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Ni Huanzhi

Ni Huanzhi (倪焕之) is a 1928 novel by the Chinese writer Ye Shengtao, his only full-length novel, following an idealistic young teacher through revolution and disillusionment.

Ni Kuang

Ni Kuang (倪匡), born Ni Yiming in Shanghai, was a prolific Hong Kong writer and screenwriter who created the Wesley science fiction series and wrote about 300 film scripts.

NI Multisim

NI Multisim is SPICE-based schematic capture and circuit simulation software sold by National Instruments for analog, digital, and power electronics, pairing with Ultiboard for PCB layout.

Ni Ni

Ni Ni (倪妮), born 1988 in Nanjing, is a Chinese actress who debuted as Yu Mo in The Flowers of War (2011), starred in The Rise of Phoenixes, Lost in the Stars, and Dongji Island, and won the Changchun Golden Deer Best Actress award.

Ni no Kuni (二ノ国)

Ni no Kuni (二ノ国) is a Level-5 JRPG series set in a parallel fantasy world, begun on DS in Japan in 2010 with Studio Ghibli animation and Joe Hisaishi music; later entries include Wrath of the White Witch, Revenant Kingdom, and the Netmarble mobile MMORPG Cross Worlds.

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom

Ni no Kuni II: Revenant Kingdom is Level-5's 2018 action RPG (PS4, PC; later Switch and Xbox) starring boy king Evan Pettiwhisker Tildrum, with real-time combat, Higgledy sprites, kingdom building, and skirmish battles.

Ni no Kuni mobile games

Ni no Kuni mobile games, chiefly Ni no Kuni: Cross Worlds (二之国:交错世界), a Netmarble Neo MMORPG with Level-5 and Studio Ghibli styling, launched 2021 in Asia, 2022 globally, known for gacha and blockchain monetization controversies.

Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn

Ni no Kuni: Dominion of the Dark Djinn (二ノ国 漆黒の魔導士, Shikkoku no Madōshi) is Level-5's Japan-only Nintendo DS RPG of December 9, 2010, made with Studio Ghibli and Joe Hisaishi, bundled with the Magic Master spellbook, and expanded into Wrath of the White Witch.

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch

Ni no Kuni: Wrath of the White Witch (二ノ国 白き聖灰の女王) is Level-5's 2011 PS3 JRPG made with Studio Ghibli, music by Joe Hisaishi; boy Oliver and fairy Drippy fight Shadar, collect familiars; remastered 2019.

Ni Runfeng

Ni Runfeng (倪润峰), born 1944, is a Chinese industrial manager who led Sichuan Changhong from 1985 to 2004, making it China's largest color TV maker.

NI VeriStand

NI VeriStand is configuration-based real-time testing software from NI for hardware-in-the-loop systems, connecting real-time simulations of physical equipment to embedded controllers under test without custom programming.

Ni Yuanlu

Ni Yuanlu (倪元璐, 1593–1644) was a Ming dynasty official and calligrapher who served as Minister of Revenue and hanged himself when Beijing fell in 1644.

Ni Zan

Ni Zan (倪瓚, 1301–1374) was a Chinese painter, calligrapher, and poet from Wuxi in the Yuan dynasty, ranked among the four great masters of Yuan painting.

Ni Zewang

Ni Zewang (倪泽望, born 1963) is a Chinese venture capitalist who led Shenzhen Capital Group, one of China's largest state-backed VC firms, from 2015 to 2024.

Ni-Bi oxygen evolution catalyst

Ni-Bi (nickel-borate) is an amorphous thin-film electrocatalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction, electrodeposited from borate electrolyte at pH 9.2, reported at MIT in 2010 by Dincă, Surendranath, and Nocera.

Ni-containing CO dehydrogenase

Ni-containing CO dehydrogenase (Ni-CODH, EC 1.2.7.4) is an oxygen-sensitive nickel-iron-sulfur enzyme of anaerobic bacteria and archaea that reversibly oxidizes CO to CO2 at its C-cluster, unlike the aerobic Mo,Cu-CODH.

Ni-Mn-Ga magnetic shape memory alloy

Ni-Mn-Ga is a ferromagnetic Heusler alloy that changes shape reversibly under an applied magnetic field through twin boundary motion, reaching strains up to 10 percent at frequencies near 1 kHz.

Ni-Mo catalyst for alkaline hydrogen evolution

A Ni-Mo catalyst, or NiMo alloy, is a nickel-molybdenum material used as the cathode electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution in alkaline water electrolysis, reaching overpotentials as low as 10 to 15 mV.

Ni-Neith

Ni-Neith is the name Egyptologists give to a putative ruler of Dynasty 0, predating Egypt's First Dynasty, known only from a single inscription at Helwan.

Ni–Ga methanol synthesis catalyst

The Ni–Ga methanol synthesis catalyst is a nickel–gallium alloy, most prominently Ni₅Ga₃, that hydrogenates carbon dioxide to methanol with high selectivity, identified computationally in 2014.

Ni–Mo sulfide hydrogen evolution catalyst

A Ni–Mo sulfide hydrogen evolution catalyst is a nickel–molybdenum sulfide electrocatalyst that speeds the hydrogen evolution reaction in alkaline water electrolysis, offering a cheap alternative to platinum.

Ni–N–C catalysts for CO2 electroreduction to CO

Single-atom Ni–N–C catalysts are electrocatalysts in which isolated nickel atoms coordinated by nitrogen sit in a carbon matrix, reducing CO2 chiefly to carbon monoxide with high selectivity.

Ni2P nickel phosphide

Nickel phosphide (Ni2P) is a compound of nickel and phosphorus with a hexagonal Fe2P-type structure, valued as a hydrotreating catalyst and for hydrogen evolution in water electrolysis.

Ni2P/Ni5P4 phosphide HER catalysts

Ni2P/Ni5P4 phosphide HER catalysts are dual-phase nickel phosphide heterostructures that catalyze the hydrogen evolution reaction of water electrolysis, beating either single phase through faster interface charge transfer and more active sites.

Ni3(HITP)2

Ni3(HITP)2 is a two-dimensional conductive metal-organic framework in which nickel ions link HITP ligands into stacked honeycomb sheets; first reported at MIT in 2014, it set conductivity records for porous materials.

Ni3Al

Ni3Al, or nickel aluminide, is an intermetallic compound of nickel and aluminum best known as the gamma-prime strengthening phase of nickel-based superalloys in turbine engines.

Nia Archives

Nia Archives, born Dehaney Nia Lishahn Hunt, is an English jungle producer, DJ, and singer from Bradford, a leading figure of the early-2020s jungle revival in Britain.

Nia DaCosta

Nia DaCosta, American film director and screenwriter from Brooklyn, NYU Tisch alum, directed Little Woods, Candyman, The Marvels (first Black woman to direct a Marvel film), Hedda, and 28 Years Later: The Bone Temple.

Nia Fossae

Nia Fossae is a system of arcuate grabens on Mars south of Melas Chasma, Valles Marineris region, centered at 14.73S, 287.70E, about 380 km across, IAU-approved 1982, named for the classical name of the River Gambia.

Nia Jax

Nia Jax (Savelina/Lina Fanene, born 1984), Anoa'i family member and The Rock's cousin, is a WWE wrestler: two-time WWE Women's Champion, three-time tag team champion, 2024 Queen of the Ring winner, known for her size-based 'Irresistible Force' persona and safety criticisms.