Why is China in Africa? by Neo, Jackson Jie Sheng

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Automatic trajectory generation for free-form pocket machining in skull base surgery by Lo, Charles Vui Hong.

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Self-healing cementitious composites by encapsulation techniques by Feng, Jianhang

“…Due to the PDA@CNTs reinforcement, hydrogels could be spherical after drying. Owing to the modification by GO, hydrogels could reduce pH of cracks, bond well with surrounding matrix and alter morphology of calcium carbonate from cubic to needle shapes. …”
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Thermoplastic polymer nanocomposites based on polydopamine-coated clay : preparation, structures and properties by Phua, Si Lei

“…This is because PP is vulnerable to degradation owing to the presence of volatile tertiary hydrogens in the polymer backbone. …”
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Materials beyond monolayers: The magnetic quasi-1D semiconductor CrSBr by Klein, Julian, Ross, Frances M.

“…Long-range magnetic order offers additional tuning with the coupled lattice, spin, orbit, and charge degrees of freedom enabling magneto-correlated phenomena. …”
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High field dynamic nuclear polarization methods: Microwave sources and mechanisms by Mardini, Michael

“…Finally, I detail studies of two unexplored DNP mechanisms in trityl: the three-spin solid effect and resonant mixing. With solid-state microwave sources and Overhauser radicals, DNP is now more accessible as we can achieve reasonable enhancement without the need for a gyrotron. …”
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3D printing of flexible electronic devices by Yang, Hui, Leow, Wan Ru, Chen, Xiaodong

“…Compared to traditional, simple, planar or tubular flexible devices fabricated by spin-coating, casting, or extrusion, 3D-printed flexible electronic devices possess complicated geometries with precisely prescribed microarchitectures and excellent mechanical properties for satisfying all kinds of individual requirements. …”
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Electronic and transport properties of TMDC planar superlattices: effective Hamiltonian approach by Hashemi, R., Shojaei, S., Liu, Zheng

“…Within governed effective Hamiltonian we derived adopted transfer matrix formalism to obtain dispersion relation and electronic band structure with wave functions, transmission probability and Fano spectrum. Surprisingly, spin orbit coupling has considerable opposite effects on valence bands shift in TMDC-PSL that is blue and red for k and k’ valleys, respectively. …”
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Biopolymeric fibrous scaffolds for tissue engineering. by Chen, Jasmine Shuwen.

“…Different polymer blend ratios of Pullulan and Dextran, syringe tip to collector distances, flow rates, applied voltages, polymer concentrations, types of solvent, solvent concentration and crosslinker concentrations were investigated with the aim of producing uniform fiber diameters and good spin ability. The image analysis by scanning electron microscopy and image analysis software Image J, show that fibers could be successfully electrospun into the nanometer region of 200-500nm. …”
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Tunable topological phase transition in the telecommunication wavelength by Tian, Fanglin, Zhou, Junxiao, Wang, Qiang, Liu, Zhaowei

“…Besides, simulations of light propagation at sharp corners and pseudo-spin photon coupling are conducted to quantitatively examine the topological protection. …”
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Azadihomocorannulene as a heptagon-embedded diradicaloid by Hamamoto, Yosuke, Wang, Weifan, Li, Yongxin, Ito, Shingo

“…The synthesis was achieved through a mechanochemical C(sp2)-H/C(sp3)-H coupling in the presence of sodium as a key reaction. Electron spin resonance studies revealed that the neutral azapentabenzodihomocorannulene adopts a singlet diradical (diradicaloid) ground state with a small singlet-triplet energy gap of 2.1 kcal/mol. …”
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Fabrication of nanocrystals-based solar cells by Chen, Zhiyong.

“…The samples were fabricated mainly two methods: glass rod rolling and paint brush brushing method and also using the spin coater to create a TiO2 layer on the ITO glass. …”
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Investigation on the braking characteristics of tractor-trailer on jackknifing by Gan, Zhilong

“…The results show that when the wheels remains in rolling motion, the brake input needs to be sufficient enough so as to inhibit the translational motion of the vehicle as well as work against the trailer swing motion or tractor spin-out. On the other hand, when the wheels are in sliding motion, the effective braking force exerted on the wheels is reduced and therefore increases the chance of jackknifing again. …”
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Photoluminescence study of graphene quantum dots (GOD's) embedded into SiO2 matrix by M Tanda Erapanni Sukumar

“…Pyrolysis method was undertaken to reduce Citric Acid (CA) into GQDs. Spin-Coating technique was employed to deposit GQDs embedded in SiO2 film onto silicon wafer. …”
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Anomalous high-magnetic field electronic state of the nematic superconductors FeSe 1 − x S x by Bristow, M, Reiss, P, Haghighirad, A, Zajicek, Z, Singh, S, Wolf, T, Graf, D, Knafo, W, McCollam, A, Coldea, A

“…Our study reveals anomalous transport inside the nematic phase, influenced by both changes in the electronic structure and the scattering with the lattice and spin fluctuations.…”

Gate-tunable Josephson diode by Mazur, GP, van Loo, N, van Driel, D, Wang, J-Y, Kouwenhoven, LP, Badawy, G, Gazibegovic, S, Bakkers, EPAM

“…In particular, it is strongest along a specific angle, which we interpret as the direction of the spin-orbit field in the proximitized leads. Moreover, the electrostatic gates can be used to drastically alter this effect and even completely suppress it. …”

Water-soluble doubly-strapped isolated perylene diimide chromophore by Yang, Fei, Li, Ran, Wei, Wei, Ding, Xingwei, Xu, Zhenzhen, Wang, Ping, Wang, Guo, Xu, Yanqing, Fu, Hongbing, Zhao, Yanli

“…Herein, we report a water-soluble PDI cyclophane "Gemini Box" (GBox-14+ ), consisting of a central PDI chromophore enclosed by double-sided cationic molecular straps. Owing to the effective spatial isolation, the chromophore self-aggregation can be completely eliminated, even in a concentrated aqueous solution up to 2 mM. …”
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M-OTDR sensing system based on 3D encoded microstructures by Sun, Qizhen, Ai, Fan, Liu, Deming, Cheng, Jianwei, Luo, Hongbo, Peng, Kuan, Luo, Yiyang, Yan, Zhijun, Shum, Perry Ping

“…In this work, a quasi-distributed sensing scheme named as microstructured OTDR (M-OTDR) by introducing ultra-weak microstructures along the fiber is proposed. Owing to its relative higher reflectivity compared with the backscattered coefficient in fiber and three dimensional (3D) i.e. wavelength/frequency/time encoded property, the M-OTDR system exhibits the superiorities of high signal to noise ratio (SNR), high spatial resolution of millimeter level and high multiplexing capacity up to several ten thousands theoretically. …”
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Immobilization of cyclodextrin glucanotransferase on electrospun polyvinyl alcohol nanofibers by Saallah, Suryani

“…The use of nanofibers as support material is favorable owing to their high porosity and interconnectivity and can be easily recovered and reuse. …”
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儒家的异端 ： 试析李贽思想与儒家学说的共通点 = An analysis of the similarity between Lizhi’s thoughts and Confucianism by 刘佑勋 Liew, Youxun

“…However, it is to be noted that under the context of the “Union of the Three Religions”（三教合一）, namely Confucianism, Buddhism and Daoism, in the Ming dynasty, such association can be said to be a natural result of the societal trend. …”
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