Study on the Effect of Electrochemical Dechlorination Reduction of Hexachlorobenzene Using Different Cathodes by Yingru Wang, Xiaohua Lu

“…During the reductive process, chlorine atoms were replaced one by one on various intermediates such as pentachlorobenzene, tetrachlorobenzene, and trichlorobenzene occurred; the trichlorobenzene was obtained when zinc was used as cathode. …”
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Conductive filament formation in the failure of Hf0.5Zr0.5O2 ferroelectric capacitors by Matthew Webb, Tony Chiang, Megan K. Lenox, Jordan Gray, Tao Ma, Jon F. Ihlefeld, John T. Heron

“…After failure, the capacitor leakage current is high (∼25 mA) and constant with capacitor area, consistent with filament formation. Conductive atomic force microscopy measurements and field distribution simulations suggest a local failure mechanism consistent with filament formation along the boundary of the island capacitor due to an enhanced electric field.…”
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Speciation and Pre-Concentration of Selenium with Nano-ZnO as Absorbent in Environmental Samples by Ting Huang

“…The selenium(IV) was determined by hydride generation-atomic fluorescence spectrometry with KBH 4 –HCl. …”
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Amorphization dependent recrystallisation of Sb2Te3 by Nur Qalishah Adanan, Simon Wredh, Joel K W Yang, Robert E Simpson

“…We show how the level of amorphousness (disorder) of antimony-telluride (Sb _2 Te _3 ) can be controlled using pulsed laser heating, and that the recrystallisation temperature strongly depends on the local atomic configurations in the amorphous structure. …”
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Exciton-polariton ring Josephson junction by Nina Voronova, Anna Grudinina, Riccardo Panico, Dimitris Trypogeorgos, Milena De Giorgi, Kirk Baldwin, Loren Pfeiffer, Daniele Sanvitto, Dario Ballarini

“…The Josephson effect manifests in both fermionic and bosonic systems, and has been well studied in superfluid helium and atomic Bose-Einstein condensates. In exciton-polariton condensates—that offer a path to integrated semiconductor platforms—creating weak links in ring geometries has so far remained challenging. …”
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Radiolytic Synthesis of Colloidal Silver Nanoparticles for Antibacterial Wound Dressings by Pimpon Uttayarat, Jarurattana Eamsiri, Theeranan Tangthong, Phiriyatorn Suwanmala

“…The conversion of metallic silver ions to silver atoms depended on irradiation dose and stabilizer concentration as determined by UV-Vis spectrophotometry and transmission electron microscopy. …”
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Inverse catalysts: tuning the composition and structure of oxide clusters through the metal support by Luuk H. E. Kempen, Mie Andersen

“…Using ab initio thermodynamics, we explore the in situ stability of the structures, including single-atom alloys, at a range of oxygen availabilities. …”
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Fatty acids in overwintering egg sacs of pirate spiders Ero sp. (Mimetidae) and wasp spiders Argiope bruennichi (Araneidae) by U. Suprunowicz, A. Piotrowska-Niczyporuk, A. Kostro-Ambroziak

“…Gas chromatography–mass spectrometry (GC-MS) analysis of the egg sacs of both species revealed 33 FAs containing from 10 to 24 carbon atoms. Egg sac silk included saturated (SFA), monounsaturated (MUFA), and polyunsaturated (PUFA) FAs, which are known for a wide spectrum of antibacterial and antifungal properties. …”
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Enhanced Ex Vivo Expansion of Human Hematopoietic Progenitors on Native and Spin Coated Acellular Matrices Prepared from Bone Marrow Stromal Cells by Samiksha Wasnik, Suma Kantipudi, Mark A. Kirkland, Gopal Pande

“…The physicochemical properties (surface roughness, thickness, and uniformity) of native and spin coated acellular matrices (ACM) were studied using scanning and atomic force microscopy (SEM and AFM). Lineage-specific expansion of HSPC, grown on these substrates, was evaluated by immunophenotypic (flow cytometry) and functional (colony forming) assays. …”
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Protein Backbone Torsion Angle-Based Structure Comparison and Secondary Structure Database Web Server by Sunghoon Jung, Se-Eun Bae, Insung Ahn, Hyeon S. Son

“…Three-dimensional representation of the positions of protein atoms is utilized among many structural information repositories that have been published. …”
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Exact-exchange relativistic density functional theory in three-dimensional coordinate space by Qiang Zhao, Zhengxue Ren, Pengwei Zhao, Kenichi Yoshida

