Electrospinning a small diameter tubular scaffold for tissue engineering blood vessels by Tay, Kulapattra Chongwen.

“…The scaffold was also subjected to characterization techniques using Differential Scanning Calorimetry (DSC), Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Fourier-Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) to determine changes in the intrinsic properties of PLC before and after electrospinning. …”
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Development of NASICON-type glass ceramic membranes for rechargeable Li-ion/air batteries by Zhang, Yueqi.

“…The glass ceramics are developed by glass melting and quenching methods. Field emission scanning electron microscope (FE-SEM) imaging, X-Ray diffraction (XRD), Raman micro-scattering and Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) are employed to show the effect of sintering temperature on conductivity while generating secondary crystalline phases. …”
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Photocatalytic properties of nanostructured SrTi(1-x)Fe(x)O(3-δ) by Mohammad Ghaffari

“…Numerous techniques such as X- ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), electron microscopy both scanning (SEM) and transmission (TEM) were used for physical characterization. …”
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Age-related functional compensation in novelty and relational encoding of scenes : a brain activation and functional connectivity study by Leow, Dayton Wei Yang

“…This study utilized functional MRI-task sensitive to novelty and relational encoding of indoor/outdoor scenes to examine the age-related changes in brain activation and IFG-hippocampus/parahippocampus functional connectivity, among high/low performing older adults and young adults, for PASA effect and the support for its compensatory function. Functional scans of 33 old adults and 48 young adults were analyzed at the group level, in terms of whole brain activation and seed-to-voxel functional connectivity, focusing on the IFG, hippocampus and parahippocampus. …”
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Synthesis of porous materials for cooling and gas storage applications by Wong, Shina Si Jing

“…Tests were carried out through Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS), Powder X-ray Diffraction (XRD), Thermogravimetric Analyzer (TGA) and Nitrogen Adsorption/Desorption. …”
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Viscoelastic behaviour of hybrid carbon systems by Ngoh, Zhi Lin

“…These foams were produced via chemical vapour deposition (CVD) and characterised by the Energy Dispersive X-ray Spectroscopy mode of the Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM-EDX). Silver paint and cable lug were used to ensure a current flow from the direct current (DC) power supply and throughout the sample. …”
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Observation of membrane fouling with 3D-printed spacers using 3D optical coherence tomography by Koo, Jing Wee

“…This study focused on using optical coherence tomography (OCT) to investigate the effects of 3D-printed spacers (especially the 3D-printed sinusoidal spacers) on the fouling process. A series of OCT scans of a representative unit cell in a spacer was taken as a function of time to generate 3D-images illustrating the morphology of a foulant layer. …”
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Study of role of dispersant and rheology modifier for silicon nitride ink by Nan, Sharon Yuan Qing

“…After rheology characterization, the slurries will be sintered and analyzed by using Scanning Electron Microscope (SEM). Archimedes principle will be tested to determine the densities of the sintered samples. …”
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Integration of array antennas in chip package for 60-GHz radios by Liu, Duixian., Zhang, Y. P.

“…Then, we examine switched-beam array antennas using the Rotman lens or Butter matrix, illustrating that they allow scanning only in one plane and some miss a link even in the boresight direction. …”
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Bayesian lesion estimation with a structured spike-and-slab prior by Menacher, A, Nichols, T, Holmes, C, Ganjgahi, H

“…Neural demyelination and brain damage accumulated in white matter appear as hyperintense areas on T2-weighted MRI scans in the form of lesions. Modeling binary images at the population level, where each voxel represents the existence of a lesion, plays an important role in understanding aging and inflammatory diseases. …”

Online tree reconstruction and forest inventory on a mobile robotic system by Freißmuth, L, Mattamala Aravena, M, Chebrolu, N, Schaefer, S, Leutenegger, S, Fallon, M

“…Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS) is the standard technique used to create accurate point clouds for digital forest inventories. …”

Digitised, searchable Holle List in Stokhof (1980) by Rajeg, GPW

“…The NBL has been made interactive as a webpage with further details at https://engganolang.github.io/digitised-holle-list/ The raw tab-separated text file was created via OCR-ing the PDF scanned. Then, the OCR output was manually corrected for any errors and typos (the correction was done in MS Excel but then exported into a UTF-8 tab-separated file). …”

