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Enhancement of Platinum Mass Activity on the Surface of Polymer-wrapped Carbon Nanotube-Based Fuel Cell Electrocatalysts

 
 

Inas H. Hafez, Mohamed R. Berber, Tsuyohiko Fujigaya et al.

 
 

Cost reduction and improved durability are the two major targets for accelerating the commercialization of polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEFCs). To achieve these goals, …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Symbolic regression of generative network models

 
 

Telmo Menezes, Camille Roth

 
 

Networks are a powerful abstraction with applicability to a variety of scientific fields. Models explaining their morphology and growth processes permit a wide range of phenomena …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Thickness dependence of spin polarization and electronic structure of ultra-thin films of MoS2 and related transition-metal dichalcogenides

 
 

Tay-Rong Chang, Hsin Lin, Horng-Tay Jeng et al.

 
 

We have carried out thickness dependent first-principles electronic structure calculations on ultra-thin films of transition-metal dichalcogenides MX2 (M=Mo or W; X=S, Se, or …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Real-time monitoring of the solution growth of ZnO nanorods arrays by quartz microbalances and in-situ temperature sensors

 
 

Andrea Orsini, Christian Falconi

 
 

Wet-chemistry methods have crucial advantages for the synthesis of nanostructures, including simple, low-cost, large-area, and low-temperature deposition on almost arbitrary …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Absorption-assisted mode transformation in butterfly compound eyes

 
 

Jaeyoun Kim

 
 

The ommatidium of the butterfly's afocal apposition eye exhibits angular performance that can only be achieved by transforming the diffraction pattern of its corneal lens into the …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Optical Assay of Erythrocyte Function in Banked Blood

 
 

Basanta Bhaduri, Mikhail Kandel, Carlo Brugnara et al.

 
 

Stored red blood cells undergo numerous biochemical, structural, and functional changes, commonly referred to as storage lesion. How much these changes impede the ability of …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Unusual High Oxygen Reduction Performance in All-Carbon Electrocatalysts

 
 

Wei Wei, Ying Tao, Wei Lv et al.

 
 

Carbon-based electrocatalysts are more durable and cost-effective than noble materials for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is an important process in energy conversion …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Synchronization in output-coupled temporal Boolean networks

 
 

Jianquan Lu, Jie Zhong, Yang Tang et al.

 
 

This paper presents an analytical study of synchronization in an array of output-coupled temporal Boolean networks. A temporal Boolean network (TBN) is a logical dynamic system …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Characteristics of the transmission of autoregressive sub-patterns in financial time series

 
 

Xiangyun Gao, Haizhong An, Wei Fang et al.

 
 

There are many types of autoregressive patterns in financial time series, and they form a transmission process. Here, we define autoregressive patterns quantitatively through an …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Tuning calcite morphology and growth acceleration by a rational design of highly stable protein-mimetics

 
 

Chun-Long Chen, Jiahui Qi, Jinhui Tao et al.

 
 

In nature, proteins play a significant role in biomineral formation. One of the ultimate goals of bioinspired materials science is to develop highly stable synthetic molecules …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Sulfurization induced surface constitution and its correlation to the performance of solution-processed Cu2ZnSn(S,Se)4 solar cells

 
 

Jie Zhong, Zhe Xia, Miao Luo et al.

 
 

To obtain high photovoltaic performances for the emerging copper zinc tin sulfide/selenide (CZTSSe) thin film solar cells, much effort has deservedly been placed on CZTSSe phase …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Entanglement Guarantees Emergence of Cooperation in Quantum Prisoner's Dilemma Games on Networks

 
 

Angsheng Li, Xi Yong

 
 

It was known that cooperation of evolutionary prisoner's dilemma games fails to emerge in homogenous networks such as random graphs. Here we proposed a quantum prisoner's dilemma …

 
 
 
 
 
 

CORRIGENDUM: Automated single-cell motility analysis on a chip using lensfree microscopy

 
 

Ivan Pushkarsky, Yunbo Liu, Westbrook Weaver et al.

 
 

 
 
 
 
 
 

Hybrid micro-particles as a magnetically-guidable decontaminant for cesium-eluted ash slurry

 
 

Yoshihisa Namiki, Toshihiko Ueyama, Takayuki Yoshida et al.

 
 

Decontamination of the radioactive cesium that is widely dispersed owing to a nuclear power station accident and concentrated in fly ash requires an effective elimination system. …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Silicon-core glass fibres as microwire radial-junction solar cells

 
 

F. A. Martinsen, B. K. Smeltzer, M. Nord et al.

 
 

Vertically aligned radial-junction solar cell designs offer potential improvements over planar geometries, as carrier generation occurs close to the junction for all absorption …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Abnormal Elastic and Vibrational Behaviors of Magnetite at High Pressures

 
 

Jung-Fu Lin, Junjie Wu, Jie Zhu et al.

