Enchantment, possession and the uncanny in E.T.A. Hoffmann's ‘The Sandman’ by Dawson, Terence.

“…Der Sandmann (“The Sandman”; 1816) is one his best-known tales, partly because it gave rise to favourites of the ballet and opera repertoires – Delibes’ Coppelia (1870), and one of the self-contained acts of Offenbach’s Les Contes d’Hoffmann (1881) – and partly owing to the enormous impact of the crucial section that Freud devoted to it in his essay on “The Uncanny” (1919). …”
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N, P co‐doped hierarchical porous graphene as a metal‐free bifunctional air cathode for Zn − air batteries by Zhou, Lijun, Zhang, Chunyan, Cai, Xiaoyi, Qian, Yao, Jiang, Haifeng, Li, Baosheng, Lai, Linfei, Shen, Zexiang, Huang, Wei

“…In this work, hierarchically structured N, P co‐doped graphene (NPHG) has been synthesized through the chemical polymerization of aniline and phytic acid in the presence of SiO2 nanoparticles and applied as air cathodes for rechargeable Zn−air batteries, owing to its high bifunctional oxygen electrocatalytic activities. …”
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Battery energy storage selection based on a novel intermittent wind speed model for improving power system dynamic reliability by Liang, Chen, Wang, Peng, Han, Xiaoqing, Qin, Wenping, Jia, Yanbing, Yuan, Tiejiang

“…Owing to intermittency of wind power and slow ramp rates of conventional generators, a considerable amount of wind energy cannot be effectively utilized during frequency control processes. …”
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Terahertz radiation by Wong, Yun Ming

“…Last but not least, the robustness of PTI waveguide against bending loss was verified by both simulation and experiment. Owing to the great number of parameters involved in manufacturing the transmission line, more work could be done in the future to achieve an even better optimisation for transmission of signal.…”
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Effects of initial oxide layer on growth of titania nanotubes by Lim, Jonathan Jian Wei.

“…Finally, the tube length decreased drastically with the foils annealed at 800°C owing to the thick rutile oxide layer. Prolonged annealing duration at 400°C led to further crystallization of the annealed oxide layer from amorphous to anatase phase. …”
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Thiophene-derived polymer dots for imaging endocytic compartments in live cells and broad-spectrum bacterial killing by Prasad, Kenath Priyanka, Than, Aung, Li, Nan, Alam SK, Mahasin, Duan, Hongwei, Pu, Kanyi, Zheng, Xinting, Chen, Peng

“…In this work, we present a new type of polymer dot synthesized from bithiophene (pTh-Pdot) via a simple and high yield procedure. Owing to their high brightness, excellent photo-stability, good biocompatibility, and molecular size, pTh-Pdots are promising for bioimaging applications. …”
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Throughput-Lifetime tradeoffs in multihop wireless networks under a realistic interference model by Luo, Jun., Iyer, Aravind., Rosenberg, Catherine.

“…We use a realistic interference model owing to which we gain a deep understanding of the network configurations that achieve the optimal tradeoffs. …”
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Wave-induced longitudinal vortices in a shallow current by Huang, Zhenhua, Mei, Chiang C.

“…We shall show that in addition to the internal vortex force, a mean shear stress exists on the mean sea level, owing to nonlinear wave–current interactions, despite the absence of wind. …”
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Tin halide perovskite solar cells with open-circuit voltages approaching the Shockley–Queisser limit by Liu, W, Hu, S, Pascual, J, Nakano, K, Murdey, R, Tajima, K, Wakamiya, A

“…The fullerene derivative indene-C₆₀ bisadduct (ICBA) is a promising alternative to mitigate this drawback, owing to its superior energy level matching with most tin-based perovskites. …”

Synthesis of bioactive glass-ceramics: Effect of the incubation duration on mechanical properties using PBS solution by Loh, Zhi Wei, Zaid, Mohd Hafiz Mohd, Kechik, Mohd Mustafa Awang, Fen, Yap Wing, Cheong, Wei Mun, Mayzan, Mohd Zul Hilmi

“…Owing to its wear resistance and mechanical performance, glass-ceramics are often favoured in dental applications. …”
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Mechanical Properties of Lightweight Aggregate Concrete Containing Unground Palm Oil Fuel Ash as Partial Sand Replacement by H. Mohd Hanafi, H. Mohd Hanafi, Muthusamy, Khairunisa, Saffuan, W.A., Budiea, A.M.A., Kusbiantoro, A., Nabilla, M., Rafiza, A.R., Błoch, K.

