A large-area lithium metal–carbon nanotube film for precise contact prelithiation in lithium-ion batteries by Wang, Chao, Yang, Fangzhou, Wan, Wang, Wang, Shihe, Zhang, Yongyi, Huang, Yunhui, Li, Ju

“…However, producing thin lithium foil below 5 μm is extremely challenging, making it difficult to achieve precise prelithiation with lithium metal. …”
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SoK: Understanding Design Choices and Pitfalls of Trusted Execution Environments by Li, Mengyuan, Yang, Yuheng, Chen, Guoxing, Yan, Mengjia, Zhang, Yinqian

“…Both commercial and academic TEEs have been proposed in the past few years, including Intel's SGX and TDX, AMD's SEV, ARM's CCA, IBM's PEF, and their academic counterparts built atop open-source RISC-V processors, such as Keystone, Sanctum, CURE, and Penglai. …”
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0-1 Knapsack in Nearly Quadratic Time by Jin, Ce

“…On the upper bound side, currently the fastest algorithm runs in 𝑂e(𝑛 + 𝑤 12/5 max ) time (Chen, Lian, Mao, and Zhang 2023), improving the earlier 𝑂(𝑛 + 𝑤 3 max)-time algorithm by Polak, Rohwedder, and Węgrzycki (2021). …”
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Modelling entrainment volume due to surface-parallel vortex interactions with an air–water interface by Hendrickson, Kelli, Yu, Xiangming, Yue, Dick K.P.

“…We also find that ∀𝑜 is linearly dependent on circulation Weber number 𝑊𝑒Γ for a range of vortex Bond number 5 ≲ 𝐵𝑜Γ ≲ 50, and parabolically dependent on circulation Reynolds 𝑅𝑒Γ for 𝑅𝑒Γ ≲ 2580. …”
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The Properties of Whiteness by Williams, Darien Alexander, Delgado, Laura Humm, Cameron, Nicholette, Steil, Justin

“…It builds on this analysis to connect the thread of racialized exclusion in the Supreme Court’s most recent takings decision in Cedar Point Nursery v. Hassid (2021). Third, it draws from Black geographies to suggest takeaways for planners in supporting Black spaces that can simultaneously support Black efforts to name the collective political reality and highlight the contingency of racial constructs in ways that can eradicate the substantive conditions of Black subordination. …”
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Tailoring Metal–Organic Frameworks for Water Harvesting by Oppenheim, Julius Jacob

“…Chapter 4 further explores these insights, with a focus on the observation that ions contained within the framework pore can greatly increase the hydrophilicity of a framework. Within Chapter 5, the author investigates the relationship between pore hydrophilicity and kinetic hysteresis, finding that kinetic limitations arise in sufficiently hydrophilic frameworks. …”
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Theoretical Design of Molecular Nanostructures for Exciton Control by Castellanos, Maria A.

“…The second part delves into the intricacies of exciton interaction in densely packed molecular systems arranged within DNA scaffolds. Chapter 5 combines molecular dynamics and quantum mechanical calculations, further validated by experimental results, to study the interplay between long-range electrostatic and short-range charge transfer interactions. …”
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Global Bioenergy Availability by Katie Daehn, Coleman, Evan, Allrogen, Florian

“…For the case of agricultural residues, where such challenges can be partially mitigated, we conservatively estimate a global potential of 18±15 EJ/yr. for 2050, compared to a median estimate from meta-analysis of 27.5 EJ/yr. We dive into this apparent discrepancy, identifying multiple sources of uncertainty. …”
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Renewable energy integration into smart grids : problems and solutions — Singapore experience by Koh, Leong Hai, Tan, Yen Kheng, Wang, Peng, Tseng, King Jet

“…Singapore being a city state with 712.4km2, 5.183million people, S$59,813 Gross Domestic Product (GDP) per capital, population density of 7,126 per square kilometer [1] and limited natural resources, identified her GHG emission as carbon dioxide (CO2) mainly from combustion of fossil fuels and natural gas to generate energy meeting development and human needs. …”
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Strain-specific parallel evolution drives short-term diversification during Pseudomonas aeruginosa biofilm formation by McElroy, Kerensa E., Hui, Janice G. K., Woo, Jerry K. K., Luk, Alison W. S., Webb, Jeremy S., Kjelleberg, Staffan, Rice, Scott A., Thomas, Torsten

