Metal sulfides for electrochemical energy storage and conversion by Wang, Jin

“…As the in-depth understanding of electrochemical reaction mechanisms is significant for advancing different energy storage and conversion devices, this thesis also performs the fundamental investigation of the lithium/sodium storage mechanisms, and the mechanisms of hydrogen evolution reaction (HER). The cause for enhanced performance has been also carefully explored. …”
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Worst-Case Mechanism Design via Bayesian Analysis by Bei, Xiaohui, Chen, Ning, Gravin, Nick, Lu, Pinyan

“…Budget feasible mechanism design is the study of procurement combinatorial auctions in which the sellers have private costs to produce items, and the buyer (auctioneer) aims to maximize her valuation function on a subset of purchased items under the budget constraint on the total payment. …”
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Human agency and instrumental rationality: applying human capital to gender inequalities and intergenerational stratification by Luo, H

“…This phenomenon is strongly influenced by traditional gender ideologies, and notably, these ideologies become reinforced when a wife's underutilization of her education aligns with a growth in family income.…”

Fictions of youth: childness in selected West African novels, 1991-2009 by Moellenberg, T

“…The child is drained of a convincing sense of an individuality and agency of his or her own.</p> <p>Chapter 3 continues to explore the figure of the child as a complex and multivalent symbol. …”

Growth of gallium nitride nanowires by low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD) by Wang, Jianbo

“…Growth of III-Nitride nanowires on Si, which is the most commonly used substrate in microelectronic industry, using different growth techniques such as conventional Chemical Vapor Deposition (CVD), Metal Organic Chemical Vapor Deposition (MOCVD), and Molecular Beam Epitaxy (MBE) etc. have been explored. Low pressure chemical vapor deposition (LPCVD), which is widely used in Si wafer fabs, is of particular interest due to its low cost, ability to handle large size wafer and high throughput. …”
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The eagle and the panda : an owl's view from Southeast Asia by Desker, Barry

“…As noted by Singapore's ambassador-at-large Chan Heng Chee, "the U.S. is unlikely to turn its back to problems in the Middle East or on West Asia. …”
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Synthesis and self-assembly behavior of multi-arm star amphiphilic polyelectrolyte systems and their applications in the delivery of biomolecules by He, Elaine Weiguo

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Modification of the interface between TiO2 and electrolyte toward higher efficiency dye sensitized solar cells by Wang, Xiu

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A lamb wave approach for fatigue damage prognosis with piezoelectric transducers by Lim, Say Ian

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Wafer-scale growth of vertical-structured SnSe₂ nanosheets for highly sensitive, fast-response UV–Vis–NIR broadband photodetectors by Chen, Zhiyong, Xiong, Lei, Li, Guangyuan, Wei, Lei, Yang, Chunlei, Chen, Ming

“…Herein are reported high-performance nonplanar UV–Vis–NIR broadband PD arrays, based on wafer-scale, vertical-structured SnSe2 nanosheet arrays (NSAs) via low-temperature molecular beam epitaxy method. The vertical-structured SnSe2 NSAs possess light absorption efficiency of >90% covering the wave range from 340 to 650 nm. …”
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Programmable interfacial band configuration in WS2/Bi2O2Se heterojunctions by Zhang, Hanwen, Fu, Jianhui, Carvalho, Alexandra, Poh, Eng Tuan, Chung, Jing-Yang, Feng, Minjun, Chen, Yinzhu, Wang, Bo, Shang, Qiuyu, Yang, Hengxing, Zhang, Zheng, Lim, Sharon Xiaodai, Gao, Weibo, Gradečak, Silvija, Qiu, Cheng-Wei, Lu, Junpeng, He, Chunnian, Sum, Tze Chien, Sow, Chorng Haur

“…Using this material combination, we further design a sophisticated band architecture incorporating both type-I (WS2 straddles Bi2O2Se, fluorescence-quenched) and type-I (Bi2SeO5 straddles WS2, fluorescence-recovered) alignments in one sample through focused laser beam (FLB). By programming the FLB trajectory, we achieve a predesigned localized fluorescence micropattern on WS2 without changing its intrinsic atomic structure. …”
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Non-Destructive Material Characterization Methods / by Otsuki, Akira, editor 655994, Jose, Seiko, editor 655996, Mohan, Manasa, editor 655997, Thomas, Sabu, editor 391529

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Ordered hybrid nanoneedle arrays for gas sensing by Liu, Hai

“…In the present thesis, a novel ordered metal/silicon hybrid nanoneedle array is fabricated using an ion beam that patterns the metal/silicon substrate producing a pillar array followed by the self-organization of hybrid nanoneedles. …”
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Understanding Drivers of Deforestation using Games on Spatial Networks by Seby, Jean-Baptiste

“…Firstly, we conduct equilibrium analysis of a game in which each agent decides the production levels of her coupled activities in the presence of network effects. …”
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Estrogenic post-menopausal anti-osteoporotic mechanism of Achyranthes aspera L.: Phytochemicals and network pharmacology approaches by Huq, AKM Moyeenul, Stanslas, Johnson, Nizhum, Nisarat, Uddin, Md. Nazim, Maulidiani, Maulidiani, Roney, Miah, Abas, Faridah, Jamal, Jamia Azdina

“…Molecular docking analysis of the compounds revealed potential interactions with hERα receptor for 3-O-(6′-O-(9Z,12Z-octadecadienoyl)-β-D-glucopyranosyl)-stigmast-5,22E-dien-3β-ol and kaempferol-3-O-glucoside (astragalin) (docking scores of −9.3 and −10.1 kcal/mol, respectively) as compared to 17β-estradiol (−9.3 kcal/mol). …”
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Investigation of electric field driven crystallization of phase change materials by Yeow, Susan Su Yi

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Holistic teaching workload allocation for research-intensive universities by Roopchandani, Arpit

“…It is based on the workload a faculty will endure to manage his/her research team consisting of researchers at all levels. …”
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Ig.n.is. by Ong, Jian'an.

“…This spectrum does not appear suddenly, nor was it by sheer chance. There is a cascading effect on successive development of thought and spirituality that led to where we are, who we are, and why do we behave the way we do.…”
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Surface plasmon resonance (SPR) enhanced biosensors by Zhang, Jinling

“…The fabrication steps of the arrays were composed of electron-beam lithography and nano-imprint lithography. In comparison with the PAuNH array, the AuNH array offered higher field enhancement for fluorescence when only LSP was excited. …”
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Two-dimensional transitional metal dichalcongenide heterostructures : interface optical properties by Zheng, ShouJun

“…In the hBN/TMDC/hBN heterostructure, e-beam induced e-h pairs can transfer to and be trapped in the middle TMDC layer, leading to increased recombination probability within the TMDC layer. …”
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