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The objective of the study is to establish a quantitative relationship between air gap sizes and clothing thermal performance. Using a three-dimensional human body scanner, the thicknesses and volumes of air gaps of 35 experimental shirts were measured. Relationships between the thermal insulations of clothing, measur…
In this study, we investigate structural stability, and electronic and transport properties of Fe terminated/doped armchair graphene nanoribbons (AGNR) through first-principles calculations based on density functional theory. Results show that substitutional Fe impurities have a stable bonding with AGNR and center of…
Natural fibers can be used in rotational molding process to obtain parts with improved mechanical properties. Different approaches have been followed in order to produce formulations containing banana or abaca fiber at 5% weight, in two- and three-layer constructions. Chemically treated abaca fiber has also been studi…
In this paper, a broadband metamaterial absorber (MA) based on a multi-layer structure is presented. The advantages of this MA are the small periodic unit size, they are thin, have excellent polarization characteristics and are adaptive for wide angles of oblique incident electromagnetic waves. The unit cell of the br…
A facile reflux method has been developed to prepare porous NiO samples using NaBH4-EG and NaOH-EG as alkaline precipitants, respectively. NaBH4-EG is used as alkaline precipitant for the first time. Precipitants influence the morphology and structure of NiO significantly, further affect their specific capacitances as…
A lead-free ferroelectric: The occurrence of ferroelectricity is demonstrated in a silicate-based compound (Bi2SiO5, see picture), by direct observation of polarization switching. The mechanism of ferroelectricity in Bi2SiO5 has been studied by Raman scattering, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray powder diffracti…
Controlling degradation of magnesium or its alloys in physiological saline solutions is essential for their potential applications in clinically viable implants. Rapid degradation of magnesium-based materials reduces the mechanical properties of implants prematurely and severely increases alkalinity of the local envir…
In this study, a simple fluorogenic immunoassay based on in situ formation of semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) is described. We discovered that alkaline phosphatase (ALP), the enzyme broadly used in enzyme-linked immuno-sorbent assay (ELISA), is able to trigger formation of fluorescent CdS QDs. ALP-catalyzed hydrolysi…
Cuttlefish chitosan was extracted from the cuttlebone of Sepiella inermis by demineralization and deproteinization and produced by deacetylation, and its physical and chemical parameters were also compared with that of commercial chitosan. Ash, moisture, and mineral and metal content of the chitosan was estimated by a…
This report describes the metabolic and lipidomic profiling of 97 low-molecular weight compounds from the primary metabolism and 124 lipid compounds of the diatom Thalassiosira pseudonana. The metabolic profiles were created for diatoms perturbed for 24 hours with four different treatments: (I) removal of nitrogen, (I…
The enthalpic incompatibility of organic polymer matrices and high surface energy inorganic nanoparticles often leads to phase separation in polymer nanocomposites (PNC) precluding the realization of anticipated property enhancements. The grafting of polymer chains to nanoparticles holds promise as a means for control…
There are many uncertainties regarding the hazard of nanosized particles compared to the bulk material of the parent chemical. Here, the authors assess the comparative hazard of two nanoscale (NM-211 and NM-212) and one microscale (NM-213) cerium oxide materials in 28-day inhalation toxicity studies in rats (according…
Density functional theory calculations have been performed to assess the electronic structure of graphene overlaid with a monolayer of electro-active conjugated molecules, being either electron donors or electron acceptors. Such a noncovalent functionalization results in a work function modification that scales with t…
The fabrication and electrochemistry of a new class of graphene electrodes are presented. Through high-temperature annealing of hydrazine-reduced graphene oxides followed by high-speed centrifugation and size-selected ultrafiltration, flakes of reduced graphene oxides (r-GOs) of nanometer and submicrometer dimensions,…
We demonstrate electrical spin injection from a ferromagnet to a bilayer graphene (BLG) through a monolayer (ML) of single-crystal hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN). A Ni 81 Fe 19 /ML h-BN/BLG/h-BN structure is fabricated using a micromechanical cleavage and dry transfer technique. The transport properties across the ML…
The pathophysiology of spinal cord injury (SCI) involves post-traumatic inflammation and glial scarring which interfere with repair and recovery. Self-assembling peptides (SAPs) are molecules designed for tissue engineering. Here, we tested the performance of K2(QL)6K2 (QL6), a SAP that attenuates inflammation and gli…
Thin films of colloidal semiconductor CdSe quantum-dots (QDs) and a styrene/maleic anhydride copolymer were prepared by the Langmuir–Blodgett technique and their photoluminescence was characterized by confocal fluorescence lifetime microscopy. In the films, the photoluminescence dynamics are strongly affected by excit…
We report a new global potential energy surface of the HOCO system based on the F12 correction of unrestricted coupled-cluster with singles doubles and approximative triples using the augmented correlation-consistent polarized valence triple-zeta basis set (UCCSD(T)-F12/AVTZ), fitted by using the neural networks. Quan…
Porous solids have an important role in addressing some of the major energy-related problems facing society. Here we describe a porous solid, α-MnO2, with a hierarchical tetramodal pore size distribution spanning the micro-, meso- and macro pore range, centred at 0.48, 4.0, 18 and 70 nm. The hierarchical tetramodal st…
SUMMARY: Protein secondary structure and solvent accessibility predictions are a fundamental intermediate step towards protein structure and function prediction. We present new systems for the ab initio prediction of protein secondary structure and solvent accessibility, Porter 4.0 and PaleAle 4.0. Porter 4.0 predicts…