Advanced energy storage devices: basic principles, analytical methods, and rational materials design by Liu, Jilei, Wang, Jin, Xu, Chaohe, Jiang, Hao, Li, Chunzhong, Zhang, Lili, Lin, Jianyi, Shen, Ze Xiang

“…Tremendous efforts have been dedicated into the development of high‐performance energy storage devices with nanoscale design and hybrid approaches. …”
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Effects of combination of linguistic and musical pitch experience on subcortical pitch encoding by Maggu, Akshay Raj, Wong, Patrick C. M., Antoniou, Mark, Bones, Oliver, Liu, Hanjun, Wong, Francis C. K.

“…Musical experience and linguistic experience have been shown to facilitate language and music perception. …”
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Mechanical properties of sandwich composite made of syntactic foam core and GFRP skins by Salleh, Zulzamri, Su, Haibin, Md Mainul Islam, Epaarachchi, Jayantha Ananda

“…Sandwich composites or sandwich panels have been widely used as potential materials or building structures and are regarded as a lightweight material for marine applications. …”
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Efficient convex optimization for energy-based acoustic sensor self-localization and source localization in sensor networks by Li, Shuangquan, Yan, Yongsheng, Wang, Haiyan, Shen, Xiaohong, Leng, Bing

“…The energy reading has been an efficient and attractive measure for collaborative acoustic source localization in practical application due to its cost saving in both energy and computation capability. …”
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An analytical study of photoacoustic and thermoacoustic generation efficiency towards contrast agent and film design optimization by Gao, Fei, Kishor, Rahul, Feng, Xiaohua, Liu, Siyu, Ding, Ran, Zhang, Ruochong, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Photoacoustic (PA) and thermoacoustic (TA) effects have been explored in many applications, such as bio-imaging, laser-induced ultrasound generator, and sensitive electromagnetic (EM) wave film sensor. …”
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The potential of UHP and waterjets for additive manufacturing by Mohamed, Hashish

“…The use of waterjets and cavitation for peening has been demonstrated on many metallic materials such as Titanium and Aluminum. …”
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Dye-sensitized solar cells : fundamentals and current status by Sharma, Khushboo, Sharma, Vinay, Sharma, S. S.

“…Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) belong to the group of thin-film solar cells which have been under extensive research for more than two decades due to their low cost, simple preparation methodology, low toxicity and ease of production. …”
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Improved NiSi salicide process using presilicide N2+ implant for MOSFETs by Wee, A. T. S., Chan, L., Mangelinck, D., Lee, Pooi See, Pey, Kin Leong, Ding, Jun

“…An improved Ni salicide process has been developed by incorporating nitrogen (N+ 2 ) implant prior to Ni deposition to widen the salicide processing temperature window. …”
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Transformation-invariant metamaterials by Zhang, Youming, Luo, Yu, Pendry, J. B., Zhang, Baile

“…The fundamental semiconductor concept of doping has recently been transplanted to photonics in the platform of epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) media. …”
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Significant electrochemical stability of manganese dioxide/polyaniline coaxial nanowires by self-terminated double surfactant polymerization for pseudocapacitor electrode by Sumboja, Afriyanti, Foo, Ce Yao, Yan, Jian, Yan, Chaoyi, Gupta, Raju Kumar, Lee, Pooi See

“…This approach improves the interaction between the two active materials which has been confirmed by FTIR and XPS measurements, and yields a controllable uniform thin coating of polyaniline on the well-dispersed manganese dioxide nanowires. …”
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Polypyrrole nanorod networks/carbon nanoparticles composite counter electrodes for high-efficiency dye-sensitized solar cells by Peng, Shengjie, Tian, Lingling, Liang, Jing, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…Polypyrrole(PPy) nanorod networks with a high electrical conductivity of 40 S cm–1 have been obtained in a high yield by employing an ion association of heparin–methylene blue as a new morphology-directing agent. …”
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Coating graphene paper with 2D-assembly of electrocatalytic nanoparticles : a modular approach toward high-performance flexible electrodes by Xiao, Fei, Song, Jibin, Gao, Hongcai, Zan, Xiaoli, Xu, Rong, Duan, Hongwei

