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‘Electric vehicles will cut maintenance costs by 70%’

The Group Managing Director of Nedcomoaks Group, Dr Ned Okonkwo, has stated that the adoption of electric vehicles will help reduce maintenance by almost 70 per cent. He stated this on Tuesday at the agreement signing ceremony for 2,000 EVs by CIG Motors, Nedcomoaks and Fidelity Bank in Lagos. He noted that the partnership was


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NERC delays electricity tariff review for fourth time

The implementation of the Multi-Year Tariff Order (MYTO) framework for electricity pricing has again been delayed for the fourth minor review which occurs every six months. Daily Trust reports that the tariff which should now be at an average of N51 per kilowatt hour (kWh) is still at N31.8 as the implementation of the reviews […]

NERC delays electricity tariff review for fourth time




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South Asia Subregional Economic Cooperation Electricity Transmission and Distribution Strengthening Project




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Electrical Pulses to Scalp May Boost Memory: Study

Title: Electrical Pulses to Scalp May Boost Memory: Study
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Electric vehicles race combustion cars in 'battle of technologies'

‘Battle of Technologies’ sees electric vehicles and combustion cars compete at the highest level. Who will win?




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Electric vehicles could save thousands of lives by reducing pollution, new study finds

Researchers calculated that if 30 per cent of vehicles in Chicago currently running on combustion engines were converted to electric, the reduction in pollution would save billions in health care costs every year. 



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Trump eyes major Day One moves on the border, energy production, electric vehicles and more

President-elect Donald Trump vowed on his first day in office to sign an executive order that seeks to end birthright citizenship for the children of illegal immigrants and kick-start the largest deportation effort in the nation's history.




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Hashtag Trending Mar.1- HP debacle; Humanoid robots closer to hitting our workplaces; Apple blew $10 billion on the electric car before pulling the plug

If rumours are true and this one should be, I started it, we have a special edition of the Weekend show where we talk about the evolution of the role of the CIO with two incredible CIOs as the CIO Association of Canada turns 20. Don’t miss it.  MUSIC UP Can HP make you love […]

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Electric skin patch could keep wounds free of infection

Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood poisoning




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Clean Energy Is Bringing Electricity to Many in the Navajo Nation

Thousands of homes in Navajo and other tribal lands don’t have access to electricity. A $200-million federal funding effort aims to fix that problem with solar power and other clean energy




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Consciousness Might Hide in Our Brain’s Electric Fields

A mysterious electromagnetic mechanism may be more important than the firing of neurons in our brain to explain our awareness




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Magnetoelectric Material Stimulates Neurons Minimally Invasively

Researchers at Rice University have developed a magnetoelectric material that converts a magnetic field into an electric field. The material can be formulated such that it can be injected into the body, near a neuron, and then an alternating magnetic field can be applied to the area from outside the body. Magnetic fields are very […]




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Electrical Stitches Speed Wound Healing in Rats



Surgical stitches that generate electricity can help wounds heal faster in rats, a new study from China finds.

In the body, electricity helps the heart beat, causes muscles to contract, and enables the body to communicate with the brain. Now scientists are increasingly using electricity to promote healing with so-called electroceuticals. These electrotherapies often seek to mimic the electrical signals the body naturally uses to help new cells migrate to wounds to support the healing process.

In the new study, researchers focused on sutures, which are used to close wounds and surgical incisions. Despite the way in which medical devices have evolved rapidly over the years, sutures are generally limited in capability, says Zhouquan Sun, a doctoral candidate at Donghua University in Shanghai. “This observation led us to explore integrating advanced therapeutics into sutures,” Sun says.

Prior work sought to enhance sutures by adding drugs or growth factors to the stitches. However, most of these drugs either had insignificant effects on healing, or triggered side-effects such as allergic reactions or nausea. Growth factors in sutures often degraded before they could have any effect, or failed to activate entirely.

The research team that created the new sutures previously developed fibers for electronics for nearly 10 years for applications such as sensors. “This is our first attempt to apply fiber electronics in the biomedical field,” says Chengyi Hou, a professor of materials science and engineering at Donghua University.

Making Electrical Sutures Work

The new sutures are roughly 500 microns wide, or about five times the width of the average human hair. Like typical sutures, the new stitches are biodegradable, avoiding the need for doctors to remove the stitches and potentially cause more damage to a wound.

