Preparation of PEO/Clay Nanocomposites Using Organoclay Produced via Micellar Adsorption of CTAB by Ahmet Gürses, Mehtap Ejder-Korucu, Çetin Doğar

“…The aim of this study was the preparation of polyethylene oxide (PEO)/clay nanocomposites using organoclay produced via micellar adsorption of cethyltrimethyl ammonium bromide (CTAB) and their characterisation by X-ray diffraction (XRD), and Fourier transform infrared (FT-IR) spectra, and the investigation of certain mechanical properties of the composites. …”
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Challenges to adopting adiabatic circuits for systems‐on‐a‐chip by Krishnan S. Rengarajan, Saroj Mondal, Ravindra Kapre

“…Abstract Adiabatic complementary metal–oxide–semiconductor (CMOS) circuits have been proposed as a low‐power option for CMOS systems‐on‐a‐chip (SoCs) but have not gained popularity due to practical difficulties in scaling to millions of gates. …”
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An Area-Efficient Integrate-and-Fire Neuron Circuit with Enhanced Robustness against Synapse Variability in Hardware Neural Network by Arati Kumari Shah, Kannan Udaya Mohanan, Jisun Park, Hyungsoon Shin, Eou-Sik Cho, Seongjae Cho

“…The proposed neuron circuit is simulated on the 0.35-μm Si complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor technology node by a series of circuit simulations based on HSPICE. …”
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Synthesis of ZnO nanostructures with different morphologies on biochar support for photocatalytic degradation of organic dye by maryam Fayazi

“…., spherical and nanoroad) of zinc oxide (ZnO) were successfully deposited on the biochar support material via a simple hydrothermal approach. …”
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Adsorption Thermodynamics, Modeling, and Kinetics Studies for the Removal of Lead Ions Using ZnO Nanorods by Sadia Ata, Anila Tabassum, Ifra Shaheed, Ijaz ul Mohsin, Norah Alwadai, Maryam Al Huwayz, Munawar Iqbal, Arif Nazir

“…In the present investigation, zinc oxide nanorods (ZnO-NR) were synthesized via the hydrothermal method using ZnCl2 as a zinc ion precursor in the presence of cetyltrimethylammonium bromide. …”
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Analysis of the Performance Characteristics of ZnO Nanoparticles’ Dispersed Polyester Oil by V. P. Suresh Kumar, N. Manikandan, N. Nagaprasad, Jule LetaTesfaye, Ramasamy Krishnaraj

“…Analysis of performance characteristics of nanoparticles’ dispersed oil has wide and an important role in oil industries. Zinc oxide nanoparticles are dispersed with polyester oil by using an ultrasonic vibrator and magnetic stirrer. …”
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Facile Synthesis of Mesoporous NiCo₂O₄ Nanosheets on Carbon Fibers Cloth as Advanced Electrodes for Asymmetric Supercapacitors by Xiang Zhang

“…The asymmetric supercapacitor (NiCo₂O₄ Nanosheets@Carbon fibers//Graphene oxide) displayed a high specific capacitance of 91 F g⁻¹ and excellent cycling stability with a capacitance retention of 94.5% at 5 A g⁻¹ after 10,000 cycles. …”
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Electrochemical Studies of WC-Flyash HVOF Coating Interface on SA209-T1 Steel under 3.5 NaCl Solution by D. Elango, A. Daniel Das, S. P. Kumaresh Babu, S. Natarajan, A. Yeshitla

“…The steel of uncoated endured erosion as extraordinary stripping and spalling of the scale, which could be because of the development of Fe2O3 oxide scale unprotectively. This paper reveals the performance, applications, and development of 90wt.% WC and 10wt.% fly ash through HVOF coating in SA209-T1 for electrochemical corrosion studies at room temperature.…”
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Not Your Usual Analog Electronics Course—Generalized Analysis of Single-Transistor Amplifiers Uncovers Hidden Reciprocities and Equivalences by Brian Hong

“…Companion results for metal–oxide–semiconductor (MOS) single-transistor amplifiers are also included.…”
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TiO2–Polymer Nano–Composites by Sol–Gel by A. C. Pierre, G. Campet, S. D. Han, S. Y. Huang, E. Duguet, J. Portier

“…In the present study, TiO2-polyethylene oxide hybrid materials were synthesized from TiCl4 and from Ti ethoxide. …”
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Extracting lithium from a lithium aluminate complex by vacuum aluminothermic reduction by Di Y.Z., Peng J.P., Wang Y.W., Feng N.X.

