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Fabrication and optical properties of mesoporous ZnSe nanosheets@SiO2 nanocomposites
Generally, the combination of semiconductor nanomaterials and an inert matrix could form a new material with enhanced optical property and corrosion resistance. Herein, 2D mesoporous sheet-like ZnSe nanostruct...
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In Situ TiC Particles-Reinforced Body-Centered-Cubic Ni0.6CoFe1.4 Medium-Entropy Alloys for High Hardness and Good Wear Resistance
TiC particles were in situ synthesized in body-centered-cubic (BCC) Ni0.6CoFe1.4 MEAs by vacuum induction melting. Results showed that both the hardness and wear resistance of the as-cast composites are significa...
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Fabrication of patterned transparent conductive glass via laser metal transfer for efficient electrical heating and antibacteria
Vapor deposition and three-dimensional (3D) printing technology are considered to be conventional methods to achieve patterned metal film preparation through the assistance of masks and high temperature. There...
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Effect of Strain Ratio on Fatigue Model of Ultra-fine Grained Pure Titanium
The ultra-fine grained (UFG) pure titanium was prepared by equal channel angular pressing (ECAP) and rotary swaging (RS). The strain controlled low cycle fatigue (LCF) test was carried out at room temperature....
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Open AccessDigital image processing realized by memristor-based technologies
Today performance and operational efficiency of computer systems on digital image processing are exacerbated owing to the increased complexity of image processing. It is also difficult for image processors bas...
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Effect of Ti Content Upon the Microstructure, Mechanical Properties and Wear Behaviors of TixNi0.6CoFe1.4Nb0.05 Medium-Entropy Alloys
The effects of Ti content on the microstructural evolution, mechanical properties and wear behaviors of TixNi0.6CoFe1.4Nb0.05 (x = 0, 0.1 and 0.2, in molar ratio) medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) were systematically ...
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Microstructure evolution and mechanical properties improvement of Ni0.6CoFe1.4Nb0.05 medium-entropy alloys via addition of Al
The influence of Al additions on the phase composition, microstructural evolution, and mechanical properties of AlxNi0.6CoFe1.4Nb0.05 medium-entropy alloys (MEAs) was investigated in this work. The results showed...
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Characterization of deep-level defects in highly-doped silicon with asymmetric structure by transient capacitance spectroscopy
Deep-level transient spectroscopy (DLTS) is a widely used method to analyze the properties of deep defects in semiconductors. However, it has been rarely reported to measure the deep-levels of highly-doped sil...
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Inflammation responsive tofacitinib loaded albumin nanomedicine for targeted synergistic therapy in ulcerative colitis
Patients with ulcerative colitis (UC) often loss responses over long term usage of conventional therapies. Tofacitinib, a pan-Janus kinases (JAK) inhibitor is approved for moderate to severe UC treatment, whil...
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Tension-Compression Asymmetry in Ultrafine-grained Commercially Pure Ti Processed by ECAP
A homogenous microstructure of ultrafine-grained (UFG) commercially pure (CP) Ti characterized by equiaxed grains/subgrains with an average grain size of about 150 nm and strong prismatic fiber texture were ob...
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High quantum efficiency of hydrogen production from methanol aqueous solution with PtCu–TiO2 photocatalysts
Methanol with 12.5 wt% H2 content is widely considered a liquid hydrogen medium. Taking into account water with 11.1 wt% H2 content, H2 synthesis from the mixture of water and methanol is a promising method for o...
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Effect of chromium interlayer thickness on interfacial thermal conductance across copper/diamond interface
The thermal conductivity of diamond particles reinforced copper matrix composite as an attractive thermal management material is significantly lowered by the non-wetting heterointerface. The paper investigates...
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A study on the mechanism of water vapour condensation inhibition by nanostructures on the copper surface
Frost on the evaporator surface of an air source heat pump can seriously reduce the heat pump coefficient of the unit, and the surface nanostructure is the key to effectively inhibiting water vapour condensati...
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A stacked high-Ge-concentration SiGe/Ge multilayer on a novel Ge + SiGe SRB structure for the gate-all-around MOSFETS
In this study, a stacked high-Ge-concentration SiGe/Ge multilayer on a novel Ge + SiGe strain-relaxed buffer (SRB) structure and its thermal stability for gate-all-around (GAA) MOSFETS is systematically invest...
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Open AccessElectrical switching of spin-polarized current in multiferroic tunneling junctions
The generation and manipulation of spin-polarized current are critical for spintronic devices. In this work, we propose a mechanism to generate and switch spin-polarized current by an electric field in multife...
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Open AccessEmerging Internet of Things driven carbon nanotubes-based devices
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) have attracted great attentions in the field of electronics, sensors, healthcare, and energy conversion. Such emerging applications have driven the carbon nanotube research in a rapid f...
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Erratum to: Tuning the coordination environment of single-atom catalyst M-N-C towards selective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes
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Tuning the coordination environment of single-atom catalyst M-N-C towards selective hydrogenation of functionalized nitroarenes
Fine-tuning of the coordination environment of single-atom catalysts (SACs) is effective to optimize their catalytic performances, yet it remains challenging due to the vulnerability of SACs. Herein, we report...
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Fluorescent nanodiamonds as enzyme mimics for protecting astrocytes from oxidative stress in a mouse model of epilepsy
Fluorescent nanodiamonds (FNDs) as promising enzyme mimics have attracted a lot of attention in the field of biomedicine. However, the molecular mechanism of their intrinsic peroxidase-like and antioxidant act...
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Electrospun Nanofibers Withstandable to High-Temperature Reactions: Synergistic Effect of Polymer Relaxation and Solvent Removal
Fiber breakage is found to be a ubiquitous phenomenon during the thermal treatments for electrospun nanofibers, because of the presence of solvent molecules and unrelaxed assembly of polymer chains. Here a str...