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  • Effect of modified materials on the hydraulic conductivity of loess soil

    Effect of modified materials on the hydraulic conductivity of loess soil

    Hydraulic conductivity of modified loess

    Figure 2 represents the curves of Ks of S, SF1, SF3, SF7, SG1, SG3, SG7, SN1, SN3 and SN7 over three months. As shown in Fig. 2a, adding fly ash to soil resulted in a significant fluctuation in hydraulic…

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  • Sandwiching of MOF nanoparticles between graphene oxide nanosheets among ice grains

    Sandwiching of MOF nanoparticles between graphene oxide nanosheets among ice grains

    Characterization of nano-sandwiches

    Ultramicrotomy of ZIF-8-GO nano-sandwiches for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) study shows that nanoparticles of a typical MOF material, ZIF-8, can be assembled with GO nanosheets (Fig. 1c). To further…

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  • Super-saturated complementary carbon nanotube transistors with intrinsic gain singularities

    Super-saturated complementary carbon nanotube transistors with intrinsic gain singularities

    Preparation of flexible parylene substrate

    A silicon wafer was adopted as the supporting plate for the flexible substrate during the fabrication. A 2-μm-thick parylene-C film was deposited on the silicon wafer by chemical vapor deposition (SCS…

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  • Pulsed electrosynthesis of glycolic acid through polyethylene terephthalate upcycling over a mesoporous PdCu catalyst

    Pulsed electrosynthesis of glycolic acid through polyethylene terephthalate upcycling over a mesoporous PdCu catalyst

    LM-PdCu electrocatalyst with stacked morphology and lamellar mesoporous structure was synthesized by a simple solution-phase route with (NH4)2PdCl4 and Cu(NO3)2 as metal precursors, cetrimonium bromide (CTAB) as mesopore-forming template,…

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  • Finely tailoring the local ensembles in heterostructured high entropy alloy catalysts through pulsed annealing

    Finely tailoring the local ensembles in heterostructured high entropy alloy catalysts through pulsed annealing

    Compositional design and pulsed-annealing synthesis of HEA/c-PdSn

    A high-entropy structure with active/ensemble sites firmly embedded in the HEA surface holds promise for achieving superior catalytic performance, yet the method of its construction…

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  • Plasma-to-tumour tissue integrated proteomics using nano-omics for biomarker discovery in glioblastoma

    Plasma-to-tumour tissue integrated proteomics using nano-omics for biomarker discovery in glioblastoma

    Nanoparticle-enabled plasma proteomics in the GL261 mouse model of GB

    To allow longitudinal analysis of the plasma proteome at different stages of GB progression, we employed the orthotopic GL261 murine model. This syngeneic model offers highly…

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  • Tribological performance of graphene oxide water-based nanofluid electrostatic atomization

    Tribological performance of graphene oxide water-based nanofluid electrostatic atomization

    Impact of GO volume fraction on friction and wear reduction

    The friction and wear performance of GO water-based nanofluid electrostatic atomization under different volume fractions and flow rates was studied by examining COF, wear loss, and wear…

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  • Scientists uncover spin-catalytic activity correlation in single-atom and -electron tailored gold nanoclusters

    Scientists uncover spin-catalytic activity correlation in single-atom and -electron tailored gold nanoclusters

    Apr 09, 2025

    Researchers precisely removed a gold nanoparticle’s core atom and outermost electron to study how magnetic spin affects its catalytic activity.

    (Nanowerk News) A team of researchers from the…

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  • Creating tiny biomedical factories from common bacteria

    Creating tiny biomedical factories from common bacteria

    Apr 09, 2025

    Engineered bacteria secrete powerful nanoparticles to aid in drug delivery, vaccines and treating medical conditions, such as Inflammatory Bowel Disease.

    (Nanowerk…

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