Mobile app to play team-building games by Liao, Qian Ping

“…In efforts to promote bonding between employees, many organisations engage trainers to conduct team-building workshops, where participants carry out physical collaborative activities with common goals to achieve intended results. …”
Get full text

Enhanced interphase between epoxy matrix and carbon fiber with carbon nanotube-modified silane coating by Yu, Bin, Jiang, Zhenyu, Tang, Xiu-Zhi, Yue, Chee Yoon, Yang, Jinglei

“…Multiwalled carbon nanotubes are incorporated into the silane coating on fiber surface to enhance the interfacial bonding of carbon fiber reinforced epoxy composite. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Unexpected right-handed helical nanostructures co-assembled from l -phenylalanine derivatives and achiral bipyridines by Liu, Guofeng, Liu, Jinying, Feng, Chuanliang, Zhao, Yanli

“…Herein, we report that achiral bipyridines can co-assemble with L-phenylalanine derivatives into unexpected right-handed helical nanostructures rather than a left-handed helix via intermolecular hydrogen bonding interactions formed between the pyridyl and carboxylic groups. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Preface : two dimensional (2D) hybrid organic-inorganic perovskites by Li, Wei, Docampo, Pablo, Mohite, Aditya D., Zhang, Hua

“…On the other hand, the delicate interplay of multiple atomic bonding forces in the crystal lattice enables them to exhibit extraordinary properties that traditional inorganic 2D materials are unable to show. …”
Get full text
Get full text

An imine-based approach to prepare amine-functionalized Janus gold nanoparticles by Ang, Chung Yen, Nguyen, Kim Truc, Li, Menghuan, Zhao, Yanli, Wu, Shaojue, Tan, Si Yu

“…This unique technique features covalent bonding as the force to immobilize AuNPs on the template, enabling direct modification of AuNPs in both water and organic solvents. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Structural and electronic features enabling delocalized charge-carriers in CuSbSe 2 by Fu, Y, Lohan, H, Righetto, M, Huang, Y, Kavanagh, SR, Cho, C, Zelewski, SJ, Woo, YW, Demetriou, H, McLachlan, MA, Heutz, S, Piot, BA, Scanlon, DO, Rao, A, Herz, LM, Walsh, A, Hoye, RLZ

“…Using a combination of theory and experiment, the critical enabling factors are found to be: 1) having a layered structure, which allows distortions to the unit cell during the propagation of an acoustic wave to be relaxed in the interlayer gaps, with minimal changes in bond length, thus limiting deformation potentials; 2) favourable quasi-bonding interactions across the interlayer gap giving rise to higher electronic dimensionality; 3) Born effective charges not being anomalously high, which, combined with the small bandgap (≤1.2 eV), result in a low ionic contribution to the dielectric constant compared to the electronic contribution, thus reducing the strength of Fröhlich coupling. …”

Protein interaction studies of crosslinked endolevanase aggregates from Bacillus lehensis G1 by Makki, Hotaf Hassan, Jaafar, Nardiah Rizwana, A. Rahman, Roshanida, Rahmat, Zaidah, Ni Nyoman Tri Puspaningsih, Ni Nyoman Tri Puspaningsih, Md. Illias, Rosli

“…Due to the distanced bonding of dextran from the active site, rlevblg1 cross-linked with dextran (rlevblg1-dexCLEAs) exhibited the highest binding affinity (− 7.1 kcal/mol) and activity recovery compared to six other cross-linkers. …”
Get full text

Determination of solubility parameters of ionic liquids and ionic liquid/solvent mixtures from intrinsic viscosity by Weerachanchai, Piyarat, Wong, Yuewen, Lim, Kok Hwa, Tan, Timothy Thatt Yang, Lee, Jong-Min

“…The total and partial solubility parameters (dispersion, polar and hydrogen-bonding solubility parameters) of ten ionic liquids were determined. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Vinyl sulfone functionalized injectable thermogels for facile peptide coupling by Oei, John Xin Jian

“…Rheological measurements of the DVS conjugated thermogel revealed a lowered gelation temperature, potentially increasing the biocompatibility by decreasing the polymer loading needed for gel formation. Lastly, the thiol bonding ability was demonstrated by conjugating a model thiol containing peptide to the DVS incorporated thermogel. …”
Get full text

