Experimental characterization of chemical mineral composition and morphology of titanium in carbonized slag particles by Jianxin Wang, Dong Yue, Liangying Wen, Liwen Hu, Xueming Lv

“…Based on the analysis of chemical mineral composition and particles size, it is concluded that the carbonized slag is a low-grade titanium raw material with high impurity content, uneven particle size and wide distribution range, and the only crystal phase obtained by detection is TiCxOy. According to the analysis of the occurrence state of titanium element using SEM-EDS and mineral liberation analyzer (MLA), the results indicate that almost all titanium in the titanium-bearing blast-furnace slag exists in the CaTiO3 phase, which is transformed into TiCxOy phase during the process of carbonization reduction to make the carbonized slag. …”
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Genetic Algorithm-Enhanced Direct Method in Protein Crystallography by Ruijiang Fu, Wu-Pei Su, Hongxing He

“…Direct methods based on iterative projection algorithms can determine protein crystal structures directly from X-ray diffraction data without prior structural information. …”
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Design of Programmable LED Based Phototherapy System by Himani Kohli, Sangeeta Srivastava, Sanjeev Kumar Sharma, Satish Chouhan, Manan Oza

“…The matrix keypad interface and liquid crystal display (LCD) offer the ease of human interface. …”
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Evaluation of anticancer potency of Cu-isatin-1-(2-pyridyl) piperazine thiosemicarbazone (Cu-Istpypz) against epidermoid carcinoma cell line (A431) by Indranil Banerjee, Piyush Kumar, Narendra K. Singh, Paras N. Yadav, Yuba Raj Pokharel

“…Cell viability assay using crystal violet dye exhibited the effects of the compounds against those cell lines. …”
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Time-Varying Compressive Strength Model of Aeolian Sand Concrete considering the Harmful Pore Ratio Variation and Heterogeneous Nucleation Effect by Yugen Li, Huimei Zhang, Xiaoyu Liu, Guangxiu Liu, Dawei Hu, Xiangzhen Meng

“…Influence mechanism of aeolian sand on the strength of concrete was revealed by using the nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR) to analyze the pore ratio and structures of aeolian sand concrete (ASC) and using the X-ray single crystal diffraction (XRD) to calculate the relative contents of hydration products semiquantitatively. …”
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Efficient, Compact Mid-Infrared Sources: A Systematic Study of Intracavity Difference-Frequency Generation by Saeed Salimian Rizi, Liam G. K. Flannigan, Alex Chiasson, Tyler Kashak, Daniel Poitras, Chang-Qing Xu

“…By optimizing overlap between the pump and signal beams, we obtained a black-box efficiency (<inline-formula><math xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1998/Math/MathML" display="inline"><semantics><mrow><msub><mrow><mi>η</mi></mrow><mrow><mi>B</mi><mi>B</mi></mrow></msub></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>) of 3.4% W⁻¹ and a maximum DFG output power of 63 mW at a wavelength of 3437 nm for a 50 mm long periodically poled lithium niobate (PPLN) crystal. The mid-IR laser was systematically studied for various PPLN lengths (29 mm, 40 mm, and 50 mm), demonstrating extensive tunability across a range of mid-IR wavelengths. …”
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Identification of Fe-bearing phases in the as-cast microstructure of AA6026 alloy and their evolution during homogenization treatment by Radetić T., Popović M., Novaković M., Rajić V., Romhanji E.

“…However, while the α-Al(Fe,Mn)Si microconstituents preserved a b.c.c. crystal lattice throughout the process, the product of the transformation of the δ-Al4(Fe,Mn)Si2 phase exhibited primitive cubic lattice.…”
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Synthesis and Characterisation of Penta-Bismuth Hepta-Oxide Nitrate, Bi5O7NO3, as a New Adsorbent for Methyl Orange Removal from an Aqueous Solution by Eshraq Ahmed Abdullah, Abdul Halim Abdullah, Zulkarnain Zainal, Mohd Zobir Hussein, Tan Kar Ban

“…The study results revealed that Bi5O7NO3 had an orthorhombic crystal structure, a surface area of 1.6 m2 g-1 and a point of zero charge at pH 9.7. …”
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The Effect of PVP Molecular Weight on Dissolution Behavior and Physicochemical Characterization of Glycyrrhetinic Acid Solid Dispersions by Xiaoyu Sui, Yan Chu, Jie Zhang, Honglian Zhang, Huiyu Wang, Tingting Liu, Cuiyan Han

“…The DSC and XRD patterns showed that the crystallization of GA in SDs prepared by PVP K30 and PVP K60 was significantly inhibited, and both were transformed to amorphous. …”
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Antibacterial Activity of Visible Light-Activated TiO2 Thin Films with Low Level of Fe Doping by Dan Meng, Xiuhua Liu, Yun Xie, Yang Du, Yong Yang, Chao Xiao

“…Raman spectroscopy and XRD results show the crystalline phase of titanium dioxide was anatase, and the range of the crystal size for the films was 19.24–22.24 nm. XPS results indicate that iron was in the form of Fe3+ in Fe-doped TiO2 films. …”
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Effect of ZnO/PbO and FeOX/SiO2 ratio on the viscosity of lead smelting slags by OuYang K., Dou Z.-H., Zhang T.-A., Liu Y.