“…The exact-exchange relativistic density functional theory (Ex-RDFT) of atomic nuclei has been solved in three-dimensional lattice space for the first time. …”
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Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy-Based Coal-Rock Recognition: An <italic>in Situ</italic> Sampling and Recognition Method by Cong Liu, Yimin Luo, Qizhi Zhang

“…Laser-induced breakdown spectroscopy (LIBS) is considered a cutting-edge technology in the field of material analysis due to its real-time analysis capability, minimal to no sample preparation scheme, high sensitivity to low atomic weight elements, and ability to perform nearby and distant detection. …”
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The Effect of Thermal Treatment under Different Atmospheric Conditions on the Catalytic Performance of Nickel Supported on Porous Silica in the Gas-Phase Hydrogenation of Acetonitr... by Pilar Braos-García, Desireé Durán-Martín, Antonia Infantes-Molina, Dolores Eliche-Quesada, Enrique Rodríguez-Castellón, Antonio Jiménez-López

“…A direct relationship was found between catalytic activity in the gas-phase hydrogenation of acetonitrile and the Ni 2p 3/2 binding energy assigned to the Ni 0 atoms of the reduced catalysts, where the catalytic activity decreased with increasing binding energy. …”
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A PCBM-Modified TiO2 Blocking Layer towards Efficient Perovskite Solar Cells by Gang Lu, Fengqin He, Shangzheng Pang, Haifeng Yang, Dazheng Chen, Jingjing Chang, Zhenhua Lin, Jincheng Zhang, Chunfu Zhang

“…Scanning electron microscope, atomic force microscope, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) results suggest the formation of a uniform and compact CH3NH3PbI3−xClx perovskite layer on the PCBM-modified TiO2 blocking layer. …”
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Coalescence of carbon nanotubes while preserving the chiral angles by Akira Takakura, Taishi Nishihara, Koji Harano, Ovidiu Cretu, Takeshi Tanaka, Hiromichi Kataura, Yuhei Miyauchi

“…Abstract Atomically precise coalescence of graphitic nanocarbon molecules is one of the most challenging reactions in sp 2 carbon chemistry. …”
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Benchmarking COMSOL Multiphysics Single-Subchannel Thermal-Hydraulic Analysis of a TRIGA Reactor with RELAP5 Results and Experimental Data by Ahmed K. Alkaabi, Jeffrey C. King

“…The aim of this study is to benchmark the prediction accuracy of COMSOL Multiphysics in performing thermal-hydraulic analysis of TRIGA (Training, Research, Isotopes, General Atomics) reactors such as the Geological Survey TRIGA Reactor (GSTR) by comparing its predictions with RELAP5 (a widely used code in nuclear thermal-hydraulic analysis) results and experimental data. …”
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Electronic, Structural, and Optical Properties of Zinc Blende and Wurtzite Cadmium Sulfide (CdS) Using Density Functional Theory by Teshome Gerbaba Edossa, Menberu Mengasha Woldemariam

“…To assure the accuracy of calculation, the convergence test of total energy with respect to energy cutoff and k-point sampling is performed. The relaxed atomic position for the CdS in zb and wz structure is obtained by using total energy and force minimization method following the Hellmann–Feynman approach. …”
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Dynamic generation of superflow in a fermionic ring through phase imprinting by Ke-Ji Chen, Wei Yi, Fan Wu

“…We study the dynamic generation of persistent current by phase imprinting fermionic atoms in a ring geometry at zero temperature. Mediated by the pairing interaction, the Fermi condensate dynamically acquires a quantized current by developing azimuthal phase slips, as well as density and pairing-order-parameter depletions. …”
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Formation of Residual Bubbles in Diesel Engine Nozzle and Their Influence on Initial Jet by Xiaonan Ni, Hua Wen

“…The study found that the initial position of the residual bubbles has a significant effect on the initial atomization shape. When the residual bubble was in the front of the orifice, the initial tip was formed at the front of jet, and then, it stretched into a thin ligament due to vortex ring motion around the jet.…”
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L’ombre du Condor by Franck Gaudichaud

“…This event explains why the working of an hegemonic terrorism, which impact on Latino-American societies is considerable in terms of destruction of the social movement, the cultural activities and the social and political activities that remains marked, again today to various degrees, by the violence, the fear and the structural atomization.…”
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