Structural health monitoring (SHM) is essential for preserving historical and modern infrastructure by tracking dynamic properties such as frequencies and mode shapes. Changes in these properties can indicate structural damage, but environmental fact...
The multiferroic RFe3(BO3)4 family is characterized by diverse magnetic, magnetoelectric, and magnetoelastic properties, the fundamental aspects of which are essential for modern electronics. The present research, using single-crystal X-ray diffracti...
Liposomes, spherical bilayer lipid-containing vesicles, are promising nanocarriers used for constructing drug delivery systems (DDS). Various strategies can be employed to loosen or break the liposome and release drugs as the tumor cells-targeting DD...
In this paper, the structure and phase transition temperature of bulk silicate materials are studied by the simulation method (SM) of molecular dynamics (MD). In this research, all samples are prepared on the same nanoscale material model with the at...
Water interacting with clay minerals—such as kaolinite, montmorillonite, and pyrophyllite—fundamentally governs their geotechnical and environmental functions, thereby influencing parameters such as retention, transport, and stability. Un...
The robustness and stability of the system depend on structural integrity. This stability is, however, compromised by aging, wear and tear, overloads, and environmental factors. A study of vibration and fatigue cracking for structural health monitori...
Urban heat dynamics are strongly influenced by the interaction between built structures, surface materials, and vegetation cover. This study investigates the relationship between land surface temperature (LST) and key urban morphological and structur...
The effect of temperature change on modal frequencies leads to erroneous results in the detection of structural damage. Therefore, quantifying the temperature dependency of modal frequencies is essential to improve the reliability of damage identific...
Bombyx mori silk fibroin is a promising biopolymer with notable mechanical strength, biocompatibility, and potential for diverse biomedical applications, such as tissue engineering scaffolds, and drug delivery. These properties are intrinsically link...
There are obvious differences in shape and space between the large-span spatial structure and the traditional steel structure, and there will be openings at the top of the spatial structure. However, there are few studies on the fire of the spherical...
Structural health monitoring (SHM) has been widely used for the performance assessment of bridges, especially the methods based on dynamic characteristics. Meanwhile, bridge modal frequency is influenced significantly by environmental factors, such a...
The microcrack initiation and evolution behavior of Fe-C alloy under uniaxial tensile loading are investigated using molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The model is stretched along the z-axis at a strain rate of 2 × 109 s−1 and temperat...
We performed an extensive study on the most stable structures, the electronic properties, and the thermal stability of the 2D biphenylene sheet decorated with Li atoms. Our structural results show that the Li storage capacity of biphenylene is much h...
The aim of this work is to investigate the effects of different force fields and temperatures on the structural character of Aβ (12–28) peptide in aqueous solution. Moreover, the structural character of Aβ (12–28) peptide is compared with other amylo...
The deformation structures formed in an Al-0.1Mg single-phase aluminium alloy have been studied during plane strain compression (PSC) down to liquid nitrogen temperature, following prior equal channel angular extrusion (ECAE) to a strain of ten. Unde...
This study deals with the impact of the heating rate (HR), temperature (T), and the number of atoms (N) on the structural features of amorphous nanoparticles (ANPs) of Ni by molecular dynamics simulation (MDS) with the Pak–Doyama pair interacti...
Combining tooth surface induction heating and shot peening is an efficient method to improve tooth surface performance. Reasonable designs of the induction coil structure and parameters are essential for achieving uniform and efficient tooth surface...
The experimental evaluation of fire resistance limits for steel constructions with fire-retardant coatings consists of a lot of experiments on the heating of steel structures of buildings by solving a heat engineering problem at various fire conditio...
Isosymmetric phase transitions (IPTs) represent a rare class of solid-state transformations in which substantial structural reorganization occurs without a change in crystallographic symmetry. These phenomena, though subtle, can have a profound impac...
Brillouin scattering in optical fiber describes the interaction of an electro-magnetic field (photon) with a characteristic density variation of the fiber. When the electric field amplitude of an optical beam (so-called pump wave), and another wave i...
In this study, molecular dynamics simulations are employed to study the influencing factors such as doping concentration, number of atoms, and temperature on the structural characteristics, phase transition, and crystallization of Fe1-x-yNixCoy alloy...
Establishing the relationship among the composition, structure and property of the associated materials at the molecular level is of great significance to the rational design of high-performance electrical insulating Epoxy Resin (EP) and its composit...
The deformation behaviors of a gradient-structured (GS) Mg-Gd-Y-Zr alloy, prepared via surface mechanical attrition treatment (SMAT), were systematically investigated in comparison with those of a uniform coarse-grained (CG) counterpart by high-tempe...
Temporal changes in plant tissue non-structural carbohydrates (NSC) may be sensitive to climate changes that alter forest phenology. We examined how temporal fluctuations in tissue NSC concentrations of Populus grandidentata and Quercus rubra relate...
We studied the dependence of dissolution of silk fibroin (SF) in mixtures of DMSO with ionic liquids (ILs) on the temperature (T = 40 to 80 °C) and DMSO mole fraction (χDMSO = 0.5 to 0.9). The ILs included BuMeImAcO, C3OMeImAcO, AlBzMe2NAcO,...
