Functionalized MXene enabled sustainable water harvesting and desalination by Fei, Jipeng, Koh, See Wee, Tu, Wengguang, Ge, Junyu, Hamid, Rezaeyan, Hou, Shuai, Duan Hongwei, Lam, Yee Cheong, Li, Hong

“…Moreover, the salt rejection rate for high salinity seawater (original Na+ concentration is 18 000 mg L−1) reaches up to 97.5%, generating drinkable water that meets the WHO standard. …”
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Feasibility study of E.coli inactivation and development of portable water purifier using platinized titanium by Muhammad Shafique Hamid

“…Using platinized titanium as the electrodes, the development of a portable water purifier prototype was found to be feasible where 32% of E.coli was inactivated by 6 hour achieving a log(N/N0) of -5, although much higher inactivation from shorter times could be obtained using a bench top electrolytic system. …”
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Escalated deep-subwavelength acoustic imaging with field enhancement inside a metalens by Chen, Jian, Sun, Zeqing, Rao, Jing, Lisevych, Danylo, Fan, Zheng

“…Specifically, a breakthrough resolution below lambda/100 is achieved while resolving contrast is improved by at least 6.5 times and working bandwidth is broadened to approximately 25% of the operating frequency. …”
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Nanomaterials for biomolecules sensing : germanene modified screen printed electrodes for the chronoamperometric detection of histamine in fish samples by Veronica Pereira

“…The reduction of potassium hexacyanoferrate (III) which occurs at the low potentials of +0.2 V was used to indirectly measure the histamine concentration present in the sample. …”
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Design and optimization of conformal cooling channels for injection molding : a review by Kanbur, Baris Burak, Shen, Suping, Duan, Fei

“…This review study presents the main design steps of CCCs as follows: (1) a background of the CCC fabrication process is projected, (2) the thermal and mechanical models are presented with respect to the 1D analytical model, (3) the CAE-supported design criteria are discussed for the 3D models of CCCs and relevant mold materials, (4) some of the illustrative CAE simulations are explained in detail according to the computational thermal and mechanical objectives, and (5) the single- and multi-objective optimization procedures are defined. …”
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High order magnetic and electric resonant modes of split ring resonator metasurface arrays for strong enhancement of mid-infrared photodetection by Tong, Jinchao, Suo, Fei, Tobing, Landobasa Y. M., Yao, Niangjuan, Zhang, Dawei, Huang, Zhiming, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…In this work, we study photodetection enhancement of these resonant modes of U-shape SRR arrays in the mid-infrared (2-5 μm) range and report, for the first time, the strong enhancement of photodetection by superimposition of m1 and e modes in an integrated photodetector consisting of a U-shape SRR array and an InAsSb-based heterojunction photodiode. …”
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Elucidating the strain–vacancy–activity relationship on structurally deformed Co@CoO nanosheets for aqueous phase reforming of formaldehyde by Qian, Kaicheng, Yan, Yong, Xi, Shibo, Wei, Tong, Dai, Yihu, Yan, Xiaoqing, Kobayashi, Hisayoshi, Wang, Sheng, Liu, Wen, Li, Renhong

“…Optimal catalytic activity is achieved by the sample reduced at 350 °C, Co@CoO-350 which exhibits the maximum concentration of Co-CoO interfaces, the maximum concentration of oxygen vacancies, a lattice strain of 5.2% in CoO, and the highest aqueous phase formaldehyde reforming turnover frequency of 50.4 h-1 at room temperature. …”
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Nearly total optical transmission of linearly polarized light through transparent electrode composed of GaSb monolithic high-contrast grating integrated with gold by Tobing, Landobasa Yosef Mario, Wasiak, Michal, Zhang, Dao Hua, Fan, Weijun, Czyszanowski, Tomasz

“…The metalMHCG structure was realized via multiple nanopatterning and dry etching, with the largest transmission yet reported of ∼90% at a wavelength of 4.5 μm and above 75% transmission in the wavelength range from 4 to 10 μm and sheet resistance at the level of 26 ωSq-1. …”
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Upscaling of aligned silver nanowires for large scale transparent electrode by Yeo, Yu Chen

“…The sheet resistance was measured and found to have an acceptable value (≈ 5 Ω/sq). However, the transmittance had a value of ≈ 76% which was lower then the industrial standard of > 90%. …”
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Pangolin-inspired stretchable, microwave-invisible metascale by Wang, Changxian, Lv, Zhisheng, Mohan, Manoj Prabhakar, Cui, Zequn, Liu, Zhihua, Jiang, Ying, Li, Jiaofu, Wang, Cong, Pan, Shaowu, Muhammad Faeyz Karim, Liu, Ai Qun, Chen, Xiaodong

