Design and development of a biopolymer microfiber fabrication device by Yap, Yi-Liang.

“…Molten polymer within a holding cup with a tiny orifice below is drawn by a needle and stuck onto a spinning mandrel for collection. As the melt is pulled from the orifice, extensional flow causes the thinning in the melt diameter and the atmosphere cools the melt down into a fiber before it is collected on the mandrel. …”
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Design and Synthesis of Stimuli-Responsive Polymers with Programmable Cleavability by Zafar, Hadiqa

“…The fourth chapter thus provides detailed background on the current plastic waste outlook, vinyl polymers and their synthesis, radical ring-opening polymerization, and current approaches to cleavable comonomers and the end-of-life options they offer commodity polymers. …”
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Structural analysis and insights into the glycon specificity of the rice GH1 Os7BGlu26 β-D-mannosidase by Robinson, Robert Charles, Tankrathok, Anupong, Iglesias-Fernández, Javier, Luang, Sukanya, Kimura, Atsuo, Rovira, Carme, Hrmova, Maria, Ketudat Cairns, James R.

“…Docking of the 1S3, 1S5, 2SO and 3S1 pyranose-ring conformations of 4NPMan and 4NPGlc substrates into the active site of Os7BGlu26 indicated that the lowest energies were in the 1S5 and 1S3 skew-boat conformations. …”
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100 THz optical switching with plasmonic metamaterial by Venkatram, Nalla, Stefano, Vezzol, João, Valente, Sun, Handong, Nikolay, Zheludev

“…In this paper we evaluate the effect of plasmonic finite response time on the coherent perfect absorption process for a plasmonic metamaterial absorber, based on asymmetric split ring resonators. We study the coherent modulation of the total energy as a function of the pulse duration, down to 6 fs. …”
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GWTC-2.1: Deep extended catalog of compact binary coalescences observed by LIGO and Virgo during the first half of the third observing run

“…We also expand the population of binaries with significantly asymmetric mass ratios reported in GWTC-2 by an additional two events (the mass ratio is less than 0.65 and 0.44 at 90% probability for GW190403_051519 and GW190917_114630 respectively), and find that two of the eight new events have effective inspiral spins χ eff > 0 (at 90% credibility), while no binary is consistent with χ eff < 0 at the same significance. …”
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Laser-based 3D printing using bessel beams for tissue engineering applications by Liew, Andy Wen Loong

“…High resolution fibers down to 25 μm were printable using the BB technique, a significant improvement compared to conventional microfluidics and wet spinning techniques, and the capability to tune the fabricated fiber diameter based on mathematical models was also demonstrated. …”
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Novel self-cleaning PVDF/MoO3/ZnO/GO dual layer hollow fiber photocatalytic membrane with excellent photocatalytic performance of EDCs removal and energy storage capability by Zakria, Hazirah Syahirah, Borhamdin, Suhaila, Ismail, Nurul Jannah, Peechmani, Prakash, Moslan, Mohd. Shahrizan, Othman, Mohd. Hafiz Dzarfan, A. Rahman, Mukhlis, Jaafar, Juhana, Puteh, Mohd. Hafiz, Rajamohan, Natarajan, Hashim, Norbaya, Kerisnan@Krishnan, Nirmala Devi, Yahaya, Nasehir Khan E. M., Idris, Alias

“…Ternary MoO3/ZnO/GO was synthesized using hydrothermal method and was embedded on the surface of dual layer hollow fiber membrane by dry-wet spinning method by varying the GO loading at 0.1, 0.25 and 0.5 wt%. …”

Circularly polarized antennas and phased arrays for 5G applications by Hu, Yiyun

“…This unit is improved based on the off-center fed folded long dipole by introducing the half-ring structure, which could make the unit more suitable for beam scanning arrays. …”
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Early detection of reduced artemisinin susceptibility in plasmodium falciparum using novel phenotypic indicators by Xiong, Aoli

“…Currently the most widely used methods for the detection of artemisinin resistance include parasites clearance rate measurements, the ring-stage survival assay (RSA) and DNA based approaches to detect mutations in the K13-propeller gene. …”
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Structure and functions of a metallo-beta-lactamase- like hypothetical protein bleg1_2437 from alkali-tolerant soil bacterium Bacillus lehensis G1 by Tan, Soo Huei

“…However, the emergence of antibiotic resistance mechanism among pathogenic bacteria has downsized the efficacy of antibiotics via the production metallo-β-lactamase (MBL) which enables pathogens to destroy the β- lactam ring of β-lactam antibiotics. Although MBL is not ubiquitously found in all pathogenic bacteria, its presence is a public health concern. …”
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Solution-processed lead halide perovskite single crystal scintillators by Xie, Aozhen

“…Simple linear alkyl and small bulky ring-containing cations tend to introduce (100) type which typically exhibits narrow emission and more likely to show negative thermal quenching behavior (stronger emission upon higher temperature). …”
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Discrete geodesic graphs by Fang, Zheng

“…The computational domain shrinks to a local patch as the basis function decays to zero outside one-ring neighbors of the patch. I introduce an optimization scheme to solve the localized harmonic B-spline equation and compute the discrete Green's function quickly, which is a better simulation of ground truth on synthetic models according to experimental results. …”
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Energy management of microgrids by Ju, Chengquan

“…Large-scale energy storage systems have provided promising potentials for multiple applications in microgrids by providing additional spinning reserve, regulating voltage, frequency and power factors, as well as offering economic benefits by participating into demand response and facilitating the integration of renewable energy sources (RESs). …”
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Structure and interaction of telomeric and telomerase RNA G-quadruplexes. by Martadinata, Herry.

“…Our studies show that the dissociation constant (Kd) of DNA-RNA hybrid G-quadruplexes is virtually independent on the sequences of DNA but instead depends on the number of G-repeats of the DNA and RNA sequences. The sugar-ring chemistry (deoxyribose vs. ribose) was found to affect the Kd of inter-molecular G-quadruplex (DNA-DNA vs. …”
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Investigating the EM performance of building materials for mid-band 5G in urban built environment: an exploratory study by Ng, Sean Jake Peng

“…The thesis is concluded with the investigation of material loading on an evolved antecedent hexagonal-stubbed complementary split-ring resonator (CSRR)-loaded electrically small antenna (ESA) designed to cover the 3.5 GHz 5G frequency band. …”
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Investigations into high resolution imaging of the aqueous outflow system and cornea by Hong, Jesmond Xun Jie

“…The imaging probe is an assembly of a circular ring array of four light emitting diodes tilted at an angle and a micro color charged coupled device camera. …”
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