Each suture is made of a magnesium filament core wrapped in poly(lactic-co-glycolic) acid (PLGA) nanofibers, a commercially available, inexpensive, biodegradable polymer used in sutures. The suture also includes an outer sheath made of polycaprolactone (PCL), a biodegradable polyester and another common suture material.

Previously, electrotherapy devices were often bulky and expensive, and required wires connected to an external battery. The new stitches are instead powered by the triboelectric effect, the most common cause of static electricity. When two different materials repeatedly touch and then separate—in the case of the new suture, its core and sheath—the surface of one material can steal electrons from the surface of the other. This is why rubbing feet on a carpet or a running a comb through hair can build up electric charge.

A common problem sutures face is how daily movements may cause strain that reduce their efficacy. The new stitches take advantage of these motions to help generate electricity that helps wounds heal.

The main obstacle the researchers had to surmount was developing a suture that was both thin and strong enough to serve in medicine. Over the course of nearly two years, they tinkered with the molecular weights of the polymers they used and refined their fiber spinning technology to reduce their suture’s diameter while maintaining strength, Sun says.

In lab experiments on rats, the sutures generated about 2.3 volts during normal exercise. The scientists found the new sutures could speed up wound healing by 50 percent over the course of 10 days compared to conventional sutures. They also significantly lowered bacteria levels even without the use of daily wound disinfectants, suggesting they could reduce the risk of post-operation infections.

“Future research may delve deeper into the molecular mechanisms of how electrical stimulation facilitated would healing,” says Hui Wang, a chief physician at Shanghai Sixth People’s Hospital.

Further tests are needed in clinical settings to assess how effective these sutures are in humans. If such experiments prove successful, “this bioabsorbable electrically stimulating suture could change how we treat injuries in the future,” Hou says.

The scientists detailed their findings online 8 October in the journal Nature Communications.




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Crop Parasites Can Be Deterred by “Electric Fences”



Imagine you’re a baby cocoa plant, just unfurling your first tentative roots into the fertile, welcoming soil.

Somewhere nearby, a predator stirs. It has no ears to hear you, no eyes to see you. But it knows where you are, thanks in part to the weak electric field emitted by your roots.

It is microscopic, but it’s not alone. By the thousands, the creatures converge, slithering through the waterlogged soil, propelled by their flagella. If they reach you, they will use fungal-like hyphae to penetrate and devour you from the inside. They’re getting closer. You’re a plant. You have no legs. There’s no escape.

But just before they fall upon you, they hesitate. They seem confused. Then, en masse, they swarm off in a different direction, lured by a more attractive electric field. You are safe. And they will soon be dead.

If Eleonora Moratto and Giovanni Sena get their way, this is the future of crop pathogen control.

Many variables are involved in the global food crisis, but among the worst are the pests that devastate food crops, ruining up to 40 percent of their yield before they can be harvested. One of these—the little protist in the example above, an oomycete formally known as Phytophthora palmivorahas a US $1 billion appetite for economic staples like cocoa, palm, and rubber.

There is currently no chemical defense that can vanquish these creatures without poisoning the rest of the (often beneficial) organisms living in the soil. So Moratto, Sena, and their colleagues at Sena’s group at Imperial College London settled on a non-traditional approach: They exploited P. palmivora’s electric sense, which can be spoofed.

All plant roots that have been measured to date generate external ion flux, which translates into a very weak electric field. Decades of evidence suggests that this signal is an important target for predators’ navigation systems. However, it remains a matter of some debate how much their predators rely on plants’ electrical signatures to locate them, as opposed to chemical or mechanical information. Last year, Moratto and Sena’s group found that P. palmivora spores are attracted to the positive electrode of a cell generating current densities of 1 ampere per square meter. “The spores followed the electric field,” says Sena, suggesting that a similar mechanism helps them find natural bioelectric fields emitted by roots in the soil.

That got the researchers wondering: Might such an artificial electric field override the protists’ other sensory inputs, and scramble their compasses as they tried to use plant roots’ much weaker electrical output?

To test the idea, the researchers developed two ways to protect plant roots using a constant vertical electric field. They cultivated two common snacks for P. palmivoraa flowering plant related to cabbage and mustard, and a legume often used as a livestock feed plant—in tubes in a hydroponic solution.

Two electric-field configurations were tested: A “global” vertical field [left] and a field generated by two small nearby electrodes. The global field proved to be slightly more effective.Eleonora Moratto

In the first assay, the researchers sandwiched the plant roots between rows of electrodes above and below, which completely engulfed them in a “global” vertical field. For the second set, the field was generated using two small electrodes a short distance away from the plant, creating current densities on the order of 10 A/m2. Then they unleashed the protists.

