Fabrication of 3D mesoporous networks of assembled CoO nanoparticles for efficient photocatalytic reduction of aqueous Cr(VI) by Velegraki, Georgia, Miao, Jianwei, Drivas, Charalampos, Liu, Bin, Kennou, Stella, Armatas, Gerasimos S.

“…Synthesis of high-performance and cyclic stable photocatalysts has been remaining a significant challenge. In this work, we report the synthesis of high-surface-area mesoporous networks of CoO NPs through a polymer-templating self-assembly method and demonstrate their potential application in the reductive detoxification of aqueous Cr(VI) solutions under UV and visible light irradiation. …”
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Fiber asymmetric supercapacitor based on FeOOH/PPy on carbon fibers as anode electrode with high volumetric energy density for wearable applications by Gong, Xuefei, Li, Shaohui, Lee, Pooi See

“…Hence, the porous anode electrode FeOOH/PPy@CF has been firstly prepared with a high volumetric capacitance of 30.17 F cm-3, contributing to a high volumetric energy density of 2 mWh cm-3 (based on the whole encapsulated device) for a fiber asymmetric supercapacitor MnO2@CF//FeOOH/PPy@CF in PVA/LiCl. …”
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Design and in vitro release study of siRNA loaded Layer by Layer nanoparticles with sustained gene silencing effect by Tan, Yang Fei, Lee, Ying Shi, Seet, Li-Fong, Ng, Kee Woei, Wong, Tina T., Venkatraman, Subbu

“…Objectives: Clinical translation of siRNA therapeutics has been severely limited due to the lack of stable and sustained siRNA delivery systems. …”
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Stainless steel channel sections under combined compression and minor axis bending – part 2 : parametric studies and design by Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou, Long, Yue-ling, Gardner, Leroy

“…The test data and numerical results have been carefully analysed to develop a comprehensive understanding of the structural performance of stainless steel channel sections under combined compression and minor axis bending moment, and to assess the accuracy of the existing design provisions in Europe and North America. …”
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Multiple hollow-core anti-resonant fiber as a supermodal fiber interferometer by Huang, Xiaosheng, Zang, Jichao, Yoo, Seongwoo

“…Unique combination of the air guidance and the supermodal interaction offers robust, simple yet highly sensitive interferometer with suppressed temperature cross-talk that has been an enduring problem in fiber strain sensing applications. …”
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Optical coherence tomography angiography imaging to monitor anti-VEGF treatment of corneal vascularization in a rabbit model by Devarajan, Kavya, Ong, Hon Shing, Lwin, Nyein C., Chua, Jacqueline, Schmetterer, Leopold, Mehta, Jodhbir Singh, Ang, Marcus

“…Optical coherence tomography angiography (OCTA) is a well-established non-invasive retinal vascular imaging technique. It has been recently adapted to image the anterior segment and has shown good potential to image corneal vascularisation. …”
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3D printing of mixed matrix films based on metal-organic frameworks and thermoplastic polyamide 12 by selective laser sintering for water applications by Li, Rui, Yuan, Shangqin, Zhang, Wang, Zheng, Han, Zhu, Wei, Li, Boyuan, Zhou, Meixin, Law, Adrian Wing-Keung, Zhou, Kun

“…In this study, selective laser sintering (SLS), an advanced three-dimensional (3D) powder printing technique, has been employed to fabricate MOF–polymer mixed matrix films (MMFs) by using thermoplastic polyamide 12 (PA12) powder as the matrix material and five types of MOFs including ZIF-67, NH2-MIL-101(Al), MOF-801, HKUST-1, and ZIF-8 crystals as the fillers. …”
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CC meets FIPS : a hybrid test methodology for first order side channel analysis by Roy, Debapriya Basu, Bhasin, Shivam, Guilley, Sylvain, Heuser, Annelie, Patranabis, Sikhar, Mukhopadhyay, Debdeep

“…Detailed experiments have been provided using both simulated traces and real traces on SAKURA-GW platform. …”
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Numerical modelling of detonation reaction zone of nitromethane by EXPLO5 code and wood and kirkwood theory by Štimac, Barbara, Chan, Serene Hay Yee, Kunzel, Martin, Muhamed Suceska

