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View article: Proton-exchange membrane
Proton-exchange membrane Open
A proton-exchange membrane includes a polymer matrix, polymer fibers, or a combination thereof. The proton-exchange membrane also includes a proton-conducting material distributed on the polymer matrix, on the polymer fibers, in the polyme…
View article: Mini-Giants: "Small" Language Models and Open Source Win-Win
Mini-Giants: "Small" Language Models and Open Source Win-Win Open
ChatGPT is phenomenal. However, it is prohibitively expensive to train and refine such giant models. Fortunately, small language models are flourishing and becoming more and more competent. We call them "mini-giants". We argue that open so…
View article: Single Ion Conducting Hairy Nanoparticle Additive to Improve Cycling Stability of Solid Polymer Electrolytes
Single Ion Conducting Hairy Nanoparticle Additive to Improve Cycling Stability of Solid Polymer Electrolytes Open
The development of a solid electrolyte that can impede dendrite growth while still maintaining an appropriate level of conductivity is essential for improving performance of solid-state Li-ion battery. In this paper, we report the synthesi…
View article: Inverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better
Inverse Scaling: When Bigger Isn't Better Open
Work on scaling laws has found that large language models (LMs) show predictable improvements to overall loss with increased scale (model size, training data, and compute). Here, we present evidence for the claim that LMs may show inverse …
View article: Beyond Positive Scaling: How Negation Impacts Scaling Trends of Language Models
Beyond Positive Scaling: How Negation Impacts Scaling Trends of Language Models Open
Language models have been shown to exhibit positive scaling, where performance improves as models are scaled up in terms of size, compute, or data. In this work, we introduce NeQA, a dataset consisting of questions with negation in which l…
View article: Adapting Pre-trained Vision Transformers from 2D to 3D through Weight Inflation Improves Medical Image Segmentation
Adapting Pre-trained Vision Transformers from 2D to 3D through Weight Inflation Improves Medical Image Segmentation Open
Given the prevalence of 3D medical imaging technologies such as MRI and CT that are widely used in diagnosing and treating diverse diseases, 3D segmentation is one of the fundamental tasks of medical image analysis. Recently, Transformer-b…
View article: Beyond Positive Scaling: How Negation Impacts Scaling Trends of Language Models
Beyond Positive Scaling: How Negation Impacts Scaling Trends of Language Models Open
Language models have been shown to exhibit positive scaling, where performance improves as models are scaled up in terms of size, compute, or data. In this work, we introduce NeQA, a dataset consisting of questions with negation in which l…
View article: Breeding of the Long-Grain Restorer of Indica-Japonica Hybrid Rice by Using the Genetic Effects of Grain Shape QTLs
Breeding of the Long-Grain Restorer of Indica-Japonica Hybrid Rice by Using the Genetic Effects of Grain Shape QTLs Open
Grain shape improvement, which determines grain yield, quality traits and commercial value, is an extremely important aspect of rice breeding. Grain size is controlled by multiple genes, and Maker Assistant Selection (MAS) breeding is effe…
View article: Physically Plausible Animation of Human Upper Body from a Single Image
Physically Plausible Animation of Human Upper Body from a Single Image Open
We present a new method for generating controllable, dynamically responsive, and photorealistic human animations. Given an image of a person, our system allows the user to generate Physically plausible Upper Body Animation (PUBA) using int…
View article: Unraveling a path for multi-cycle recycling of tailored fiber-reinforced vitrimer composites
Unraveling a path for multi-cycle recycling of tailored fiber-reinforced vitrimer composites Open
View article: No-Tillage Combined with Appropriate Amount of Straw Returning Increased Soil Biochemical Properties
No-Tillage Combined with Appropriate Amount of Straw Returning Increased Soil Biochemical Properties Open
(1) Background: Few studies have focused on the interaction of tillage and straw returning on soil carbon and nitrogen. Therefore, this study was conducted for investigating the effects of tillage and straw returning on soil biochemical pr…
View article: Tuning the Properties of Nanocomposites by Trapping Them in Deep Metastable States
Tuning the Properties of Nanocomposites by Trapping Them in Deep Metastable States Open
We report the interfacial region formed in a polymer matrix around nanoparticles (NPs) controls many macroscopic properties of polymer nanocomposites (PNCs). However, understanding the factors controlling structure and properties of interf…
View article: Polybenzimidazole-Based Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for High-Temperature Fuel Cells: Current Status and Prospects
Polybenzimidazole-Based Polymer Electrolyte Membranes for High-Temperature Fuel Cells: Current Status and Prospects Open
Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) expect a promising future in addressing the major problems associated with production and consumption of renewable energies and meeting the future societal and environmental needs. Design an…
View article: Recent Developments and Challenges in Hybrid Solid Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries
Recent Developments and Challenges in Hybrid Solid Electrolytes for Lithium-Ion Batteries Open
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) have attracted worldwide research interest due to their high energy density and long cycle life. Solid-state LIBs improve the safety of conventional liquid-based LIBs by replacing the flammable organic electrol…
View article: Bridging-Controlled Network Microstructure and Long-Wavelength Fluctuations in Silica–Poly(2-vinylpyridine) Nanocomposites: Experimental Results and Theoretical Analysis
Bridging-Controlled Network Microstructure and Long-Wavelength Fluctuations in Silica–Poly(2-vinylpyridine) Nanocomposites: Experimental Results and Theoretical Analysis Open
We have performed small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) measurements to study the evolution of length-scale-dependent nanoparticle (NP) correlations over a wide range of loadings in miscible silica–poly(2-vinylpyridine) polymer nanocomposite…
View article: A comparative experimental study of the hygroscopic and mechanical behaviors of electrospun nanofiber membranes and solution‐cast films of polybenzimidazole
A comparative experimental study of the hygroscopic and mechanical behaviors of electrospun nanofiber membranes and solution‐cast films of polybenzimidazole Open
This article reports a comparative experimental study of the hygroscopic and mechanical behaviors of electrospun polybenzimidazole (PBI) nanofiber membranes and solution‐cast PBI films. As‐electrospun nonwoven PBI nanofiber mats (with the …
View article: N-doped honeycomb-like porous carbon towards high-performance supercapacitor
N-doped honeycomb-like porous carbon towards high-performance supercapacitor Open
View article: Enhancing Transformer with Sememe Knowledge
Enhancing Transformer with Sememe Knowledge Open
While large-scale pretraining has achieved great success in many NLP tasks, it has not been fully studied whether external linguistic knowledge can improve data-driven models. In this work, we introduce sememe knowledge into Transformer an…
View article: Finding new QTL for yield traits based on a high-density genetic map in the super hybrid rice Nei2You No.6
Finding new QTL for yield traits based on a high-density genetic map in the super hybrid rice Nei2You No.6 Open
Background Rice is one of the most important food crops in the world. To determine the genetic basis of yield components in super rice Nei2You No.6, 387 recombinant inbred sister lines (RISLs) were obtained for mapping quantitative trait l…
View article: Multifunctional Hybrid Nanomaterials for Energy Storage
Multifunctional Hybrid Nanomaterials for Energy Storage Open
View article: Block copolymer derived uniform mesopores enable ultrafast electron and ion transport at high mass loadings
Block copolymer derived uniform mesopores enable ultrafast electron and ion transport at high mass loadings Open
View article: Block copolymer–based porous carbon fibers
Block copolymer–based porous carbon fibers Open
The use of block copolymers as precursors revolutionizes the synthesis of porous carbon fibers with highly uniform pores.
View article: What and Where: A Context-based Recommendation System for Object Insertion
What and Where: A Context-based Recommendation System for Object Insertion Open
In this work, we propose a novel topic consisting of two dual tasks: 1) given a scene, recommend objects to insert, 2) given an object category, retrieve suitable background scenes. A bounding box for the inserted object is predicted in bo…
View article: Binder Free Hierarchical Mesoporous Carbon Foam for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery
Binder Free Hierarchical Mesoporous Carbon Foam for High Performance Lithium Ion Battery Open
A hierarchical mesoporous carbon foam (ECF) with an interconnected micro-/mesoporous architecture was prepared and used as a binder-free, low-cost, high-performance anode for lithium ion batteries. Due to its high specific surface area (98…
View article: Modeling of interfacial and bulk charge transfer in dye-sensitized solar cells
Modeling of interfacial and bulk charge transfer in dye-sensitized solar cells Open
A simple, first-principles mathematical model has been developed to analyze the effect of interfacial and bulk charge transfer on the power output characteristics of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs). Under steady state operating conditio…
View article: Characteristics of SnO2 nanofiber/TiO2 nanoparticle composite for dye-sensitized solar cells
Characteristics of SnO2 nanofiber/TiO2 nanoparticle composite for dye-sensitized solar cells Open
SnO2 nanofibers and their composites based photoanodes were fabricated and investigated in the application of dye-sensitized solar cells. The photoanode made of SnO2/TiO2 composites yielded an over 2-fold improvement in overall conversion …