Present and future of functionalized Cu current collectors for stabilizing lithium metal anodes by Liu Yuhang, Li, Yifan, Sun, Jinmeng, Du, Zhuzhu, Hu, Xiaoqi, Bi, Jingxuan, Liu, Chuntai, Ai, Wei, Yan, Qingyu

“…Functionalized Cu current collectors have so far exhibited significant regulatory effects on stabilizing Li metal anodes (LMAs), and hold a great practical potential owing to their easy fabrication, low-cost and good compatibility with the existing battery technology. …”
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Carbon dioxide capture from biomass pyrolysis gas as an enabling step of biogenic carbon nanotube synthesis and hydrogen recovery by Veksha, Andrei, Lu, Jintao, Tsakadze, Zviad, Lisak, Grzegorz

“…Furthermore, the results suggest that CO2 capture with the sorbent has a potential to outperform a liquid alkaline scrubber owing to avoided liquid organic waste generation, sorbent regenerability and higher H2 recovery from biomass pyrolysis gas.…”
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A universal transfer network for machinery fault diagnosis by Yu, Xiaolei, Zhao, Zhibin, Zhang, Xingwu, Tian, Shaohua, Kwoh, Chee Keong, Li, Xiaoli, Chen, Xuefeng

“…Domain adaptation (DA) methods have achieved promising results in machinery fault diagnosis owing to their ability to mitigate the distribution discrepancy between domains. …”
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Small but prospective: development of enzyme-responsive small molecule fluorescent probes for specific bacterial imaging by Yan, Evelias Hui Xin

“…Bacterial infections remain as a prevailing situation in our today’s society. Owing to the evolving pathogenicity of bacteria, whereby more drug-resistant bacteria has been emerging and bacteria developing their own defense mechanism, traditional antimicrobial approaches like antibiotics treatment have been clinically ineffective. …”
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Rational design and synthesis of degradable poly(imidazolium ester) antibiotics by Xu, Xiaofei

“…The essential quest for innovative medications to address drug-resistant bacterial infections carries immense importance, owing to the widespread emergence of bacterial resistance against traditional antibiotics. …”
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Net section fracture of aluminium alloy angle-to-plate connections: testing, modelling and design by Jiang, Ke, Li, Shuai, Guo, Tong, Liang, Yating, Zhao, Ou

“…The evaluation results revealed that the codified design rules provided inaccurate net section resistance predictions, owing to the lack of proper consideration of the key influencing factors including the out-of-plane and in-plane eccentricities, connection length and type of the connected leg. …”
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Anodic TiO2 nanotube arrays with high surface area for dye-sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiaoyan

“…Highly-ordered TiO2 nanotube arrays prepared by electrochemical anodization have been developed as an intriguing photoanode owing to vertical tube alignment for one-dimensional electron transport and available inner and outer tube surface for dye attachment. …”
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Electronic band structure and optical gain of GaNxBiyAs1−x−y/GaAs pyramidal quantum dots by Song, Zhi-Gang, Bose, Sumanta, Fan, Wei-Jun, Li, Shu-Shen

“…With an increase in QD size, we observe a red shift in the emission energy and emergence of secondary peaks owing to transitions or greater energy compared with the fundamental transition.…”
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Ultrathin 2D photocatalysts : electronic-structure tailoring, hybridization, and applications by Di, Jun, Xiong, Jun, Li, Huaming, Liu, Zheng

“…As a sustainable technology, semiconductor photocatalysis has attracted considerable interest in the past several decades owing to the potential to relieve or resolve energy and environmental‐pollution issues. …”
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Efficient generation of an array of single silicon-vacancy defects in silicon carbide by Wang, Junfeng, Zhou, Yu, Zhang, Xiaoming, Liu, Fucai, Li, Yan, Li, Ke, Liu, Zheng, Wang, Guanzhong, Gao, Weibo

