Polysaccharide-based systems have very good emulsifying and stabilizing properties, and starch plays a leading role. Their modifications should add new quality features to the product to such an extent that preserves the structure-forming properties...
Transformer-based methodologies in object detection have recently piqued considerable interest and have produced impressive results. DETR, an end-to-end object detection framework, ingeniously integrates the Transformer architecture, traditionally us...
Switchable ethoxylated amine surfactants are readily soluble in CO2 and high-saline brines. The objective of the current work is to maximize the foamability and stability of CO2 foam at 150 °F (65 °C) through adjustments in the surfactant con...
Distributed generators providing auxiliary service are an important means of guaranteeing the safe and economic operation of a distribution system. In this paper, considering an energy storage system (ESS), switchable capacitor reactor (SCR), step vo...
Among the various wearable electronic devices, textile-based piezo sensors have emerged as the most attractive sensors for practical application. In this study, a conductive nonwoven fabric is fabricated to develop a textile-based piezo sensor. This...
Regulated systems for transgene expression are useful tools in basic research and a promising platform in biomedicine due to their regulated transgene expression by an inducer. The emergence of optogenetics expression systems enabled the construction...
This paper presents a dual-mode switchable cascaded integrator-comb (CIC) filter with a wide decimation range for sigma–delta analog-to-digital converters (ADCs), enabling flexible adjustment of the output frequency rate and bandwidth. The prop...
Fast, real-time, and accurate detection of smoke characteristics in the early stage of a fire is crucial for reducing fire losses. Existing smoke detection methods mainly rely on traditional algorithms and smoke sensors, and these approaches have lim...
Metasurfaces, as emerging functional optical coatings, enable precise wavefront manipulation at the subwavelength scale. In this work, we propose a polarization-encoded switchable structured light generator based on a single-layer holographic metasur...
Stimuli-responsive Pickering emulsions are recently being progressively utilized as advanced catalyzed systems for green and sustainable chemical conversion. Hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks (H-MOFs) are regarded as promising cand...
Programmable transmissive metasurfaces provide a flexible platform for dynamic electromagnetic wavefront manipulation, yet simultaneously achieving multiple functionalities with a low-complexity binary architecture remains challenging. In this work,...
By coating plasmonic nanoparticles (NPs) with thermally responsive liquid crystals (LCs) it is possible to prepare reversibly reconfigurable plasmonic nanomaterials with prospective applications in optoelectronic devices. However, simple and versatil...
Phase-Change Materials (PCMs) are widely applied in dynamic optical modulation due to the dramatic changes in their complex refractive index caused by temperature variation. As the functionality varies, the application of a single PCM cannot meet the...
Monocular depth prediction research is essential for expanding meaning from 2D to 3D. Recent studies have focused on the application of a newly proposed encoder; however, the development within the self-supervised learning framework remains unexplore...
In the restructured electricity market, retailers are intermediaries between the electricity wholesale market and consumers. Considering the uncertainty of wholesale market price, retailers should consider the risks of their profit caused by the unce...
Based on the unique insulator-metal phase transition property of vanadium dioxide (VO2), we propose an integrated metasurface with a switchable mechanism between ultra-broadband absorption and polarization conversion, operating in the terahertz (THz)...
Poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) PNIPAAm hydrogels were modified with a new azobenzene-containing co-monomer. In this work, light responsiveness as an additional functionality, is conceptualized to induce two phase transitions in the same material, which...
An ongoing challenge in functional epigenomics is to develop tools for precise manipulation of epigenetic marks. These tools would allow moving from correlation-based to causal-based findings, a necessary step to reach conclusions on mechanistic prin...
The accurate detection of occluded tomatoes in complex greenhouse environments remains challenging due to the limited feature representation ability and high computational costs of existing models. This study proposes SWMD-YOLO, a lightweight multi-s...
Biopolymers from renewable sources are increasingly explored to reduce the carbon footprint of materials and mitigate plastic pollution. This review synthesizes the last five years of progress across the biopolymer value chain, comparing plant, micro...
Van der Waals (vdW) multiferroic tunnel junctions (MFTJs) based on two-dimensional layered materials have emerged as a promising platform for next-generation non-volatile memory devices. In this work, we propose and theoretically investigate a high-p...
