Single and two phase heat transfer in novel porous foams by Li, Hongying

“…In single-phase flow, a simplified numerical procedure is proposed to deal with the interface between the porous and open regions. This procedure is applied successfully to a variety of well-known problems in a 2D setting for validation purpose. …”
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Construction of complex nanostructures in solution phase by Xu, Jun

“…Furthermore, Au nanoring composed of close-packed monolayer free-standing films were achieved by simply using Ppy modified Au nanorings self-assembly at water/oil interface. Finally, in chapter 5, we demonstrated that the as-synthesized Au nanor-ings could be fused into coherent Au nanorings. …”
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Treatment of sarcopenia by antagonists of myostatin by Anissa Anindya Widjaja

“…Based on the findings on the functional epitope of ActRIIB:myostatin complex, we performed an in silico screening of small molecules library for their binding to myostatin interface for ActRIIB binding. We used SPR to screen the ability of the potential compounds to bind specifically to myostatin and we found that 31 molecules with good box-like sensorgram shape and no noticeable noise were specific to myostatin at 100 μM. …”
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Combinatorial control mechanisms in gene regulation by Sox and POU transcription factors by Ng, Calista Keow Leng

“…Whilst the cooperativity dataset had highlighted the importance of critical amino acids of Sox proteins at the Sox-POU interface which determines how well a particular Sox protein is selected to pair with a POU member, I could not find such amino acids in the POU family to explain how individual POU factors remained functionally unique when most of them appeared equally capable of cooperating with the Sox2 protein. …”
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Solution processed hybrid solar cells : structure and material considerations by Sun, Shuangyong

“…It was believed that the enhanced performance was related to a more intimate donor-acceptor (D-A) interface, due to the presence of the additional interaction force. …”
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Metastabilities in Zn (O,S) - buffered Cu (In,Ga) (S,Se)2 thin film solar cells by Chua, Rou Hua

“…The additional decay lifetime was attributed to radiative recombination in the absorber due to excessive acceptor-type defects in sulfur-rich Zn(O,S) buffer layer that caused a buildup in interface-barrier for charge transport. Having identified the detrimental effect of sulfur in the Zn(O,S) buffer on metastability, a CIGSSe device with significantly reduced n1etastability can then be fabricated. …”
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Switched-capacitor power converters for battery-powered and self-powered applications by Xiao, Zhekai

“…The design of power converters to interface with various types of energy harvesters is also gaining substantial attention due to the emerging Internet-of-Things devices. …”
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Magnetization dynamics of domain wall based devices for logic and memory applications by Sethi, Pankaj

“…A solution to this issue is provided by adding additional Co/Pt interface which enhances the thermal stability and PMA strength. …”
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Fundamental relations for rational catalyst design in oxygen electrocatalysis by Tao, Huabing

“…However, sophistication of electrified liquid/solid interface and complexity of catalyst’s structure and composition make it incredibly difficult to derive the surface thermodynamics. …”
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Sub-nyquist sampling techniques for cognitive radio applications by Chen, Hao

“…The third contribution of this thesis is to further extend the use of the matrix optimization algorithm to MIMO-OFDM based system, which is the dominant air interface for the latest 4G and 5G broadband wireless communications. …”
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Engineered Hybrid Nanoparticles for On-Demand Diagnostics and Therapeutics by Nguyen, Kim Truc, Zhao, Yanli

“…Together with the simultaneous development of nanomaterials and molecular biology, the bionano interface brings about various applications of hybrid nanoparticles in nanomedicine. …”
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Mesenchymal stem cell secretome improves tendon cell viability in vitro and tendon-bone healing in vivo when a tissue engineering strategy is used in a rat model of chronic massive... by Sevivas, Nuno, Teixeira, Fábio Gabriel, Portugal, Raquel, Direito-Santos, Bruno, Espregueira-Mendes, João, Oliveira, Filipe J., Silva, Rui F., Sousa, Nuno, Sow, Wan Ting, Nguyen, Luong T.H., Ng, Kee Woei, Salgado, António J.

“…Purpose: To study the effect of the secretome of mesenchymal stem cells (MSCs) on tendon cells (TCs) followed by the combination of these activated TCs with an electrospun keratin-based scaffold to develop a tissue engineering strategy to improve tendon-bone interface (TBi) healing in a chronic MRCT rat model. …”
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Development of tissue engineering grafts for osteochondral regeneration by Nie, Xiaolei

“…Hence to develop a full-scaled graft with two different phases matching the cartilage and bone respectively and a transition zone in the interface is critical to the success of the field. …”
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Characteristics of neodymium modified borate crystals and glasses grown via polycrystalline seed mediation by Kamaruddin, Wan Hairul Anuar

“…To stabilise the growth rate and achieve a good growth interface, the temperature gradient was gently optimised. …”
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Global wave propagation in three-dimensional aspherical Earth models by Leng, K

“…</p> <p>AxiSEM3D allows for material heterogeneities such as velocity, density, anisotropy and attenuation, as well as for finite undulations on radial discontinuities, both solid-solid and solid-fluid, and thereby a variety of aspherical Earth features such as ellipticity, topography and bathymetry, variable crustal thickness, and core-mantle boundary topography. Such interface undulations are equivalently interpreted as material perturba- tions of the contiguous media, based on the “particle relabelling transfor- mation”. …”

Elephant expedition by Cardoso, A

“…Images were thus classified by >10 000 interested members of the public (citizen scientists) via an interactive web interface (“Elephant Expedition”, created in collaboration with Zooniverse.org, available at https://www.zooniverse.org /projects/anabellecardoso/elephant-expedition). …”

Adaptive optics and remote focusing in biomedical microscopy by Cui, J

“…It was designed with a user-friendly graphic user interface and modular functional units for easy integration into existing AO microscopes. …”

A non-syn-gas catalytic route to methanol production by Wu, CT

“…Following these elementary reactions, the surface oxygen from Fe₃O₄ subsequently converts it to CO₂ selectively at the metal-support interface. As a result, the novel study of catalytic biomass conversion and the discoveries of new catalysts are reported in this thesis.…”

Electrochemistry of platinum nanoparticles by Jiao, X

“…The decrease in activity correlates directly with the potential at which the underpotential deposited hydrogen (H_upd) is removed from the catalytic interface. The contribution of the internal mesoporous nanoparticle structure towards the total particle catalytic activity is further corroborated through comparison of the current-time transients recorded for individual nanoparticles of differing morphology: solid vs mesoporous, and by evidencing the sensitivity of the single particle catalytic activity to the supporting electrolyte concentration.…”

NMR studies of cbEFG-like domains from human fibrillin-1 by Smallridge, R, Rachel Sara Smallridge

“…A model of cbEGF 11-15, created based on structural data for cbEGF 12-13 and a model of cbEGF32-36, has highlighted a potential protein binding interface, which encompasses all known neonatal MFS mutations, as well as a flexible, unstructured loop region of cbEGF 12.…”