Real-time temperature sensing is of significance in the bio-medical field; however, the low relative temperature sensitivity is one of the major obstacles in the development of nanothermometers. Herein, we provide an effective route that engineers the interfacial layer in a core/shell/shell nanostructure to enlarge the temperature-dependent luminescence intensity ratio (LIR) variations followed by an improved . The CaF interlayer is employed to inhibit the interaction between the core and outer shell, and increase the interfacial phonon energy to enhance the negative thermal quenching effect (TQE) of Nd ions in the outer shell and positive TQE of Er ions in the core layer. Based on the temperature-dependent LIR variations of Er (650 nm) to Nd (800 nm), the maximum of 10.01% K and minimum of % 2.56% K are achieved.
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January 2025
Young Researchers and Elite Club, Omidiyeh Branch, Islamic Azad University, Omidiyeh, Iran.
Accurate estimation of interfacial tension (IFT) between nitrogen and crude oil during nitrogen-based gas injection into oil reservoirs is imperative. The previous research works dealing with prediction of IFT of oil and nitrogen systems consider synthetic oil samples such n-alkanes. In this work, we aim to utilize eight machine learning methods of Decision Tree (DT), AdaBoost (AB), Random Forest (RF), K-nearest Neighbors (KNN), Ensemble Learning (EL), Support Vector Machine (SVM), Convolutional Neural Network (CNN) and Multilayer Perceptron Artificial Neural Network (MLP-ANN) to construct data-driven intelligent models to predict crude oil - nitrogen IFT based upon experimental data of real crude oils samples encountered in underground oil reservoirs.
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January 2025
Oeschger Centre for Climate Change Research (OCCR), University of Bern, Bern, Switzerland.
The impacts of climate change on human health are often underestimated or perceived to be in a distant future. Here, we present the projected impacts of climate change in the context of COVID-19, a recent human health catastrophe. We compared projected heat mortality with COVID-19 deaths in 38 cities worldwide and found that in half of these cities, heat-related deaths could exceed annual COVID-19 deaths in less than ten years (at + 3.
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January 2025
Laboratoire Sciences et Ingénierie de la Matiére Molle, ESPCI Paris, CNRS, PSL University, Paris, France.
Stretchable elastic materials with high strength, toughness, and good ionic conductivity are highly desirable for wearable devices and stretchable batteries. Unfortunately, limited success has been reported to attain all of these properties simultaneously. Here, we report a family of ionically conductive elastomers (ICEs) without compromise between mechanical properties (high stiffness, reversible elasticity, fracture resistance) and ionic conductivity, by introducing a multiple network elastomer (MNE) architecture into a low polymer.
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January 2025
State Key Laboratory of Oral Diseases & National Clinical Research Center for Oral Diseases, West China Hospital of Stomatology, Sichuan University, Chengdu, 610041, Sichuan province, China. Electronic address:
Dental operations inherently involve a high risk of airborne cross-infection among medical staff and patients due to the exposure of respiratory secretions, which contain pathogenic microorganisms and typically spread in the form of aerosols. In order to contribute to the understanding of aerosol dynamics during dental operation and efficiently mitigate their dispersion and deposition through appropriate ventilation, 3D numerical simulations and full-scale experimental measurements were performed in this study. The indoor airflow distribution and dynamic aerosol behaviors observed under three optimized ventilation schemes (Scenario I-III) were compared with those observed under the current ventilation system.
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January 2025
College of Eco-environmental Technology, Guangdong Industry Polytechnic University, Guangzhou, 510300, China.
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