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| Open AccessAchieving water-floatable photocatalyst on recycled bamboo chopsticks
- Sujun Guan
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| Open AccessA radiochemical lab-on-a-chip paired with computer vision to unlock the crystallization kinetics of (Ba,Ra)SO4
- Jenna Poonoosamy
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| Open AccessInfluence of low-cost Thai leucoxene minerals on the growth, bioactive compounds, and antibacterial activities of Chrysanthemum indium L. cuttings in in vitro culture
- Sorapong Pavasupree
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| Open AccessAnalogical environmental cost assessment of silicon flows used in solar panels by the US and China
- Saeed Rahimpour Golroudbary
- , Mari Lundström
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| Open AccessImproving speech depression detection using transfer learning with wav2vec 2.0 in low-resource environments
- Xu Zhang
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| Open AccessAdvanced transport systems: the future is sustainable and technology-enabled
Transport has always played a major role in shaping society. By enabling or restricting the movement of people and goods, the presence or absence of transport services and infrastructure has historically been determining for cultures to connect, for knowledge to be shared, and for societies to evolve and prosper, or, in contrast, for societies to decay and fail. Since the beginning of the twenty-first century, transport has been going through a revolution worldwide. One of the primary goals for the transport sector is clear: it needs to be decarbonized and become more sustainable. At the same time, technological advances are shaping the transport sector toward smart services and societies. The Special Collection showcases some of the latest advances in research towards sustainable and technology-enabled transport.
- Yue Cao
- , Sybil Derrible
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| Open AccessProspects of sustainable polymers
Synthetic polymers have shown a great impact on every aspect of our life and attained an exponential rise in their production and utilization in the past decades due to their durability, flexibility, moldability, and inexpensive nature. However, the use of natural polymers or development of safe and environment-friendly synthetic bio-based polymers is continuously undergoing for a sustainable future owing to the exhaustion of petroleum-based resources or fossil-based materials, disposal and economical concerns, including government guidelines. In this regard, the development of new sustainable polymers or materials will step up and build a genuinely circular economy by decreasing manufacture or utilization of fossil-based materials as limited reserves.
- Anuj Kumar
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| Open AccessIonic liquids adsorption and interfacial tension reduction for synthetic resinous and asphaltenic oils: salinity and pH effects
- Seyed Ehsan Moradi
- , Seyednooroldin Hosseini
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| Open AccessTuning the electronic properties and band offset of h-BN/diamond mixed-dimensional heterostructure by biaxial strain
- Yipu Qu
- , Hang Xu
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| Open AccessDesign and analysis of a complementary structure-based high selectivity tri-band frequency selective surface
- Zhiming Li
- , Xiaolong Weng
- & Mei Bi
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| Open AccessProportioning optimization of transparent rock-like specimens with different fracture structures
- Jie Cui
- , Junshan Hao
- & Kuilong Wang
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| Open AccessAn adapted model predictive control MPPT for validation of optimum GMPP tracking under partial shading conditions
- Muhammad Abu Bakar Siddique
- , Dongya Zhao
- & Habib Hamam
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| Open AccessRational Sine-Gordon expansion method to analyze the dynamical behavior of the time-fractional phi-four and (2 + 1) dimensional CBS equations
- Abdulla-Al- Mamun
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| Open AccessThe influence of nanosunflower ash and nanowalnut shell ash on sustainable lightweight self-compacting concrete characteristics
- Nahla Hilal
- , Nadhim Hamah Sor
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| Open AccessLoad frequency stabilization of distinct hybrid conventional and renewable power systems incorporated with electrical vehicles and capacitive energy storage
- Amil Daraz
- , Hasan Alrajhi
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| Open AccessUncertainty-driven mixture convolution and transformer network for remote sensing image super-resolution
- Xiaomin Zhang
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| Open AccessAn improved adaptive position tracking strategy for automatic shift actuator with uncertain parameters
- Chengqiang Yin
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| Open AccessNew method for calculating the windward area of irregular fragments
- Xing-yu Liu
- , Di-hua Ouyang
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| Open AccessApplications of nature-inspired metaheuristic algorithms for tackling optimization problems across disciplines
- Elvis Han Cui
- , Zizhao Zhang
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| Open AccessMarkov chain-based impact analysis of the pandemic Covid-19 outbreak on global primary energy consumption mix
- Hussaan Ahmad
- , Rehan Liaqat
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| Open AccessTackling new psychoactive substances through metabolomics: UHPLC-HRMS study on natural and synthetic opioids in male and female murine models
