Sang Cheol Lee、Woo Young Jung2016-06-01Energy Procedia
The main function of energy devices is to generate power and store energy. The typical storage devices are battery and capacitor; generation devices are internal combustion engine (ICE), gas turbine, and fuel cell. Every kinds of energy devices can be compared together in the Ragone plot with respect to specific energ…
Supercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced Battery Technologies ResearchHybrid Renewable Energy Systems
Xiang Gao、Songping Zheng、Ting Yu 等 7 位作者2016-06-01International Journal of Nanomedicine
Curcumin (Cur), a natural polyphenol of Curcuma longa, has been recently reported to possess antitumor activities. However, due to its poor aqueous solubility and low biological availability, the clinical application of Cur is quite limited. The encapsulation of hydrophobic drugs into nanoparticles is an effective way…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryRNA Interference and Gene DeliveryCurcumin's Biomedical Applications
Cleonilson Protásio de Souza、Fabrício Braga Soares de Carvalho、Filype A. N. Silva 等 7 位作者2016-06-01International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks
This work describes an experimental study on the possibilities of harvesting energy from tree trunks in order to power sensor nodes for environmental monitoring, particularly in wild forests. As the trunk of a living tree can be divided into isothermal subvolumes, which are generally referred to as annual rings, and t…
Advanced Thermoelectric Materials and DevicesInnovative Energy Harvesting TechnologiesEnergy Harvesting in Wireless Networks
Takuya Isono、Kana Miyachi、Yusuke Satoh 等 10 位作者2016-06-01Macromolecules
This paper describes the systematic investigation into the aqueous self-assembly of a series of block copolymers (BCPs) consisting of maltoheptaose (MH; as the A block) and poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL; as the B block), i.e., linear AB-type diblock copolymers with varied PCL molecular weights (MH- b -PCL (2.5k,3.3k,5k,10…
Advanced Polymer Synthesis and Characterizationbiodegradable polymer synthesis and propertiesPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Tingting Liu、Li-Qiu Mu、Wei Dai 等 6 位作者2016-06-01International Journal of Nanomedicine
The purpose of this study was to prepare Brucea javanica oil cationic nanoemulsions (BJO-CN) with BJO as drug as well as oil phase and chitosan as cationic inducer, to explore the practical suitability of using cationic nanoemulsions for oral delivery of mixed oil, and to test its bioavailability and antitumor effect.…
Glycosylation and Glycoproteins ResearchDendrimers and Hyperbranched PolymersPhytochemical compounds biological activities
Xinjun Yu、Yang Jiao、Qinyuan Chai2016-06-01Nano LIFE
Gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) as one of the most stable metal nanoparticles have demonstrated extensive applications in recent years. This paper will give a focus on the AuNPs as biosensors, due to their inertness, unique optical properties, high surface area, and various surface functionalization methods. Synthesis of A…
Gold and Silver Nanoparticles Synthesis and ApplicationsAdvanced biosensing and bioanalysis techniquesAdvanced Nanomaterials in Catalysis
Mihail Climov、Erika Medeiros、Evan A. Farkash 等 13 位作者2016-06-01Plastic & Reconstructive Surgery Global Open
For patients with extensive burns or donor site scarring, the limited availability of autologous and the inevitable rejection of allogeneic skin drive the need for new alternatives. Existing engineered biologic and synthetic skin analogs serve as temporary coverage until sufficient autologous skin is available. Here w…
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications3D Printing in Biomedical ResearchTissue Engineering and Regenerative Medicine
Kaiyun Chen、Liqing Xu、Liqun Hu 等 9 位作者2016-06-01Review of Scientific Instruments
A high spatial and temporal resolution soft x-ray (SXR) imaging diagnostic has been installed in EAST for the study of magnetohydrodynamics activities and core high-Z impurity transport. Up to 122 lines of sight view the poloidal plasma from three directions (two up-down symmetrical horizontal arrays and one vertical…
Magnetic confinement fusion researchLaser-Plasma Interactions and DiagnosticsFusion materials and technologies
Qianqian Liang、Li Zhang、Tengteng Wang 等 8 位作者2016-06-01International Journal of Nanomedicine
Triptolide (TP) displays a strong immunosuppression function in immune-mediated diseases, especially in the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis. However, in addition to its medical and health-related functions, TP also exhibits diverse pharmacological side effects, for instance, liver and kidney toxicity and myelosuppre…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryPharmacological Effects and Toxicity StudiesNatural Compounds in Disease Treatment
Tianshu Wu、Keyu He、Shengjun Ang 等 8 位作者2016-06-01International Journal of Nanomedicine
With the rapid development of nanotechnology, quantum dots (QDs) as advanced nanotechnology products have been widely used in neuroscience, including basic neurological studies and diagnosis or therapy for neurological disorders, due to their superior optical properties. In recent years, there has been intense concern…
Quantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesNicotinic Acetylcholine Receptors StudyCholinesterase and Neurodegenerative Diseases
Z. John Shen、Zhenyu Miao、Aref Moradkhani Roshandeh 等 8 位作者2016-06-01OpenAlex
Renewable and other distributed energy resources feed electricity to the utility grid and/or local loads through interfacing power electronic converters. These new microgrids are susceptible to short circuit faults, mandating the use of protective circuit breakers. Solid state circuit breakers (SSCB) are needed due to…
Silicon Carbide Semiconductor TechnologiesHigh voltage insulation and dielectric phenomenaHVDC Systems and Fault Protection
Yingde Zhu、Hui Li、Sarabjit Bhatti 等 7 位作者2016-06-01Horticulture Research
Single-cell-type proteomics provides the capability to revealing the genomic and proteomics information at cell-level resolution. However, the methodology for this type of research has not been well-developed. This paper reports developing a workflow of laser capture microdissection (LCM) followed by gel-liquid chroma…
Advanced Proteomics Techniques and ApplicationsPlant nutrient uptake and metabolismDiatoms and Algae Research
Edgar Knobloch2016-06-01IMA Journal of Applied Mathematics
The properties of spatially localized structures in systems with a conservation law are reviewed and related to the properties of fronts in such systems. The theory is illustrated using the conserved Swift–Hohenberg equation, and the insights gained used to shed light on the process of crystallization from a melt and…
Theoretical and Computational PhysicsSolidification and crystal growth phenomenaNonlinear Dynamics and Pattern Formation
Tianyu Xiang、Feng Xin、Jingshuai Chen 等 6 位作者2016-06-01Beilstein Journal of Nanotechnology
A series of NaTaO3 photocatalysts were prepared with Ta2O5 and NaOH via a hydrothermal method. CuO was loaded onto the surface of NaTaO3 as a cocatalyst by successive impregnation and calcination. The obtained photocatalysts were characterized by XRD, SEM, UV-vis, EDS and XPS and used to photocatalytically reduce CO2…
Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesCovalent Organic Framework ApplicationsGa2O3 and related materials
Pradipta Banerjee、C. Shanthi2016-06-01Protein and Peptide Letters
Collagen, a predominant structural protein in extracellular matrix (ECM), is now considered to have probable roles in many biological activities and hence, in different forms have found application as nutraceutical or pharmaceutical therapy option. Many of the biological properties are believed to be due to small hidd…
Protein Hydrolysis and Bioactive PeptidesCollagen: Extraction and Characterization
Tianpeng Ma、Qiong Zhao、Jianqi Liu 等 4 位作者2016-06-01Plasma Science and Technology
The humidity effects on the benzene decomposition process were investigated by the dielectric barrier discharge (DBD) plasma reactor. The results showed that the water vapor played an important role in the benzene oxidation process. It was found that there was an optimum humidity value for the benzene removal efficien…
Catalytic Processes in Materials SciencePlasma Applications and DiagnosticsPlasma Diagnostics and Applications
Pengfei Xu、Bo Zhang、Shuiming Chen 等 4 位作者2016-06-01Physics of Plasmas
Detailed positive corona discharge characteristics, such as the corona onset voltage, pulse amplitude, repetition frequency, average corona current, rise time, and half-wave time, are systematically studied under different air humidity with a single artificial defect electrode. The experimental results indicate that t…
High voltage insulation and dielectric phenomenaLightning and Electromagnetic PhenomenaAerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
D. V. Korabel’nikov、Yu. N. Zhuravlev2016-06-01Physics of the Solid State
Elastic properties of NaClO 3 , KClO 3 , LiClO 4 , NaClO 4 , and KClO 4 have been investigated from first principles by the method of linear combination of atomic orbitals in the gradient approximation of the density functional theory using CRYSTAL software. The elastic constants and moduli, hardness, Poisson’s ratio,…
Advanced ceramic materials synthesisEnergetic Materials and CombustionThermal and Kinetic Analysis
Hardeep Singh Saluja、Ahmed Mehanna、Riccardo Panicucci 等 4 位作者2016-06-01Molecules
The purpose of this study is to confirm the impact of polar functional groups on inter and intra-molecular hydrogen bonding in haloperidol (HP) and droperidol (DP) and, hence, their effects on dissolution using a new approach. To confirm our theory, a new molecule: deshydroxy-haloperidol (DHP) was designed and its syn…
Drug Solubulity and Delivery SystemsAnalytical Methods in PharmaceuticalsCrystallization and Solubility Studies
James A. Tyson、Vincenzo Mirabello、David G. Calatayud 等 8 位作者2016-06-01Advanced Functional Materials
This study reports on the supramolecular assemblies formed between planar carbon systems (PCSs) such as thermally reduced graphene oxide (TRGO) and its small‐molecule model system coronene and a series of d‐ and l‐α amino acid derivatized naphthalenediimides (NDIs) where the halogen substituents (X = F, Cl, Br, I) are…
Luminescence and Fluorescent MaterialsCarbon and Quantum Dots ApplicationsGraphene and Nanomaterials Applications