Dual Origin of Viscoelasticity in Polymer-Carbon Black Hydrogels: A Rheometry and Electrical Spectroscopy Study by Legrand, Gauthier, Manneville, Sébastien, McKinley, Gareth H., Divoux, Thibaut

“…Varying the relative content of CB nanoparticles and cellulose gum allows us to explore a rich phase diagram that includes a gel phase observed for large enough CB content. …”
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Nature for the nation: locating the natural world in Meiji discourses on nation-building by Lew, Jean Zhi Jun

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Rotor angle stability-constrained dispatch and control of large-scale wind penetrated power system by Yuan, Heling

“…Hence, a robust optimization approach for coordinating generation dispatch and emergency load shedding (ELS) against transient instability under uncertain wind power output is developed. …”
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Chromatographic separation of galactosylkojic acid by Yamamoto, Shuichi, Nakanishi, Kazuhiro, Hassan, Mohd Ali

“…The K value for GKA at pH 8 was almost the same as that for neutral sugar having the same molecular weight. As the gels have negative charges at pH 6-8 and the dissociation constant of KA is ca. 10-8, these results indicate that the distribution of GKA and KA is governed by hydrophobic interaction adsorption and electrostatic repulsion. …”
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Application of dielectric spectroscopy and DSC to the study of relaxations in some copolymeric hydrogels by Ahmad, Mansor, O'Mahony, John P., Huglin, Malcolm B., Davis, Thomas P.

“…In addition DSC was used to measure the melting endotherm of water in gels partially swollen to a pseudoequilibrium. The resultant data were fitted to a two‐phase approximation model. © 1995 John Wiley & Sons, Inc. …”

Ductile-to-brittle transition and yielding in soft amorphous materials: perspectives and open questions

“…Soft amorphous materials are viscoelastic solids ubiquitously found around us, from clays and cementitious pastes to emulsions and physical gels encountered in food or biomedical engineering. …”
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Thermodynamic study of isosteric heat at zero coverage : applications to adsorption cooling and desalination by Fan, Wu

“…For water interaction with silica gel, the electrostatic interaction is found to be high. …”
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Agarose as a tissue mimic for the porcine heart, kidney, and liver: measurements and a springpot model by Mishra, A, Cleveland, RO

“…Agarose gels are often used as a tissue mimic. The goal of this work was to determine the appropriate agarose concentrations that result in mechanical properties that match three different porcine organs. …”

The importance of research and development of virgin coconut oil in food, pharmaceutical, nutraceutical and cosmeceutical industries by Ya’akob, Harisun, Amirmudin, Noor Afiqah, Abdul Aziz, Azila, Aman Nor, Nor Farahiyah, Mat, Siti Alyani, Hasham@Hisam, Rosnani, Al-Batul Azizuddin, Maryam

“…VCO is accepted as natural functional food and has mostly been commercialized in the form of liquid or encapsulated in soft gels. VCO is also a popular ingredient used in the cosmeceutical industry, especially in hair and body care products. …”
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Extreme Water Uptake of Hygroscopic Hydrogels through Maximized Swelling‐Induced Salt Loading by Graeber, Gustav, Díaz‐Marín, Carlos D, Gaugler, Leon C, Zhong, Yang, El Fil, Bachir, Liu, Xinyue, Wang, Evelyn N

“…By tuning the salt concentration of the swelling solutions and the cross‐linking properties of the gels, hygroscopic hydrogels with extremely high salt loadings are synthesized, which enable unprecedented water uptakes of 1.79 and 3.86 gg<jats:sup>−1</jats:sup> at relative humidity (RH) of 30% and 70%, respectively. …”
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Tracking oxidation-induced alterations in fibrin clot formation by NMR-based methods by Lau, Wai-Hoe, White, Nathan J., Yeo, Tsin Wen, Gruen, Russell L., Pervushin, Konstantin

“…However, T₂ relaxation of the oxidized plasma fibrin gels was dominated by intermediate water. Oxidation induced thinner fibers, in which less water is released into the bulk and water fraction in the hydration shell was increased. …”
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Investigation of pollen microgel and its viability as a sunscreen product by Koh, Wei Jun

