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Zhang, Zhenya (author), Mao, Jia (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)In response to the growing global demand for clean and sustainable energy solutions, proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) have emerged as vital components in diverse decarbonization strategies. Despite their increasing importance, a comprehensive synthesis of recent advancements, challenges, and future prospects in thermal and water...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Zhenya (author), Mao, Jia (author), Wei, Houyu (author), Cheng, Chuanxiao (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)Proton exchange membrane fuel cells offer promising clean energy solutions for various applications. However, their performance relies heavily on the properties of the microporous layer, which plays a crucial role in transporting and distributing the components in the fuel cell. To date, the potential for optimising the microporous layer...journal article 2024
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Zhang, Zhenya (author), Wei, Houyu (author), Xiao, Yanqiu (author), Cheng, Chuanxiao (author), Tian, Jiean (author), Li, Xinxin (author), Liu, Junrui (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author)This paper comprehensively investigates the purge mechanism of proton exchange membrane fuel cells during the shutdown process, which qualitatively examines the effect of purge parameters (including current density, stoichiometric ratio, and relative humidity) on water content variation, and further quantitatively investigates the remaining...journal article 2024
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Wu, Huan (author), Luo, Houcai (author), Zhang, Jingping (author), Zheng, Bofeng (author), Lang, Lei (author), Wang, Zeping (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Chen, Xianping (author)To investigate the unclamped inductive switch (UIS) characteristics, 1200 V silicon carbide (SiC) planar MOSFETs with four cell topologies of linear, current sharing linear, square, and hexagon are designed and manufactured. The experimental platform was built and tested. The results show that the single pulse avalanche energy density of the...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Yuxuan (author), Zhai, Xiaoqiang (author), Zhang, Fengyuan (author), Zhang, Zhongbin (author), Hooman, K. (author), Zhang, Hai (author), Wang, Xiaolin (author)Enhancing gas-liquid mass transfer is key to promote gas hydrate formation kinetics. Encapsulation of CO<sub>2</sub> hydrate is expected to dramatically increase gas-liquid contact to enhance mass transfer. However, gas hydrate encapsulation has never been proposed as the technical issues of gas permeation through capsule shells have never...journal article 2023
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Ördög, Balázs (author), De Coster, Tim (author), Dekker, Sven O. (author), Bart, Cindy I. (author), Zhang, Juan (author), Boink, Gerard J.J. (author), Bax, Wilhelmina H. (author), Deng, Shanliang (author), den Ouden, B.L. (author), de Vries, Antoine A.F. (author), Pijnappels, Daniël A. (author)To unlock new research possibilities by acquiring control of action potential (AP) morphologies in excitable cells, we developed an opto-electronic feedback loop-based system integrating cellular electrophysiology, real-time computing, and optogenetic approaches and applied it to monolayers of heart muscle cells. This allowed accurate...journal article 2023
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Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), O'Connor, D. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Gopalakrishnan, Anirudh (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Bifacial (BF) copper-plated crystalline silicon solar cell is an attractive topic to concurrently reduce silver consumption and maintain good device performance. However, it is still challenging to realize a high aspect ratio (AR) of the metal fingers. Herein, a new type of hybrid-shaped Cu finger is electromagnetically fabricated in a BF...journal article 2022
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Sinha, Abhishek (author), Mehta, P.P. (author), Fan, Chuannan (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Marvin, Dieuwke L. (author), van Dinther, Maarten (author), Ritsma, Laila (author), Boukany, P. (author), ten Dijke, Peter (author)Epithelial to mesenchymal transition (EMT) is crucial during embryonic development, tissue fibrosis, and cancer progression. Epithelial cells that display a cobblestone-like morphology can undergo a switch to mesenchymal-like phenotype, displaying an elongated spindle shape or a fibroblast-like morphology. EMT is characterized by timely and...book chapter 2022
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Zhang, Shuang (author), Tuk, Bastiaan (author), van de Peppel, Jeroen (author), Kremers, Gert Jan (author), Koedam, Marijke (author), Pesch, G.R. (author), Rahman, Z. (author), Hoogenboezem, Remco M. (author), Boukany, P. (author)A functional vascular system is a prerequisite for bone repair as disturbed angiogenesis often causes non-union. Paracrine factors released from human bone marrow derived mesenchymal stromal cells (BMSCs) have angiogenic effects on endothelial cells. However, whether these paracrine factors participate in blood flow dynamics within bone...journal article 2022
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Han, C. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), van Duffelen, Max (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Reducing indium consumption, which is related to the transparent conductive oxide (TCO) use, is a key challenge for scaling up silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cell technology to terawatt level. In this work, we developed bifacial SHJ solar cells with reduced TCO thickness. We present three types of In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>-based TCOs,...journal article 2022
