Present and future of functionalized Cu current collectors for stabilizing lithium metal anodes by Liu Yuhang, Li, Yifan, Sun, Jinmeng, Du, Zhuzhu, Hu, Xiaoqi, Bi, Jingxuan, Liu, Chuntai, Ai, Wei, Yan, Qingyu

“…Li metal has been recognized as the most promising anode materials for next-generation high-energy-density batteries, however, the inherent issues of dendrite growth and huge volume fluctuations upon Li plating/stripping normally result in fast capacity fading and safety concerns. Functionalized Cu current collectors have so far exhibited significant regulatory effects on stabilizing Li metal anodes (LMAs), and hold a great practical potential owing to their easy fabrication, low-cost and good compatibility with the existing battery technology. …”
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Biocompatible solid-state ion-sensitive organic electrochemical transistor for physiological multi-ions sensing by Moudgil, Akshay, Hou, Kunqi, Li, Ting, Leong, Wei Lin

“…This work develops a flexible solid-state organic electrochemical transistor with an extended sensing node for multi-ions sensing in the physiological range with high selectivity, fast response, and superior sensitivity. The solid-contact architecture is implemented for easy sample handling, processability, device miniaturization, and flexibility. …”
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Jamming-based covert communication for rate-splitting multiple access by Nguyen, Trung Thanh, Luong, Nguyen Cong, Feng, Shaohan, Elbassioni, Khaled, Niyato, Dusit

“…The max-min problem is non-convex, and we propose a fast exponential algorithm which can produce a global optimal solution to the problem. …”
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GBGVD: growth-based geodesic Voronoi diagrams by Qi, Yunjia, Zong, Chen, Zhang, Yunxiao, Chen, Shuangmin, Xu, Minfeng, Ran, Lingqiang, Xu, Jian, Xin, Shiqing, He, Ying

“…Experimental results show that our algorithm runs 3 times as fast as the state-of-the-art method at the same accuracy level.…”
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Multi-scale CuS-rGO pyramidal photothermal structure for highly efficient solar-driven water evaporation and thermoelectric power generation by Zeng, Long, Deng, Daxiang, Zhu, Linye, Zhang, Zhenkun, Gu, Xin, Wang, Huiming, Jiang, Yujie

“…They combined the merits of efficient multiple refraction and absorption of light, broad-spectrum absorption capabilities of rGO and high near-infrared extinction coefficient of CuS, as well as fast water transportation by gradient porous matrix. …”
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Large-scale model testing of high-pressure grouting reinforcement for bedding slope with rapid-setting polyurethane by Zhang, Zhichao, Tang, Xuefeng, Liu, Kan, Ye, Longzhen, He, Xiang

“…This study proves the improvement of polymer grouting for bedding slope treatment and will contribute to the development of a fast method to protect bedding slopes from landslides.…”
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Geometric primitive feature extraction : concepts, algorithms and applications by Prasad, Dilip Kumar.

“…For the problem of detecting ellipses in a set of digital curves, several innovative and fast pre-processing, grouping, and hypotheses evaluation concepts applicable for digital curves have been proposed and combined to form an ellipse detection method. …”
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Study of 3PL selection and development in Singapore by Liu, Zelai

“…A comparison between EE industry and the Fast Moving Consumer Goods (FMCG) and Cold Chain (CC) industry will also be conducted, particularly in terms of how the 3PL selection criteria are similar or different across the three industries. …”
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Evaluation of context awareness algorithms for recommending mobile content by Dong, Hong Liang

“…Previous studies showed that they had great influence to users’ behaviors of information retrieval and decision making process. With the fast growth of mobile systems (e.g., smart phones), context-aware recommendation on mobile content became a hot trend in the academic studies and industrial applications. …”
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Preparation of graphene - based photocatalyst for environmental application by Chong, Ying Yan

“…However, problems associated with the existing photocatalysts such as Titanium Dioxide (TiO2) include the fast rate of electron-hole pair recombination, and the need for UV light irradiation that consumes more energy. …”
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Land reclamation without using soil-fills by Yeo, Eng Swee

