is still a longstanding issue due to the lack of an appropriate photoresponsive candidate. Herein, we propose an additional “degree-of-freedom (DOF)” in a photo-modulated soft helix, and build up an unprecedented inhomogeneous helical pitch length with light-reconfiguring property, fatigue resistance, and reversibility. For the working model, the intrinsic chiral photoswitch LBC5 is employed as an actuator to modulate the helical pitch length, which is proportional to the irradiation intensity, and the unique broadband absorbance photo-modulator BTA-C5 is incorporated as an attenuator of the transmitted light to decrease its intensity along the sample thickness, therefore successfully adding another controlled DOF on the pitch length distribution (i.e., homogeneous or inhomogeneous) apart from the common soft helix with only a single DOF on the pitch length. The absorbance photo-modulator BTA-C5 with a unique variable broadband absorption enables the light to reconfigure the helical pitch from homogeneous to inhomogeneous, thereby achieving the robust fatigue-resistance establishment of reversible spectral programming. The established light-reconfigurable inhomogeneous helical pitch with the photoresponsive modulator BTA-C5 can provide a breakthrough to control absorbance and chirality, especially for dynamically broadening and narrowing the bandwidth on demand, and further enable the ever-desired broadband NIR circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with a high dissymmetry factor glum of up to 1.88. The cutting-edge photoswitchable inhomogeneous soft helical pitch provides access to multi-freedom control in soft materials, optics, biophotonics, and other relevant fields

Light-Reconfiguring Inhomogeneous Soft Helical Pitch with Fatigue Resistance and Reversibility

Active engineering and modulation of optical spectra in a remote and fully reversible light is urgently desired in photonics, chemistry, and materials. However, the real-time regulation of multiple optical information such as wavelength, bandwidth, reflectance, and polarization is still a longstanding issue due to the lack of an appropriate photoresponsive candidate. Herein, we propose an additional “degree-of-freedom (DOF)” in a photo-modulated soft helix, and build up an unprecedented inhomogeneous helical pitch length with light-reconfiguring property, fatigue resistance, and reversibility. For the working model, the intrinsic chiral photoswitch LBC5 is employed as an actuator to modulate the helical pitch length, which is proportional to the irradiation intensity, and the unique broadband absorbance photo-modulator BTA-C5 is incorporated as an attenuator of the transmitted light to decrease its intensity along the sample thickness, therefore successfully adding another controlled DOF on the pitch length distribution (i.e., homogeneous or inhomogeneous) apart from the common soft helix with only a single DOF on the pitch length. The absorbance photo-modulator BTA-C5 with a unique variable broadband absorption enables the light to reconfigure the helical pitch from homogeneous to inhomogeneous, thereby achieving the robust fatigue-resistance establishment of reversible spectral programming. The established light-reconfigurable inhomogeneous helical pitch with the photoresponsive modulator BTA-C5 can provide a breakthrough to control absorbance and chirality, especially for dynamically broadening and narrowing the bandwidth on demand, and further enable the ever-desired broadband NIR circularly polarized luminescence (CPL) with a high dissymmetry factor glum of up to 1.88. The cutting-edge photoswitchable inhomogeneous soft helical pitch provides access to multi-freedom control in soft materials, optics, biophotonics, and other relevant fields

The cell number of blastocyst generated from parthenogenesis,enucleated oocyte NT and intact oocyte NT.

<p>The cell number of blastocyst generated from parthenogenesis,enucleated oocyte NT and intact oocyte NT.</p

Top 10 unique genes in gene expression profiles of four samples.

<p>Top 10 unique genes in gene expression profiles of four samples.</p