Quantifying the effects of sunlight on the fate of oil spilled at sea by Freeman, Danielle Haas

“…I also found that photo-dissolution likely affects oil mass balance in spills of light oils forming thin slicks but not in spills of light or heavy oils forming thick slicks. …”
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Design of a Precision Needle for Injection of Fluid into the Suprachoroidal Space of the Eye for the Treatment of Retinal Detachment by Rutherford, Emma

“…Additionally, the scleral and choroidal tissues are very thin, leaving little room for positional error. Hemorrhage may occur if the needle punctures through the choroid and into the subretinal space, which could lead to bad outcomes. …”
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Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 kesterite solar cell with 5.1% efficiency using spray pyrolysis of aqueous precursor solution followed by selenization by Zeng, Xin, Tai, Kong Fai, Zhang, Tianliang, Ho, Chun Wan John, Chen, Xiaodong, Huan, Alfred, Sum, Tze Chien, Wong, Lydia H.

“…Kesterite thin film solar cell has been fabricated by chemical spray pyrolysis (CSP) of an aqueous solution followed by high temperature selenization. …”
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3D carbon/cobalt-nickel mixed-oxide hybrid nanostructured arrays for asymmetric supercapacitors by Zhu, Jianhui, Jiang, Jian, Sun, Zhipeng, Luo, Jingshan, Fan, Zhanxi, Huang, Xintang, Zhang, Hua, Yu, Ting

“…This work not only presents the potential of C/CoNi3O4 NAs in thin-film supercapacitor applications, but it also demonstrates the superiority of electrodes with such a 3D hierarchical architecture.…”
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Multimaterial 3D-printed water electrolyzer with earth-abundant electrodeposited catalysts by Ambrosi, Adriano, Pumera, Martin

“…For the HER we deposited a thin film of Ni-MoS2 composite while a NiFe double hydroxide film is deposited on the anode. …”
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High throughput discovery of effective metal doping in FeVO4 for photoelectrochemical water splitting by Nguyen, Thi Hiep, Zhang, Mengyuan, Septina, Wilman, Ahmed, Mahmoud Gamal, Tay, Ying Fan, Abdi, Fatwa F., Wong, Lydia Helena

“…Herein, the aim is to improve FeVO4 charge transport properties by searching for suitable metal doping using combinatorial methods. Thin‐film FeVO4 libraries with different doping ratios of Zn, Ni, Cr, Mo, and W are fabricated on fluorine doped tin oxide substrates using combinatorial inkjet printing and their photoelectrochemical properties screened using photoscanning droplet cell. …”
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Spin-orbit torque magnetization switching in Co/Pt multilayers for multistate memory and logic devices by Lim, Gerard Joseph

“…In this thesis, the quantification and optimization of current-induced spinorbit torques (SOT) in [Co/Pt] multilayers are investigated. The thin film multilayer exhibiting perpendicular magnetic anisotropy (PMA) is characterized using adiabatic harmonic Hall measurements for SOT efficiency optimization. …”
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Room-temperature continuous-wave vertical-cavity surface-emitting lasers based on 2D layered organic–inorganic hybrid perovskites by Zhang, Hongbo, Hu, Yuzhong, Wen, Wen, Du, Bowen, Wu, Lishu, Chen, Yu, Feng, Shun, Zou, Chenji, Shang, Jingzhi, Fan, Hong Jin, Yu, Ting

“…We used the exfoliated (PEA)2PbI4 thin flake as the gain medium to construct a vertical-cavity surface-emitting laser (VCSEL), showing robust single-mode CW lasing operation with an ultra-low threshold of 5.7 W cm−2 at room temperature, attributed to strong optical confinement in the high-Q cavity. …”
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Dark current analysis of InasSb-based hetero-p-i-n mid-infrared photodiode by Suo, Fei, Tong, Jinchao, Zhang, Dao Hua

“…To reduce the dark current, a wide-bandgap layer (AlGaSb) and thin quaternary layers (AlInAsSb) are inserted in the heterostructure for blocking the dark carrier diffusion and limiting type-II transition at interface, respectively. …”
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Advanced multi-material optoelectronic fibers : a review by Zhang, Jing, Wang, Zhe, Wang, Zhixun, Wei, Lei

“…With the fast development of optoelectronic technologies, the demands of flexible, thin and nonplanar optoelectronic devices are rising. …”
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Piezoelectric fibers for flexible and wearable electronics by Qian, Shengtai, Wang, Xingbei, Yan, Wei

