Abstract: Embodiments relate to prosthetic limbs and liners. An embodiment of the prosthetic liner is housed in a prosthetic limb and includes a liner body. The liner body includes a first end for receiving a body part of a user. The first end includes a liquid-retentive portion. The liner body includes an inner surface. The inner surface contacts with the body part. The inner surface includes a plurality of microchannels. The microchannels are formed along the inner surface. The microchannels are connected at one end to the liquid-retentive portion. At least one of the plurality of microchannels is configured to receive liquid droplets and direct the received liquid droplets to the liquid-retentive portion. The liner body also includes an outer surface opposite to the inner surface. The outer surface faces an interior surface of the prosthetic limb and is provided in an interior cavity of the prosthetic limb.

Abstract: There is provided a textile including a strain sensing portion integrally knitted therein and including groups of courses of yarn, each group including a first course of conductive yarn, a second course of dielectric yarn, and a third course of conductive yarn, each course including a plurality of knitted loops. The second course is arranged in between the first and third courses and configured to have a higher elasticity than the first and third courses such that when the strain sensing portion is at a relaxed state, corresponding knitted loops of the first and third courses are caused by a corresponding knitted loop of the second course to contact each other, and when the strain sensing portion is at a stretched state, corresponding knitted loops of the first and third courses are caused by a corresponding knitted loop of the second course to be not in contact with each other.

Abstract: There is provided a carbon capture mixed matrix membrane comprising: a polymeric support layer; and a carbon dioxide capture layer in contact with the polymeric support layer, the carbon dioxide capture layer comprising solid porous material with at least one carbon dioxide adsorption site, wherein the polymeric support layer comprises spatially ordered uniform sized pores. The polymeric support layer may be patterned by micro-molding, nanoimprinting, mold-based lithography or other suitable lithographic process. The carbon dioxide capture layer may comprise amine-functionalised material, metal-organic frameworks such as zeolite imidazolate framework 8 (ZIF-8) or copper benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate (Cu-BTC) which may or may not be amine modified. There is also provided a membrane module comprising at least one carbon capture mixed matrix membrane and a method of forming the carbon capture mixed matrix membrane.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of forming a film with a lenticular lens array, the method comprising providing a substrate; providing a mold having a plurality of nano-scale to micro-scale cavities that form the lenticular lens array on the substrate; having the mold contact the substrate; and forming the lenticular lens array by allowing portions of the substrate to partially fill the plurality of cavities.

Abstract: There is provided a carbon capture mixed matrix membrane comprising: a polymeric support layer; and a carbon dioxide capture layer in contact with the polymeric support layer, the carbon dioxide capture layer comprising solid porous material with at least one carbon dioxide adsorption site, wherein the polymeric support layer comprises spatially ordered uniform sized pores. The polymeric support layer may be patterned by micro-molding, nanoimprinting, mold-based lithography or other suitable lithographic process. The carbon dioxide capture layer may comprise amine-functionalised material, metal-organic frameworks such as zeolite imidazolate framework 8 (ZIF-8) or copper benzene-1,3,5-tricarboxylate (Cu-BTC) which may or may not be amine modified. There is also provided a membrane module comprising at least one carbon capture mixed matrix membrane and a method of forming the carbon capture mixed matrix membrane.

Abstract: In an embodiment, an article having an impact textured surface comprises a plurality of vertical pillars; and a plurality of annular impact features; wherein a first portion of the vertical pillars is located in an annulus of the plurality of annular impact features and a second portion of the vertical pillars is located in an area around the plurality of annular impact features; wherein a height of the plurality of annular impact features is at least 10 nanometers greater than a height of the plurality of vertical pillars. In another embodiment, a method of making the article comprises molding the impact textured surface from a mold comprising a plurality of holes and a plurality of annular track features; wherein the plurality of holes corresponds to the plurality of pillars and the plurality of annular track features corresponds to the plurality of annular impact features.

