Learning from nature : experimental observation of mimosa pudica by Zhang, Yi

“…Remarkably, the partial pinna stimulation demonstrated a twofold increase in closing time in comparison to entire pinna stimulation, which implied the stimulation contact area did play a significant part in pinna closing time but had no effect on pinna reopening time. …”
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Evaluation of bonding strength of some tropical wood species as a function of surface roughness by Tan, Hui Ling.

“…Experiments were conducted for Kapur, Meranti and Pine wood to find out the adhesion bonding strength as a function of surface roughness. …”
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Sporopollenin-inspired design and synthesis of robust polymeric materials by Glinkerman, Christopher M, Lin, Shaoting, Ni, Jiahua, Li, Fu-Shuang, Zhao, Xuanhe, Weng, Jing-Ke

“…Recent investigation of the molecular structure of pine sporopollenin revealed unique monomeric units and inter-unit linkages distinct from other previously known biopolymers, which could be harnessed for new material design. …”
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Island area and remoteness shape plant and soil bacterial diversity through land use and biological invasion by Xu, Mingshan, Yang, Anna, Yang, Xiaodong, Cao, Wenting, Zhang, Zengke, Li, Zengyan, Zhang, Yu, Zhang, Huaguo, You, Wenhui, Yan, En-Rong, Wardle, David A.

“…However, land use intensity increased with island area which also promoted plant diversity, and loss of pine forest by the pinewood nematode invasion increased with island remoteness which reduced plant diversity. …”
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Progressive collapse of reinforced concrete building structures by Dat, Pham Xuan

“…The associated rotationally-restrained but laterally-unrestrained boundary condition of the test specimens was effected by a set of pinned-end supporting columns. Uniformly distributed loads were simulated by a twelve-point loading system. …”
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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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Engineered terahertz emission from spintronic heterostructures: amplitude, phase and chirality by Agarwal, Piyush

“…As such, the photoexcitation leads to ultrafast spin-scattering events in the FM, during which the spins transport from the FM into the adjacent heavy metal(HM) layer to experience an inverse spin Hall effect, producing a transverse charge current and terahertz radiation. …”
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Dynamics of a magnetic polaron in an antiferromagnet by Shen, Kaijun, Gelin, Maxim F., Sun, Kewei, Zhao, Yang

“…We uncover the nuanced dependence of hole and spin deviation dynamics on the spin-spin coupling parameter J, revealing a thermally-activated landscape where hole mobilities and spin deviations exhibit a distinct temperature-dependent relationship. …”
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Spintronics devices for neuromorphic computing by Tang, Shawn Zhen Kee

“…To solve this, we discuss the possibility of using a geometrically pinned magnetic domain wall memory device that utilises anti-notches for pinning, as the free layer of an MTJ, for future use in a three-terminal MRAM. …”
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Nonreciprocal phenomena in superconductivity by Davydova, Marharyta

“…Spin polarons have large effective mass and are spin 3/2 quasiparticles. …”
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Ferromagnetic interlayer coupling in FeSe1−xSx superconductors revealed by inelastic neutron scattering by Ma, M, Bourges, P, Sidis, Y, Sun, J, Wang, G, Iida, K, Kamazawa, K, Park, JT, Bourdarot, F, Ren, Z, Li, Y

“…The weak interlayer coupling is estimated to be Jc∼ 0.2 meV, in agreement with the short spin-spin correlation length ζc∼0.2c along the c axis. …”

Semiconductor oxide for gas sensing applications by Ang, Wan Chia

“…Surface morphology of the spin-coated composite films was studied using SEM. …”
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Compositional dependence of spintronic properties in Pt/GdCo films by Suzuki, Daniel H, Lee, Byung Hun, Beach, Geoffrey SD

“…We find a 5× increase in effective spin Hall angle with increasing Gd concentration, suggesting an improvement in spin transfer efficiency in rare earth materials. …”
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SU(3) topological insulators in the honeycomb lattice by Bornheimer, U., Miniatura, Christian, Grémaud, B.

“…We investigate realizations of topological insulators with spin-1 bosons loaded in a honeycomb optical lattice and subjected to a SU ( 3 ) spin-orbit coupling—a situation which can be realized experimentally using cold atomic gases. …”
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Modeling distance-dependent individual head-related transfer functions in the horizontal plane using frontal projection headphones by Sunder, Kaushik, Gan, Woon-Seng, Tan, Ee-Leng

“…Soc. 61, 989–1000] project the sound directly onto the pinnae from the front, and thus inherently create listener's idiosyncratic pinna cues at the eardrum. …”
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Interplay of Transition Metals and Noncovalent Interactions in C–H Activation Catalysis by Vennelakanti, Vyshnavi

“…Additionally, the ability of TMCs to exist in multiple spin states is often leveraged for practical applications, with one such example being spin crossover (SCO) complexes that exhibit a change in spin state as a function of external stimulus like temperature and are widely studied due to their increasing use in molecular switches. …”
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Searches for Gravitational Waves from Known Pulsars at Two Harmonics in the Second and Third LIGO-Virgo Observing Runs by Sudhir, Vivishek

“…For nine pulsars, their spin-down limits have been surpassed for the first time. …”
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Experimental Characterization of Iron-Sulfur Cluster Excited States and their Relevance to Electron Transfer Reactions by Skeel, Brighton A.

“…The ground states for these systems have been extensively studied for several decades, and are understood to be the products of a confluence of super-exchange and spin-dependent electron delocalization interactions. …”
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Persuasive evidence for electron-nuclear coupling in diluted magnetic colloidal nanoplatelets using optically detected magnetic resonance spectroscopy by Strassberg, Rotem, Delikanli, Savas, Barak, Yahel, Dehnel, Joanna, Kostadinov, Alyssa, Maikov, Georgy, Hernandez-Martinez, Pedro Ludwig, Sharma, Manoj, Demir, Hilmi Volkan, Lifshitz, Efrat

“…The incorporation of magnetic impurities into semiconductor nanocrystals with size confinement promotes enhanced spin exchange interaction between photogenerated carriers and the guest spins. …”
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Direct measurement of magnetic monopole charge and transport dynamics by Hsu, C

“…<p>Magnetic monopoles are magnetic excitations with quantized magnetic charge whose existence in pyrochlore spin ice materials has been studied widely. As a platform to study the hypothetical magnetic monopoles, classical spin ices have aroused fundamental interest. …”