Hybrid solar cells from water-soluble polymers by James T. McLeskey, Qiquan Qiao

“…We report on the use of a water-soluble, light-absorbing polythiophene polymer to fabricate novel photovoltaic devices. The polymer is a water-soluble thiophene known as sodium poly[2-(3-thienyl)-ethoxy-4-butylsulfonate] or PTEBS. …”
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Mechanical and Thermal Properties of PLA Biocomposites Reinforced by Coir Fibers by Zhihui Sun, Li Zhang, Duoping Liang, Wei Xiao, Jing Lin

“…In this work, polylactic acid (PLA) biocomposites reinforced with short coir fibers were fabricated using a corotating twin-screw extruder and injection molding machine. …”
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Identification of the fracture surface of thermoset polyester due to bending load by Nusyirwan, Mutya Rani, Rully Pratama

“…To show the change in the toughness of the polyester material, a test is carried out to provide a tensile load and a flexural load until the material breaks This work reports the successful fabrication of polyester blends by mixing vinyl esters with different percentages. …”
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Decision Fusion for Structural Damage Detection: Numerical and Experimental Studies by Yong Chen, Senyuan Tian, Bingnan Sun

“…Finally, an experimental setup was fabricated, whereby the vibration properties of damaged and undamaged structures were measured. …”
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A Process Optimization Method of the Mini-LOCOS Field Plate Profile for Improving Electrical Characteristics of LDMOS Device by Shaoxin Yu, Weiheng Shao, Pei-Xiong Gao, Xiang Li, Rongsheng Chen, Bin Zhao

“…Finally, the optimized laterally diffused metal oxide semiconductor devices have been fabricated, and both figure of merit curves and safe operation area curves are measured. …”
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A New Efficient and Reliable Dynamically Reconfigurable Network-on-Chip by Cédric Killian, Camel Tanougast, Fabrice Monteiro, Abbas Dandache

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Design and Implementation of Automatic GSM Based Fire Alarm System. by Waiswa, Abudallah Mujaasi

“…This was achieved by the fabrication of 12 V power supply system that powers the device using step down transformer, programming Arduino Uno Microcontroller using C++ programming Language in the Arduino software platform, and integrating the program med Arduino Uno Microcontroller with GSM SIM900 module. …”
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A Digital Approach for a Complete Rehabilitation with Fixed and Removable Prostheses: A Technical Procedure by Etienne Lefrançois, Victor Delanoue, Samuel Morice, Xavier Ravalec, Marie Desclos-Theveniau

“…<b>Conclusions:</b> Within the limitations of this report, the developed combined prosthesis fabrication technique allowed optimization of the production by decreasing the clinical steps and laboratory procedures in partial-arch edentulous rehabilitated with FDPs and RPDs.…”
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Analysis of a Compact Wideband Slotted Antenna for Ku Band Applications by M. R. Ahsan, M. Habib Ullah, F. Mansor, N. Misran, T. Islam

“…After successful completion of the design process through various simulations, the proposed antenna has been fabricated on printed circuit board (PCB) and its characteristics have been studied. …”
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Silicon photonic modulators with a 2 × 1 Fabry–Perot cavity by Cao Hengzhen, Xie Jin, Sun Weichao, Zhu Mingyu, Xiang Yuluan, Zhang Gong, Guo Jingshu, Shi Yaocheng, Dai Daoxin

“…Finally, wafer-level measurement is conducted by characterizing the silicon photonic modulators based on the 2 × 1 FP cavity and a conventional microring fabricated on the same chip, experimentally revealing an average improvement of 43 % in minimizing the random resonance-wavelength variation, which is attributed to the implementation of broadening the straight modulation section in the FP cavity.…”
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Fracture Toughness Assessment of Pipeline Steels Under Hydrogen Exposure for Blended Gas Applications by Hesamedin Ghadiani, Zoheir Farhat, Tahrim Alam, Md. Aminul Islam

