Fabrication and characterization of PVDF-based coatings for self-cleaning applications by Wong, Yi Chao

“…Superhydrophobic coating with water contact angle of 151.33° and sliding angle <1° was created using 1:1 volume ratio of APTES solution to 5 wt% silica and 10 wt% PVDF in DMF and FAS solution. …”
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Design of a conformal end-fire array antenna by Wang, Xin Xin

“…The newly proposed ridged SIW horn antenna consists of four layers: (i) ellipse-shaped copper taper with stepped ridge connecting to feed line; (ii) the first substrate layer of Duriod RT 5580 with permittivity of 2.2 and thickness of 0.508 mm; (iii) the second substrate layer of Teflon with permittivity of 2.1 and thickness of 5 mm; (iv) rectangular ground plane. The geometrical parameters of the proposed structure are finalized through EM simulation tool ANSYS. …”
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Design of voltage-controlled oscillators and frequency dividers for 60 GHZ wireless communication applications by Zou, Qiong

“…For the first-stage FD, the injection-locked frequency divider (ILFD) with high division ratio is an attractive solution for mm-wave frequency synthesizers, but normally ILFDs suffer from narrow locking ranges, making them difficult to design for 60 GHz applications. In the thesis, a V-band divide-by-4 ILFD has been proposed. With the special topology involving dual oscillation loops, a wide locking range has been achieved at 60 GHz.…”
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Crosslinked microneedle patch to extract interstitial fluid for diagnosis by Kang, Rong Jie

“…When only the tips of our microneedle contact water in an agarose hydrogel model, it could absorb approximately 1.5 times its original weight in 10min. After extraction of analytes, we could also easily recover the analytes for analysis by centrifugation with DI water. …”
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Social media sentiment enhanced stock market prediction analysis by Tan, Adrian Yong Chang

“…For the implementation of the project, we randomly chose 5 stocks from Standard & Poor (S&P) 500 index via Yahoo Finance and used different learning-based methods to compare performance for both classification and regression problems. …”
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Nanoporous gold nanostructures : morphological design and their energy conversion applications by Yang, Zhe

“…The detailed controllability of NPG coated shape memory polymer movement is systematically studied in chapter 4. In chapter 5, I directly synthesize NPG-molybdenum sulfide hybrid structure by exploiting the photothermal effect to significantly increase localized temperature to initiate reduction of molybdenum sulfide precursors. …”
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Electrochemical scrutinizing techniques on initial development of pseudomonas aeruginosa strain (PAO1) biofilms by Foo, Yu Hao

“…The effect of growth time substrate (0 – 96h), electrode geometry, and concentrations of the mediator Potassium Ferricyanide (0, 1, 5, 10mM) were investigated. Effects of external mechanical stimulation on the biofilm using ultrasound were also studied in a separate experiment. …”
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Effectiveness of decellularisation & extraction of surfactant in porcine oesophagus by Soh, Joe Yi

“…For further analysis to determine the effectiveness of decellularisation, SDS quantification method is used to determine the content of the SDS in the decellularised tissue before extraction of the chemical with distilled water, 1% and 5% ethanol, to ensure that the tissue have minimal or no SDS concentration. …”
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The effect of visual gaze location on sprint start biomechanics by Chan, Michael Yi Wei

“…It was hypothesized that changing an athlete’s VGL would change his SSB. 5 male competitive sprinters were recruited to perform randomly sequenced block start (BS) trials looking at different locations in the set position. …”
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Design Si photonic devices for data centre and telecommunication applications by Vendy, Vicki

“…Some of the parameters are given such as Q-factor > 5k, ER > 10 dB and Free Spectral Range (FSR) = 10nm working at wavelength of 2µm. …”
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Mobile visual product search by Heng, Yann Wu

“…Nowadays we have smartphones with multiple in-built camera modules, smartphones with 5G connectivity, smartphones with storage as big as 1 terabyte and many other very cool features. …”
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Design, fabrication and characterization of integrated electronic devices based on wafer-scale 2D materials by Zhao, Guangchao

“…Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has topped the research subjects due to its excellent electrical and optical properties such as high mobility, high thermal stability, and a moderate band gap around 1.8 eV for monolayer. These properties are crucial to achieve a low static power consumption and high On-Off ratio when applied to fabricate electronic devices. …”
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Continuous treatment of the organic fraction of municipal solid waste in an anaerobic two-stage membrane process with liquid recycle by Trzcinski, A.P., Stuckey, David Campbell