Abstract: An implant having an adhesive structure comprising a planar surface having two sides and rectangular cuboid-based protrusions having pyramidal tips extending from at least one of said sides, optionally having a porous basic supporting structure, and methods of making and using such implants.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided a method of forming a film with a lenticular lens array, the method comprising providing a substrate; providing a mold having a plurality of nano-scale to micro-scale cavities that form the lenticular lens array on the substrate; having the mold contact the substrate; and forming the lenticular lens array by allowing portions of the substrate to partially fill the plurality of cavities.

Abstract: There is provided a method of forming a thin film through-hole membrane comprising: providing a patterning structure, the patterning structure comprising a patterning substrate, a sacrificial layer and a thin film; imprinting the thin film with a patterned mold to form a thin-film through-hole membrane; and contacting the patterning structure with water to dissolve the sacrificial layer, thereby releasing the thin film through-hole membrane from the patterning structure. There is also provided a hierarchical membrane comprising the thin film through-hole membrane prepared from the method.

Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, there is provided an optical grating comprising a substrate comprising a plurality of protrusions with a space in between any two adjacent protrusions; and a cap provided on at least one of the plurality of protrusions at an end that is furthest from the substrate, wherein the cap has a higher degree of optical attenuation compared to the substrate material and wherein the combination of each protrusion and the respective cap thereon has a generally symmetric cross-sectional profile.

Abstract: A surface on a polymeric film having an array of patterned structures, wherein the array of patterned structures influences fluid flow of the surface and causes reduced attachment of a biological material.

Abstract: A method of reducing the dimension of an imprint structure on a substrate, the method comprising the steps of: (a) providing a substrate having at least one imprint structure thereon, said structure being formed of an inorganic-organic compound comprising an inorganic moiety and a polymer moiety, said polymer moiety having a lower vaporization temperature than the melting point of said inorganic moiety; and (b) selectively removing at least part of the polymer moiety while enabling at least part of the inorganic moiety to form a substantially continuous inorganic phase in said imprint structure, wherein the removal of the at least part of the polymer moiety from the imprint structure reduces the dimension of the imprint structure.

Abstract: The present disclosure is directed to a construct for promoting absorption of molecules by a cell and the application thereof in drug and gene delivery. The present disclosure further describes topographical modulation of endocytosis for drug and gene delivery.

Abstract: There is disclosed a method of making an array for cell assays comprising the step of providing an array of structures on a substrate, each of said structures having a pre-defined topography thereon, and wherein at least one structure has a different topography from at least one other structure.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to a construct for promoting absorption of molecules by a cell and the application thereof in drug and gene delivery. The present invention further describes topographical modulation of endocytosis for drug and gene delivery.

Abstract: A polydioxanone film comprising substantially cylindrical polydioxanone pillars on at least one side thereof, said pillars having diameters from about 0.2 ?m to about 3 ?m, and heights from about 2 ?m to about 20 ?m from the surface of the film, a process for adsorbing proteins using the film and medical devices incorporating the film.

Abstract: A method of modifying the wetting properties of the surface of a substrate, the method comprising the step of applying a first mold having an imprint forming surface to said substrate to form a first imprint thereon, said imprint forming surface being chosen to modify the wetting properties of the substrate surface.

Abstract: There is provided a process for making a patterned metal oxide structure comprising the step of heating an imprint structure comprising a polymerized organometallic compound to remove organic material and thereby form the patterned metal oxide structure, wherein the imprint structure is formed by polymerizing a resist mixture comprising at least one olefinic polymerizable compound and a polymerizable organometallic compound having, e.g., at least one carboxylate of Formula 1: wherein n is 1-12; and each R is independently selected from the group consisting of hydrogen, alkyl, alkenyl, alkynyl, cycloakyl, cycloakenyl, aryl, and aralkyl.

Abstract: There is provided a process for forming a laminated structure, the process comprising the step of bonding a polymer film to an array of structures disposed on a substrate, and wherein a plurality of cavities are formed between the polymer film and the array of structures during the bonding.

Abstract: The present relates to a water-soluble pouch comprising a water soluble film encapsulating a composition, wherein the film comprises at least one area of embossment