Ossification Vesicles with Calcium Phosphate in the Eyes of the Insect Copium teucrii (Hemiptera: Tingidae) by Javier Garcia-Guinea, Alberto Jorge, Laura Tormo, Marta Furio, Elena Crespo-Feo, Virgilio Correcher, Pedro Prado-Herrero, Ana C. Soria, Jesus Sanz, Jose L. Nieves-Aldrey

“…A survey of C. teucrii adult specimens resulted in surprising environmental scanning electron microscopy (ESEM) images, showing that their bright red eyes contain a calcium-phosphate mineralization. …”
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Development of a TSR-based method for understanding structural relationships of cofactors and local environments in photosystem I by Lujun Luo, Tarikul I. Milon, Elijah K. Tandoh, Walter J. Galdamez, Andrei Y. Chistoserdov, Jianping Yu, Jan Kern, Yingchun Wang, Wu Xu

“…(ii) There are two electron transfer chains (A and B branches) in PS I. …”
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Influence of increasing chromium content on additively manufactured tool steels: Microstructural and mechanical evolution before and after heat treatment by Nicole Ofner, Sabine Carmen Bodner, Peter Kunnas, Atacan Asci, Kevin Kutleša, Andreas Stark, Philipp Höbenreich, Christin Aumayr, Liang Wu, Christoph Turk, Jozef Keckes, Michael Meindlhumer

“…Comprehensive microstructural characterization techniques, including optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, electron backscatter diffraction, and transmission electron microscopy unveiled a clear correlation between the Cr content and the resulting microstructural features and phase occurrences. …”
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Symmetric Dopant‐Free Si Solar Cells Enabled by TiOx Nanolayers: An In‐Depth Study on Bipolar Carrier Selectivity by Takuya Matsui, Shohei Fukaya, Shona McNab, James McQueen, Kazuhiro Gotoh, Hitoshi Sai, Noritaka Usami, Ruy Sebastian Bonilla

“…Abstract High‐efficiency solar cells require two contact structures, engineered for efficient extraction of photogenerated holes and electrons at the respective electrodes. Herein, crystalline Si solar cell featuring hole‐ and electron‐selective passivating contacts composed entirely of a single material, amorphous titanium oxide (TiOx), without extrinsic doping is demonstrated. …”
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Comparative study on perovskite solar cells using P_ZnO, Al_ZnO and In_ZnO as ETMs by SCAPS-1D by Meriem Kerara, Abdelkrim Naas, Khalid Reggab

“…An optimal perovskite layer was obtained by decreasing the electron transportation layer's thickness (ETL) from 500 to 100 nm. …”
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Identification of a binding site for small molecule inhibitors targeting human TRPM4 by Babatunde Ekundayo, Prakash Arullampalam, Christian E. Gerber, Anne-Flore Hämmerli, Sabrina Guichard, Mey Boukenna, Daniela Ross-Kaschitza, Martin Lochner, Jean-Sebastien Rougier, Henning Stahlberg, Hugues Abriel, Dongchun Ni

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Reduction Behavior of Olanzapine and Its Differential Pulse Voltammetric Determination in Human Urine and Pharmaceuticals by Sultan Yağmur

“…Equal electron and proton numbers were also supported with suggested reduction mechanism. …”
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Nanosized Zincated Hydroxyapatite as a Promising Heterogeneous Photo-Fenton-Like Catalyst for Methylene Blue Degradation by Van Dat Doan, Van Thuan Le, Thi Thanh Nhi Le, Hoai Thuong Nguyen

“…The prepared catalyst was characterized by various techniques such as X-ray diffraction, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, energy-dispersive X-ray, and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy. …”
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Synthesis, Analysis, and Testing of BiOBr-Bi2WO6 Photocatalytic Heterojunction Semiconductors by Xiangchao Meng, Zisheng Zhang

“…In photocatalysis, the recombination of electron-hole pairs is generally regarded as one of its most serious drawbacks. …”
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Photodegradation of Eosin Y Using Silver-Doped Magnetic Nanoparticles by Eman Alzahrani

“…The fabricated magnetic nanoparticles coated with Ag were characterised using different instruments such as a scanning electron microscope (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), energy-dispersive X-ray (EDAX) spectroscopy, and X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis. …”
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Exploration of Electrochemical Intermediates of the Anticancer Drug Doxorubicin Hydrochloride Using Cyclic Voltammetry and Simulation Studies with an Evaluation for Its Interaction... by Partha Sarathi Guin, Saurabh Das

