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Stomatal conductance reduction tradeoffs in maize leaves: A theoretical study

Stomatal conductance reduction tradeoffs in maize leaves: A theoretical study

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Assessing Changes in Global Fire Regimes

Assessing Changes in Global Fire Regimes

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Noise-induced errors in heat pulse-based sap flow measurement methods

Noise-induced errors in heat pulse-based sap flow measurement methods

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The conundrum of porter hypothesis, pollution haven hypothesis, and pollution halo hypothesis: evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

The conundrum of porter hypothesis, pollution haven hypothesis, and pollution halo hypothesis: evidence from the Indian manufacturing sector

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Effect of Heat Exchanger and Capillary Geometry on the Performance of Joule–Thomson Refrigerators Operating With Different Mixtures

Effect of Heat Exchanger and Capillary Geometry on the Performance of Joule–Thomson Refrigerators Operating With Different Mixtures

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Understanding the presence of Cannabis across the Holocene in Central India

Understanding the presence of Cannabis across the Holocene in Central India

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Learning from the past: collaborating across times for landscape management for conservation

Learning from the past: collaborating across times for landscape management for conservation

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Impact of Multispecies Biofilm on the Chemical and Mechanical Characteristics of Radicular Dentin from Patients With and Without Diabetes: An In Vitro Study

Impact of Multispecies Biofilm on the Chemical and Mechanical Characteristics of Radicular Dentin from Patients With and Without Diabetes: An In Vitro Study

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Hybrid Hydrate-Based Strategy for Petrochemical Effluent Purification and Sustainable Water Management

Hybrid Hydrate-Based Strategy for Petrochemical Effluent Purification and Sustainable Water Management

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Energy Intensity Policies Should be Measure-Specific: A Learning from Indian Manufacturing

Energy Intensity Policies Should be Measure-Specific: A Learning from Indian Manufacturing

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Industrial Decarbonization by a Gas Hydrate Process: Scale-up Studies on CO2 Capture from Flue Gas

Industrial Decarbonization by a Gas Hydrate Process: Scale-up Studies on CO2 Capture from Flue Gas

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Does Corporate Social Responsibility Improve Firm-Level Energy Efficiency? The Case of the Iron and Steel Industries in India

Does Corporate Social Responsibility Improve Firm-Level Energy Efficiency? The Case of the Iron and Steel Industries in India

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Development of a Novel Evaporation–Imbibition Method to Characterize the Hysteresis Properties of Unsaturated Soils

Development of a Novel Evaporation–Imbibition Method to Characterize the Hysteresis Properties of Unsaturated Soils

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Engineering gold nanoparticles-infused silica aerogel composite for trace mercury adsorption

Engineering gold nanoparticles-infused silica aerogel composite for trace mercury adsorption

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Stability, Photoinduced Destabilization, and Photoswitchability of Azo-CTAB-Based Emulsions

Stability, Photoinduced Destabilization, and Photoswitchability of Azo-CTAB-Based Emulsions

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Decoding radical scavenging: a review of computational chemistry approaches to antioxidant mechanisms

Decoding radical scavenging: a review of computational chemistry approaches to antioxidant mechanisms

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Cloud fraction estimation using random forest classifier on sky images

Cloud fraction estimation using random forest classifier on sky images

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Illness to poverty in India a qualitative exploration of hardship financing for healthcare

Illness to poverty in India a qualitative exploration of hardship financing for healthcare

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FTIR-Based, Drop Cast, Wide Concentration Window Polymeric Sensor for Cu2+ (aq) Detection

FTIR-Based, Drop Cast, Wide Concentration Window Polymeric Sensor for Cu2+ (aq) Detection

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Hydrological implications of inland boundary conditions in coastal aquifers subject to sea level rise

Hydrological implications of inland boundary conditions in coastal aquifers subject to sea level rise

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Secondary Guest-Driven Nucleation of N2O Clathrate Hydrate in Amorphous Ice Mixture under Ultrahigh Vacuum

