Optical gain in ultrathin self-assembled bi-layers of colloidal quantum wells enabled by the mode confinement in their high-index dielectric waveguides by Foroutan-Barenji, Sina, Erdem, Onur, Gheshlaghi, Negar, Altintas, Yemliha, Demir, Hilmi Volkan

“…The active slabs of these CQW monolayers in the proposed waveguide structure are constructed with great care to obtain near-unity surface coverage, which increases the density of active particles, and to reduce the surface roughness to sub-nm scale, which decreases the scattering losses. …”
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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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Novel heat treatment methodology for residual stress relieve of AlSi10Mg without compromise of mechanical strength by Lim, Chong Heng

“…Additive manufacturing (AM) has made the fabrication of complex parts possible which otherwise, would not have been possible with conventional subtractive manufacturing. …”
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Dung, hair, and mungbeans: household remedies in the Longmen recipes by Stanley-Baker, Michael, Yang, Dolly

“…Critical Translation of over 150 recipes carved into the walls of a cave in Longmen Cave, near Loyang in the 7th century. These likely represent Buddhist transmitted recipes, and were certainly presented in a context of Buddhist merit-building monuments. …”
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Device and material investigations of GaN enhancement-mode transistors for Venus and harsh environments by Xie, Qingyun, Niroula, John, Rajput, Nitul S., Yuan, Mengyang, Luo, Shisong, Fu, Kai, Isamotu, Mohamed Fadil, Palash, Rafid Hassan, Sikder, Bejoy, Eisner, Savannah R., Surdi, Harshad, Belanger, Aidan J., Darmawi-Iskandar, Patrick K., Aksamija, Zlatan, Nemanich, Robert J., Goodnick, Stephen M., Senesky, Debbie G., Hunter, Gary W., Chowdhury, Nadim, Zhao, Yuji, Palacios, Tomás

“…The GaN transistor in this work was subjected to prolonged exposure (11 days) in a simulated Venus environment (460 °C, 94 bar, complete chemical environment including CO2/N2/SO2). …”
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Ultramafic Alteration and the Cooling of Earth and Mars by Murray, Joshua

“…I show that the same high-surface-area clay minerals which bury organic carbon on Earth are prevalent enough on Mars to store the bulk of its initial 1-4 bar atmosphere as adsorbed methane. I postulate that this methane was formed abiotically during hydrothermal alteration of ultramafic rocks, a process which is observed in ultramafic systems on Earth. …”
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Heteroatom-doped microporous carbon nanosheets derived from pentaerythritol-melamine for supercapacitors and CO₂ capture by Hu, Xiaochun, Luo, Yuqing, Wu, Xianyue, Niu, Jiabin, Tan, Mingwu, Sun, Zhiqiang, Liu, Wen

“…When used for CO2 capture, the HMCN synthesized by the pyrolysis of a 3:2 mixture of MEL and PER at 900 °C (3/2-HMCNs-900) affords a CO2 uptake of 5.35 mmol g−1 at 273 K and 1 bar CO2 partial pressure. Density functional theory calculations suggest that the high CO2 uptake performance of the HMCNs is associated with the chemical modification of the surface, as a result of N- and O- co-doping. …”
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Fabrication of organic solvent nanofiltration membranes with graphene oxide - enhanced covalent organic framework via interfacial polymerization by Oor, Jia Zheng, Ong, Chi Siang, Tan, Yong Zen, Chew, Jia Wei

“…The PES-COF-GO membranes exhibited optimal solvent permeance and separation efficiency at an intermediate 0.8wt% GO, which gave the highest water permeance of 16.2L/m2 h bar and a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of around 325 gmol-1. …”
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In-situ rapid construction of aliphatic amine combined polyamide seawater reverse osmosis membrane for efficient boron removal by Li, Can, Lai, Gwo Sung, Zhao, Yali, Wang, Rong

“…The permeability coefficient of boron decreased from 4.8 to 0.9 L m−2 h−1, and the boron rejection increased from 80.7 to 90.5% under the modification conditions with the optimal type and concentration of amines, while displaying a NaCl rejection of 99.8% and an acceptable water permeability of 0.55 L m−2 h−1 bar−1. Meanwhile, the alteration of membrane chemical compositions and structure properties was kept to a minimum. …”
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Engineering nano-nodular pattern on the substrate surface by tuning phase inversion to construct ultrapermselective ion-separation nanofiltration membrane by Zhao, Yali, Li, Can, Liao, Yuan, Yin, Yurong, Wang, Rong, Chen, Dongliang