“…At this pH, doxorubicin hydrochloride undergoes a reversible two-electron reduction with E1/2 value −665±5 mV (versus Ag/AgCl, saturated KCl). …”
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Optimization of Antibacterial, Structures, and Thermal Properties of Alginate-ZrO2 Bionanocomposite by the Taguchi Method by Mohsen Safaei, Hedaiat Moradpoor, Mohammad Salmani Mobarakeh, Nima Fallahnia

“…Analysis of Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FTIR), ultraviolet-visible (UV-vis), spectroscopy, X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), and thermogravimetric analysis (TGA) indicated the development of nanocomposites with appropriate structural properties. …”
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Interconnected TiO2 Nanowire Networks for PbS Quantum Dot Solar Cell Applications by Fan Xu, Jaime Benavides, Xin Ma, Sylvain G. Cloutier

“…Compared to conventional planar TiO2 film structures, these results suggest superior electron transport properties while still providing the large interfacial area between PbS quantum dots and TiO2 required for efficient exciton dissociation.…”
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Direct observation of the atomic density fluctuation originating from the first sharp diffraction peak in SiO2 glass by Akihiko Hirata, Shuya Sato, Motoki Shiga, Yohei Onodera, Koji Kimoto, Shinji Kohara

“…Here, we report the direct observation of the atomic density fluctuations in silica glass by energy-filtered angstrom-beam electron diffraction. The correspondence between the local electron diffraction patterns of FSDPs and the atomic configurations constructed based on the X-ray and neutron diffraction results revealed that the local atomic density fluctuations originated from the quasi-periodic alternating arrangements of the columnar chain-like atomic configurations and interstitial tubular voids, as in crystals. …”
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Green Synthesis of Trimetallic Nanocomposite (Ru/Ag/Pd)-Np and Its In Vitro Antimicrobial and Anticancer Activities by Shaimaa Hussein, Ayman M. Mahmoud, Hassan A. Elgebaly, Omnia Magdy Hendawy, Emad H. M. Hassanein, Shaima M. N. Moustafa, Nasser F. Alotaibi, Amr M. Nassar

“…Some physicochemical tools were used for nanocomposite characterization, including Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), X-ray diffraction (XRD), thermal gravimetric analysis (TGA), UV-Vis spectroscopy (UV-Vis), scanning electron microscope (SEM), and transmittance electron microscope (TEM). …”
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Synthesis of MIL-53(Fe) Metal-Organic Framework Material and Its Application as a Catalyst for Fenton-Type Oxidation of Organic Pollutants by Pham Dinh Du, Pham Ngoc Hoai

“…The material was characterized by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), Fourier-transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), high-resolution transmission electron microscopy (HR-TEM), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), and N2 adsorption/desorption isotherm. …”
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Precipitation Behavior and Magnetic Properties of Cu-Fe-Co Alloys Containing Nanogranular Ferromagnetic-Element Particles by N. Wada, K. Kuwada, J. S. Kim, M. Takeguchi, M. Takeda

“…This work investigates the evolution of microstructures and magnetic properties during isothermal annealing of Cu-Fe-Co alloys, using electron microscopy and superconducting quantum interference device (SQUID) magnetometry. …”
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Synthesis and Characterization of Uniform Spherical Nanoporous TiO2 Aerogel Templated by Cellulose Alcohol-Gel with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity by Zhiming Liu, Peng Wu, Shaoli Yang, Haiying Wang, Chunde Jin

“…The morphology, crystalline structure, pore size, specific surface area, and the photocatalytic activity of obtained TiO2 aerogel were separately characterized by scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), X-ray diffraction (XRD), X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), N2 adsorption-desorption isotherms, and double beam UV-VIS spectrophotometer. …”
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Titanium Dioxide-Mediated Photcatalysed Degradation of Two Herbicide Derivatives Chloridazon and Metribuzin in Aqueous Suspensions by A. Khan, N. A. Mir, M. Faisal, M. Muneer

“…Chloridazon (CHL) was found to degrade more efficiently under acidic condition, whereas metribuzin (MET) degraded faster under alkaline medium. All three electron acceptors tested in this study were found to enhance the degradation rate of both herbicides.…”
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Squaraine Planar-Heterojunction Solar Cells by Bin Fan, Ylenia Maniglio, Marina Simeunovic, Simon Kuster, Thomas Geiger, Roland Hany, Frank Nüesch

“…Two squaraine derivatives with extraordinarily high extinction coefficients are used as electron donors in bilayer heterojunctions with fullerene C60 as electron acceptor. …”
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