When quantum flavor Hall insulator phases of itinerant fermions are disordered by strong quantum fluctuations, the condensation of skyrmion textures of order parameter fields can lead to superconductivity. In this wor...
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Biodiesel is an alternative fuel produced by chemical reaction between vegetable oil or animal fat with alcohol and catalyst. The preliminary treatment in extraction of biodiesel feedstock is an important process to o...
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Bacterial biofilms are troublesome in the treatment of bacterial infectious diseases due to their inherent resistance to antibiotic therapy. Exploration of alternative antibiofilm reagents provides opportunities to ac...
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Microalgae's high protein content makes them an attractive feedstock for aquaculture feed applications. However, an economical and effective mass cultivation is essential for greater feasibility in microalgal-base...
Microalgae's high protein content makes them an attractive feedstock for aquaculture feed applications. However, an economical and effective mass cultivation is essential for greater feasibility in microalgal-based aquaculture applications. Therefore, in this research the utilization of wastewater for microalgal cultivation using two local species of Chlamydomonas sp. UKM6 and Scenedesmus sp. UKM9 were discussed with particular attention to the feasibility of utilizing POME as microalgal growth medium for the production of bulk biomass. The growth rate for Chlamydomonas sp. UKM6 and Scenedesmus sp. UKM9 grown in Bold's Basal Media (BBM) were found higher (0.2829, 0.4045 day-1) than in POME (0.160, 0.255 day-1). Their biomass were then applied as zooplankton enrichment feed for Daphnia magna and then subsequently for feeding fish larvae. The result shown that enriched Daphnia using Scenedesmus sp. UKM9 microalgae promotes better growth, survival and fecundity of fish larvae (P>0.05) than the control diet using dried yeast. Thus, this research indicating the feasibility of culturing microalgae using wastewater as a means to reduce the cost of production is possible and therefore can be applied in aquaculture feed industries.
A negatively curved aza-nanographene (NG) containing two octagons was synthesized by a regioselective and stepwise cyclodehydrogenation procedure, in which a double aza[7]helicene was simultaneously formed as an inter...
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A negatively curved aza-nanographene (NG) containing two octagons was synthesized by a regioselective and stepwise cyclodehydrogenation procedure, in which a double aza[7]helicene was simultaneously formed as an intermediate. Their saddle-shaped structures with negative curvature were unambiguously confirmed by X-ray crystallography, thereby enabling the exploration of the structure–property relationship by photophysical, electrochemical and conformational studies. Moreover, the assembly of the octagon-embedded aza-NG with fullerenes was probed by fluorescence spectral titration, with record-high binding constants ( K a =9.5×10 3 M −1 with C 60 , K a =3.7×10 4 M −1 with C 70 ) found among reported negatively curved polycyclic aromatic compounds. The tight association of aza-NG with C 60 was further elucidated by X-ray diffraction analysis of their co-crystal, which showed the formation of a 1 : 1 complex with substantial concave-convex interactions.
Microalgae have drawn significant interest worldwide, owing to their enormous application potential in the green energy, biopharmaceutical, and nutraceutical industries. Many studies have proved and stated the potenti...
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Developing efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)under neutral conditions is important for microbial electrolysis cells(MECs).However,the OER kinetics in neutral electrolytes at present are ...
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Developing efficient electrocatalysts for the oxygen evolution reaction(OER)under neutral conditions is important for microbial electrolysis cells(MECs).However,the OER kinetics in neutral electrolytes at present are extremely sluggish,resulting in high overpotentials that greatly limit the energy conversion efficiencies of *** studies failed to probe the adsorbates on surface metal sites of catalysts at the atomic scale and elucidate their influence on the catalytic activities,which has impeded the rational design of efficient neutral OER catalysts with optimal surface ***,using in situ transmission electron microscopy(TEM),in situ X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy(XPS)and in situ low-energy ion scattering studies,we have identified,for the first time,that the electrochemically activated adsorbates on surface metal sites play a critical role in boosting the neutral OER activities of Ru-Ir binary oxide(RuxIryO2)*** adsorbate-activated RuxIryO2on a glassy carbon electrode achieved a low overpotential of 324 m V at10 m A cm-2in neutral electrolyte,with a 36-fold improvement in turnover frequency compared with that of Ir *** application in an MEC system,the resulting full cell showed a decreased voltage of 1.8 V,200 m V lower than the best value reported to date,facilitating efficient synthesis of poly(3-hydroxybutyrate)from bioelectrochemical *** functional theory(DFT)studies revealed that the enhanced OER activity of RuxIryO2catalyst arose from local structural distortion of adjacent adsorbate-covered Ru octahedra at the catalyst surface and the consequently decreased adsorption energies of OER intermediates on Ir active center.
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