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Anticancer effect of surface functionalized nano titanium dioxide with 5-fluorouracil on oral cancer cell line—An in vitro study 表面功能化纳米二氧化钛与 5-氟尿嘧啶对口腔癌细胞系的抗癌作用--体外研究

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-17 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.70004

Marco Antonio Rivera Rodriguez, Verónica Campos-Ibarra, Aruna-Devi Rasu Chettiar, Latha Marasamy, Ravichandran Manisekaran

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Green synthesis of cerium oxide nanoparticles via Linum usitatissimum seeds extract and assessment of its biological effects 通过亚麻籽提取物绿色合成氧化铈纳米粒子并评估其生物效应

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-13 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.70003

Zahra Foroutan, Zahra Sabouri, Amir Reza Afshari, Asma Mostafapour, Bahareh Farasati Far, Mohammad Jalili-Nik, Majid Darroudi

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Graphene nanoribbon FET technology-based OTA for optimizing fast and energy-efficient electronics for IoT application: Next-generation circuit design 基于石墨烯纳米带 FET 技术的 OTA，用于优化物联网应用中的快速节能电子器件：新一代电路设计

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-10-09 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.70002

Faraz Hashmi, M Nizamuddin, Mohammad Aleem Farshori, Syed Umar Amin, Zafar Iqbal Khan

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Construction of ZnCo2O4/Ag3PO4 composite photocatalyst for enhanced photocatalytic performance 构建 ZnCo2O4/Ag3PO4 复合光催化剂以提高光催化性能

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-09-23 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.12202

Jiayi Liu, Jiafeng Hu, Hao Hu, Xiaotao Zhou, Qiwei Wang, Weizhi Wei, Wenhui Liu

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Microcapsule preparation process research and current status of oilfield application 微胶囊制备工艺研究及油田应用现状

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-08-29 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.70000

Sicai Wang, Qun Zhang, Jianlong Xiu, Yuandong Ma, Lixin Huang, Lina Yi, Haowei Fu

{"title":"Microcapsule preparation process research and current status of oilfield application","authors":"Sicai Wang, Qun Zhang, Jianlong Xiu, Yuandong Ma, Lixin Huang, Lina Yi, Haowei Fu","doi":"10.1049/mna2.70000","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/mna2.70000","url":null,"abstract":"Traditional tertiary oil recovery methods are fraught with challenges such as significant reagent adsorption, voluminous injection requirements, limited sweep efficiency, and inadequate intelligent targeting. These issues lead to suboptimal displacement of residual oil, resulting in the inability to mobilize substantial crude oil resources and thus yielding low recovery rates. Microcapsules—spherical particles with micron or nanometer scale diameters—have been extensively utilized across various sectors, including food storage, targeted drug encapsulation, and fragrance containment, owing to their distinct advantages in controlled release, isolation, and targeted delivery. These applications have successfully achieved industrialization and commercialization. In recent years, numerous researchers have explored the application of microcapsule preparation processes to diverse facets of oil extraction, with the aim of further enhancing oil recovery (EOR). This article elucidates the mechanism of action of microcapsules, their preparation methods (encompassing in situ polymerization, interfacial polymerization, spray drying, solvent evaporation, phase separation, and supercritical CO2-assisted techniques), characterization and evaluation methodologies, among other aspects. It encapsulates the current status and principal challenges associated with the application of microcapsule preparation processes in oilfield development and probes the potential and pivotal research directions for their oilfield applications.","PeriodicalId":18398,"journal":{"name":"Micro & Nano Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.5,"publicationDate":"2024-08-29","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mna2.70000","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142100461","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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Generation of dual-mode PS-OAM beams using a Vivaldi antenna array 利用 Vivaldi 天线阵列生成双模 PS-OAM 波束

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-08-26 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.70001

Na Li, Guirong Feng, Lingling Jiao, Ping Li, Xiaowei Shi

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Nonmonotonic load-dependence of friction during nanoparticle manipulation 纳米粒子操作过程中摩擦力的非单调负荷依赖性

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-07-18 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.12206

Chunsheng Luo, Lei Chen, Chuan Tang, Yangqin Liu, Yilong Jiang, Linmao Qian

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Biomass N/P co-doped porous carbon plates for electrocatalytic oxygen reduction 用于电催化氧还原的生物质 N/P 共掺多孔碳板

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-07-08 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.12199

Hongwei Ma, Daying Guo, Lianhui Wu, Xi'an Chen

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Analysis of mechanical properties in self-compacting concrete enhanced with steel fibres 使用钢纤维增强自密实混凝土的力学性能分析

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-06-25 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.12203

Mukilan Karuppasamy, Baranitharan Balakrishnan, Karthik Chandran, Mehdi Gheisari, Payam Porkar Rezaeiye, Boris Andrievsky

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Study on uniformity of multi-needle electrostatic spinning by auxiliary flow field 利用辅助流场研究多针静电纺丝的均匀性

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Micro & Nano Letters Pub Date : 2024-05-20 DOI: 10.1049/mna2.12200

Rongguang Zhang, Xun Chen, Han Wang, Jun Zeng, Xuanzhi Zhang, Xiaojie Chen

{"title":"Study on uniformity of multi-needle electrostatic spinning by auxiliary flow field","authors":"Rongguang Zhang, Xun Chen, Han Wang, Jun Zeng, Xuanzhi Zhang, Xiaojie Chen","doi":"10.1049/mna2.12200","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1049/mna2.12200","url":null,"abstract":"Multi-needle electrospinning is a simple and general method for mass preparation of nanofiber membrane, which has great industrial potential. However, the bending instability produced in the electrospinning process makes that the deposition uniformity of the nanofiber is still a big concern, resulting in non-uniform nanofiber membrane, which seriously affects the application of electrospun membrane in environmental filtration, new energy and medical fields. In order to improve the uniformity of nanofiber deposition in multi-needle electrospinning, an auxiliary flow field system (AFF) is proposed, which can effectively improve the uniformity of nanofiber deposition. After image processing, the uniformity of nanofiber deposition is quantified with the index of grey distribution, and the effectiveness of this method is verified. Combined with the multi-physical field analysis, the influence mechanism of cross-wind field on the uniformity of fibre deposition was revealed. By optimizing the experimental parameters, the non-uniformity of nanofiber deposition was reduced by 49.19%. Based on multi-needle electrospinning technology, a reliable idea (AFF) and experimental basis are provided for the uniform preparation of nanofiber membrane.","PeriodicalId":18398,"journal":{"name":"Micro & Nano Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":1.3,"publicationDate":"2024-05-20","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1049/mna2.12200","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"141069078","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":4,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

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