“…As a new emerging flexible and wearable technology, fiber-shaped piezoelectric devices offer unique advantages over conventional thin-film counterparts. In this review, we survey the recent scientific and technological breakthroughs in thermally drawn piezoelectric fibers and fiber-enabled intelligent fabrics. …”
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Flexible integrated sensor with asymmetric structure for simultaneously 3D tactile and thermal sensing by Wang, Yongqing, Sun, Kun, Zhang, Qisheng, Yu, Samson Shenglong, Han, Boon Siew, Wang, Jianpeng, Zhao, Mingyan, Meng, Xianglin, Chen, Sicheng, Zheng, Yuanjin

“…Here, we propose an artificial flexible and ultra-thin (50 μ m) skin system to simultaneously capture 3D tactile and thermal signals, which mimics the human tactile recognition process using customized sensor pairs and compact peripheral signal-converting circuits. …”
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Enhancing two-dimensional electronic spectroscopy for layered halide perovskites by Ramesh, Sankaran, Feng, Minjun, Furuhashi, Tomoki, Sum, Tze Chien

“…Application to a representative two-phase Ruddlesden–Popper perovskite thin film reveals well-defined signals at the diagonal and off-diagonal positions, indicative of exciton delocalization between the two transitions. …”
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3D patient specific instrumentation for high tibial osteotomy by Wong, Gina Khay Fong

“…After a vast number of experiments with 3D Slicer, “Grow from Seeds” is proven to be more time efficient and accurate along with the “Logical Operators”, especially for a thin and uneven layer like the cortical region. …”
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Finite element analysis bending of composite sandwich beams with metal facesheets by Rhuban S/O Jeva

“…Unfortunately, the ACP works well only with thin structures. Overall, the study did show that in order to simulate real-life conditions, the database has to be provided with sufficient and accurate parameters.…”
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Exploiting dynamic bifurcation in elastic ribbons for mode skipping and selection by Huang, Weicheng, Yu, Tian, Vella, Dominic, Hsia, K. Jimmy, Liu, Mingchao

“…The work serves as a benchmark for future investigations on dynamic snap-through of thin elastic structures and provides guidelines for the novel design of intelligent mechanical systems.…”
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Transition metal doped apatites as inert non-toxic pigments by Seah, Jasmine Si Han

“…Lastly, PLD has opened a new avenue of potential applications for the compound as the experiment provided evidence that it was possible to deposit the copper-doped hydroxyapatite compound onto a quartz substrate and the resulting thin-film was crystalline and calcium-deficient.…”
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Whole field curvature and residual stress determination of silicon wafers by reflectometry by Ng, Chi Seng, Asundi, Anand Krishna

“…In our previous paper, "Stress Measurement of thin wafer using Reflection Grating Method", the surface curvature and residual stresses were evaluated using the versatility of the proposed system.. …”
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Mussel-inspired approach to cross-linked functional 3D nanofibrous aerogels for energy-efficient filtration of ultrafine airborne particles by Zhang, Youfang, Zeng, Zhihui, Ma, Daphne Xiu Yun, Zhao, Chenyang, Ang, Jia Ming, Ng, Bing Feng, Wan, Man Pun, Wong, Shing-Chung, Wang, Zhe, Lu, Xuehong

“…Morphology characterization andcompression tests showthatboth multiplehydrogen bondingfacilitated bythePDA coating and Fe3+-PDA coordination bonding could effectively induce the formation of inter-fiber junctions, enhancing compression resistanceofthe3DNFAsandleadingtohierarchical porousstructureswithaverywidePSD.When a thin layer of the optimized 3D NFA with a large specific surface area (85.7m2g−1) is combined with a commercial air filter, the composite filter obtained exhibits high filtration efficiencies of 99.72% and 99.85% for airborne particles with sizes of<100nm and<500nm, respectively, at a low pressure drop of only 54.1Pa. …”
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Current status and future prospects of copper oxide heterojunction solar cells by Wong, Terence Kin Shun, Zhuk, Siarhei, Masudy-Panah, Saeid, Dalapati, Goutam K.

“…The current state of thin film heterojunction solar cells based on cuprous oxide (Cu2O), cupric oxide (CuO) and copper (III) oxide (Cu4O3) is reviewed. …”
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