Phytochemical Analysis and Bioactive Properties of Opuntia dillenii Flower Extracts, Compound, and Essential Oil by Mohammad Elouazkiti, Manal Zefzoufi, Houda Elyacoubi, Chemseddoha Gadhi, Hafida Bouamama, Atmane Rochdi

“…The purpose of this study was to determine the chemical composition, isolate the active compounds, and evaluate their antioxidant properties as well as antibacterial potential through HPLC-MS in flower extract from Opuntia dillenii. …”
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Effect of homogenizing heat treatment on the microstructure of new low-chromium alumina-forming austenitic steels by Mohammad Mehdi Khalvan, Seyed Mohammad-Ali Boutorabi, Mehdi Diavandari

“…Therefore, optimizing the chemical composition of alumina-forming austenitic (AFA) steels is essential to minimize the formation of the σ phase during heat treatments and ensure a single-phase austenitic microstructure. …”
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Square Root Unscented Kalman Filter-Based Multiple-Model Fault Diagnosis of PEM Fuel Cells by Abdulrahman Allam, Michael Mangold, Ping Zhang

“…Among other failures, flooding and catalytic degradation are failure mechanisms that directly impact the composition of the membrane electrode assembly and can cause irreversible cell performance deterioration. …”
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Insights on Morphology and Thermal Stability of Hollow Pt Nanospheres by In Situ Environmental TEM by Josephine Rezkallah, Xavier Sauvage, Bernhard Witulski, Simona Moldovan

“…The fields of catalysis and energy storage nowadays quote the use of nanomaterials with well-defined size, morphology, chemical composition, and thermal stability in the high-temperature range and under harsh conditions of reactions. …”
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Effect of Pulse Energy on the Microstructure and Mechanical Properties of the Non-Optical Contact Femtosecond Laser Welding of Quartz Glass and the TC4 Alloy by Xin Li, Runbo Zhang, Xian Tang, Ming Liu, Sijie Li, Gang Wang, Luyu Li

“…It was revealed that a lot of welding zones form at the interface through the diffusion of Si, O, and Ti and, thus, consist of a stable joint. …”
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Evaluation of pH-sensitive poly(2-hydroxyethyl methacrylate-co-2-(diisopropylamino)ethyl methacrylate) copolymers as drug delivery systems for potential applications in ophthalmic... by P. A. Faccia, F. M. Pardini, J. I. Amalvy

“…The release of Rh6G of copolymers p(HEMA/DPA) show a normal Fickian or anomalous diffusion behavior at different pH values, depending on the HEMA/DPA ratio.…”
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Cation order and disorder in cathode materials for Li-ion batteries by Yue Zhou, Jiaqiang Huang, Biao Li

“…Design of cathode materials has been the central topic of Li-batteries since its invention. Beyond chemical composition, another dimension of the material design resides at crystal structures where factors like ionic size, coordination environment, and superstructure play significant roles. …”
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A study on grain boundary barrier layer solid aluminum capacitors by Wen Hsi Lee, C.R. Kuo, Hong En Chen

“…XRD and XPS analyses confirmed the composition of the aluminum grain boundary capacitors. …”
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HEMA-free versus HEMA-containing adhesive systems: a systematic review by Esraa Abdelkhalek, Hamdi H. Hamama, Salah H. Mahmoud

“…Unfortunately, the lack of HEMA in the adhesive composition may lead to a separation phase between hydrophobic and hydrophilic components. …”
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Transdermal delivery of botulinum toxin-A through phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol nanoliposomes for treatment of post-acne scarring by Lannan Chen, Lei Cui, Jiabing Ran, Zhengrui Liu, Xiongbin Zhu

“…In this work, phosphatidylcholine/cholesterol (PC/Chol) nanoliposomes were utilized for encapsulation and transdermal delivery of BTXA. The composition, structure, morphology, size, size distribution, etc. of as-prepared BTXA@liposome nanoparticles were investigated in detail. …”
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Structural and optical study of alternating layers of In and GaAs prepared by magnetron sputtering by S. Torres- Jaramillo, C. Pulzara-Mora, R. Bernal-Correa, M. Venegas de la Cerda, S. Gallardo-Hernández, M. López-López, A. Pulzara-Mora

