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MXenes and their composites for energy storage and conversion
( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)After graphene, transition metals carbides, transition metal nitrides, and carbonitrides of two-dimensional family is also known as "MXene" gained more and more attention in the past few years especially because of their ... -
Mxenes and their Composites: Synthesis, Properties and Potential Applications: A volume in Micro and Nano Technologies
( Elsevier , 2021 , Book)MXenes and their Composites: Synthesis, Properties and Potential Applications presents a state of the art overview of the recent developments on the synthesis, functionalization, properties and emerging applications of ... -
Silver-doped metal ferrites for wastewater treatment
( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)Nanotechnology is an inspiring discipline with numerous cost-effective and novel applications. Nowadays, nanotechnology is being empowered in the field of medicine, agriculture, space science, food processing, etc. The ... -
MXene-based flexible polymer composites as high dielectric constant materials
( Elsevier , 2021 , Book chapter)The MXenes have a hydrophilic surface, are biocompatible by nature, and have outstanding physiochemical properties, which makes them promising for sensors, fillers in polymer composites, electromagnetic shielding interfaces, ... -
Trends and innovations in biosensors for COVID-19 detection in air
( Springer International Publishing , 2021 , Book chapter)Pandemic is not a word to use lightly or carelessly. It is a word that, if misused, can reason difficult fear, or unwarranted acceptance that the fight is over, foremost to needless suffering and fatality. Coronavirus ... -
Durability of Reinforced Concrete Beams Externally Strengthened with CFRP Laminates under Harsh Climatic Conditions
( American Society of Civil Engineers (ASCE) , 2021 , Article)This paper addresses the durability of reinforced concrete beams strengthened with carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) laminates under natural and saline environments in the Arabian Gulf. Beam specimens were conditioned ... -
Biodegradation of hydrocarbons and biosurfactants production by a newly halotolerant Pseudomonas sp. strain isolated from contaminated seawater
( Elsevier , 2021 , Article)A strain NAPH6 of Pseudomonas aeruginosa, isolated from contaminated seawater taken from the fishing harbor of Sfax, Tunisia, was able to degrade almost completly the naphthalene (200 mg/l) and the aliphatic hydrocarbons ... -
Ocean acidification impacts on zooplankton
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Are offshore platforms a good candidate to restore functional diversity of reef fish communities in the Arabian Gulf?
( Elsevier B.V. , 2023 , Article)Human-made structures are ubiquitous in the marine realm. Complex structures such as oil and gas platforms may constitute a suitable habitat for species in areas where natural reefs have been highly degraded by coastal ... -
Evaluation of combined genome assemblies: A case study with fungal genomes
( Springer , 2015 , Conference Paper)The rapid advances in genome sequencing leads to the generation of huge amount of data in a single sequencing experiment. Several genome assemblers with different objectives were developed to process these genomic data. ... -
Anonymizing transactional datasets
( IOS Press , 2015 , Article)In this paper, we study the privacy breach caused by unsafe correlations in transactional data where individuals have multiple tuples in a dataset. We provide two safety constraints to guarantee safe correlation of the ... -
Securing Aggregate Queries for DNA Databases
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2019 , Article)This paper addresses the problem of sharing person-specific genomic sequences without violating the privacy of their data subjects to support large-scale biomedical research projects. The proposed method builds on the ... -
Battery-Induced Load Hiding and Its Utility Consequences
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024 , Conference Paper)The introduction of smart grids allows utility providers to collect detailed data about consumers, which can be utilized to enhance grid efficiency and reliability. However, this data collection also raises privacy concerns. ... -
RES-EV: Identifying EV-Households under High AC Load Using a Residual-Based Model
( Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc. , 2024 , Conference Paper)This paper introduces a novel residual-based model to identify households with Battery Electric Vehicles (EVs) under high Air Conditioning (AC) load. The considerable energy demands of AC units can obscure charging events ... -
Analysis of Predictive Models for Revealing Household Characteristics using Smart Grid Data
( IEEE Computer Society , 2023 , Conference Paper)The Smart Grid Advanced Metering Infrastructure (AMI) has revolutionized the smart grid network, generating vast amounts of data that can be utilized for diverse objectives, one of which is Household Characteristics ... -
LocationSpark: In-memory Distributed Spatial Query Processing and Optimization
( Frontiers Media S.A. , 2020 , Article)Due to the ubiquity of spatial data applications and the large amounts of spatial data that these applications generate and process, there is a pressing need for scalable spatial query processing. In this paper, we present ... -
A resource provisioning framework for bioinformatics applications in multi-cloud environments
( Elsevier , 2018 , Article)The significant advancement in Next Generation Sequencing (NGS) have enabled the generation of several gigabytes of raw data in a single sequencing run. This amount of raw data introduces new scalability challenges in ... -
α-Fe2O3/ZnO nanocomposite as an efficient photocatalyst for wastewater treatment and flexible electronic device applications
( Springer , 2024 , Article)In this work, we report the synthesis of α-Fe2O3, ZnO, and α-Fe2O3/ZnO nanomaterials by a simple sol-gel method for photocatalytic dye degradation and flexible electronic applications. X-ray diffraction results reveal that ... -
Author Correction: Stretchable Electrospun PVDF-HFP/Co-ZnO Nanofibers as Piezoelectric Nanogenerators (Scientific Reports, (2018), 8, 1, (754), 10.1038/s41598-017-19082-3)
( Nature Research , 2019 , Article)In Figure 5, Co-ZnO was incorrectly given as Ni-ZnO. In addition, the line on the graph for PVDF-HFP was omitted. The correct Figure 5 appears below as Figure 1. (Figure presented.). -
Tailored nanofiber composites for a flexible piezoelectric nanogenerator: Poly(vinylidene fluoride) with BaTiO3/NiFe2O4
( Elsevier , 2024 , Article)Owing to the depletion of fossil fuel energy and the pollution caused by chemical batteries, as well as the growing number of electronic devices and the Internet of Things (IoT), there is a greater demand for power devices ...
