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Stiff clays in intact and compacted states often exhibit distinct swelling properties, which are highly dependent on the microstructural characteristics of the soil. In this study, one-dimensional swelling tes...
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Free-triplet generation with improved efficiency in tetracene oligomers through spatially separated triplet pair states
Singlet fission (SF) can potentially boost the efficiency of solar energy conversion by converting a singlet exciton (S1) into two free triplets (T1 + T1) through an intermediate state of a correlated triplet pai...
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Open AccessEarly animal evolution and highly oxygenated seafloor niches hosted by microbial mats
The earliest unambiguous evidence for animals is represented by various trace fossils in the latest Ediacaran Period (550–541 Ma), suggesting that the earliest animals lived on or even penetrated into the seaf...
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Open AccessHeterogeneous Mg isotopic composition of the early Carboniferous limestone: implications for carbonate as a seawater archive
Carbonate precipitation and hydrothermal reaction are the two major processes that remove Mg from seawater. Mg isotopes are significantly (up to 5‰) fractionated during carbonate precipitation by preferential ...
