CFD simulation of bubbly flow in a vertical pipe by Adarsh Gouda

“…It was seen that, inclusion of bubbles varies the velocity gradient of water near the wall region and also an increase in volume fraction of the bubbles causes decrease in axial velocity of the water.…”
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Protection of cyclists by Xiao, Shunyu

“…However, statistics from Singapore Traffic Police Headquarters revealed that road traffic accidents involving cyclists has increased exponentially over the years and this trend is expected to continue with a larger cyclist population in the near future. To find out the how and why such accidents occurred, data from Singapore Traffic Police Headquarters were carefully examined. …”
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Material characterization of additive manufactured metal parts for failure analysis by Seow, Mei Qi

“…SLM fabricated parts have near full density with relatively good mechanical properties. …”
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Observation of vector solitons supported by third-order dispersion by Guo, Jun, Hu, Xiaonan, Song, Yu Feng, Shao, Guo Dong, Zhao, Lu Ming, Tang, Ding Yuan

“…Using a cavity dispersion and birefringence management technique we constructed a weakly birefringent cavity fiber laser with near-zero net cavity dispersion. Operating the fiber laser in either the net normal or net anomalous dispersion regime, we found that both dark-bright and antidark-bright vector solitons could be simultaneously formed as a result of incoherent cross-polarization phase modulation. …”
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Visible Range Plasmonic Modes on Topological Insulator Nanostructures by Dubrovkin, Alexander M., Adamo, Giorgio, Yin, Jun, Wang, Lan, Soci, Cesare, Wang, Qi Jie, Zheludev, Nikolay I.

“…Phase-resolved real-space imaging of localized plasmons in Bi1.5Sb0.5Te1.8Se1.2 topological insulator nanostructures is performed by scattering-type scanning near-field optical microscopy. Dipolar and higher order surface plasmon modes with well-defined field amplitude and phase profiles are detected in the visible part of the spectrum.…”
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Frequency-selective propagation of localized spoof surface plasmons in a graded plasmonic resonator chain by Gao, Zhen, Gao, Fei, Shastri, Kunal Krishnaraj, Zhang, Baile

“…Transmission measurements and direct near-field mappings on this graded chain show that the propagation of localized spoof-SPPs can be cutoff at different positions along the graded chain under different frequencies due to the graded coupling between adjacent resonators. …”
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3D Printing for Marketing and Advertisement Industry by Wu, Wenjin, Tor, Shu Beng

“…3D printing provides a new dimension for the communication of value of products and services to the audience through concept modelling, which prevents ambiguity of design throughout the product life cycle for design, visualisation, verification and presentation purposes. It provides near identical model of the prelaunch product for the customer to touch and see, and even to test the product functionality. …”
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Fast photoacoustic imaging systems using pulsed laser diodes: a review by Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit

“…In recent years, the semiconductor laser technology has advanced to generate high-repetitions rate near-infrared pulsed lasers diodes (PLDs) which are reliable, less-expensive, hand-held, and light-weight, about 200 g. …”
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Libraries and librarians – what next? by Choy, Fatt Cheong.

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A study on the snowing phenomenon in binary alloy solidification by Saffie, M.G.M., Tso, Chih Ping., Tan, F. L.

“…The snowing phenomenon has been observed in some studies where seed crystals formed near the bottom of the test cell during solidification are carried up flow above the mushy layer by thermo-solutal convection flow, and they fall down on it just like atmospheric snow occurring in nature. …”
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Fire resistance for square tubular joints with and without chord reinforcement by Yang, J., Shao, Y. B., Cheng, C., Lie, S. T., Chiew, Sing Ping

“…To improve the load carrying capacity, the chord of a square tubular joint can be strengthened locally near the joint connection. Through Finite Element (FE) analysis, the fire resistance of both un-reinforced and chord reinforced tubular T-joints is investigated. …”
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“Sweet” detectives: children crack the case for a healthy future by Terry, Cassandra, Meimaridou, Eirini, Jorfi, Samireh, Ramchurn, Medah, Encinas, Mabel

