Facet engineering of semiconductors for boosting photo-charge separation in solar fuel production by Tian Liu, Lu Liu, Zhi-Yan Guo, Dong-Feng Liu, Liang-Liang Jiang, Kim Meow Liew, Wen-Wei Li

“…Multiple approaches for facet engineering have been developed to construct efficient photocatalysts. In this review, the fundamental principles and the common facet-engineering approaches for improving the photo-charge separation and solar fuel production of semiconductors are summarized, focusing on how the various faceted particles modification strategies tune the inbuilt electric field and reaction kinetics. …”
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Site-directed mutagenesis of multi-copy-number plasmids: Red/ET recombination and unique restriction site elimination by Stephan Noll, Gabriele Hampp, Hanna Bausbacher, Natalia S. Pellegata, Harald Kranz

“…Existing methods for site-directed plasmid mutagenesis are restrained by the small spectrum of modifications that can be introduced by mutagenic primers and the amplicon size limitations of in vitro DNA synthesis. …”
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Retroffiting and Repairing Cooling Tower Structure Within A Tide Deadline by Benny Dwika Leonanda

“…The goal was to incorporate advanced technology and features into the cooling tower, in response to regulatory modifications and the need to upgrade older buildings to improve their resilience and performance. …”
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Rice Leaf Disease Image Enhancement Based on Improved CycleGAN by YAN Congkuan, ZHU Dequan, MENG Fankai, YANG Yuqing, TANG Qixing, ZHANG Aifang, LIAO Juan

“…Additionally, different attention mechanisms, including efficient channel attention (ECA), coordinate attention (CA), and CBAM, were individually embedded into the generator's residual module. …”
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Sedum alfredii Hance: A cadmium and zinc hyperaccumulating plant by Mingying Liu, Ying Feng, Miao Wang, Xinglin Sun, Chen Yinfei Qi, Xiaoe Yang, Dayi Zhang

“…This also encourages studies on functional genes involved in metal transport, antioxidant, transcription regulation and stress response, providing candidates for genetic modification. Moreover, researchers have focused on the practical application and optimal managements in phytoremediation. …”
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Near-infrared II cyanine fluorophores with large stokes shift engineered by regulating respective absorption and emission by Diankai Liu, Zixu He, Wenjie Gao, Jizhen Shang, Yiqing Yang, Xiaofan Zhang, Xiaohua Li, Huimin Ma, Wen Shi

“…Abstract Fluorescence bioimaging in the near-infrared II window is a promising area due to its deep tissue penetration and high contrast. However, efficient design strategies for near-infrared II fluorophores with large Stokes shifts are still scarce. …”
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Scalable functionalized shape memory alloy fiber with synergistic effect for robotic hand and microrobot by Xian Li, Bingyue Cai, Haojie Zhao, Rui Jia, Xiangyu Wang, Qi Wang, Yuwen Zhu, Ru Xiao, Meifang Zhu, Hengda Sun, Gang Wang

“…Here, we introduce a dual-responsive SMA technology that addresses these limitations by leveraging a novel surface modification comprising polydopamine integrated with silver nanowires. …”
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The Mutriku Breakwater Wave Plant: Improvements and Their Influence on the Levelized Cost of Electricity (LCoE) by Alberto Peña, Iñigo Bidaguren, Urko Izquierd, Gustavo Adolfo Esteban, Jesús María Blanco, Iñigo Albaina

“…The Basque Energy Agency commissioned the Mutriku Wave Power Plant, using an Oscillating Water Column technology in 2011, and although the cumulative total power has been over 3 GW/h until 2023, the initial expectations of efficiency and LCoE have not been accomplished. This paper proposes a series of modifications to the breakwater and chamber geometry of the plant to increase energy production and efficiency. …”
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Adsorptive-photocatalytic removal of tetracycline from wastewater by Fe3O4- and SnO2-containing biochar nanocomposites by Chuchen Zhang, Shuwen Zhao, Qilan Huang, Jianqiao Liu, Qianru Zhang

“…Abstract Tetracycline poses a major threat to the aquatic environment and human health, and there is an urgent need for a green, efficient and recyclable technological means to remove its negative effects. …”
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Applications of cell penetrating peptide-based drug delivery system in immunotherapy by Jing-Jing Du, Ru-Yan Zhang, Shangchi Jiang, Shanshan Xiao, Yiting Liu, Yongheng Niu, Wen-Xiang Zhao, Dongyuan Wang, Dongyuan Wang, XianShi Ma