“…Various mechanical testing methods assess HE, with fracture toughness testing offering a quantitative measure of defect impacts on structural safety, particularly for cracks arising during manufacturing, fabrication, or in-service conditions. This study focuses on assessing the fracture toughness of two pipeline steels from an existing natural gas network under varying hydrogen concentrations using double cantilever beam (DCB) fracture tests. …”
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Improving Light Extraction of Organic Light-Emitting Devices by Attaching Nanostructures with Self-Assembled Photonic Crystal Patterns by Kai-Yu Peng, Da-Hua Wei

“…A single-monolayered hexagonal self-assembled photonic crystal (PC) pattern fabricated onto polyethylene terephthalate (PET) films by using simple nanosphere lithography (NSL) method has been demonstrated in this research work. …”
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Carboxymethyl cellulose assisted reforming of poly acrylic acid co methyl methacrylate composite for wastewater treatment and effective hosting of antimicrobial silver by Ahmed Hamdy, Hassan Nageh, S. A. Hassan, Mohamed A. Mekewi, Atef S. Darwish

“…Abstract Herein, novel polymer composite is fabricated by hybridizing poly (acrylic acid-co-methyl methacrylate) filaments with carboxymethyl cellulose, which efficiently reorients and strictly ties the fibrous chains to form polymeric units of plate-like morphology. …”
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Hybridization in Metal Wire Additive Manufacturing: A Case Study of an Impeller by Shahu R. Karade, Siddhartha Siddhartha, Neel Kamal Gupta, Ganesan G, K. P. Karunakaran, Henning Zeidler

“…This study presents a detailed exploration of these hybridization levels through the fabrication of a complex 5-axis geometry—an impeller. …”
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Effect of Ceramic Boron Carbide Particles Addition on the Mechanical and Microstructural Characteristics of Al7020 Alloy Composites by Shrishail Basappa Angadi, Santosh Kumar, Madeva Nagaral, Virupaxi Auradi, Balaraj Valukula

“…The current study aimed at developing and characterization Al7020 metal matrix composites by reinforcing micro boron carbide particles, Al7020/B4C MMCs are fabricated by stir casting method by varying the boron carbide particles in wt.% (0, 2, 4, 6, and 8wt. %). …”
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Graphene nanoplatelets in titanium coatings deposited by cold spray: Mechanical properties by Edwin Torres Díaz, Alessio Silvello, Edwin Rúa Ramirez, Rodolpho Fernando Vaz, Irene García Cano

“…This study investigates the fabrication of Titanium–Graphene Nanoplatelets (Ti-GNPs) coatings using Cold Gas Spray (CS), a technique that preserves material integrity by avoiding high-temperature degradation. …”
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Discussion of the Improved Methods for Analyzing a Cantilever Beam Carrying a Tip-Mass under Base Excitation by Wang Hongjin, Meng Qingfeng, Feng Wuwei

“…Finally, an experimental cantilever system is fabricated and the theoretical displacement responses are validated by the experimental measurements successfully.…”
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Ultramodern natural and synthetic polymer hydrogel scaffolds for articular cartilage repair and regeneration by Chun-Sheng Li, Yan Xu, Juan Li, Shu-Hao Qin, Shao-Wen Huang, Xue-Mei Chen, Yi Luo, Cheng-Tao Gao, Jian-Hui Xiao

“…Several types of hydrogel scaffolds have been fabricated to treat articular cartilage abnormalities. …”
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Morphology and In Vitro Behavior of Electrospun Fibrous Poly(D,L-lactic acid) for Biomedical Applications by Toshihiro Inami, Yasuhiro Tanimoto, Masayuki Ueda, Yo Shibata, Satoshi Hirayama, Masaru Yamaguchi, Kazutaka Kasai

“…This work describes the fabrication, optimization, and characterization of electrospun fibrous poly(D,L-lactic acid) (PDLLA) for biomedical applications. …”
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A Study on the Effect of the Contact Point and the Contact Force of a Glass Fiber under End-Face Polishing Process by Ying-Chien Tsai, Guang-Miao Huang, Shin-Wei Cheng, Cheng-An Hsu, Innchyn Her

“…This study proposes an image assistant method to find the initial contact point and a mathematical model to estimate the contact force when fabricating the double-variable-curvature end-face of single mode glass fiber. …”
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