Critical analysis of the role of biodegradable polymeric scaffolds in differentiation of human embryonic stem cell into cardiomyocytes by Amritamayee Sahoo

“…Congestive heart failure is a widespread problem throughout the world. Owing to the shortage of donors there has been a constant quest to find alternatives to organ transplant. …”
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Evolutionary and ecological insights from Cytinus: a plant within a plant by de Vega, C, Thorogood, CJ, Albaladejo, RG, Rakotonasolo, F, Hobbhahn, N, Martos, F, Burgoyne, PM, Johnson, SD

“…Cytinus species are externally invisible for most of their life, emerging from their hosts only to flower and set seed. Owing to this cryptic life cycle, the genus is poorly understood and is likely to include several hitherto undescribed species, particularly in threatened forest habitat in Madagascar. …”

Immobilization of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase on electrospun polyvinyl alcohol nanofibers by Saallah, Suryani

“…The use of nanofibers as support material is favorable owing to their high porosity and interconnectivity and can be easily recovered and reuse. …”
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Ultrafast diffusive cross-sheet motion of lithium through antimonene with a 2+1 dimensional kinetics by Kistanov, Andrey A., Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Cai, Yongqing, Dmitriev, Sergey V., Zhou, Kun, Zhang, Yong-Wei

“…Layered two-dimensional (2D) materials like graphene are highly appealing for lithium battery applications owing to their high surface–volume ratios. However, a critical issue that limits their practical applications is the confined motion of lithium atoms within their van der Waals gaps, which is the leading cause for battery failure due to severe clustering and phase separation. …”
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FPGA implementation of back propagation neural network by Li, Jianing

“…The FPGA can achieve a much shorter training time owing to architecture advantage and computation data type simplification. …”
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The treatment of malaria in pregnancy by Nosten, F, McGready, R

“…Antimalarial recommendations commonly exclude use in pregnant women owing to concerns about fetal toxicity. In uncomplicated Plasmodium falciparum infections, the objective of treatment is to eradicate parasitemia, and the available drugs include chloroquine, amodiaquine, sulfadoxinepyrimethamine, quinine, chlorproguanil-dapsone, mefloquine and the artemisinin derivatives. …”

Sporopollenin-inspired design and synthesis of robust polymeric materials by Glinkerman, Christopher M, Lin, Shaoting, Ni, Jiahua, Li, Fu-Shuang, Zhao, Xuanhe, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…Recent investigation of the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin revealed unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages distinct from other previously known biopolymers, which could be harnessed for new material design. …”
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Towards in-situ texture analysis during LPBF: optical microscopy and texture control by Wang, Xiaogang

“…Laser-powder bed fusion (L-PBF) is one of the most popular metal additive manufacturing technologies owing to its high production rate and high dimensional accuracy. …”
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Synthesis of noble metal-based nanocomposites for enhanced catalytic performance by Liu, Ye

“…In recent decades, it was found that noble metal nanostructures exhibit superior catalytic performance than their bulk counterpart owing to the high surface-to-volume ratio. However, it is challenging for single-component nanomaterials to achieve multiple goals such as catalytic activity, selectivity and stability. …”
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Island area and remoteness shape plant and soil bacterial diversity through land use and biological invasion by Xu, Mingshan, Yang, Anna, Yang, Xiaodong, Cao, Wenting, Zhang, Zengke, Li, Zengyan, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Huaguo, You, Wenhui, Yan, En-Rong, Wardle, David A.

“…However, land use intensity increased with island area which also promoted plant diversity, and loss of pine forest by the pinewood nematode invasion increased with island remoteness which reduced plant diversity. …”
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Application of large language models in medicine by Liu, F, Zhou, H, Gu, B, Zou, X, Huang, J, Wu, J, Li, Y, Chen, SS, Hua, Y, Zhou, P, Liu, J, Mao, C, You, C, Wu, X, Zheng, Y, Clifton, L, Li, Z, Luo, J, Clifton, DA

“…Large language models (LLMs), such as ChatGPT, have received great attention owing to their capabilities for understanding and generating human language. …”

Amorphous high-entropy phosphide nanosheets with multi-atom catalytic sites for efficient oxygen evolution by Li, Xiumin, Xie, Zhengkun, Roy, Soumyabrata, Gao, Longqing, Liu, Jie, Zhao, Bing, Wei, Ran, Tang, Bijun, Wang, Hongyan, Ajayan, Pulickel, Tang, Keyong

“…Furthermore, Fe and Ni/Co sites prefer to stabilize the HO* and HOO* intermediates respectively, conducive to breaking their scaling relation of Gibbs free energy during OER. Owing to its fine-tuned composition and the synergistic effect of multiple active sites, the FeCoNiCuYP/C electrocatalyst demonstrates superior OER performance in alkaline solutions, requiring a mere 316 mV overpotential to yield 100 mA cm-2 current density with excellent stability. …”
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Long-range Genomics Benchmark Technology and More by Polen, McKinley

“…The transformer architecture has emerged as a popular choice in various domains, owing to its ability to capture long-range dependencies and parallel processing capabilities. …”
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Synthesis and characterization of graphene oxide and graphene nanosheet by He, Yuan Qi

“…Graphene, a single layer of graphite, has attracted tremendous interest from the scientific community owing to its remarkable properties, which make it an attractive candidate for many potential applications in the research field of electronics as well as power engineering. …”
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Novel modulo multipliers for moduli 2^n-1, 2^n and 2^n+1. by Ramya Muralidharan

“…Residue Number System (RNS) has emerged as a promising alternative number representation for the design of faster and low power multipliers owing to its merit to distribute a long integer multiplication into several shorter and parallel modulo multiplications. …”
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Design of a low dropout voltage regulator (ldo) for wireless sensor nodes by Lee, Hong Ze

“…It is independent of temperature owing to the embedded voltage reference derived from a bandgap circuit in current mode. …”
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Stable and low-threshold optical gain in CdSe/CdS quantum dots : an all-colloidal frequency up-converted laser by Guzelturk, Burak, Kelestemur, Yusuf, Gungor, Kivanc, Yeltik, Aydan, Akgul, Mehmet Zafer, Wang, Yue, Chen, Rui, Dang, Cuong, Sun, Handong, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…An all-solution processed and all-colloidal laser is demonstrated using tailored CdSe/CdS core/shell quantum dots, which exhibit highly stable and low-threshold optical gain owing to substantially suppressed non-radiative Auger recombination.…”
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Magnetic control: Switchable ultrahigh magnetic gradients at Fe3O4 nanoparticles to enhance solution-phase mass transport by Ngamchuea, K, Tschulik, K, Compton, RG

“…Using the Fe(III)/Fe(II)-hexacyanoferrate redox couple, it is demonstrated that this mass transport enhancement can conveniently and repeatedly be switched on and off by applying and removing an external magnetic field, owing to the superparamagnetic properties of magnetite nanoparticles. …”

Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…The remarkable achievements in transparent and flexible electrodes have raised widespread interest in research groups in flexible electronics, owing to their low-cost fabrication, easy scale-up, and unique properties. …”
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Solution processed transition metal oxides selective contacts for Si heterojunction solar cells by Lu, Chenjin

“…The performance of the s-WOx/Si HSCs lower owing to the smaller Voc because of the lower work function of only 4.71 eV in the s-WOx thin films. …”
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