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Micro- and nanoplastic pollution has become a global environmental problem. Nanoplastics in the environment are still hard to detect because of analysis technology limitations. It is believed that when micropl...
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Highly active multivalent multielement catalysts derived from hierarchical porous TiNb2O7 nanospheres for the reversible hydrogen storage of MgH2
Critical limitations in applying MgH2 as a hydrogen-storage medium include the high H2 desorption temperature and slow reaction kinetics. In this study, we synthesized hierarchical porous TiNb2O7 spheres in micro...
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The Simulation and Research of Etching Function Based on Scanning Electrochemical Microscopy
Scanning electrochemical microscopy (SECM) has already been employed as a micromachining method for a long time. However, coupling effects of some factors, including the voltage of the tool electrode, the dist...
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Open AccessSelf-forming TiBN Nanocomposite Multilayer Coating Prepared by Pulse Cathode Arc Method
Novel multilayer structured TiBN coatings were deposited on Si (100) substrate using TiBN complex cathode plasma immersion ion implantation and deposition technique (PIIID). The coatings were characterized by ...
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Open AccessControlled nanodot fabrication by rippling polycarbonate surface using an AFM diamond tip
The single scratching test of polymer polycarbonate (PC) sample surface using an atomic force microscope (AFM) diamond tip for fabricating ripple patterns has been studied with the focus on the evaluation of t...
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Open AccessFabrication of nanochannels with ladder nanostructure at the bottom using AFM nanoscratching method
This letter presents a novel atomic force microscopy (AFM)-based nanomanufacturing method combining the tip scanning with the high-precision stage movement to fabricate nanochannels with ladder nanostructure a...
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Effects of Ce-Based Dopants on the Hydrogen Storage Material of NaAlH4
Cerium in various chemical forms was introduced into NaAlH4 to study the hydrogen sorption properties of the resulted material. Although all the Ce precursors tested in this work resulted in a reversible hydrogen...
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Improvement of the hydrogen-storage performances of Li–Mg–N–H system
Li2MgN2H2 can reversibly store more than 5.5 wt% hydrogen. However, the high activation energy of hydrogen desorption poses a kinetic barrier for low-temperature operation. In this work, the composition of the Li...