RMIT University

Legitimacy Signals and Investor Protections: Top-Tier Law Firms in Global Venture Capital Investments

Venture capital (VC) transactions are impeded by two frictions: entrepreneurs cannot credibly signal quality to investors, and investors cannot fully protect themselves against governance risks in incomplete–contract relationships. We argue that top-tier law firms address both fr...

Self-Adaptive Thermoregulating Coating for All-Weather Thermal Management

Practical thermal management of functional interfaces usually requires coordinated solar absorption and radiative heat dissipation under variable environmental conditions. Yet, conventional photothermal systems maintain static spectral responses and fail to adapt to dynamic therm...

A Descriptor and Tool for Guiding Composition Design toward Developing Single- or Mixed/Hybrid-Phase “Layered” Transition Metal Oxide Cathode Materials for Na-Ion Batteries

Abstract The structure type and phase assemblage of “layered” Na-transition metal (TM) oxides dictate their performance as cathode materials, resulting in an impetus toward developing biphasic or hybrid Na-TM-oxides. However, a fundamental understanding as to what drives the form...

Carbon-rich carbon nitride for singlet-oxygen-driven photocatalytic degradation of benzophenone-3 and coral vitality recovery

Coral reefs, vital marine ecosystems, are increasingly threatened by global warming and chemical pollutants such as benzophenone-3 (BP-3), a widely used UV filter. To address this challenge, we present a carbon-doped graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) photocatalyst with efficient...

Building a Physics-Aware AI Ecosystem for Solid-State Hydrogen Storage Materials

Abstract Hydrogen storage remains a central bottleneck for scalable hydrogen energy systems due to the multiscale and coupled nature of the thermodynamics, kinetics, and microstructural evolution of hydrogen storage materials (HSMs). Although artificial intelligence (AI) has acce...

Co-designed development of a vocational education and training program for peer health and social care navigators in Australia

<title>Abstract</title> Background Peer health navigators (lay patient navigators) are increasingly used to support consumers to access and navigate health and social care systems, particularly for populations experiencing barriers to care. Despite growing evidence of their effec...

Novel knit-like woven denim fabrics rendering differential shrinkage Half-Knit piles; better comfort and durability to conventional denim

Stretchable denim fabrics offering comfort and aestheticists are an area of interest for textile engineering today. This study developed an innovative woven denim that retains the classic woven appearance on the face, while exhibiting knit-like loop structures on the back. Four s...

Using Generative Artificial Intelligence to Identify Themes of Basic Psychological Needs in Popular Song Lyrics

Music listening is a universal human behaviour, increasingly recognised for its association with well-being. The mechanisms underlying how music listening influences well-being remain unclear, especially in terms of broader motivational processes. Utilising a self-determination t...

Charge‐Redistribution‐Driven Dual‐Single‐Atom Catalysts on MXene for Hydrogen Evolution

ABSTRACT The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) exhibits pH‐ and electrolyte‐dependent pathways, imposing intrinsic challenges on the development of catalysts that operate efficiently across wide pH conditions and in seawater electrolysis. Here, we report a dual‐single‐atom cataly...

A YOLOv8x-Seg-based adversarial domain adaptation approach for construction and demolition waste instance segmentation

Effective construction and demolition waste (CDW) sorting is essential for improving resource recovery and supporting circular construction practices. Automated sorting systems require robust visual perception across changing material appearances, lighting, backgrounds, and opera...

Trustworthy Deployment of LLM-Based RAG Systems for Small Businesses: A Security and Confidence-Aware Framework †

Small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) are increasingly deploying Large Language Model (LLM)-based agentic systems to support customer service and internal knowledge management. However, practical deployment of retrievalaugmented generation (RAG) systems continues to be challe...

A Pterostoma from the Eocene, Anglesea, Victoria, Australia

This palaeobotanical note describes a specimen of Pterostoma that was recovered from Eocene coal measures within the open cast Anglesea coal mine, Victoria, Australia. The specimen is significant as it clearly shows venation.

Microglial maturation across human and mouse as a reference for interpreting large-animal models of perinatal brain injury

Abstract Microglia play dynamic roles in the developing brain and are central mediators of injury responses in perinatal brain injury. In mice, microglial gene regulatory and transcriptional programes reveal progression through early, pre-mature and mature stages. In contrast, mi...