“…The results show the enhancement of concrete strength relative to the control mixture by using 10% of ash. This is owing to void filling mechanism and product of pozzolanic reaction due to the fine particles of the ash.…”
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Conformable ultrasound breast patch for deep tissue scanning and imaging by Du, Wenya, Zhang, Lin, Suh, Emma, Lin, Dabin, Marcus, Colin, Ozkan, Lara, Ahuja, Avani, Fernandez, Sara, Shuvo, Ikra Iftekhar, Sadat, David, Liu, Weiguo, Li, Fei, Chandrakasan, Anantha P., Ozmen, Tolga, Dagdeviren, Canan

“…The in vitro studies and clinical trials reveal that the array using a piezoelectric crystal [Yb/Bi-Pb(In <jats:sub>1</jats:sub> <jats:sub>/2</jats:sub> Nb <jats:sub>1/2</jats:sub> )O <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> -Pb(Mg <jats:sub>1/</jats:sub> <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> Nb <jats:sub>2/3</jats:sub> )O <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> -PbTiO <jats:sub>3</jats:sub> ] (Yb/Bi-PIN-PMN-PT) exhibits a sufficient contrast resolution (~3 dB) and axial/lateral resolutions of 0.25/1.0 mm at 30 mm depth, allowing the observation of small cysts (~0.3 cm) in the breast. …”
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Piezoelectric single crystal based one-dimensional phased array for breast tissue imaging by Du, Wenya

“…In this thesis, I propose a conformable ultrasound breast patch (cUSBr-Patch) consisting of a one-dimensional (1D) phased array and a nature-inspired patch design, which offers large-area, deep tissue scanning and multi-angle, repeatable breast imaging while avoiding the drawbacks of conventional ultrasound imaging technologies. I used a Yb/Bi-doped PIN-PMN-PT single crystal as the active element due to its superior piezoelectric properties (d33 = 2,800 pC/N, εr = 7,000, k33 = 0.93). …”
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Two-phase immersion cooling for power dense printed circuit board converters by Ristic-Smith, A

“…A theoretical model and numerical solution method for boiling on pin fins is developed and used to design heat spreaders to increase the power dissipation per unit semiconductor area with minimal penalty on the converter volume. …”

Nonlinear wave evolution with data-driven breaking by Eeltink, D., Branger, H., Luneau, C., He, Y., Chabchoub, A., Kasparian, J., van den Bremer, T. S., Sapsis, T. P.

“…It determines the properties of a sea state and plays a crucial role in ocean-atmosphere interaction, ocean pollution, and rogue waves. Owing to its turbulent nature, wave breaking remains too computationally demanding to solve using direct numerical simulations except in simple, short-duration circumstances. …”
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Unusual Temperature Dependence of Water Sorption in Semicrystalline Hydrogels by Liu, Xinyue, Zhang, Lenan, El Fil, Bachir, Díaz‐Marín, Carlos D, Zhong, Yang, Li, Xiangyu, Lin, Shaoting, Wang, Evelyn N

“…In particular, capturing moisture at elevated temperatures is highly desirable to prevent dehydration and to enlarge the tunability of water uptake. However, owing to the thermodynamic limit of conventional materials, sorbents inevitably tend to capture less water vapor at higher temperatures, impeding their broad applications. …”
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Microneedle Sensors for Point‐of‐Care Diagnostics by Hu, Yubing, Chatzilakou, Eleni, Pan, Zhisheng, Traverso, Giovanni, Yetisen, Ali K.

“…Microneedle sensors have received considerable attention as an emerging technique to evolve blood‐based diagnostics owing to their direct and painless access to a rich source of biomarkers from interstitial fluid. …”
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In vitro assessment of combined Doppler ultrasound and CFD modeling in arterial blood flow quantification by Skote, M., Susanto, Swandito, Chauhan, Sunita

“…However, relatively large deviation of the blood flow measurement from the actual value is expected, owing to a number of contributing factors. The research work expounded here attempts to ameliorate the accuracy of the blood flow output quantification by combining the Doppler measurement with the computational fluid dynamics modeling based on Navier–Stokes equation. …”
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The design and synthesis of hollow micro-/nanostructures : present and future trends by Yu, Le, Yu, Xin Yao, Lou, David Xiong Wen

“…Hollow micro-/nanostructures have attracted tremendous interest owing to their intriguing structure-induced physicochemical properties and great potential for widespread applications. …”
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Emerging soft conductors for bioelectronic interfaces by Gao, Dace, Parida, Kaushik, Lee, Pooi See

“…In the past decade, the scope of flexible/ stretchable electronics has been broadened into bioelectronics owing to the need of implementation of various biocompatible soft conductors. …”
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