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One-Pot Template-Free Synthesis of Mesoporous ZnCo2O4 Microbubbles for Oxygen Evolution Reaction
Spinel ZnCo2O4 is an important multi-functional material with wide applications, such as electrocatalytic oxygen evolution reaction. However, it still remains a challenge to synthesize ZnCo2O4 with complex morpho...
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Surface Anion Effects in Aqueous Hydrogen Ion Batteries
Aqueous hydrogen ion batteries possess the advantages of sustainability, low cost, and high safety, which makes them an ideal choice for grid-level energy storage. Although some anions show strong interaction ...
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Meso-Geometric Modeling and Failure Behavior of 2.5D Three-Harness-Twill Warp-Reinforced Woven Composites
A novel material, i.e. 2.5D three-harness-twill warp-reinforced woven composites (2.5D-THT-WR-WC), is proposed, which has wide engineering applications. In this work, geometrical relationships with different m...
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Integrating Bimetallic Nanoparticles with Covalent Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Nanozyme for Colorimetric Detection of Hydrogen Peroxide and Glutathione
The controllable growth of metal nanoparticles on nanomaterials is becoming an effective strategy for develo** nanocomposites with designated performance. Herein, a simple and mild strategy for the in situ g...
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N-doped carbon Co/CoOx with laccase-like activity for detection of epinephrine
N-doped carbon Co/CoOx with laccase-like activity was directionally designed by pyrolyzing Co-coordination polymer and applied to detect epinephrine, which revealed a new preparation strategy for laccase mimics. ...
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Development of a Damage Mechanics Model for Fatigue Life Prediction of 2.5D Woven Composites
A continuum damage model (CDM) is proposed to predict the fatigue life of 2.5D woven composites (2.5DWC) with conformal or voxel meshing. Three independent damage variables of yarn fiber, yarn matrix, and matr...
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Multilamellar spherical micelles of alkali lignin: dissipative particle dynamics simulations
Lignin has an immense potential for the production of lignin-based functional materials. In this work, effect of 2-chloro-ethyltrimethyl ammonium chloride (AC)-grafted alkali lignin (AL) on the morphologies in...
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Electrochemical Lithium Intercalation in Titania Nanowire Arrays for Boosting Photocatalytic Activity
Heterogeneous photocatalysis utilizing TiO2 nanoarrays is one of the most promising advanced oxidation techniques for wastewater treatments. It is still challenging to effectively improve the photocatalytic activ...
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A new dynamic deep learning noise elimination method for chip-based real-time PCR
Point-of-care (POC) real-time polymerase chain reaction (PCR) has become one of the most important technologies for many fields such as pathogen detection and water-quality monitoring. POC real-time PCR usuall...
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3D Fe-Rich Phases Evolution and Its Effects on the Fracture Behavior of Al–7.0Si–1.2Fe Alloys by Mn Neutralization
The evolution of the 3D Fe-rich phases of Al–7.0Si–1.2Fe alloys with different Mn contents was visualized and characterized using synchrotron X-ray computed tomography, and the effect of Fe-rich phases with ty...
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Cu2+-modified hollow carbon nanospheres: an unusual nanozyme with enhanced peroxidase-like activity
A Cu2+-modified carboxylated hollow carbon nanospheres (Cu2+-HCNSs-COOH) was designed with enhanced peroxidase-like activity for the detection of hydrogen peroxide (H2O2) and degradation of methylene blue (MB). ...
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Data-Driven Constitutive Model for the Inelastic Response of Metals: Application to 316H Steel
Predictions of the mechanical response of structural elements are conditioned by the accuracy of constitutive models used at the engineering length-scale. In this regard, a prospect of mechanistic crystal-plas...
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Synthesis of Functional Hyperbranched Poly(methyltriazolylcarboxylate)s by Catalyst-free Click Polymerization of Butynoates and Azides
Azide-alkyne click polymerization has become a powerful tool for polymer synthesis. However, the click polymerization between internal alkynes and azides is rarely utilized to prepare functional polymers. In t...
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Iron doped graphitic carbon nitride with peroxidase like activity for colorimetric detection of sarcosine and hydrogen peroxide
The successful synthesis is reported of Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu-doped g-C3N4 nanoflakes via a simple one-step pyrolysis method, respectively. Among them, the Fe-doped g-C3N4 nanoflakes exhibited the highest peroxidase...
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A Facile Strategy for Non-fluorinated Intrinsic Low-k and Low-loss Dielectric Polymers: Valid Exploitation of Secondary Relaxation Behaviors
High-performance low-k and low-loss circuit materials are urgently needed in the field of microelectronics due to the upcoming Fifth-Generation Mobile Communications Technology (5G Technology). Herein, a facile d...
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Facile Synthesis of Functional Poly(methyltriazolylcarboxylate)s by Solvent- and Catalyst-free Butynoate-Azide Polycycloaddition
The copper-catalyzed and metal-free azide-alkyne click polymerizations have become efficient tools for polymer synthesis. However, the 1,3-dipolar polycycloadditions between internal alkynes and azides are rar...
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3D Negative Electronic Compressibility as a New Emergent Phenomenon
This paper was written in honor of Prof. Ted Geballe’s 100th birthday. It concerns a new emergent phenomenon called three-dimensional negative electronic compressibility. The physical content, driving mechanis...
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Bonding Performance of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer-to-Concrete Joints under the Effect of Corrosion Cracking
Externally bonded (EB) carbon fiber-reinforced polymers (CFRPs) have been progressively considered for application in concrete structures. However, the corrosion of reinforcing steel bars (rebars) in reinforce...
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Fluorometric determination of copper(II) by using 3-aminophenylboronic acid-functionalized CdTe quantum dot probes
Water-soluble cadmium telluride quantum dots capped with 3-mercaptopropionic acid were synthesized and further modified with 3-aminophenylboronic acid to form boronic acid-functionalized quantum dots (QDs). Un...
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Cryodesiccation-driven crystallization preparation approach for zinc(II)-phthalocyanine nanodots in cancer photodynamic therapy and photoacoustic imaging
Multifunctional nanodots represent an emerging platform for overcoming the delivery challenges of poorly water-soluble drugs for use in the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The authors describe the preparati...