Simulation of Organic Rankine Cycle - quasi-steady state vs dynamic approach for optimal economic performance by Pili, Roberto, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Jiménez-Arreola, Manuel, Spliethoff, Hartmut, Wieland, Christoph

“…Computer-based simulations of Organic Rankine Cycles (ORC) have been extensively used in the last two decades to predict the behaviour of existing plants or already in the design phase. …”
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An experimental study into the effect of micro-textures on the performance of cutting tool by Durairaj, Shanmugasundaram, Guo, Jiang, Aramcharoen, Ampara, Castagne, Sylvie

“…Micro-textures on cutting tool surface have been reported for their benefits in terms of reduction of adhesion, wear, force and friction during the cutting process. …”
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Interfacial control and carrier tuning of carbon nanotube/polyaniline composites for high thermoelectric performance by Li, Hui, Liu, Siqi, Li, Pengcheng, Yuan, Du, Zhou, Xin, Sun, Jiaotong, Lu, Xuehong, He, Chaobin

“…While approaches have been successfully devised to optimize the power factor of inorganic thermoelectric (TE) materials, the understanding and control of TE performance of organic composite materials are however still rudimentary due to their complicated structures and weak interfacial interactions. …”
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Projectile impact-induced spalling damage on carbon fiber reinforced polymer strengthened RC plates by Tu, Huan, Fung, Tat Ching, Del Linz, Paolo, Tan, Kang Hai

“…As the most widely used material in protective structures, a better understanding of the resistance of reinforced concrete (RC) to high-speed projectile striking is needed. It has been accepted that concrete material possesses limited impact resistance in virtue of its poor energy absorption capacity. …”
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Vesicle Adhesion and Rupture on Silicon Oxide: Influence of Freeze–Thaw Pretreatment by Jackman, Joshua Alexander, Zhao, Zhilei, Zhdanov, Vladimir P., Frank, Curtis W., Cho, Nam-Joon

“…Under this condition, there was a smaller mass load at the critical coverage associated with untreated vesicles, as compared to vesicles which had been subjected to FT pretreatment. In addition, the rupture of treated vesicles generally resulted in formation of a complete planar bilayer, while the adlayer was more heterogeneous when employing untreated vesicles. …”
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SnO2 nanorod arrays : low temperature growth, surface modification and field emission properties by Huang, Hui, Lim, Chiew Keat, Tse, Man Siu, Guo, Jun, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…SnO2 nanorod arrays have been deposited on 4 inch SiO2/Si and Si wafers and stainless steel substrates by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition without any high temperature treatment or additional catalysis. …”
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Full-Dimensional Quantum Dynamical Studies of the Cl + HOD → HCl/DCl + OD/OH Reaction: Bond Selectivity and Isotopic Branching Ratio by Song, Hongwei, Lee, Soo-Ying, Lu, Yunpeng, Guo, Hua

“…Total reaction cross sections have been computed for several low-lying vibrational states of HOD. …”
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Reducing Cancer Cell Adhesion using Microtextured Surfaces by McCue, Caroline, Atari, Adel, Parks, Sean, Tseng, Yuen‐Yi, Varanasi, Kripa K.

“…For the past century, trypsin has been the primary method of cell dissociation, largely without any major changes to the process. …”
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Drag reduction in fish-like locomotion by Barrett, D.S., Triantafyllou, M.S., Yue, D.K.P., Grosenbaugh, M.A., Wolfgang, M.J.

“…We present experimental force and power measurements demonstrating that the power required to propel an actively swimming, streamlined, fish-like body is significantly smaller than the power needed to tow the body straight and rigid at the same speed U. The data have been obtained through accurate force and motion measurements on a laboratory fish-like robotic mechanism, 1:2m long, covered with a flexible skin and equipped with a tail fin, at Reynolds numbers up to 10^6, with turbulence stimulation. …”
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Electrochemical biosensor based on graphene oxide–Au nanoclusters composites for l-cysteine analysis by Ge, Shenguang, Yan, Mei, Lu, Juanjuan, Zhang, Meng, Yu, Feng, Yu, Jinghua, Song, Xianrang, Yu, Shilin

