Preventing chloride-induced corrosion in TC25 titanium alloy during long-term performance testing via Cr-coated aluminosilicate fiber ropes by Qinqin Li, Zhanming Bai, Xianghong Liu, Peng Liu, Yajuan Li, Yanru Zhao, Yao Li, Huixian Gao, Wenzhong Luo, Kaixuan Wang, Weidong Zeng

“…As an effective high-temperature insulating material, aluminosilicate fiber ropes are extensively used for the thermal protection and structural support of titanium alloys in demanding high-temperature applications. …”
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Segmental Mobility, Interfacial Polymer, Crystallization and Conductivity Study in Polylactides Filled with Hybrid Lignin-CNT Particles by Panagiotis A. Klonos, Rafail O. Ioannidis, Andreas Pitsavas, Nikolaos D. Bikiaris, Sofia P. Makri, Stefania Koutsourea, Alexios Grigoropoulos, Ioanna Deligkiozi, Alexandros Zoikis-Karathanasis, Apostolos Kyritsis, Dimitrios N. Bikiaris

“…The hybrid-filled PLA composites exhibited electrical conductivity, whereas PLA/Lignin and PLA/CNTs remained insulators. The result was indicative of a synergistic effect between lignin and CNTs, leading to lowering of the percolation threshold to 3 wt%, being almost ideal for sustainable conductive printing inks. …”
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MoTe₂ Photodetector for Integrated Lithium Niobate Photonics by Qiaonan Dong, Xinxing Sun, Lang Gao, Yong Zheng, Rongbo Wu, Ya Cheng

“…Two-dimensional materials provide a potential high-efficiency on-chip detection capability. Here, we demonstrate an efficient on-chip photodetector based on a few layers of MoTe₂ on a thin film lithium niobate waveguide and integrate it with a microresonator operating in an optical telecommunication band. …”
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A Novel GRU-Augmented Time-Frequency Estimator for IGBT Remaining Useful Life Prediction by Yuankuang Li, Baohua Tan, Yingjie Zhang, Shuo Wang, Bolin Lian, Yuan Li, Zongming Tan

“…Aging-induced failure of Insulated Gate Bipolar Transistors (IGBTs) significantly restricts the reliability of power electronic systems. …”
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Recent advancements in metal oxide‐based hybrid nanocomposite resistive random‐access memories for artificial intelligence by Anirudh Kumar, Kirti Bhardwaj, Satendra Pal Singh, Youngmin Lee, Sejoon Lee, Mohit Kumar, Sanjeev K. Sharma

“…Abstract Artificial intelligence (AI) advancements are driving the need for highly parallel and energy‐efficient computing analogous to the human brain and visual system. …”
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Highly uniform thermally undercut silicon photonic devices in a 300 mm CMOS foundry process by Robert Parsons, Kaylx Jang, Yuyang Wang, Asher Novick, A. Matthew Smith, Christopher C. Tison, Yonas Gebregiorgis, Venkatesh Deenadayalan, Matthew van Niekerk, Lewis Carpenter, Tat Ngai, Gerald Leake, Daniel Coleman, Xiang Meng, Stefan Preble, Michael L. Fanto, Keren Bergman, Anthony Rizzo

“…To the best of the authors’ knowledge, we demonstrate the first wafer-scale comparison of non-undercut and undercut silicon photonic devices using comprehensive wafer-scale measurements across 64 reticles of a 300 mm silicon-on-insulator (SOI) wafer. Further, we demonstrate a comprehensive wafer-scale analysis of the influence of undercut trench opening geometry on device tuning efficiency. …”
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Bio-based pomegranate peel/paraffin wax phase change composites for enhanced thermal energy storage by Samia Ben-Ali, Hanen Nouri, Najoua Mekaddem, Khadija El-Arbi, Philippe Legros, Fouzia Achchaq

“…These materials provide a sustainable and efficient solution for thermal energy storage, offering thin, lightweight, mechanically robust, and thermally insulating or conductive structures. …”
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Dielectrophoresis-based microfluidics for detection and separation of circulating tumor cells by Iman Najafipour, Pegah Sadeh, Ali Mohammad Amani, Hesam Kamyab, Shreeshivadasan Chelliapan, Saravanan Rajendran, Ana Belén Peñaherrera-Pazmiño, Sajad Jamalpour

“…Key advancements discussed include the optimization of electrode designs, tuning of electric field parameters, and innovative system configurations that enhance recovery efficiency and separation purity. The review also compares various DEP configurations, such as electrode-based, insulator-based, and contactless systems, evaluating their unique advantages and suitability for different applications. …”
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Progress in silicon-based reconfigurable and programmable all-optical signal processing chips by Jing Xu, Wenchan Dong, Qingzhong Huang, Yujia Zhang, Yuchen Yin, Zhenyu Zhao, Desheng Zeng, Xiaoyan Gao, Wentao Gu, Zihao Yang, Hanghang Li, Xinjie Han, Yong Geng, Kunpeng Zhai, Bei Chen, Xin Fu, Lei Lei, Xiaojun Wu, Jianji Dong, Yikai Su, Ming Li, Jianguo Liu, Ninghua Zhu, Xuhan Guo, Heng Zhou, Huashun Wen, Kun Qiu, Xinliang Zhang

“…As a promising photonic integration platform, silicon-on-insulator (SOI) has the advantage of complementary metal oxide semiconductor (CMOS) compatibility, low-loss, compact size as well as large optical nonlinearities. …”
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Transformation of 3D Metal–Organic Frameworks into Nanosheets with Enhanced Memristive Behavior for Electronic Data Processing by Yuri A. Mezenov, Semyon V. Bachinin, Yuliya A. Kenzhebayeva, Anastasiia S. Efimova, Pavel V. Alekseevskiy, Daria Poloneeva, Anastasia Lubimova, Svyatoslav A. Povarov, Vladimir Shirobokov, Mikhail S. Dunaevskiy, Aleksandra S. Falchevskaya, Andrei S. Potapov, Alexander Novikov, Artem A. Selyutin, Pascal Boulet, Alena N. Kulakova, Valentin A. Milichko