“…The nano-nodular surface and thinner thickness exhibited a remarkable contribution to water permeability, which reached 38.3 L m−2h−1bar−1. The narrow pore size distribution made an outstanding Na2SO4 rejection of 99.1 % and Cl−/SO42− selectivity of 83 at 1000 mg/L of mixed salt solution. …”
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Deformation and failure processes of glass-microballoon epoxy syntactic foam by Naidu, Aravin Dass

“…A pulse shaped Split Hopkinson’s Pressure Bar Test (SHPB) modified for low impedance material testing was used to ensure that the samples deformed under dynamic equilibrium and at a constant strain-rate. …”
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Spin orbit torques induced magnetization reversal through asymmetric domain wall propagation in Ta/CoFeB/MgO structures by Cao, Jiangwei, Chen, Yifei, Jin, Tianli, Gan, Weiliang, Wang, Ying, Zheng, Yuqiang, Lv, Hua, Cardoso, Susana, Wei, Dan, Lew, Wen Siang

“…Kerr imaging reveals that the current-induced reversal under small and medium in-plane field was mediated by domain nucleation at the edge of the Hall bar, followed by asymmetric domain wall (DW) propagation. …”
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Sublinear-time algorithms for compressive phase retrieval by Li, Yi, Nakos, Vasileios

“…Our algorithms use pure combinatorial techniques and near-optimal number of measurements.…”
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A security protocol resistant to intermittent position trace attacks and desynchronization attacks in RFID systems by Shu, Yantai, Gao, Lijun, Ma, Maode, Wei, Yuhua

“…Radio frequency identification (RFID) technology will become more popular in various applications in the near future. But the security issues in RFID systems have hindered this technical promotion seriously. …”
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Improved methodology for evaluating adversarial robustness in deep neural networks by Lee, Kyungmi,(Computer scientist)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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Depletion of lamins B1 and B2 promotes chromatin mobility and induces differential gene expression by a mesoscale-motion-dependent mechanism by Pujadas Liwag, Emily M., Wei, Xiaolong, Acosta, Nicolas, Carter, Lucas M., Yang, Jiekun, Almassalha, Luay M., Jain, Surbhi, Daneshkhah, Ali, Rao, Suhas S. P., Seker-Polat, Fidan, MacQuarrie, Kyle L., Ibarra, Joe, Agrawal, Vasundhara, Aiden, Erez Lieberman, Kanemaki, Masato T., Backman, Vadim, Adli, Mazhar

“…However, identifying the direct roles of B-lamins on dynamic genome organization has been challenging as their joint depletion severely impacts cell viability. …”
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The Europa Imaging System (EIS) Investigation by Turtle, E. P., McEwen, A. S., Patterson, G. W., Ernst, C. M., Elder, C. M., Slack, K. A., Hawkins, S. E., McDermott, J., Meyer, H., DeMajistre, R., Espiritu, R., Seifert, H., Niewola, J.

“…The NAC is mounted on a 2-axis gimbal, ±30° cross- and along-track, that enables independent targeting and near-global (≥90%) mapping of Europa at ≤100-m pixel scale (to date, only ∼15% of Europa has been imaged at ≤900 m/pixel), as well as stereo imaging from as close as 50-km altitude to generate digital terrain models (DTMs) with ≤4-m ground sample distance (GSD) and ≤0.5-m vertical precision. …”
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Unveiling the dual role of chemically synthesized copper doped zinc oxide for resistive switching applications by Gollu, Sankara Rao, Roy, Sounak, Banerjee, Souri, Kundu, Souvik, Boppidi, Pavan Kumar Reddy, Raj, P. Michael Preetam, Challagulla, Swapna

“…However, ferroelectric properties have been observed when the same Cu:ZnO was annealed at a higher temperature of 800 °C and integrated onto Nb doped SrTiO3. …”
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An epigenetic locus associated with loss of smell in COVID-19 by Aslan, Elif Sibel, White, Kenneth, Meral, Gulsen, Akcay, Zeyneb Nur, Altundag, Aytug, Gur, Savas, Dokur, Mehmet, Baktir, Mehmet Akif, Batur, Lutfiye Karcioglu

“…Previous studies, including genome-wide association studies (GWAS), have identified genetic variants near the UGT2A1 and UGT2A2 genes that are linked to anosmia in COVID-19 patients. …”
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Effectiveness of R&D Capabilities Towards Operational Performance Moderated by Intellectual Property Rights by Anuar, Herman Shah, Zulhumadi, Faisal, Mohamed Udin, Zulkifli

“…The survey method has been chosen to conduct this study. A pilot data based on 23 cases were then analyzed to see how the consistencies of the construct. …”
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