An endergonic synthesis of single Sondheimer–Wong diyne by local probe chemistry by Kawai, Shigeki, Sang, Hongqian, Kantorovich, Lev, Takahashi, Keisuke, Nozaki, Kyoko, Ito, Shingo

“…DFT calculations revealed that the multiple-step reaction, being endergonic overall, is facilitated by temporal charging and discharging of the molecule placed in the nanometric junction between the Cu tip and the Cu substrate underneath the ultra-thin NaCl film. …”
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Topological phenomena at defects in acoustic, photonic and solid-state lattices by Lin, Zhi-Kang, Wang, Qiang, Liu, Yang, Xue, Haoran, Zhang, Baile, Chong, Yidong, Jiang, Jian-Hua

“…Topological lattice defects in topological materials offer a platform to explore a diverse range of phenomena, such as robust topological-bound states, fractional charges, topological Wannier cycles, chiral and gravitational anomalies, topological lasers and topological-defect-induced pumping and non-Hermitian skin effects. …”
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Smart home control system design using internet of things based energy harvesting technology by Silalahi, Lukman Medriavin, Indrawan, Muhammad Rafi, Budiyanto, Setiyo, Hanafi, Dirman, Abdul Hamid, Abdul Hamid, Ronaldo, Davit

“…The novelty of this research is that the energy harvesting technology built on the Raspberry Pi as the main control and its supporting devices runs well in charging backups from solar panels with a length of 2 hours depending on the intensity of the light received. …”
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Mitigating initial capacity loss for practical lithium-ion battery by Cao, Shengkai

“…While numerous promising anode materials with optimized electrochemical performance, such as fast-charging capability and long-term stability have been developed, they still suffer from low initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) due to solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) formation and lithium trapping, which impede their commercialization. …”
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Study of islet amyloid polypeptide aggregation and its inhibition mechanisms. by Wei, Lei.

“…These interactions are mediated by salt bridges between positively charged residues Arg11 or Arg18 of rat IAPP and Glu13 of insulin B chain as well as by hydrophobic interactions flanking the salt bridges. …”
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Exploring the (im)possibilities of multicultural solidarity in Singapore by Koh, Seth Xi Liang

“…I answer this question by examining the plays Charged, by Chong Tze Chien, Homesick, by Alfian Sa’at, and Descendants of the Eunuch Admiral, by Kuo Pao Kun. …”
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Fabrication and characterization of flexible-conductive nanocomposites by Lau, Jun Jie

“…The current challenge is to develop a supercapacitor that has an energy capacity comparable to traditional batteries while retaining the fast charging benefits of capacitors. The objective of this research project is to develop a novel ternary composite electrode material made up of flexible cellulose paper and metal oxide to fabricate a solid-state flexible supercapacitor. …”
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Laboratory realization of relativistic pair-plasma beams by Arrowsmith, CD, Simon, P, Bilbao, PJ, Bott, AFA, Burger, S, Chen, H, Cruz, FD, Davenne, T, Efthymiopoulos, I, Froula, DH, Goillot, A, Gudmundsson, JT, Haberberger, D, Halliday, JWD, Hodge, T, Huffman, BT, Iaquinta, S, Miniati, F, Reville, B, Sarkar, S, Schekochihin, AA, Silva, LO, Simpson, R, Stergiou, V, Trines, RMGM, Charitonidis, N, Bingham, R, Gregori, G

“…Their role in the dynamics of such environments is in many cases believed to be fundamental, but their behavior differs significantly from typical electron-ion plasmas due to the matter-antimatter symmetry of the charged components. So far, our experimental inability to produce large yields of positrons in quasi-neutral beams has restricted the understanding of electron-positron pair plasmas to simple numerical and analytical studies, which are rather limited. …”

Multiplicity dependence of σψ(2S)/σJ/ψ in pp collisions at √𝑠 = 13 TeV by Aaij, R., Abdelmotteleb, A. S. W., Abellan Beteta, C., Abudinén, F., Ackernley, T., Adeva, B., Adinolfi, M., Adlarson, P., Agapopoulou, C., Aidala, C. A., Ajaltouni, Z., Akar, S., Akiba, K., Albicocco, P., Albrecht, J., Alessio, F.

“…The ratio of production cross-sections of ψ(2S) over J/ψ mesons as a function of charged-particle multiplicity in proton-proton collisions at a centre-of-mass energy √𝑠 = 13 TeV is measured with a data sample collected by the LHCb detector, corresponding to an integrated luminosity of 658 pb−1. …”
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Retrofitting business suburbia: competition, transformation, and challenges in metropolitan Boston’s suburban office parks by Jansen, Hendrik, Ryan, Brent D.

“…Recent literature indicates a shift of suburban business development in favor of increasingly competitive central cities, a dilemma for planners charged with revitalizing aging suburban business parks. …”
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Demonstration of neutron identification in neutrino interactions in the MicroBooNE liquid argon time projection chamber by Abratenko, P., Alterkait, O., Aldana, D. A., Arellano, L., Asaadi, J., Ashkenazi, A., Balasubramanian, S., Baller, B., Barnard, A., Barr, G., Barrow, D., Barrow, J., Basque, V., Bateman, J., Rodrigues, O. B., Berkman, S., Bhanderi, A., Bhat, A., Bhattacharya, M., Bishai, M.