With respect to the control group, both methods successfully diverted a significant portion of the predators away from the plant roots. They swarmed the positive electrode, where—since zoospores can’t survive for longer than about 2 to 3 hours without a host—they presumably starved to death. Or worse. Neil Gow, whose research presented some of the first evidence for zoospore electrosensing, has other theories about their fate. “Applied electrical fields generate toxic products and steep pH gradients near and around the electrodes due to the electrolysis of water,” he says. “The tropism towards the electrode might be followed by killing or immobilization due to the induced pH gradients.”

Not only did the technique prevent infestation, but some evidence indicates that it may also mitigate existing infections. The researchers published their results in August in Scientific Reports.

The global electric field was marginally more successful than the local. However, it would be harder to translate from lab conditions into a (literal) field trial in soil. The local electric field setup would be easy to replicate: “All you have to do is stick the little plug into the soil next to the crop you want to protect,” says Sena.

Moratto and Sena say this is a proof of concept that demonstrates a basis for a new, pesticide-free way to protect food crops. (Sena likens the technique to the decoys used by fighter jets to draw away incoming missiles by mimicking the signals of the original target.) They are now looking for funding to expand the project. The first step is testing the local setup in soil; the next is to test the approach on Phytophthora infestans, a meaner, scarier cousin of P. palmivora.

P. infestans attacks a more varied diet of crops—you may be familiar with its work during the Irish potato famine. The close genetic similarities imply another promising candidate for electrical pest control. This investigation, however, may require more funding. P. infestans research can be undertaken only under more stringent laboratory security protocols.

The work at Imperial ties into the broader—and somewhat charged—debate around electrostatic ecology; that is, the extent to which creatures including ticks make use of heretofore poorly understood electrical mechanisms to orient themselves and in other ways enhance their survival. “Most people still aren’t aware that naturally occurring electricity can play an ecological role,” says Sam England, a behavioral ecologist with Berlin’s Natural History Museum. “So I suspect that once these electrical phenomena become more well known and understood, they will inspire a greater number of practical applications like this one.”




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The Electricity Sector and Climate Policy: A Discussion with Karen Palmer

Energy economist Karen Palmer, renowned for her research on the nation’s electric power sector, shared her insights on electricity regulation and deregulation, carbon pricing, and climate change policy in the latest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.”




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The Challenges Facing the Nation's Electricity Power Sector: A Conversation with Severin Borenstein

Energy economist Severin Borenstein, Professor of the Graduate School at the Haas School of Business at the University of California, Berkeley, discussed the many significant challenges facing the nation’s electricity power sector in the latest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.




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Impacts of Electric Vehicle Subsidies: A Conversation with Hunt Allcott

Behavioral economist Hunt Allcott, Professor of Global Environmental Policy at the Doerr School of Sustainability at Stanford University, questioned the impact of new and used electric vehicle (EV) subsidies in the latest episode of “Environmental Insights: Discussions on Policy and Practice from the Harvard Environmental Economics Program.”




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Leveraging Charging Strategies to Reduce Grid Impacts of Electric Vehicles

Electric vehicles (EVs) can challenge or support electricity systems depending on how they are charged. Controlled charging that combines technical solutions with heterogenous EV user behaviors can reduce peak demand to avoid grid constraints and support the integration of renewable energy.




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Integrating Solar Electricity into a Fossil Fueled System

Deploying renewable energy sources is the most promising approach to decarbonizing the power sector in China. However, the intermittency and non-dispatchable nature of wind and solar power pose significant challenges to grid stability, particularly when these sources reach high penetration rates. This study applies a unit commitment model to investigate the economic and environmental performance of load shaving strategies across different scenarios.




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Electric Vehicles Aren't Ready for Extreme Heat and Cold. Here's How to Fix Them

New materials would help the cars of the future survive cold snaps and other climate disruptions




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Electric skin patch could keep wounds free of infection

Zapping the skin with electricity could stop bacteria that live there harmlessly from entering the body and causing blood poisoning




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Lightning strikes again as Electric hits unicorn status

Wherever we are in the journey of navigating a pandemic, remote work is still hot. Electric, one of the many companies making it easier for organizations to work remotely, has capitalized on this trend so much in the past couple years that it’s now a unicorn. Founder and CEO Ryan Denehy told TechCrunch that the […]

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EIA expects two years of significant growth in solar electric generation in the United States

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects solar electric generation will account for 7% of total U.S. electricity generation in 2025, up from 4% in 2023, according to its January Short-Term Energy Outlook (STEO). Developers have reported that almost 80 gigawatts of solar power will come online over the next two years, increasing U.S. solar generating capacity by 84% and making solar the leading source of growth in U.S. electricity generation through 2025.




