Preparation of low-pressure water softening hollow fiber membranes by polyelectrolyte deposition with two bilayers by Rajabzadeh, Saeid, Liu, Chang, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…A salt water flux (SWP) of 12 LMH/bar and 94% Mg2 + rejection was obtained by depositing only two bilayers of PSS/PAH polyelectrolytes on the PES substrate, while for the 3000 ppm mixed salt solution, the water permeability was 11 LMH/bar with Mg2 + and Ca2 + rejection as high as 90%. …”
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Polyamide-imide hollow fiber membranes crosslinked with amine-appended inorganic networks for application in solvent-resistant nanofiltration under low operating pressure by Lim, Siow Kee, Setiawan, Laurentia, Bae, Tae-Hyun, Wang, Rong

“…The development of polyamide-imide (PAI) hollow fiber membranes for solvent-resistant nanofiltration (SRNF) in polar aprotic solvents such as dimethylformamide (DMF) under low operating pressure of 2 bar is reported in current study. Highly porous PAI substrates were fabricated and crosslinked with (3-aminopropyl)trimethoxysilane (APTMS). …”
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Methane precipitation in ice giant atmospheres by Toledo, D, Rannou, P, Irwin, PG, de Batz de Trenquelléon, B, Roman, M, Apestigue, V, Arruego, I, Yela, M

“…Voyager-2 radio occultation measurements have revealed changes in the atmospheric refractivity within a 2–4 km layer near the 1.2-bar level in Uranus and the 1.6-bar level in Neptune. …”

Clouds and hazes in Saturn's troposphere and stratosphere by Merlet, CTC

“…The best-fitting model consists of a scattering cloud between 2 and 3 bar, and a scattering haze layer which can be placed anywhere between 10 and 500 mbar. …”

Experimental investigation of glass fibre-reinforced polymer (GFRP) when subjected to low and high velocity impact events by Razali, Noorshazlin

“…The high velocity impact test is performed on three specimens for each thickness using an instrumented Single Stage Gas Gun (SSGG) and the pressure of the gas gun is set to range from 5 bar to 60 bar. Each of the tests is performed using three types of bullet which are blunt, hemispherical and conical. …”
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Preparation of graphene - based photocatalyst for environmental application by Chong, Ying Yan

“…In this study, a hybrid nanocomposite Graphene-based photocatalyst (GO-COOH-CuS-Ag) was synthesised via a facile two-phase (toluene-water) method, with the incorporation of carboxylic acid functionalised graphene oxide sheets (GO-COOH), silver (Ag) nanoparticles, and copper sulfide (CuS) nanoplates that were synthesised individually. …”
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Powering the future: the latest breakthrough in wireless charging for electric vehicles by Fry, Matthew, Muhammad Usama Islam, Muhammad Usama Islam, Syed Zahurul Islam, Syed Zahurul Islam, Jasim Uddin, Jasim Uddin

“…Major industries are increasingly adopting the concept of producing hybrid or fully electric cars, resulting in electric vehicles becoming a common sight in today’s era. …”
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A case study of Lexus in the Singapore automobile industry by Ong, Eddie Hsing Jen, Chia, Keith Min-Yu, Sim, Vincent Chin Siong

“…The launch of Lexus in Singapore marks the birth of a juggernaut in the luxury car market which has traditionally been dominated by the European ‘masters’.…”
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Use of the motivation-expectation space to communicate strategies in a joint cognitive system by Li, Angela Sin Tan

“…In this thesis, the translation was repeated for an in-car navigation task to gain insights in the MES application for a context with intentional constraints. …”
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Autism narratives in Singapore by Ho, Melissa Yun Ling

“…Examining Singaporean autism narratives allows us insight into the ways in which dominant global discourses about autism are negotiated in local contexts; narratives are shaped by their socio-cultural contexts and examining those from Singapore, a globalised and multicultural, yet socially conservative city-state, enables us to understand the ways in which such multiple discourses come to bear upon individual narratives. Given that these narratives have, in turn, the potential to shape cultural discourses, and having shown through close literary analysis some effects of existing stereotypes and discourses, I argue for the urgency and importance of attending to narrative ethics in the production of autism narratives in Singapore.…”
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Harnessing dimethyl ether with ultra-low-grade heat for scaling-resistant brine concentration and fractional crystallization by Foo, Zi Hao, Deshmukh, Akshay, Wilson, Aaron D., Lienhard, John H.