“…Besides, profiting from the covering effect and size-confined effect of EMD-scale, the out-of-plane indentation failure force of PIMS is at least 5 times larger than conventional device. As a proof of concept, the proposed device is conformally pasted on nondevelopable surfaces. …”
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Characteristics of bubble rise in a liquid by Tan, Si Ying

“…This experimental study aimed to reaffirm that bubbles reach terminal velocity and to extend past studies by examining a wider range of bubbles with varying sizes from approximately 5 mm to 20 mm in diameter and in fluid mediums of varying viscosities – glycerol and aqueous glycerol solution. …”
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Additive manufacturing by Yeong, Wai Yee

“…The research projects featured in this primer are categorised into seven research areas: (1) Aerospace & Defence (2) Biomedical & Food Printing (3) Building & Construction (4) Marine & Offshore (5) AI in Part Design & Manufacturing (6) Novel Materials & 3D Microstructure Engineering (7) Beyond 3D Printing. …”
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Radiation and energy budget dynamics associated with a floating photovoltaic system by Yang, Peipei, Chua, Lloyd H. C., Irvine, K. N., Imberger, Jorg

“…The modelled surface water temperature also replicated field measurements showing an increase of about 0.5 °C as compared to the open water temperature. …”
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Heteroatom-doped microporous carbon nanosheets derived from pentaerythritol-melamine for supercapacitors and CO₂ capture by Hu, Xiaochun, Luo, Yuqing, Wu, Xianyue, Niu, Jiabin, Tan, Mingwu, Sun, Zhiqiang, Liu, Wen

“…When used for CO2 capture, the HMCN synthesized by the pyrolysis of a 3:2 mixture of MEL and PER at 900 °C (3/2-HMCNs-900) affords a CO2 uptake of 5.35 mmol g−1 at 273 K and 1 bar CO2 partial pressure. …”
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Structure and regulation of the mycobacterial F1-ATPase by Wong, Chui Fann

“…Of interest, a mycobacterial specific C-terminal extension in the α-subunit was identified to be the major contributor towards ATP hydrolysis inhibition. A 3.5 Å determined cryo-EM structure of the F1-ATPase visualized that this extension inhibits the enzyme from hydrolysing ATP by preventing rotation of subunit γ as visualized in a single molecule assay. …”
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In situ synthesis and microfabrication of high entropy alloy and oxide compounds by femtosecond laser direct writing under ambient conditions by Hegde, Chidanand, Lim, Joel Chin Huat, Teng, Tan Hui, Liu, Daobin, Kim, Young-Jin, Yan, Qingyu, Li, Hua

“…As a proof of concept, Ni0.24 Co0.23 Cu0.24 Fe0.15 Cr0.14 high entropy alloy synthesized on stainless-steel foil by FsLDW is used for the oxygen evolution reaction, which achieves a current density of 10 mA cm-2 at a significantly low overpotential of 213 mV. Further, FsLDW can also achieve microfabrication of alloys/MMO with feature sizes down to 20 µm.…”
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Sorption studies of nylon by Tng, Shu Zheng.

“…Nylon-6,6 and nylon-6 films of dimensions 3.5 cm x 1 cm x 0.1 cm were synthesized from its pellet form. …”
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A transgenic zebrafish for in vivo visualization of cilia by Zhang, Hongyu, Huang, Zhuoya, Lv, Liuliu, Xin, Yuye, Wang, Qian, Li, Feng, Dong, Lina, Wu, Changxin, Ingham, Philip William, Zhao, Zhonghua

“…Due to the lack of a conserved, short ciliary localization motif, the full-length ARL13b or 5HT6 proteins are normally used for cilia labelling. …”
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Design of a low-voltage low-power WiMAX low noise amplifier by Zeng, Wei

“…Operating voltage is 1.8V. CMOS 0.18m CSM technology was used for the proposed design and WiMAX specifications are met satisfactorily.…”
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Enhancing prosthetic control through high-fidelity myoelectric mapping with molecular anchoring technology by Pan, Liang, Wang, Hui, Huang, Pingao, Wu, Xuwei, Tang, Zihan, Jiang, Ying, Ji, Shaobo, Cao, Jinwei, Ji, Baohua, Li, Guanglin, Li, Dechang, Wang, Zhiming, Chen, Xiaodong

“…The use of hydrophobic poly(N-vinyl caprolactam) gel has resulted in an interface impedance of 20 kΩ, which is 1/100 of a commercial acrylic-based electrode, allowing the detection of ultralow myoelectric signals (≈1.5% MVC) that approach human limits. With this molecular anchoring technology, amputees operate a prosthesis with greater dexterity, as phantom finger and wrist movements are predicted with 97.6% accuracy. …”
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