Secondary Guest-Driven Nucleation of N2O Clathrate Hydrate in Amorphous Ice Mixture under Ultrahigh Vacuum

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Amine-Assisted Accelerated Mineral Carbonation of Steel Slag for CO2 Capture and Sequestration

Amine-Assisted Accelerated Mineral Carbonation of Steel Slag for CO2 Capture and Sequestration

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Structural, Electronic, and Interfacial Pathways Governing the Stability of LiMn2O4 Spinel Cathodes

Structural, Electronic, and Interfacial Pathways Governing the Stability of LiMn2O4 Spinel Cathodes

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Expression of Transmembrane Glycoprotein TROP2 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Its Potential as a Molecular Classifier for Targeted Therapy

Expression of Transmembrane Glycoprotein TROP2 in Triple-Negative Breast Cancer and Its Potential as a Molecular Classifier for Targeted Therapy

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Concentration-dependent effects of iron impurities on nickel electrodes for hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media

Concentration-dependent effects of iron impurities on nickel electrodes for hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline media

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Nanoemulsion-derived AlPO₄ ceramics: Densification and phase behavior under field-assisted sintering

Nanoemulsion-derived AlPO₄ ceramics: Densification and phase behavior under field-assisted sintering

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Design and Development of Microcapsules Based Sustainable Highly Resistant and Self-Healing Anticorrosive Epoxy Coatings

Design and Development of Microcapsules Based Sustainable Highly Resistant and Self-Healing Anticorrosive Epoxy Coatings

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Anomalous gas sensing characteristics of TiO2 nanorod arrays irradiated with high-energy ion beam

Anomalous gas sensing characteristics of TiO2 nanorod arrays irradiated with high-energy ion beam

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Effect of Fe addition on the ORR electrocatalytic activity of precursor-derived high-entropy carbide nanocomposites

Effect of Fe addition on the ORR electrocatalytic activity of precursor-derived high-entropy carbide nanocomposites

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Water-Mediated Liquid Crystalline Ionogel Formation in a Long-Chain Protic Ionic Liquid: An Anion-Centered Design Strategy

Water-Mediated Liquid Crystalline Ionogel Formation in a Long-Chain Protic Ionic Liquid: An Anion-Centered Design Strategy

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High-entropy design principles for sodium-based electrochemical energy storage systems

High-entropy design principles for sodium-based electrochemical energy storage systems

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Unravelling the Role of Interfacial Sites and Hydrogen Coverage on Inverse Pt–WOx Catalyst for Selective 1,4-Butanediol Formation during Erythritol Hydrodeoxygenation

Unravelling the Role of Interfacial Sites and Hydrogen Coverage on Inverse Pt–WOx Catalyst for Selective 1,4-Butanediol Formation during Erythritol Hydrodeoxygenation

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Can recycled e-waste polymers power the future of sensors?

Can recycled e-waste polymers power the future of sensors?

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Water Cages as Chemical Reactors: VUV Photolysis of Dimethyl Ether Clathrate Hydrate Thin Films in Ultrahigh Vacuum

Water Cages as Chemical Reactors: VUV Photolysis of Dimethyl Ether Clathrate Hydrate Thin Films in Ultrahigh Vacuum

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Polymeric sensors at the crossroads of sustainability and scalability: low-temperature fabrication for environmental and health monitoring
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Polymeric sensors at the crossroads of sustainability and scalability: low-temperature fabrication for environmental and health monitoring ;

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Deep Eutectic Solvent-Based 3D Printable Zein Ink

Deep Eutectic Solvent-Based 3D Printable Zein Ink

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Restoration goals: Insights from antiquity and dynamics of forest–savanna mosaics in Central India during the Holocene

Restoration goals: Insights from antiquity and dynamics of forest–savanna mosaics in Central India during the Holocene

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Revisiting the Definition, Solid–Liquid Equilibria, and Thermodynamic Nonideality of Deep Eutectic Solvents

Revisiting the Definition, Solid–Liquid Equilibria, and Thermodynamic Nonideality of Deep Eutectic Solvents

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Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study on the Stabilization of Interferon-α2a Protein by Poly(ethylene glycol) and Polysarcosine

Molecular Dynamics Simulation Study on the Stabilization of Interferon-α2a Protein by Poly(ethylene glycol) and Polysarcosine

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Can the performance, achieve, and trade scheme help Indian manufacturing achieve its net-zero goal?