“…This project aims to compare the UV-shielding abilities of plant-based microgels and compare it to commercialised sunscreen gels that are already available in the market. The two plant-based microgels used in this project are camellia microgel and sunflower microgel. …”
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SPICES: spectro-polarimetric imaging and characterization of exoplanetary systems. by Boccaletti, Anthony, Schneider, Jean, Traub, Wes, Lagage, Pierre-Olivier, Stam, Daphne, Gratton, Raffaele, Trauger, John, Cahoy, Kerri, Snik, Frans, Baudoz, Pierre, Galicher, Raphael, Reess, Jean-Michel, Mawet, Dimitri, Augereau, Jean-Charles, Patience, Jenny, Kuchner, Marc, Wyatt, Mark, Pantin, Eric, Maire, Anne-Lise, Vérinaud, Christophe

“…SPICES (Spectro-Polarimetric Imaging and Characterization of Exoplanetary Systems) is a five-year M-class mission proposed to ESA Cosmic Vision. Its purpose is to image and characterize long-period extrasolar planets and circumstellar disks in the visible (450-900 nm) at a spectral resolution of about 40 using both spectroscopy and polarimetry. …”
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Investigating the EM performance of building materials for mid-band 5G in urban built environment: an exploratory study by Ng, Sean Jake Peng

“…The thesis is concluded with the investigation of material loading on an evolved antecedent hexagonal-stubbed complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR)-loaded electrically small antenna (ESA) designed to cover the 3.5 GHz 5G frequency band. …”
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Micro-DSC, rheological and NMR investigations of the gelation of gallic acid and xyloglucan by Hirun, Namon, Bao, Hongqian, Li, Lin, Deen, Gulam Roshan, Tantishaiyakul, Vimon

“…For the mixture of GA and 1% (w/v) TSX, the critical gel concentration of GA was 0.69% (w/v) at physiological temperature (37 °C) and the sol–gel transition was well described by the scaling law. …”
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RES.21G-001 The User-friendly Classroom, Spring 2016 by Kemp, A. C.

“…These videos demonstrate best practices through authentic examples of successful teaching scenarios, interviews with undergraduates and advice from international teaching assistants.These videos were created for use with the following courses: 21G.232 / 21G.233 Advanced Speaking and Critical Listening (ELS)21G.217 / 21G.218 Workshop in Strategies for Effective Teaching (ELS)&quot;Special thanks to my mentor, Jane Dunphy, for her support and advice with this project.…”
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Adhesive curing through low-voltage activation by Ping, Jianfeng, Gao, Feng, Chen, Jian Lin, Webster, Richard David, Steele, Terry W. J.

“…The electrocuring adhesive is synthesized by grafting carbene precursors on polyamidoamine dendrimers and dissolving in aqueous solvents to form viscous gels. The electrocuring adhesives are activated at −2 V versus Ag/AgCl, allowing tunable crosslinking within the dendrimer matrix and on both electrode surfaces. …”
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Power management system design and optimization for European Student Moon Orbitor (ESMO) by Muhammad Dzahir Mohamed Zain Affandi.

“…ESMO is a European Space Agency (ESA) initiative to involve the universities to build the first student satellite to orbit the Moon. …”
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Microscopic dynamics underlying the stress relaxation of arrested soft materials by Song, Jake, Zhang, Qingteng, de Quesada, Felipe, Rizvi, Mehedi H., Tracy, Joseph B., Ilavsky, Jan, Narayanan, Suresh, Del Gado, Emanuela, Leheny, Robert L., Holten-Andersen, Niels, McKinley, Gareth H.

“…Arrested soft materials such as gels and glasses exhibit a slow stress relaxation with a broad distribution of relaxation times in response to linear mechanical perturbations. …”
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Roles of POPX2 phosphatase in the regulation of apoptosis by Weng, Ting

“…By culturing cancer cells on polyacrylamide gels of different rigidities, we found a positive correlation between increased cell spreading and enhanced formation of stress fibers. …”
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