Variation in physical factors, such as slope, orientation, and wind exposure, shapes thermal conditions. Variation in substrate size is common in many habitats, but its thermal consequences for organisms are not well characterized. Larger substrates should remain more thermally stable and act as thermal refuges for associated organisms during short, thermally stressful periods such as midday te...

This study brings out the photoinduced thermal instability in an otherwise thermally stable Cs 2 AgBiBr 6 double perovskite.

Nanoporous carbon is coated by pure nickel via an electroless plating method. The nanoporous carbon provides a high-surface-area substrate, leading to a large capacitance; the nickel surface layer is of a high work function, resulting in a thermally sensitive electrode potential. Such a system is ideal for thermally chargeable supercapacitor (TCS) system, which converts low-grade heat (LGH) to ...

Nanoporous carbon based thermally chargeable supercapacitors (TCS) are characterized in a set of experiments for low-grade heat harvesting and storage. A TCS consists of two nanoporous electrodes immersed in an electrolyte solution. When the temperature of one of the electrodes rises, its electrode potential increases, and a significant amount of thermal energy is converted to electric energy. ...

In the present study, poly(ε-caprolactone) copolymers decorated with random inclusion of thermally stable and photo-dimerizing cinnamoyl groups were synthesized for an electrically-assisted material extrusion additive manufacturing technique named melt electrowriting (MEW). The absence thermally-induced reactions between maintained molten processable at elevated processing temperature while UV ...

A novel LNA-MB (molecular beacon based on locked nucleic acid bases) has been designed and investigated. It exhibits very high melting temperature and is thermally stable, shows superior single base mismatch discrimination capability, and is stable against digestion by nuclease and has no binding with single-stranded DNA binding proteins. The LNA-MB will be widely useful in a variety of areas, ...

Producing solution-based metal nanoparticles that do not agglomerate at elevated temperatures remains challenging. We show that thermally stable Au and Cu nanoparticles can be prepared using polystyrene-poly(4-vinylpyridine) diblock copolymers as capping agents. These materials remain stable when their solutions are subjected to prolonged heating up to 160 °C for more than 48 h. These condition...