- Gaia Di Francesco
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| Open AccessThe influence of hot isostatic pressing on precipitates, mechanical properties of Mg-12Gd-0.8Zn-0.4Zr (wt.%) alloy manufactured by sand casting
- Dan Wang
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| Open AccessA comparative study of J–A and Preisach improved models for core loss calculation under DC bias
- Yang Li
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| Open AccessFerroelectric capacitors and field-effect transistors as in-memory computing elements for machine learning workloads
- Eunseon Yu
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| Open AccessControlling inter-particle distances in crowds of motile, cognitive, active particles
- Rajendra Singh Negi
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| Open AccessCoal falling trajectory and strength analysis of drum of shearer based on a bidirectional coupling method
- Meichen Zhang
- , Lijuan Zhao
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| Open AccessMapping philanthropic support of science
- Louis M. Shekhtman
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| Open AccessDesign expert based optimization of the pyrolysis process for the production of cattle dung bio-oil and properties characterization
- Lovepreet Kaur
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| Open AccessCharacterization of rotary valve control vibration system for vibration stress relief applications
- Guoqiang Zhou
- , Guochao Zhao
- & Hui Wang
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| Open AccessMRI radiomics in head and neck cancer from reproducibility to combined approaches
- Anna Corti
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| Open AccessAn improved corner dealiasing and recognition algorithm for 2D Wadell roundness computation
- Jianhuang Chen
- , Zhongjian Zhang
- & Wenjie Xu
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| Open AccessQuantitative analysis and stochastic modeling of osteophyte formation and growth process on human vertebrae based on radiographs: a follow-up study
- Tong Wu
- , Changxi Wang
- & Kang Li
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| Open AccessThe effect of continuous long-term illumination with visible light in different spectral ranges on mammalian cells
- Sophie Dani
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| Open AccessFailure probability analysis of high fill levee considering multiple uncertainties and correlated failure modes
- Ruirui Sun
- , Yimingjiang Reheman
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| Open AccessDesign, synthesis, and evaluation of novel arecoline-linked amino acid derivatives for insecticidal and antifungal activities
- Chaohai Pang
- , Yuan Xu
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| Open AccessOptimization and modelling of magnesium oxide (MgO) photocatalytic degradation of binary dyes using response surface methodology
- Hyeong Kwang Benno Park
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| Open AccessExploring a repurposed candidate with dual hIDO1/hTDO2 inhibitory potential for anticancer efficacy identified through pharmacophore-based virtual screening and in vitro evaluation
- Nourhan M. Aboomar
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| Open AccessModelling interest in co-adoption of electric vehicles and solar photovoltaics in Australia to identify tailored policy needs
- Elham Hajhashemi
- , Patricia Sauri Lavieri
- & Neema Nassir
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| Open AccessCo-ordinate-based positional embedding that captures resolution to enhance transformer’s performance in medical image analysis
- Badhan Kumar Das
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- & Andreas Maier
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| Open AccessA new method based on YOLOv5 and multiscale data augmentation for visual inspection in substation
- Junjie Chen
- , Siqi Pan
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| Open AccessDual-branch feature encoding framework for infrared images super-resolution reconstruction
- Yuke Zhang
- , Peizi Zhou
- & Lizhu Chen
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| Open AccessImprovement of roughness in ultrasonic assisted magnetorheological finishing of small titanium alloy nuts by orthogonal test method
- Cheng Bi
- , Axiang Ji
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| Open AccessResearch on fault identification of high-voltage circuit breakers with characteristics of voiceprint information
- Sihao Wang
- , Yongrong Zhou
- & Zhaoxing Ma
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| Open AccessNeutron instrument concepts for a high intensity moderator at the European spallation source
- Stavros Samothrakitis
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| Open AccessWideband low-RCS and gain-enhanced antenna using frequency selective absorber based on patterned graphene
- Fuwei Wang
- , Yi Wang
- & Yuhui Ren
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| Open AccessDesign and analysis of solitary AC–AC converter using reduced components for efficient power generation system
- K. Nandakumar
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| Open AccessQuantum scattering of icosahedron fullerene C60 with noble-gas atoms
- Jacek Kłos
- , Eite Tiesinga
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| Open AccessNeural networks and particle swarm for transformer oil diagnosis by dissolved gas analysis
- Fettouma Guerbas
- , Youcef Benmahamed
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| Open AccessFour-dimensional conditional averaging tomography of rotating plasma ejection from cylindrical detached plasma
- Hirohiko Tanaka
- , Shin Kajita
- & Noriyasu Ohno