“…We describe the method developed to identify neutrino-induced neutrons and demonstrate its performance using neutrons produced in muon-neutrino charged current interactions. The method is validated using a small subset of MicroBooNE’s total dataset. …”
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Optimum Model-Based Design of Diagnostics Experiments (DOE) with Hybrid Pulse Power Characterization (HPPC) for Lithium-Ion Batteries by Rhyu, Jinwook, Zhuang, Debbie, Bazant, Martin Z, Braatz, Richard D

“…Contrary to traditional HPPC diagnostics which use fixed pulse magnitudes at uniformly distributed state of charges (SOC), we find that well-designed HPPC protocols using our framework outperform traditional protocols in terms of minimizing both parametric uncertainties and diagnostic time. …”
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First-principles study of the lattice dynamics of Sb2S3 by Liu, Yun, Eddie Chua, Kun Ting, Sum, Tze Chien, Gan, Chee Kwan

“…The effect of Born effective charges is taken into account using a mixed-space approach, resulting in the splitting of longitudinal and transverse optical (LO-TO) phonon branches near the zone center. …”
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Hodgkin–huxley artificial synaptic membrane based on protonic/electronic hybrid neuromorphic transistors by Fu, Yang Ming, Wan, Chang Jin, Zhu, Li Qiang, Xiao, Hui, Chen, Xiao Dong, Wan, Qing

“…Phosphosilicate glass-based proton conductor electrolyte demonstrates unique short-term volatile charging behaviors, indicating potential short-term synaptic plasticity applications. …”
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Spin defects in hBN assisted by metallic nanotrenches for quantum sensing by Cai, Hongbing, Ru, Shihao, Jiang, Zhengzhi, Eng, John Jun Hong, He, Ruihua, Li, Fuli, Miao, Yansong, Zúñiga-Pérez, Jesús, Gao, Weibo

“…The omnipresence of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) in devices embedding two-dimensional materials has prompted it as the most sought after platform to implement quantum sensing due to its testing while operating capability. The negatively charged boron vacancy (VB-) in hBN plays a prominent role, as it can be easily generated while its spin population can be initialized and read out by optical means at room-temperature. …”
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The server allocation problem for session-based multiplayer cloud gaming by Deng, Yunhua, Li, Yusen, Seet, Ronald, Tang, Xueyan, Cai, Wentong

“…We formulate an MCG server allocation problem with the objective of minimizing the total server rental and bandwidth cost charged by the cloud to support an MCG session. The MCG server allocation problem is hard to solve optimally. …”
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Label-free detection of ATP release from living astrocytes with high temporal resolution using carbon nanotube network by Huang, Yinxi, Sudibya, Herry Gunadi, Fu, Dongliang, Xue, Renhao, Dong, Xiaochen, Li, Lain-Jong, Chen, Peng

“…The secreted ATP molecules diffuse into the narrow interface gap between the SWNT-net and the astrocyte, and interact with the nanotubes. Highly charged ATP molecules electrostatically modulate the SWNT conductance leading to measurable current response. …”
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A method for simultaneously determining the zeta potentials of the channel surface and the tracer particles using microparticle image velocimetry technique by Yan, Deguang, Yang, Chun, Nguyen, Nam-Trung, Huang, Xiaoyang

“…Through the measurement of the steady velocity distributions of the tracer particles in both open- and closed-end rectangular microchannels under the same water chemistry condition, the electrophoretic velocity of the tracer particles and the EOF field of the microchannel are determined using the expressions derived in this study for the velocity distributions of charged tracer particles in the open- and closed-end rectangular microchannels. …”
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Amplitude analysis of B + → ψ (2 S ) K + π + π − decays by Aaij, R, Abdelmotteleb, ASW, Abellan Beteta, C, Abudinén, F, Ackernley, T, Adefisoye, AA, Adeva, B, Adinolfi, M, Adlarson, P, Agapopoulou, C, Aidala, CA, Ajaltouni, Z, Akar, S, Akiba, K, Albicocco, P, Albrecht, J, Alessio, F, Alexander, M, Aliouche, Z, Alvarez Cartelle, P, Amalric, R, Amato, S, Amey, JL, Amhis, Y, Bacher, D, Bovill, M, Cervenkov, D, Fischer, KL, Gao, R, Gilman, AL, Goncalves Abrantes, F, Harnew, N, John, M, Mackay, I, Malde, S, Martel, L, Mohammed, RA, Patoc, J, Resmi, PK, Scantlebury Smead, LG, Smallwood, JC, Stanislaus, S, Suljik, F, Tat, MD, Vico Benet, D, Wilkinson, G, Zhang, S

“…New production mechanisms for charged charmonium-like states are observed. Significant resonant activity with spin-parity JP = 1+ in the ψ(2S)π+ system is confirmed and a multi-pole structure is demonstrated. …”

Fabrication, properties, and performance of polymer nanocomposite Ion exchange membranes for fuel cell applications: A review by Sayed Dauda, Syarifah Noor Syakiylla, Mohd. Norddin, Muhammad Noorul Anam, Jaafar, Juhana, Sudirman, Rubita

“…The membrane in a fuel cell plays an essential role in permeating the ionic charges of positive and negative ions without passing the fuels and electrons through it. …”
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