Manipulation in the in situ growth design parameters of aqueous zinc-based electrodes for batteries: The fundamentals and perspectives by Nurul Akmal, Che Lah

“…Precise exploitation of the growth of Zn metal anode in a power converter system has re-emerged as one of the technological interests that have surged globally in the past 5 years, specifically to improve the practical use of deep cycling metal batteries. …”
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Crayfish shell biochar for methyl violet adsorption: Equilibrium and kinetic studies by Azrul Nurfaiz, Mohd Faizal, Chew, Hui Wen, Nicky Rahmana, Putra, Ahmad Syahmi, Zaini, Agi, Augustine Aja, Abu Hassan, Nordin, Muhammad Abbas, Ahmad Zaini

“…The biochars were prepared through pyrolysis at 500, 650 and 800 ℃℃ for 1.5 h. The biochars were labelled as CS500, CS650 and CS800, respectively. …”
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Representativity and Networked Interference in Data-Rich Field Experiments: A Large-Scale RCT in Rural Mexico by Noriega, Alejandro, Pentland, Alex

“…The study develops and tests the methodology in the context of a large-scale health experiment in rural Mexico, involving more than 3,000 pregnant women and 600 health clinics across 5 states. Relevant for the practitioner, the methodology is computationally tractable and can be implemented leveraging open sourced geo-spatial data and software tools.…”
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An elastomer with ultrahigh strain-induced crystallization by Hartquist, Chase M, Lin, Shaoting, Zhang, James H, Wang, Shu, Rubinstein, Michael, Zhao, Xuanhe

“…The DELSE also exhibits a high fracture energy of 4.2 to 4.5 kJ m <jats:sup>−2</jats:sup> while maintaining low hysteresis. …”
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A Retractable Six-Prong Laparoscopic Grasper for Laparoscopic Myomectomy by Butters, Brenden, Fernández-Galiana, Álvaro, Wollin, Daniel, Traverso, Giovanni, Slocum, Alexander, Petrozza, John

“…We describe the nature-inspired design of the grasper from a physical foundation, establish the design theory and practical issues, and present manufacturing and testing of a full-scale 5 mm grasper. The unit was tested on synthetic fibroid models and was able to sustain a 50% higher load before tearing than a common single-tooth tenaculum. …”
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A tale of two shuffle algebras by Neguț, Andrei

“…As a quantum affinization, the quantum toroidal algebra 𝑈𝑞,𝑞⎯⎯⎯(𝔤𝔩¨𝑛) is defined in terms of its “left” and “right” halves, which both admit shuffle algebra presentations (Enriquez in Transform Groups 5(2):111–120, 2000; Feigin and Odesskii in Am Math Soc Transl Ser 2:185, 1998). …”
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Reproducing Reaction Mechanisms with Machine‐Learning Models Trained on a Large‐Scale Mechanistic Dataset by Joung, Joonyoung F, Fong, Mun Hong, Roh, Jihye, Tu, Zhengkai, Bradshaw, John, Coley, Connor W

“…In this study, we construct such a dataset by imputing intermediates between experimentally reported reactants and products using expert reaction templates and train several machine learning models on the resulting dataset of 5,184,184 elementary steps. We explore the performance and capabilities of these models, focusing on their ability to predict reaction pathways and recapitulate the roles of catalysts and reagents. …”
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Batch versus continuous feeding strategies for pharmaceutical removal by subsurface flow constructed wetland by Gersberg, Richard M., Jinadasa, K. B. S. N., Zhang, Dong Qing, Zhu, Junfei, Hua, Tao, Tan, Soon Keat

“…Both loading modes were operated at hydraulic application rates of 5.6 cm day−1 and 2.8 cm day−1. Except for carbamazepine, clofibric acid and naproxen, removal in CWs was significantly (p < 0.05) enhanced under the batch versus continuous mode. …”
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Synthesis of porous, hollow metal MCO3 (M=Mn, Co, Ca) microstructures and adsorption properties thereof by Cai, Ren, Du, Yaping, Peng, Shengjie, Bi, Hengchang, Zhang, Wenyu, Yang, Dan, Chen, Jing, Lim, Tuti Mariana, Zhang, Hua, Cao, Y. Charles, Yan, Qingyu

“…For example, the porous, hollow MnCO3 microcubes show larger Brunauer–Emmett–Teller (BET) surface areas of 359.5 m2 g−1, which is much larger than that of solid MnCO3 microcubics (i.e., 12.03 m2 g−1). …”
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Butterfly-Inspired 2D Periodic Tapered-Staggered Subwavelength Gratings Designed Based on Finite Difference Time Domain Method by Wang, Houxiao, Zhou, Wei, Li, Er Ping, Mote, Rakesh Ganpat

