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Equilibrium adsorption of disk-like particles on patterned adhesive surfaces is studied using Monte Carlo simulations. The surface is represented as a two-dimensional plane with circular adhesive domains arranged either regularly or…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2026-05-05 Nazar Kukarkin , Taras Patsahan

Oblique angle deposition (OAD) is a nanostructuration method widely used to tune the optical properties of thin films. The introduction of porosity controlled by the deposition angle is used to develop the architecture of each layer and…

We present a new methodology for efficient and high-quality patterning of biological reagents for surface-based biological assays. The method relies on hydrodynamically confined nanoliter volumes of reagents to interact with the substrate…

Biomolecules · Quantitative Biology 2016-04-27 J. Autebert , J. F. Cors , David P. Taylor , G. V. Kaigala

Surface anomaly detection is a vital component in manufacturing inspection. Current discriminative methods follow a two-stage architecture composed of a reconstructive network followed by a discriminative network that relies on the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-07-11 Matic Fučka , Vitjan Zavrtanik , Danijel Skočaj

We introduce a new general-purpose approach to deep learning on 3D surfaces, based on the insight that a simple diffusion layer is highly effective for spatial communication. The resulting networks are automatically robust to changes in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-01-10 Nicholas Sharp , Souhaib Attaiki , Keenan Crane , Maks Ovsjanikov

Controllable spherical panoramic image generation holds substantial applicative potential across a variety of domains.However, it remains a challenging task due to the inherent spherical distortion and geometry characteristics, resulting in…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-18 Tao Wu , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Di Hu , Xintao Wang , Ying Shan , Xi Li

Rational control over the periodic arrangement of particles by means of external stimuli is a technologically important aspect of colloidal science with important physical underpinnings. Here, a robust structural control of particle…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2023-04-18 Devika Venkuzhy Sudhakaran , Dinesh Kumar Sahu , Osamu Haba , Surajit Dhara

Actively tunable and reconfigurable wavefront shaping by optical metasurfaces poses a significant technical challenge often requiring unconventional materials engineering and nanofabrication. Most wavefront-shaping metasurfaces can be…

Optics · Physics 2020-08-24 Stephanie C. Malek , Adam C. Overvig , Sajan Shrestha , Nanfang Yu

Controlling the interconnection of neighboring seeds (nanoflakes) to full coverage of the textured substrate is the main challenge for the large-scale conformal growth of atomic-thick transition metal dichalcogenides by chemical vapor…

The surface structure of SrTiO3(001) thin films homoepitaxially grown by PLD in step-flow mode was characterized using low temperature STM. It was found that one-dimensional (1D) TiOx-based nanostructures were formed on the thin film…

Materials Science · Physics 2015-05-18 Katsuya Iwaya , Takeo Ohsawa , Ryota Shimizu , Tomihiro Hashizume , Taro Hitosugi

Carefully designed nanostructures can inspire new type of optomechanical interactions and allow surpassing limitations set by classical diffractive optical elements. Apart from strong near-field localization, nanostructured environment…

Recently, diffusion models have achieved great success in image synthesis. However, when it comes to the layout-to-image generation where an image often has a complex scene of multiple objects, how to make strong control over both the…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2024-03-13 Guangcong Zheng , Xianpan Zhou , Xuewei Li , Zhongang Qi , Ying Shan , Xi Li

Self-assembly processes allow us to design and create complex nanostructures using molecules as building blocks and surfaces as scaffolds. This autonomous driven construction is possible due to a complex thermodynamic balance of…

Mesoscale and Nanoscale Physics · Physics 2017-09-06 Sabrina Simoncelli , Yi Li , Emiliano Cortés , Stefan A. Maier

Selective control of light is essential for optical science and technology with numerous applications. Nanophotonic waveguides and integrated couplers have been developed to achieve selective coupling and spatial control of an optical beam…

Controlling the microstructure of thin films is of critical importance for various applications. We demonstrate a methodology for tuning the local microstructure through film-substrate interactions using Ag-Cu as a model system. Metastable…

Materials Science · Physics 2026-04-29 Vivek C. Peddiraju , Shourya Dutta-Gupta , Subhradeep Chatterjee

We propose the use of topographic modulation of surfaces to select and localize particles in nematic colloids. By considering convex and concave deformations of one of the confining surfaces we show that the colloid-flat surface repulsion…

Soft Condensed Matter · Physics 2014-10-15 Z. Eskandari , N. M. Silvestre , M. M. Telo da Gama , M. R. Ejtehadi

Breast cancer is the most common type of cancer observed in women. Communication with the tumor microenvironment allows invading breast cancer cells, such as triple negative breast cancer cells, to adapt to specific substrates. The…

Materials Science · Physics 2022-04-04 M. Kanidi , A. Papadimitropoulou , C. Charalampous , Z. Chakim , G. Tsekenis , A. Sinani , C. Riziotis , M. Kandyla

Diffusion policies have recently emerged as a powerful class of visuomotor controllers for robot manipulation, offering stable training and expressive multi-modal action modeling. However, existing approaches typically treat action…

Robotics · Computer Science 2025-10-01 Zezeng Li , Rui Yang , Ruochen Chen , ZhongXuan Luo , Liming Chen

Transposed convolution is crucial for generating high-resolution outputs, yet has received little attention compared to convolution layers. In this work we revisit transposed convolution and introduce a novel layer that allows us to place…

Computer Vision and Pattern Recognition · Computer Science 2022-10-19 Stefano B. Blumberg , Daniele Raví , Mou-Cheng Xu , Matteo Figini , Iasonas Kokkinos , Daniel C. Alexander

The ability to tailor nanoscale surface atom arrangements through multi-elemental compositional control provides high-entropy nanoalloys with promising functional properties. Developing a fundamental understanding of nanoalloy formation…