The overall effectiveness of nonlinear optical processes along extended nonlinear media highly depends on the fulfillment of the phase-matching condition for pump and generated fields. This is traditionally accomplished by exploiting the birefringence of nonlinear crystals requiring long interaction lengths (cm-scale). For nonbirefringent media and integrated photonic devices, modal phase matching can compensat...
The extracellular matrix mimicking property of electrospun polymer nanofibers affords their uses as an ideal scaffold material for differentiation of human mesenchymal stem cells (hMSCs), which is important for various tissue engineering applications. Here, we report the fabrication of electrospun poly(lactic-co-glycolic acid) (PLGA) nanofibers incorporated with attapulgite (ATT) nanorods, a clay material for o...