Abstract: In embodiments, a glass includes from 45 mol % to 70 mol % SiO2; from 11.5 mol % to 25 mol % Al2O3; from 2 mol % to 20 mol % Li2O; from greater than 0 mol % to 10 mol % Na2O; from 9 mol % to 19 mol % MgO; from 4 mol % ZrO2; and from 0 mol % to 0.5 mol % TiO2. In other embodiments, a glass includes from 45 mol % to 70 mol % SiO2; from 4 mol % to 25 mol % Al2O3; from 5 mol % to 20 mol % Li2O; from 0.1 mol % to 10 mol % Na2O; from 6 mol % to 25 mol % MgO; from 0.1 mol % to 4 mol % ZrO2; from 0.1 mol % to 5 mol % K2O; and from 0.05 mol % to 0.5 mol % SnO2.

Abstract: A polarization camera that includes a pixelated waveplate positioned to receive light. The pixelated waveplate includes an array of super-pixels comprising birefringent structures. Each super-pixel comprises a first at least one sub-pixel comprising a quarter-wave plate and a second at least one sub-pixel comprising a half-wave plate. A non-pixelated polarizer receives light from the pixelated waveplate. A detector detects light received from the polarizer.

Abstract: A delivery conduit system for a glass manufacturing apparatus, the conduit system including a drain assembly configured to allow draining molten glass from the delivery conduit system. The drain assembly includes heating means and cooling means that can open a drain flow of molten glass from components of the conduit system and shut off flow to the forming body by selectively modifying the fluid impedance presented to the molten glass by the drain assembly.

Abstract: A silicate-based composition includes, in mol. %: 35-65% SiO2, 20-40% CaO, 10-30% Na2O, 0-15% TiO2, >0-15% Al2O3, 0-10% P2O5, 0-15% ZrO2, and 0-3% SnO2. A method of forming a silicate-based composition includes ceramming a silicate-based composition such that the ceramming is a cycle has a first portion and a second portion, with the first portion conducted at a first temperature for a first time and the second portion conducted at a second temperature for a second time.

Abstract: A cell culture device comprises a multi-well cell culture plate comprising a plurality of wells, each well comprising a top, a bottom, and a sidewall disposed between the top and the bottom and having an interior surface comprising an ultra-low attachment surface. A plurality of scaffolds are disposed within wells of the multi-well cell culture plate, each scaffold comprising a cell-adherent surface. In some embodiments, the scaffold comprises a fiber scaffold. In some embodiments, the scaffold comprises an artificial vascular scaffold. In some embodiments, cell culture devices comprise a plurality of hydrogel scaffolds disposed in a multi-well cell culture plate, the plurality of hydrogel scaffolds comprising hydrogel fibers of differing lengths, wherein opposite ends of a hydrogel fiber are disposed in different wells within the multi-well cell culture plate to create interconnected wells.

Abstract: A process of forming a titania-silica glass body, the process including exposing a titania-doped silica soot body to a first thermal treatment by heating the body to a first temperature T1 between about 800° C. and about 1100° C. for a first time duration t1 calculated using the equation: t ? 1 > L c 2 4 ? ? , wherein Lc is the characteristic length (cm) of the body and ? is the thermal diffusivity (cm2/sec) of the body. The process further including exposing the body to a second thermal treatment by heating the body to a second temperature T2 between about 1050° C. and about 1250° C. wherein, after the second thermal treatment, a peak-to-valley difference of hydroxyl concentration amongst a plurality of segments of the body is about 70 ppm or less.

Abstract: A sealed pharmaceutical container includes a shoulder, a neck extending from the shoulder, a flange extending from the neck, and a sealing assembly. The flange includes an underside surface extending from the neck, an outer surface extending from the underside surface, the outer surface defining an outer diameter of the flange, and an upper sealing surface extending between the outer surface and an inner surface defining an opening in the sealed pharmaceutical container. The sealing assembly includes a stopper and a metal-containing cap securing the stopper to the flange. The stopper includes a sealing portion extending over the upper sealing surface of the flange and covering the opening, and a rim extending at least partially along the outer surface of the flange.

Abstract: A particulate filter and method of manufacture. The particulate filter comprises a ceramic honeycomb body comprising a plurality of intersecting walls that define a plurality of channels extending longitudinally though the ceramic honeycomb body. The intersecting walls comprise a porous ceramic material having a microstructure that comprises an interconnected network of porous spheroidal ceramic beads. The microstructure has a total porosity defined as the sum of an open intrabead porosity of the beads and an interbead porosity defined by interstices between the beads in the interconnected network. The microstructure has a bimodal pore size distribution in which an intrabead median pore size of the intrabead porosity is from 1.5 ?m to 4 ?m and an interbead median pore size of the interbead porosity is from 6 ?m to 20 ?m.

Abstract: In the present invention, metal nanoparticles are obtained by subjecting a composition for manufacturing metal nanoparticles to a thermal reaction, the composition including (A) a metal oxalate, (B) an amine compound, and (C) a hydroxy fatty acid. The metal nanoparticles are readily dispersed in a polar solvent or a solvent mixture having a high ratio of a polar solvent.

Abstract: Embodiments of a vehicle interior system are disclosed. In one or more embodiments, the system includes a base with a curved surface, and a display or touch panel disposed on the curved surface. The display includes a cold-bent glass substrate with a thickness of 1.5 mm or less and a first radius of curvature of 20 mm or greater, and a display module and/or touch panel attached to the glass substrate having a second radius of curvature that is within 10% of the first radius of curvature. Methods for forming such systems are also disclosed.

