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By analyzing a large number of surgical patients, we identified the roles of wedge-shaped changes in related surgeries.
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Open AccessVisualizing chemical states and defects induced magnetism of graphene oxide by spatially-resolved-X-ray microscopy and spectroscopy
This investigation studies the various magnetic behaviors of graphene oxide (GO) and reduced graphene oxides (rGOs) and elucidates the relationship between the chemical states that involve defects therein and ...
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Open AccessBreaking through the strength-ductility trade-off dilemma in an Al-Si-based casting alloy
Al-Si-based casting alloys have a great potential in various industrial applications. Common strengthening strategies on these alloys are accompanied inevitably by sacrifice of ductility, known as strength-duc...
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Open AccessElectronic and atomic structures of the Sr3Ir4Sn13 single crystal: A possible charge density wave material
X-ray scattering (XRS), x-ray absorption near-edge structure (XANES) and extended x-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopic techniques were used to study the electronic and atomic structures of the...
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Open AccessAnisotropy in the thermal hysteresis of resistivity and charge density wave nature of single crystal SrFeO3-δ: X-ray absorption and photoemission studies
The local electronic and atomic structures of the high-quality single crystal of SrFeO3-δ (δ~0.19) were studied using temperature-dependent x-ray absorption and valence-band photoemission spectroscopy (VB-PES) to...
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Open AccessAn informatics guided classification of miscible and immiscible binary alloy systems
The classification of miscible and immiscible systems of binary alloys plays a critical role in the design of multicomponent alloys. By mining data from hundreds of experimental phase diagrams, and thousands o...
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Open AccessOrigin of magnetic properties in carbon implanted ZnO nanowires
Various synchrotron radiation-based spectroscopic and microscopic techniques are used to elucidate the room-temperature ferromagnetism of carbon-doped ZnO-nanowires (ZnO-C:NW) via a mild C+ ion implantation metho...
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Open AccessAnisotropy in the magnetic interaction and lattice-orbital coupling of single crystal Ni3TeO6
This investigation reports on anisotropy in the magnetic interaction, lattice-orbital coupling and degree of phonon softening in single crystal Ni3TeO6 (NTO) using temperature- and polarization-dependent X-ray ab...
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Open AccessStrain effect on orbital and magnetic structures of Mn ions in epitaxial Nd0.35Sr0.65MnO3/SrTiO3 films using X-ray diffraction and absorption
This study probes the temperature-dependent strain that is strongly correlated with the orbital and magnetic structures of epitaxial films of Nd0.35Sr0.65MnO3 (NSMO) that are fabricated by pulsed laser deposition...
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Open AccessScale law of complex deformation transitions of nanotwins in stainless steel
Understanding the deformation behavior of metallic materials containing nanotwins (NTs), which can enhance both strength and ductility, is useful for tailoring microstructures at the micro- and nano- scale to ...
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Open AccessLeft dorsolateral prefrontal cortex supports context-dependent prioritisation of off-task thought
When environments lack compelling goals, humans often let their minds wander to thoughts with greater personal relevance; however, we currently do not understand how this context-dependent prioritisation proce...
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Open AccessThe effect of orbital-lattice coupling on the electrical resistivity of YBaCuFeO5 investigated by X-ray absorption
Temperature-dependent X-ray absorption near-edge structures, X-ray linear dichroism (XLD) and extended X-ray absorption fine structure (EXAFS) spectroscopic techniques were used to investigate the valence stat...