Can the performance, achieve, and trade scheme help Indian manufacturing achieve its net-zero goal?

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Structure-activity metrics and design strategies for ZIF-67 catalysts in CO2 cycloaddition with propylene oxide: Bridging computation and experiment

Structure-activity metrics and design strategies for ZIF-67 catalysts in CO2 cycloaddition with propylene oxide: Bridging computation and experiment

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Ambiguities in oxynitride chemistry: A perspective on urea-mediated synthesis

Ambiguities in oxynitride chemistry: A perspective on urea-mediated synthesis

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γ-Fe2O3:Co3O4 coated cellulose sponges as interfacial solar absorbers for efficient photothermal evaporation and desalination

γ-Fe2O3:Co3O4 coated cellulose sponges as interfacial solar absorbers for efficient photothermal evaporation and desalination

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Effect of Oxygen Substitution in the X Sublattice of Ti3C2Tx MXene on the Performance of Triboelectric Nanogenerators
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Effect of Oxygen Substitution in the X Sublattice of Ti3C2Tx MXene on the Performance of Triboelectric Nanogenerators ;

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Alkali-controlled γ-Al2O3 nanostructures with high dielectric constant

Alkali-controlled γ-Al2O3 nanostructures with high dielectric constant

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From Pahad to Maidan: climate change and the socio-economic dynamics of out-migration in the Uttarakhand Himalayas

From Pahad to Maidan: climate change and the socio-economic dynamics of out-migration in the Uttarakhand Himalayas

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Water Purification from Industrial Effluents Using Gas Hydrates: Process Demonstration of a Continuous Bench Scale Operation

Water Purification from Industrial Effluents Using Gas Hydrates: Process Demonstration of a Continuous Bench Scale Operation

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Design and fabrication of a photosupercapacitor device via in-situ growth of ZnCo2O4/g-C3N4 heterojunction

Design and fabrication of a photosupercapacitor device via in-situ growth of ZnCo2O4/g-C3N4 heterojunction

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Debromination of end-of-life printed circuit boards through a zero-discharge solvothermal process

Debromination of end-of-life printed circuit boards through a zero-discharge solvothermal process

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Quantum analogy‑based derivation
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Quantum analogy‑based derivation ;of an energy efficiency parameter and panel ;data analysis with a conventional energy ;efficiency indicator

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Ion beam engineered band bending and photodetection in WO₃ thin films

Ion beam engineered band bending and photodetection in WO₃ thin films

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Facile synthesis and pressureless sintering of AlPO4 nanopowders via a modified Ouzo method: Microstructures and thermal properties

Facile synthesis and pressureless sintering of AlPO4 nanopowders via a modified Ouzo method: Microstructures and thermal properties

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Cities and climate change: combining bibliometric trends and city-level evidence to understand the connections between urban resilience and adaptive capacity

Cities and climate change: combining bibliometric trends and city-level evidence to understand the connections between urban resilience and adaptive capacity

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Probing the mechanical anisotropy of FDM-printed alumina through miniature mechanical testing and densification-induced strength enhancement via precursor infiltration

Probing the mechanical anisotropy of FDM-printed alumina through miniature mechanical testing and densification-induced strength enhancement via precursor infiltration

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Rechargeable Na-Seawater Batteries - A Promising Battery Energy Storage Solution for Coastal Economies

Rechargeable Na-Seawater Batteries - A Promising Battery Energy Storage Solution for Coastal Economies

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