“…Due to the success of these activities, we plan to take them to more schools across London in the near future.…”
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Modeling the mechanisms of non-neurogenic dynamic cerebral autoregulation by van Zijl, N, Banerjee, A, Payne, SJ

“…Objective: Dynamic cerebral autoregulation (dCA) refers to a collection of mechanisms that act to maintain steady state cerebral blood flow (CBF) near constant despite changes in arterial blood pressure (ABP), but which is known to become impaired in various cerebrovascular diseases. …”

Upconversion nanoparticles-modified aptasensors for highly sensitive mycotoxin detection for food quality and safety by Bahari, H-R, Mousavi Khaneghah, A, Eş, I

“…UCNPs consist of lanthanide ions in ceramic host, and their ladder-like energy levels at f-orbitals have unique photophysical properties, including converting low-energy photons to high-energy emissions by a series of complex processes and offering sharp, low-noise, and sensitive near-infrared to visible detection strategy to enhance the efficacy of aptasensors for novel mycotoxin detection. …”

Depth-dependent oxygen redox activity in lithium-rich layered oxide cathodes by Naylor, AJ, Makkos, E, Maibach, J, Guerrini, N, Sobkowiak, A, Björklund, E, Lozano, JG, Menon, AS, Younesi, R, Roberts, MR, Edström, K, Islam, MS, Bruce, PG

“…Energy-tuned photoelectron spectroscopy is used as a powerful, yet highly sensitive technique to probe electronic states of oxygen and transition metals from the top few nanometers at the near-surface through to the bulk of the particles. …”

A 0.4 V, 12.2 pW leakage, 36.5 fJ/step switching efficiency data retention flip-flop in 22 nm FDSOI by Ji, Yuxin, Zhang, Yuhang, Chen, Changyan, Zhao, Jian, Rokhani, Fakhrul Zaman, Ismail, Yehea, Li, Yongfu

“…This brief proposes an ultralow power DR-FF design with an improved autonomous data-retention (ADR) latch operating with a supply voltage range down to near/subthreshold, achieving a sleep mode leakage power of 12.2 pW, 1.4 × -3.8 × less than the prior CMOS DR-FFs. …”

The potential of value management (VM) to improve the consideration of energy efficiency within pre-construction by Tahir, Mohamad Zamhari, Mohd Nawi, Mohd Nasrun, Rajemi, Mohamad Farizal

“…Energy demand and consumption in buildings will rise rapidly in the near future because of several social economics factors and this situation occurs not only in developed countries but also in developing countries such as Malaysia. …”
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Hydrate-phobic surfaces: fundamental studies in clathrate hydrate adhesion reduction by Smith, J. David, Meuler, Adam J., Bralower, Harrison L., Venkatesan, Rama, Subramanian, Sivakumar, Cohen, Robert E., McKinley, Gareth H., Varanasi, Kripa K.

“…In this paper, we present an alternate approach of using functionalized coatings to reduce hydrate adhesion to surfaces, ideally to a low enough level that hydrodynamic shear stresses can detach deposits and prevent plug formation. …”
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Strain engineering of antimonene by a first-principles study : mechanical and electronic properties by Kripalani, Devesh Raju, Kistanov, Andrey A., Cai, Yongqing, Xue, Ming, Zhou, Kun

“…The upper region of its valence band is found to solely consist of lone pair p-orbital states, which are by nature more delocalized than the d-orbital states in transition metal dichalcogenides, implying superior transport performance of antimonene. The Young's and shear moduli of β-antimonene are observed to be ∼25% higher than those of bulk antimony, while the hexagonal lattice constant of the monolayer reduces significantly (∼5%) from that in bulk, indicative of strong interlayer coupling. …”
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The behavior of suspensions and macromolecular solutions in crossflow microfiltration: an update by Chew, Jia Wei, Kilduff, James, Belfort, Georges

“…Fouling mitigation efforts have focused on high-throughput modification platforms and more energy-efficient unsteady-state shear methods. Finally, membrane modules can be modernized based on the knowledge accumulated to better improve their efficiency, and factoring in important considerations like feed type, mechanical stability, hydrodynamics, economics and application goals.…”
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