Enhanced catalytic activity through a unique cage structure of amorphous NiFe oxide via tri-doping P, B, N and introducing tungsten for the oxygen evolution reaction by Jang, Eunsu, Su, Peichen, Kim, Jooheon

“…Consequently, u-NFWPBNO exhibits overpotentials of 256 mV for j10 and a Tafel slope of 32 mV/dec, demonstrating high performance. …”
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Structure matching mechanism of nRu/FeCo2O4 for highly-selective oxidation of HMF toward FDCA by Wang, Qiong-Yu, Zhu, Yucheng, Jiang, Run, He, Gan, Zhao, Jun, Hu, Jun, Liu, Tao, Liu, Honghai, Loo, Siew-Leng, Chen, Zhong, Wang, Jie-Xin, Pan, Zhiyan, Li, Xiaonian, Cao, Dapeng, Hu, Zhong-Ting

“…The selective oxidation of 5-hydroxymethylfurfural (HMF) toward 2,5-furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) offers a promising green pathway to obtain monomers for the synthesis of biodegradable plastics. …”
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Thermodynamic analysis of aging by Swati Sinha.

“…Transmission electron micrographs of C57BL6 mouse tail tendons has been analysed to obtain the fractional cross-sectional area at age groups 1.6, 1.9, 2.6, 4.0, 11.5, 23.0, 29 and 31.5 months; the data was used to determine ∆S from the model. …”
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Optimization of methodology for EPS extraction and analysis by Tan, Shu Hui.

“…Sonication at 15 W/ml and above at 50 kHz for more than 1.5 min might lead to cell lysis. ‘NaCl+HCHO’ will only be effective at extracting biomass below 20mg. …”
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Optical microphone based on Mach Zehnder interferometer by Ng, Qin Yi.

“…The optical fiber microphone exhibits sensitivity of 93.4mV/Pa, a linear response up to 0.15Pa and signal to noise ratio of 21dB measured at 1 kHz. …”
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Report on industrial attachment with Advanced Technology Research Centre : processing and characterization of oxidizer-coated metal powders by Lee, Priscilla Li Yi.

“…(Table 2) This phenomenon was attributed to the much smaller size of the Al particles (5μm) used as compared to the spray dried NaNO2 of about 100μm.…”
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Rheology on CNT-filled polymer nanocomposites (II) by Chan, Xue Shuang.

“…With the addition of acid-treated MWCNTs, the rheological percolation threshold drops from 2 wt% to 1.5 wt%. The gel point (Cg) value for pristine MWCNTs/PP-g-MA/PP and acid treated MWCNTs/PP-g-MA/PP was 2.0 wt% and 1.5 wt% respectively.…”
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Functional food and autophagy. by Ong, Zhong Ren.

“…Densitometric analysis showed that pomegranate significantly increased LC3-II conversion in SH-SY5Y and this is further confirmed by LC3-II flux assays. …”
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Effect of aging and soiling on the solar reflectance of high-albedo roofing materials by Muk, Jerome Jia Wei.

“…The soiled surfaces was exposed to an equivalent of 3 months of extreme rainfall in Singapore, which saw an average increase in reflectivity of 5.5% from the soiled state.…”
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Investigating the potential of axonopus compressus to phytoremediate molybdenum by Eng, Zhi Xian

“…AC were spiked with 2, 5, 10, 20, 40, 100 and 200 ppm Mo and the accumulation of Mo in the shoots was monitored. …”
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Improvement of thermal performance of building envelope through passive technologies by Yap, Adeline Su Jing

“…In this project, the author carries out both 2D and 3D investigations on the double-skin roof model in Energy Systems Lab followed by CFD simulations using ANSYS Workbench 14.5 – FLUENT. Validation is done by comparing the results from experiment and simulations. …”
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Micropipette aspiration of a living cell by Badjo, Wenna

“…PDMS is fabricated by mixing the base and curing agent of ratio 5:1, 10:1 and 20:1 repetitively. Cells will be cultured on the PDMS and the properties of cell will be measured on day 1, day 5 and day 7 of the culturing days. …”
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Advancing the chemistry of phosphole by Ng, Kim Hong

“…Then, it is complexed to W(CO)5 and characterised by X-ray analysis. Both the trivalent 2-vinylphosphole and the complexed form are subjected to various cycloaddition reactions. …”
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Band-gap engineering for multi-colored perovskite solar cell windows by Tay, Yu Xian

“…Lastly, mixed halide CH3NH3PbI1.5Br1.5 perovskite solar cell is chosen as it provides large amount of transparency and possesses huge potential in achieving high efficiency. …”
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Characterization of cell types and connectivity of the deep cerebellar nuclei by Lim, Zoe Hui

“…We found that TBR1 stains a subset of vGluT2 neurons which could potentially function as projection neurons. …”
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Targeting the Bromodomain-containing protein 4 in ovarian clear cell carcinoma by Wong, Erica Shiyi

“…Ovarian clear cell carcinoma (OCCC) is the second most common histopathological subtype of ovarian carcinoma (OC), making up 5-25% of all OC. Current treatment utilizing combination chemotherapy with cisplatin and paclitaxel have low efficacy with a 5-year survival rate of only 12%. …”
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Optimization of type I collagen for 3D bioprinting by Ong, Wei Li

“…Based on this, we formulated a composite collagen with 87.5% bovine collagen and 12.5% fish collagen. Compared to bovine collagen, the specially-formulated collagen presented an improved gelation kinetics while maintaining high protein homology to humans. …”
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Studying the dose-dependent effect of honey on the modulation of the infant microbiome by Yao, Shiyu

“…The honey concentration of 0.5% yielded the highest total number of Lactobacillus and Bifidobacterium. …”
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Lateral offsets and revised dates of large prehistoric earthquakes at Pallett creek, Southern California by Sieh, Kerry

“…On the basis of these data, the probability of a large earthquake with surficial fault rupture at this site is between 0.2 and 5% during 1984 and 7 and 60% by the year 2000.…”
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An Energy Autonomous 400 MHz Active Wireless SAW Temperature Sensor Powered by Vibration Energy Harvesting by Zhu, Yao, Zheng, Yuanjin, Gao, Yuan, Made, Darmayuda I., Sun, Chengliang, Je, Minkyu, Gu, Alex Yuandong

“…Fully powered by a vibration PEH, the proposed energy autonomous system has a self-startup voltage of 0.7 V and consumes an average power of 61.5 μW.…”
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