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Selective Separation of the Rare Earth Elements Dysprosium and Neodymium via Tailoring Nanocellulose Chemical Structure

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dicarboxylate‐modified anionic hairy cellulose nanocrystals exhibit a high selectivity for dysprosium(III) over neodymium(III). This selectivity arises from disordered dicarboxylate cellulose “hairs” that enable cooperative ionic coordination, hydrogen bonding, and strain‐induced conformational shrinkage.
Roya Koshani, Shang‐Lin Yeh, Karuna Anna Sajeevan, Mica L. Pitcher, Dawson Alexander, Ratul Chowdhury, Amir Sheikhi   +6 more
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THE LOCATION PRODUCTION THEORY OF HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS

THE LOCATION PRODUCTION THEORY OF HETEROGENEOUS FIRMS
We discuss the strategic location interactions between two heterogeneous firms with different technologies in the context of Weber triangle. By assuming the transportation cost to be decreasing in the relative distance between these two firms, a special case of external economies of scale, we find the optimum location will not be independent of demand ...
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The Cooperative Firm as Monitored Credit [PDF]

We develop a financial-contracting theory of the cooperative fim where production requires three generic tasks: working, managing, and monitoring. Workers provide an intermediate input (or labor directly); managers convert the workers' input into a final
Hueth, Brent, Marcoul, Philippe
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Copper‐Based Crystalline‐Metallic Glass Composite Thin Films: A Novel Material with Enhanced Strength and Thermally Stable Nanotwins

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A Cu‐based crystal‐glass composite with high‐density twins is identified by a fast screening technique using combinatorial sputtering together with XRD and nanoindentation mapping. This bamboo‐like structure demonstrates homogenous plastic flow and retains high strength during in situ high temperature tests, up to 1 GPa at 550°C, owing to those ...
Chunhua Tian, Amit Sharma, Krzysztof Wieczerzak, Alexander Groetsch, Manish Jain, Nicolò Maria della Ventura, Remo Widmer, Fedor F. Klimashin, Johann Michler, Jakob Schwiedrzik, Xavier Maeder   +10 more
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Bioinspired Polypeptide Dendrimer‐Modified Thin‐Film Composite Membranes for Selective Lithium‐Magnesium Separation with DFT Insights

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We fabricated a biomimetic dendrimer‐modified thin‐film nanocomposite membrane with a coordination‐assisted ion‐selective interface. pH‐responsive polypeptide sites preferentially bind Mg2+ and promote Li+ permeation, as predicted by density functional theory calculations of metal‐ligand interactions.
Mehrasa Yassari, Seyedeh Fatemeh Seyedpour, Bamlak Setegne, Amir Aghaei, Behzad Ahvazi, Mostafa Dadashi Firouzjaei, Mark Elliott, Mohtada Sadrzadeh   +7 more
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STRATEGIC ANALYSIS OF TRAIT COMMERCIALIZATION IN GENETICALLY MODIFIED (GM) GRAINS: THE CASE OF GM WHEAT [PDF]

The prospective commercialization of GM traits leads to several strategic questions for agbiotechnology and seed firms. Important issues addressed in this study include the method of trait commercialization by agbiotechnology firms and variety production
Huso, Scott R., Wilson, William W.
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The optimal behaviour of firms facing stochastic costs [PDF]

, 2006
This paper aims at assessing the optimal behavior of a firm facing stochastic costs of production. In an imperfectly competitive setting, we evaluate to what extent a firm may decide to locate part of its production in other markets different from which ...
Institut d'Anàlisi Econòmica, Menoncin, Francesco, Nicolini, Rosella, Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona. Unitat de Fonaments de l'Anàlisi Econòmica   +3 more
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Gold Nanoclusters as Dual Agents for Engineering Tumor Vascular Leakiness and Performing Photothermal Therapy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Many cancer nanotherapeutics, while potent, suffer from the inability to escape from the tumor vasculature, especially in the absence of endothelial permeability. In this work, ultrasmall gold nanoclusters could engineer nanomaterials induced endothelial leakiness (NanoEL) and harness strong NIR induced photothermal characteristics to suppress tumor ...
Nengyi Ni, Kuoran Xing, Bihan Zhang, Baoteng Wang, Yinglu Chen, Jianping Xie, Xiao Sun, Jinping Wang, David Tai Leong   +8 more
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The state-contingent approach to production under uncertainty [PDF]

The central claim of this paper is that the state-contingent approach provides the best way to think about all problems in the economics of uncertainty, including problems of consumer choice, the theory of the firm, and principal–agent relationships ...
Chambers, Robert G., Quiggin, John C.
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Efficient Charge Transport in Zero‐Dimensional Perovskite for Ultrahigh‐Sensitivity X‐Ray Detection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A novel mono‐octahedral 0D Bi‐based Dpy3Bi2I12 perovskite strengthens the internal hydrogen bonds and forms a quasi‐2D lattice, exhibits exceptional charge transport and mobility, achieving high X‐ray sensitivity and ultralow‐dose imaging, and setting a new benchmark for 0D detector performance.
Xin Song, Lijie Wang, Jiayi Wang, Yafeng Xu, Renqian Zhou, Shulin Chen, Partha Maity, Peng Yuan, Yongcao Zhang, Bingyao Shao, Jian‐Xin Wang, Jun Yin, Ren‐Wu Huang, Youyou Yuan, Taimoor Ahmad, Osman M. Bakr, Omar F. Mohammed   +16 more
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