“…The Li5AlO4 clinker was prepared in ambient air using lithium hydroxide, alumina and calcium oxide. The results show that this process can proceed in conjunction with a lower ratio of raw materials to lithium (8.89:1) and provides lithium reduction rates in excess of 97%. …”
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The Pathophysiological Relationship Between Migraine and SARS-CoV-2 Infection: A Comprehensive Literature Review by Noor Elkurwi, Qabas Elkurwi

“…The most recent hypothesis suggests the following: migraine is caused by an increased release of calcitonin gene-related peptide from the trigeminal ganglion, which will cause an increase in nitric oxide and IL-1β, resulting in vasodilation and inducing hyperalgesia. …”
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Forebrain Ischemia-Reperfusion Simulating Cardiac Arrest in Mice Induces Edema and DNA Fragmentation in the Brain by Christina H. Liu, Shuning Huang, Young R. Kim, Bruce R. Rosen, Philip K. Liu

“…To determine whether damage to the hippocampus can be detected in live animals, we infused a T 2 susceptibility magnetic resonance contrast agent (superparamagnetic iron oxide nanoparticles [SPIONs]) that was linked to single-stranded deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) complementary in sequence to c-fos messenger ribonucleic acid (SPION-cfos); we acquired in vivo T 2 * -weighted MRI 3 days later. …”
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Polyoxometallates as effective photocatalysts in water purification from pesticides by E. Gkika, P. Kormali, S. Antonaraki, D. Dimoticali, E. Papaconstantinou, A. Hiskia

“…Polyoxometallates (POM), i.e., metal oxide clusters of mainly tungsten are effective homogeneous photocatalysts for the mineralization of organic pollutants. …”
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Enhancement of Photon Absorption on BaxSr1-xTiO3 Thin-Film Semiconductor Using Photonic Crystal by Abd. Wahidin Nuayi, Husin Alatas, Irzaman S. Husein, Mamat Rahmat

“…The thin film was grown on transparent conductive oxide (TCO) substrate using chemical solution deposition method and annealed at 500°C for 15 hours with increasing rate of 1.6°C/min. …”
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Imaging performance of a CaWO4/CMOS sensor by Niki Martini, Vaia Koukou, George Fountos, Ioannis Valais, Ioannis Kandarakis, Christos Michail, Athanasios Bakas, Eleftherios Lavdas, Konstantinos Ninos, Georgia Oikonomou, Lida Gogou, George Panayiotakis

“…The aim of this study was to investigate the modulation transfer function (MTF) and the effective gain transfer function (eGTF) of a non-destruc¬¬tive testing (NDT)/industrial inspection complementary metal oxide semi¬conductor (CMOS) sensor in conjunction with a thin calcium tungstate (CaWO4) screen. …”
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The carbon footprint of Conservation Agriculture by Maik Freitag, Theodor Friedrich, Amir Kassam

“…Literature shows that carbon storage through soil organic carbon (SOC) accumulation of up to 1 t ha–1 y–1 is possible without increasing nitrous oxide (N2O) emissions under a CA system. Opposing studies were flawed by analysing not complete CA systems and leaving out some of the principles. …”
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Cellulose Elementary Fibrils as Deagglomerated Binder for High-Mass-Loading Lithium Battery Electrodes by Young-Kuk Hong, Jung-Hui Kim, Nag-Young Kim, Kyeong-Seok Oh, Hong-I Kim, Seokhyeon Ryu, Yumi Ko, Ji-Young Kim, Kwon-Hyung Lee, Sang-Young Lee

“…The CEF-based overlithiated layered oxide cathode exhibits a high areal-mass-loading (50 mg cm–2) and a high specific energy density (445.4 Wh kg–1) of a cell.…”
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Multilayered Electroactive Polyaniline-ZnO Modified GCE for Electrochemical Detection of Paracetamol by Samuel Chufamo, Bezabih Kelita, Sintayehu Berhanu, Almaz Kemal, Alemu Lelago

“…Multilayered electroactive polyaniline-ZnO nanocomposite (NC) film was developed for PC detection which was based on the oxidation of PC with polyaniline doped zinc oxide on a glassy carbon electrode (PANI/ZnO/GCE). …”
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Synthesis of ZnO nanoparticles from electric arc furnace dust by Bui A.-H., Le D.-C., Nguyen T.-T.

“…This paper presents a hydrometallurgical treatment of electric arc furnace (EAF) dust taken from a Vietnamese steelmaking plant to obtain zinc oxide (ZnO) nanoparticles by using aqueous ammonium carbonate solution as a leaching agent. …”
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