Effective surface modification of 2D MXene toward thermal energy conversion and management by Bark, Hyunwoo, Thangavel, Gurunathan, Liu, Rui Jun, Chua, Daniel H. C., Lee, Pooi See

“…From this perspective, MXene, a new type of 2D material, has attracted considerable attention in thermal energy management, including thermal conduction and conversion, owing to its unique electrical and thermal properties. …”
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Coupling chemical looping air separation with the Allam cycle – a thermodynamic analysis by Saqline, Syed, Yang, Lizhong, Romagnoli, Alessandro, Liu, Wen

“…Compared to other conventional CO2 capture techniques, the Allam cycle stands out owing to its high fuel-to-electricity conversion efficiency (55–59%), the elimination of the Rankine cycle and reduced physical footprint. …”
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Whole genome analysis of Hawksbill turtles in Singapore reveals their genetic adaptations to disease and sensory perception by Desai, Archita Sanjay

“…However, there is limited information available about their behaviour and life-history owing to their complex migration and life-cycle patterns. …”
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An efficient and universal parallel algorithm for high-dimensional quantum dynamics in poly-atomic reactions by Zhou, Yong, Lu, Yunpeng, Zhang, Zhaojun, Zhang, Dong H.

“…Using realistic parameters for the H + NH3 reaction, performance assessment reveals linear scalability, exceeding 90% efficiency with up to 600 processors. In addition, owing to the universal and concise structure, the algorithm demonstrates remarkable extensibility to diverse reaction systems, as demonstrated by successes with six-atom and four-atom reactions. …”
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HFENet: hybrid feature encoder network for detecting salient objects in RGB-thermal images by Sun, Fan, Zhou, Wujie, Yan, Weiqing, Zhang, Yulai

“…Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have gained prominence in computer vision applications, including RGB salient object detection (SOD), owing to the advancements in deep learning. Nevertheless, the majority of deep CNNs employ either VGGNet or ResNet as their backbone architecture for extracting image information. …”
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Read to Me by Koh, Li Yan, Yeo, Xin Min, Yue, Si Wei, Chia, Audrey Shue Theng

“…Read to Me achieved some success in helping parents overcome their barriers, leading to an increase in the percentage of parents who engaged in shared reading at least thrice a week. Owing to the campaign’s effectiveness, the Association of Early Childhood Educators Singapore (AECES) will take over the campaign.…”
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Adsorption of hyaluronic acid on solid supports: Role of pH and surface chemistry in thin film self-assembly by Choi, Jae-Hyeok, Kim, Seong-Oh, Linardy, Eric, Dreaden, Erik C., Zhdanov, Vladimir P., Hammond, Paula T., Cho, Nam-Joon

“…Owing to its biocompatibility, resistance to biofouling, and desirable physicochemical and biological properties, hyaluronic acid (HA) has been widely used to modify the surface of various materials. …”
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A semiconducting polymer nano-prodrug for hypoxia-activated synergetic photodynamic cancer therapy by Cui, Dong, Huang, Jiaguo, Zhen, Xu, Li, Jingchao, Jiang, Yuyan, Pu, Kanyi

“…The well-defined and compact nanostructure of SPNpd (30 nm) enables accumulation in the tumor of living mice. Owing to these features, SPNpd exerts synergistic photodynamic and chemo-therapy, and effectively inhibits tumor growth in a xenograft tumor mouse model. …”
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MC-Fluid: Multi-core Fluid-based Mixed-Criticality Scheduling by Lee, Jaewoo, Ramanathan, Saravanan, Phan, Kieu-My, Easwaran, Arvind, Shin, Insik, Lee, Insup

“…Owing to growing complexity and scale, safetycritical real-time systems are generally designed using the concept of mixed-criticality, wherein applications with different criticality or importance levels are hosted on the same hardware platform. …”
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Processing and Properties of Construction Materials for 3D Printing by Tay, Yi Wei, Panda, Biranchi, Paul, Suvash Chandra, Tan, Ming Jen, Qian, ShunZhi, Leong, Kah Fai, Chua, Chee Kai

“…3D printing (3DP), commonly known as additive manufacturing (AM), is a promising technology that can fabricate three dimensional complex shape prototypes directly from computer-aided design (CAD) model without any tooling and human intervention. Owing to its peculiar characteristics, AM is widely used in many industries to assist in the design, manufacture and commercialization of a product. …”
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Attacks in Reality: The Limits of Concurrent Error Detection Codes against Laser Fault Injection by Breier, Jakub, He, Wei, Jap, Dirmanto, Bhasin, Shivam, Chattopadhyay, Anupam