Anisotropic conductive adhesive for micro joining in semiconductor interconnects application (solder alternative for fine pitch & environment friendly IC packaging) by Goh, Chin Foo

“…m bump pitch and substrate pad, determined by the amount of pressure applied during the bonding process, has a great influence on the contact resistance of the ACA joints. …”
Get full text

The weak π − π interaction originated resonant tunneling and fast switching in the carbon based electronic devices by He, Jun, Chen, Ke-Qiu, Sun, Changqing

“…Compared to the solid bonding, the weak interaction is found to induce resonant tunneling, which is responsible for the fast response to the applied electric field and hence the velocity of switching.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Micro-DSC, rheological and NMR investigations of the gelation of gallic acid and xyloglucan by Hirun, Namon, Bao, Hongqian, Li, Lin, Deen, Gulam Roshan, Tantishaiyakul, Vimon

“…A low temperature induced intermolecular aggregation of TSX via hydrogen bonds between GA and TSX, leading to the formation of a gel network. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Development of binderless particleboard from kenaf core using steam-injection pressing by Xu, Jianying, Han, Guangping, Wong, E.D., Kawai, Shuichi

“…The properties [i.e., moduli of rupture (MOR) and elasticity (MOE) in both dry and wet conditions, internal bonding strength (IB), and water absorption (WA)] of the boards increased linearly with increasing board density. …”
Get full text

Mechanical Properties of Sustainable Mesocarp Fibre Reinforced Lightweight Foamed Concrete by Anak Pirah, Jeffery, Othuman Mydin, Md Azree, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun

“…Because a coarser surface allows mesocarp fibre and matrix interlocking in the cured cement matrix, the surface roughness of the mesocarp has been shown to be favourable for fibre-to-matrix interfacial bonding. According to the findings of this investigation, for a density of 700 kg/m3, 0.4% volume fraction was the optimum quantity of foamed concrete applied to obtain the ideal mechanical properties while 0.6% of mesocarp was optimal for 1400 kg/m3…”
Get full text

Static and cyclic behavior of steel beams retrofitted with fiber reinforced polymer laminates by Yu, Yi

“…The bond failure model can be incorporated into numerical modeling to simulate the static behavior of FRP strengthened steel beams with bond failure process. …”
Get full text

Bio-functional collagen/casein/chitosan scaffolds regulated porous TFC membrane for acid recovery by Xiao, Pei, Li, Xin, Li, Lei, Liu, Fei, Wang, Yi (Alex), Li, Jian

“…The electrostatic interactions and hydrogen bonding of these biopolymers endowed the TFC membrane with enhanced stability. …”
Get full text

Toughening two dimensional materials through lattice disorder by Xie, Wenhui, Zhang, Xibei, Wei, Yujie, Gao, Huajian

“…Carbon-based two-dimensional (2D) materials, with graphene being the most prominent example, are some of the strongest materials existing today due to their covalent bonding but at the same time also the most fragile, with fracture toughness close to that of an ideally brittle solid, due to their intrinsic lack of effective dissipation mechanisms. …”
Get full text

3D printing of a metal material on another dissimilar metal base by Tian, Jinmiao

“…However, the thermal incompatibility during the material melting, cooling, and solidification stages gives rise to the formation of pores, cracks, brittle intermediate phases, and other defects in the fabricated components, leading to a degradation in bonding quality. So, in this context, how to successfully fabricate components using additive manufacturing techniques to melt and fuse a metal alloy onto a dissimilar metal alloy has become a key research aspect in this field. …”
Get full text

Recognition of A-U and U-A base pairs in RNA duplexes by modified peptide nucleic acids by Yuan, Zhen

“…We tested various modified bases derived from thymine to probe how the hydrogen bonding (acidity of the N3 atom) and base stacking may affect the recognition of an A-U pair by PNA-RNA2 triplex formation. …”
Get full text

The potential of UHP and waterjets for additive manufacturing by Mohamed, Hashish

“…Texturing for adhesive bonding using plain waterjets proved to be more advantageous than grit blasting.…”
Get full text
Get full text