Versatile asymmetric separator with dendrite-free alloy anode enables high-performance Li-S batteries by Yan, Wenqi, Yang, Jin-Lin, Xiong, Xiaosong, Fu, Lijun, Chen, Yuhui, Wang, Zhaogen, Zhu, Yusong, Zhao, Jian-Wei, Wang, Tao, Wu, Yuping

“…SPOP-Li serves as a polysulfides barrier and Li-ion conductor, while the LLZNO functions as an "ion redistributor". …”
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Xi’s Visit to Russia : Beginning of a New Era? by Cheang, Chris

“…Bilateral relations between China and Russia have been strengthened with President Xi Jinping’s latest state visit to Moscow. However, growing links with China will not change Russia’s entrenched Eurocentric orientation.…”
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Physics-informed deep learning for multi-species membrane separations by Rehman, Danyal, Lienhard, John H.

“…Conventional continuum models for ion transport across polyamide membranes require solving partial differential equations (PDEs). …”
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Fluids and Electrolytes under Confinement in Single-Digit Nanopores

“…What SDNs reveal has been surprising, including a rapidly increasing number of examples such as extraordinarily fast water transport, distorted fluid-phase boundaries, strong ion-correlation and quantum effects, and dielectric anomalies that are not observed in larger pores. …”
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A high efficiency buck converter for IoT sensors by Mo, Mingwei

“…The converter accommodates the full 2.5V to 4.2V input voltage range of Li-ion batteries and generates a 1.2V output voltage with a load current in the range of 10 μA to 100 mA, which is optimized for light load conditions to prolong battery life. …”
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Feature importance network reveals novel functional relationships between biological features in Arabidopsis thaliana by Ng, Jonathan Wei Xiong, Chua, Swee Kwang, Mutwil, Marek

“…Here, we constructed a dataset of 11,801 gene features for 31,522 Arabidopsis thaliana genes and developed a machine learning workflow to identify linked features. The detected linked features are visualised as a Feature Important Network (FIN), which can be mined to reveal a variety of novel biological insights pertaining to gene function. …”
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Longitudinal effects of physical discipline on specific dimensions of childhood anxiety by Leow, Jerron

“… • Physical discipline has been linked to many negative developmental outcomes, including anxiety (e.g., Gershoff et al., 2010; Lansford et al., 2010; Liu, 2015)…”
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Molecular modulation of fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-based conjugated polymers for enhanced photoelectrochemical water oxidation under visible light by Dai, Chunhui, Gong, Xuezhong, Zhu, Xianglin, Xue, Can, Liu, Bin

“…Moreover, C12 was used for preparation of a composite film with TiO2 nanorod arrays via spin-coating to yield an approximately 11-fold higher anodic PEC activity than that of pure TiO2. …”
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Annihilation mechanisms for interacting skyrmions in magnetic nanowire by Al Saidi, W., Bhatti, Sabpreet, Piramanayagam, S. N., Sbiaa, R.

“…In this paper, the interaction, dynamics and annihilation mechanisms of Néel skyrmions in nanowire confinement under the influence of spin-transfer torque (STT) and edge forces have been studied. …”
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QCD challenges from pp to AA collisions: 4th edition by Altmann, Javira, Andres, Carlota, Andronic, Anton, Antinori, Federico, Antonioli, Pietro, Beraudo, Andrea, Berti, Eugenio, Bianchi, Livio, Boettcher, Thomas, Capriotti, Lorenzo, Christiansen, Peter, Contreras Nuño, Jesus Guillermo, Cunqueiro Mendez, Leticia, da Silva, Cesar, Dainese, Andrea, Dembinski, Hans Peter, Dobrigkeit Chinellato, David, Dubla, Andrea, Faggin, Mattia, Flett, Chris, Greco, Vincenzo, Grishmanovskii, Ilia, Holguin, Jack, Kanakubo, Yuuka, Kim, Dong Jo, Lea, Ramona, Lee, Su Houng, Mariani, Saverio, Matyja, Adam, Mazeliauskas, Aleksas, Minissale, Vincenzo, Morsch, Andreas, Oliva, Lucia, Orusa, Luca, Paakkinen, Petja, Pablos, Daniel, Paić, Guy, Pierog, Tanguy, Plumari, Salvatore, Prino, Francesco, Rossi, Andrea, Sestini, Lorenzo, Skands, Peter, Soloveva, Olga, Soramel, Francesca, Soto Ontoso, Alba, Spousta, Martin, Stahl Leiton, Andre Govinda, Sun, Jiayin, Takacs, Adam, Trogolo, Stefano, Turrisi, Rosario, Verweij, Marta, Vislavicius, Vytautas, Wang, Jing, Werner, Klaus, Zaccolo, Valentina, Zhang, Mingyu, Zhu, Jianhui, Zuliani, Davide

