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Triboelectric and piezoelectric materials for smart health in human-integrated healthcare systems
This paper presents a comprehensive exploration of the role of smart materials, specifically triboelectric and piezoelectric materials, in the context of human-integrated healthcare systems. The study begins b...
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Influence of Mn–Si elements on the kinetics of oxidative phase transformation under continuous cooling conditions and modeling study
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Open AccessFactorial design analytics on effects of material parameter uncertainties in multiphysics modeling of additive manufacturing
A bottleneck in Laser Powder Bed Fusion (L-PBF) metal additive manufacturing (AM) is the quality inconsistency of its products. To address this issue without costly experimentation, computational multi-physics...
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First-principles study of the interaction between H/He impurities and vacancy in tetragonal Be \(_{12}\) Ti
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Superhydrophobic coating with excellent robustness and UV resistance fabricated using hydrothermal treated lignin nanoparticles by one-step spray
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Correction to: High-sensitivity fiber-optic humidity sensor based on microfiber overlaid with niobium disulfide
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Effect of carbon fiber reinforcement on the compressive and thermal properties of hollow glass microspheres/epoxy syntactic foam
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Open AccessMechanism of keyhole pore formation in metal additive manufacturing
During metal additive manufacturing, the porosity of the as-built part deteriorates the mechanical property and even hinders the further application of metal additive manufacturing. Particularly, the mechanism...
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Organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites electrochemical synthesis, properties, and applications
Organic/inorganic thermoelectric composites have played an important role in the development of new, green, and renewable energy sources with potential applications in efficient thermal management, flexible el...
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Open AccessPhase-field modeling of grain evolutions in additive manufacturing from nucleation, growth, to coarsening
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High-sensitivity fiber-optic humidity sensor based on microfiber overlaid with niobium disulfide
Humidity sensors by exploiting transition metal dichalcogenides have attracted enormous attention in various applications. Here, we demonstrate a high-sensitivity fiber-optic humidity sensor based on microfibe...
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Enhanced thermal stability of lead-free (1-x)Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 ferroelectric ceramics
The thermal stability of lead-free perovskite ceramics (1-x)Ba(Zr0.2Ti0.8)O3-x(Ba0.7Ca0.3)TiO3 (BZT–xBCT) is enhanced greatly by co-sintering different combinations in rhombohedral phase (R phase), tetragonal pha...
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Surface chemistry-dependent antibacterial and antibiofilm activities of polyamine-functionalized carbon quantum dots
Bacterial biofilm infection is perplexing people’s life. Systemic administration of antibiotics usually causes adverse effects and bacterial resistance. How to make antibacterial agents quickly penetrate and e...
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Correction to: Nonsymmorphic nodal-line metals in the two-dimensional rare earth monochalcogenides MX (M = Sc, Y; X = S, Se, Te)
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Nonsymmorphic nodal-line metals in the two-dimensional rare earth monochalcogenides MX (M = Sc, Y; X = S, Se, Te)
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Defects-aggregated cell boundaries induced domain wall curvature change in Fe-rich Sm–Co–Fe–Cu–Zr permanent magnets
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Recent advances in synthesis and application of organic near-infrared fluorescence polymers
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Synthesis of nitrogen-superdoped and graphene fiber-supported three-dimensional graphene foam for supercapacitors
Nitrogen-doped three-dimensional (3D) graphene foam (GF) has aroused tremendous interest for the supercapacitors (SCs) applications because of its unique properties. However, it is still confronting the challe...
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Self-healing alginate hydrogel based on dynamic acylhydrazone and multiple hydrogen bonds
Dialdehyde-terminated PEG (PEG–CHO) and adipic dihydrazide-modified alginate (ALG-ADH) was developed to provide aldehyde and hydrazide active sites, respectively, and thus to obtain dynamic acylhydrazone bonds...
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Synthesis and luminescence properties of Sr2−xY x Si5−xAl x N8:Eu2+ red phosphor for white light-emitting diodes
To improve the luminescence properties of Sr2Si5N8:Eu2+ phosphor, Sr2−xY x Si5−xAl x N8:Eu2+ specimens in which Sr2+ and Si4+ were partially sub...