 
 

Magnetite exhibits unique electronic, magnetic, and structural properties in extreme conditions that are of great research interest. Previous studies have suggested a number of …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Physical Justification for Negative Remanent Magnetization in Homogeneous Nanoparticles

 
 

Shuo Gu, Weidong He, Ming Zhang et al.

 
 

The phenomenon of negative remanent magnetization (NRM) has been observed experimentally in a number of heterogeneous magnetic systems and has been considered anomalous. The …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Towards Practical Application of Paper based Printed Circuits: Capillarity Effectively Enhances Conductivity of the Thermoplastic Electrically Conductive Adhesives

 
 

Haoyi Wu, Sum Wai Chiang, Wei Lin et al.

 
 

Direct printing nanoparticle-based conductive inks onto paper substrates has encountered difficulties e.g. the nanoparticles are prone to penetrate into the pores of the paper and …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Taichi-inspired rigid-flexible coupling cellulose-supported solid polymer electrolyte for high-performance lithium batteries

 
 

Jianjun Zhang, Liping Yue, Pu Hu et al.

 
 

Inspired by Taichi, we proposed rigid-flexible coupling concept and herein developed a highly promising solid polymer electrolyte comprised of poly (ethylene oxide), poly (cyano …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Enhanced heat transfer is dependent on thickness of graphene films: the heat dissipation during boiling

 
 

Ho Seon Ahn, Jin Man Kim, TaeJoo Kim et al.

 
 

Boiling heat transfer (BHT) is a particularly efficient heat transport method because of the latent heat associated with the process. However, the efficiency of BHT decreases …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Enhanced transparency, mechanical durability, and antibacterial activity of zinc nanoparticles on glass substrate

 
 

Hyung-Jin Choi, Jin-Seok Choi, Byeong-Ju Park et al.

 
 

Homogeneously distributed zinc nanoparticles (NPs) on the glass substrate were investigated for the transmittance, mechanical durability, and antibacterial effect. The buffered Ti …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Microwave & Magnetic (M2) Proteomics Reveals CNS-Specific Protein Expression Waves that Precede Clinical Symptoms of Experimental Autoimmune Encephalomyelitis

 
 

Itay Raphael, Swetha Mahesula, Anjali Purkar et al.

 
 

Central nervous system-specific proteins (CSPs), transported across the damaged blood-brain-barrier (BBB) to cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) and blood (serum), might be promising …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Robustness surfaces of complex networks

 
 

Marc Manzano, Faryad Sahneh, Caterina Scoglio et al.

 
 

Despite the robustness of complex networks has been extensively studied in the last decade, there still lacks a unifying framework able to embrace all the proposed metrics. In the …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Significant change of spin transport property in Cu/Nb bilayer due to superconducting transition

 
 

Kohei Ohnishi, Yuma Ono, Tatsuya Nomura et al.

 
 

The combination between the spin-dependent and super-conducting (SC) transports is expected to provide intriguing properties such as crossed Andreev reflection and spin-triplet …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Resolving transitions in the mesoscale domain configuration in VO2 using laser speckle pattern analysis

 
 

Katyayani Seal, Amos Sharoni, Jamie M. Messman et al.

 
 

The configuration and evolution of coexisting mesoscopic domains with contrasting material properties are critical in creating novel functionality through emergent physical …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Attractive particle interaction forces and packing density of fine glass powders

 
 

Eric J. R. Parteli, Jochen Schmidt, Christina Blümel et al.

 
 

We study the packing of fine glass powders of mean particle diameter in the range (4–52) μm both experimentally and by numerical DEM simulations. We obtain quantitative agreement …

 
 
 
 
 
 

High-Resolution Visualisation of the States and Pathways Sampled in Molecular Dynamics Simulations

 
 

Nicolas Blöchliger, Andreas Vitalis, Amedeo Caflisch

 
 

We have recently developed a scalable algorithm for ordering the instantaneous observations of a dynamical system evolving continuously in time. Here, we apply the method to long …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Fabrication of Graphene-isolated-Au-nanocrystal Nanostructures for Multimodal Cell Imaging and Photothermal-enhanced Chemotherapy

 
 

Xia Bian, Zhi-Ling Song, Yu Qian et al.

 
 

Using nanomaterials to develop multimodal systems has generated cutting-edge biomedical functions. Herein, we develop a simple chemical-vapor-deposition method to fabricate …

 
 
 
 
 
 

Magnetic nanostructuring and overcoming Brown's paradox to realize extraordinary high-temperature energy products

 
 

Balamurugan Balasubramanian, Pinaki Mukherjee, Ralph Skomski et al.

 
 

Nanoscience has been one of the outstanding driving forces in technology recently, arguably more so in magnetism than in any other branch of science and technology. Due to …

 
 
 
 
 
 
   
 
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