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This work brings a thorough investigation of hydrothermally derived ceria nanoparticles doped with copper in a wide range of concentrations: CuxCe1-xO2, where x = 0, 0.1, 0.2, 0.3, 0.4, and 0.5, respectively. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis showed no additional phases for all samples up to x = 0.4, which exceeds the maximum amount of copper incorp...
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Studies on ethylenediamine (EDA) coating pure boron were neglected in many cases previously. Density functional-based first-principle calculation methods as well as reactive molecular dynamics methods are applied to study the mechanism of coating EDA molecules on pure α-phase boron nanoparticles (BNPs). Our calculations predict that there are two s...
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The use of zero-valent iron nanoparticles (nZVI) is an emerging application for environmental remediation. In the present work, the effect of mild nZVI conditions (2.5, 10, and 25 mg L−1) on the bacteria biofilm and growth of both planktonic and sessile cells based on a Pseudomonas putida (P. putida) model was studied. Core shell nZVI nanoparticles...
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This study aims to improve the experimentally low performance of p-SnS/n-ZnMgO thin film solar cells (TFSCs). We report a modification in the p-SnS/n-ZnMgO cell structure to address the issues with the help of detailed numerical modeling and analysis via solar cell capacitance simulator software (SCAPS). Here, CdS is used as a thin buffer layer abo...
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Angiogenesis is considered one of the hallmarks in tumor biology which contributes to metastasis and tumor progression by promoting the growth and development of blood vessels in order to supply nutrients and oxygen to the growing cancer cells. Numerous attempts have been made to target the mechanism of angiogenesis, out of which the most approacha...
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In this work, we conduct a comprehensive computational study of the optical and photothermal properties of multifunctional α-Fe2O3/Au/SiO2 nanorice matryoshka nanoparticles using a combination of boundary element method, finite element method, and discontinuous Galerkin time-domain method. The magnetic core in the nanorice allows their use as a con...
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Leather is the transformed product obtained from processing of raw skins and hides flayed from animals. Proteins, being the main constituent of the raw materials with about 70% moisture, are prone to microbial attack. Preservation of the raw materials is quintessential to retain the protein matrix for successful leather production. Common salt to t...
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Herein, a facile approach for preparing nickel oxide nanoparticles coupled with manganese oxide nanorods (N[email protected]) was reported for the first time. The nickel oxide nanoparticles, manganese oxide nanorods, and nanocomposite material were prepared using simple and inexpensive co-precipitation, hydrothermal, and sonication methods. The structu...
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The ultra-black skin of the deep-sea dragonfish consists of small pigment particles which together provide optimal light absorption to prevent detection from bioluminescent predators or prey. The mechanism of light absorption in these pigment particles resembles the nanophotonic approaches to increase solar cell efficiency via Mie scattering and re...
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The thermal decomposition of organometallic precursors in the presence of surfactants and a long-chain alcohol is a valuable method to synthesize magnetic nanoparticles (MNPs) because it provides good control of the final morphology and crystallinity of the magnetic material. These parameters, and consequently the magnetic properties, depend on sev...
