Dynamic swimming pattern of Pseudomonas aeruginosa near a vertical wall during initial attachment stages of biofilm formation by Khong, Nicole Zi-Jia, Zeng, Yukai, Lai, Soak-Kuan, Koh, Cheng-Gee, Liang, Zhao-Xun, Chiam, Keng-Hwee, Li, Hoi-Yeung

“…Here, we compared the near wall (vertical) swimming behaviour of P. aeruginosa (PAO1) and its mutants ΔdipA (reduced in swarming motility and increased in biofilm formation) and ΔfimX (deficient in twitching motility and reduced in biofilm formation) using our new imaging technique based on light sheet microscopy. We found that P. aeruginosa (PAO1) increases its speed and changes its swimming angle drastically when it gets closer to a wall. …”
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Linking dual mode of action of host defense antimicrobial peptide thanatin: structures, lipopolysaccharide and LptAm binding of designed analogs by Sinha, Sheetal, Dhanabal, Vidhya Bharathi, Sperandeo, Paola, Polissi, Alessandra, Bhattacharjya, Surajit

“…The atomic resolution structure of thanatin M21F in LPS micelle reveals four stranded -sheet structure in a dimeric topology whereby the sidechain of aromatic residues Y10, F21 sustained mutual packing at the interface. …”
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High-voltage IR-UWB pulse generator MMIC design and beamforming for indoor-ranging and radar applications by Hussain Ansari Md Arif

“…The array with a spacing of 10.2 cm is intentionally configured to produce orthogonal beams, which eventually provides better geometric dilution of precision (GDOP). The beam steering-angle analysis and an intensity table for the Gaussian-modulated multi-cycle IR-UWB beamforming array are provided. …”
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Export competitiveness in the context of Singapore by Chew, Kheng Lee, Phua, Chin Tiong, Yau, Puay Hiang

“…This means that a currency appreciation policy (decline in nominal exchange rate) is appropriate as long as the relative price level is able to steer Singapore's exports to a more favorable position. …”
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Next generation design of floating systems for coastal solar farms by Bi, Cheng

“…The performance of the wave barrier improves significantly by the presence of the second sheet even with a small penetration. Vertical tensioned viscoelastic barriers are further used to stabilize the compliant platforms of floating solar farms in coastal environments. …”
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Improved performance of gravity-driven membrane filtration for seawater pretreatment: Implications of membrane module configuration by Tan, Hwee Sin, Hochstrasser, Florian, Wu, Bing, Christen, Tino, Suwarno, Stanislaus Raditya, Liu, Xin, Chong, Tzyy Haur, Burkhardt, Michael, Pronk, Wouter, Fane, Anthony Gordon

“…This flux was higher than those in the lab-scale GDM reactor (16.3 ± 0.2 L/m2h; effective volume of 8.4 L) and in the filtration cell system (2.7 ± 0.6 L/m2h; feed side volume of 0.0046 L) when the same flat sheet membrane was used. Interestingly, when the filtration cell was submerged into the GDM reactor, the flux (17.2 L/m2h) was comparable to the submerged membrane module. …”
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m3: Accurate Flow-Level Performance Estimation using Machine Learning by Li, Chenning, Nasr-Esfahany, Arash, Zhao, Kevin, Noorbakhsh, Kimia, Goyal, Prateesh, Alizadeh, Mohammad, Anderson, Thomas

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Geotechnical and micro-structural behaviour of chemically stabilized tropical residual soil by Latifi, Nima

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2DEG enhancement via epilayer stress engineering in AlN/GaN/AlN heterostructure by Patwal, Shashank

“…Majority of the reported AlN/GaN/AlN (AGA) DH-HEMTs exhibit sheet carrier density in the range of 2.2-3.2×1013 cm−2 with carrier mobility varying between 300-600 cm2/V.sec. …”
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Investigating viral glycosylation pathways for drug and vaccine development by Brun, J

“…FDA-approved compounds were prioritised and triaged within the screen for clinical committees such as the UK steering group for therapeutics for COVID-19. Compounds of a global anti-COVID-19 effort called the “Moonshot project” targeting the main protease of SARS-CoV-2 were also screened and promising compounds were progressed further to produce a specific direct-acting SARS-CoV-2 antiviral compound. …”

Phase transitions by an abundant protein in the anammox extracellular matrix mediate cell-to-cell aggregation and biofilm formation by Seviour, Thomas, Wong, Lan Li, Lu, Yang, Mugunthan, Sudarsan, Yang, Qiaohui, Chanda Segaran, Uma Shankari, Bessarab, Irina, Liebl, David, Williams, Rohan B. H., Law, Yingyu, Kjelleberg, Staffan

“…The isolated protein was stained positively by the β-sheet-specific stain thioflavin T, along with cell surface- and matrix-associated regions of the biofilm. …”
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Cryogelation of human hair keratins by Chua, Huei Min

“…Microarchitecture analysis revealed that FT cycling rendered a change from sheet-like lamellae in FT0 sponges to interconnected polygonal pores in freeze-thawed sponges. …”
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Transport phenomena of immiscible fluids in microchannels by Yin, Shuai

“…A custom-made external magnetic field was applied to steer the Janus droplet. Rapid rotation of the Janus particle under the magnetic field was studied and the relationship between the angular velocity of the Janus particle and the frequency of the applied magnetic field was revealed. …”
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Coacervates derived from mussel foot proteins by Guo, Qi

“…CD and FTIR spectra also characterized the formation of localized β-sheet structures with the addition of salts. To further understand the specific roles of amino acids to the molecular level, several GK-16 variants were designed with a series of amino acid substituents. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of Algan/Gan high electron mobility transistors on silicon by Tham, Wai Hoe

“…Owing to the reduced bowing and lower epilayer defects, an improvement in the 2DEG mobility and sheet-resistivity uniformity across the SOI wafers is observed. …”
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Colloidal quantum dot light-emitting diode architectures for high performance by Leck, Kheng Swee

“…In addition, in the thesis, we used gallium-doped zinc oxide (GZO) to replace tin-doped indium oxide (ITO) used as the electrode in QD-LEDs due to the increasingly expensive raw materials of ITO. The lowest sheet resistance and resistivity of the radio-frequency (RF) sputtered GZO films are 12.28 Ω/□ and 9.48×10-4 Ω·cm, respectively, comparable to those of commercial grade ITO. …”
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Self-healing materials for flexible electronic devices by Tiwari, Naveen

“…Surface modification using hydrophilic molecules improved adhesion of the AgNWs and resulted in mechanically robust flexible electrodes with a high figure of merit; showing low sheet resistance with good transmittance in the visible spectrum. …”
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Methods of growth and transfer of carbon nanotubes onto substrates for advanced electrical and electronic applications by Ng, Zhi Kai

“…It was observed that the sheet resistance of GF/CNT could be tuned over a wide range from 40 Ω/square to 10^9 Ω/square by modulating the catalyst ratio and growth temperature. …”
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Fabrication of hollow fiber membranes using amphiphilic block copolymers as pore-forming additives by Loh, Chun Heng

“…In this work, the fundamental study has been carried out on flat sheet membranes instead of hollow fibers because the former involve less fabrication parameters. …”
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Investigations into femtosecond laser hybrid manufacturing for 3D power sources by Tham, Nicholas Cheng Yang

“…These VPGs are then demonstrated as active beam steering units and tuneable spectroscopic optical elements. …”
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