Probing the effect of oxygen vacancies in strontium titanate single crystals by Rahman, S

“…</p> <p>Electrical transport, cathodoluminescence (CL) and electron spin resonance (ESR) experiments are also carried out to investigate the effect of oxygen vacancies on the bulk properties of UHV annealed SrTiO₃ single crystals. …”

Synthetic, spectroscopic, biological and X-ray crystallographic structural studies on a novel pyridine-nitrogen-bridged dimeric nickel(II) complex of a pentadentate N3S2 ligand by Akbar Ali, Mohammad, Mirza, Aminul Huq, Butcher, Ray J., Tarafder, M.T.H.

“…The Schiff base formed by condensation of 2,6-diacetylpyridine with S-benzyldithiocarbazate (H2SNNNS) behaves as a pentadentate ligand, forming a nickel(II) complex of empirical formula Ni(SNNNS)·H2O that is high-spin with a room-temperature magnetic moment of 2.93 B.M. …”
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Investigating the potential of cobalt-doped zinc oxide (Zn1-xCoxOδ) as a buffer layer for CZTS thin-film solar cells by Abdullah, Huda, Kang, Jian Xian, Amir Hamzah, Muhammad Nurhayat, Mohammad Naim, Norshafadzila, Bais, Badariah, Mohmad, Abdul Rahman, Sampe, Jahariah, Brian Yuliarto, Brian Yuliarto, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, Yap, Wing Fen, Ni Luh Wulan Septiani, Ni Luh Wulan Septiani

“…This work reports on the preparation and characterization of a cobalt-doped zinc oxide (Zn1-xCoxOδ) thin-film buffer layer using the spin-coating technique on ITO back contact glass substrates. …”

Amphiphilic Janus magnetoplasmonic nanoparticles: pH-triggered self-assembly and fluorescence modulation by Lu, Derong, Hou, Shuai, Liu, Sheng, Xiong, Qirong, Chen, Yonghao, Duan, Hongwei

“…Furthermore, the coating of well-defined BCP grafts on the gold nanoparticle (AuNP) of the JNPs offers the possibilities to finely tune the interparticle distance and precisely position dye molecules at the gap between neighboring JNPs in the ensembles, and the pH-sensitivity of the BCP allows to control the interparticle distance as a function of pH. …”
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Polarity-driven laminar pattern formation by lateral-inhibition in 2D and 3D bilayer geometries by Moore, JW, Dale, TC, Woolley, TE

“…Fine-grain patterns produced by juxtacrine signalling have previously been studied using static monolayers as cellular domains. …”

Analysis and design of curved steel beam member in elevation using Eurocode 3 by Yandarmadi, Kelvin

“…This paper specifically focuses on analysing simply supported boundary condition curved beam member which pinned on the one end and roller that can be moved horizontally on the other end. …”
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Hybrid UNet transformer architecture for ischemic stoke segmentation with MRI and CT datasets by Soh, Wei Kwek, Rajapakse, Jagath Chandana

“…HUT outperforms the state-the-art network SPiN in the single-modality MRI segmentation on Anatomical Tracings of lesion After Stroke (ATLAS) dataset by 4.84% of Dice score and a large margin of 40.7% in the Hausdorff Distance score. …”
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Ultrafast Terahertz Spectroscopy for the Manipulation and Elucidation of Correlated Quantum Materials by Allington, Clifford

“…To this end, experimental efforts to demonstrate and understand the interplay between different degrees of freedom in a material (spin, charge, lattice, and orbital) are essential for progressing in this direction. …”
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Application of bentonite in cement-based composites: A review of current status, challenges and future prospects by Hasan, Kamrul, Putra Jaya, Ramadhansyah, Fadzil, Mat Yahaya

“…The literature review of previous studies concluded that incorporating finely ground BT in optimal amounts (10–15 %) could effectively replace cement in concrete production without compromising strength, performance, or durability. …”
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Operando electrodeposition of nonprecious metal copper nanocatalysts on low-dimensional support materials for nitrate reduction reactions by Tan, Shu Fen, Roslie, Hany, Salim, Teddy, Han, Zengyu, Wu, Dongshuang, Liang, Caihong, Teo, Lim Fong, Lam, Yeng Ming