“…Parity-based Concurrent Error Detection (CED) techniques are often deployed as a countermeasure, owing to their low-overhead. Advanced linear and non-linear randomized encodings can be employed for constructing varying CED schemes. …”
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SCADPA: Side-channel assisted differential-plaintext attack on bit permutation based ciphers by Breier, Jakub, Jap, Dirmanto, Bhasin, Shivam

“…Bit permutations are a common choice for diffusion function in lightweight block ciphers, owing to their low implementation footprint. In this paper, we present a novel Side-Channel Assisted Differential-Plaintext Attack (SCADPA), exploiting specific vulnerabilities of bit permutations. …”
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Efficient oil/water separation membrane derived from super-flexible and superhydrophilic core–shell organic/inorganic nanofibrous architectures by Liu, Zhi, Qin, Detao, Zhao, Jianghui, Feng, Quan, Li, Zhengtao, Bai, Hongwei, Sun, Darren Delai

“…The synthesized membranes possess a delicate organic core of PVDF-HFP and an inorganic shell of a CuO nanosheet structure, which endows super-flexible properties owing to the merits of PVDF-HFP backbones, and superhydrophilic functions contributed by the extremely rough surface of a CuO nanosheet anchored on flexible PVDF-HFP. …”
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Label-free detection of ATP release from living astrocytes with high temporal resolution using carbon nanotube network by Huang, Yinxi, Sudibya, Herry Gunadi, Fu, Dongliang, Xue, Renhao, Dong, Xiaochen, Li, Lain-Jong, Chen, Peng

“…Owing to its unique combination of electrical, physiochemical, and one-dimension structural properties, single-walled carbon nanotube (SWNT) has recently emerged as a novel nanoelectronic biosensor for biomolecular detection with extraordinary sensitivity and simple detection scheme. …”
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Synthesis, characterization, and physical properties of a conjugated heteroacene: 2-methyl-1,4,6,7,8,9-hexaphenylbenz(g)isoquinolin-3(2H)-one (BIQ) by Duong, Hieu M., Zhang, Qichun, Xiao, Jinchong, Yin, Zongyou, Qiao, Fen, Hu, Xiao, Zhang, Hua, Wudl, Fred, Boey, Freddy Yin Chiang

“…In the solid state, it is very stable at ambient conditions and can be stored indefinitely. Owing to its pyridone end unit, BIQ 3 can display different resonance structures in different solvents (aprotic and protic) or Lewis acids to give different colors. …”
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Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering (SERS) of Nitrothiophenol isomers chemisorbed on TiO2 by Teguh, Jefri S., Liu, Fang, Xing, Bengang, Yeow, Edwin Kok Lee

“…The Raman signal of o-NTP on TiO2 was not detectable, owing to interference from fluorescence emissions. …”
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The inherent electrochemistry of nickel/nickel-oxide nanoparticles by Giovanni, Marcella, Ambrosi, Adriano, Pumera, Martin

“…The direct detection of nanoparticles is at the forefront of research owing to their environmental and toxicological applications. …”
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Adsorption desalination : an emerging low-cost thermal desalination method by Ng, Kim Choon, Thu, Kyaw, Kim, Youngdeuk, Chakraborty, Anutosh, Amy, Gary

“…The energetic efficiency of AD cycles has been compared against the conventional desalination methods. Owing to the unique features of AD cycle, i.e., the simultaneous production of dual useful effects, it is proposed that the life cycle cost (LCC) of AD is evaluated against the LCC of combined machines that are needed to deliver the same quantities of useful effects using a unified unit of $/MWh. …”
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Green amorphous nanoplex as a new supersaturating drug delivery system by Cheow, Wean Sin, Hadinoto, Kunn

“…The nanoplex powders remain amorphous after 1 month of storage, indicating the high stability owed to the PE’s high glass-transition temperature. …”
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I. Discovery and development of nickel-catalyzed 1,2-dicarbofunctionalization reactions of alkenes II. Synthesis and reactivity of nucleophilic calcium fluoride complexes with oxyg... by Apolinar, O

“…In our investigations, we found that the TACN ligand was appropriate owing to its macrocyclic design, which encapsulates calcium. …”