“…Color centers in silicon carbide have increasingly attracted attention in recent years owing to their excellent properties such as single-photon emission, good photostability, and long spin-coherence time even at room temperature. …”
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Synthesis and development of novel small molecule inhibitors of nucleophilic hydrolases by Gayatri

“…These templates have potential to inhibit nucleophilic enzymes by covalent reaction with nucleophilic active site residues, owing to the presence of their electrophilic boron or γ-lactam carbonyl groups, respectively.…”

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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Characterization of oil palm fruitlets using artificial neural network by Olukayode, Ojo Adedayo

“…Accurate data of the dielectric properties of oil palm fruitlets and the development of appropriate models are central to the quest of quality sensing and characterization, and Artificial Neural Network (ANN) and Adaptive Neurofuzzy Inference Systems (ANFIS) are becoming increasingly relevant for this purpose owing to their excellent pattern matching and generalization ability. …”
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Development of resistive random access memory for next-generation embedded non-volatile memory application by Sun, Jianxun

“…Resistive random access memory (RRAM) is a promising candidate for the next-generation non-volatile memory owing to its simple structure, fast read/write speed, low power consumption, high memory density, and complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatibility. …”
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Automatic test chip set by Chin, Edward Hsi Ling.

“…In this project, the fundamental functions and basic circuitry of an universal pin electronics are investigated and designed.…”
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Self-supervised Self2Self denoising strategy for OCT speckle reduction with a single noisy image by Ge, Chenkun, Yu, Xiaojun, Yuan, Miao, Fan, Zeming, Chen, Jinna, Shum, Perry Ping, Liu, Linbo

“…Optical coherence tomography (OCT) inevitably suffers from the influence of speckles originating from multiple scattered photons owing to its low-coherence interferometry property. …”
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Graphene nanopattern as a universal epitaxy platform for single-crystal membrane production and defect reduction by Kim, Hyunseok, Lee, Sangho, Shin, Jiho, Zhu, Menglin, Akl, Marx, Lu, Kuangye, Han, Ne Myo, Baek, Yongmin, Chang, Celesta S., Suh, Jun Min, Kim, Ki Seok, Park, Bo-In, Zhang, Yanming, Choi, Chanyeol, Shin, Heechang, Yu, He, Meng, Yuan, Kim, Seung-Il, Seo, Seungju, Lee, Kyusang, Kum, Hyun S., Lee, Jae-Hyun, Ahn, Jong-Hyun, Bae, Sang-Hoon, Hwang, Jinwoo, Shi, Yunfeng, Kim, Jeehwan

“…Additionally, we unveil unique mechanisms to substantially reduce crystallographic defects such as misfit dislocations, threading dislocations and antiphase boundaries in lattice- and polarity-mismatched heteroepitaxial systems, owing to the flexibility and chemical inertness of graphene nanopatterns. …”
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A large-area lithium metal–carbon nanotube film for precise contact prelithiation in lithium-ion batteries by Wang, Chao, Yang, Fangzhou, Wan, Wang, Wang, Shihe, Zhang, Yongyi, Huang, Yunhui, Li, Ju

“…The Li-CNT films show high specific capacities and nearly 100% lithium utilization owing to their exceptional conductive network, porous structure, and electrolyte-philic nature, which facilitates the efficient transport of both electrons and lithium ions. …”
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Spectroscopic study of emergent electronic phases in transition metal based compounds by Song, Qian

“…Antiferromagnets with non-relativistic spin splitting are outstanding candidates as the next generation of spintronic materials owing to their electron-volt (eV) scale spin splitting, ultrafast spin dynamics and nearly vanishing stray fields. …”
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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

“…We find that the nature of the band gap remains insensitive to strain in the zigzag direction, while strain in the armchair direction activates an indirect-direct band gap transition at a critical strain of 4%, owing to a band switching mechanism. The curvature of the conduction band minimum increases during the transition, which suggests a lighter effective mass of electrons in the direct-gap configuration than in the free-standing state of equilibrium. …”
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