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Conductive carbon fillers in lithium-ion batteries allow high power output with reversible energy storage. Lithium-ion…
Using cold atmospheric plasma promises a breakthrough in stopping the spread of COVID-19. Researchers from…
Dispersion of large, medium, small airborne cough droplets in various outdoor conditions. The ongoing COVID-19…
The Contagion Airborne Transmission inequality model illustrates the correlation between physical distancing and protection, the…
Modeling shows SARS-CoV2 isn’t spread very well by the small droplets that linger longest. Aerosol…
Open windows, use glass screens in front of desks; Aerosol spread of virus in classrooms…
As the coronavirus has affected more than 30 million people globally, researchers have increasingly focused…
Impact of evaporation on virus survival, concentration, transmission. As COVID-19 cases continue to rise worldwide,…
Self-assembled peptides, when aligned, show great promise for electricity generation. Nanogenerators capable of converting mechanical…
Months into the COVID-19 pandemic, wearing a mask while out in public has become the…
COVID-19 proliferates through a receptor present in most of the human body; but if the…
If verified, the mass-energy-information equivalence principle will show that information is a physical, dominant, fifth…
Using a public restroom? Mask up! Think you don’t need to worry about COVID-19 while…
Scientists report a detailed model of aerosol transport through air, considering several environmental conditions, such…
Tea drinkers have been saying it for years. Water heated in a microwave just isn’t…
A mathematical model of droplet migration may have important implications for understanding the spread of…
Using photons to create more powerful and power-efficient processing units for more complex machine learning.…