Melatonin‐Based and Biomimetic Scaffold as Muscle–ECM Implant for Guiding Myogenic Differentiation of Volumetric Muscle Loss

Volumetric muscle loss (VML) caused by injury or trauma affects the quality of life directly, due to its high incidence, lingering healing, and prolonged duration. Tissue engineered scaffolds have been widely used in muscle regeneration for patients with massive muscle injury. Melatonin (MLT) is a bioactive substance secreted by the pineal gland, which can promote muscle recovery by inhibiting oxidative stress and inflammation. Herein, a biocompatible scaffold is developed using thiolated hyaluronic acid (HA‐SH), collagen I (COL I), and polycaprolactone/melatonin (PCL/MLT) electrospun membranes. This scaffold mimics extracellular matrix (ECM) and architectural features of native muscle, possesses appropriate mechanical property, stiffness and promotes vascularization. It can provide adhesion sites for C2C12 cells and induce their proliferation and differentiation. Moreover, VML rat model is established to evaluate its effect on muscle regeneration. Results demonstrate that this scaffold possesses a practical application for VML.     

Trilayer Nanomesh Films with Tunable Wettability as Highly Transparent,Flexible, and Recyclable Electrodes

Metallic mesh materials are promising candidates to replace traditional transparent conductive oxides such as indium tin oxide (ITO) that is restricted by the limited indium resource and its brittle nature. The challenge of metal based transparent conductive networks is to achieve high transmittance, low sheet resistance, and small perforation size simultaneously, all of which significantly relate to device performances in optoelectronics. In this work, trilayer dielectric/metal/dielectric (D/M/D) nanomesh electrodes are reported with precisely controlled perforation size, wire width, and uniform hole distribution employing the nanosphere lithography technique. TiO₂/Au/TiO₂ nanomesh films with small hole diameter (≤700 nm) and low thickness (≤50 nm) are shown to yield high transmittance (>90%), low sheet resistance (≤70 Ω sq^?1), as well as outstanding flexural endurance and feasibility for large area patterning. Further, by tuning the surface wettability, these films are applied as easily recyclable flexible electrodes for electrochromic devices. The simple and cost‐effective fabrication of diverse D/M/D nanomesh transparent conductive films with tunable optoelectronic properties paves a way for the design and realization of specialized transparent electrodes in optoelectronics.     

Ultrasoft Liquid Metal Elastomer Foams with Positive and Negative Piezopermittivity for Tactile Sensing

Soft, capacitive tactile (pressure) sensors are important for applications including human–machine interfaces, soft robots, and electronic skins. Such capacitors consist of two electrodes separated by a soft dielectric. Pressing the capacitor brings the electrodes closer together and thereby increases capacitance. Thus, sensitivity to a given force is maximized by using dielectric materials that are soft and have a high dielectric constant, yet such properties are often in conflict with each other. Here, a liquid metal elastomer foam (LMEF) is introduced that is extremely soft (elastic modulus 7.8 kPa), highly compressible (70% strain), and has a high permittivity. Compressing the LMEF displaces the air in the foam structure, increasing the permittivity over a large range (5.6–11.7). This is called “positive piezopermittivity.” Interestingly, it is discovered that the permittivity of such materials decreases (“negative piezopermittivity”) when compressed to large strain due to the geometric deformation of the liquid metal droplets. This mechanism is theoretically confirmed via electromagnetic theory, and finite element simulation. Using these materials, a soft tactile sensor with high sensitivity, high initial capacitance, and large capacitance change is demonstrated. In addition, a tactile sensor powered wirelessly (from 3 m away) with high power conversion efficiency (84%) is demonstrated.     

Highly Efficient,Bright, and Stable Colloidal Quantum Dot Short‐Wave Infrared Light‐Emitting Diodes

Unbalanced charge injection is deleterious for the performance of colloidal quantum dot (CQD) light‐emitting diodes (LEDs) as it deteriorates the quantum efficiency, brightness, and operational lifetime. CQD LEDs emitting in the infrared have previously achieved high quantum efficiencies but only when driven to emit in the low‐radiance regime. At higher radiance levels, required for practical applications, the efficiency decreased dramatically in view of the notorious efficiency droop. Here, a novel methodology is reported to regulate charge supply in multinary bandgap CQD composites that facilitates improved charge balance. The current approach is based on engineering the energetic potential landscape at the supra‐nanocrystalline level that has allowed to report short‐wave infrared PbS CQD LEDs with record‐high external quantum efficiency in excess of 8%, most importantly, at a radiance level of ≈5 W sr^?1 m², an order of magnitude higher than prior reports. Furthermore, the balanced charge injection and Auger recombination reduction has led to unprecedentedly high operational stability with radiance half‐life of 26 068 h at a radiance of 1 W sr^?1 m^?2.     

Interference management for spectral coexistence in a heterogeneous satellite network

With the advent of the fifth generation of mobile radio communication by 2020, there will be many challenges such as increasing service demand with low delay in providing billions of end users called the satellite mobile users. It is expected that terrestrial communication systems will be faced with a dense network having many small cells anywhere and anytime. Therefore, there are some remote regions in the world where terrestrial systems cannot provide any services to end users. Furthermore, because of lack of spectral resources, it is very important that the spectrum is shared between satellite systems and terrestrial equipment by a suitable solution to interference management. In this paper, a heterogeneous satellite network that includes low earth orbit (LEO) satellite constellation and terrestrial equipment is proposed to provide low delay services. In this type of structure, interference management based on transmission power control between LEO satellite systems and mobile users is very important for obtaining high throughput. Moreover, in order to mitigate interference, transmission power control is shown based on noncooperative Stackelberg game under many subgames through pricing‐based algorithm and convex optimization method. Finally, the simulation results show that the performance of this study's system model will be improved through the proposed algorithm.     

阵列波导光栅解复用器的偏振相关损耗的优化

对硅基二氧化硅阵列波导光栅解复用器(AWG DEMUX)的偏振相关损耗(PDL)进行了优化。理论分析了引起AWG偏振相关性的物理因素以及消除偏振相关性的工艺方法和条件。利用化学气相沉积、光刻和刻蚀等半导体工艺制备了AWG DEMUX芯片,并结合理论分析对包层材料中的硼(B)、磷(P)含量进行了优化调整,成功地将芯片的PDL降低至0.12 dB,使PDL参数满足芯片的商用化需求。     

SystemView与MATLAB数据通信的研究

在很多应用场合,需要在System View与MATLAB之向进行数据通信。本文提出了一种以M-LINK为桥梁的通信方式,并给出了具体操作步骤。为了验证通信方式的可行性,以PCM为例,探讨如何通过M-LINK模块进行两种软件的数据通信,实现通信系统联合仿真。仿真结果表明,本文提出的通信方式是可行的。     

高压输变电系统对通信电磁干扰的影响分析

本文对通信机房的电磁干扰问题及相关规范做了详细的综述,并以某省通信生产楼拟建局址电磁环境的实测数据为例,对高压输变电系统对通信机房的电磁干扰影响进行分析和论证.对今后通信机房的建设及相关规范的更新与制定具有较好的参考价值.     

基于IMS的多媒体彩铃业务的设计和实现

多媒体彩铃(MRBT)业务是一种采用多种媒体作为回铃音的增值业务.结合IMS网络体系结构和MRBT业务属性,提出一种利用多媒体彩铃业务平台来实现MRBT业务的方案,包括系统设计和基于SIP(会话发起协议)的信令流程.同时,给出相关的特点分析并进行总结.