“…The goal of the workshop was to focus on some of the open questions in the field of high-energy heavy-ion physics and to stimulate the formulation of concrete suggestions for making progresses on both the experimental and theoretical sides. …”
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Theoretical and experimental constraints for the equation of state of dense and hot matter by Kumar, Rajesh, Dexheimer, Veronica, Jahan, Johannes, Noronha, Jorge, Noronha-Hostler, Jacquelyn, Ratti, Claudia, Yunes, Nico, Nava Acuna, Angel Rodrigo, Alford, Mark, Anik, Mahmudul Hasan, Chatterjee, Debarati, Chatziioannou, Katerina, Chen, Hsin-Yu, Clevinger, Alexander, Conde, Carlos, Cruz-Camacho, Nikolas, Dore, Travis, Drischler, Christian, Elfner, Hannah, Essick, Reed, Friedenberg, David, Ghosh, Suprovo, Grefa, Joaquin, Haas, Roland, Haber, Alexander, Hammelmann, Jan, Harris, Steven, Haster, Carl-Johan, Hatsuda, Tetsuo, Hippert, Mauricio, Hirayama, Renan, Holt, Jeremy W., Kahangirwe, Micheal, Karthein, Jamie, Kojo, Toru, Landry, Philippe, Lin, Zidu, Luzum, Matthew, Manning, Timothy Andrew, Salinas San Martin, Jordi, Miller, Cole, Most, Elias Roland, Mroczek, Debora, Muronga, Azwinndini, Patino, Nicolas, Peterson, Jeffrey, Plumberg, Christopher, Price, Damien, Providencia, Constanca, Rougemont, Romulo, Roy, Satyajit, Shah, Hitansh, Shapiro, Stuart, Steiner, Andrew W., Strickland, Michael, Tan, Hung, Togashi, Hajime, Portillo Vazquez, Israel, Wen, Pengsheng, Zhang, Ziyuan

“…From the experimental side, it includes heavy-ion collision and low-energy nuclear physics results, as well as observations from neutron stars and their mergers. …”
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Hierarchical tubular structures constructed by carbon-coated SnO2 nanoplates for highly reversible lithium storage by Zhang, Lei, Zhang, Genqiang, Wu, Hao Bin, Yu, Le, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…When evaluated as an anode material for lithium-ion batteries, the as-synthesized SnO2-carbon hybrid structure manifests high specific capacity and excellent.…”
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Aminomethylation of enals through carbene and acid cooperative catalysis : concise access to β2-amino acids by Chi, Robin Yonggui, Xu, Jianfeng, Chen, Xingkuan, Wang, Ming, Zheng, Pengcheng, Song, Bao-An

“…The catalytically generated conjugated acid from the base plays dual roles in promoting the formation of azolium enolate intermediate, formaldehyde-derived iminium ion (as an electrophilic reactant), and methanol (as a nucleophilic reactant). …”
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Laser irradiation of WE54 surface through simulated body fluid layer by Khadka, Indira, Castagne, Sylvie, Wang, Zhongke, Zheng, Hongyu, Shreyas, Kuddannaya

“…In this study, laser treatment of WE54 in simulated body fluid (SBF) has been carried out to explore the technique to produce bio-structures through various ion deposition such as Ca/P on WE54 surface so as to improve its surface bio-functionality.…”
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Developing a lightscape application (using a raspberry PI) by Ong, Wenchuan

“…The project aims to develop a web application, which will be hosted within the Raspberry Pi, for controlling the brightness of constant light source from the high power LED via the Raspberry Pi’s General Purpose Input Output (GPIO) pins and gather optimal settings for projecting images with the Light Blaster. …”
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Additive friction stir processing by Lin, Longyi

“…The continuous dynamic recrystalisation during FSP also gave finer grains, which was further enhanced with the addition of CNTs through Zener pinning effect. The improvement in tensile strengths due to finer grains through the Hall-Petch mechanism was insufficient to compensate for the drop in Orowan strengthening. …”
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Neutron emission studies from miniature and medium size plasma focus device by Singh, Rajdeep Raweet.

“…Although dense plasma focus devices have attracted the attention of scientific community since 1960’s as a copious source of fusion neutrons but in the recent years owing to spin-off in the applications of compact and portable table top neutron sources in wider domain, like noninvasive interrogation of explosives and narcotic drugs (by using Pulsed Fast/Thermal Neutron Analysis (PFTNA) technique), dark matter research, radioisotope production, medical neutron therapy and soil humidity measurements, there has been renewed interest across the globe for the development of sub-kilojoule range, low energy small plasma focus device (hereafter called ‘Miniature Plasma Focus i.e. …”
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Cost-benefit-analysis of VRB-ESS for building applications by Wang, Fan

“…As VRB have many advantages, such as high efficiency, long lifespan, short response time and high recovery of its components, it is widely used as energy storage, the peak shaving and spinning reserve. In this project, the cost and benefit of VRB-ESS for building applications in Singapore was calculated and compared. …”
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Synthesis, characterization and terahertz study of metal oxides by He, Mi

“…The interplays among various orderings of the spin, charge and orbital degrees of freedom in a broad spectrum of crystalline structures produce a number forms of symmetry-breaking patterns of spatial inversion, time-reversal and gauge symmetries, leading to exciting emergent phenomena in strongly-correlated electron systems and promising a variety of potential applications. …”
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Micro-systems mechanics Vol. IV by Lin, Rongming, David J. Ewins

“…It can regulate the position of read/write head laterally in parallel with the surface of the disk and simultaneously adjust the flying height of the read/write head over the spinning platter. Both static and dynamic analyses of the actuator have been performed by ANSYS. …”
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