Deposition and characterisation of a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure by Mallik, Awadesh Kumar, Lloret, Fernando, Gutierrez, Marina, Rouzbahani, Rozita, Pobedinskas, Paulius, Shih, Wen-Ching, Haenen, Ken

“…In this work, a diamond/Ti/diamond multilayer structure has been fabricated by successively following thin-film CVD and PVD routes. …”
Get full text

Sonodynamic Nano-LYTACs reverse tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment for cancer immunotherapy by Xu, Mengke, Hu, Yuxuan, Wu, Jiayan, Liu, Jing, Pu, Kanyi

“…While protein degradation therapy has been applied to membrane proteins of cancer cells, it has rarely been extended to immune cells. …”
Get full text

Robust text-independent speaker verification in environmental noise by Panda, Ashish

“…The proposed training scheme has been shown to reduce the equal error rate, on an average, by 20% over the conventional procedure. …”
Get full text

Biofunctional electrospun nanofibrous scaffolds in tissue engineering and the potential application of siRNA-delivery for nerve regeneration by Cao, Haoqing

“…The application of tissue engineering has been extensively explored for decades to improve biological functions. …”
Get full text

Design, characterization and properties of nitrogen-containing novel organic N-type materials by Wu, Yuechao.

“…Although a lot of n-type organic materials have been reported,this research will specially focus on N-substituted polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons(PAHs)because Houk et al predicted that the azaacenes have high electron affinities and could be promising candidates for n-type semiconducting materials.In fact,some N-heteroacenes have already shown decent electron mobility.Moreover,N-heteroacenes are more stable(resistive to oxidation or dimerization).In addition,the physical properties of n-substituted heteroacenes strongly depend on the number,position and valence states of nitrogen atoms.These progresses strongly encourage me to prepare larger azaacenes In this thesis,I have designed,synthesized and characterized several new azaacenes,which are expected to exhibit good performance in electronic devices.I developed a simple and efficient method(one or two steps)to prepare targeted azaacenes through condensation reaction starting from commercially available materials.All as-prepared compounds are very stable and have lower bandgaps.Phototransistors based on 6,8,15,17-tetraaza-1.18,4.5,9.10,13.14- tetrabenzoheptacene(TTP)single crystals have been fabricated and this device exhibited excellent performance in amplifying and converting light signal under the photoconductive effect.In addition,9,11,13,22,24,26-hexaza-tetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]heptacene(HATBH)can act as an efficient anion sensor for naked-eye detection of F- and H2PO4- anions and 9,26-dihydro 9,11,13,22,24,26-hexaza-tetrapyrido[3,2-a: 2’,3’-c:3”,2”-l:2”’,3”’-n]heptacene(DHATPH)can selectively sense F- anion among TEN anions(F-,Cl-,Br -,I-,PF6-,HSO4-,NO3-,BF4-,AcO-,and H2PO4-). …”
Get full text

Fabrication and properties of oxide semiconductor nanowires by Shen, Youde

“…Semiconductor nanowires have been intensively studied because of their novel properties in the past two decades. …”
Get full text

Polymeric nanoparticles and organic fluorophores for cancer sensing and therapy by Ang, Chung Yen

“…Cancer has been ranked as one of the top killer diseases around the world. …”
Get full text

Microfluidic studies on flow manipulation to assist metastasis research by Tran, Duc Quang

“…Among these, interstitial flow resulted from the intratumoral environment has been proven to be one of the causes assisting the directions of cell detachment and migration in tumor environment. …”
Get full text

Metal sulfides for electrochemical energy storage and conversion by Wang, Jin

“…The cause for enhanced performance has been also carefully explored. It is hoped that all these studies could shed more light on the fundamental understanding.…”
Get full text

Ultrafast spectroscopy studies of topological insulators and transparent conductive oxides by Cheng, Liang

“…A fast relaxation process of carriers has been found, which is the relaxation of electrons from higher energy level to the bottom of conduction band. …”
Get full text

Development of an air conditioning compressor for a 2-in-1 electric motor for electric vehicles by N. Satheesh Kumar

“…Following that, experimental investigations has been performed on the new fixed vane compressor design to validate the compressor models. …”
Get full text

Presenting social media information on mobile devices using multiple contexts by Tan, Esther Meng Yoke, Goh, Dion Hoe-Lian

“…However, little research has been done on the organization of social media information by multiple context and tasks. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Temperature and burning history affect emissions of greenhouse gases and aerosol particles from tropical peatland fire by Kuwata, Mikinori, Kai, Fuu Ming, Yang, Liudongqing, Itoh, Masayuki, Gunawan, Haris, Harvey, Charles F.