“…The detonation reaction zone of nitromethane (NM) has been extensively studied both experimentally and theoretically. …”
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Impact of molecular linker size on physicochemical properties of assembled gold nanoparticle mono-/multi-layers and their applicability for functional binding of biomolecules by Krikstolaityte, Vida, Hamit-Eminovski, Jildiz, Abariute, Laura, Niaura, Gediminas, Meskys, Rolandas, Arnebrant, Thomas, Lisak, Grzegorz, Ruzgas, Tautgirdas

“…In this work the impact of molecular inter-linker size on gold nanoparticle (AuNP) mono-/multilayer structural properties, density and homogeneity has been investigated. These characteristics are of great importance for functional binding of biomolecules. …”
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Scalable fabrication of graphene-based laminate membranes for liquid and gas separations by crosslinking-induced gelation and doctor-blade casting by Yang, Euntae, Karahan, H. Enis, Goh, Kunli, Chuah, Chong Yang, Wang, Rong, Bae, Tae-Hyun

“…For both gas and liquid separations, various designs of crosslinker-stabilized graphene oxide (GO) membranes have been reported. However, the preparation methods used for those are poorly scalable for industrial applications. …”
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Three-dimensional structure of Megabalanus rosa cement protein 20 revealed by multi-dimensional NMR and molecular dynamics simulations by Mohanram, Harini, Kumar, Akshita, Verma, Chandra Shekhar, Pervushin, Konstantin, Miserez, Ali

“…The cement proteins (CPs) have previously been identified and sequenced. However, the molecular mechanisms of adhesion are not well understood, in particular, because the three-dimensional molecular structure of CPs remained unknown to date. …”
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Measuring coastal absolute sea-level changes using GNSS interferometric reflectometry by Peng, Dongju, Feng, Lujia, Larson, Kristine M., Hill, Emma Mary

“…However, sea-level changes near the coast, particularly absolute sea-level changes, have been less well monitored than those in the open ocean. …”
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ABCDM : an Attention-based Bidirectional CNN-RNN Deep Model for sentiment analysis by Basiri, Mohammad Ehsan, Nemati, Shahla, Abdar, Moloud, Cambria, Erik, Acharya, U. Rajendra

“…Sentiment analysis has been a hot research topic in natural language processing and data mining fields in the last decade. …”
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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

“…Layered alkali metal oxides have been emerged as an alternative group with low-cost and promising electrocatalysts in water oxidation. …”
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Contribution of Mach number to the evolution of the Richtmyer-Meshkov instability induced by a shock-accelerated square light bubble by Singh, Satyvir

“…The Richtmyer-Meshkov (RM) instability has long been an interesting subject due to its fundamental significance in scientific research, as well as its crucial role in engineering applications. …”
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Dual-cross-polarized GPR measurement method for detection and orientation estimation of shallowly buried elongated object by Sun, Hai-Han, Lee, Yee Hui, Luo, Wenhao, Ow, Lai Fern, Mohamed Lokman Mohd Yusof, Yucel, Abdulkadir C.

“…The effectiveness of the proposed techniques on the detection and orientation estimation and their advantages over the existing method have been demonstrated using experimental data. Comparison results show that the maximum and average errors are 22.3° and 10.9° for the Alford rotation algorithm, while those are 4.9° and 1.8° for the proposed DCPOE algorithm in the demonstrated shallowly buried object cases. …”
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Physically tailoring ion fluxes by introducing foamlike structures into polymeric membranes of solid contact ion-selective electrodes by Cheong, Yi Heng, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Transmembrane ion fluxes have earlier been identified as a source of potential instability in solid contact ion-selective electrodes (SC-ISEs). …”
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Integrated forward osmosis-adsorption process for strontium-containing water treatment: pre-concentration and solidification by Zhang, Xiaoyuan, Liu, Yu

“…The volume reduction and subsequent solidification of soluble radionuclides have been known as the major challenges in global radioactive water management, with the urgent needs for new technology development. …”
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Systematic study of short circuit activation on the performance of PEM fuel cell by Zhang, Caizhi, Liu, Hao, Zeng, Tao, Chen, Jiawei, Lin, Pengfeng, Deng, Bo, Liu, Fujian, Zheng, Yifeng

“…Short circuit method has been found to improve the performance of fuel cells by stripping of oxides and other adsorbed species from platinum, which needs systematical understanding the effective parameters of short circuit method on fuel cell performance. …”
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