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Nanotechnology and Cementitious Materials

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Why converging technologies need converging international regulation

Design of Customized Mouthguards with Superior Protection Using Digital-Based Technologies and Impact Tests

Nonlinear Photoluminescence in Gold Thin Films

Atomic-scale Characterization of Strain and Gate effects on Two-dimensional Materials by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Catalyst Aggregate Size Effect on the Mass Transport Properties of Non-Noble Metal Catalyst Layers for PEMFC Cathodes

Modeling the mechanics and rheology of porous and granular media: an elastoplastic continuum approach

Influence of sustained loading on resistance and deformation capacity of reinforced concrete members in compression

Oxidation of pyrite (FeS2) and troilite (FeS) impurities in kaolinitic clays after calcination

High-Throughput Sizing, Counting, and Elemental Analysis of Anisotropic Multimetallic Nanoparticles with Single-Particle Inductively Coupled Plasma Mass Spectrometry

Nonempirical hybrid functionals for advanced electronic-structure calculations

Shear Response of Wet Weak Carbonate Rock/Grout Interfaces Under Cyclic Loading

Dataset for "Cubic, hexagonal and tetragonal FeGex phases (x = 1, 1.5, 2): Raman spectroscopy and magnetic properties"

Atomic layer deposition of Ni and Ni80Fe20 for tubular spin-wave nanocavities

Optimization Method for Extracting Stabilizer Geometry and Properties of REBCO Tapes

Toward Nanotechnology-Enabled Approaches against the COVID-19 Pandemic

A Low-Parametric Rhombic Microstructure Family for Irregular Lattices

TiO2- based ceramics, from basic science to applications

Tandem electrospinning for heterogeneous nanofiber patterns

Image-Based Acquisition and Modeling of Polarimetric Reflectance

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