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EIA to initiate collection of data regarding electricity use by U.S. cryptocurrency miners

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) is initiating a provisional survey of electricity consumption information from identified cryptocurrency mining companies operating in the United States.




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EIA expects electricity growth to be mostly met by renewables

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects electricity generation will grow by about 3% in 2024 and 1% in 2025. Renewable energy sources—chiefly solar—will supply most of that growth.




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EIA expects rising electricity demand and natural gas prices to affect electricity fuel mix for the rest of 2024

The U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) expects that the United States will generate more electricity from renewables and coal in the second half of this year, as electricity demand and natural gas prices increase.




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Bentley Motors amână planul pentru producția de vehicule electrice

Bentley Motors Ltd. amână planul de a oferi doar vehicule complet electrice (EV – electric vehicles) până în 2030, pentru că vânzările de EV-uri continuă să dezamăgească la nivel de industrie. Compania va extinde termenul pentru strategia de afaceri „Beyond100” – acum denumită „Beyond100+” – cu cinci ani, până în 2035, a declarat președintele și ...

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iPhone Manufacturer Foxconn Reveals Its First Electric-Vehicle Prototypes

Foxconn, the Taiwanese company known for assembling Apple products, has unveiled three electric-vehicle prototypes. WSJ’s Stephanie Yang attended the launch event to see how the company is diversifying its business to gain a foothold in the auto industry. Photo: I-Hwa Cheng/Bloomberg News




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Royal Enfield Flying Flea C6 Revealed - A Legend Returns In Electric Guise

Indian-owned British motorcycle manufacturer Royal Enfield has revealed its first-ever EV, the Flying Flea C6. The Royal Enfield Flying Flea C6 was revealed to the world on the eve of EICMA 2024 in Milan, Italy. The Royal Enfield Flying Flea takes




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Honda Electric Scooter To Begin Production Soon: Showcased At EICMA 2024

Honda's rolling out some pretty exciting EVs at EICMA 2024, including the CUV e:, their second electric scooter for Europe. Following the EM1 e: from last year, this model reinforces Honda's ambition to dominate the electric two-wheeler scene. And there's more:




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Oben Rorr EZ Electric Bike Launched In India At Rs 89,999

Oben Electric has introduced its second electric bike, the Rorr EZ, with a starting price of Rs 89,999 in Delhi. This new model offers three battery options: 2.6kWh, 3.4kWh, and 4.4kWh. The top variant is priced at Rs 1.10 lakh. The




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Honda To Unveil Activa Electric Scooter On November 27: All Details Here

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India is preparing to introduce its first electric scooter on November 27, 2024. This launch marks a significant step in Honda's journey towards sustainable transportation. The new model is expected to be named the Activa Electric or




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Ola Electric To Launch Gen 3 Scooters In 2025: All Details Here

Ola Electric is set to deliver its Gen 3 platform-based electric scooters by January 2025, ahead of the previously anticipated timeline of mid-March to April 2025. This new platform features innovations like using the battery as a structural component and a




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Honda Activa Electric Teased - Electrifying Passions & Dreams

Japanese two-wheeler giant Honda has dropped the first teaser for the all-electric version of the Activa ahead of its debut on the 27th of November. Honda has released the first teaser video for its upcoming electric scooter, likely to be named




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Honda Activa Electric Scooter To Be Launched Soon In India: All Details Here

Honda Motorcycle and Scooter India (HMSI) has released a teaser video for its first electric scooter, creating a buzz among enthusiasts and competitors. The teaser is for the anticipated Honda Activa Electric Scooter, marking a new chapter for the brand. The




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2026 Cadillac VISTIQ: A New Standard In Luxury Electric SUVs With Advanced Features

Discover the 2026 Cadillac VISTIQ, a luxury electric SUV offering performance, spaciousness, and cutting-edge technology for an elevated driving experience.




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Hyundai To Unveil The All-Electric IONIQ 9 During Livestream Event At AutoMobility LA On November 21

Join Hyundai for the livestream debut of the 2025 IONIQ 9 all-electric SUV on November 21 at AutoMobility LA. Discover the latest innovations.