“…SIMS revealed variation in the concentration of In atoms across In/GaAs/ In interphases, and X-ray diffraction revealed planes corresponding to phases associated with GaAs and InAs due to In interfacial diffusion across GaAs layers. Finally, in order to study the composition and cristal quality of the manufactures nanostaructures, Raman spectra were taken using laser excitation lines of 452 nm, 532 nm, and 562 nm at different points across the nanostructures. …”
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Chemotactic Responses of Slug-Parasitic Nematodes to Potato-Tuber-Emitted Volatile Organic Compounds by Žiga Laznik, Stanislav Trdan, Mohammad Yonesi

“…However, environmental factors such as soil composition and microbial activity may influence VOC diffusion and nematode recruitment. …”
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Investigating the Medicinal Potential of Lavatera cashmeriana Leaf Extract: Phytochemical Profiling and In Vitro Evaluation of Antimicrobial, Antioxidant, and Anticancer Activities by Mohmmad Ashaq Sofi, Mohd Abass Sofi, Anima Nanda, Kasi Thiruvengadam, B. K. Nayak

“…Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry analysis was employed to characterize the phytochemical composition of the ethanol extract derived from L. cashmeriana leaves. …”
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Anti-Abortion Mobilization in Latin America: Signs of a Field in Transformation by Marta Rodriguez de Assis Machado, María Angélica Peñas-Defago, Camila Gianella Malca

“…It identifies significant commonalities among the cases and raises the hypotheses that shifts in the composition of the anti-abortion networks, in mobilization strategies and frames are inserted in a trend that has been transnationally diffused and subject to different processes of vernacularization. …”
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Microbiological and Nutritional Analyses of Soybean Cake (Awara) and Camel Milk Cheese (Chukwui) Local Snacks, Vended in Kano Metropolis- Nigeria by Idris, A., Dabo, N.T. P.

“… A study on the microbiological and nutritional composition of soybean cake (Awara) and camel- milk cheese (Chukwui) vended in Kano metropolis was carried out between September 2014 and March 2015. …”
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The advantage of MICROWAVE-heating application in pumpkin pomace processing by O. V. Perfilova, G. O. Magomedov

“…However, when blanching fruit and vegetable raw materials, a diffusion process inevitably occurs and a part of food substances soluble in water is transferred to the heating medium. …”
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Evidence for the existence and ecological relevance of fast-cycling mineral-associated organic matter by Andrea Jilling, A. Stuart Grandy, Amanda B. Daly, Rachel Hestrin, Angela Possinger, Rose Abramoff, Madison Annis, Anna M. Cates, Katherine Dynarski, Katerina Georgiou, Katherine Heckman, Marco Keiluweit, Ashley K. Lang, Richard P. Phillips, Katherine Rocci, Itamar A. Shabtai, Noah W. Sokol, Em D. Whalen

“…Strong physico-chemical interactions and diffusion limitations restrict the turnover of mineral-associated organic matter, allowing carbon and nitrogen bound therein to persist in soil for as long as centuries to millennia. …”
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Battery-free and self-propelled bionic microneedle system for chemically controlled on‐demand drug delivery by Yuyu Tan, Cao Tan, Mengli Luo, Yuxue Miao, Jiaoli Wang, Xinlin Wang, Zhu Chen, Lelun Jiang, Jian Yang

“…Nevertheless, the efficacy of existing systems has been constrained by limitations in the therapeutic payload capacity and slow diffusion of molecules, as well as the necessity for external resource configurations. …”
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Novel insights into the kinetics, bio-based chemicals and mechanisms for tobacco industry waste pyrolysis by Xing Fan, Boyu Li, Yu Xi, Junping Bian, Wenhua Zi

“…The pyrolysis reaction followed a multi-step mechanism involving diffusion, geometrical contraction, and reaction order models. …”
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Study of unusable liquid propellant residues evaporation processes parameters in the tanks of launch vehicle worked-off stage in microgravity by V. I. Trushlyakov, V. A. Urbansky

“…A high-temperature stream of hydrogen peroxide decomposition products is used as a heat carrier fed to the fuel tank. …”
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