Kinetics and Mechanism of Oxidation of Aromatic Aldehydes by Imidazolium Dichromate in Aqueous Acetic Acid Medium by S. Sheik Mansoor, S. Syed Shafi

“…The reaction rates have been determined at different temperatures and the activation parameters calculated. Electron withdrawing substituents are found to increase the reaction and electron releasing substituents are found to retard the rate of the reaction and the rate data obey the Hammett relationship. …”
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A Comparative Study of Carbon Nanotubes Synthesized from Co/Zn/Al and Fe/Ni/Al Catalyst by Ezekiel Dixon Dikio

“…The carbon nanotubes produced were characterized by Field Emission Scanning Electron Microscope (FE-SEM), Energy Dispersive x-ray Spectroscopy (EDS), Raman spectroscopy, Thermogravimetric Analysis (TGA) and Transmission Electron Microscope (TEM). …”
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Fabrication of Bi-Doped TiO2 Spheres with Ultrasonic Spray Pyrolysis and Investigation of Their Visible-Light Photocatalytic Properties by Jianhui Huang, Wahkit Cheuk, Yifan Wu, Frank S. C. Lee, Wingkei Ho

“…The prepared bismuth-doped titania was characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), UV-visible diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV-vis DRS), and X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS). …”
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Experimental and Density Functional Theory Characteristics of Ibrutinib, a Bruton’s Kinase Inhibitor Approved for Leukemia Treatment by Ali I. Ismail

“…This study focused on investigating ibrutinib by its electronic transitions, vibrational frequencies, and electrospray mass spectra. …”
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Photocatalytic Hydrogen or Oxygen Evolution from Water over S- or N-Doped TiO2 under Visible Light by Kazumoto Nishijima, Takaaki Kamai, Naoya Murakami, Toshiki Tsubota, Teruhisa Ohno

“…Photocatalytic oxidation of water on doped TiO2 having a rutile phase proceeded with fairly high efficiency when Fe3+ ions were used as electron acceptors compared to that on doped TiO2 having an anatase phase. …”
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Molecular insights into the structural, spectroscopic, chemical shift characteristics, and molecular docking analysis of the carbamate insecticide fenobucarb by K. KrishnaKumar, M. Jenifer, T.J. Nandhini, M. Sridharan, G. Sabarinathan, Pallavi M. Shanthappa

“…In this study, fenobucarb a carbamate pesticide has been analyzed for its structural, spectroscopic (FT-IR and FT-Raman), electronic (UV–Vis.), chemical shifts (NMR) and topological, and bioactivity using the theoretical DFT technique. …”
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Performance optimization of the CLIC positron source by Yongke Zhao, Steffen Doebert, Andrea Latina

“…The hybrid target is replaced with a single amorphous tungsten target with the target thickness and electron beam spot size optimized. As a result of the optimization, compared with the old baseline configuration, the positron yield has been improved by a factor of 1.65, enabling the same reduction in the bunch charge and beam power of the primary electron beam. …”
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The effect of temperature factor during heavy ion irradiation on structural disordering of SiC ceramics by Kymbat M. Tynyshbayeva, Artem L. Kozlovskiy

“…The assessment results of changes in the electron density distribution contingent upon the irradiation temperature for both types of ion irradiation showed a direct correlation between the irradiation temperature growth and the electron density anisotropic distortion caused by the deformation of chemical bonds. …”
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Roles of doping in enhancing the performance of graphene/graphene-like semiconductors by Yuqi Zhou, Xinbo He, Mengyang Li

“…To expand the range of applications for graphene in electronic devices, it is crucial to develop the strategies for inducing a bandgap. …”
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Current issues of regulating on recording of the employee’s labor activities by O. V. Chornous

“…It has been found that the provisions of the Law of Ukraine “On Amendments to Certain Legislative Acts of Ukraine on Electronic Employee Labor Records” have gaps in this regard which require further improvement and elaboration.…”
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Hydraulic Performance Modifications of a Zeolite Membrane after an Alkaline Treatment: Contribution of Polar and Apolar Surface Tension Components by Patrick Dutournié, Ali Said, T. Jean Daou, Jacques Bikaï, Lionel Limousy

“…After the alkaline treatment, the electron-donor contribution (mainly due to the two remaining lone electron pairs of the oxygen atoms present in the zeolite extra frameworks) decreases and an increase of the electron-receptor contribution is observed and quantified. …”
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Photocatalytical Properties and Theoretical Analysis of N, Cd-Codoped TiO2 Synthesized by Thermal Decomposition Method by Hongtao Gao, Bing Lu, Fangfang Liu, Yuanyuan Liu, Xian Zhao

“…The effect of the incorporation of N and Cd on electronic structure and optical properties of TiO2 was studied by first-principle calculations on the basis of density functional theory (DFT). …”
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Optimization of alloying element types and contents in high strength and high toughness bainitic steels by Ranran Zhu, Xiaoyan Long, Fucheng Zhang, Zhinan Yang, Yanguo Li, Yan Yang, Yifei Wang

“…This study investigates the optimization of alloying element types and contents in bainitic steels through a continuous cooling heat treatment process of the three tested steels, employing characterization techniques including optical microscopy, scanning electron microscopy, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray diffraction, and electron backscatter diffraction. …”
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The superiority of veno-arterial over veno-venous extracorporeal membrane oxygenation for operative support of lung transplantation by Sen Lu, Pin Wang, Xiao-qin Zhang, Gang Feng, Hong-li He, Yue Chen, Xiao-bo Huang, Chun Pan, Jing-chao Luo

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Multivariate-coupled-enhanced photoacoustic spectroscopy with Chebyshev rational fractional-order filtering algorithm for trace CH4 detection by Shenlong Zha, Hang Chen, Chen Liu, Yuxiang Guo, Hongliang Ma, Qilei Zhang, Lingli Li, Shengbao Zhan, Gang Cheng, Yanan Cao, Pan Pan

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Preparation of AgBiS2 thin films with vapor-assisted solution method for flexible near-infrared photodetectors by Zhirong Liu, Xiongjie Li, Xiaoting Ma, Haixuan Yu, Wanpeng Yang, Ronghua Luo, Yuping Liu, Yan Shen, Mingkui Wang

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Solanum tuberosum Leaf Extract Templated Synthesis of Co3O4 Nanoparticles for Electrochemical Sensor and Antibacterial Applications by Eneyew Tilahun Bekele, H. C. Ananda Murthy, Dhanalakshmi Muniswamy, Yeshaneh Adimasu Lemenh, Minale Shegaw Shume, Gezahegn Tadesse Ayanie, Avvaru Praveen Kumar, C. R. Ravikumar, R. Balachandran, Arpita Roy

“…The synthesized Co3O4 NPs were characterized by X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy-energy dispersive X-ray spectroscopy (SEM-EDX), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), high resolution transmission electron microscopy (HRTEM), surface area electron diffraction (SAED), UV-Vis diffuse reflectance spectroscopy (UV-DRS), and Fourier transform infrared (FTIR) spectroscopy. …”
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Dual-Sliding-Mode-Observer-Based IPMSM Sensorless Control Technique by Sang Xu, Anwen Shen, Mingzhen Zhang, Qipeng Tang, Xin Luo, Jinbang Xu

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Nonholonomic Motion Planning Strategy for Underactuated Manipulator by Liang Li, Yuegang Tan, Zhang Li

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Hybrid multi‐level hardware Trojan detection platform for gate‐level netlists based on XGBoost by Ying Zhang, Sen Li, Xin Chen, Jiaqi Yao, Zhiming Mao, Jizhong Yang, Yifeng Hua

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