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Utilization of peanut shells for the fabrication of high-performance activated carbon electrodes in capacitive deionization
Capacitive deionization (CDI) has emerged as an effective method for seawater desalination owing to its low energy consumption and high efficiency, with the development of cost-effective and high-performance e...
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Rapid environmental assessment in the South China Sea: Improved inversion of sound speed profile using remote sensing data
Complex perturbations in the profile and the sparsity of samples often limit the validity of rapid environmental assessment (REA) in the South China Sea (SCS). In this paper, the remote sensing data were used ...
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Electrically driven motion, destruction, and chirality change of polar vortices in oxide superlattices
Topological polar vortices, which are electric analogs of magnetic objects, present great potential in applications of future nanoelectronics because of their nanometer size, anomalous dielectric response, and...
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Open AccessEngineering of atomic-scale flexoelectricity at grain boundaries
Flexoelectricity is a type of ubiquitous and prominent electromechanical coupling, pertaining to the electrical polarization response to mechanical strain gradients that is not restricted by the symmetry of ma...
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PANI-Based Ternary Composite for Energy Storage Material
Electrochemical energy storage system has been a promising focus to tackle with the current energy crisis problem. Polyaniline (PANI) has been an attractive electrode material in energy storage devices, owning...
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Open AccessCreating polar antivortex in PbTiO3/SrTiO3 superlattice
Nontrivial topological structures offer a rich playground in condensed matters and promise alternative device configurations for post-Moore electronics. While recently a number of polar topologies have been di...
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A novel method for internal wave monitoring based on expansion of the sound speed profile
For acoustic detection of internal waves, the core issue is to obtain the temporal and spatial distribution of the sound speed profile (SSP). In the inversion process, the SSP is usually expressed by a few par...
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Osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers as ultrastable anodes for lithium/sodium ion storage
We report an in situ carbothermic reduction process to prepare osiers-sprout-like heteroatom-doped carbon nanofibers. The dosage of copper salts and a unique annealing process have a crucial effect on the develop...
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Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Local Scour Around Submarine Piggyback Pipeline Under Steady Current
As a new type of submarine pipeline, the piggyback pipeline has been gradually adopted in engineering practice to enhance the performance and safety of submarine pipelines. However, limited simulation work and...
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Open AccessEngineering geological assessment for route selection of railway line in geologically active area: A case study in China
The Cheng-Lan railway links Chengdu, a central city in Southwestern China, and Lanzhou, a central city in Northwestern China. The railway passes through the Longmenshan fault zone (Wenchuan earthquake happened...