“…Abstract The transition from three‐dimensional (3D) to two‐dimensional (2D) semiconducting and insulating materials for micro‐ and opto‐electronics is driven by an energy efficiency and device miniaturization. …”
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A Transmission Line Defect Detection Method Based on YOLOv7 and Multi-UAV Collaboration Platform by Rong Chang, Peng Xiao, Hongqiang Wan, Songlin Li, Chengjiang Zhou, Fei Li

“…Finally, a complete transmission line defect images dataset is constructed, and the introduction of several defect images such as insulator self-blast and cracked insulators avoids the problem of low application value of single defect detection. …”
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Reconfigurable Chiral Metasurface Absorbers Based on Liquid Crystals by Shengtao Yin, Dong Xiao, Jianxun Liu, Ke Li, Huilin He, Shouzhen Jiang, Dan Luo, Xiao Wei Sun, Wei Ji, Yan Jun Liu

“…A birefringent liquid crystal (LC) is exploited to serve as the insulator layer in the metal–insulator–metal structure. …”
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Application of machine learning to optimized design of layer structured particles by Hiroki GONOME, Hirotake SATO, Tatsuro HIRAI

“…Improving the sunlight absorption performance of plasmonic nanoparticles is an important issue to increase their utilization efficiency and reduce their production cost. To solve this problem, we have proposed metal-insulator-magnet plasmonic nanoparticles with a layered structure consisting of a spherical insulator sandwiched between thin films. …”
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Manipulator dynamic modeling and motion planning for live working robot by JIANG Wei, WU Gong-ping, WANG Wei, ZHANG Jie

“…This article is focused on a double-arm and double-manipulator live working robot.The arm motion of the robot for insulator string replacement during the operation process was decomposed.The basic operation dynamic model was established by the Lagrange method combined with the armature voltage equation,the dynamic equations of manipulator 2 were calculated,the manipulator motion trajectory planning method was proposed based on five-polynomial interpolation,and the kinematics equations of manipulator2 each joint were calculated.Robot manipulator dynamics and kinematics simulations were performed in ADAMS environment.The results verify the correctness of the dynamic model,and the joint trajectory planning meets the kinematic requirements.Finally,insulator string replacement experiments of the robot were tested on actual line.The results show that each robot manipulator joint movement obtains a better dynamic performance,which validates that the proposed five-polynomial interpolation manipulator trajectory planning has strong practicability,and can further improve the robot operational efficiency and stability.…”
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Cyclodehydrogenation of molecular nanographene precursors catalyzed by atomic hydrogen by Rafal Zuzak, Pawel Dabczynski, Jesús Castro-Esteban, José Ignacio Martínez, Mads Engelund, Dolores Pérez, Diego Peña, Szymon Godlewski

“…We demonstrate that, counterintuitively, atomic hydrogen can play the role of a catalyst in the cyclodehydrogenative planarization reaction. The high efficiency of the method is demonstrated by the nanographene synthesis on metallic Au, semiconducting TiO2, Ge:H, as well as on inert and insulating Si/SiO2 and thin NaCl layers. …”
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Inverse Designed Grating Coupler With Low Loss and High Bandwidth on LNOI Platform by Xingsheng He, Dongyue Sun, Jingye Chen, Yaocheng Shi

“…A grating coupler structure on a X-cut lithium niobate on insulator (LNOI) platform is designed and demonstrated. …”
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Hydrothermal treatment of spark plasma sintered FeSiBCCr/Ni0.5Co0.5Fe2O4 soft magnetic composites for enhanced magnetic performance by Yukang Bao, Shuhan Lu, Tong Liu, Yue Chi, Jingjing Zhang, Hongli Wang, Minggang Wang, Zhankui Zhao

“…As the demand for high efficiency and environmentally friendly technologies grows, research and development of these materials have become increasingly important. …”
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Nanomaterials in Nanophotonics Structure for Performing All-Optical 2 × 1 Multiplexer Based on Elliptical IMI-Plasmonic Waveguides by Sajjad Mohanad Mustafa, Gholamreza Karimi, Mazdak Rad Malek Shahi, Saif Hasan Abdulnabi

“…In this study, an all-optical multiplexer (Mux) based on elliptical insulator-metal-insulator (IMI) plasmonic waveguides is designed. …”
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PHYSICO-MECHANICAL PROPERTIES INVESTIGATION OF HEMPCRETE by Laurențiu ADAM, Dorina-Nicolina ISOPESCU

“…The results place the construction materials made from hemp vegetable waste in the group of heat-insulating products characterized by low specific weight and thermal transfer coefficients, according with conventional insulating materials, with values between those of polyurethane foam and autoclaved cellular concrete.…”
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Polarization independent silicon micro antenna based on a subwavelength metamaterial by Sarra Salhi, Xiaochen Xin, Daniel Benedikovič, Carlos Alonso-Ramos, Laurent Vivien, Delphine Marris-Morini, Eric Cassan, Winnie N. Ye, Daniele Melati

“…In such systems, surface gratings are commonly used as antenna elements, which however suffer from a strong polarization sensitivity of their scattering angle and efficiency. Here, we propose a versatile approach to realize micro antennas based on surface gratings with a polarization insensitive behavior exploiting a subwavelength metamaterial in the silicon-on-insulator platform. …”
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