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Showing 1 to 20 of 22 for “"functional material"”.
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A System for High-Throughput Materials Exploration Driven by Machine Learning
Functional materials have vast and high-dimensional compositions spaces which make discovering optimized compositions intractable with conventional synthesis tools. Conventional experimental methods of exploring material composition spaces are slow and resource intensive due to being manual …
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Digitally enabled surface function modification for wide area applications
… used to modify surface topography and chemical functionality. Additive functional coating techniques included delivering materials by vapour transfer, laser induced reverse transfer and inkjet printing. Laser texturing can be used to modify the wettability of stainless steel from complete water …
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M13 bacteriophage-enabled assembly of nanocomposites : synthesis and application in energy conversion devices
… with novel nanostructures and various functional nanomaterials have been synthesized, assembled, and fabricated into devices. Using excellent properties from each functional material in the nanocomposites, performance of the energy conversion devices has been improved. Specifically, in …
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Block copolymer self-assembly and templating strategies
… The blocks can themselves constitute a functional material, such as a photonic crystal, or they can be used as a mask to pattern other functional materials, functionalized directly by various chemical approaches, or used as a scaffold to assemble nanoparticles or other nanostructures. …
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Atomistic simulations for material processes within multiscale method
… as a powerful engineering tool to design a new functional material. It serves as the most fundamental procedure to construct a reliable and integral multiscale simulation framework, as well as gives the mechanisms behind the characteristic property and process at atomic scale. In this work some …
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Optimization of Materials for Magnetic Refrigeration and Thermomagnetic Power Generation
<p>The magnetocaloric effect, by which a magnetic material experiences a change in temperature due to an applied magnetic field, can be used for refrigeration. The corollary to the magnetocaloric effect -- known as the pyromagnetic effect -- is the phenomenon by which a magnetic material …
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Additively Manufactured Flexible Piezoelectric Wave-Based Multifunctional Sensor
… organic compounds (VOCs) by incorporating functional material into the sensing layer. This research explores piezoelectric substrate fabrication through diverse additive manufacturing techniques, including new material development made of polymer/nano-fillers with electrodes that are filled …
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Mechanics and Durability of Fiber Reinforced Porous Ceramic Composites
… and porous ceramic composites are emerging functional materials that have found numerous industrial applications, especially in energy conversion processes. They are characterized by random microstructure and high porosity. Examples are ceramic candle filters used in coal-fired power plants, …
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A study of bacterial cellulose confined ionic liquid and deep eutectic solvent gel materials
… amenable to incorporation of dyes or other functional material, and capable of confining 99 wt.% of a solvent with little leakage from the gel. These materials affect the crystallinity of cellulose little, while the liquid presents a diffusional change that stems from restructuring of the …
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Investigating Variability in the Acquisition of English Functional Categories by L1 speakers of Latakian Syrian Arabic and L1 speakers of Mandarin Chinese
… that of the inconsistency in the production of functional morphology by advanced and endstate L2 learners. The level of inconsistency seems to vary among L2 learners, for instance, SD, a Turkish endstate learner of English (White 2003a) was highly accurate in the production of English …
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Structural Characterization and Material Property Evaluation in Polymer-Derived SiOC Ceramics and Ceramic Nanocomposites
… decade to address increasing demands for multifunctional temperature- and corrosion-resistant materials for aerospace, energy, and electronics sectors. Polymer-derived ceramics (PDCs) and specifically polymer-derived silicon oxycarbide (SiOC) are a promising and attractive material class to …
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Decoding of Facial Strains via Conformable Piezoelectric Interfaces and Three-Dimensional Digital Image Correlation
… upon which a sensor with mechanically-active functional material, such as piezoelectrics, will be placed. Similar to how chemical assays of a body part would be conducted before designing medication for disorders of that body part, so too does 3D-DIC allow for the mechanical study of …
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Ember for orchestra
… Each character has a distinctive type of musical material. The young girl is represented by an imaginary ancient folk tone that is very simple and direct, while the plaintive woman is represented by step-wise, non-functional gestures. The pitch material throughout the piece is mainly …
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Maintaining Functionality of Biological Materials during Fluid–based Manufacturing
… to the ink during processing. When inks contain functional materials such as proteins, these forces are reported to be large enough to disrupt the resulting structure and activity of the ink after printing. Yet the precise cause of this damage is poorly understood and factors such as adsorption …
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Phase-equilibrium-mediated assembly of colloidal nanoparticles
… experimental results of the fabricition of a functional thin film in which a binary mixture of CNPs form the controlled gradient concentrations profile across the thickness direction were presented. On the basis of the experimental demonstration, we showed the validity of the computational …
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The design of ultrafast routes to synthesis carbon nanotubes by microwave
… Thus, it has drawn much attention from material researchers and can be engineered for many applications now and in the future in different fields such as energy storage, water purification, biosensors, microelectronics and being integrated into composite materials to achieve …
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The self-assembly of chitin nanocrystals into hierarchically structured functional materials
… ChNCs can be successfully used to be used as a functional material.
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Structure-property-processing relationships between polymeric solutions and additive manufacturing for biomedical applications
… scaffolds, and medical devices, require specific material properties such as biocompatibility and biodegradability, etc. Polymers possess many of these qualities and tuning molecular structure enables a functional material to successfully deliver the intended application. For example, …
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Investigating Shear-induced Damage during Hydrogel Extrusion-based Manufacturing: Rheological Insights and Mechanophore Incorporation
Hydrogels are the functional material of choice for tissue engineering applications due to their biocompatibility, high water content, flexibility and tuneable mechanical properties which can mimic natural tissues. Extrusion-based 3D printing is a versatile technique used to produce complex …
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Nonlinear ion concentration polarization : fundamentals and applications
Ion exchange membrane (IEM) is a functional material that has a permselectivity of ions. Two types of IEMs - anion exchange membrane (AEM) and cation exchange membrane (CEM) - are used in a variety of electrochemical systems. Ion concentration polarization (ICP) is an ion transport phenomenon that …
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