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Open AccessWater strategies and management: current paths to sustainable water use
Freshwater is unquestionably the most crucial resource essential for the sustenance and advancement of humankind. This invaluable entity surpasses all societal, economic, and environmental domains, consequentl...
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Open AccessHow does the climate change effect on hydropower potential, freshwater fisheries, and hydrological response of snow on water availability?
Globally there is already a lot of pressure on water resources because of climate change, economic development, as well as an increasing global populace. Many rivers originate in the mountains, where snowfall ...
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Selective hydrodeoxygenation of guaiacol to cyclohexanol using activated hydrochar-supported Ru catalysts
Lignin, an abundant aromatic polymer in nature, has received significant attention for its potential in the production of bio-oils and chemicals owing to increased resource availability and environmental issue...
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Ambipolar tribotronic transistor of MoTe2
Two-dimensional (2D) tribotronic devices have been successfully involved in electromechanical modulation for channel conductance and applied in intelligent sensing system, touch screen, and logic gates. Ambipo...
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A wrinkle to sub-100 nm yolk/shell Fe3O4@SiO2 nanoparticles
Yolk/shell nanoparticles (NPs), which integrate functional cores (likes Fe3O4) and an inert SiO2 shell, are very important for applications in fields such as biomedicine and catalysis. An acidic medium is an exce...
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One-Dimensional Bi-Based Nanostructures for Thermoelectrics
Bi and its alloys are important thermoelectric materials for solid-state refrigeration and power generation. An increase in the thermoelectric figure of merit is predicted due to quantum confinement and phonon...
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Biodistribution study of carbogenic dots in cells and in vivo for optical imaging
Blue fluorescent carbon dots (C-dots) were synthesized and evaluated for their cytotoxicity and also for their optical imaging performance. The results showed that the C-dots could enter into the Hela cells in...
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Open AccessSurfactant-Assisted in situ Chemical Etching for the General Synthesis of ZnO Nanotubes Array
In this paper, a general low-cost and substrate-independent chemical etching strategy is demonstrated for the synthesis of ZnO nanotubes array. During the chemical etching, the nanotubes array inherits many fe...
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Toughening Effect and Oxidation Behavior of MoSi2 -ZrO2 Composites
Toughening effect of ZrO2-particles in MoSi2-based materials is one of the important toughening mechanism. In this work, the influence of particle size and volume percentage of unstabilized ZrO2-addition on tough...
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Enhancement of Molar Heat Capacity of Nanostructured Al2O3
The nanosized alumina prepared by the hydrolysis method with an average particle size of 20 nm was characterized by X-ray diffraction. The heat capacity measurements of the prepared sample were carried out usi...
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The Enhancement of Band Edge Emission from ZnS/Zn(OH)2 Quantum Dots
Wurtzite structure monodisperse ZnS quantum dots (QDs) of 1 to 5 nm diameter, synthesized by colloidal chemical method, were confirmed by transmission electron microscopy (TEM) images and electron diffraction ...
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Ternary alloying study of MoSi2
Ternary alloying of MoSi2 with adding a series of transition elements was investigated by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and energy dispersive spect...