“…In order to sustain the fast-paced economic development and urbanisation, an increasing emphasis has been placed on land reclamation projects. …”
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The iDEA architecture-focused FPGA soft processor by Cheah, Hui Yan

“…It uses the highly capable DSP blocks on modern Xilinx devices to enable a general purpose processor that is small and fast. We show that the DSP48E1 blocks in Xilinx Virtex-6 and 7-Series devices support a wide range of standard processor instruc- tions that can be designed into the core of a processor we call iDEA. …”
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DC fault detection and clearance in VSC-HVDC systems by Yeap, Yew Ming

“…Each scheme will be assessed based on how fast they clear the fault and achieve smooth recovery. …”
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Human machine interface/brain control for electric vehicles application by Tang, Tao

“…A tunable DC-servo loop (TDSL) is designed to cancel the maximum input DC offset of 200 mV at a controlled speed so that the TDSL achieves a fast cancellation for the input DC offset without any glitch injection. …”
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A New Variational Method for Bias Correction and Its Applications to Rodent Brain Extraction by Chang, Huibin, Huang, Weimin, Wu, Chunlin, Huang, Su, Guan, Cuntai, Sekar, Sakthivel, Bhakoo, Kishore Kumar, Duan, Yuping

“…We propose an efficient multi-resolution algorithm for fast computation. At each resolution layer, we solve an alternating direction scheme, all subproblems of which have the closed-form solutions. …”
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Single-step selective laser writing of flexible photodetectors for wearable optoelectronics by An, Jianing, Le, Truong-Son Dinh, Lim, Chin Huat Joel, Tran, Van Thai, Zhan, Zhaoyao, Gao, Yi, Zheng, Lianxi, Sun, Gengzhi, Kim, Young-Jin

“…Benefitting from enhanced photocarrier generation because of the ultraporous film morphology, efficient separation of electron–hole pairs at rGO–ZnO heterojunctions, and fast electron transport by highly conductive rGO nanosheets, the photodetector exhibits high, linear, and reproducible responsivities to a wide range of ultraviolet (UV) intensities. …”
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The contribution of color information to rapid face categorization in natural scenes by Or, Charles C.-F., Retter, Talia L., Rossion, Bruno

“…We examine its effect on high-level face categorization responses using fast periodic visual stimulation (Rossion et al., 2015). …”
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NMDA receptor activation enhances inhibitory GABAergic transmission onto hippocampal pyramidal neurons via presynaptic and postsynaptic mechanisms by Xue, Jiu Gang, Masuoka, Takayoshi, Gong, Xian Di, Chen, Ken-Shiung, Yanagawa, Yuchio, Law, Alex Sai Kit, Konishi, Shiro

“…Here, we report that a brief application of NMDA could induce two distinct actions in CA1 pyramidal neurons in mouse hippocampal slices: 1) an inward current attributed to activation of postsynaptic NMDARs; and 2) fast phasic synaptic currents, namely spontaneous inhibitory postsynaptic currents (sIPSCs), mediated by GABAA receptors in pyramidal neurons. …”
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An efficient channel clustering and flow rate allocation algorithm for non-uniform microfluidic cooling of 3D integrated circuits by Qian, Hanhua, Chang, Chip Hong, Yu, Hao

“…Supported by this fast and accurate thermal model, the proposed cooling method and clustering algorithm have been applied to a 3D multi-core testbench for simulation. …”
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Ultralow-threshold two-photon pumped amplified spontaneous emission and lasing from seeded CdSe/CdS nanorod heterostructures by Xing, Guichuan, Liao, Yile, Wu, Xiangyang, Chakrabortty, Sabyasachi, Liu, Xinfeng, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee, Sum, Tze Chien, Chan, Yinthai

“…Ultrafast optical spectroscopy verified that while the Auger processes in these heterostructures are indeed suppressed, ASE in these samples could also be strongly affected by a fast hole trapping process to the NR surface states. …”
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