Water Plasma Functionalized CNTs/MnO2 Composites for Supercapacitors by Shahzad Hussain, Roger Amade, Eric Jover, Enric Bertran

“…A water plasma treatment applied to vertically-aligned multiwall carbon nanotubes (CNTs) synthesized by plasma enhanced chemical vapour deposition gives rise to surface functionalization and purification of the CNTs, along with an improvement of their electrochemical properties. …”
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Construction and Experimental Validation of Embedded Potential Functions for Ta-Re Alloys by Haohao Miao, Xuehuan Xia, Yonghao Fu, Jing Yan, Lu Li, Hongzhong Cai, Xiao Wang, Chengling Wu, Zhaolin Zhan, Xian Wang, Zhentao Yuan

“…Developing the Ta/Re potential function is crucial for understanding the diffusion behavior at the Ta/Re interface and elucidating the high-temperature strengthening and toughening mechanism of Ta/Re layered composites. …”
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Triphenylamine‐Functionalized Metal Nanoclusters for Efficient and Stable Perovskite Solar Cells by Lin Wang, Jieru Du, Jiahao Wu, Zi‐Ang Nan, Simin Li, Xiongkai Tang, Zhenlang Xie, Qinghua Xu, Xuekun Gong, Jinlu He, Ruihao Chen, Nanfeng Zheng, Hui Shen

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Atomic Revealing of the Dissolution Behavior of Spinel Oxides on the 316L Surface in Alkaline High-Temperature and High-Pressure Water by Bin Zhang, Congbin Zhu, Xiaoping Zou, Haodong Wu, Jian Xu

“…The structure and composition of the oxide layer on the surface of 316L stainless steel (SS) after exposure to alkaline high-temperature and high-pressure water for 2000 h are characterized using various analytical techniques. …”
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An Optimization Method for PCB Surface Defect Detection Model Based on Measurement of Defect Characteristics and Backbone Network Feature Information by Huixiang Liu, Xin Zhao, Qiong Liu, Wenbai Chen

“…By visualizing the last four downsampling convolution layers of the YOLOv8 backbone, we incorporate feature information from the second downsampling layer into SLFFM. …”
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A roadmap towards targeted differentiation of mouse trophoblast stem cells into cell types of the feto-maternal exchange surface by Noura Ballasy, Bethany N. Radford, Shuhiba Mohammad, Wendy Dean, Myriam Hemberger

“…Rosi in combination with the protein synthesis inhibitor Tunicamycin enriched for syncytiotrophoblast layer I cells only. Activin A and the WNT agonist Chiron99021 resulted in predominant syncytiotrophoblast layer II differentiation. …”
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Intra-аnnual Variability оf Surface Air Temperature аnd Its Modeling for the City of Stavropol by I. S. Afanasyev, R. G. Zakinyan, A. A. Adzhieva

“…The time series of the air temperature of the surface layer of the atmosphere for the city of Stavropol are considered and the task is to compare the actual and theoretical values of annual amplitudes. …”
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Comparative study of skimmianine as an adsorptive inhibitor on Al (110) and Fe (111) crystal surface, using DFT and simulation method by FATER IORHUNA, Abdulahi Ayuba, Aondofa Nyijime

“…Aluminum and iron are very significant industrial materials that are used to make everything from car bodies to roofing sheets. Despite forming a layer of protection to prevent corrosion, they are still susceptible to corrosion in some environments. …”
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Bilayer interface engineering through 2D/3D perovskite and surface dipole for inverted perovskite solar modules by Jiarong Wang, Leyu Bi, Xiaofeng Huang, Qifan Feng, Ming Liu, Mingqian Chen, Yidan An, Wenlin Jiang, Francis R. Lin, Qiang Fu, Alex K.-Y. Jen

“…Interestingly, the upper piperazinium iodide (PI) layer can still form surface dipoles on the 2D/3D perovskite surface to optimize energy-level alignment. …”
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Tunable and unconventional Fermi arcs of two-dimensional transition-metal dichalcogenide modulated photonic Dirac semimetal by Yang Yang, Qiu Hongye, Bi Ke, Yang Biao

“…Through tuning the characteristics of TMDC layers, Fermi arcs and transmissions of PDS can be effectively modulated in multi-degrees of freedom. …”
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Ultrasound-Assisted Extraction of Polysaccharides from Mulberry Leaves Using Response Surface Methodology: Purification and Component Identification of Extract by Teng Wang, Xiaolin Zou, Hong Zhang, Jiwen Li, Xiaoming Peng, Ruijun Ju, Zhaojun Jia, Zhenguo Wen, Cuiqing Li

