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Non-ablative femtosecond laser exposure of transparent substrates leads to bulk volumetric changes, and consequently, localized structural changes resulting in micron-scale variation of elastic properties in the material. Here, we demonstrate the use of gr ...

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Micro- and nanofabrication techniques for single crystal diamond photonics

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Synthetically grown high-quality single crystal diamond is an excellent base material for quantum photonics. Planar single crystal diamond substrates several square millimeters in size are nowadays commercially available. They can be precisely structured u ...

Elsevier2025

Novel Lightweight PV Modules Based on Polymeric Honeycomb for Building Integration

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A reliable and aesthetically pleasing lightweight (LW) photovoltaic (PV) module for building integration is expected to develop a growing interest in the consumer market. However, its application is still limited by old buildings that are not structurally ...

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Low Urinary Tract Dysfunctions (LUTD) and in particular Urinary Incontinence (UI) is a medical condition affecting millions of people worldwide. In this context researchers and engineers performed tests on porcine and human urethras. However, ethical conce ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Method for converting nitrogen-containing polymers into hydrocarbon compounds

Paul Joseph Dyson, Xinbang Wu

The invention relates to a method for converting a polymer into hydrocarbon compounds, comprising the steps of a. contacting the polymer with a catalyst to provide a reaction mixture, wherein the polymer contains nitrogen in the polymer backbone, wherein t ...

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Improving the photo-stability of triple cation perovskite solar cells using chromophore-infused optically transparent Pectin/polymethyl methacrylate composite

Christophe Ballif, Aïcha Hessler-Wyser, Christian Michael Wolff, Mostafa Rabie Shlaly Bahr Othman

Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) show great promise due to their high efficiency and low manufacturing costs, yet they encounter notable challenges such as optical losses and stability issues, mainly due to high surface reflection and degradation from UV irra ...

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Uniformly Dispersed Poly(lactic acid)-Grafted Lignin Nanoparticles Enhance Antioxidant Activity and UV-Barrier Properties of Poly(lactic acid) Packaging Films

Yves Leterrier, Harm-Anton Klok, Alice Boarino, Aigoul Schreier

Poly(lactic acid) (PLA) represents one of the most widely used biodegradable polymers for food packaging applications. While this material provides many advantages, it is characterized by limited antioxidant and UV-barrier properties. Blending PLA with lig ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

In operando charge transport imaging of atomically thin dopant nanostructures in silicon

Gabriel Aeppli

Novel approaches to materials design, fabrication processes and device architectures have accelerated next-generation electronics component production, pushing device dimensions down to the nano- and atomic-scale. For device metrology methods to keep up wi ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2022

Coupling Bulk Phase Separation of Disordered Proteins to Membrane Domain Formation in Molecular Simulations on a Bespoke Compute Fabric

Julian Charles Shillcock

Phospholipid membranes surround the cell and its internal organelles, and their multicomponent nature allows the formation of domains that are important in cellular signalling, the immune system, and bacterial infection. Cytoplasmic compartments are also c ...

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Crack-Free Monolayer Graphene Interlayer for Improving Perovskite Crystallinity and Energy Level Alignment in Efficient Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Hiroyuki Kanda, Shiqi Huang, Yen-Cheng Liu

Inverted planar perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have intrigued great promise in negative hysteresis, simple fabrication process, and flexible substrate implementation, in which the shared hole transport materiel is NiOx. However, the low-temperature solution ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2022

Structure Evolution of Graphitic Surface upon Oxidation: Insights by Scanning Tunneling Microscopy

Nicola Marzari, Kumar Varoon Agrawal, Mounir Driss Mensi, Shiqi Huang, Shaoxian Li, Kuang-Jung Hsu, Mojtaba Chevalier, Mohammad Tohidivahdat

Oxidation of graphitic materials has been studied for more than a century to synthesize materials such as graphene oxide, nanoporous graphene, and to cut or unzip carbon nanotubes. However, the understanding of the early stages of oxidation is limited to t ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Understanding Your Support System: The Design of a Stable Metal-Organic Framework/Polyazoamine Support for Biomass Conversion

Jeremy Luterbacher, Wendy Lee Queen, Mehrdad Asgari, Shuliang Yang, Olga Trukhina, Ilia Kochetygov, Vikram Vinayak Karve

Introducing oligomeric or polymeric units into metal- organic frameworks (MOFs) can result in composites that have significantly improved properties when compared with the individual MOF or polymer building blocks. With such synergy in mind, this work pres ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2022

Development and Experimental Validation of Dissipative Embedded Column Base Connections for Enhanced Seismic Performance of Steel Moment-Resisting Frames

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This paper proposes a novel embedded column base (ECB) connection that defies the current paradigm in capacity-designed steel moment-resisting frames (MRFs) where column bases have been traditionally considered as nondissipative. In the proposed concept, a ...

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