Oxford brain health clinic: protocol and research database by O'Donoghue, MC, Blane, J, Gillis, G, Mitchell, R, Lindsay, K, Semple, J, Pretorius, PM, Griffanti, L, Fossey, J, Raymont, V, Martos, L, Mackay, CE

“…</p> <p><strong>Methods and analysis</strong> Here we describe the BHC protocol, including aligning our MRI scans with those collected in the UK Biobank. We evaluate rates of research consent for the first 108 patients (data collection ongoing) and the ability of typical psychiatry-led NHS memory-clinic patients to tolerate both clinical and research assessments.…”

Monopoly-Based Board Game with Augmented Reality Intervention in Enhancing Undergraduate Students’ Understanding in Stid1103 Computer Application in Management Concepts of Emerging... by Nordin, Noradila, Mohd Nordin, Nur Rasyidah, Omar, Wafa

“…AR is implemented into the components on REV-OPOLY to act as the AR marker that can be scanned to reveal AR objects represented in various types of multimedia. …”
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Remote epitaxial interaction through graphene by Chang, Celesta S, Kim, Ki Seok, Park, Bo-In, Choi, Joonghoon, Kim, Hyunseok, Jeong, Junseok, Barone, Matthew, Parker, Nicholas, Lee, Sangho, Zhang, Xinyuan, Lu, Kuangye, Suh, Jun Min, Kim, Jekyung, Lee, Doyoon, Han, Ne Myo, Moon, Mingi, Lee, Yun Seog, Kim, Dong-Hwan, Schlom, Darrell G, Hong, Young Joon, Kim, Jeehwan

“…By observing entire nanometer-scale nuclei grown aligned to the substrate on pinhole-free graphene confirmed by high-resolution scanning transmission electron microscopy, we visually confirm that remote epitaxy is operative at the atomic scale. …”
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Preparation of electrochemical sensor based on zinc oxide nanoparticles for simultaneous determination of AA, DA, and UA by Pan, Yuanzhi, Zuo, Junli, Hou, Zhongyu, Huang, Yizhong, Huang, Cancan

“…ZnO nanoparticles (NPs) were synthesized using a hydrothermal method. Scanning electron microscope (SEM) and X-ray diffraction have been used for characterizing the synthesized ZnO NPs. …”
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High cycle fatigue behavior of 316L stainless steel manufactured via directed energy deposition with varying laser energy by Boey, Kai Jun

“…Microstructures of as-built 316L SS blocks are characterization with emphasis on porosity by employing optical microscopy (OM) and scanning electron microscopy (SEM). Results have shown that volume fraction of porosity reduces monotonously with increasing laser energy, accompanied by a transition in porosity category from lack of fusion defects to gas-entrapped porosity. …”
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Use of magnesium-silicate-hydrate (M-S-H) cement mixes in 3D printing applications by Panda, Biranchi, Sonat, Cem, Yang, En-Hua, Tan, Ming Jen, Unluer, Cise

“…The best-performing mix in terms of printability and mechanical performance was characterized via x-ray diffraction (XRD), thermogravimetric analysis/derivative thermogravimetry (TG/DTG) and field emission scanning electron microscopy (FESEM) with energy dispersive spectroscopy (EDS). …”
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Novel Pd2Se3 Two-Dimensional Phase Driven by Interlayer Fusion in Layered PdSe2 by Lin, Junhao, Zuluaga, Sebastian, Yu, Peng, Liu, Zheng, Pantelides, Sokrates T., Suenaga, Kazu

“…Here, combining atomic-scale imaging in a scanning transmission electron microscope and density functional theory, we demonstrate that the preferred monolayer form of this material amounts to a melding of two bulk monolayers accompanied by the emission of Se atoms so that the resulting stoichiometry is Pd2Se3. …”
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Experimental investigation of bedding plane orientation on the rockburst behavior of sandstone by He, M. C., Nie, W., Zhao, Z. Y., Guo, Wei

“…The microscopic characteristics of the fragments generated from the rockburst tests are observed using the scanning electron microscope (SEM) imaging technique. …”
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