“…One major finding is that the postassembly electrochemical reduction of graphene oxide paper restores the ordered structure and electron-transport properties of graphene, and gives rise to robust and biocompatible freestanding electrodes with outstanding electrocatalytic activities, which have been manifested by the sensitive and selective detection of two model analytes: glucose and hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) secreted by live cells. …”
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Performance comparison of time slot allocation schemes in TDD-CDMA multihop cellular networks by Arabshahi, Maryam, Hong, Lei, Chong, Peter Han Joo

“…Today, high-speed multimedia services are becoming one of the most challenging demands of cellular subscribers. Many approaches have been proposed during last decade and still there are many ongoing researches aiming to provide higher speed and higher quality services for users. …”
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Erbium silicided schottky source/drain silicon nanowire N-metal–oxide–semiconductor field-effect transistors by Tan, Eu Jin, Pey, Kin Leong, Singh, Navab, Chi, Dong Zhi, Lo, Guo-Qiang, Lee, Pooi See, Hoe, Keat Mun, Chin, Yoke King, Cui, Guangda

“…Schottky source/drain (S/D) N-metal–oxide–semiconductor-field-effect transistor (MOSFET) have been fabricated using a simplified top down process with silicon nanowires (SiNW) as the channel body and ErSi2-x as the metal silicide S/D. …”
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SnO2 nanorod arrays : low temperature growth, surface modification and field emission properties by Huang, Hui, Lim, Chiew Keat, Tse, Man Siu, Guo, Jun, Tan, Ooi Kiang

“…SnO2 nanorod arrays have been deposited on 4 inch SiO2/Si and Si wafers and stainless steel substrates by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition without any high temperature treatment or additional catalysis. …”
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Synthesis and physical properties of four hexazapentacene derivatives by Li, Gang, Wu, Yuechao, Gao, Junkuo, Wang, Chengyuan, Li, Junbo, Zhang, Huacheng, Zhao, Yang, Zhao, Yanli, Zhang, Qichun

“…In two steps from commercially available starting materials, four novel hexazapentacene derivatives have been synthesized through cyclocondensation reaction between tetraamines and 1,2-diketones. …”
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Direct folding simulation of a long helix in explicit water by Zhang, John Z. H., Gao, Ya, Lu, Xiaoliang, Duan, Lili, Zhang, Dawei, Mei, Ye

“…A recently proposed Polarizable Hydrogen Bond (PHB) method has been employed to simulate the folding of a 53 amino acid helix (PDB ID 2KHK) in explicit water. …”
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Accurate and efficient evaluation method of moments matrix based on a generalized analytical approach by Liu, Z. H., Chua, E. K., See, Kye Yak

“…Based on an analytical expression for the integration of the free-space Green's function involving any combination of basis and test functions, an accurate and highly e±cient method to determine the Method of Moments matrix has been developed. A full analytical expression is obtained through direct integration of the Taylor's series expansion of the free-space Green's function. …”
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Morphology-tunable assembly of periodically aligned Si nanowire and radial pn junction arrays for solar cell applications by Li, Xiaocheng, Liang, Kun, Tay, Beng Kang, Teo, Edwin Hang Tong

“…Large-area periodically aligned Si nanowire (PASiNW) arrays have been fabricated on Si substrates via a templated catalytic chemical etching process. …”
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Synthesis, physical properties, and anion recognition of two novel larger azaacenes : benzannelated hexazaheptacene and benzannelated N,N'-dihydrohexazaheptacene by Li, Gang, Wu, Yuechao, Gao, Junkuo, Li, Junbo, Zhao, Yang, Zhang, Qichun

“…Two novel larger azaacenes with six or ten N atoms in their backbones, benzannelated 9,11,13,22,24,26-hexazatetrabenzo[a,c,l,n]heptacene (HATBH, 1) and benzannelated 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, 2), have been successfully synthesized in two steps. The theoretical band gaps estimated through DFT calculations for HATBH (1) and DHATPH (2) are 1.949 eV and 2.278 eV, which are close to the experimentally obtained optical band gaps (2.14 eV and 2.39 eV). …”
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