“…Besides, inappropriate chemical modification can lead to membrane disruption and nonspecific toxicity. …”
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Effect of Electron Donor Groups on Optoelectronic Properties of Betalain Dyes: A DFT Study by Melkizedeck Hiiti Tsere, Rene Costa, Geradius Deogratias, Tatiana Pogrebnaya, Alexander Pogrebnoi, Revocatus Machunda, Ohoud S. Al‐Qurashi, Nuha Wazzan, Nambury Surendra Babu

“…In the present work, modification of betalain dyes through grafting of electron donor groups has been performed. …”
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Machine Learning Models for Predicting Thermal Properties of Radiative Cooling Aerogels by Chengce Yuan, Yimin Shi, Zhichen Ba, Daxin Liang, Jing Wang, Xiaorui Liu, Yabei Xu, Junreng Liu, Hongbo Xu

“…The escalating global climate crisis and energy challenges have made the development of efficient radiative cooling materials increasingly urgent. …”
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Airflow Dynamics for Micro-Wind Environment Optimization and Human Comfort Improvement: Roadshow Design for Theater Stage Spaces by Yiheng Liu, Menglong Zhang, Wenyang Han, Yufei He, Chang Yi, Yin Zhang, Jin Li

“…Six airflow organization scenarios were designed based on modifications to structural layout, equipment settings, and mechanical disturbances (e.g., fan integration). …”
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Design, pharmacology, and toxicology of a novel chemically modified siRNA targeting hepatic angiotensinogen by Ze-Ao Huang, Guang-Shen Ji, Shuo Yang, Yang Yang, Yu-Cheng Wu, Zhi-Kang Tian, Geng-Shen Song

“…Therefore, the implementation of efficient screening procedures is of utmost importance during the development of siRNA candidates. …”
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Sustainable uric acid sensor based on a lab-fabricated electrode modified with rice straw-derived carbon materials by Pakin Noppawan, Jaroon Jakmunee, Andrew J. Hunt, Nontipa Supanchaiyamat, Suwiwat Sangon, Jamras Lerdsri, Thidarat Kruatian, Jantima Upan

“…Abstract A novel and facile electrochemical sensor for the quantification of uric acid has been fabricated through the strategic modification of a screen-printed carbon electrode (SPCE) using mesoporous carbon-zinc oxide (MC-ZnO) synthesized from rice straw waste. …”
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Sustainable Synthesis of New Antioxidants from Hydroxytyrosol by Direct Biocatalytic Esterification in Ionic Liquids by Susana Nieto, Inmaculada Lozano, Francisco J. Ruiz, Jose F. Costa, Rocio Villa, Pedro Lozano

“…This work presents a highly efficient and selective approach to perform the biocatalytic esterification of free fatty acids (FFAs) of different alkyl chain lengths with HT in a reaction medium based on the SLIL [C₁₂mim][NTf₂]. …”
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Inflammatory targeted nanoplatform incorporated with antioxidative nano iron oxide to attenuate ulcerative colitis progression by Haojun Chen, Wei Sun, Can Li, Qiuyang Wang, Xucai Wang, Yingjie Du, Wenbo Chen, Min Wang, Caoxing Huang, Rong Wang

“…This study highlights the nanoplatform’s potential as a promising candidate for UC treatment due to its great targeting of inflammatory microenvironments and efficient ROS scavenging.…”
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A Miniaturized CPW-Fed Tapered Slot Antenna in Lossy Environment for UWB Application in Breast Cancer Detection by A. Hokmabadi, A. Keshtkar, A. Bayat, A. Keshtkar

“…Here, a modified CPW to slot-line transition structure with an air-bridge is employed to broaden the transition bandwidth and increase the radiation efficiency. Through these applied modifications, negative features of the original TSA (limitation of transition) and antipodal Vivaldi antenna (bad cross-polarization) are both removed, while all the positive features remained. …”
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Significance of dissipative flow on a second-grade nanofluid with variable thermal properties on the stretching surface by Zia Ullah, Aamir Abbas Khan, Shalan Alkarni, Abhinav Kumar, N. Beemkumar, Tushar Aggarwal, Ashwin Jacob, Jajneswar Nanda, Feyisa Edosa Merga

“…The mechanism can be analyzed and solved more easily due to this modification. In order to efficiently handle boundary value issues by turning them into initial value problems, the method of shooting is employed to achieve numerical solutions for the physical phenomena under the Newton–Raphson scheme and Keller-box approach. …”
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Highly Accurate Adaptive Federated Forests Based on Resistance to Adversarial Attacks in Wireless Traffic Prediction by Lingyao Wang, Chenyue Pan, Haitao Zhao, Mingyi Ji, Xinren Wang, Junchen Yuan, Miao Liu, Donglai Jiao

“…ATMFF employs adaptive threshold modification, utilizing a confusion matrix rate-based screening-weighted aggregation of weak classifiers to adjust the decision threshold. …”
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