Fiber optic technique for determination of moisture content in honey by Mohamad Ibrahim, Nursakinah

“…The actual moisture content was found from standard oven drying method. Moisture content of fresh honey was approximately 14.3%. …”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…A three-dimensional numerical model was built combining the Volume of Fraction (VOF) method and the leaky dielectric model, which reveals the droplet formation mechanism under the effects of an electric field. …”
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Non-invasive estimation of the powder size distribution from a single speckle image by Zhang, Qihang, Pandit, Ajinkya, Liu, Zhiguang, Guo, Zhen, Muddu, Shashank, Wei, Yi, Pereg, Deborah, Nazemifard, Neda, Papageorgiou, Charles, Yang, Yihui, Tang, Wenlong, Braatz, Richard D, Myerson, Allan S, Barbastathis, George

“…Almost real-time operation in our system is not only more appealing toward rapid industrial adoption, it also paves the way for quantitative characterization of complex spatial or temporal dynamics in drying, blending, and other chemical and pharmaceutical manufacturing processes.…”
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Design of generator power control system for real time application by Hay, Weilin

“…The development of the current and speed controllers using PI tuning were done in order to control the quadrature current while fixing the direct current as zero. …”
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Deep reinforcement learning for optimal resource allocation by Ng, Steffi Si Yu

“…In addition, this project will practice parameter tuning methods on the algorithm to obtain a parameter set that can achieve the most optimal result.…”
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Mechanistic investigation of electrostatic field-enhanced water evaporation by Fei, Jipeng, Ding, Bin, Koh, See Wee, Ge, Junyu, Wang, Xingli, Lee, Liquan, Sun, Zixu, Yao, Mengqi, Chen, Yonghao, Gao, Huajian, Li, Hong

“…Similar to a catalyst lowing activation energy and enhancing kinetics of a chemical reaction, the EEF enhances water state tuning, lowers evaporation enthalpy, and then boosts steam generation rate with negligible additional energy consumption, which can serve as a generic method for water evaporation enhancement in water harvesting, purification, and beyond.…”
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Exploring the potential benefits of using metasurface for galloping energy harvesting by Wang, Junlei, Sun, Shaokang, Hu, Guobiao, Yang, Yaowen, Tang, Lihua, Li, Pan, Zhang, Guojie

“…The theoretical model is validated by the experimental results. The analytical method and three-dimensional CFD simulation are combined to predict the dynamic responses of the metasurface-wrapped GPEHs. …”
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Morphology engineering in monolayer MoS2‐WS2 lateral heterostructures by Zhou, Jiadong, Tang, Bijun, Lin, Junhao, Lv, Danhui, Shi, Jia, Sun, Linfeng, Zeng, Qingsheng, Niu, Lin, Liu, Fucai, Wang, Xiaowei, Liu, Xinfeng, Suenaga, Kazu, Jin, Chuanhong, Liu, Zheng

“…Atomically thin TMD heterostructures, such as MoS2‐WS2, MoS2‐MoSe2, MoS2‐WSe2, and WSe2‐WS2, are synthesized so far via chemical vapor deposition (CVD) method. Engineering the morphology of domains including size and shape, however, still remains challenging. …”
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Microplastics leaching from baby products by Heng, Serene Hwee Fen

“…The soaking and filtration method was standardized during the study. Nile Red (NR) was used as a staining agent to identify microplastics under confocal and fluorescence microscope. …”
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Estimation for the single-index models with random effects by Pang, Zhen., Xue, Liugen.

“…Simulations show that our methods work well for high-dimensional p.…”
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Optical and core-level X-ray spectroscopy of correlated two-dimensional materials by Occhialini, Connor Alexander

“…This requires detailed knowledge of the microscopic interactions/excitation spectra, methods to disentangle the individual roles of coexistent orders, and selective probes of symmetry-breaking within different coupled degrees of freedom. …”
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Ultralight and Highly Elastic Graphene/Lignin-Derived Carbon Nanocomposite Aerogels with Ultrahigh Electromagnetic Interference Shielding Performance by Zhang, Youfang, Wang, Peiyu, Pei, Yongmao, Chen, Mingji, Lu, Xuehong, Zeng, Zhihui, Wang, Changxian, Seyed Shahabadi, Seyed Ismail

“…Ultralight and highly elastic reduced graphene oxide (RGO)/lignin-derived carbon (LDC) composite aerogels with aligned micron-sized pores and cell walls are prepared using a facile freeze-drying method. The presence of a small fraction of LDC in the cell walls enhances the interfacial polarization effect while almost maintaining the amount of charge carriers and conductivity of the cell walls, greatly boosting the wave absorption capability of the cell walls. …”
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Synthesis of Au@Pd core/shell nanomaterials for high-performance ethanol oxidation reactions by Xu, Weichang

“…In Chapter Three, one convenient and effective deposition method for the coating of Pd overlayer on Au surface was realized by mimicking the primary cell in the 10 mM PdCl2 deposition solution. …”
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Synthesis of metal nanomaterials with unconventional crystal phases and their applications in electrocatalysis by Liu, Jiawei

“…This method can be further extended to synthesize ternary PdCuSn nanorods with the unconventional L12 phase. …”
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Lattice strain and atomic replacement of CoO₆ octahedra in layered sodium cobalt oxide for boosted water oxidation electrocatalysis by Sun, Lan, Dai, Zhengfei, Zhong, Lixiang, Zhao, Yiwei, Cheng, Yan, Chong, Shaokun, Chen, Guanjun, Yan, Chunshuang, Zhang, Xiaoyu, Tan, Huiteng, Zhang, Long, Dinh, Khang Ngoc, Li, Shuzhou, Ma, Fei, Yan, Qingyu

“…In this work, electrochemical desodiation tuning method is explored on intralayer Ag, Cu, Ce-doped Na0.7CoO2 for highly active OER catalysts. …”
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Carbene-based bioadhesive blended with amine, thiol, and acrylate liquid additives by Ellis, Elizabeth, Djordjevic, Ivan, Muhammad Naziruddin Bin Mohd Ali, Steele, Terry W. J.

“…Light activated carbenes provide a unique method of non-specific covalent bond formation needed in bioadhesives and rapid gelation. …”
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Placing objects in context via inpainting for out-of-distribution segmentation by De Jorge, P, Volpi, R, Dokania, PK, Torr, PHS, Rogez, G

“…In our experiments, we present different anomaly segmentation datasets based on POC-generated data and show that POC can improve the performance of recent state-of-the-art anomaly fine-tuning methods across several standardized benchmarks. …”

Tunable three dimensional scaffolds for tissue engineering applications by Loh, Qiu Li.

“…Subsequently, novel tunable alginate scaffold fabrication methods were investigated to contribute to current efforts directed at the development of cell-instructive scaffolds. …”
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Fake news detection using title, URL and tweet and retweet by Ang, Bryan Yi Heng

“…The study harnessed numerous machine learning algorithms, which were refined through hyperparameter tuning, feature engineering, and the use of ensemble methods to boost the predictive accuracy of the model. …”
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Dynamics in blue emitting metal halide perovskites for light emitting diodes by Karlsson, Max

“…This is due to highly desirable optoelectronic properties combined with low-cost, solution-processable fabrication methods. Simple bandgap-tunability is easily achieved by compositional and dimensional engineering, allowing perovskite emission to span a broad wavelength region from ultraviolet to near infrared. …”
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