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Hot-Isostatic Pressed Al Melt-Spun Ribbons with Tailored Microstructures and Mechanical Properties for Metallic Optics
This work demonstrates rapid solidification and precision machining to achieve 6061 aluminum alloys with extremely small surface roughness (2.05 nm), good tensile strength (325 MPa), and uniformly distributed ...
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Highly adaptive and broadband triboelectric energy harvester with stretching silicone rubber strip for variable harmonic frequency vibration
An enormous number of wireless sensing nodes (WSNs) are of great significance for the Internet of Things (IoT). It is tremendously prospective to realize the in-situ power supply of WSNs by harvesting unutilized ...
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Open AccessAssessing intra- and inter-molecular charge transfer excitations in non-fullerene acceptors using electroabsorption spectroscopy
Organic photovoltaic cells using Y6 non-fullerene acceptors have recently achieved high efficiency, and it was suggested to be attributed to the charge-transfer (CT) nature of the excitations in Y6 aggregates....
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Open AccessImpact of partial bile duct ligation with or without repeated magnetic resonance imaging examinations in mice
Partial bile duct ligation (pBDL) is considered a well-tolerated cholestatic model. Magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) is one of the most widely used tools in noninvasive imaging. However, no systematic studies ...
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Photoacclimation caused by high frequency flashing light assists Chlorella sp. M-12 wastewater treatment and biomass accumulation in dark color biogas slurry
Using microalgae to treat biogas slurry can realize wastewater treatment and nutrients recovery. However, the dark color of biogas slurry causes serious light attenuation. Flashing light was used to solve ligh...
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Open AccessSystematic analysis of Histidine photosphoto transfer gene family in cotton and functional characterization in response to salt and around tolerance
Phosphorylation regulated by the two-component system (TCS) is a very important approach signal transduction in most of living organisms. Histidine phosphotransfer (HP) is one of the important members of the T...
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Record-high near-band-edge optical nonlinearities and two-level model correction of poled polymers by spectroscopic electromodulation and ellipsometry
The determination of nonlinearities near the band edge of organic and polymeric electro-optic (EO) materials is important from the viewpoint of molecular nonlinear optics (NLO) and photonic device applications...
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Enhanced antitumor activity of inulin-capped Se nanoparticles synthesized using Jerusalem artichoke tubers
An inulin polysaccharide with a molecular weight of ~ 2600 Da was derived from Jerusalem artichoke tubers and referred to as “JAP”. Previous studies have shown that inulin can improve glucose tolerance and the...
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Failure mechanisms and dynamics of the Shanzao rockslide in Yongjia County, China on 10 August 2019
At about 04:00 on 10 August 2019, the heavy rainfall carried by Typhoon Lekima induced a catastrophic rockslide in Shanzao Village, Yongjia County, China. The heavy rainfall triggered the tuff rock mass of abo...
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Open AccessCorrelation between early features and prognosis of symptomatic COVID-19 discharged patients in Hunan, China
To determine the correlation between the clinical, laboratory, and radiological findings and the hospitalization days in Coronavirus Infectious Disease-19 (COVID-19) discharged patients. We retrospectively ide...
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Influence of intrusive granite dyke on rainfall-induced soil slope failure
Intrusive granite dykes and their weathered layers can have great effects on seepage into slopes and on their stability. However, few studies of this topic have been reported. Using the Zhonglincun landslide a...
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Clinical and radiological changes of hospitalised patients with COVID-19 pneumonia from disease onset to acute exacerbation: a multicentre paired cohort study
To analyse clinical and radiological changes from disease onset to exacerbation in coronavirus infectious disease-19 (COVID-19) patients.
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Real World Third-Person with Multiple Point-of-Views for Immersive Mixed Reality
Technologies of Virtual Reality (VR), Augmented Reality (AR) and Mixed Reality (MR) are increasingly applied in urban construction and smart cities. As one of the high fidelity revivification methods, the purp...
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Open AccessA generalized Stark effect electromodulation model for extracting excitonic properties in organic semiconductors
Electromodulation (EM) spectroscopy, a powerful technique to monitor the changes in polarizability p and dipole moment u of materials upon photo-excitation, can bring direct insight into the excitonic properties ...
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Experimental Investigation of the Phase Relations in the Al-Co-Ti System
By scanning electron microscopy equipped with energy dispersive spectrometer, x-ray diffraction and differential thermal analysis, the microstructures and the solidification paths of 99 as-cast Al-Co-Ti ternar...
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Open AccessOn the degradation mechanisms of quantum-dot light-emitting diodes
The operating lifetime of blue quantum-dot light-emitting diodes (QLED) is currently a short slab for this emerging display technology. To pinpoint the origin of device degradation, here we apply multiple tech...
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Microalgae cultivation and culture medium recycling by a two-stage cultivation system
Nutrients and water play an important role in microalgae cultivation. Using wastewater as a culture medium is a promising alternative to recycle nutrients and water, and for further develo** microalgae-based...
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Experimental investigation and thermodynamic re-assessment of the Mn–Nd binary system
Fourteen Mn–Nd alloys were investigated experimentally by means of thermal analysis. The temperatures of the invariant reactions and liquidus in the Mn–Nd binary system were determined. Based on the experiment...
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Modulation format independent blind polarization demultiplexing algorithms for elastic optical networks
We demonstrate a novel modulation format independent algorithm for adaptive blind polarization demultiplexing for elastic optical networks (EONs). We compare the proposed algorithm with traditional constant mo...
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Highly sensitive enzymatic determination of urea based on the pH-dependence of the fluorescence of graphene quantum dots
We report on a nanoparticle-based fluorescent sensing scheme for urea. It is based on the finding that graphene quantum dots (GQDs) display pH-sensitive green fluorescence if photoexcited at 460 nm. Fluorescen...