Abstract: A method of producing glass-based articles having sections of different thicknesses is provided, where a maximum central tension in a thinner section is less than that of a thicker section. The method includes reducing the thickness of a region of a glass-based article that includes a compressive stress layer extending from a surface to a depth of compression to form a glass-based article with multiple thickness regions, and then ion exchanging the glass-based article to form a stress profile in the thinner region that has a maximum central tension that is less than a maximum central tension of a stress profile of the thicker region. The glass articles produced by the method are also provided.

Abstract: A cell culture matrix for a perfusion-flow fixed-bed reactor is provided. The cell culture matrix includes a substrate having a porous sheet for adhering cells thereto. The sheet has a first side, a second side opposite the first side, a thickness separating the first side and the second side, and a plurality of openings formed in the substrate, arrayed in a regular pattern, and passing through the thickness of the substrate. The porous sheet is wound into a cylindrical shape having a plurality of wound layers, and the cell culture matrix does not include a spacer material or physical barrier between the plurality of wound layers of the substrate.

Abstract: Glass compositions include phosphorus oxide (P2O5), niobia (Nb2O5), titania (TiO2) and bismuth oxide (Bi2O3) as essential components and may optionally include barium oxide (BaO), calcium oxide (CaO), potassium oxide (K2O), lithium oxide (Li2O), sodium oxide (Na2O), tungsten oxide (WO3), boron oxide (B2O3) and other components. The glasses may be characterized by high refractive index at 587.56 nm at comparably low density at room temperature.

Abstract: Disclosed herein are glass pharmaceutical vials having sidewalls of reduced thickness. In embodiments, the glass pharmaceutical vial may include a glass body comprising a sidewall enclosing an interior volume. An outer diameter D of the glass body is equal to a diameter d1 of a glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1, wherein X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1. However, the sidewall of the glass pharmaceutical vial comprises an average wall thickness Ti that is less than or equal to 0.85*s1, wherein s1 is a wall thickness of the glass vial of size X as defined by ISO 8362-1 and X is one of 2R, 3R, 4R, 6R, 8R, 10R, 15R, 20R, 25R, 30R, 50R, and 100R as defined by ISO 8362-1.

Abstract: An apparatus comprises a fiber input, the fiber input comprising a plurality of input fiber cores receiving a plurality of input optical signals. The apparatus also comprises an optical signal manipulation device that is one of a fiber mode shuffler, a fiber coupler, a power splitter, or a 90-degree optical hybrid. The optical signal manipulation device comprises an input aperture held in spaced relation to the fiber input, an output aperture, and a plurality of metasurfaces that manipulate phase profiles of the plurality optical signals to generate a plurality of output optical signals having a different spatial arrangement than the input optical signal. A fiber output is held in spaced relation to the output aperture such that fiber cores of the fiber output receive the plurality of output optical signals.

Abstract: The disclosure relates to methods for compensating for crystal structures differential material removal rates in sub-aperture figuring. A computing machine receives an input related to a substrate crystal structure. The computing machine generates, based on the input, a surface map data capturing the substrate crystal structure. The computing machine generates, based on the surface map data structure, a figuring route data structure for a figuring tool to figure an optical surface on the crystal substrate. The computing machine controls, using the processing circuitry and based on the figuring route data structure, the figuring tool to figure the substrate crystal optical surface.

Abstract: Described herein is a glass article comprising a support structure comprising a support surface, a glass substrate comprising a first major surface and a second major surface, and an adhesive bead disposed between the support surface and the second major surface. The adhesive bead comprises a plurality of outer surfaces extending between the support structure and the glass substrate, the plurality of outer surfaces extends at first angles relative to the second major surface at first edges thereof that are most proximate to the glass substrate, and each of the first angles is greater than or equal to 35° and less than or equal to 60°.

Abstract: An uncoupled-core multicore optical fiber is disclosed, the fiber including at least two core portions, each core portion including a core and a depressed-index cladding. The core having a radius r1 and a relative refractive index ?1. The depressed-index cladding having a radius r2 and a relative refractive index ?2, the depressed-index cladding surrounding and directly contacting the core, a volume V2 of the depressed-index cladding being about 15.0% ?-micron2 to about 37.0% ?-micron2. The fiber further includes a common cladding having a radius r3 and a relative refractive index ?3 such that ?2<?3<?1, the common cladding surrounding and directly contacting the depressed-index cladding. Furthermore, a cable cutoff wavelength of each core portion is about 1530 nm or less and a center-to-center spacing between centerlines of adjacent core portions is about 48 microns to about 60 micron.

Abstract: A multicore optical fiber including four cores arranged in a linear configuration, the centerline of each core being spaced from the centerline of an adjacent core by a distance x of about 30 microns or less, and each core having a relative refractive index ?1. A cladding surrounding each of the four cores, the cladding including an inner cladding region with a relative refractive index ?2, a depressed-index cladding region with a relative refractive index ?3, and an outer cladding region with a relative refractive index ?4, wherein ?1>?2>?3 and ?1>?4>?3. Furthermore, each core of the four cores has a mode field diameter, at a wavelength of 1310 nm, of about 8.1 microns or less, and cross talk between adjacent cores is about ?18 dB or less at wavelengths of 1310 nm and 1550 nm per 2 km fiber length.

Abstract: A heater assembly including a heater body having a monolithic honeycomb structure comprising a plurality of intersecting walls. The walls have a thickness and extend in an axial direction to form a plurality of cells of the honeycomb structure that extend axially from a first end face to a second end face. A first electrode is coupled to the heater body. A second electrode is coupled to the heater body. A current-carrying path is defined over the walls between the first electrode and the second electrode. A plurality of openings extend through the thickness of at least some of the walls. A fluid treatment system, method of treating a fluid, and method of manufacturing a heater assembly are also disclosed.