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Mechanism analysis of mechanical extraction of Pleioblastus amarus fibers by saturated steam pretreatment

Xiaofeng Xu, Weipeng Yu, Xingduo Fan, Zhenhong Gong et al. • Scientific Reports (2025)

Abstract Currently, bamboo fibers (BFs) are commonly processed through alkali boiling softening pretreatment, which generates wastewater that poses environmental pollution risks. This process is also complex and requires significant human a...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41598-025-88059-4

Swept source intraoperative OCT angiography

Ziyi Zhang, Tiepei Zhu, Tongtong Cao, Zhaoyu Gong et al. • Journal of Innovative Optical Health Sciences (2021)

To accurately guide surgical instruments during ophthalmic procedures, some necessary intraoperative depth perception is required, which standard surgical microscopes supply limitedly. Intraoperative optical coherence tomography (iOCT), com...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1142/S1793545821400095

Non-invasive large-scale imaging of concurrent neuronal, astrocytic, and hemodynamic activity with hybrid multiplexed fluorescence and magnetic resonance imaging (HyFMRI)

Zhenyue Chen, Yi Chen, Irmak Gezginer, Qingxiang Ding et al. • Light: Science & Applications (2025)

Abstract A critical gap currently exists in systematic understanding and experimental validation of the role of astrocytes in neurovascular coupling and their functional links with other brain cells. Despite a broad selection of functional ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41377-025-02003-9

Photovoltaic Performance of Pin Junction Nanocone Array Solar Cells with Enhanced Effective Optical Absorption

Jinnan Zhang, Lingmei Ai, Xin Yan, Yao Wu et al. • Nanoscale Research Letters (2018)

Abstract The photovoltaic performance of axial and radial pin junction GaAs nanocone array solar cells is investigated. Compared with the cylinder nanowire arrays, the nanocone arrays not only improve the whole optical absorption but more i...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s11671-018-2727-7

Synthesize and characterization of hybrid aluminium alloy (AA6063) metal matrix composite (HAMMC) with corn cob ash and alumina (Al2O3) reinforcements

Ayenew Amare, Mezigebu Belay, Zewudu Wondimagegn • Journal of Materials Science: Materials in Engineering (2026)

Abstract The use of aluminium matrix composites (AMCs) in advanced engineering applications has increased due to their improved mechanical properties, such as hardness, ultimate tensile strength, toughness, wear, and corrosion resistance. A...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1186/s40712-026-00421-0

Developing a New Biophysical Tool to Combine Magneto-Optical Tweezers with Super-Resolution Fluorescence Microscopy

Zhaokun Zhou, Helen Miller, Adam J.M. Wollman, Mark C. Leake • Photonics (2015)

We present a novel experimental setup in which magnetic and optical tweezers are combined for torque and force transduction onto single filamentous molecules in a transverse configuration to allow simultaneous mechanical measurement and man...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/photonics2030758

Compositional tuning of structural, photothermal and optical properties of La-based high-entropy perovskite oxides

Anurag Khandelwal, Piyush Anil Kumar Sharma, Simon Schweidler, Pirmin Tischler et al. • Materials & Design (2026)

In this study, 14 lanthanum-based high-entropy perovskite oxides (HEPOs) with equimolar mixtures of transition metals (Cr, Mn, Fe, Co, Ni, Cu, Zn) at the B-site were synthesized to investigate how multi-elemental interactions govern their s...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1016/j.matdes.2026.116517

Generation of Subdiffraction Optical Needles by Simultaneously Generating and Focusing Azimuthally Polarized Vortex Beams through Pancharatnam–Berry Metalenses

Zhe Shen, Shijie Huang • Nanomaterials (2022)

Needle beams have received widespread attention due to their unique characteristics of high intensity, small focal size, and extended depth of focus (DOF). Here, a single–layer all–dielectric metalens based on Pancharatnam–Berry (PB) was us...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/nano12224074

From mid-infrared luminescence to laser gain in chalcogenide glasses and glass-ceramics

