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Highly efficient perovskite solar cells with a compositionally engineered perovskite/hole transporting material interface Open
We demonstrate reduced charge recombination by formation of an engineered passivating layer, which leads to an enhanced power conversion efficiency of 21%.
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Elastocapillarity: When Surface Tension Deforms Elastic Solids Open
Although negligible at large scales, capillary forces may become dominant for submillimetric objects. Surface tension is usually associated with the spherical shape of small droplets and bubbles, wetting phenomena, imbibition, or the motio…
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From DNA Nanotechnology to Material Systems Engineering Open
In the past 35 years, DNA nanotechnology has grown to a highly innovative and vibrant field of research at the interface of chemistry, materials science, biotechnology, and nanotechnology. Herein, a short summary of the state of research i…
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Acidity across the interface from the ocean surface to sea spray aerosol Open
Significance Sea spray aerosol, produced through breaking waves, is one of the largest sources of environmental particles. Once in the atmosphere, sea spray aerosol influences cloud formation, serves as microenvironments for multiphase atm…
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Towards centimeter thick transparent wood through interface manipulation Open
A centimeter-thick transparent wood structure was realized through interface manipulation.
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Wettability and Flow Rate Impacts on Immiscible Displacement: A Theoretical Model Open
When a more viscous fluid displaces a less viscous one in porous media, viscous pressure drop stabilizes the displacement front against capillary pressure fluctuation. For this favorable viscous ratio conditions, previous studies focused o…
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High wildfire damage in interface communities in California Open
Globally, and in the US, wildfires pose increasing risk to people and their homes. Wildfire management assumes that buildings burn primarily in the wildland–urban interface (WUI), where homes are either ignited directly (especially in inte…
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Advances in polymers based Multi-Material Additive-Manufacturing Techniques: State-of-art review on properties and applications Open
Recently, the demand and studies related with Multi-Material Additive Manufacturing (MMAM) is continuously increasing. To uncover the essential knowledge hidden in the current mess of research works, this study, based on a simple review me…
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Wettability impact on supercritical CO<sub>2</sub> capillary trapping: Pore‐scale visualization and quantification Open
How the wettability of pore surfaces affects supercritical (sc) CO 2 capillary trapping in geologic carbon sequestration (GCS) is not well understood, and available evidence appears inconsistent. Using a high‐pressure micromodel‐microscopy…
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The effect of viscosity and surface tension on inkjet printed picoliter dots Open
In this study, we investigated the effect of liquid viscosity and surface tension for inkjet printing on porous cellulose sheets.
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Mapping Canadian wildland fire interface areas Open
Destruction of human-built structures occurs in the ‘wildland–urban interface’ (WUI) – where homes or other burnable community structures meet with or are interspersed within wildland fuels. To mitigate WUI fires, basic information such as…
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Imaging and Measurement of Pore‐Scale Interfacial Curvature to Determine Capillary Pressure Simultaneously With Relative Permeability Open
There are a number of challenges associated with the determination of relative permeability and capillary pressure. It is difficult to measure both parameters simultaneously on the same sample using conventional methods. Instead, separate …
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Materials and Methods of Biosensor Interfaces With Stability Open
Biosensors can convert the concentration of biological analytes into an electrical signal or other signals for detection. They are widely used in medical diagnostics, food safety, process control, and environmental monitoring fields. In re…
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Structure of Particle Networks in Capillary Suspensions with Wetting and Nonwetting Fluids Open
The mechanical properties of a suspension can be dramatically altered by adding a small amount of a secondary fluid that is immiscible with the bulk phase. The substantial changes in the strength of these capillary suspensions arise due to…
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A hybrid lattice Boltzmann and finite difference method for droplet dynamics with insoluble surfactants Open
Droplet dynamics in microfluidic applications is significantly influenced by surfactants. It remains a research challenge to model and simulate droplet behaviour including deformation, breakup and coalescence, especially in the confined mi…
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Interface structures and twinning mechanisms of twins in hexagonal metals Open
In this paper, a controversy concerning the description of {1¯012} {1¯012} twinning, whether it is shear-shuffle or pure glide-shuffle or pure shuffle, has developed. There is disagreement about the interpretation of transmission electron …
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Signatures of fluid–fluid displacement in porous media: wettability, patterns and pressures Open
We develop a novel ‘moving-capacitor’ dynamic network model to simulate immiscible fluid–fluid displacement in porous media. Traditional network models approximate the pore geometry as a network of fixed resistors, directly analogous to an…
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Second-Order Vibrational Lineshapes from the Air/Water Interface Open
We explore by means of modeling how absorptive-dispersive mixing between the second- and third-order terms modifies the imaginary χtotal(2) responses from air/water interfaces under conditions of varying charge densities and ionic strength…
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Critical challenges and advances in the carbon nanotube–metal interface for next-generation electronics Open
In this paper the major challenges of CNT–metal systems and a few of their potential applications in future electronics are reviewed.
