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Seeding Induced Aligned Microstructures (S.I.A.M.) in Yba2Cu306+X
Annealing of YBa2Cu_Og (12 3) above the peritectic temperature, followed by slow cooling at 0.5 C/min, was found to produce a microstructure containing regions (d - 200 microns) within which the grains were highl...
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Controlled heterogeneous nucleation of melt-textured YBa2Cu3O6+x by addition of Al2O3 particles
The reaction between alumina and yttrium barium cuprate subjected to a melt-texturing heat treatment was studied. Microstructural examination of quenched, partially transformed samples revealed that at ∼1050 °...
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Development of Novel Nanostructured Tissue Engineering Scaffold Materials through Self-assembly for Bed-side Orthopedic Applications
The objective of the current study was to utilize a natural self-assembled organic biomaterial (helical rosette nanotubes (HRNs)) to improve bone growth necessary for orthopedic implant applications. The DNA b...
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Osteoblast Behaviors on Novel Self-assembled Helical Rosette Nanotubes and Hydrogel Composites for Bone Tissue Engineering
To date, although traditional autografts and allografts have been standard methods to treat bone fractures and defects, the formation of biocompatible and injectable scaffolds to induce new bone growth is stil...
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Different Cell Responses on Biologically Inspired Nano-coatings for Orthopedic Applications
Various bone defects, caused by trauma, disease or age-related degeneration, represent a crucial clinical problem all over the world. However, traditional implant materials may cause many complications after s...
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Orthopedic implants from bioactive rosette nanotubes/poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate)/nano-hydroxyapatite composites
With multifunctionality and nanoscale dimensions, self-assembled rosette nanotubes (RNTs) exhibit unique biological and mechanical properties, making them promising to serve as a new generation of implants. Sy...
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Interlayer coupling in anisotropic/isotropic van der Waals heterostructures of ReS2 and MoS2 monolayers
In-plane symmetry is an important contributor to the physical properties of two-dimensional layered materials, as well as atomically thin heterojunctions. Here, we demonstrate anisotropic/isotropic van der Waa...
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Growth of atomically thin MoS2 flakes on high-κ substrates by chemical vapor deposition
The reduction in size of field-effect transistors (FETs) comprised of 3D semiconductors is confronted with the issues such as short-channel effects, tunneling effects and thermal dissipation. The emergence of ...
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Moisture-triggered release of self-produced ClO2 gas from microcapsule antibacterial film system
In this study, a novel chlorine dioxide (ClO2) microcapsule with a performance of moisture-triggered release was fabricated followed by the mixing with polylactic acid (PLA) for the preparation of an antibacteria...
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Carbon-nanoparticle-assisted growth of high quality bilayer WS2 by atmospheric pressure chemical vapor deposition
Two-dimensional (2D) WS2 offers great prospects for assembling next-generation optoelectronic and electronic devices due to its thickness-dependent optical and electronic properties. However, layer-number-control...
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Praseodymium iridium oxide as a competitive electrocatalyst for oxygen evolution reaction in acid media
Amorphous iridium oxides (IrOx) are highly active for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acid media; however, it is generally unstable compared with commercial IrO2. Recently, many non-noble metal-iridium mixed o...
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Rheological Research of the Semisolid ADC12 Slurry Prepared with High-Energy Ultrasound and Pr/Ce Addition
The semisolid ADC12 slurry was prepared by a high-energy ultrasonic method, which was reinforced with rare earth praseodymium and cerium (Pr/Ce). Effects of solid fraction, ultrasonic power, and Pr/Ce addition...
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Hierarchically Porous and Defective Carbon Fiber Cathode for Efficient Zn-Air Batteries and Microbial Fuel Cells
Develo** low-cost, efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalysts to replace Pt-based materials is urgently required for the application of Zn-air batteries (ZABs) and microbial fuel cells (MFCs). In th...
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Epitaxial substitution of metal iodides for low-temperature growth of two-dimensional metal chalcogenides
The integration of various two-dimensional (2D) materials on wafers enables a more-than-Moore approach for enriching the functionalities of devices1–3. On the other hand, the additive growth of 2D materials to fo...
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In3+-doped Sr2Fe1.5Mo0.5O6−δ cathode with improved performance for an intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cell
Promoting the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is critical for commercialization of intermediate-temperature solid oxide fuel cells (IT-SOFCs), where Sr2Fe1.5Mo0.5O6−δ (SFM) is a promising cathode by working as a ...