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Supercapattery: Merit merge of capacitive and Nernstian charge storage mechanisms (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Supercapattery is the generic name for hybrids of supercapacitor and rechargeable battery. Batteries store charge via Faradaic processes, involving reversible transfer of localised or zone-delocalised valence electrons. The forme... Read More about Supercapattery: Merit merge of capacitive and Nernstian charge storage mechanisms.

Understanding Microwave Heating in Biomass-Solvent Systems (2020)
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A new mechanism is proposed to provide a viable physical explanation for the action of microwaves in solvent extraction processes. The key innovation is Temperature-Induced Diffusion, a recently-demonstrated phenomenon that results from selective hea... Read More about Understanding Microwave Heating in Biomass-Solvent Systems.

Growth?Factor Free Multicomponent Nanocomposite Hydrogels That Stimulate Bone Formation (2020)
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Synthetic osteo?promoting materials that are able to stimulate and accelerate bone formation without the addition of exogenous cells or growth factors represent a major opportunity for an aging world population. A co?assembling system that integrates... Read More about Growth?Factor Free Multicomponent Nanocomposite Hydrogels That Stimulate Bone Formation.

A Co9S8 microsphere and N-doped carbon nanotube composite host material for lithium-sulfur batteries (2020)
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© 2020 Elsevier B.V. Lithium-sulfur batteries have emerged as extraordinarily favorable energy storage devices due to their high specific capacity and energy density, safety and low cost. Unfortunately, the wide applications of lithium-sulfur batteri... Read More about A Co9S8 microsphere and N-doped carbon nanotube composite host material for lithium-sulfur batteries.

Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode (2020)
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© 2020 WILEY-VCH Verlag GmbH & Co. KGaA, Weinheim Scale-up in droplet microfluidics achieved by increasing the number of devices running in parallel or increasing the droplet makers in the same device can compromise the narrow droplet-size distribu... Read More about Microfluidic formation of highly monodispersed multiple cored droplets using needle-based system in parallel mode.

Natural fluorapatite dissolution kinetics and Mn2+ and Cr3+ metal removal from sulfate fluids at 35 °C (2020)
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In light of the consequences of global warming and population growth, access to safe drinking water becomes an ever greater challenge, in particular in low to middle income countries in arid regions. Moreover, mining which may cause acid mine drainag... Read More about Natural fluorapatite dissolution kinetics and Mn2+ and Cr3+ metal removal from sulfate fluids at 35 °C.

In Situ Monitoring of Heterogeneous Catalytic Hydrogenation via 129Xe NMR Spectroscopy and Proton MRI (2019)
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Simultaneous Tracking of Pseudomonas aeruginosa motility in liquid and at the Solid-Liquid Interface Reveals Differential Roles for the Flagellar Stators (2019)
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Bacteria sense chemicals, surfaces, and other cells and move toward some and away from others. Studying how single bacterial cells in a population move requires sophisticated tracking and imaging techniques. We have established quantitative methodolo... Read More about Simultaneous Tracking of Pseudomonas aeruginosa motility in liquid and at the Solid-Liquid Interface Reveals Differential Roles for the Flagellar Stators.

Evaluation of demineralized lignin and lignin-phenolic resin blends to produce biocoke suitable for blast furnace operation (2019)
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Metallurgical coke makers could reduce carbon emissions and material costs by introducing waste lignin in coke oven charges. Two approaches have been studied here to increase the use of lignin in the preparation of metallurgical coke: lignin deminera... Read More about Evaluation of demineralized lignin and lignin-phenolic resin blends to produce biocoke suitable for blast furnace operation.

Dental resin monomer enables unique NbO2 /carbon lithium?ion battery negative electrode with exceptional performance (2019)
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Niobium dioxide (NbO2) features a high theoretical capacity and an outstanding electron conductivity, which makes it a promising alternative to the commercial graphite negative electrode. However, studies on NbO2 based lithium?ion battery negative el... Read More about Dental resin monomer enables unique NbO2 /carbon lithium?ion battery negative electrode with exceptional performance.

