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Morphology-promoted synergistic effects on the sensing properties of polyaniline ultrathin layers on reduced graphene oxide sheets for ammonia and formaldehyde detection
The control in morphology and microstructure is an efficient approach to regulate the gas sensing properties of the sensor. In this work, polyaniline (PANi) layer in nanoscale film morphology was coated on the...
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Enhancing the formation and capacitance properties of interfacial polymerized polyaniline nanofibers by introducing small alcohol molecules
Three kinds of polyaniline (PANI) nanofibers were prepared by introducing small alcohol molecules including methanol and ethanol as co-solvents into aqueous phase in the interfacial polymerization. The influen...
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Improved properties and drug delivery behaviors of electrospun cellulose acetate nanofibrous membranes by introducing carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals
Cellulose acetate (CA) composite nanofibrous membranes were electrospun by introducing carboxylated cellulose nanocrystals (CCNCs) as organic nanoreinforcements which were prepared by firstly extracting the ce...
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Open AccessTomato AUXIN RESPONSE FACTOR 5 regulates fruit set and development via the mediation of auxin and gibberellin signaling
Auxin response factors (ARFs) encode transcriptional factors that function in the regulation of plant development processes. A tomato ARF gene, SlARF5, was observed to be expressed at high levels in emasculated o...
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Travelling wave solutions of (2 \(+\) 1)-dimensional generalised time-fractional Hirota equation
In this article, we have developed new exact analytical solutions of a nonlinear evolution equation that appear in mathematical physics, a ...
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Isolation, purification and identification of two antioxidant peptides from water hyacinth leaf protein hydrolysates (WHLPH)
In order to find novel natural antioxidant peptides, the water hyacinth leaf protein was hydrolyzed by Protamex at optimum condition to prepared water hyacinth leaf protein hydrolysate (WHLPH). And antioxidant...
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Open AccessIdentification and expression profiling of microRNAs involved in the stigma exsertion under high-temperature stress in tomato
Autogamy in cultivated tomato varieties is a derived trait from wild type tomato plants, which are mostly allogamous. However, environmental stresses can cause morphological defects in tomato flowers and hinde...
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Open AccessThickness Considerations of Two-Dimensional Layered Semiconductors for Transistor Applications
Layered two-dimensional semiconductors have attracted tremendous attention owing to their demonstrated excellent transistor switching characteristics with a large ratio of on-state to off-state current, Ion/Ioff....
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Downregulation of the mitogen-activated protein kinase SlMAPK7 gene results in pollen abortion in tomato
Mitogen-activated protein kinases (MAPKs) play important roles in various aspects including plant development and stress response. The biological role of MAPKs in tomato development remains unclear. Here, mult...
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Open AccessAccelerating Gas Adsorption on 3D Percolating Carbon Nanotubes
In the field of electronic gas sensing, low-dimensional semiconductors such as single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) can offer high detection sensitivity owing to their unprecedentedly large surface-to-volum...
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Study on the chain entanglement of polyvinyl alcohol fiber during the dry-jet wet spinning process
The entanglement structure of polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) fiber during the dry-jet wet spinning process is studied in this article. The morphological changes of PVA fiber in swelling agent are observed under optic...
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Open AccessPhotothermoelectric and photovoltaic effects both present in MoS2
As a finite-energy-bandgap alternative to graphene, semiconducting molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) has recently attracted extensive interest for energy and sensor applications. In particular for broad-spectral photod...
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Surfactant-assisted synthesis of reduced graphene oxide/polyaniline composites by gamma irradiation for supercapacitors
A series of graphene materials are prepared by intercalation of graphene oxide (GO) with different surfactants, cetyltrimethylammonium bromide (CTAB), n-octyltrimethylammonium bromide, tetramethylammonium bromide...
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Open AccessFormulation and solution to time-fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation via variational methods
This paper presents the formulation of the time-fractional generalized Korteweg-de Vries equation (KdV) using the Euler-Lagrange variational technique in the Riemann-Liouville derivative sense and derives an a...
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Open AccessThe radiolytic behavior and mechanism of calixarene crown ether under γ-irradiation
Bis(2-propyloxy)calix[4]crown-6 (BPC6) is an effective separation agent for cesium removing from spent nuclear fuel. The study on radiolytic behavior of BPC6 itself under γ-irradiation was required for evaluating...
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Cr(VI) removal from aqueous solution using chemically reduced and functionalized graphene oxide
Chemically reduced and functionalized graphene oxide (GO) was prepared by refluxing of GO with ethylenediamine (ED) using dimethyl formamide (DMF) as solvent. It was confirmed that both ED and DMF contributed ...
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CDH13 and FLBN3 Gene Methylation are Associated with Poor Prognosis in Colorectal Cancer
The aim of this study was to identify potential epigenetic prognostic biomarkers for colorectal cancer (CRC) in the Chinese population. The methylation status of five tumor suppressor genes (CDH13, DLEC1, FBLN3,
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Given a sample covariance matrix, we examine the problem of maximizing the variance explained by a linear combination of the input variables while constraining the number of nonzero coefficients in this combin...
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Thermodynamic study of non-solvent/dimethyl sulfoxide/polyacrylonitrile ternary systems: effects of the non-solvent species
In order to investigate the effects of the non-solvent species on the formation mechanism of polyacrylonitrile (PAN) fiber in wet spinning, theoretical ternary phase diagrams of water/DMSO/PAN and ethanol/DMSO...
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Open AccessMultiplicity results for a generalized Sturm-Liouville dynamical system on time scales
By applying the fixed point theorem in cones, some new and general results on the existence of positive solution to second order generalized Sturm-Liouville dynamical system on time scale
