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Uncovering the predictive pathways of lithium and sodium interchange in layered oxides
Ion exchange is a powerful method to access metastable materials with advanced functionalities for energy storage applications. However, high concentrations and unfavourably large excesses of lithium are alway...
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The safeguard mode of green development in China
There is a broad consensus in favour of the green development mode in China, and thus, it is important to establish a safeguard mechanism with which to make such development more sustainable. In this study, Ch...
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A thermotropic liquid crystal enables efficient and stable perovskite solar modules
Perovskite solar cells have seen impressive progress in performance and stability, yet maintaining efficiency while scaling area remains a challenge. Here we find that additives commonly used to passivate larg...
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Open AccessUnlocking the mysterious polytypic features within vaterite CaCO3
Calcium carbonate (CaCO3), the most abundant biogenic mineral on earth, plays a crucial role in various fields such as hydrosphere, biosphere, and climate regulation. Of the four polymorphs, calcite, aragonite, v...
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Open AccessFormation mechanism of high-index faceted Pt-Bi alloy nanoparticles by evaporation-induced growth from metal salts
Nanoparticles with high-index facets are intriguing because such facets can lend the structure useful functionality, including enhanced catalytic performance and wide-ranging optical tunability. Ligand-free so...
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Constrained C2 adsorbate orientation enables CO-to-acetate electroreduction
The carbon dioxide and carbon monoxide electroreduction reactions, when powered using low-carbon electricity, offer pathways to the decarbonization of chemical manufacture1,2. Copper (Cu) is relied on today for c...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Determining All Pareto-Optimal Paths for Multi-category Multi-objective Path Optimization Problems
Increasing criteria have been involved in the path evaluation, and path optimization with multiplicative objectives becomes essential in the real world, such as the reliability of paths. Firstly, we define the...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Deterministic Effective Method for Emergency Material Distribution Under Dynamic Disasters
It has great practical significance in solving the problem of emergency material distribution in a dynamic disaster environment, and there are usually four considerations: the corresponding optimal relationshi...
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Open AccessCapsaicin decreases fecundity in the Asian malaria vector Anopheles stephensi by inhibiting the target of rapamycin signaling pathway
Mosquito-borne diseases threaten human health, but mosquito control faces various challenges, such as resistance to chemical insecticides. Thus, there is an urgent need for more effective and environment-frien...
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Open-channel metal particle superlattices
Although tremendous advances have been made in preparing porous crystals from molecular precursors1,2, there are no general ways of designing and making topologically diversified porous colloidal crystals over th...
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Establishment of a comprehensive analysis method for the microfaunal movement in activated sludge
Microfaunal identification and analysis are very complex; thus, an image analysis method was utilized in this paper to overcome the shortcomings of using the number, dominant species, and diversity of populati...
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Open AccessDirect observation of the formation and stabilization of metallic nanoparticles on carbon supports
Direct formation of ultra-small nanoparticles on carbon supports by rapid high temperature synthesis method offers new opportunities for scalable nanomanufacturing and the synthesis of stable multi-elemental n...
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Open AccessHigh-flow nasal cannula improves clinical efficacy of airway management in patients undergoing awake craniotomy
Awake craniotomy requires specific sedation procedure in an awake patient who should be able to cooperate during the intraoperative neurological assessment. Currently, limited number of literatures on the appl...
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Ultrasensitive ciprofloxacin assay based on the use of a fluorescently labeled aptamer and a nanocomposite prepared from carbon nanotubes and MoSe2
A nanocomposite was prepared from carbon nanotubes and MoSe2 (CNT-MoSe2). This nanomaterial quenches the fluorescence of fluorescein-labeled aptamers. When ciprofloxacin (CIP) binds to the aptamer, an aptamer/G-q...
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Two-dimensional copper nanosheets for electrochemical reduction of carbon monoxide to acetate
Upgrading carbon dioxide to high-value multicarbon (C2+) products is one promising avenue for fuel and chemical production. Among all the monometallic catalysts, copper has attracted much attention because of its...
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Triazine-containing blue emitting Hyperbranched polyamide with donor-acceptor architecture: synthesis, characterization, optoelectronic properties, and sensing behaviors toward ferric ions
Two novel blue-emitting triazine-containing hyperbranched amides with donor-acceptor architecture were designed and synthesized via a one-pot polycondensation using 2,4,6-tris(4-carboxyphenyl)-1,3,5-triazine (H3T...
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Open AccessDepressive symptoms and negative life events: What psycho-social factors protect or harm left-behind children in China?
In China, children under 18 years old who are left at rural residences for at least 6 months by either one or both of their parents migrating to work in cities are called “left-behind children (LBC)”. Due to r...
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Develo** an ICT-Based Toolbox for Resilient Capacity Building: Challenges, Obstacles and Approaches
Resilience is now more than a buzzword, as we learned from the impact of several recent very large-scale disasters around the world. Both the international academic and policy communities recognize that the ac...
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Open AccessGovernment Investment in Disaster Risk Reduction Based on a Probabilistic Risk Model: A Case Study of Typhoon Disasters in Shenzhen, China
In recent years, cost-benefit analysis (CBA) has played an important role in disaster risk reduction (DRR) investment decisions, and now increasing attention is being paid to its application in develo** coun...
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Molecular and serological evidence for Seoul virus in rats (Rattus norvegicus) in Zhangmu, Tibet, China
We report the detection of a virus, tentatively identified as Seoul virus (SEOV), from a rat (Rattus norvegicus) collected in the city of Zhangmu, Tibet. SEOV RNA was detected in lung tissue by reverse transcript...
