Liquid vortexes and flows induced by femtosecond laser ablation in liquid governing formation of circular and crisscross LIPSS

Orientations of laser induced periodic surface structures(LIPSS)are usually considered to be governed by the laser polarization state.In this work,we unveil that fluid dynamics induced by femtosecond(fs)laser ablation in liquid(fs-LAL)can easily break this polarization restriction to produce irregular circular-LIPSS(CLIPPS)and crisscross-LIPSS(CCLIPSS).Fs laser ablation of silicon in water shows formation of diverse LIPSS depending on ablation conditions.At a high power of 700 mW(repetition rate of 100 kHz,pulse duration of 457 fs and wavelength of 1045 nm),single/twin CLIPSS are produced at the bottom of macropores of several microns in diameter due to the formation of strong liquid vortexes and occurrence of the vortex shedding effect.Theoretical simulations validate our speculation about the formation of liquid vortex with an ultrahigh static pressure,which can induce the microstructure trenches and cracks at the sidewalls for fs-LAL of Si and tungsten(W)in water,respectively.At a low power of 50 mW,weak liquid vortexes are produced,which only give birth to curved LIPSS in the valleys of grooves.Consequently,it is deduced that liquid vortex plays a crucial role in the formation of macropores.Mountain-like microstructures induce complex fluid dynamics which can cause the formation of CCLIPSS on them.It is believed that liquid vortexes and fluid dynamics presented in this work open up new possibilities to diversify the morphologies of LIPSS formed by fs-LAL.

Studies on the spray dried lactose as carrier for dry powder inhalation

The purpose of this study was to investigate the spray dried lactose as carrier for dry powder inhalation(DPI).The lactose particles were prepared by spray drying,then the particle size,shape and crystal form were characterized by laser diffraction,scanning electron microscopy(SEM),X-ray diffraction(XRD)and differential scanning calorimetry(DSC).The spray dried lactose particles were spherical and amorphous,but would transfer to crystal form when storage humidity was above 32%.Thus,the humidity of the storage environment should be controlled below 30%strictly in order to maintain the amorphous nature of spray dried lactose which is a great benefit to DPI development.

GLOBAL WELL-POSEDNESS AND OPTIMAL TIME DECAY RATES FOR THE GENERALIZED PHAN-THIEN-TANNER MODEL IN R^(3)

In this paper, we consider the initial value problem for the incompressible generalized Phan-Thien-Tanner(GPTT) model. This model pertains to the dynamic properties of polymeric fluids. Under appropriate assumptions on smooth function f, we find a particular solution to the GPTT model. In dimension three, we establish the global existence and the optimal time decay rates of strong solutions provided that the initial data is close to the particular solution. The results which are presented here are generalizations of the network viscoelastic models.

The sharp time-decay rates for one-dimensional compressible isentropic Navier-Stokes and magnetohydrodynamic flows

In this paper, we investigate the large-time behavior of strong solutions to the Cauchy problem for one-dimensional compressible isentropic magnetohydrodynamic equations near a stable equilibrium. The difference between the one-dimensional and multi-dimensional cases is a feature for compressible flows and also brings new difficulties. In contrast to the multi-dimensional case, the decay rates of nonlinear terms may not be faster than linear terms in dimension one. To handle this, we shall present a new energy estimate in terms of a combination of the solutions with small initial data. We aim to establish the sharp upper and lower bounds on the L^(2)-decay rates of the solutions and all their spatial derivatives when the initial perturbation is small in L^(1)(R) ∩ H^(2)(R). It is worth noticing that there is no decay loss for the highest-order spatial derivatives of the solutions so that the large-time behavior for the hyperbolic-parabolic system is exactly sharp. As a byproduct, the above result is also valid for compressible Navier-Stokes equations. Our approach is based on various interpolation inequalities, energy estimates, spectral analysis, and Fourier time-splitting and high-low frequency decomposition methods.