“…The operation was not sustainable below this HRT due to a membrane flux limitation at 0.5–0.8 L/m2 h (LMH), which was linked to the increasing MLTSS. …”
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Piscidin-1-analogs with double L- and D-lysine residues exhibited different conformations in lipopolysaccharide but comparable anti-endotoxin activities by Kumar, Amit, Mahajan, Mukesh, Awasthi, Bhanupriya, Tandon, Anshika, Harioudh, Munesh Kumar, Shree, Sonal, Singh, Pratiksha, Shukla, Praveen Kumar, Ramachandran, Ravishankar, Mitra, Kalyan, Bhattacharjya, Surajit, Ghosh, Jimut Kanti

“…Piscidin-1-analogs demonstrated higher efficacy than piscidin-1 in inhibiting lipopolysaccharide (LPS)-induced pro-inflammatory responses in THP-1 cells. T15,21K-piscidin-1 (0.5 mg/Kg) and T15,21dK-piscidin-1 (1.0 mg/Kg) demonstrated 100% survival of LPS (12.0 mg/Kg)-administered mice. …”
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Interaction Analyses of the Integrin β2 Cytoplasmic Tail with the F3 FERM Domain of Talin and 14-3-3ζ Reveal a Ternary Complex with Phosphorylated Tail by Chatterjee, Deepak, Lu, Lewis Zhiping, Tan, Suet-Mien, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…Residues of the F3 domain of talin belonging to the C-terminal helix, β-strand 5, and the adjacent loop were found to be involved in the binding interactions with β2-CT. …”
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Graphene nanoscroll/nanosheet aerogels with confined SnS 2 nanosheets : simultaneous wrapping and bridging for high-performance lithium-ion battery anodes by Zhang, Youfang, Zhao, Chenyang, Zeng, Zhihui, Ang, Jia Ming, Che, Boyang, Wang, Zhe, Lu, Xuehong

“…As a result, the optimized SnS2/GNA nanocomposite exhibits enhanced electrochemical performance with a high initial reversible capacity (1514.8 mAh g−1 at 0.1 A g−1), excellent rate capacity (665.4 mAh g−1 at 5 A g−1) and good cyclic stability (1050 mA h g-1 at the 50th cycle). …”
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Flood risk analysis under consideration of river system dynamics and spatial temporal scales by Oliver, Julien

“…The frameworks proposed rely on modelling chains, with several or all of the following components: (i) long-term continuous and spatially coherent forcing events, (ii) a probabilistic river channel model, (iii) a stochastic structure failure model, (iv) an efficient inundation modelling strategy, and (v) a probabilistic damage simulation model. The risk modelling frameworks, applied in Nepal and India, highlight the benefits of using more advanced methods to address the complexity of flood hazard and risks dynamics. …”
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A low complexity reconfigurable non-uniform filter bank for channelization in multi-standard wireless communication receivers by Darak, Sumit Jagdish, Vinod, Achutavarrier Prasad, Lai, Edmund Ming-Kit

“…The proposed FB is implemented on Xilinx Virtex 2v3000ff1152-4 FPGA with 16 bit precision. The PC approach and DFTFB are also implemented on the same FPGA with 14 bit precision. …”
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Controlling fibrous capsule formation through long-term down-regulation of collagen type I (COL1A1) expression by nanofiber-mediated siRNA gene silencing by Rujitanaroj, Pim-On, Jao, Brian, Yang, Junghoon, Wang, Feng, Anderson, James M., Wang, Jun, Chew, Sing Yian

“…Scaffold-mediated transfection significantly enhanced cellular uptake of oligonucleotides and prolonged in vitro gene silencing duration by at least 2–3 times as compared to conventional bolus delivery of siRNA (14 days vs. 5–7 days by bolus delivery). In vivo subcutaneous implantation of siRNA scaffolds revealed a significant decrease in fibrous capsule thickness at weeks 2 and 4 as compared to plain nanofibers (p < 0.05). …”
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Predictive validity of the Oxford digital multiple errands test (OxMET) for functional outcomes after stroke by Webb, SS, Demeyere, N

“…Participants were followed up after 6-months and completed the Nottingham Extended Activities of Daily Living (NEADL) scale. 117 participants were recruited (M = 26.18 days post-stroke (SD = 25.16), mean 74.44yrs (SD  = 12.88), median NIHSS 8.32 (IQR = 5-11)). Sixty-six completed a follow-up (M = 73.94yrs (SD  = 12.68), median NIHSS 8 (IQR = 4-11)). …”