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Making waves: Pioneering a nanoconfinement platform with mesoporous silica for sustainable water management and environmental applications.
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Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL 60208, USA. Electronic address:
Nanomaterials applied in industrial processes and environmental fields usually demand immobilization and recovery strategies that often result in functionality loss and added operational costs. Nanoconfinement, the spatial restriction of nano-sized particles within a larger porous substrate, not only can address critical challenges and sustainability concerns in environmental nanotechnology but also offers unique opportunities otherwise inaccessible by unconfined, bulk-phase nanomaterials. In this perspective, we propose mesoporous silica (mSiO) as an innovative framework for spatially confining metal nanoparticles in a well-controlled manner, offering an effective nanoconfinement engineering strategy for sustainable water management and environmental applications.
View Article and Find Full Text PDF[The story of «waves and rays» in medicine. Part 2 : The history of radiotherapy after the second world war].
Rev Med Liege
March 2025
Professeur honoraire de Radiothérapie, Uliège, Belgique.
We take up the historical epic of waves and rays in medicine, starting from the years around the Second World War. In this article, we focus on the benchmarks in the development of radiotherapy, making brief forays into the field of medical imaging when technical developments in this latter field strongly influence the evolution of the former. Following the scientific and technical advances due to the «Manhattan» project, the modern era is witnessing a multitude of medical innovations.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFWhat passes through the extinction filter? Historical and contemporary patterns of vulnerability of the most extinction-prone bird family (Aves: Rallidae).
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School of Natural Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia.
Patterns of extinction risk can vary across taxa, with species of some groups being particularly vulnerable to extinction. Rails (Aves: Rallidae) represent one of the most extreme yet well-documented cases of mass extinction within a modern vertebrate group. Between 54 and 92% of rail species became extinct following waves of human contact during both the Holocene and the Anthropocene eras, and a third of the extant species are currently threatened or near-threatened.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFExploiting Polynomial Chaos Expansion for Rapid Assessment of the Impact of Tissue Property Uncertainties in Low-Intensity Focused Ultrasound Stimulation.
Bioelectromagnetics
April 2025
Care & Cure Lab of the Electromagnetics Group (EM4Care+Cure), Department of Electrical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands.
Neuromodulation with low-intensity focused ultrasound (LIFUS) holds significant promise for noninvasive treatment of neurological disorders, but its success relies heavily on accurately targeting specific brain regions. Computational model predictions can be used to optimize LIFUS, but uncertain acoustic tissue properties can affect prediction accuracy. The Monte Carlo method is often used to quantify the impact of uncertainties, but many iterations are generally needed for accurate estimates.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFThe examination of sleep patterns in newborns, particularly premature infants, is crucial for understanding neonatal development. This study presents an automated multi-sleep state classification approach for infants in neonatal intensive care units (NICU) using multiperspective feature extraction methodologies and machine learning to assess their neurological and physical development. The datasets for this study were collected from Children's Hospital Fudan University, Shanghai and consist of electroencephalography (EEG) recordings from two datasets, one comprising 64 neonates and the other 19 neonates.
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