“…The performance of the designed SiO2 gratings is similar to that of the corresponding Si gratings (the predicted reflectance can be less than around 5% for the bandwidth ranging from 0.15 μm to 1 μm). …”
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Cobalt sulfide nanosheet/graphene/carbon nanotube nanocomposites as flexible electrodes for hydrogen evolution by Peng, Shengjie, Li, Linlin, Han, Xiaopeng, Sun, Wenping, Srinivasan, Madhavi, Mhaisalkar, Subodh Gautam, Cheng, Fangyi, Yan, Qingyu, Chen, Jun, Ramakrishna, Seeram

“…The synergistic effect of CoS2, graphene, and CNTs leads to unique CoS2/RGO-CNT nanoarchitectures, the HER activity of which is among the highest for non-noble metal electrocatalysts, showing 10 mA cm−2 current density at about 142 mV overpotentials and a high electrochemical stability.…”
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Formation of monometallic Au and Pd and bimetallic Au–Pd nanoparticles confined in mesopores via Ar glow-discharge plasma reduction and their catalytic applications in aerobic oxid... by Yang, Yanhui, Jia, Xinli, Zhang, Hua, Zhou, Chunmei, Chen, Yuanting, Wang, Houpeng, Liu, Chang-jun, Zeng, Zhiyuan

“…Successfully prepared via Ar glow-discharge plasma reduction, Au–Pd bimetallic nanoparticles were highly active in the selective oxidation of benzyl alcohol, showing a rate constant of 0.50 h−1, which was 12.5 and 2× that of Au and Pd monometallic catalysts, respectively. …”
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IoT : development of a home automation system 3 by Tan, Yong Rui

“…The overall system will consist of a total of 5 IoT devices, environmental sensors, soil moisture sensor, an LED lamp, a sound buzzer and a third party IoT sensor that is integrated into this platform. …”
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Molecular modulation of fluorene-dibenzothiophene-S,S-dioxide-based conjugated polymers for enhanced photoelectrochemical water oxidation under visible light by Dai, Chunhui, Gong, Xuezhong, Zhu, Xianglin, Xue, Can, Liu, Bin

“…Without the assistance of additional sacrificial agents or co-catalysts, a good photocurrent response of 4.1 μA cm−2 at +0.6 V (vs. Ag/AgCl) was achieved through facile molecular modulation of the polymer, which improved the uniformity and crystallinity of the film and facilitated charge transport among polymer chains. …”
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Safe passage simulation of connected autonomous vehicle platoons at signal-free intersections by Chee, Kenneth Wai Kuin

“…The second section will present the results and analysis of numerical simulations, performed on the model in MATLAB, based on six different scenarios: (i) ideal, (ii) with homogeneous communication time delays, (iii) with heterogeneous communication time delays, (iv) with network noise disturbances, (v) with network noise disturbances and homogeneous communication time delays, and (vi) with network noise disturbances and heterogeneous communication time delays. …”
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Finite element study of the properties and response of 3D printed lattice structures by Lam, Wei Han

“…BCC unit cell is selected as the basis of the 4x4x5 unit cell lattice. In the first part of the report, analyses are performed for 20% compression of lattice in the elastic and plastic deformation region. …”
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Broadband absorption enhancement for InAsSb-based mid-infrared photodetectors by Wang, Weilin

“…By simulating the reflection and absorption of devices w/o photon-trapping structure, significant reflection reduction is observed, and a relative absorption improvement of about 40% is reached for photon-trapping devices in the mid-wavelength region between 2 and 5 μm. The electric field distribution is also generated to demonstrate the lateral-mode effect on enhancing the absorption.…”
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A general decentralized control scheme for medium-/high-voltage cascaded STATCOM by Hou, Xiaochao, Sun, Yao, Han, Hua, Liu, Zhangjie, Su, Mei, Wang, Benfei, Zhang, Xin

“…The local controller includes two parts: First, a Q-ω boost control is introduced to share reactive power equally; and second, a scalable P-V control is established for balancing dc-link voltage of inverters. …”
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Pictobot : a cooperative painting robot for interior finishing of industrial developments by Asadi, Ehsan, Li, Bingbing, Chen, I-Ming

“…Human-robot collaboration (HRC) [1], [2] is a vastly developing field in diverse industries such as health care [3], industrial assembly [4], search and rescue, home service [5], and construction [6], [7]. Many researchers believe that robots will enhance human workers, not replace them, as they do not have the same capability to evaluate and correct their work in real time. …”
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Low-capacitance StatCom with thyristor switched filter inductor by Farivar, Glen, Townsend, Christopher David, Pou, Josep

“…The effects of adding the modular inductor unit on the I-V characteristic of the LC-StatCom are evaluated. …”
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