A Millimeter-Wave Single-Bit Reconfigurable Intelligent Surface With High-Resolution Beam-Steering and Suppressed Quantization Lobe by Aditya S. Shekhawat, Bharath G. Kashyap, Russell W. Raldiris Torres, Feiyu Shan, Georgios C. Trichopoulos

“…The proposed topology allows for scalable RIS apertures that are compatible with printed circuit board (PCB) fabrication technology. It consists of four metasurface tiles of 256 radiating elements (<inline-formula> <tex-math notation="LaTeX">$16\times 16$ </tex-math></inline-formula>) connected on a separate control board that houses the control unit and power supply. …”
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SRAM and Mixed-Signal Logic With Noise Immunity in 3-nm Nano-Sheet Technology by Rajiv V. Joshi, J. Frougier, Alberto Cestero, Crystal Castellanos, Sudipto Chakraborty, Carl Radens, M. Silvestre, S. Lucarini, I. Ahsan, E. Leobandung

“…A modular 4.26 Mb SRAM based on a 82 Kb/block structure with mixed signal logic is fabricated, characterized, and demonstrated with full functionality in a 3-nm nanosheet (NS) technology. …”
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Curing Temperature Effects on the Tensile Properties and Hardness of γ−Fe2O3 Reinforced PDMS Nanocomposites by Yvonne Konku-Asase, Abu Yaya, Kwabena Kan-Dapaah

“…The experimental data provide useful background information for the selection of processing parameters for PDMS nanocomposite fabrication.…”
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Biocompatibility and drug release kinetics of TiNbZrSn femtosecond laser-induced superhydrophilic structures by Tahir Nawaz, Vinod Paul, Sidrah Younus, Shahbaz Ahmad, Mehmet Egilmez, Wael Abuzaid, Ganjaboy Boltaev, Noor Akbar, Mustafa Khamis, Ghaleb A. Husseini, Ali S. Alnaser

“…Metal-based orthopedic implants have been subjected to various fabrication and treatment methods to enhance their biological activities at the host site. …”
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In vivo bone regeneration performance of hydroxypropyl methylcellulose hydrogel-based composite bone cements in ovariectomized and ovary-intact rats: a preliminary investigation by Mosharraf Hossain, Tamima Sultana, Ji Eun Moon, Soobin Im, Je Hoon Jeong

“…Abstract The objective of this study is to fabricate and develop hydroxypropyl methylcellulose (HPMC) hydrogel (HG)-based composite bone cements with incorporation of hydroxyapatite (HA), beta-tricalcium phosphate (β-TCP), and with/without polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) for vertebroplasty. …”
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ZIF-8/PLA porous composite microspheres: preparation, characterization, and effective removal of gaseous benzene by Jiali Li, Peijian Sun, Yipeng Wang, Xuehui Sun, Bin Peng, Weili Xu, Mengmeng Liu, Cong Nie

“…The ZIF-8/PLA microspheres were prepared via the double emulsion-solvent evaporation method with ammonium bicarbonate as the foaming agent, and the structures were well adjusted by varying the fabrication parameters of the microspheres. The adsorption of gaseous benzene by these microspheres was evaluated both in flowing benzene vapor and in cigarette smoke. …”
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Enhancing Carriers’ Confinement by Introducing BAlGaN Quantum Barriers for the Better Optoelectronic Performance of Deep UV LEDs by Jamshad Bashir, Muhammad Usman, Dmitri Sergeevich Arteev, Zoya Noor, Ahmed Ali

“…Our whole analysis is based on numerical techniques but we believe that fabricating the proposed type of LEDs will result in desirable light extraction and external quantum efficiencies.…”
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Sprayed and Spin-Coated Multilayer Antireflection Coating Films for Nonvacuum Processed Crystalline Silicon Solar Cells by Abdullah Uzum, Masashi Kuriyama, Hiroyuki Kanda, Yutaka Kimura, Kenji Tanimoto, Hidehito Fukui, Taichiro Izumi, Tomitaro Harada, Seigo Ito

“…Silicon solar cells were fabricated using CZ-Si p-type wafers in three sets: (1) without antireflection coating (ARC) layer, (2) with TiO2-compact ARC film, and (3) with ZrO2-polymer composite/TiO2-compact multilayer ARC film. …”
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Multivariate polynomial fit: Decay heat removal system and pectin degrading Fe3O4‐SiO2 nanobiocatalyst activity by Boopathi Muthusamy, Sujatha Ramalingam, Senthil Kumar Chandran, Sathish Kumar Kannaiyan

“…Abstract Herein, multivariate Lagrange's interpolation polynomial (MLIP) and multivariate least square (MLS) methods are used to derive linear and higher‐order polynomials for two varied applications. (1) For an effective fabrication of Pectin degrading Fe3O4‐SiO2 Nanobiocatalyst activity (IU/mg). …”
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Deep Learning for Predicting Spheroid Viability: Novel Convolutional Neural Network Model for Automating Quality Control for Three-Dimensional Bioprinting by Zyva A. Sheikh, Oliver Clarke, Amatullah Mir, Narutoshi Hibino