“…By combining real-time imaging, electrochemical measurements, X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and finite-element analysis (FEA), we show that low-dimensional support materials, especially carbon nanotubes, are excellent for generating uniform and finely dispersed platinum group metal-(PGM)-free catalysts under mild electrochemical conditions. …”
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Improving the charge separation and collection at the buffer/absorber interface by double-layered Mn-substituted CZTS by Lie, Stener, Sandi, Mario Indra, Tay, Ying Fan, Li, Wenjie, Tan, Joel Ming Rui, Bishop, Douglas M., Gunawan, Oki, Wong, Lydia Helena

“…In this study, Cu2MnxZn1-xSnS4 (CMZTS) thin film were fabricated by a sol-gel spin coating technique to understand the effect of Mn on the device performance. …”
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Engineering quantum control with optical transitions induced by twisted light fields by Zanon-Willette, Thomas, Impens, François, Arimondo, Ennio, Wilkowski, David, Taichenachev, Aleksei V., Yudin, Valeriy I.

“…These field gradients are manipulated by the mutual action of orbital and spin angular momentum of the light beam and are used in presence of tunable vector and tensor polarizabilities. …”
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Markov-Chain Monte Carlo Sampling of Visibility Boundaries for Differentiable Rendering by Xu, Peiyu, Bangaru, Sai, Li, Tzu-Mao, Zhao, Shuang

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Laser-based 3D printing using bessel beams for tissue engineering applications by Liew, Andy Wen Loong

“…High resolution fibers down to 25 μm were printable using the BB technique, a significant improvement compared to conventional microfluidics and wet spinning techniques, and the capability to tune the fabricated fiber diameter based on mathematical models was also demonstrated. …”
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Induction of z-conformation in ribosomal RNA by Z-DNA binding domain Zα of the human double-stranded RNA deaminase I (ADAR1) by Zhao, Jing

“…In order to provide theoretical foundations for the analysis of NMR spectral responses of ZαADAR1 to ribosomes we attempted to extend the conventional NMR relaxation theory to include a semi solid-state treatment of nuclear spin dynamics in large complexes. The main challenge to the classical NMR theory arises when one of the binding partners is so large that in the chemical shift time scale of solution NMR (milliseconds) it can be considered as practically static or solid-state-like. …”
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Effect of different lead precursors on planar perovskite solar cells by Martin

“…The hydrate water inside the lead acetate precursor has no bad effect on the perovskite formation. 3. Increasing the spin coat speed (to 3000rpm for 30 seconds) can improve the uniformity of perovskite film and further current density of solar cells. 4. …”
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Mesoporous Co3O4 and CoO@C topotactically transformed from chrysanthemum-like Co(CO3)0.5(OH)·0.11H2O and their lithium-storage properties by Xiong, Shenglin, Chen, Jun Song, Lou, David Xiong Wen, Zeng, Hua Chun

“…The growth and thus the final assembly of the Co(CO3)0.5(OH)·0.11H2O can be finely tuned by selecting preparative parameters, such as the molar ratio of the starting chemicals, the additives, the reaction time and the temperature. …”
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Conformational changes involved in signal transduction in avian cryptochromes by Gehrckens, AS

“…To further investigate the interaction surface, electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy was used, more specifically double electron-electron resonance, to complement the previously acquired data with cysteine-residue-dependent distance measurements using nitroxide spin labels. The findings on dimerisation are presented in chapter 5.…”

Influence of calcination temperature on nickel oxide nanoparticles synthesized by thermal treatment by Manal, Ahmed Hashem

“…The magnetic properties were also investigated by electron spin resonance (ESR) spectroscopy, which confirmed the presence of unpaired electrons. …”
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Novel self-cleaning PVDF/MoO3/ZnO/GO dual layer hollow fiber photocatalytic membrane with excellent photocatalytic performance of EDCs removal and energy storage capability by Zakria, Hazirah Syahirah, Borhamdin, Suhaila, Ismail, Nurul Jannah, Peechmani, Prakash, Moslan, Mohd. Shahrizan, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, A. Rahman, Mukhlis, Jaafar, Juhana, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Rajamohan, Natarajan, Hashim, Norbaya, Kerisnan@Krishnan, Nirmala Devi, Yahaya, Nasehir Khan E. M., Idris, Alias

“…Ternary MoO3/ZnO/GO was synthesized using hydrothermal method and was embedded on the surface of dual layer hollow fiber membrane by dry-wet spinning method by varying the GO loading at 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 wt%. …”