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    Effectiveness of PhET Simulations and YouTube Videos to Improve the Learning ...

    Effective teaching of physics requires the use of well-designed and diversified instructional tools such as multimedia throughout the teaching and learning process. The main...
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    Exfoliation of Graphite Oxide in Propylene Carbonate and Thermal Reduction of...

    Graphite oxide was exfoliated and dispersed in propylene carbonate (PC) by bath sonication. Heating the graphene oxide suspensions at 150 °C significantly reduced the graphene...
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    A Robust Liposomal Platform for Direct Colorimetric Detection of Sphingomyeli...

    The enzyme sphingomyelinase (SMase) is an important biomarker for several diseases such as Niemann Pick’s, atherosclerosis, multiple sclerosis, and HIV. We present a...
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    Confining Standing Waves in Optical Corrals

    Near-field scanning optical microscopy images of solid wall, circular, and elliptical microscale corrals show standing wave patterns confined inside the structures with a...
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    Effect of Catalyst Shape and Etchant Composition on Etching Direction in Meta...

    Metal-assisted chemical etching (MaCE) of silicon in conjunction with shaped catalysts was used to fabricate 3D nanostructures such as sloping channels, cycloids, and spirals...
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    In vivo biodistribution and clearance studies using multimodal organically mo...

    Successful translation of the use of nanoparticles from laboratories to clinics requires exhaustive and elaborate studies involving the biodistribution, clearance, and...
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    Soft interfacial materials: from fundamentals to formulation

    This article is part of the themed issue ‘Soft interfacial materials: from fundamentals to formulation’. The science of soft interfaces (lipid membranes, emulsions,...
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    Triggering the Sintering of Silver Nanoparticles at Room Temperature

    A new approach to achieve coalescence and sintering of metallic nanoparticles at room temperature is presented. It was discovered that silver nanoparticles behave as soft...
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    Locating ethics in data science: responsibility and accountability in global ...

    The distributed and global nature of data science creates challenges for evaluating the quality, import and potential impact of the data and knowledge claims being produced....
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    Platinum Nanocatalyst Amplification: Redefining the Gold Standard for Lateral...

    Paper-based lateral flow immunoassays (LFIAs) are one of the most widely used point-of-care (PoC) devices; however, their application in early disease diagnostics is often...
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    A restatement of the natural science evidence concerning catchment-based "nat...

    Flooding is a very costly natural hazard in Great Britain and is expected to increase further under future climate change scenarios. Flood defences are commonly deployed to...
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    Platinum Nanoparticle Ensemble-on-Graphene Hybrid Nanosheet: One-Pot, Rapid S...

    The development of nanoscience and nanotechnology has inspired scientists to continuously explore new electrode materials for constructing an enhanced electrochemical platform...
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    Low-Temperature Exfoliated Graphenes: Vacuum-Promoted Exfoliation and Electro...

    A preheated high-temperature environment is believed to be critical for a chemical-exfoliation-based production of graphenes starting from graphite oxide, a belief that is based...
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    A Calibration Method for Nanowire Biosensors to Suppress Device-to-Device Var...

    Nanowire/nanotube biosensors have stimulated significant interest; however, the inevitable device-to-device variation in the biosensor performance remains a great challenge. We...
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    Time Resolved Single-step Protease Activity Quantification Using Nanoplasmoni...

    Protease activity measurement has broad application in drug screening, diagnosis and disease staging, and molecular profiling. However, conventional immunopeptidemetric assays...
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    Building for the Future

    This chapter provides the IT readiness assessment for before and after scenarios of IT systems implementation in a construction consultancy company providing multi-disciplinary...
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    From Graphene to Metal Oxide Nanolamellas: A Phenomenon of Morphology Transmi...

    Single-layer-graphene and few-layer-graphene structures have been predicted to have high specific surface area. Recent research has focused largely on utilizing the intriguing...
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    Nanomaterials in the Construction Industry: A Review of Their Applications an...

    The extraordinary chemical and physical properties of materials at the nanometer scale enable novel applications ranging from structural strength enhancement and energy...
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    Energy Transfer from Individual Semiconductor Nanocrystals to Graphene

    Energy transfer from photoexcited zero-dimensional systems to metallic systems plays a prominent role in modern day materials science. A situation of particular interest...
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    Patterning of Self-Assembled Pentacene Nanolayers by Extreme Ultraviolet-Indu...

    Most researchers expect extreme ultraviolet lithography (EUVL) to be used to create patterns below 32 nm in semiconductor devices. An ultrathin EUV photoresist (PR) layer a few...