Designing Better Lithium-ion Batteries
With the increase in world population and quality living, energy has become a significant part of our daily life. Currently, the need for energy consumption…
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Investigating How Wind Farm Power Variability Can Be Reduced Through Predictive Control
The past decade has seen a rapid increase in the growth of wind energy in the United States. While conversion to renewable energy sources is…
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Shape Memory Polymers Could Program And Recover At Room Temperature
Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a class of polymer that changes its shape with external stimuli, such as heat. The ability to memorize its original…
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New Building Blocks For Drug Discovery Are Getting Closer: Gem-difluorocyclopropane-derived Amines
Modern drug discovery relies heavily on the ability of chemists to produce good starting points for producing high-quality lead compounds. Several concepts were established in…
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Developing Long-lived Room-temperature Phosphorescence Under Optical And Electrical Excitation
Long persistent phosphors are widely commercialized as glow-in-the-dark paints for watch indicators and emergency signs. Although present glow-in-the-dark materials are made using inorganic materials, some…
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Palladium-catalyzed Deoxygenative Amination Of Phenols
Arylamines serve as important structural units in pharmaceuticals, pigments and functional materials. They are also versatile intermediates in numerous transformations such as C-halo (the Sandmeyer…
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The Answers To Brain Injury May Be Found In Our Blood
Stroke is now the second leading cause of death worldwide. Spontaneous intracerebral hemorrhage (ICH) is the deadliest type of stroke, killing 50% of its victims…
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Measuring Welfare With The ‘ISEW’, A Niche In Economics That May Prompt Us To Reflect On Human Impacts On The Natural World
Although science and economics tend to be conservative and slow, mainstream science now concludes that our ‘development,’ how our societies and economies pursue human ‘welfare,’…
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Investigating The Pool Of Hematopoietic Stem Cells In Bone Marrow
Controlling proliferation and differentiation of stem cells is one of the important features of homeostasis. Hematology is an advanced field of stem cell research, and…
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Synthetic Glycolipids As A New Class Of Antimicrobials To Down-regulate Cell Wall Functions
Microbial species constitute the most abundant and oldest life forms on earth among organisms. Studies aimed at understanding the ability of microbes to withstand and…
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A Novel 3D Cell Culture Model For The Evaluation Of Anticancer Breast Therapeutics
Conventional breast cancer treatments such as chemotherapy, are known for triggering side effects and, in some types of cancer, for displaying a limited therapeutic outcome….
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