“…This approach identified single nucleotide variants with frequencies from 0.5% to 98.0% and showed that the clinical strain 18A exhibits greater genetic diversification than the type strain PA01, despite its lower per base mutation rate. …”
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Simulation of train induced forced wind draft for generating electrical power from Vertical Axis Wind Turbine (VAWT) by Chilugodu, Nikhita, Yoon, Yong-Jin, Chua, Kah Soon, Datta, Dhruv, Baek, Jong Dae, Park, Taezoon, Park, Woo-Tae

“…Based on simulation, with a 5 meter increase in the height of the turbine, the efficiency of power generation increases by 0.2 percent.…”
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Understanding the effect of chlorobenzene and isopropanol anti-solvent treatments on the recombination and interfacial charge accumulation in efficient planar perovskite solar cell... by Prochowicz, Daniel, Mohammad Mahdi Tavakoli, Solanki, Ankur, Goh, Teck Wee, Pandey, Kavita, Sum, Tze Chien, Saliba, Michael, Yadav, Pankaj

“…Despite the improved morphology and solar cell performance the devices with IPA treated perovskites suffer from higher hysteresis during current density–voltage (J–V) scans. We found that this enhanced hysteresis stems mainly from higher charge accumulation at the TiO2/perovskite interface under illumination that could also lead to formation of excess electrostatic potential contributing to an increased open circuit voltage (Voc). …”
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Investigation of effects of surface texture on ice formation by Wang, Qiuping

“…From the experimental result, a test plate etched with 4M HCL for 5 minutes would obtain an optimal contact angle of 160.57°. …”
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Nanomaterials for urban farming by Putra, Ann Edmonda Tommy

“…We intended to examine further about the physiological response, phytotoxicity and water uptake by cultivating mung beans with CD, CuCD from 0.3 gr copper chloride, and CuCD from 0.5 gr copper chloride with concentration ranging from 0.1 mg/ml to 1 mg/ml. …”
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Liner shipping operation under emission reduction measures by Hu, Xinyue

“…From January 1 2020 onwards, for any fuel used onboard, the global sulfur must be reduced to 0.5%. There are three options for vessels: to continue to operate on high sulfur fuel oil but install sulfur scrubbers, to switch to marine gas oil (MGO) or to consider alternative fuel types such as methanol. …”
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Seismic attenuation tomography from 2018 Lombok earthquakes, Indonesia by Priyono, Awali, Nugraha, Andri Dian, Muzli, Muzli, Ardianto, Ardianto, Atin Nur Aulia, Prabowo, Billy Sugiartono, Zulfakriza, Zulfakriza, Shindy Rosalia, Sasmi, Annisa T., Afif, Haunan, Sahara, David P., Widiyantoro, Sri, Wei, Shengji, Husni, Yayan M., Sarjan, Achmad Fajar Narotama

“…The significant earthquake that happened on August 5, 2018, took place in a region with moderate Qp, close to the contrast of high and low-Qp and high Vp, which suggests that the earthquake started in a strong material before triggering the shallower aftershocks occurring in an area affected by fluid content. …”
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Does testing order affect performance and outcome during physical fitness tests? by Low, Seow Ting

“…In Singapore, students must complete a bi-annual National Physical Fitness Award Scheme (NAPFA) test, consisting of 6 health-related components of fitness in which 5 are often completed back-to-back on the same day. …”
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In vitro protein (BSA) delivery studies in mesostructured bioceramics by Aw, Siew Sim

“…3D mesoporous bioactive glasses (MBGs), SiO2-CaO-P2O5, with four different chemical compositions and three different synthesis temperatures during synthesis had been successfully prepared by F127 surfactant as templates using evaporation-induced self-assembly (EISA) process. …”
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Late-life depressive symptomatology, motoric cognitive risk syndrome, and incident dementia: the "Nuage" study results by Beauchet, Olivier, Sekhon, Harmehr, Launay, Cyrille P., Gaudreau, Pierrette, Morais, José A., Allali, Gilles

“…At baseline, MCR was defined by the association of subjective cognitive complaint with slow walking speed, and late-life depressive symptomatology with a 30-item Geriatric Depression Scale (GDS) score >5/30. Incident dementia, defined as a Modified Mini-Mental State score ≤79/100 test and Instrumental Activity Daily Living score <4/4, was assessed at each annual visit. …”
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Machine translation of English relative clauses to Chinese in commercial contracts -- a contrastive evaluation of the outputs by SYSTRAN translate, Baidu translate and Google trans... by Li, Yidi

“…Then, 10 professional translators were invited to rate the translation quality of the target text (TT) sentences (both generated by human and machine) with a score ranging from 1 to 5. Meanwhile, the automatic evaluation metric BLEU (Bilingual Evaluation Understudy) was applied for scoring the MT outputs. …”
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