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He, Yingdong (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Wang, Zhe (author), Liu, Jia (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Hydrogen-based (H<sub>2</sub>-based) interactive energy networks for buildings and transportations provide novel solutions for carbon-neutrality transition, regional energy flexibility and independence on fossil fuel consumption, where vehicle fuel cells are key components for H<sub>2</sub>-electricity conversion and clean power supply....journal article 2021
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La Zara, D. (author), Sun, F. (author), Zhang, F. (author), Franek, Frans (author), Balogh Sivars, Kinga (author), Horndahl, Jenny (author), Bates, Stephanie (author), Brännström, Marie (author), van Ommen, J.R. (author)Ideal controlled pulmonary drug delivery systems provide sustained release by retarding lung clearance mechanisms and efficient lung deposition to maintain therapeutic concentrations over prolonged time. Here, we use atomic layer deposition (ALD) to simultaneously tailor the release and aerosolization properties of inhaled drug particles...journal article 2021
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Han, C. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Bento Montes, A.R. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zhang, Xiaodan (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)The window layers limit the performance of silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells with front and back contacts. Here, we optimized tungsten-doped indium oxide (IWO) film deposited by radio frequency magnetron sputtering at room temperature. The opto-electrical properties of the IWO were manipulated when deposited on top of thin-film silicon...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Yichuan (author), Venkateswaran, Seshasailam (author), Higuera, Gustavo A. (author), Nath, Suvra (author), Shpak, Guy (author), Matray, Jeffrey (author), Fratila-Apachitei, E.L. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author), Kushner, Steven A. (author), Bradley, Mark (author), De Zeeuw, Chris I. (author)Substrates for neuron culture and implantation are required to be both biocompatible and display surface compositions that support cell attachment, growth, differentiation, and neural activity. Laminin, a naturally occurring extracellular matrix protein is the most widely used substrate for neuron culture and fulfills some of these...journal article 2020
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Liu, Q. (author), Zhao, M. (author), Mytnyk, S. (author), Klemm, B. (author), Zhang, K. (author), Wang, Y. (author), Yan, Dadong (author), Mendes, E. (author), van Esch, J.H. (author)Hydrogel microparticles are important in materials engineering, but their applications remain limited owing to the difficulties associated with their manipulation. Herein, we report the self-orientation of crescent-shaped hydrogel microparticles and elucidate its mechanism. Additionally, the microparticles were used, for the first time, as...journal article 2019
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Choi, Da Som (author), Lee, Hojin (author), Tieves, F. (author), Lee, Yang Woo (author), Son, Eun Jin (author), Zhang, W. (author), Shin, Byungha (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Park, Chan Beum (author)Peroxygenases catalyze selective oxyfunctionalization of hydrocarbons with high conversion efficiencies using H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> as a key cosubstrate. Here, we report an unbiased photoelectrochemical (PEC) tandem structure consisting of a FeOOH/BiVO<sub>4</sub> photoanode, a Cu(In,Ga)Se<sub>2</sub> solar absorber, and a graphitic...journal article 2019
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Yang, G. (author), Zhang, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Isabella, O. (author), Zeman, M. (author)Highest conversion efficiency in crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells can be enabled by quenching minority carriers' recombination at c-Si/contact interface owing to carrier-selective passivating contacts. With the semi-insulating poly-crystalline silicon (SIPOS, poly-Si) a very good passivation of c-Si surfaces was obtained. We have...journal article 2017
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Zhang, Dong (author), Verhees, Wiljan (author), Dörenkämper, Maarten (author), Qiu, Weiming (author), Bakker, N.J. (author), Gutjahr, Astrid (author), Veenstra, Sjoerd (author), Gehlhaar, Robert (author), Paetzold, Ulrich W. (author), Soppe, Wim (author), Romijn, Ingrid (author), Geerligs, LJ (author), Aernouts, Tom (author), Weeber, A.W. (author)The perovskite solar cell is considered a promising candidate as the top cell for high-efficiency tandem devices with crystalline silicon (c-Si) bottom cells, contributing to the cost reduction of photovoltaic energy. In this contribution, a simulation method, involving optical and electrical modelling, is established to calculate the...journal article 2016
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Zhang, D. (author)It has been predicted that due to the population growth the energy demand is increasing faster and faster. It has been well recognized that depleting fossil-fuel resources will not fulfill the energy need of the future world. Not to mention the problem of global warming caused by its combustion, and of energy security as a result of geopolitical...doctoral thesis 2015
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Zhang, D. (author), Tavakoliyaraki, A. (author), Wu, Y. (author), Van Swaaij, R.A.C.M.M. (author), Zeman, M. (author)Heterojunction silicon with intrinsic thin layer (HIT) solar cells that combine advanced thin-film hydrogenated amorphous silicon (a-Si:H) and crystalline silicon (c-Si) technologies are promising because of the high performance at low cost. Due to the low conductivity of a-Si:H, indium tin oxide (ITO) needs to be used as a front contact layer...journal article 2011