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Dispersant-free conducting pastes for flexible and printed nanocarbon electrodes
The dispersant-free fabrication of highly conducting pastes based on organic solvents with nanocarbon materials such as carbon nanotubes and graphene nanoplatelets has been hindered by severe agglomeration. He...
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Open AccessElectrically Robust Metal Nanowire Network Formation by In-Situ Interconnection with Single-Walled Carbon Nanotubes
Modulation of the junction resistance between metallic nanowires is a crucial factor for high performance of the network-structured conducting film. Here, we show that under current flow, silver nanowire (AgNW...
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An electrochemical system for efficiently harvesting low-grade heat energy
Efficient and low-cost thermal energy-harvesting systems are needed to utilize the tremendous low-grade heat sources. Although thermoelectric devices are attractive, its efficiency is limited by the relatively...
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Open AccessExtremely Efficient Liquid Exfoliation and Dispersion of Layered Materials by Unusual Acoustic Cavitation
Layered materials must be exfoliated and dispersed in solvents for diverse applications. Usually, highly energetic probe sonication may be considered to be an unfavourable method for the less defective exfolia...
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Weakening of the stratospheric polar vortex by Arctic sea-ice loss
Successive cold winters of severely low temperatures in recent years have had critical social and economic impacts on the mid-latitude continents in the Northern Hemisphere. Although these cold winters are tho...
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Open AccessRearrangement of 1D Conducting Nanomaterials towards Highly Electrically Conducting Nanocomposite Fibres for Electronic Textiles
Nanocarbon-based conducting fibres have been produced using solution- or dry-spinning techniques. Highly conductive polymer-composite fibres containing large amounts of conducting nanomaterials have not been p...
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Open AccessKinetics and fracture resistance of lithiated silicon nanostructure pairs controlled by their mechanical interaction
Following an explosion of studies of silicon as a negative electrode for Li-ion batteries, the anomalous volumetric changes and fracture of lithiated single Si particles have attracted significant attention in...
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Open AccessCross-Split of Dislocations: An Athermal and Rapid Plasticity Mechanism
The pathways by which dislocations, line defects within the lattice structure, overcome microstructural obstacles represent a key aspect in understanding the main mechanisms that control mechanical properties ...
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Open AccessAvoiding short circuits from zinc metal dendrites in anode by backside-plating configuration
Portable power sources and grid-scale storage both require batteries combining high energy density and low cost. Zinc metal battery systems are attractive due to the low cost of zinc and its high charge-storag...
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Open AccessStrong, ductile, and thermally stable Cu-based metal-intermetallic nanostructured composites
Bulk metallic glasses (BMGs) and nanocrystalline metals (NMs) have been extensively investigated due to their superior strengths and elastic limits. Despite these excellent mechanical properties, low ductility...
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Open AccessRecent increase of surface particulate matter concentrations in the Seoul Metropolitan Area, Korea
Recent changes of surface particulate matter (PM) concentration in the Seoul Metropolitan Area (SMA), South Korea, are puzzling. The long-term trend of surface PM concentration in the SMA declined in the 2000s...
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Open AccessSynthesis of nanobelt-like 1-dimensional silver/nanocarbon hybrid materials for flexible and wearable electronics
Most synthetic processes of metallic nanostructures were assisted by organic/inorganic or polymeric materials to control their shapes to one-dimension or two-dimension. However, these additives have to be remo...
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Open AccessSuperelasticity and cryogenic linear shape memory effects of CaFe2As2
Shape memory materials have the ability to recover their original shape after a significant amount of deformation when they are subjected to certain stimuli, for instance, heat or magnetic fields. However, the...
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Open AccessStratospheric ozone loss over the Eurasian continent induced by the polar vortex shift
The Montreal Protocol has succeeded in limiting major ozone-depleting substance emissions, and consequently stratospheric ozone concentrations are expected to recover this century. However, there is a large un...
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Open AccessUnraveling the Mesoscale Evolution of Microstructure during Supersonic Impact of Aluminum Powder Particles
A critical challenge in the predictive capability of materials deformation behavior under extreme environments is the availability of computational methods to model the microstructural evolution at the mesosca...
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Open AccessThe impact of Arctic sea ice loss on mid-Holocene climate
Mid-Holocene climate was characterized by strong summer solar heating that decreased Arctic sea ice cover. Motivated by recent studies identifying Arctic sea ice loss as a key driver of future climate change, ...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: Synthesis of nanobelt-like 1-dimensional silver/nanocarbon hybrid materials for flexible and wearable electronics
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Open AccessStudy on the Lateral Carrier Diffusion and Source-Drain Series Resistance in Self-Aligned Top-Gate Coplanar InGaZnO Thin-Film Transistors
We investigated the lateral distribution of the equilibrium carrier concentration (n0) along the channel and the effects of channel length (L) on the source-drain series resistance (Rext) in the top-gate self-ali...
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Open AccessComparative Transcriptome Analysis of Pinus densiflora Following Inoculation with Pathogenic (Bursaphelenchus xylophilus) or Non-pathogenic Nematodes (B. thailandae)
Pinus densiflora (Korean red pine) is a species of evergreen conifer that is distributed in Korea, Japan, and China, and of economic, scientific, and ecological importance. Korean red pines suffer from pine wilt ...
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Open AccessTreatment outcomes in patients with pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis who have cirrhosis
Early diagnosis and proper treatment of pyogenic vertebral osteomyelitis (PVO) in patients with cirrhosis is challenging to clinicians, and the mortality rate is expected to be high. A retrospective study was ...