“…Therefore, it is critical to assess the viability of spheroids in order to ensure the successful fabrication of high-viability patches. However, current viability assays are time-consuming, labor-intensive, require specialized training, or are subject to human bias. …”
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Smooth Muscle Cell Alignment and Phenotype Control by Melt Spun Polycaprolactone Fibers for Seeding of Tissue Engineered Blood Vessels by Animesh Agrawal, Bae Hoon Lee, Scott A. Irvine, Jia An, Ramya Bhuthalingam, Vaishali Singh, Kok Yao Low, Chee Kai Chua, Subbu S. Venkatraman

“…The effect was assessed on a prototype vascular graft prosthesis fabricated from polylactide caprolactone; VSMCs aligned longitudinally along a fiberless tube, whereas, for the aligned fiber coated tubes, the VSMCs aligned in the required circumferential orientation.…”
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Gate- and flux-tunable sin(2φ) Josephson element with planar-Ge junctions by Axel Leblanc, Chotivut Tangchingchai, Zahra Sadre Momtaz, Elyjah Kiyooka, Jean-Michel Hartmann, Frédéric Gustavo, Jean-Luc Thomassin, Boris Brun, Vivien Schmitt, Simon Zihlmann, Romain Maurand, Étienne Dumur, Silvano De Franceschi, François Lefloch

“…We realize such a Josephson element, recently proposed as building block of a protected superconducting qubit, using a superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) with low-inductance aluminum arms and two nominally identical JoFETs. The latter are fabricated from a SiGe/Ge/SiGe quantum-well heterostructure embedding a high-mobility two-dimensional hole gas. …”
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One-Pot Template-Free Hydrothermal Synthesis of Monoclinic Hollow Microspheres and Their Enhanced Visible-Light Photocatalytic Activity by Bei Cheng, Wenguang Wang, Lei Shi, Jun Zhang, Jingrun Ran, Huogen Yu

“…Monoclinic-phase BiVO4 hollow microspheres with diameters of about 2–4 μm have been successfully fabricated in high yield by a one-pot template-free hydrothermal route. …”
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Effects of post-processing on the microstructural evolution and mechanical behaviour of an additively manufactured AlSi10Mg alloy by R. Ramesh, Saurabh Gairola, R. Jayaganthan, M. Kamaraj

“…Such applications often require intricate parts that can be fabricated only through additive manufacturing. In this context, the fatigue life of the additively manufactured components is crucial to prevent sudden failure during real-life application. …”
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Adsorption Equilibrium for Heavy Metal Divalent Ions (Cu2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+) into Zirconium-Based Ferromagnetic Sorbent by Agnes Yung Weng Lee, Soh Fong Lim, S. N. David Chua, Khairuddin Sanaullah, Rubiyah Baini, Mohammad Omar Abdullah

“…Zirconium-based ferromagnetic sorbent was fabricated by coprecipitation of Fe2+/Fe3+ salts in a zirconium solution and explored as a potential sorbent for removing the Cu2+, Zn2+, and Cd2+ from aqueous solution. …”
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Study on the Electrical Injection Regeneration of Industrialized B-Doped Czochralski Silicon PERC Solar Cells by Jiaxing Ye, Bin Ai, Jingsheng Jin, Depeng Qiu, Runxiong Liang, Hui Shen

“…In this paper, 156 mm×156 mm boron-doped Czochralski silicon (Cz-Si) wafers were fabricated into PERC solar cells by using the industrial standard process; then, the as-prepared PERC solar cells were treated by the regeneration process using electrical injection and heating and the effects of different regeneration processes (temperature, time, and injection current) on the anti-light-induced degradation (anti-LID) performance of the PERC solar cells were investigated. …”
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Effect of Strengthening of Steel Beams with Variable Length by Using Carbon Fiber by Ahmed S. D. Al-Ridha, Ali F. Atshan, Kamal Sh. Mahmoud, Qusai Kh. Hameed

“…In this research, four steel beams were fabricated and tested to understand the influence of their strengthening (by using carbon fiber) with various span lengths on load deflection, load-strain, and ultimate load responses. …”
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Global scenario of silica-associated diseases: A review on emerging pathophysiology of silicosis and potential therapeutic regimes by Prasad Sherekar, Sanvidhan G. Suke, Archana Dhok, Srikant Malegaonkar, Shrikrishna A. Dhale

“…In recent periods, a lot of attention has been focused on the development and fabrication of suitable nanocarriers for improved and sustained drug delivery in the pulmonary system. …”
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Boron-doped diamond MOSFETs operating at temperatures up to 400°C by Jiangwei Liu, Tokuyuki Teraji, Bo Da, Yasuo Koide

“…The boron-doped diamond (B-diamond) metal-oxide–semiconductor field–effect transistors (MOSFETs) are fabricated and characterized at operating temperatures up to 400°C. …”
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Antimicrobial Efficacy and Cell Adhesion Inhibition of In Situ Synthesized ZnO Nanoparticles/Polyvinyl Alcohol Nanofibrous Membranes by Jian Li, Qun Zhang, Minjing Xu, Changzhu Wu, Ping Li

“…In this study, in situ synthesized ZnO NPs/polyvinyl alcohol (PVA) nanofibrous membranes were fabricated by electrospinning with different zinc acetate concentrations. …”
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