The Development of a Coconut-Oil-Based Derived Polyol in a Polyurethane Matrix: A Potential Sorbent Material for Marine Oil Spill Applications by John Louie L. Tefora, Tomas Ralph B. Tomon, Joy Ian Dan S. Ungang, Roberto M. Malaluan, Arnold A. Lubguban, Hernando P. Bacosa

“…Marine oil spills have caused significant environmental problems. Among the array of clean-up methods, the utilization of sorbents emerges as promising for removing and recovering oil from spills. …”
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Novel 3D Capacitors: Integrating Porous Nickel-Structured and Through-Glass-Via-Fabricated Capacitors by Baichuan Zhang, Libin Gao, Hongwei Chen, Jihua Zhang

“…This technology is employed to create an interdigitated blind-via array within a glass substrate, attaining an impressively high aspect ratio of 22.5:1 (with a via diameter of 20 μm and a depth of 450 μm). …”
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A Comparison Study of High-Temperature Low-Cycle Fatigue Behaviour and Deformation Mechanisms Between Incoloy 800H and Its Weldments by Wenjing Li, Lin Xiao, Lori Walters, Greg Kasprick, Robyn Sloan

“…TEM examination revealed that planar dislocation slips at the low strain amplitude evolved to wavy slips, eventually forming a cell structure at high strain amplitudes in the Incoloy 800H material as the strain amplitudes increased. …”
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Super low profile 5G mmWave highly isolated MIMO antenna with 360∘ pattern diversity for smart city IoT and vehicular communication by Dipon Saha, Illani Mohd Nawi, M.A. Zakariya

“…Low-loss Rogers RT-5880 substrate material has been utilized to achieve higher efficiency, gain, and diversity performance in a relatively compact size. …”
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Using the Taguchi method and grey relational analysis to optimize the parameter design of flat-plate collectors with nanofluids, and phase change materials in an integrated solar w... by Guan-Rong Chen, Ting-Wei Liao, Chien-Chun Hsieh, Jagadish Barman, Chao-Yang Huang, Chung-Feng Jeffrey Kuo

“…Despite this, such systems face dual challenges in practical use: low thermal storage efficiency and insufficient heat retention. …”
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Armoring hydrophilic wood-structured ultrathick electrode with bimetallic nitride enables high energy-density supercapacitor by Nannan Ming, Jikun Xu, Jingfang Lei, Cankun Hu, Kaifu Huo

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Optoplasmonics of Single-Walled Carbon Nanotube Thin Films by Chandra Mani Adhikari

“…An ultrathin film capable of exhibiting material properties across and around two different dimensions by bridging two-dimensionality frameworks, called a trans-dimensional (TD) material, can be an exceptional tool to tune various electronic and optoplasmonic properties of a system that are unattainable from either dimension. …”
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Biodegradable polymeric ion–releasing fillersWhy Is This Important? by Hannah Reynolds, BS, Bryanna Bravo, BS, Germelle Fulford, MS, Ana Martinez, BS, Mark A. Latta, MS, DMD, Stephen M. Gross, BS, PhD

“…The addition of up to 5 wt/wt% of these fillers did not significantly increase viscosity, allowing for inclusion into a wide array of dental materials. Incorporation led to pseudoplastic behavior, in which the viscosity decreased with increased shear rate. …”
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Surface Modification Technologies for Space and Planetary Applications by Якоб Клеймен

“…However, the protection of polymers, paints and other organic-based materials in space still remains a major challenge, especially for future long duration exploration missions to other planets or permanent space stations or for an ever-growing array of nano-, micro- and macro-satellites in VLEO, LEO and GEO orbits. …”
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Adverse Events and Satisfaction Outcomes with Calcium Hydroxylapatite and Polycaprolactone Fillers in Facial Aesthetics: A Systematic Review by Rafael Zago Sá Fortes, Juliana Cassol Spanemberg, Karen Cherubini, Fernanda Gonçalves Salum

“…In the studies evaluated qualitatively, a broad array of AEs were cataloged. Conclusions: The occurrence of serious AEs associated with CaHA and PCL fillers is relatively low. …”
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Microstructural evolution and oxidation in α/β titanium alloy under fretting fatigue loading by Hanqing Liu, Xiaohong Shao, Kai Tan, Zhenjie Teng, Yaohan Du, Lang Li, Qingyuan Wang, Qiang Chen

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High-Power, High-Repetition Short-Pulse Laser Driver Using Direct-Drive D-Mode GaN HEMT by Ching-Yao Liu, Chun-Hsiung Lin, Hao-Chung Kuo, Yu-Heng Hong, Edward-Yi Chang, Wei-Hua Chieng

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Highly Sensitive Photoacoustic Imaging: A New Strategy for Ultrahigh Spatial Resolution Seismic Physical Model Imaging by Xin Liu, Wen Wang, Qiangzhou Rong, Baozhi Yu

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Design and fabrication of modular tensegrity-like lattices with auxetic properties by Anna Al Sabouni-Zawadzka, Andrea Micheletti, Maciej Kołodziejczak, Adam Zawadzki

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Simulations and performance analysis of CH3NH3SnI3 perovskite solar cell: Modeling thickness and temperature effects using SCAPS-1D by Samra Imran, Mamoona Khalid

“…Recently, Perovskite materials have proven to be an effective alternative, as they have better light absorption capability, are readily crystallized as a thin film, and have low cost and higher efficiencies compared to the existing solar technology. …”
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Using phenolic compounds from the Mediterranean Sea west of Egypt to categorize the sediment quality by Maha Ahmed Mohamed Abdallah, Ahmed E. Alprol

“…Abstract Background and aim Despite having a low population, Egypt’s west coast is heavily industrialized resulting in large amounts of industrial wastewater that are dumped directly into the sea, severely polluting the area with various toxins. …”
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Hardware Implementation of Memristor Ratioed Logic Circuits Based on Egg Protein Memristors by Lu Wang, Ze Zuo, Xiafan Zhang, Dianzhong Wen

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Synchronized Multi-Laser Powder Bed Fusion (M-LPBF) Additive Manufacturing: A Technique for Controlling the Microstructure of Ti–6Al–4V by Hamed Attariani, Shayna Renay Petitjean, Aaron Michael Niekamp

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TiSe2 is a band insulator created by lattice fluctuations, not an excitonic insulator by Dimitar Pashov, Ross E. Larsen, Matthew D. Watson, Swagata Acharya, Mark van Schilfgaarde

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Tailoring Dynamic Synaptic Plasticity in FeTFT Optoelectronic Synapse for Associative Learning by Peng Yang, Hui Xu, Xiaopeng Luo, Shihao Yu, Yang Liu, Yefan Zhang, Xu Guo, Bing Song, Zhiwei Li, Sen Liu, Qingjiang Li

“…However, the development of low‐cost, CMOS (Complementary Metal‐Oxide‐Semiconductor)‐compatible, and dynamically tunable synaptic devices is still nascent. …”
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