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This engineering materials study reports fabrication and characterization of nanocomposite dielectrics in a PbO-BaO-Na2O-Nb2O5-SiO2 glass-ceramic system. X-ray diffraction and microstructural observations describe temperature-dependent phase formation with nanometer-sized crystallites dispersed in a glass matrix. The…

This engineering study investigated factors affecting electro-dewatering of activated sludge under a horizontal applied electric field. It reports optimal performance without altering sludge pH or conductivity and finds that CPAM conditioning improves and accelerates dewatering. The authors provide operating…

This case-control study measured electric field intensity and magnetic flux density in high voltage substations and estimated workers' ELF-EMF exposure over a shift. Sleep quality was assessed using the PSQI in 67 exposed workers and 110 controls. The study reports no statistically significant difference in overall…

This paper presents a theoretical description of nonequilibrium dynamics in a three-dimensional Fermi-Hubbard model driven by an external electric field. The authors report direction-dependent damping of Bloch oscillations and the emergence of a long-lived transient prethermalized state over a broad range of field…

This paper presents a theoretical calculation of the stationary probability density for a harmonic oscillator embedded in an electromagnetic field by solving the Fokker-Planck equation exactly. The magnetic field is treated as constant, while the electric field is modeled as an external stochastic force with…

This in vitro study examined how an externally applied electric field influences the self-assembly of oppositely charged molecules in water into an ordered membrane. The authors report that electric fields changed the kinetics of membrane formation and altered membrane thickness, nanofiber growth orientation, and…

This study investigates instrumentation and procedures to assess electromagnetic exposure from compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs) by measuring both incident and induced fields in the 10 kHz–1 MHz range. For some CFLs, incident electric fields exceeded ICNIRP reference levels at close distances, but induced fields were…

This paper reports molecular dynamics simulations of polyelectrolyte brushes subjected to external electric fields, focusing on how chain stiffness and salt concentration affect responses. The simulations suggest higher salt concentrations strengthen an induced opposing field from ion redistribution, which resists…

This engineering study describes a handheld microfluidic preconcentrator that uses dielectrophoresis generated by circular microelectrodes with a stepping electric field. Numerical simulations were used to illustrate the electric-field concept. In experiments, HeLa cells were reportedly preconcentrated within 160…

This study evaluated pulsed electric fields (PEF) as a pasteurization method for raw skim and whole milk across multiple treatment intensities and storage conditions. The abstract reports only minor changes in physicochemical properties and small decreases in some composition measures under stronger treatments.…

This paper reports a MAXWELL 3D simulation study of electric field distribution in a tissue/tumor model relevant to electrical-pulse-mediated drug delivery. The authors report lower electric field strength in tumor tissue compared with normal cells. They interpret this as potentially increasing tumor susceptibility…

This experimental and modeling study examined pulsed electric field (PEF) permeabilization in several fruit and vegetable tissues at 293 K using 1000 μs pulses and field strengths of 400 and 1000 V·cm(-1). While electroporation theory predicts greater damage in tissues with larger cells, the authors report this…

The paper evaluates how pulsed electric field (PEF) processing affects milk volatile compounds compared with HTST pasteurization (75 °C, 15 s). GC-MS detected 37 volatiles and reported some compositional differences between PEF and pasteurized milk, including increased aldehydes and lower methyl ketones with PEF.…

This engineering study describes modifying MRI RF transmit coil electric-field distributions to create electric field-free zones without substantially changing transmit sensitivity. Phantom experiments are reported to show reduced implant heating when a zero electric-field plane is aligned with the implant location.…

This modeling study applies uniform electric fields parallel and normal to 180° ferroelectric domain walls in PbTiO3 and computes equilibrium structures using anharmonic lattice statics. The authors report that electric fields can substantially increase domain wall thickness and identify a critical field Ec above…

This paper presents a theoretical model of giant phospholipid vesicle deformation in an alternating-current electric field, based on minimizing membrane bending energy and electric-field energy. The model treats the membrane and surrounding aqueous media as leaky dielectrics and reports good quantitative agreement…

This materials study reports that ZnO nanorod polymer hybrids can form liquid-crystalline phases and exhibit orientation switching under an applied AC electric field. The orientation reportedly changes from planar to homeotropic, analogous to switching in low-molecular liquid crystals. Dielectric measurements and…

This experimental study examined how pulsed electric field (PEF) processing parameters affect cell membrane rupture in onion tissue disks, using ion leakage as the primary integrity measure. Disintegration efficiency increased with field strength up to 500 V/cm and varied with pulse width, pulse number, and…

This experimental study examined how pulsed electric fields affect onion tissue integrity and texture across different field strengths and pulse counts. It reports distinct critical field strengths for plasma membrane versus tonoplast membrane breakdown, with higher thresholds needed for tonoplast disruption. Effects…

This study evaluated high-intensity pulsed electric fields (HIPEF) as a processing method to inactivate polyphenoloxidase (PPO) in strawberry juice. Using response surface methodology at a constant electric field of 35 kV/cm, the authors report strong PPO reductions across tested parameter ranges. Bipolar mode,…

This study describes an electrooptical technique for polydisperse colloid solutions using short pulses of strong sine-shaped electric field, intended for systems that cannot withstand prolonged field exposure. The authors report that key particle parameters can still be extracted from the resulting experimental data.…

This neutron diffraction study quantifies how tetragonal structural domains in SrTiO3 redistribute below 105 K under external electric fields and uniaxial mechanical stress. The authors report that electric field and stress act competitively, and that applying both produces complex domain redistribution. The results…

This materials-physics study investigated quadrupolar hyperfine interactions of (111)In→(111)Cd probes in polycrystalline Zr4Al3 and Hf4Al3 containing minority (Zr/Hf)3Al2 phases. The authors observed a strong preference of (111)In solutes for the minority (Zr/Hf)3Al2 phases. Ab initio EFG calculations were used to…

This theoretical condensed-matter study examines how an electric field affects the electronic spectrum and localization in quasiperiodic chains modeled with Harper and Fibonacci potentials. It reports localized ladder spectra under strong fields and smoothing with linearly decreasing gaps under weak fields. When…