Outer-membrane permeabilization, LPS transport inhibition: activity, interactions, and structures of thanatin derived antimicrobial peptides by Swaleeha Jaan Abdullah, Yan, Bernice Tan Siu, Palanivelu, Nithya, Dhanabal, Vidhya Bharathi, Bifani, Juan Pablo, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…Further, analyses of an inactive 14-residue native thanatin peptide (IM14: IIYCNRRTGKCQRM) delineated the requirement of the β-sheet structure in activity and target interactions. …”
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Experimental investigation of impact response of composite plates/panels by Gan, Jia Li

“…Damage patterns in the acrylic sheet include radial and ring cracks and, together with slight delamination at the interface, which may cause peeling-off of acrylic material from the sandwich plate. …”
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Treatment of dilute wastewater with two-stage anaerobic fluidized bed membrane bioreactor by Mohamed Faris Nashir Bounaparte.

“…However, there is little knowledge in the utilization of a two-stage treatment process involving an AFBR coupled with a flat sheet AFMBR, both using granular activated carbon (GAC) as its support media. …”
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Comparative study on design of braced excavation systems by Toh, Yan Ting

“…From this study, the following findings are drawn: The Hardening Soil and the Hardening Soil with small-strain stiffness models generate conservative settlement profiles compared to the Mohr-Coulomb model; Combination 1 provides a conservative estimation of the wall bending moments; Upper strut forces are more conservative using DA1 Combination 1 while bottom strut forces are more conservative using DA1 Combination 2 Scheme 1; Scheme 2 gives a large bending moment than Scheme 1; The Mohr-Coulomb model, generally, gives a smaller maximum wall bending moment than the Hardening Soil model; findings from sheet pile excavation deviate from those from diaphragm wall excavations; and lastly, consideration of factored E50/cu ratio produces similar strut forces and bending moments compared to unfactored E50/cu values.…”
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Dynamic swimming pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa near a vertical wall during initial attachment stages of biofilm formation by Khong, Nicole Zi-Jia, Zeng, Yukai, Lai, Soak-Kuan, Koh, Cheng-Gee, Liang, Zhao-Xun, Chiam, Keng-Hwee, Li, Hoi-Yeung

“…Here, we compared the near wall (vertical) swimming behaviour of P. aeruginosa (PAO1) and its mutants ΔdipA (reduced in swarming motility and increased in biofilm formation) and ΔfimX (deficient in twitching motility and reduced in biofilm formation) using our new imaging technique based on light sheet microscopy. We found that P. aeruginosa (PAO1) increases its speed and changes its swimming angle drastically when it gets closer to a wall. …”
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Linking dual mode of action of host defense antimicrobial peptide thanatin: structures, lipopolysaccharide and LptAm binding of designed analogs by Sinha, Sheetal, Dhanabal, Vidhya Bharathi, Sperandeo, Paola, Polissi, Alessandra, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…The atomic resolution structure of thanatin M21F in LPS micelle reveals four stranded -sheet structure in a dimeric topology whereby the sidechain of aromatic residues Y10, F21 sustained mutual packing at the interface. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…The performance of the wave barrier improves significantly by the presence of the second sheet even with a small penetration. Vertical tensioned viscoelastic barriers are further used to stabilize the compliant platforms of floating solar farms in coastal environments. …”
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Improved performance of gravity-driven membrane filtration for seawater pretreatment: Implications of membrane module configuration by Tan, Hwee Sin, Hochstrasser, Florian, Wu, Bing, Christen, Tino, Suwarno, Stanislaus Raditya, Liu, Xin, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Burkhardt, Michael, Pronk, Wouter, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…This flux was higher than those in the lab-scale GDM reactor (16.3 ± 0.2 L/m2h; effective volume of 8.4 L) and in the filtration cell system (2.7 ± 0.6 L/m2h; feed side volume of 0.0046 L) when the same flat sheet membrane was used. Interestingly, when the filtration cell was submerged into the GDM reactor, the flux (17.2 L/m2h) was comparable to the submerged membrane module. …”
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m3: Accurate Flow-Level Performance Estimation using Machine Learning by Li, Chenning, Nasr-Esfahany, Arash, Zhao, Kevin, Noorbakhsh, Kimia, Goyal, Prateesh, Alizadeh, Mohammad, Anderson, Thomas

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Geotechnical and micro-structural behaviour of chemically stabilized tropical residual soil by Latifi, Nima

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2DEG enhancement via epilayer stress engineering in AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructure by Patwal, Shashank

“…Majority of the reported AlN/GaN/AlN (AGA) DH-HEMTs exhibit sheet carrier density in the range of 2.2-3.2×1013 cm−2 with carrier mobility varying between 300-600 cm2/V.sec. …”
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Phase transitions by an abundant protein in the anammox extracellular matrix mediate cell-to-cell aggregation and biofilm formation by Seviour, Thomas, Wong, Lan Li, Lu, Yang, Mugunthan, Sudarsan, Yang, Qiaohui, Chanda Segaran, Uma Shankari, Bessarab, Irina, Liebl, David, Williams, Rohan B. H., Law, Yingyu, Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…The isolated protein was stained positively by the β-sheet-specific stain thioflavin T, along with cell surface- and matrix-associated regions of the biofilm. …”
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Cryogelation of human hair keratins by Chua, Huei Min

“…Microarchitecture analysis revealed that FT cycling rendered a change from sheet-like lamellae in FT0 sponges to interconnected polygonal pores in freeze-thawed sponges. …”
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Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…CD and FTIR spectra also characterized the formation of localized β-sheet structures with the addition of salts. To further understand the specific roles of amino acids to the molecular level, several GK-16 variants were designed with a series of amino acid substituents. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…Owing to the reduced bowing and lower epilayer defects, an improvement in the 2DEG mobility and sheet-resistivity uniformity across the SOI wafers is observed. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…In addition, in the thesis, we used gallium-doped zinc oxide (GZO) to replace tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) used as the electrode in QD-LEDs due to the increasingly expensive raw materials of ITO. The lowest sheet resistance and resistivity of the radio-frequency (RF) sputtered GZO films are 12.28 Ω/□ and 9.48×10-4 Ω·cm, respectively, comparable to those of commercial grade ITO. …”
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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…Surface modification using hydrophilic molecules improved adhesion of the AgNWs and resulted in mechanically robust flexible electrodes with a high figure of merit; showing low sheet resistance with good transmittance in the visible spectrum. …”
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Methods of growth and transfer of carbon nanotubes onto substrates for advanced electrical and electronic applications by Ng, Zhi Kai

“…It was observed that the sheet resistance of GF/CNT could be tuned over a wide range from 40 Ω/square to 10^9 Ω/square by modulating the catalyst ratio and growth temperature. …”
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Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…In this work, the fundamental study has been carried out on flat sheet membranes instead of hollow fibers because the former involve less fabrication parameters. …”
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