A Comparative Study of the Effect of MgO and CaCO3 as Support Materials in the Synthesis of Carbon Nanotubes with Fe/Co as Catalyst by Ezekiel D. Dikio, Albert J. Kupeta, Force T. Thema

“…A comparative study of the effect of magnesium oxide and calcium carbonate as support material in the synthesis of carbon nanotubes using the catalyst Fe/Co is presented. …”
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Effects of Fly Ash and Chemical Admixtures on the Rheological Properties of High-Concentration Full-Tailing Filling Slurry by Fulin Wang, Faguang Yang, Zhengping Yuan, Shijiao Yang

“…The results show that when other conditions are fixed, the fluidity of the slurry becomes worse with the increase of the amount of fly ash but improves with the increase of the amount of the polycarboxylate superplasticizer; polyethylene oxide is not suitable for the improvement of the fluidity of the high-concentration full-tailing filling slurry, and the fluidity of the slurry becomes worse rapidly with the increase of the amount of polyethylene oxide.…”
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Study of the Structures of Carbon Foams Synthesized Using Non-Ionic Surfactants by Vanessa S. Garcia-Cuello, Liliana Giraldo, Juan C. Moreno-Piraján

“…Non-ionic nonylphenol ethoxylate surfactants containing 4, 6, 9 or 12 ethylene oxide residues per mole of nonylphenol were successfully used as templates for the synthesis of large-pore mesoporous carbon foams. …”
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Electrochemical Behavior of CsI in LiCl Molten Salt by Sung-Wook Kim, Sang-Kwon Lee, Min Ku Jeon, Eun-Young Choi

“…The electrochemical behavior of CsI in LiCl molten salt was investigated to identify its impact on the electrolytic oxide reduction of oxide-phase spent nuclear fuels by combined electrolysis and cyclic voltammetry experiments of LiCl-CsI in comparison with LiCl, LiCl-CsCl, and LiCl-LiI. …”
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Arginase Inhibitor in the Pharmacological Correction of Endothelial Dysfunction by Mihail V. Pokrovskiy, Mihail V. Korokin, Svetlana A. Tsepeleva, Tatyana G. Pokrovskaya, Vladimir V. Gureev, Elena A. Konovalova, Oleg S. Gudyrev, Vladimir I. Kochkarov, Liliya V. Korokina, Eleonora N. Dudina, Anna V. Babko, Elena G. Terehova

“…Among vasodilatation agents, nitrogen oxide plays the basic role. Amino acid L-arginine serves as a source of molecules of nitrogen oxide in an organism. …”
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Performance Enhancement of Dye Sensitized Solar Cell (DSSC) through TiO2/rGO Hybrid: Comprehensive Study on Synthesis and Characterization by Rustan Hatib, Khairil Anwar, Ramang Magga, Muh Anjas Astak, Denny Widhiyanuriyawan, Wardoyo Wardoyo

“…The TiO2 film is immersed in a graphite oxide solution, preparing it for thermal reduction, which converts the graphite oxide to reduced graphene oxide (rGO). …”
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Influence of polyester fabric with infrared emissive additives on cell metabolism by He Peng Fei, Veerakumar Arumugam, Aleksander Góra, Vitali Lipik

“…In this work, three different combinations of additives such as silicon oxide doped with 10% of iron oxide III, 10% of graphene and 10% calcium hydroxyapatite were prepared, each combination was compounded separately with polyester, and pellets were extruded with additive weight around 4%. …”
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Using anthropogenic raw materials in the process of synthesizing foam glass with heterogeneous microstructure by S. V. Fedosov, M. O. Bakanov, I. S. Grushko

“…Foam glass synthesis was performed using anthracite, zirconium dioxide, chromium oxide, and magnesium oxide.Results. The research revealed the formation of crystalline phases in the amorphous foam glass framework. …”
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A Virtual Fabrication and High-Performance Design of 65 nm Nanocrystal Floating-Gate Transistor by Thinh Dang Cong, Trang Hoang

“…Besides, the transistor achieves a thin thickness of the tunnel gate oxide layer. In order to obtain the high-performance design, this work proposed a set of structure parameters for the device such as the tunnel oxide layer thickness, Interpoly Dielectric (IPD), dot dimension, and dot spacing. …”
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Metal/Semiconductor and Transparent Conductor/Semiconductor Heterojunctions in High Efficient Photoelectric Devices: Progress and Features by M. Melvin David Kumar, Ju-Hyung Yun, Joondong Kim

“…Metal/semiconductor and transparent conductive oxide (TCO)/semiconductor heterojunctions have emerged as an effective modality in the fabrication of photoelectric devices. …”
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Evaluating the efficiency of environmentally friendly magnetic photocatalyst for the treatment of industrial effluents containing dye pollutants by Sedigheh Abbasi

“…Abstract In this research, nanocomposites based on two-dimensional nanostructures such as graphene oxide were used as photocatalysts to remove methyl orange. …”
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Synthesis of chromium and ferrochromium alloy in molten salts by the electro-reduction method by Ge X., Jin S., Zhang M., Wang X., Seetharaman S.

