Generally, the dental pulp needs to be removed when it is infected, and root canal therapy(RCT) is usually required in which infected dental pulp is replaced with inorganic materials(paste and gutta percha). This trea...Generally, the dental pulp needs to be removed when it is infected, and root canal therapy(RCT) is usually required in which infected dental pulp is replaced with inorganic materials(paste and gutta percha). This treatment approach ultimately brings about a dead tooth. However, pulp vitality is extremely important to the tooth itself, since it provides nutrition and acts as a biosensor to detect the potential pathogenic stimuli. Despite the reported clinical success rate, RCT-treated teeth are destined to be devitalized, brittle and susceptible to postoperative fracture. Recently, the advances and achievements in the field of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine have inspired novel biological approaches to apexogenesis in young patients suffer-ing from pulpitis or periapical periodontitis. This review mainly focuses on the benchtop and clinical regeneration of root apex mediated by adult stem cells. Moreover, current strategies for infected pulp therapy are also discussed here.展开更多
Metamaterial absorber/emitter is an important aspect of infrared radiation manipulation.In this paper,we proposed four simple switchable infrared metamaterial absorbers/emitters with Ag/VO_(2)disks on the Ag plane emp...Metamaterial absorber/emitter is an important aspect of infrared radiation manipulation.In this paper,we proposed four simple switchable infrared metamaterial absorbers/emitters with Ag/VO_(2)disks on the Ag plane employing triangle,square,hexagon,and circle unit cells.The spectral absorption peaks whose intensities are above 0.99 occur at~4μm after structure optimization when VO_(2)is in insulating state and disappear when VO_(2)becomes metallic state.The simulated electromagnetic field reveals that the spectral absorption peaks are attributed to the excitation of magnetic polariton within the insulating VO_(2)spacer layer,whose values exceed 1.59 orders of magnitude higher than the incident magnetic field.Longer resonant wavelength would be excited in square arrays because its configuration is a better carrier of charges at the same spans.For absorption stability,the absorbers/emitters with square and circular structures do not have any change with the polarization angles changing from 0°to 90°,due to the high rotational symmetric structure.And four absorbers/emitters reveal similar shifts and attenuations under different incident angles.We believed that the switchable absorber/emitter demonstrates promising applications in the sensing technology and adaptive infrared system.展开更多
基金Supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China,No.81371144Natural Science Foundation of Jiangsu Province,No.BK20131392the Priority Academic Program Development of Jiangsu Higher Education Institutions PAPD,No.2011-137
文摘Generally, the dental pulp needs to be removed when it is infected, and root canal therapy(RCT) is usually required in which infected dental pulp is replaced with inorganic materials(paste and gutta percha). This treatment approach ultimately brings about a dead tooth. However, pulp vitality is extremely important to the tooth itself, since it provides nutrition and acts as a biosensor to detect the potential pathogenic stimuli. Despite the reported clinical success rate, RCT-treated teeth are destined to be devitalized, brittle and susceptible to postoperative fracture. Recently, the advances and achievements in the field of stem cell biology and regenerative medicine have inspired novel biological approaches to apexogenesis in young patients suffer-ing from pulpitis or periapical periodontitis. This review mainly focuses on the benchtop and clinical regeneration of root apex mediated by adult stem cells. Moreover, current strategies for infected pulp therapy are also discussed here.
基金the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51902073)National Key Research&Development Program(2016YFB0303903,2016YFE0201600)+3 种基金Foundation of Equip-ment Development Department(6140922010901)China Postdoctoral Science Foundation Funded Project(2019M661273,2020T130142)Heilongjiang Province Post-doctoral Science Foundation(LBH-Z19159)the Funda-mental Research Funds for the Central Universities(HIT.NSRIF.2020019).
文摘Metamaterial absorber/emitter is an important aspect of infrared radiation manipulation.In this paper,we proposed four simple switchable infrared metamaterial absorbers/emitters with Ag/VO_(2)disks on the Ag plane employing triangle,square,hexagon,and circle unit cells.The spectral absorption peaks whose intensities are above 0.99 occur at~4μm after structure optimization when VO_(2)is in insulating state and disappear when VO_(2)becomes metallic state.The simulated electromagnetic field reveals that the spectral absorption peaks are attributed to the excitation of magnetic polariton within the insulating VO_(2)spacer layer,whose values exceed 1.59 orders of magnitude higher than the incident magnetic field.Longer resonant wavelength would be excited in square arrays because its configuration is a better carrier of charges at the same spans.For absorption stability,the absorbers/emitters with square and circular structures do not have any change with the polarization angles changing from 0°to 90°,due to the high rotational symmetric structure.And four absorbers/emitters reveal similar shifts and attenuations under different incident angles.We believed that the switchable absorber/emitter demonstrates promising applications in the sensing technology and adaptive infrared system.
