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Yingtao Zhou, Xi Feng, Maoyuan Liu and Weiqun Wang
Beach width is an important factor for tourists? comfort, and the backshore is a swash zone where sediment moves quickly. Artificial sandy beaches focus on beach width stability and evolution. This paper is based on an artificial beach project in Haikou ...
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Paul Whitworth, Anthony S. Clare, John A. Finlay, Richard F. Piola, Joseph Plummer and Nick Aldred
The biofouling of marine structures must be controlled if crippling operational and maintenance costs are to be avoided and biological invasions prevented. However, traditional methods of biofouling control typically involve the use of toxic chemicals, w...
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Wenpeng Yu, Ying Jiang, Feng Lin, Jichun Liu and Jianliang Zhou
Valve replacement is the mainstay of treatment for end-stage valvular heart disease, but varying degrees of defects exist in clinically applied valve implants. A mechanical heart valve requires long-term anti-coagulation, but the formation of blood clots...
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Jéssica S. Almeida, Emanuel V. Capela, Ana M. Loureiro, Ana P. M. Tavares and Mara G. Freire
Currently, the use of alternative solvents is increasing, namely ionic liquids (ILs) and deep eutectic solvents (DESs) in diverse fields of knowledge, such as biochemistry, chemistry, chemical engineering, biotechnology and biomedicine. Particularly, whe...
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Yuichiro Aiba, Masanari Shibata and Osami Shoji
Peptide nucleic acid (PNA) is an analog of natural nucleic acids, where the sugar-phosphate backbone of DNA is replaced by an electrostatically neutral N-(2-aminoethyl)glycine backbone. This unique peptide-based backbone enables PNAs to form a very stabl...
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