“…In this work, we successfully applied the Fray-Farthing-Chen Cambridge electro-reduction process on the preparation of chromium from chromium oxide, and for the first time, the synthesis of ferrochromium alloy from chromium oxide and iron oxide mixture and the chromite ore in molten calcium chloride. …”
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Three different methods for ZnO-RGO nanocomposite synthesis and its adsorption capacity for methylene blue dye removal in a comparative study by Safaa A. Hussein, Gharib M. Taha, F. A. Adam, Marwa A. Moghazy

“…An easy strategy was used for the synthesis of reduced graphene oxide nanoparticles (RGO), Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO) and ZnO-RGO nanocomposite. …”
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Effects of Blended-Cement Paste Chemical Composition Changes on Some Strength Gains of Blended-Mortars by Mehmet Serkan Kirgiz

“…Experimental results indicated that ups and downs of silica oxide (SiO2), sodium oxide (Na2O), and alkali at MP-BCPCC and continuously rising movement of silica oxide (SiO2) at BP-BCPCC positively influenced CS and FS of blended cement mortars (BCM) in comparison with reference mortars (RM) at whole cure days as MP up to 6% or BP up to 35% was blended for cement.…”
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Substrate Effect on Plasma Clean Efficiency in Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition System by Shiu-Ko JangJian, Ying-Lang Wang

“…In this study, the plasma clean rate (PCR) of silicon oxide is investigated after the silicon nitride deposited on Cu and silicon oxide substrates by remote plasma system (RPS), respectively. …”
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Ghrelin Protects against the Detrimental Consequences of Porphyromonas gingivalis-Induced Akt Inactivation through S-Nitrosylation on Salivary Mucin Synthesis by Bronislaw L. Slomiany, Amalia Slomiany

“…Disturbances in nitric oxide synthase isozyme system and the impairment in salivary mucin synthesis are well-recognized features associated with oral mucosal inflammatory responses to periodontopathic bacterium, P. gingivalis. …”
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A material design guideline for self-assembled vertically aligned nanocomposite thin films by Jiawei Song, Haiyan Wang

“…The demonstrated VAN systems include oxide–oxide, oxide–metal, and nitride–metal VAN films and their growth mechanisms are vastly different. …”
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Inhibitory Effect of Flavonoid Extract of Lotus Leaf on Alcohol-Induced Gastric Injury by Antioxidant Capacity in Mice by Yi Chen, Qin Li, Zhiping Kuang, Xin Zhao, Ruokun Yi, Xiaowei He, Guangjing Feng

“…The quantitative polymerase chain reaction (qPCR) and Western blot results proved that FELL upregulated the mRNA and protein expressions of SOD1, SOD2, CAT, epidermal growth factor (EGF), vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF), epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR), neuronal nitric oxide synthase (nNOS), and endothelial nitric oxide synthase (eNOS) and downregulated the expression of inducible nitric oxide synthase (iNOS) in the gastric tissue of mice with gastric injury. …”
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In Vivo Magic Angle Magnetic Resonance Imaging for Cell Tracking in Equine Low-Field MRI by Carolin Horstmeier, Annette B. Ahrberg, Dagmar Berner, Janina Burk, Claudia Gittel, Aline Hillmann, Julia Offhaus, Walter Brehm

“…The aim of this in vivo study was to evaluate the practicability of this magic angle technique and its benefit for tracking superparamagnetic iron oxide-labelled multipotent mesenchymal stromal cells. …”
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Insights into corrosion behavior of AlCrFeTi and AlCrFeTiY coating for fuel cladding in static and flowing liquid lead bismuth at 550°C by Jingyi Liang, Wei Zhang, Qingyu Li, Ke Zhao, Jun Xiao, Jijun Yang, Shaoyu Qiu, Sheng Huang

“…Double-layered compact oxide layers were formed on the surface of AlCrFeTi coating which consist of outer Fe/Cr oxide layer and inner Al/Ti oxide layer after exposure in static liquid lead bismuth for 2000 h, while uneven Fe/Cr oxide layers formed on AlCrFeTiY coating and the oxygen content significantly increase inside the coating, indicating the weaker antioxidant properties of AlCrFeTiY. …”
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