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Two-dimensional (2D) materials have emerged as a significant class of materials promising for photocatalysis, and defect ...

Discover how HIFO inventory accounting contrasts with LIFO and FIFO methods, and why it impacts COGS and taxable income, despite not being recognized by GAAP.

Learn how the flow of costs impacts manufacturing firms, covering raw materials, work-in-process, finished goods, and cost of goods sold with practical examples and methods.

Classical computations rely on binary bits, which can be in either of the two states, 0 or 1. In contrast, quantum computing is based on qubits, which can be 0, 1, or a superposition or entanglement ...

1 School of Health and Nursing, Yunnan Open University, Kunming, China. 2 Huaning Yunengtou New Energy Development Co., Ltd., Yuxi, China. 3 School of Materials Science and Engineering, Southwest ...

ABSTRACT: This study evaluated the electronic and optical properties of the Al- and F-doped ZnO by the first-principles study based on the density functional theory. The results show that the Al-3s, ...

Abstract: This article introduces an exact, first-principles method for beamforming with a receiver that is augmented by a reconfigurable intelligent surface (RIS). We demonstrate a way to synthesize ...

What if the secret to solving the world’s most complex problems wasn’t about thinking bigger, but thinking smaller, breaking things down to their most basic truths? This is the power of first ...

Illustration of a polaron in a crystal: the central bright sphere is the charge carrier, distorting the surrounding lattice. The wavy lines represent high-order Feynman diagrams for the ...