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Molecular sandwich-based DNAzyme catalytic reaction towards transducing efficient nanopore electrical detection of antigen proteins

Faraday Discuss., 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00146J, Paper
Lebing Wang, Shuo Zhou, Yunjiao Wang, Yan Wang, Jing Li, Xiaohan Chen, Daming Zhou, Liyuan Liang, Bohua Yin, Youwen Zhang, Liang Wang
A molecular sandwich-based DNAzyme catalytic reaction is capable of transducing detectable nucleic acids as a substitute for difficult to yield protein detection in complicated biological matrices, in a nanopore.
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Electric field induced associations in the double layer of salt-in-ionic-liquid electrolytes

Faraday Discuss., 2024, 253,365-384
DOI: 10.1039/D4FD00021H, Paper
Open Access
Daniel M. Markiewitz, Zachary A. H. Goodwin, Michael McEldrew, J. Pedro de Souza, Xuhui Zhang, Rosa M. Espinosa-Marzal, Martin Z. Bazant
We have developed a theory for the electrical double layer of salt-in-ionic liquids accounting for the thermoreversible association of ions into Cayley tree aggregates. We find that the solution becomes more aggregated at moderate positive voltages.
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Multifunctional cardiac microphysiological system based on transparent ITO electrodes for simultaneous optical measurement and electrical signal monitoring

Lab Chip, 2024, 24,1903-1917
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC00908D, Paper
Zhangjie Li, Kai Niu, Chenyang Zhou, Feifan Wang, Kangyi Lu, Yijun Liu, Lian Xuan, Xiaolin Wang
We developed a multifunctional cardiac microphysiological system on transparent electrodes, enabling simultaneous electrical signal monitoring and optical observations of cardiac tissue, holding promise for applications in cardiac drug development.
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Piezoelectric and microfluidic tuning of an infrared cavity for vibrational polariton studies

Lab Chip, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3LC01101A, Paper
Wei Wang, Jaime de la Fuente Diez, Nicolas Delsuc, Juan Peng, Riccardo Spezia, Rodolphe Vuilleumier, Yong Chen
A new method uses piezoelectric and microfluidic tuning to study vibrational polaritons in liquids under flow. This enables modifying cavity length adjustments and flexibility in experimental setups.
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A bio-inspired co-simulation crawling robot enabled by a carbon dot-doped dielectric elastomer

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00029C, Paper
Yubing Han, Bori Shi, En Xie, Peng Huang, Yaozhong Zhou, Chang Xue, Weijia Wen, Huayan Pu, Mengying Zhang, Jinbo Wu
The introduction of NCDs@SiO2 cluster particles not only improves the mechanical and dielectric properties of an elastomer but also exhibits fluorescence and actuation response under the co-stimulation of UV and electricity, respectively.
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Topology of ferroelectric nematic droplets: the case driven by flexoelectricity or depolarization field

Soft Matter, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D3SM01042B, Communication
Yu Zou, Jidan Yang, Xinxin Zhang, Mingjun Huang, Satoshi Aya
Emerging polar nematics exhibits nontrivial topologies in confinement, controlled by the magnitude of the polarization.
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Dynamics and phase behavior of metallo-dielectric rod-shaped microswimmers driven by Alternating Current electric field

Soft Matter, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4SM00206G, Paper
Suvendu Kumar Panda, Srikanta Debata, Nomaan Alam Kherani, Dhruv Pratap Singh
The ability to move and self-organize in response to external stimuli is a fascinating feature of living active matter. Here, the metallo-dielectric rod-shaped microswimmers are shown to have a similar...
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Electric-field modulated energy transfer in phosphorescent material- and fluorescent material-codoped polymer light-emitting diodes

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12294-12302
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA00669K, Paper
Open Access
  This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported Licence.
Ling-Chuan Meng, Yan-Bing Hou
In this study, we find electric-field modulated energy transfer in phosphorescent material- and fluorescent material-codoped polymer that has never been reported.
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Influence of potassium doping on the structural, conduction mechanism, and dielectric properties of CaFe2O4

RSC Adv., 2024, 14,12464-12474
DOI: 10.1039/D4RA00260A, Paper
Open Access
Mohamed Mounir Bouzayani, Manel Ben Abdessalem, Ibtihel Soudani, Abderrazek Oueslati, Abdelhedi Aydi
The frequency and temperature-related dielectric relaxation and electrical conduction mechanisms in potassium-doped CaFe2O4 oxide ceramic were investigated in this study throughout a temperature range of 313–673 K.
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