Cyanobacteriochromes (CBCRs) are biliproteins for photoreception that are present in cyanobacteria. These proteins possess one or more unique cGMP-specific phosphodiesterase/adenylate cyclase/FhlA (GAF) domains that can covalently bind the linear tet...
Tungsten oxides play a pivotal role in a variety of modern technologies, e.g., switchable glasses, wastewater treatment, and modern gas sensors. Metallic tungsten is used as armor material, for example in gas turbines as well as future fusion power d...
Object detection in low-light conditions presents significant challenges due to issues such as weak contrast, high noise, and blurred boundaries. Existing methods often use image enhancement to improve detection, which results in a large amount of co...
The optical properties of light-absorbing materials in optical shutter devices are critical to the use of such platforms for optical applications. We demonstrate switchable optical properties of dyes and nanoparticles in liquid-based electrowetting-o...
Neutrophils release decondensed chromatin or extracellular traps (NETs) in response to various physiological and pharmacological stimuli. Apart from host defensive functions, NETs play an essential role in the pathogenesis of various autoimmune, infl...
A graphene-based tunable polarization conversion metasurface (PCM) was designed and analyzed for the purpose of reducing the radar cross-section (RCS) of array antennas. The metasurface comprises periodic shuttle-shaped metal patches, square-patterne...
We proposed an all-dielectric stochastically encoded metasurface operating in the 1310 nm near-infrared band, which enables multifunctional optical field manipulation across six independent polarization channels. Utilizing a shared-aperture stochasti...
HIV-1 Tat acts as a central molecular switch governing the transition between viral latency and active replication, making it a pivotal target for HIV-1 functional cure strategies. By binding to the viral long terminal repeat (LTR) and hijacking host...
Facing the dual challenges of energy shortage and environmental degradation, photocatalysis and electrocatalysis have emerged as key technologies for converting small molecules into value-added chemicals, yet their conflicting requirements on the ele...
This paper presents a novel switchable branch-line coupler (BLC) designed to achieve variable phase shifts while maintaining a constant output power. The proposed design incorporates low stepwise phase shifters with incremental phase shifts of 10°...
This paper proposes a switchable and tunable terahertz metamaterial absorber utilizing a graphene-VO2 layered structure. The design employs reconfigurable seven-layer architecture from top to bottom as (topaz/VO2/topaz/Si/graphene/topaz/Au). CST soft...
Colorectal cancer (CRC) is a prevalent gastrointestinal tumour with high incidence and mortality rates. Early screening for CRC can improve cure rates and reduce mortality. Recently, deep convolution neural network (CNN)-based pathological image diag...
Fluoropolymers represent a unique class of functional polymers due to their various interesting and important properties such as thermal stability, resistance toward chemicals, repellent behaviors, and their low refractive indices in comparison to ot...
Battery thermal management systems (BTMSs) ensure that lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) in electric vehicles (EVs) are operated in an optimal temperature range to achieve high performance and reduce risks. A conventional BTMS operates either as an active...
The introduction of a switchable function into the structure of a bioactive compound can endow it with unique capabilities for regulating biological activity under the influence of various types of external stimuli, which makes such hybrid compounds...
High-precision fish detection is the fundamental prerequisite for automated counting in aquaculture. However, current research lacks lightweight yet highly accurate detection models specifically designed to address occlusion challenges in high-densit...
This study introduces a switchable and tunable multimodal, multi-peak, perfect terahertz absorber, utilizing a composite structure of graphene and double concentric metal rings. From bottom to top, the absorber consists of a gold substrate, a SiO2 di...
This paper introduces a hybrid building-integrated photovoltaic façade that brings together a 240 Wp mono PERC photovoltaic (PV) module and an electrically switchable Polymer Dispersed Liquid Crystal glazing unit within a single layered compon...
Keeping the bus voltage within acceptable limits depends on dispatching reactive power. Power quality improves as a result of creating an effective power flow system, which also helps to reduce power loss. Therefore, optimal reactive power dispatch (...
Major depressive disorder (MDD) lacks reliable laboratory tests for diagnosis and treatment monitoring, underscoring the need for robust molecular readouts in blood. Beyond symptom-based classification, MDD can also be viewed as a condition involving...
A 248 nm KrF excimer laser can be used to manufacture temperature and pH-responsive polymer-based membranes for controlled transport applications. This is done by a two-step approach. In the first step, well-defined/shaped and orderly pores are creat...
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