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Open AccessOptimizing of particle accelerated rotor parameters using the discrete element method
The acceleration capability of a centrifugal jet rotor plays a crucial role in achieving a high injection velocity of powder particles in the centrifugal impact moulding process. In this regard, the focus of t...
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Open AccessPrediction of global potential suitable habitats of Nicotiana alata Link et Otto based on MaxEnt model
Nicotiana alata Link et Otto, widely used in landsca**, is not only of great ornamental value but also of high commercial and medical value. The global potential habitat of N. alata and the environmental factor...
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Open AccessElectrical and magnetic anisotropies in van der Waals multiferroic CuCrP2S6
Multiferroic materials have great potential in non-volatile devices for low-power and ultra-high density information storage, owing to their unique characteristic of coexisting ferroelectric and ferromagnetic ...
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Open AccessFluorescence-based monitoring of the pressure-induced aggregation microenvironment evolution for an AIEgen under multiple excitation channels
The development of organic solid-state luminescent materials, especially those sensitive to aggregation microenvironment, is critical for their applications in devices such as pressure-sensitive elements, sens...
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Open AccessA 33-residue peptide tag increases solubility and stability of Escherichia coli produced single-chain antibody fragments
Single-chain variable fragments (scFvs), composed of variable domains of heavy and light chains of an antibody joined by a linker, share antigen binding capacity with their parental antibody. Due to intrinsica...
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Open AccessLatent Infection of Valsa mali in the Seeds, Seedlings and Twigs of Crabapple and Apple Trees is a Potential Inoculum Source of Valsa Canker
A real-time quantitative PCR assay using a species-specific primer pair was developed to rapidly and accurately quantify Valsa mali, the causative pathogen of apple Valsa canker (AVC), in crabapple seeds, crabapp...
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Open AccessSingle atom tungsten doped ultrathin α-Ni(OH)2 for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation
Electrocatalytic water oxidation is a rate-determining step in the water splitting reaction. Here, we report one single atom W6+ doped Ni(OH)2 nanosheet sample (w-Ni(OH)2) with an outstanding oxygen evolution rea...
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Open AccessMemory phototransistors based on exponential-association photoelectric conversion law
Ultraweak light detectors have wide-ranging important applications such as astronomical observation, remote sensing, laser ranging, and night vision. Current commercial ultraweak light detectors are commonly b...
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In-plane anisotropic and ultra-low-loss polaritons in a natural van der Waals crystal
Polaritons—hybrid light–matter excitations—enable nanoscale control of light. Particularly large polariton field confinement and long lifetimes can be found in graphene and materials consisting of two-dimensio...
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Open AccessPublisher Correction: A Co3O4-CDots-C3N4 three component electrocatalyst design concept for efficient and tunable CO2 reduction to syngas
The original HTML version of this Article omitted to list Yeshayahu Lifshitz as a corresponding author and incorrectly listed Shuit-Tong Lee as a corresponding author.
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Open AccessA Co3O4-CDots-C3N4 three component electrocatalyst design concept for efficient and tunable CO2 reduction to syngas
Syngas, a CO and H2 mixture mostly generated from non-renewable fossil fuels, is an essential feedstock for production of liquid fuels. Electrochemical reduction of CO2 and H+/H2O is an alternative renewable rout...
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Open AccessD4F alleviates macrophage-derived foam cell apoptosis by inhibiting the NF-κB-dependent Fas/FasL pathway
This study was designed to explore the protective effect of D4F, an apolipoprotein A-I mimetic peptide, on nuclear factor-κB (NF-κB)-dependent Fas/Fas ligand (FasL) pathway-mediated apoptosis in macrophages in...
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Open AccessMLN4924 (Pevonedistat), a protein neddylation inhibitor, suppresses proliferation and migration of human clear cell renal cell carcinoma
Neddylation is a post-translational protein modification associated with cancer development. MLN4924 is a neddylation inhibitor currently under investigation in multiple phase I studies on various malignancies...
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Open AccessUltrasmall and phase-pure W2C nanoparticles for efficient electrocatalytic and photoelectrochemical hydrogen evolution
Earlier research has been primarily focused on WC as one of the most promising earth-abundant electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), whereas the other compound in this carbide family—W2C—has rece...
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Open AccessThe Surface Polarized Graphene Oxide Quantum Dot Films for Flexible Nanogenerators
Abundant disorderly-distributed surface functional groups, such as hydroxyl, carboxyl, ether and amino groups, endow an isolated graphene oxide quantum dot (GOQD) the polar property due to the symmetry breakin...
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Open AccessStronger enhancer II/core promoter activities of hepatitis B virus isolates of B2 subgenotype than those of C2 subgenotype
Hepatitis B virus (HBV) genotype C causes prolonged chronic infection and increased risk for liver cancer than genotype B. Our previous work revealed lower replication capacity of wild-type genotype C2 than B2...
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Open AccessA rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials
Currently, platinum-based electrocatalysts show the best performance for hydrogen evolution. All hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts should however obey Sabatier’s principle, that is, the adsorption energy o...
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Open AccessHighly active and durable methanol oxidation electrocatalyst based on the synergy of platinum–nickel hydroxide–graphene
Active and durable electrocatalysts for methanol oxidation reaction are of critical importance to the commercial viability of direct methanol fuel cell technology. Unfortunately, current methanol oxidation ele...
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Open AccessMorphology and Performance of Polymer Solar Cell Characterized by DPD Simulation and Graph Theory
The morphology of active layers in the bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is critical to the performance of organic photovoltaics (OPV). Currently, there is limited information for the morphology from trans...
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Open AccessNew Ti-decorated B40 fullerene as a promising hydrogen storage material
The newly found B40 is the first experimentally observed all-boron fullerene and has potential applications in hydrogen storage. Here we investigate the binding ability and hydrogen storage capacity of Ti-decorat...
