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Chemotactic Behavior of Caenorhabditis elegans in Different Chemical GradientsBy Lipika Parida, Venkat Padmanabhan
Abstract: The nematode Caenorhabditis elegans (C. elegans) has been extensively used as a model organism for studying various behavioral aspects in small organisms. Chemotaxis has, by far, been one of the most important studies to help us understand the fundamental search and avoid behavior of C. elegans. A typical chemotaxis assay involves the use of anesthetics to paralyze the worms near the center of a chemoattractant gradient that enables us to …
Published in International Journal of Animal Biotechnology and Applications · Vol. 5, Issue 1-2, 2019 · pp. 25–37 Read article →
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Viscoelastic Properties of Polymer Nanocomposites with Polydispersity in Nanoparticle SizesBy Koteswara Rao Medidhi, Venkat Padmanabhan
Abstract: The viscoelastic properties of polymer nanocomposites are investigated as a function of the size distribution of nanoparticles, the nature of interactions and results are compared with the pure polymer melt. We modeled our PNCs with two sizes of nanoparticles and polymer blends and four different cases with different polymer-nanoparticle and nanoparticle-nanoparticle non-bonded interactions. We have observed the enhancement in properties is not only due to the addition of nanoparticles but …
Published in International Journal of Polymer Science and Engineering · Vol. 5, Issue 2, 2019 · pp. 42–52 Read article →