Nanoarchitectonics: what's coming next after nanotechnology?

Author(s):  
Katsuhiko Ariga

The nanoarchitectonics concept has the ability to bridge nanoscale science and visual size materials. The final goal of nanoarchitectonics approaches is the creation of living-creature-like functional material systems from simple nanoscale objects.

2018 ◽  
Vol 51 (3) ◽  
pp. 719-727 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yasumasa Takagi ◽  
Tomoya Uruga ◽  
Mizuki Tada ◽  
Yasuhiro Iwasawa ◽  
Toshihiko Yokoyama

Author(s):  
Mohammad Nur E Alam ◽  
Wade Lonsdale ◽  
Mikhail Vasiliev ◽  
Kamal Alameh

We report on the development of several different thin-film functional material systems prepared by RF magnetron sputtering at Edith Cowan University nanofabrication labs. We conduct research on the design, prototyping, and practical fabrication of high-performance magneto-optic (MO) materials, oxide based sensor components, and heat regulation coatings for advanced construction and solar windows.


2012 ◽  
Vol 1403 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ryo Yoshida

ABSTRACTAs a novel biomimetic polymer gel, we have been studying polymer gels with an autonomous self-oscillating function, since firstly reported in 1996. For developing the polymer gels, we utilized oscillating chemical reaction, called the Belousov-Zhabotinsky (BZ) reaction, which is recognized as a chemical model for understanding several autonomous phenomena in biological systems. The self-oscillating polymer gel is composed of a poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) network in which the metal catalyst for the BZ reaction is covalently immobilized. Under the coexistence of the reactants, the polymer undergoes spontaneous swelling-deswelling changes (in the case of gel) or cyclic soluble-insoluble changes (in the case of an uncrosslinked polymer) without any on-off switching of external stimuli. Several kinds of functional material systems utilizing self-oscillating polymers and gels such as biomimetic actuators, mass transport surface, etc. are expected. Here recent progress on self-oscillating polymers and gels and the design of functional material systems are summarized.


Author(s):  
Antony Polonsky

This chapter describes the situation of the Jews in Soviet Russia and the Soviet Union in the years between 1921 and 1941. Here, their victory in the civil war enabled the Bolsheviks to apply the ideological principles they had developed for dealing with the ‘Jewish question’. National issues were seen by all the Bolsheviks as instrumental. They were to be judged on how they advanced the interest of the world revolution and the Soviet state. Where national groups were supported, this was a tactical alliance, like the alliance with the peasantry. The ultimate goal was the creation of a new socialist man who would be above petty nationalist divisions, and a single world socialist state. All those responsible for Jewish policy within the Bolshevik party sought this final goal; the only difference between them was their view on how long Jewish separateness could be tolerated. The aim was assimilation—a new version of the view that the Jews were to be given everything as individuals and nothing as a community.


Author(s):  
Илья Сергеевич Вевюрко

Вторая часть обзора «Бюллетеня Международной организации по изучению Септуагинты и смежных текстов» охватывает вторую декаду истории этого масштабного научного предприятия. В этот период происходит смена поколений исследователей, на первый план постепенно выходят имена Э. Това, А. Питерсмы, А. ван дер Коя, М. Книбба, М. Арль, А. Эймелеус и других учёных, которые остаются ведущими в септуагинтоведении до сего дня. При этом исследования Септуагинты сосредотачиваются, в основном, вокруг частных вопросов, хотя и связанных с намеченными ранее магистральными desiderata - созданием лексикона Септуагинты и возможно полного описания грамматики её языка. Финальной целью остаётся, как и вначале, выяснение значения древнегреческого перевода для критики текста еврейской Библии. The second part of the review of the Bulletin of the International Organization for Septuagint and Cognate Studies (BIOSCS) covers the second decade of the history of this largescale scientific enterprise. During this period, generations of researchers are being changed, and the names of E. Tov, A. Pietersma, A. van der Kooij, M. Knibb, M. Harl, A. Aejmelaeus and others who remain leading in Septuagint studies to this day gradually come to the fore. At the same time, the research of the Septuagint focuses mainly on specific issues, although they are related to the main desiderata outlined earlier - the creation of the lexicon for the language of Septuagint and as complete as possible description of its grammar. The final goal remains, as in the beginning, to find out the value of the Old Greek translation for criticism of the text of Biblia Hebraica.


2012 ◽  
Vol 19 (6) ◽  
pp. 421-430 ◽  
Author(s):  
M. D. Sarzynski ◽  
S. Schaefer ◽  
O. O. Ochoa

2020 ◽  
Vol 43 ◽  
Author(s):  
Stefen Beeler-Duden ◽  
Meltem Yucel ◽  
Amrisha Vaish

Abstract Tomasello offers a compelling account of the emergence of humans’ sense of obligation. We suggest that more needs to be said about the role of affect in the creation of obligations. We also argue that positive emotions such as gratitude evolved to encourage individuals to fulfill cooperative obligations without the negative quality that Tomasello proposes is inherent in obligations.


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