1H and 19F spin-lattice relaxation experiments have been performed for a series of ionic liquids sharing the same anion: bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide but including cations of different alkyl chain lengths: butyltriethylammonium, triethyloctylam...
We performed molecular dynamics (MD) simulations to study structure, stability, and dynamics of the water adsorption layer on muscovite mica at several temperatures (from 298 K to 673 K) and pressures (0.1 MPa, 10 MPa, and 50 MPa). We studied the str...
[NH3(CH2)5NH3]MnCl4 crystals are grown via slow evaporation, and the crystal undergoes a phase transition at 298 K (TC) according to differential scanning calorimetry, and the structures determined via X-ray diffraction at 173 and 333 K are orthorhom...
Understanding the heterogeneous nano/microscopic structures of various organic glasses is fundamental and necessary for many applications. Recently, unusual structural phenomena have been observed experimentally in various organic glasses near their...
Glass transition temperature (Tg) is an important material property, which predetermines the kinetic stability of amorphous solids. In the context of active pharmaceutical ingredients (API), there is motivation to maximize their Tg by forming amorpho...
Plasmodium vivax malaria affects 14 million people each year. Its invasion requires interactions between the parasitic Duffy-binding protein (PvDBP) and the N-terminal extracellular domain (ECD1) of the host’s Duffy antigen/receptor for chemoki...
Thin film ferromagnet/antiferromagnet (F/AF) exchange biased structures that are widely used in GMR spin valves are considered nowadays as promising systems for antiferromagnetic spintronic and spin-orbitronic devices. Here, the temperature dependenc...
Boiling heat transfer, utilizing latent heat during phase change, has widely been used due to its high thermal efficiency and plays an important role in existing and next-generation cooling technologies. The most critical parameter in boiling heat tr...
Structural features of new mixed bismuth-containing samarium iron–aluminium borate single crystals Sm1−xBixFe3−yAly(BO3)4 (x = 0.05–0.07, y = 0–0.28) were studied using X-ray diffraction analysis based on aluminium conte...
Sessile marine organisms form the foundation of many coastal ecosystems, playing crucial roles in functions like water filtration and habitat provision. Understanding their population dynamics—particularly the interplay of growth, reproduction,...
Piezoelectric pressure sensors for dynamic monitoring face a trade-off between charge output and measurement range, and existing high-sensitivity designs are largely confined to narrow ranges. This study presents a composite layered piezoelectric pre...
Insufficient selectivity is a major constraint to the further development of metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) sensors for chemical warfare agents, and this paper proposed an improved scheme combining catalytic layer/gas-sensitive layer laminated struc...
Catalytic oxidation has proven to be an effective method for treating low-concentration ventilation air methane. However, regenerative catalytic oxidizers (RCOs) used for ventilation air methane (VAM) treatment often face engineering challenges such...
The specifics of a shock wave propagation down a positive column of a DC discharge in molecular chemically inert gases has been investigated. It was shown that axial gradients caused by the imbalance in the charged particle momentum transfer to the g...
The main issues associated with cement concrete pavements are cracks and broken plates that affect driving comfort and road service life. To ensure sustainable use of the cement concrete, a buffer layer (AC-10) can be introduced between the base and...
Composites with a copper matrix attract the attention of researchers due to their ability to combine high ductility, heat conductivity, and electrical conductivity of the matrix with the high hardness and strength of the reinforcing phases. In this p...
The structure and properties of the arginine-glycine-aspartate (RGD) sequence of the 1FUV peptide at 0 K and body temperature (310 K) are systematically investigated in a dry and aqueous environment using more accurate ab initio molecular dynamics an...
We study the microstructural properties and state of hydration of aqueous low-molecular-weight poly(N,N-dimethylaminoethyl methacrylate) (PDMAEMA) solutions and their dependence on polymer concentration and pH by means of detailed atomistic Molecular...
The temperature distribution of the cucumber canopy in an energy-saving solar greenhouse was simulated in this study. The canopy temperature data of autumn and winter cucumber were collected using temperature sensors, and the spatial heterogeneity of...
In critical healthcare units, such as operation theaters and intensive care units, healthcare workers require specific temperature environments at different stages of an operation, which depends upon the condition of the patient and the requirements...
Polypropylene (PP) concrete, a kind of high-performance fiber-reinforced concrete, is widely used in large concrete structures. Studies on the dynamic mechanical properties of polypropylene concrete under temperature–impact load can provide a t...
Cracks caused by environmental temperature and humidity variation are generally considered one of the most important factors causing durability deterioration of concrete structures. The seasonal or daily variation of ambient temperature and humidity...
Acrylonitrile butadiene styrene (ABS) offers good mechanical properties and is effective in use to make polymeric structures for industrial applications. It is one of the most common raw material used for printing structures with fused deposition mod...
High-temperature body-centered cubic (BCC)
Proteins from Sulfolobus solfataricus (S. solfataricus), an extremophile, are active even at high temperatures. The single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) binding protein of S. solfataricus (SsoSSB) is overexpressed to protect ssDNA during DNA metabolism. Altho...
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