“…In this study, an ultrasonic-assisted procedure for the extraction of mulberry leaf polysaccharides (MLPs) was investigated using response surface methodology with a 29-run Box–Behnken design. …”
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Sacrificial layer concept interface engineering for robust, lossless monolithic integration of perovskite/Si tandem solar cells yielding high fill factor of 0.813 by Yoon Hee Jang, Youngseok Lee, Hyeon Sik Seo, Haram Lee, Kyoung-jin Lim, Jung-Kun Lee, Jaeyeong Heo, Inho Kim, Doh-Kwon Lee

“…This layer restores junction functionality and enables charge transfer between sub-cells via efficient carrier recombination at the RJ, which electrically connects the two cells. …”
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Water-mediated Mg2SiO4 layer microstructure evolution: A critical pathway to superior magnetic performance in grain-oriented electrical steel by Gang Zhang, Sihua Meng, Zhipeng Tang, Jun Zong, Tao Fu, Kaiming Wu, Rui Yu

“…Grain-oriented electrical steel (GOES) is widely used as the core component of transformers. Mg2SiO4 (forsterite) layer formed by the reaction between magnesia separator coating and oxide layer on the surface of GOES plays important roles for the excellent magnetic performance of GOES. …”
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Surface defect detection model of laser cutting polycrystalline cubic boron nitride tool based on asymptotic fusion strategy by Anfu Zhu, Jiaxiao Xie, Heng Guo, Jie Wang, Zilong Guo, Lei Xu, SiXin Zhu, Zhanping Yang, Bin Wang

“…In the backbone network, the C3SE module is constructed by modeling the correlation between feature channels to improve the model’s focus on key features in order to enhance the feature extraction and processing capability of the backbone network; In the neck network, adaptive spatial fusion operation and direct interaction of non-adjacent layers are utilized for multi-scale information fusion, and the asymptotic feature pyramid network for object detection (AFPN) is used instead of the FPN structure to improve the detection performance; In the head network, a soft suppression mechanism is introduced to reduce the overlapping frame score using a decay function, thus improving the detection accuracy. …”
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Interval velocity determination by downward continuation of the traveltime function: Paraxial ray approximation by Montes Vides Luis

“…This step simulates positioning the sources and detectors on the anterior surface of the next subjacent layer.</span></p> <p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom: 0.0001pt;"><span style="font-size: 12.0pt; font-family: ";Arial";,";sans-serif";; mso-ansi-language: FR;" lang="FR">The procedure is repeated recursively at deeper layers getting the complete solution without a priori knowledge but the upper determined layers and the estimated travel time functions of each reflecting surface.…”
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Investigation of static behavior of functionally graded porous sandwich beams with TPMS core by Caner Solar, Pinar Aydan Demirhan, Vedat Taskin

“…The surface layers of the beam consist of an isotropic material, while the core layer is made of a functionally graded TPMS structure. …”
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Dual Strategy of Electroless Metal Deposition and Surface Silylation Toward Scalable Low-Temperature Hybrid Bonding for Advanced Packaging Applications by Zambaga Otgonbayar, Jeoung Han Kim, Jinsung Rho, Jeong-Chul Kim, Jungchul Noh, Jeonghun Kim, Seong-Ho Yoon, Chang-Min Yoon

“…In this study, a reliable low-temperature Cu/SiO2 HB process was developed by combining metal electroless deposition (ELD) on sub-micron pitch Cu pads with selective surface functionalization of the SiO2 dielectric layer using silane. …”
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Wear resistance of structural steels carbonitrated by the separate method by M.S. Stechyshyn, O.V. Dykha, D.V. Zdorenko, E.G. Oleksandrenko

“…This is explained by the fact that the carbonitride layer created on the steel surface at the first stage of processing performs the function of shielding the surface from the penetration of nitrogen ions into the surface layer of the metal. …”
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Dielectric function and the absorption cross-section of the metal-graphene nanocylinders of the finite length by Ya. V. Karandas, A. V. Korotun

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The Evolution of Hillslope Hydrology: Links Between Form, Function and the Underlying Control of Geology by Anne Hartmann, Theresa Blume

“…Under these conditions water redistribution changes from vertical subsurface water transport at the young age classes to water storage in the organic surface layer and lateral subsurface water transport within 10,000 years.…”
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