Aqueous-only exfoliation of pristine graphite to graphene : towards sustainable, multifunctional polymer nanocomposites by Seyed Ismail Seyed Shahabadi

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Rheology on CNT-filled polymer nanocomposites (II) by Chan, Xue Shuang.

“…The gel point (Cg) value for pristine MWCNTs/PP-g-MA/PP and acid treated MWCNTs/PP-g-MA/PP was 2.0 wt% and 1.5 wt% respectively.…”
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Recycling of thermoplastics composites by Lee, Ian Zi Feng

“…As for chemical recycling, formic acid was used to successfully recover CF and PA6 from pristine CFPA6 laminate composite. Chemically recycled CFPA6 was manufactured to compare the average maximum flexural stress against pristine CFPA6 laminate composite by flexural tests. …”
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Synthesis of iron oxide nanorods for solar water oxidation by Ng, Russell Chee Hao

“…RHE. Pristine hematite films were subjected to a regrowth strategy with different hydrothermal synthesis durations followed by annealing under the similar condition as that for pristine. …”
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Sensor to detect volatile organic compounds emitted by plants by Nivasini

“…Both the pristine MXene sensor and the TMPS MXene sensor showed excellent gas sensing performance. …”
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Image retrieval with deep learning by Tan, Joe Chin Yong

“…The features of the pristine image database are first extracted, then retrieval is performed using pristine query images to the database to attain the baseline mean average precision (mAP). …”
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Functionalizing bullfrog skin collagen for wound healing by Foo, Laura Li-En

“…Methylated and succinylated collagen had much higher denaturation temperatures compared to pristine collagen, hence indicating a better thermal stability. …”
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Graphene-based TiO₂ cement composites to enhance the antibacterial effect of self-disinfecting surfaces by Hamdany, Abdul Halim, Ding, Yuanzhao, Qian, Shunzhi

“…GO-P25 could adsorb around 60% of the initial dye, while less than 10% of the initial dye was adsorbed by pristine TiO2-P25. The synthesized graphene-based TiO2 significantly enhanced the dye degradation activity (94%) compared to pristine P25 (36%) and Krono (52%), even with the longer irradiation time for P25 and Krono. …”
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Additive strategies to mitigate humidity interference effects on PEDOT:PSS sensors for ammonia detection by Beniwal, Ajay, Ganguly, Priyanka, Khandelwal, Gaurav, Gond, Rahul, Rawat, Brajesh, Li, Chong

“…This was a marked improvement over the pristine PEDOT:PSS sensor, which recorded 118.5% at the same humidity level, and outperformed other additive variants. …”
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Polypyrrole nanorod networks/carbon nanoparticles composite counter electrodes for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells by Peng, Shengjie, Tian, Lingling, Liang, Jing, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…Under standard AM 1.5 sunlight illumination, the dye-sensitized solar cell based on the PPy/C composite with 10% carbon content as the counter electrode demonstrates a high efficiency of 7.2%, which is much higher than that of pristine PPy and carbon electrode-based DSCs and comparable to that of the thermal decomposed Pt-based DSC.…”
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Effect of polyvinylpyrrolidone additive in the substrate of thin-film composite forward osmosis polyvinylidene fluoride membrane on neodymium rejection by Yeoh, Yuan Xin, Mazrul Nizam, Abu Seman, Mohd Yusri, Mohd Yunus, Abdul Wahab, Mohammad, Nurul Ain, Ismail

“…All TFC membranes except pristine PVDF membranes were able to reject neodymium higher than 94 %. …”
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Green synthesis of robust superhydrophobic antibacterial and UV‐blocking cotton fabrics by a dual‐stage silanization approach by Agrawal, Neha, Tan, Jasmine Si Jia, Low, Pearlie Sijia, Fong, Eileen Wen Mei, Lai, Yuekun, Chen, Zhong

“…Aminopropyltriethoxysilane is utilized as a silane cross-linker to anchor zinc oxide nanoparticles to the pristine cotton fabric surface, followed by modification with a silane hydrophobe, hexadecyltrimethoxysilane. …”
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Mxene titanium carbide-based biosensor : strong dependence of exfoliation method on performance by Chia, Hui Ling, Mayorga-Martinez, Carmen C., Antonatos, Nikolas, Sofer, Zdeněk, Gonzalez-Julian, Jesus J., Webster, Richard David, Pumera, Martin

“…Herein, we demonstrated the successful incorporation of pristine MXene, Ti₃C₂ produced via HF etching and subsequent delamination with TBAOH, as a transducer platform toward the development of a second generation electrochemical glucose biosensor. …”
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Multi-metal oxide catalyst for electrochemical water oxidation by Phang, Yi Fei

“…Our work provides systematic study for the optimization of pristine- and Mo-doped-spinel oxides to achieve high catalytic activity. …”
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Polypyrrole/multi-walled carbon nanotube based nanocomposites as electrode materials for supercapacitors applications by Ng, Daniel Hoe Zhiat.

“…Hence this report was written about the electrochemical and thermal performance of polypyrrole/acid-functionalized multi-walled carbon nanotubes composite electrode material in comparison with pristine polypyrrole and polypyrrole /MWCNTs composite.…”
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Investigation of far infrared emission and UV protection properties of polypropylene composites embedded with candlenut-derived biochar for health textiles by Low, Rayland Jun Yan, He, Pengfei, Junianto, Qiu, Ningyu, Ong, Amanda Jiamin, Choo, Hong Han, Manik, Yosia Gopas Oetama, Siburian, Rikson, Goei, Ronn, Burns, Stephen F., Tok, Alfred Iing Yoong, Lipik, Vitali, Chang, Boon Peng

“…Incorporating 2 wt% biochar resulted in a 3.3-fold higher temperature increase compared to pristine PP after 30 s of exposure to an FIR source, demonstrating improved heat retention. …”
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Nanoscale current spreading analysis in solution-processed graphene oxide/silver nanowire transparent electrodes via conductive atomic force microscopy by Shaw, Joseph E., Perumal, Ajay, Bradley, Donal D. C., Stavrinou, Paul N., Anthopoulos, Thomas D.

“…We use conductive atomic force microscopy (CAFM) to study the origin of long-range conductivity in model transparent conductive electrodes composed of networks of reduced graphene oxide (rGOX) and silver nanowires (AgNWs), with nanoscale spatial resolution. Pristine networks of rGOX (1–3 monolayers-thick) and AgNWs exhibit sheet resistances of ∼100–1000 kΩ/□ and 100–900 Ω/□, respectively. …”
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Effect of dopant solubility and excess doping on the superconducting properties of doped Nb3Sn prepared by field assisted sintering technique by Srivastava, N, Matthews, GAB, Liu, J, Speller, SC, Grovenor, CRM, Santra, S

“…Ru-doped Nb₃Sn alloys also exhibit an increase in J_c compared to pristine Nb₃Sn, but only in concentrations up to 0.5 wt% Ru. …”

Moral pornography : towards a critique of human relations in the culture industries of art and pornography. by Yong, Faith Hui Cher.

“…However, beneath the artificiality of Austria as the land of music and pristine beauty, lies the reality of violence in human and sexual relations. …”
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In-situ infrared spectroscopy studies of surface reactions over irradiated photocatalysts by Gong, Dangguo

“…Just as in DRIFTS (vide ultra), development of charge carrier absorption in the pristine photocatalyst was also seen in ATR-FTIR and served as a marker of O2 depletion during photo-degradation experiments. …”
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