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Proper Use of Capillary Number in Chemical Flooding Open
Capillary number theory is very important for chemical flooding enhanced oil recovery. The difference between microscopic capillary number and the microscopic one is easy to confuse. After decades of development, great progress has been ma…
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Bioapplications of DNA nanotechnology at the solid–liquid interface Open
This review provides an insight into the bioapplications of DNA nanotechnology at the solid–liquid interfaces, including flat interfaces, nanoparticle interfaces and soft interfaces.
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Horizontal Motion of a Superhydrophobic Substrate Affects the Drop Bouncing Dynamics Open
While the drop impact dynamics on stationary surfaces has been widely studied, the way a drop impacts a moving solid is by far less known. Here, we report the physical mechanisms of water drops impacting on superhydrophobic surfaces with h…
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Effects of intermediate wettability on entry capillary pressure in angular pores Open
Entry capillary pressure is one of the most important factors controlling drainage and remobilization of the capillary-trapped phases as it is the limiting factor against the two-phase displacement. It is known that the entry capillary pre…
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Hybrid magnetic nanoparticles as efficient nanoheaters in biomedical applications Open
In this minireview we discuss and provide a perspective on the novel systems, the synthesis routes and the interface-mediated properties that determine the heating efficiency of hybrid magnetic nanoparticles.
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Mechanism simulation of oil displacement by imbibition in fractured reservoirs Open
The mechanism model of both static and dynamic imbibition considering capillary pressure and gravity was presented based on the imbibition mechanisms and seepage theory. The validation of the model was performed using published experiment …
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Forced Wetting Transition and Bubble Pinch-Off in a Capillary Tube Open
Immiscible fluid-fluid displacement in partial wetting continues to challenge our microscopic and macroscopic descriptions. Here, we study the displacement of a viscous fluid by a less viscous fluid in a circular capillary tube in the part…
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Advanced strategies for solid electrolyte interface design with MOF materials Open
Emerging energy technologies, aimed at addressing the challenges of energy scarcity and environmental pollution, have become a focal point for society. However, these actualities present significant challenges for modern energy storage dev…
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Droplet spreading and capillary imbibition in a porous medium: A coupled IB-VOF method based numerical study Open
We investigate the dynamics of a liquid droplet in contact with a surface of a porous structure by means of the pore-scale level, fully resolved numerical simulations. The geometrical details of the solid porous matrix are resolved by a sh…
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Surface Plasmon Resonance (SPR) Combined Technology: A Powerful Tool for Investigating Interface Phenomena Open
Interface phenomena refer to the phenomena caused by various physical and chemical processes occurring at phase interfaces. These phenomena can include adhesion, friction, lubrication, evaporation, condensation, adsorption, monolayer forma…
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Buried‐Interface Engineering Enables Efficient and 1960‐Hour ISOS‐L‐2I Stable Inverted Perovskite Solar Cells Open
High‐performance perovskite solar cells (PSCs) typically require interfacial passivation, yet this is challenging for the buried interface, owing to the dissolution of passivation agents during the deposition of perovskites. Here, this lim…