“…Tropical peatland burning in Asia has been intensifying over the last decades, emitting huge amounts of gas species and aerosol particles. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Studies on the Chitin Binding Property of Novel Cysteine-Rich Peptides from Alternanthera sessilis by Kini, Shruthi G., Nguyen, Phuong Q. T., Weissbach, Sophie, Mallagaray, Alvaro, Shin, Joon, Yoon, Ho Sup, Tam, James P.

“…Thus far, only four 6C-hevein-like peptides have been isolated and characterized; hence, our study expands the existing library of these peptides. …”
Get full text
Get full text

High-yield synthesis and optical properties of g-C3N4 by Yuan, Yanwen, Zhang, Lulu, Xing, Jun, Utama, M. Iqbal Bakti, Lu, Xin, Du, Kezhao, Li, Yongmei, Hu, Xiao, Wang, Shijie, Genç, Aziz, Dunin-Borkowski, Rafal, Arbiol, Jordi, Xiong, Qihua

“…Graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4), a metal-free semiconductor with a band gap of 2.7 eV, has received considerable attention owing to its fascinating photocatalytic performances under visible-light. g-C3N4 exhibits high thermal and chemical stability and non-toxicity such that it has been considered as the most promising photocatalyst for environmental improvement and energy conservation. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Managing commute traffic : from parking provision with ride-sourcing to work hours arrangements considering household travels by Su, Qida

“…This analysis has then been extended to the multi-modal case to incorporate transit as well as the parking reservation. …”
Get full text
Get full text

The jet impingement boiling heat transfer with ad hoc wall thermal boundary conditions by Qiu, Lu, Dubey, Swapnil, Choo, Fook Hoong, Duan, Fei

“…The experimental observations have been reproduced in the simulation. The heat transfers on the hot air side and the water boiling side significantly influence each other. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Facile synthesis of a hole transporting material with a silafluorene core for efficient mesoscopic CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cells by Krishna, Anurag, Sabba, Dharani, Yin, Jun, Bruno, Annalisa, Antila, Liisa J., Soci, Cesare, Mhaisalkar, Subodh, Grimsdale, Andrew Clive

“…A novel electron-rich small-molecule, 4,4′-(5,5-dihexyl-5H-dibenzo[b,d]silole-3,7-diyl)bis(N,N-bis(4-methoxyphenyl)aniline) (S101), containing silafluorene as the core with arylamine side groups, has been synthesized via a short efficient route. When S101 was incorporated into a CH3NH3PbI3 perovskite solar cell as a hole transporting material (HTM), a short circuit photocurrent density (Jsc) of 18.9 mA cm−2, an open circuit voltage (Voc) of 0.92 V, and a fill factor (FF) of 0.65 contributing to an overall power conversion efficiency (PCE) of ∼11% which is comparable to the PCE obtained using the current state-of-the-art HTM 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis(N,N′-di-p-methoxyphenylamine)-9,9′-spirobifluorene (spiro-OMeTAD) (η = 12.3%) were obtained. …”
Get full text
Get full text

β-Ginkgotides: Hyperdisulfide-constrained peptides from Ginkgo biloba by Wong, Ka Ho, Tan, Wei Liang, Xiao, Tianshu, Tam, James P.

“…Thus far, these peptides have been reported from animals only but their occurrence in plants are rare. …”
Get full text
Get full text

Super-resolution photoacoustic microscopy using a localized near-field of a plasmonic nanoaperture : a three-dimensional simulation study by Park, Byullee, Lee, Hongki, Upputuri, Paul Kumar, Pramanik, Manojit, Kim, Donghyun, Kim, Chulhong

“…Super-resolution microscopy has been increasingly important to delineate nanoscale biological structures or nanoparticles. …”
Get full text
Get full text