Author(s): Yu J; Gao RT; Guo X; Nguyen NT; Wu L; Wang L;

Electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (NO3RR) is very attractive for nitrate removal and ammonia production in industrial processes. However, the nitrate reduction reaction is characterized by intense hydrogen competition at strong reduction potentials, which greatly limits the Faraday efficiency at strong reduction potentials. Herein, we reported ...

Article GUID: 39264141

Author(s): Zhen C; Wang L; Feng Y; Whiteway M; Hang S; Yu J; Lu H; Jiang Y;

Candidiasis, which presents a substantial risk to human well-being, is frequently treated with azoles. However, drug-drug interactions caused by azoles inhibiting the human CYP3A4 enzyme, together with increasing resistance of Candida species to azoles, represent serious issues with this class of drug, making it imperative to develop innovative antifungal ...

Article GUID: 38995235

Author(s): Li W; Feng Y; Feng Z; Wang L; Whiteway M; Lu H; Jiang Y;

Fluconazole (FLC) is extensively employed for the prophylaxis and treatment of invasive fungal infections (IFIs). However, the fungistatic nature of FLC renders pathogenic fungi capable of developing tolerance towards it. Consequently, converting FLC into a fungicidal agent using adjuvants assumes significance to circumvent FLC resistance and the perpetua ...

Article GUID: 38929106

Author(s): Hou D; Zhan D; Wang L; Hassan IG; Sezer N;

Many factors contribute to the inherent uncertainty of energy consumption modeling in buildings. It is essential to perform a calibration and sensitivity analysis in order to manage these uncertainties. Despite the availability of several calibration methods, they are often deterministic and lack quantified uncertainties. Moreover, the selection of parame ...

Article GUID: 37936825

Author(s): Wang H; Gao RT; Nguyen NT; Bai J; Ren S; Liu X; Zhang X; Wang L;

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting is an attractive strategy to convert solar energy to hydrogen. However, the lifetime of PEC devices is restricted by the photocorrosion of semiconductors and the instability of co-catalysts. Herein, we report a feasible in situ inherent cross-linking method for stabilizing semiconductors that uses a CoFe-disperse ...

Article GUID: 37901939

Author(s): Shu C; Gaur A; Wang L; Lacasse MA;

The heatwave event to which the Ontario-Quebec area was subjected in 2018 resulted in significant morbidity and mortality. In this study, an investigation was conducted on how this heatwave affected the respective urban heat islands (UHIs) in Montreal and Ottawa. The modelled urban climates were compared before, during and after the heatwave using a Weath ...

Article GUID: 37263436

Author(s): Gao RT; Nguyen NT; Nakajima T; He J; Liu X; Zhang X; Wang L; Wu L;

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting that functions in pH-neutral electrolyte attracts increasing attention to energy demand sustainability. Here, we propose a strategy to in situ form a NiB layer by tuning the composition of the neutral electrolyte with the additions of nickel and borate species, which improves the PEC performance of the BiVO4 phot ...

Article GUID: 36598972

Author(s): Katal A; Leroyer S; Zou J; Nikiema O; Albettar M; Belair S; Wang L;

More frequent and severe extreme weather events such as heatwaves are among the most serious challenges to society in coping with the changing climate. To evaluate the impacts of the heatwave on large-scale urban areas, a multi-scale weather forecasting system is designed by integrating different resolutions of the Canadian urbanized version of the Global ...

Article GUID: 36587678

Author(s): Xie S; Mohammady M; Wang H; Wang L; Vaidya J; Hong Y;

Property preserving encryption techniques have significantly advanced the utility of encrypted data in various data outsourcing settings (e.g., the cloud). However, while preserving certain properties (e.g., the prefixes or order of the data) in the encrypted data, such encryption schemes are typically limited to specific data types (e.g., prefix-preserve ...

Article GUID: 36506788

Author(s): Zhao Z; Li J; Zhang X; Wang L; Wang J; Lin T;

Perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) have been frequently detected in groundwater globally. With the phase-out of perfluorooctane sulfonate (PFOS) and perfluorooctanate (PFOA) due to their risk to the ecosystem and human population, various novel PFASs have been used as replacements and detected in groundwater. In order to summarize the c ...

Article GUID: 35593984

Author(s): Albettar M; Leon Wang L; Katal A;

Airborne transmission of aerosols contributes to a large portion of the SARS-CoV-2 spread indoors. This study develops a real-time interactive web-based platform for the public to compare various strategies to curb indoor airborne transmission of COVID-19 in different archetype buildings at a city scale. Although many countries have started vaccination an ...

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