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Knowledge map** analysis of pro-environmental behaviors: research hotspots, trends and frontiers
As a critical approach to addressing environmental issues, including global climate change, pro-environmental behavior (PEB) has garnered extensive attention in the environment research field. However, a syste...
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The Influence of Plasma Treatment and Substrate Bias Voltage on the Bonding Properties of Carbon Fiber/Copper Composites
In this study, we examined the effect of process flow on the bonding properties of carbon fiber/copper composites. The carbon fiber surface was first subjected to hot air oxidation degumming treatment, and the...
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Open AccessRecent research progress on the passivation and selective oxidation for the 3d-transition-metal and refractory multi-principal element alloys
The wide range of alloy composition controllability for multi-principal element alloys (MPEAs) may provide a great opportunity for discovering special forms of surface oxides to improve the corrosion and oxida...
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Novel specular-reflection bandpass filter based on composite metagratings
Spectral bandpass filters serving as crucial signal processing components are widely applied in various electromagnetic/optical systems. However, the filtering of reflection signal always faces problems of not...
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Effect of cold rolling on the pitting corrosion of 316L and 304 austenitic stainless steels
In this study, microstructural analyses, electrochemical measurements, and chemical immersion tests were used to investigate the effect of cold rolling on the pitting corrosion resistance of 316L and 304 auste...
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Open AccessAtomic-scale insights on hydrogen trap** and exclusion at incoherent interfaces of nanoprecipitates in martensitic steels
Hydrogen is well known to embrittle high-strength steels and impair their corrosion resistance. One of the most attractive methods to mitigate hydrogen embrittlement employs nanoprecipitates, which are widely ...
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Open AccessRemarkably enhanced piezo-photocatalytic performance in BaTiO3/CuO heterostructures for organic pollutant degradation
Introducing polarization field of piezoelectric materials is an effective strategy to improve photocatalytic performance. In this study, a new type of BaTiO3/CuO heterostructure catalyst was designed and synthesi...
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Open AccessRational design of isostructural 2D porphyrin-based covalent organic frameworks for tunable photocatalytic hydrogen evolution
Covalent organic frameworks have recently gained increasing attention in photocatalytic hydrogen generation from water. However, their structure-property-activity relationship, which should be beneficial for t...
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Effect of deformed subsurface on the corrosion resistance of biomedical CoCrMo alloy in simulated physiological solution
In most cases, the microstructure of implants is stable and changeless after implanted into the body. However, the metallic joint replacements would be worn during patients’ movements. Their subsurface microst...
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Open AccessHigh-performance bifunctional polarization switch chiral metamaterials by inverse design method
Multifunctional polarization controlling plays an important role in modern photonics, but their designs toward broad bandwidths and high efficiencies are still rather challenging. Here, by applying the inverse...
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Open AccessThe hydrogen-induced pitting corrosion mechanism in duplex stainless steel studied by current-sensing atomic force microscopy
Duplex stainless steels have excellent corrosion resistance due to their two-phase microstructure and electrically insulating passive film. Nevertheless, hydrogen charging causes deterioration of the corrosion...
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Open AccessFully Controllable Pancharatnam-Berry Metasurface Array with High Conversion Efficiency and Broad Bandwidth
Metasurfaces have powerful abilities to manipulate the properties of electromagnetic waves flexibly, especially the modulation of polarization state for both linearly polarized (LP) and circularly polarized (C...
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Open AccessElectron work functions of ferrite and austenite phases in a duplex stainless steel and their adhesive forces with AFM silicon probe
Local electron work function, adhesive force, modulus and deformation of ferrite and austenite phases in a duplex stainless steel were analyzed by scanning force microscopy. It is demonstrated that the austeni...
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Open AccessAlbumin adsorption on CoCrMo alloy surfaces
Proteins can adsorb on the surface of artificial joints immediately after being implanted. Although research studying protein adsorption on medical material surfaces has been carried out, the mechanism of the ...
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Open AccessBoth High Reliability and Giant Electrocaloric Strength in BaTiO3 Ceramics
BaTiO3 has a giant electrocaloric strength, |ΔT|/|ΔE|, because of a large latent heat and a sharp phase transition. The electrocaloric strength of a new single crystal, as giant as 0.48 K·cm/kV, is twice larger t...
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Open AccessLow-fired Y-type hexagonal ferrite for hyper frequency applications
Y-type hexagonal ferrite with planar magnetocrystalline anisotropy has ultrahigh cut-off frequency up to GHz and excellent magnetic properties in hyper frequency range, so that is regarded as the most suitable...
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Improving the fatigue endurance of lead zirconate titanate thin films through PbO interfacial modification
The effects of the modification of electrode/ceramic interfaces through a chemical solution deposition-derived PbO buffer layer on the fatigue endurance of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) thin films were investi...
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Study on the role of tarnishing film in stress-corrosion cracking of brass in Mattsson’s solution
In this paper, the influence of tarnishing film-induced stress and tarnishing film-induced brittle cracking on stress-corrosion cracking (SCC) of brass in Mattsson’s solution are investigated using hydrogen ch...
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Experiments and first principles calculations on the effects of hydrogen on the optical properties of ferroelectric materials
The effects of hydrogen on the optical properties of lead zirconate titanate (PZT) ceramics and BaTiO3 single crystals have been investigated. The experimental results showed that the color of BaTiO3 single cryst...
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Shape demagnetization effect on layered magnetoelectric composites
Magnetoelectric (ME) voltage coefficient of plate layered magnetostrictive-piezoelectric composites was always considered independent of the in-plane size due to the oversimplification in ME theoretical models...