“…At a heat source temperature of 323 K and an interstage pressure of 0.489 bar, DME-driven SDWE achieves an optimal thermodynamic efficiency of 20.5 % and a projected specific cost of US$ 1.93 m−3. …”
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Mixed polyamide-based composite nanofiltration hollow fiber membranes with improved low-pressure water softening capability by Fang, Wangxi, Shi, Lei, Wang, Rong

“…The optimized NF membrane possessed a molecular weight cut-off (MWCO) of 380 Da, an effective pore diameter of 1.27 nm, and pure water permeability (PWP) of 18.2 l/m2 h bar. Under an operating pressure of 2 bar, the membrane exhibited rejection of 96.3% and 93.8% to 1000 ppm MgCl2 and MgSO4 feed solutions, respectively. …”
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Layer-by-layer aided β-cyclodextrin nanofilm for precise organic solvent nanofiltration by Li, Xin, Li, Can, Goh, Kunli, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Wang, Rong

“…Importantly, the LBL-aided β-CD nanofilm exhibits competitive permeances towards both polar (e.g., methanol, 5.8 LMH/bar) and nonpolar solvents (e.g., hexane, 7.0 LMH/bar). …”
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Dissecting the structure-compaction-performance relationship of thin-film composite polyamide membranes with different structure features by Zhao, Yali, Lai, Gwo Sung, Chong, Jeng Yi, Wang, Rong

“…TFC membrane with a PA layer of low protuberances or nodules and dense substrate showed excellent resistance against high pressure (50 bar), with only a slight irreversible decrease of 2.1–3.5% in water permeability when retested at 5 bar. …”
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Fabrication of PVDF ultrafiltration membrane using modified thermally induced phase separation: the role of amphiphilic and hydrophilic non-solvents by Chen, Ningyuan, Zhao, Jie, Shi, Lei, Goto, Atsushi, Wang, Rong

“…The addition of both PEG400 and TEG could significantly increase the membrane's PWP to 645.4 L m−2 h−1 bar−1 with moderate enlargement of the mean pore size of the membrane to 84 nm. …”
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Fractionation of catfish protein hydrolysates using ultrafiltration membrane by Novin, Donya

“…For 5 h hydrolysate, the highest transmission was achieved at pH 5.1, pressure of 2 bar, 0.15 M of NaCl and feed concentration of 1.5 mg/ml. …”
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Layered construction of integrated sulfur-bridged CoNi-S/rGO architecture for enhanced electrochemical energy storage by Aboelazm, Eslam Atef Abdelaziz, Khe, Chengseong, Grätz, Sven, Chong, Kwok Feng, Mohamed Shuaib, Mohamed Saheed, Hegazy, Mohamed Barakat Zakaria

“…This study introduces a novel cathode material composed of CoNi-sulfides (CoNi-S) nanostructured flakes and reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sheets designed to be connected through additional sulfur atoms to enhance their conductivity and electroactive surface area for hybrid supercapacitors. …”
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Advances in Industrial Internet of Things, Engineering and Management / by Cagáňová, Dagmar, editor 643104, Horňáková, Natália, editor 643105, Pusca, Andy, editor 643106, Cunha, Pedro Filipe, editor 401123

“…Some topics include the impact of ICT on the emergency response vehicle driving time, car accident detecting systems based on machine learning algorithms, smart city platforms based on citizen reporting services, and IoT-based household energy consumption prediction using machine learning. …”

Mechanism of traffic jams at speed bottlenecks by Quek, Wei Liang, Chew, Lock Yue

“…As suggested by Sugiyama[1], when car density exceeds a critical density, the fluctuations in the speed of each car will lead to greater fluctuations in speed of the cars behind it. …”
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Energy saving control of robot by Chan, Chee Siang.

“…However, in some applications such as driving a car along the road, shooting a moving targer etc, the desired region is not a static region but a moving region. …”
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