Dendritic phytic acid as a proton-conducting crosslinker for improved thermal stability and proton conductivity by Keiichiro Maegawa, Vellaichamy Joseph, Arthisree Devendran, Hassan Alipour, Krzysztof Łyczko, Yaroslav Korol, Hanna Lewandowska-Siwkiewicz, Atsushi Nagai

“…Abstract There is growing interest in materials that exhibit enhanced proton conductivity at elevated temperatures without the need for humidification. Here, we develop a dendritic proton-conducting dopant for proton exchange membranes based on phytic acid (PhA) salts. …”
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Boiling Heat Transfer and Critical Heat Flux Enhancement Using Electrophoretic Deposition of SiO2 Nanofluid by Aref Rahimian, Hosein Kazeminejad, Hosein Khalafi, Azam Akhavan, Seyed Mohammad Mirvakili

“…In order to increase the coating strength, the plates were sintered at various temperatures. To find the thickness and uniformity of the coatings, the SEM images were captured. …”
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Effect of acid pretreatments with various acid types on gelling properties and identification characteristics of pigskin gelatin by Zi-Xuan Yang, Xiao-Mei Sha, Hui Wang, Ting Fang, Sheng Shu, Zong-Cai Tu

“…The gelatins extracted from pig skin pretreated with acetic acid and hydrochloric acid exhibited the highest gelation-melting transition temperatures (26.81/34.17 °C) and gel strength (605.278 g), respectively. 69 characteristic peptides were the same in all gelatins from pigskin pretreated by various acids. …”
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Comparative Studies on the Interaction of Cochinchinenin A and Loureirin B with Bovine Serum Albumin by Tianming Yang, Hao Zhang, Haiyan Fu, Yuanbin She, Can Huang, Yan Hu, Liping Wang

“…The binding distance (rCA, rLB) and the quenching efficiency (KSV), especially for the binding constants value of ligands to BSA, were affected by the methoxyl group at position 4 at different temperatures. The corresponding thermodynamic parameters were also obtained and indicated that electrostatic forces play a major role in the formation of the LB-BSA complex, but probably a combined force for CA-BSA complex. …”
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The use of bacterial cellulose from kombucha to produce curcumin loaded Pickering emulsion with improved stability and antioxidant properties by Zhiyu Li, Wenxiu Hu, Jiajia Dong, Fidelis Azi, Xiao Xu, Chuanhai Tu, Sijie Tang, Mingsheng Dong

“…The curcumin-load Pickering emulsion exhibited better stability under a wide range of temperatures, low pH, sunlight, and UV-365 nm than the free curcumin, indicating that the KBC after high-pressure homogenization improved the stability of the CPE. …”
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Hierarchical Low Si/Al Ratio Ferrierite Zeolite by Sequential Postsynthesis Treatment: Catalytic Assessment in Dehydration Reaction of Methanol by Enrico Catizzone, Massimo Migliori, Alfredo Aloise, Rossella Lamberti, Girolamo Giordano

“…The catalytic activity of some samples was investigated in vapour-phase methanol dehydration to dimethyl ether, revealing the superiority of hierarchical zeolites in terms of methanol conversion, although the presence of mesopores causes formation of light hydrocarbons at high temperatures.…”
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Density and Comparative Refractive Index Study on Mixing Properties of Binary Liquid Mixtures of Eucalyptol with Hydrocarbons at 303.15, 308.15 and 313.15 K by Sangita Sharma, Pragnesh B. Patel, Rignesh S. Patel, J. J. Vora

“…From the experimentally measured values, refractive index deviations at different temperatures have been computed and fitted to the Redlich-Kister polynomial equation to derive the binary coefficients and standard deviations.…”
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Flexural Properties of PVC/Bamboo Composites under Static and Dynamic-Thermal Conditions: Effects of Composition and Water Absorption by Shahril Anuar Bahari, Warren J. Grigsby, Andreas Krause

“…The mechanical properties of these composites were determined at both ambient and elevated temperatures and after long-term water soaking. Analysis revealed that bamboo incorporation improved the PVC composite flexural modulus which was also observed with dynamic mechanical-thermal analysis on heating composites to ca. 70°C. …”
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Synthesis, Characterization, and Osteoblastic Cell Culture of Poly(L-co-D,L-lactide-co-trimethylene carbonate) Scaffolds by André Dutra Messias, Kelly Fernanda Martins, Adriana Cristina Motta, Eliana Aparecida de Rezende Duek

“…Thermal investigation of PLDLA-TMC showed a decrease in the glass transition and onset temperatures compared to PLDLA. PLDLA-TMC scaffolds stimulated the proliferation and normal phenotypic manifestations of cultured osteoblasts. …”
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Exogenous LEA proteins expression enhances cold tolerance in mammalian cells by reducing oxidative stress by Martina Lo Sterzo, Domenico Iuso, Luca Palazzese, Margherita Moncada, Francesca Boffa, Aurora Scudieri, Luisa Gioia, Marta Czernik, Pasqualino Loi