Yuhang Zhao, Chenyue Xiao, Xiaosong Lu, Zhiyong Yang • Journal of Advanced Dielectrics (2026)

Mid-infrared (MIR) lasers operating in the 2–6[Formula: see text][Formula: see text]m region are important for spectroscopy, sensing, communications, medicine, lidar, and electro-optical applications. Chalcogenide glasses and glass–ceramics...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1142/S2010135X26400102

Overcoming the sensitivity–speed trade-off in two-dimensional photodetectors via a functional oxide interlayer

Yuhui Yang, Qingyun Wu, Xiangxin Gong, Ruihuan Duan et al. • Nature Communications (2026)

Abstract Photodetectors that can achieve both high sensitivity and fast speed remain a challenge due to inherent trade-offs, particularly limiting in photonic integrated circuits. While substantial progress has been made in broadening spect...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-72259-1

All-inorganic lattice-contracted fabric image sensors for extreme-temperature radiography

Li Xu, Peng Ran, Wenqian Zhou, Jingshu Wang et al. • Nature Communications (2026)

Abstract Conventional X‑ray sensing fails in extreme temperatures due to a fundamental trilemma: no material offers strong absorption, flexibility, and thermal stability simultaneously. Rigid inorganic scintillators exhibit thermal quenchin...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-026-71103-w

Flood Response System—A Case Study

Yogesh Kumar Singh, Upasana Dutta, T. S. Murugesh Prabhu, I. Prabu et al. • Hydrology (2017)

Flood Response System (FRS) is a network-enabled solution developed using open-source software. The system has query based flood damage assessment modules with outputs in the form of spatial maps and statistical databases. FRS effectively f...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/hydrology4020030

Sensitivity of aerosol and cloud properties to coupling strength of marine boundary layer clouds over the northwest Atlantic

K. Zeider, K. McCauley, K. McCauley, S. Dmitrovic et al. • Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics (2025)

Quantifying the degree of coupling between marine boundary layer (MBL) clouds and the surface is critical for understanding the evolution of low clouds and explaining the vertical distribution of aerosols and microphysical cloud properties....

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/acp-25-2407-2025

Pixel-Accurate Registration of Photogrammetric Images and LiDAR in a Hybrid Airborne Oblique Imaging System

D. Deng, R. Qin, R. Qin, E. M. Farella et al. • The International Archives of the Photogrammetry, Remote Sensing and Spatial Information Sciences (2026)

Hybrid airborne imaging systems integrating oblique photogrammetric cameras and LiDAR sensors provide complementary geometric and radiometric information for high-fidelity 3D reconstruction. While LiDAR offers stable global geometric accura...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.5194/isprs-archives-XLIX-B2-2026-143-2026

Measurement of the Filling Degree and Droplet Size of Individual Double Emulsion Droplets Using Raman Technologies

Thomas Hufnagel, Richard Stoy, Matthias Rädle, Heike P. Karbstein • Chemosensors (2022)

Double emulsions arouse great interest in various industries due to their ability to encapsulate value-adding ingredients. However, they tend to be unstable due to their complex structure. Several measurement techniques have already been de...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/chemosensors10110463

Computational Adaptive Optics for HAR Hybrid Trench Array Topography Measurement by Utilizing Coherence Scanning Interferometry

Wenyou Qiao, Zhishan Gao, Qun Yuan, Lu Chen et al. • Sensors (2025)

High aspect ratio (HAR) sample-induced aberrations seriously affect the topography measurement for the bottom of the microstructure by coherence scanning interferometry (CSI). Previous research proposed an aberration compensating method usi...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.3390/s25134085

High-Q microresonators on 4H-silicon-carbide-on-insulator platform for nonlinear photonics

Chengli Wang, Zhiwei Fang, Ailun Yi, Bingcheng Yang et al. • Light: Science & Applications (2021)

Abstract The realization of high-quality (Q) resonators regardless of the underpinning material platforms has been a ceaseless pursuit, because the high-Q resonators provide an extreme environment for confining light to enable observations ...

DOAJ Open Access (DOAJ) DOI: 10.1038/s41377-021-00584-9