“…The direct determination of free reduced and total CySH in human urine samples has been successfully carried out without the assistance of any separation techniques.…”
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A highly sustainable and versatile granulation method of nanodrugs via their electrostatic adsorption onto chitosan microparticles as the granulation substrates by Yang, Yue, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…Granules having 25% (w/w) nanodrug loading at 50% (w/w) recovery with good flowability have been successfully prepared.…”
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Supply chain resilience for global operations (1) : a rethink for a new paradigm (part II : transportation sector) by Koh, Choon Chin

“…Faced with unprecedented lockdowns and simultaneous shocks from both the demand and supply side, transportation providers must swiftly adapt to both environments as they struggle to keep up with surge in consumer online shopping and home deliveries whilst ensuring the reliability of their services as these new bottlenecks emerge.This research paper discusses the paradigm shift in global agri-food companies’ supply chain management and how they evolved due to the Coronavirus.In the past, supply chain optimization strategies have been the focus of many companies seeking to reduce costs along the supply chain. …”
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A BIT does go a long way: the positive effect of bilateral investment treaties on China's foreign direct investment inflows by Liow, Karyn Sze Min

“…Existing literature on China’s Bilateral Investment Treaties (BITs) and their impacts on its Foreign Direct Investment (FDI) inflows has been understudied (Chen et al., 2017; Y. Li & Zhang, 2015; Tai & Liu, 2014; K. …”
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Indoor autonomous robot navigation by using visually grounded semantic instructions by Tan, Mei Yu

“…As the capability of robots is continually researched and developed towards increasing complex tasks, navigation has become a topic that many are diving into. There has been numerous developments in navigation, from using Simultaneous Localization and Mapping to build maps in navigation, to exploring other forms of maps like Topological, Semantics and even Abstract maps. …”
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Image reconstruction of immersed ultrasonic testing for strongly attenuative materials by Jin, Haoran, Zheng, Zesheng, Liao, Xinqin, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…With the development of industrial materials, the objects of ultrasonic non-destructive evaluation (UNDE) have been expanded from metals to composite and polymer materials. …”
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Performance comparison of time slot allocation schemes in TDD-CDMA multihop cellular networks by Arabshahi, Maryam, Hong, Lei, Chong, Peter Han Joo

“…Today, high-speed multimedia services are becoming one of the most challenging demands of cellular subscribers. Many approaches have been proposed during last decade and still there are many ongoing researches aiming to provide higher speed and higher quality services for users. …”
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Synthesis and physical properties of four hexazapentacene derivatives by Li, Gang, Wu, Yuechao, Gao, Junkuo, Wang, Chengyuan, Li, Junbo, Zhang, Huacheng, Zhao, Yang, Zhao, Yanli, Zhang, Qichun

“…In two steps from commercially available starting materials, four novel hexazapentacene derivatives have been synthesized through cyclocondensation reaction between tetraamines and 1,2-diketones. …”
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Synthesis, physical properties, and anion recognition of two novel larger azaacenes : benzannelated hexazaheptacene and benzannelated N,N'-dihydrohexazaheptacene by Li, Gang, Wu, Yuechao, Gao, Junkuo, Li, Junbo, Zhao, Yang, Zhang, Qichun

“…Two novel larger azaacenes with six or ten N atoms in their backbones, benzannelated 9,11,13,22,24,26-hexazatetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]heptacene (HATBH, 1) and benzannelated 9,26-dihydro-9,11,13,22,24,26-hexaza-tetrapyrido[3,2-a: 2′,3′-c: 3′′,2′′-l: 2′′′,3′′′-n]heptacene (DHATPH, 2), have been successfully synthesized in two steps. The theoretical band gaps estimated through DFT calculations for HATBH (1) and DHATPH (2) are 1.949 eV and 2.278 eV, which are close to the experimentally obtained optical band gaps (2.14 eV and 2.39 eV). …”
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Network Dynamics of a Financial Ecosystem by Somin, Shahar, Altshuler, Yaniv, Gordon, Goren, Pentland, Alex, Shmueli, Erez

“…Consequently, in recent years research efforts have been directed towards modeling the structure and dynamics of the underlying networks of financial ecosystems. …”
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Comparing user behavior when targeted based on firm inferred interest vs. user stated interest by Cao, Yiqun(Scientist in business management)Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

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