New Purification Strategies and Monomer Platforms for Ruthenium-Initiated Living Ring-Opening Metathesis Polymerization by Kilgallon, Landon J.

“…Covalent capture purification—a type of catch-and-release purification—purifies molecules by selectively capturing them (via a covalent bond) onto a solid support, washing away impurities, and cleaving the product from the support for recovery. …”
Get full text

Ocular delivery of predatory bacteria with cryomicroneedles against eye infection by Cui, Mingyue, Zheng, Mengjia, Wiraja, Christian, Chew, Sharon Wan Ting, Mishra, Arti, Mayandi, Venkatesh, Lakshminarayanan, Rajamani, Xu, Chenjie

“…However, there is a lack of suitable methods for the delivery of predatory bacteria into ocular tissue. …”
Get full text

Investigation on frosting and defrosting performance of superhydrophobic metal additively manufactured materials by Yew, Yun Chian

“…To enhance the anti-frosting capabilities of both metal alloys, chemical etching using hydrochloric acid and boehmitization were used as methods to form micro/nanostructures on the surface of the tubes. …”
Get full text

Incremental learning technologies for semantic segmentation by Yang, Yizhuo

“…In addition, other incremental learning technologies - knowledge distillation, replay and parameter freezing are also applied to the proposed method to further assist the model in overcoming catastrophic forgetting. …”
Get full text

Nonequilibrium hyperuniform fluids by Lei, Yusheng

“…In Chapter 4, we explore the discontinuous freezing transition in barrier-controlled nonequilibrium reactive particle systems by molecular dynamics simulations. …”
Get full text

A facile alternative strategy of upcycling mixed plastic waste into vitrimers by Ng, Joseph Kok Wei, Lim, Jacob Song Kiat, Gupta, Nupur, Dong, Bing Xue, Hu, Chun Po, Hu, Jingdan, Hu, Xiao

“…Consequently, we have clearly demonstrated the applicability of the above method to upcycle mixed plastic wastes into vitrimers and reprocessable composites. …”
Get full text

Novel plant-derived macroporous scaffolds by Mohammed Shahrudin Ibrahim

“…The ability of pollen microgels to form 3D porous sponges via freeze-drying and the various factors that influence the sponge characteristics were investigated. …”
Get full text

0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…To extend this approach to our 0-1 setting, we use a novel pruning method, as well as the two-level color-coding of Bringmann (2017) and the SMAWK algorithm on tall matrices.…”
Get full text

Cryogelation of human hair keratins by Chua, Huei Min

“…Nonetheless, conventional methods to translate HHK proteins into meaningful three-dimensional (3D) constructs often require chemical modifications or cross-linking additives. …”
Get full text

Efficient techniques for subgraph mining and query processing by Lin, Wenqing

“…Based on our analysis, we develop a GPU-based solution that (i) drastically differs from existing CPU-based methods, and (ii) exploits the strengths of GPUs in terms of parallelism while mitigating their limitations in terms of the computation power per GPU core. …”
Get full text

Urine osmolality assessment through the integration of urea hydrolysis and impedance measurement by Kong, Tian Fook, Shen, Xinhui, Sim, Mei Yi, Yong, Jin, Ng, Tze Kiat, Chong, Tsung Wen, Marcos

“…The urine osmolality of a urine sample can be estimated by determining the concentrations of the conductive solutes and urea, which make up approximately 94% of the urine composition. Our method utilizes impedance measurements to determine the conductive solutes and urea after hydrolysis with urease enzyme. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Multi-objective optimization design and performance evaluation of a novel multi-stream intermediate fluid vaporizer with cold energy recovery by Wang, Zhe, Cai, Wenjian, Hong, Wei, Shen, Suping, Yang, Huizhu, Han, Fenghui

“…In this ingenious design, the self-evaporating gas of cryogenic liquid is adopted as the intermediate medium of IFV so that the equipment freezing can be effectively avoided under large flow conditions. …”
Get full text

Efficient algorithms for subgraph counting and enumeration on large graphs by Wang, Kaixin

“…This hybrid strategy enables more efficient pruning of sub-branches, resulting in a worst-case time complexity of O(m\delta + m\tau 3^(\tau/3)), where \tau is related to the maximum truss number. …”
Get full text

Graphene-based electrodes by Huang, Xiao, Zeng, Zhiyuan, Fan, Zhanxi, Liu, Juqing, Zhang, Hua

“…In this Review, after a short introduction to the properties and synthetic methods of graphene and its derivatives, we will discuss the importance of graphene-based electrodes, their fabrication techniques, and application areas.…”
Get full text
Get full text

Learning class-specific edges for object detection and segmentation by Prasad, M, Zisserman, A, Fitzgibbon, A, Kumar, MP, Torr, PHS

“…This classifier may then be used to prune edges which are not relevant to the object class, and thereby improve the performance of subsequent processing. …”

Okara extract as a potential platform for micronutrients encapsulation in food fortification by Theniko, Nasya Martin

“…The efficacy of extraction process was investigated in varying acidic/alkaline conditions, followed by two different drying methods; freeze-drying and spray-drying. The extracts were tested with FTIR, TGA, DSC, and SEM analysis for material characterization and the extracts were then used to encapsulate β-carotene. …”
Get full text

Recent microencapsulation trends for enhancing the stability and functionality of anthocyanins: a review by Ijod, Giroon, Mohamed Nawawi, Nur Izzati, Anwar, Farooq, Abd Rahim, Muhamad Hafiz, Ismail-Fitry, Mohammad Rashedi, Mohd Adzahan, Noranizan, Mohamad Azman, Ezzat

“…This review also covers functional food and nutraceutical applications and introduces novel encapsulation methods, such as freeze-drying, supercritical carbon dioxide (SC-CO2), coacervation, drum drying, and electrospraying, highlighting their potential in improving the utility of ACNs-rich fruit extracts.…”

Synthesis of Isotopically Labeled Fe and S-alkylated Iron-Sulfur Clusters by Linn, Brittany

“…Our group has established reliable methods of synthesizing alkylated [Fe₄S₄] clusters that can serve as models of organometallic intermediates in RS enzyme catalysis. …”
Get full text

Zanthoxylum bungeanum essential oil induces apoptosis of HaCaT human keratinocytes by Li, K, Zhou, R, Wang Jia, W, Li, Z, Li, J, Zhang, P, Xiao, T

“…Furthermore, western blot analysis revealed that the ZBEO increased expression of cleaved caspase-8/9/3, PARP, and Bax, decreased Bcl-2 levels. …”

Renal-clearable molecular probe for near-infrared fluorescence imaging and urinalysis of SARS-CoV-2 by Liew, Si Si, Zeng, Ziling, Cheng, Penghui, He, Shasha, Zhang, Chi, Pu, Kanyi

“…Despite the importance of rapid and accurate detection of SARS-CoV-2 in controlling the COVID-19 pandemic, current diagnostic methods are static and unable to distinguish between viable/nonviable virus or directly reflect viral replication activity. …”
Get full text