Mechano‐Fenton–Piranha Oxidation of Carbon Nanotubes for Energy Application (2019)
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Emission of nitrogen oxides (NOx) from chemical processing of materials is a serious environmental concern, frustrating the development of many innovative technologies. For example, sulfonitric oxidation is the most widely used method for processing... Read More about Mechano‐Fenton–Piranha Oxidation of Carbon Nanotubes for Energy Application.

Polymer microparticles with defined surface chemistry and topography mediate the formation of stem cell aggregates and cardiomyocyte function (2019)
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Surface-functionalized microparticles are relevant to fields spanning engineering and biomedicine, with uses ranging from cell culture to advanced cell delivery. Varying topographies of biomaterial surfaces are also being investigated as mediators of... Read More about Polymer microparticles with defined surface chemistry and topography mediate the formation of stem cell aggregates and cardiomyocyte function.

Proteins in Ionic Liquids: Reactions, Applications and Futures (2019)
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Biopolymer processing and handling is greatly facilitated by the use of ionic liquids, given the increased solubility, and in some cases, structural stability imparted to these molecules. Focussing on proteins, we highlight here not just the key dri... Read More about Proteins in Ionic Liquids: Reactions, Applications and Futures.

Experimental and computational investigation of heat transfer in a microwave-assisted flow system (2019)
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Microwave technology is gaining popularity as a tool for chemical process intensification and an alternative to conventional heating. However, in flow systems non-uniform temperature profiles are commonly encountered and hence methods to characterise... Read More about Experimental and computational investigation of heat transfer in a microwave-assisted flow system.

Ammonium Complexes of Orthoester Cryptands Are Inherently Dynamic and Adaptive (2019)
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© 2019 American Chemical Society. Fluxional chemical species such as bullvalene have been a valuable source of inspiration and fundamental insight into the nature of chemical bonds. A supramolecular analogue of bullvalene, i.e., a "fluxional host-gue... Read More about Ammonium Complexes of Orthoester Cryptands Are Inherently Dynamic and Adaptive.

Assessment of toxicity reduction in ZnS substituted CdS:P3HT bulk heterojunction solar cells fabricated using a single-source precursor deposition (2019)
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Utilisation of cadmium sulphide (CdS) for the preparation of hybrid bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is limited due to its high human, soil and marine toxicity. This work aims to reduce the toxicity of the cadmium based hybrid bulk heterojunctio... Read More about Assessment of toxicity reduction in ZnS substituted CdS:P3HT bulk heterojunction solar cells fabricated using a single-source precursor deposition.

Characterising droplet breakup rates of shear-thinning dispersed phase in microreactors (2019)
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A two-phase flow predictive model with the integration of conservative level-set method (LSM) and Carreau-Yasuda constitutive equation was developed herein. The LSM was chosen as a potential interface capturing scheme for elucidating the interfacial... Read More about Characterising droplet breakup rates of shear-thinning dispersed phase in microreactors.

Numerical simulation of the impact of geological heterogeneity on performance and safety of THAI heavy oil production process (2018)
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The Toe-to-Heel Air Injection (THAI) in-situ combustion process is an efficient way to extract heavy oil and bitumen. However, such reservoirs are often geologically heterogeneous. This work studied the impact of a range of different geological heter... Read More about Numerical simulation of the impact of geological heterogeneity on performance and safety of THAI heavy oil production process.

Ion - reagent interactions contributing to ionic liquid solvent effects on a condensation reaction (2018)
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Molecular dynamics simulations of solutions of hexan-1-amine or 4-methoxybenzaldehyde in acetonitrile, an ionic liquid/ acetonitrile mixture (XIL = 0.2), and a number of different (neat) ionic liquids were performed, to further understand the solvent... Read More about Ion - reagent interactions contributing to ionic liquid solvent effects on a condensation reaction.

Importance of biomass and binder selection for coking briquette preparation: their effect on coal thermoplastic properties. (2018)
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Blends consisting of a high volatile bituminous coal, biomass and binder that were used in the preparation of briquettes were analyzed in order to select the best components from the viewpoint of their influence on the coal’s thermoplastic properties... Read More about Importance of biomass and binder selection for coking briquette preparation: their effect on coal thermoplastic properties..