“…Increasing ZnO/PbO and FeOX/SiO2 could enhance the crystallization capacity of the slag. FTIR analysis revealed that the degree of polymerization of the as-quenched slags decreased with decreasing ZnO/PbO and increasing FeOX/SiO2. …”
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Panoramic analysis of 2D dirubidium telluride monolayer benchmarking the DFT approach by G. Sneha, R. D. Eithiraj

“…The Perdew-Bruke-Ernzerhof (PBE) form of generalized gradient approximation (GGA) functional in WIEN2k was deployed for the analysis of all these material properties. The trigonally crystallizing monolayer with an indirect band gap of 1.72 eV may be an upright single-layer that suffices distinct applications. …”
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Incorporation of anthocyanin into zein nanofibrous films by electrospinning: Structural characterization, functional properties, and ammonia color-responsiveness by Jun Wang, Wenpeng Zhao, Dongli Qin, Hongyan Shan, Xiaoman Zhu, Lilan Chen, Ying Liu, Songnan Li

“…Surface hydrophobicity, thermodynamic properties, and mechanical characteristics of ZA-FF were significantly improved, attributable to changes in their secondary and crystal structures from the interaction of Z and A. …”
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Enhancing water solubility of phytosterols through Co-amorphization with food-grade coformers by Yuxin Li, Yingting Luo, Xuening Song, Yuzhuo Wang, Simiao Liu, Fazheng Ren, Lingyan Kong, Hao Zhang

“…The PS-Nic CM demonstrated up to 60% in vitro dissolution and release within 2 h and maintained stable after storage at 4 °C for 6 months and under accelerated conditions equivalent to 10 months at room temperature. In sum, the crystal structure of PS was altered, and formed a co-amorphous system by using Nic as the optimal ligand via lyophilization to increase solubility. …”
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<i>Epigynum auritum</i>-Derived Near-Infrared Carbon Dots for Bioimaging and Antimicrobial Applications by Wenfeng Shi, Jiahui Li, Junmei Pu, Guiguang Cheng, Yaping Liu, Shanshan Xiao, Jianxin Cao

“…The spectral properties of the synthesized NIR-CDs were characterized by ultraviolet–visible (UV-Vis) absorption and fluorescence spectroscopy. The crystal structures of the NIR-CDs were further characterized by high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), nuclear magnetic resonance (NMR), and X-ray diffraction (XRD). …”
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Effect of auriculotherapy on anxiety-fatigue and sleep disturbances in cancer patients: A scoping review by Silmara de Oliveira Silva, Vinicius dos Santos Lemos Pereira, Mariane Elivânia Silva, Jucielly Ferreira da Fonseca, Maria Carolina Batista da Silva, Roberta Paolli de Paiva Oliveira Arruda Camara, Rodrigo Assis Neves Dantas, Daniele Vieira Dantas

“…The most commonly used materials were needles, seeds, magnetic pellets, and crystal balls. Conclusions: The results of this review highlight the effects of auriculotherapy in the management of anxiety-fatigue and sleep disturbance in cancer patients, demonstrating symptom improvement and benefits that outweigh the minor side effects associated with the procedure.…”
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Strain Effects on the Band Gap and Diameter of CdSe Core and CdSe/ZnS Core/Shell Quantum Dots at Any Temperature by Md. Rezaul Karim, Mesut Balaban, Hilmi Ünlü

“…The XRD analysis suggests that the synthesized bare CdSe core and CdSe/ZnS core/shell QDs have zinc blende crystal structure. HRTEM results indicate that the CdSe core and CdSe/ZnS QDs have average particle sizes about 3.50 nm and 4.84 nm, respectively. …”
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Structure and Electrochemical Behavior of Minor Mn-Doped Olivine LiMnxFe1−xPO4 by Le Thanh Nguyen Huynh, Pham Phuong Nam Le, Viet Dung Trinh, Hong Huy Tran, Van Man Tran, My Loan Phung Le

“…The synthesized olivines were well crystallized in olivine structure, with larger lattice parameters compared with LiFePO4. …”
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Effect of pH on the Hydrolytic Kinetics of Gamma-Glutamyl Transferase from Bacillus subtilis by Sharath Balakrishna, Asmita Prabhune

“…Cooperative binding of multiple substrate molecules may not be the basis for the sigmoid kinetics as only one substrate binding site has been noticed in the reported crystal structures of B. subtilis GGT.…”
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Fabrication of a Porous Metal-Organic Framework with Polar Channels for 5-Fu Delivery and Inhibiting Human Osteosarcoma Cells by Li-Chun Zhao, Mei Tang, Qian-Hua Zhang, Zhi-Yi Hu, Hong-Wei Gao, Xia-Yun Liao, Gang Wang, Jing Leng

“…The structure of the obtained crystalline product has been fully determined by the X-ray single-crystal diffraction, TGA, elemental analysis, XRD, and the gas sorption measurement. …”
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