“…This study aimed to exploit the protective function of Late Embryogenesis Abundant (LEA) proteins, known to provide resistance to low temperatures in extremophiles and plants, by their exogenous expression in mammalian cells, and compare their effects with the well characterized antioxidant, vitamin E. …”
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Noise and Synchronization Analysis of the Cold-Receptor Neuronal Network Model by Ying Du, Rubin Wang, Jingyi Qu

“…It is found that spike trains observed in neural models can be more strongly affected by noise for different temperatures in some aspects; meanwhile, spike train has greater variability with the noise intensity increasing. …”
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Three-Dimensional Excitation and Emission Fluorescence-Based Method for Evaluation of Maillard Reaction Products in Food Waste Treatment by Jiaze Liu, Jun Yin, Xiaozheng He, Ting Chen, Dongsheng Shen

“…These two parameters were validated with samples from hydrothermal FW under various operating temperatures and pH.…”
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Study of morphology, chemical composition and corrosion resistance of «TiC–NiTi» hard alloy modified by powerful ion beam by A. M. Badamshin, A. O. Leptyuk

“…This result indicates the dissociation of titanium oxide under the influence of temperatures arising during HPIB irradiation. It is most likely that it is the thermal dissociation of titanium oxide and melting of the sample surface that are the main reasons for the increase in the corrosion resistance of the «TiC–NiTi» system alloy.…”
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Release of siRNA from Liposomes Induced by Curcumin by Kazuyo Fujita, Yoshie Hiramatsu, Hideki Minematsu, Masaharu Somiya, Shun’ichi Kuroda, Masaharu Seno, Shuji Hinuma

“…Liposomal lipid compositions and temperatures influenced the efficiency in the release of siRNA induced by curcumin. …”
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Application of Functional Variable Method for Heisenberg Ferromagnetic Spin Chain Equation by ALI TOZAR, Orkun Taşbozan, ALI KURT

“…The Heisenberg spin chain concept is a fundamental and generic model that describes the exotic magnetic behavior of certain materials, such as ferromagnetism, antiferromagnetism, and ferrimagnetism under critical temperatures. The concept of spin chain is based on Coulomb interactions due to Pauli exclusion principle rather than dipole-dipole interactions in explaining the high energy observed in the Weiss molecular field. …”
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ENHANCING COLD MIX ASPHALT PERFORMANCE WITH GEOPOLYMER TECHNOLOGY by Falah Hasan Ali, Taher M. Ahmed

“…Generally, Cold asphalt emulsion mixtures (CAEM) produced and compacted at ambient temperatures. The main objective of this study is to investigate the improvement of the performance for mixtures by the addition of geopolymers based on cementitious material by preparing the asphalt samples using three concentrations of geopolymer utilized as a substitute for limestone filler (LF),The mechanical properties of the mixtures were evaluated using the Marshall test, Indirect Tensile Strength (ITS) test, Kim test and Water sensitivity test TSR. …”
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An unconstrained four pool model analysis of proton relaxation and magnetization transfer in ex vivo white matter by Niklas Wallstein, André Pampel, Roland Müller, Carsten Jäger, Markus Morawski, Harald E. Möller

“…A piece of fixed porcine spinal-cord WM was investigated at 3 T and temperatures between 21 and 35 °C. Measurements included a wide range of preparations of the spin system in combination with long echo trains to achieve sensitivity to all model parameters. …”
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Increasing atmospheric evaporative demand across the Tibetan plateau and implications for surface water resources by Shiqin Xu, Dennis P. Lettenmaier, Tim R. McVicar, Pierre Gentine, Hylke E. Beck, Joshua B. Fisher, Zhongbo Yu, Ningpeng Dong, Akash Koppa, Matthew F. McCabe

“…Although both wind stilling and solar dimming have persisted, their effects on Eo rates have been overshadowed by increasing air temperatures and decreasing relative humidity, leading to a net rise in Eo for 1980−2015. …”
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Climate Change: The Urgent Need for Global Health Strategies to Counter Adverse Impacts on Human Health by Andrew John Macnab

“…Reports and reviews continue to document multiple health impacts from increasing temperatures, rising sea levels and more frequent extreme weather events like severe drought, flooding and wildfires. …”
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Evaluation of PE Films Having NIR-Reflective Additives for Greenhouse Applications in Arid Regions by Syed K. H. Gulrez, Ahmed M. Abdel-Ghany, Ibrahim M. Al-Helal, Saeed M. Al-Zaharani, Abdullah A. Alsadon

“…The results showed that the melting and crystallization temperatures (Tm and Tc, resp.) of these formulations were almost similar to that of control resin. …”
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