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Yao, Zhiyu (author), Hu, Weidong (author), Feng, Zhiyan (author), Zhang, Wenlong (author), Liu, Yang (author), Xu, Zhihao (author), Ligthart, L.P. (author)Passive multifrequency microwave sensors frequently struggle with difficulties of nonuniform spatial resolution among multiple channels. The raw measurements in the land-sea transition zone are seriously contaminated. Conventional analytical deconvolution techniques suffer from the tradeoff between spatial resolution enhancement and noise...journal article 2023
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Liu, Lian (author), Bricker, J.D. (author), Hu, Chao (author)Early initial impoundment can generate additional revenue but bring more flood risk in late-stage construction diversion. In view of the possible flood risk and catastrophic consequences caused by high dam failures induced by early impoundment, a comprehensive assessment is proposed. Taking the Lianghekou high rockfill dam on the Yalong River...journal article 2023
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Ye, Xiangqian (author), Xiao, Zhenyong (author), He, Chuang (author), Li, Wenyu (author), Lin, P. (author), Meng, Yuanyuan (author), Hu, Chichun (author)This study systematically investigated the potential of waste carbon fibers (WCFs) as a sustainable solution in enhancing the multiple induction heating healing of asphalt mixture, thereby tackling two major concerns: the environmental impact of WCFs and the durability of asphalt pavement. Firstly, four groups of asphalt binder samples with...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Lingqin (author), Zhang, Dongming (author), Hu, Yanjun (author), Guo, Qianqian (author), Jiao, Long (author), Zhou, Nan (author), Di Maio, F. (author)The bottom ash is increasingly used as a substitute aggregate material in road construction in China, and road salting is the major salt source in groundwater. Continuous rainfall releases soluble salts from the bottom ash subgrade into the surrounding soil and groundwater, resulting in potential hazards. Different methods were employed to...journal article 2023
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Pinto, D. (author), Hu, L. (author), Urakawa, A. (author)Dynamic coke-mediated dry reforming of methane (DC-DRM) is an unsteady-state strategy to overcome the limitations of co-feed operation, including the fast deactivation of the catalysts and the loss of valuable H<sub>2</sub> in the reverse water gas-shift reaction. This paper proves the feasibility of DC-DRM on Ni-based catalytic systems,...journal article 2023
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Copper Nanoparticle Sintering Enabled Hermetic Packaging With Fine Sealing Ring for MEMS ApplicationHu, D. (author), Shah, M.B. (author), Fan, J. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Driving by the increased demand for hermetic packaging in the more than Moore (MtM) roadmap, a Cu nanoparticle sintering-enabled hermetic sealing solution was developed with a small-size sealing ring. The developed technology simplifies microfabrication and requires less surface roughness using a sinterable Cu nanoparticle paste. A 50μm size...journal article 2023
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Kaneda, R. (author), Palomo Jiménez, J. (author), Hu, L. (author), Urakawa, A. (author)The oxidative coupling of methane (OCM) was investigated using a catalyst with a core@shell structure or a physical mixture comprised of MgO and SiC or Fe<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub>, which was thermally activated via two different heating methods, namely, conventional resistive heating and microwave heating. The use of microwave radiation...journal article 2023
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Dai, Hanqing (author), Dai, Wenqing (author), Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Yan, Yukun (author), Zuo, Guangzheng (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Wei, Jinxin (author), Zhou, Wenjie (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Sulfide minerals hold significant importance in both fundamental science and industrial advancement. However, certain natural sulfide minerals, such as NaFe<sub>3</sub>S<sub>5</sub>·2H<sub>2</sub>O (NFS), pose great challenges for exploitation and synthesis due to their high susceptibility to oxidation. To date, no successful precedent exists...journal article 2023
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Vasileiadis, A. (author), Li, Yuqi (author), Lu, Yaxiang (author), Hu, Yong Sheng (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)There are several questions and controversies regarding the Na storage mechanism in hard carbon. This springs from the difficulty of probing the vast diversity of possible configurational environments for Na storage, including surface and defect sites, edges, pores, and intercalation morphologies. In the effort to explain the observed voltage...journal article 2023
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Guo, Lanpeng (author), Liang, Hongping (author), Hu, Huiyun (author), Shi, Shenbin (author), Wang, Chenxu (author), Li, Hao (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, Yao (author)Achieving convenient and accurate detection of indoor ppb-level formaldehyde is an urgent requirement to ensure a healthy working and living environment for people. Herein, ultrasmall In<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub> nanorods and supramolecularly functionalized reduced graphene oxide are selected as hybrid components of visible-light-driven (VLD)...journal article 2023
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Wen, Minzhen (author), Guo, Baotong (author), Chen, Shanghuan (author), Hu, X. (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)The (Ca, Sr) AlSiN₃:Eu²⁺(CSASN:Eu) red phosphor is widely used to improve color rendering of high-power phosphor-converted lighting diode (pc-WLED), but it is always unstable under high temperature and high humidity environments. Therefore, the studies on the temperature and humidity resistance of red phosphors and their aging mechanism have...conference paper 2023
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Du, L. (author), Hu, D. (author), Poelm, René (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The application of microporous sintered copper (Cu) as a bonding material to replace conventional die-attach materials in power electronic devices has attracted considerable interest. Many previous studies have focused on the effect of processing parameters (temperature, time, pressure) on the microstructure evolution of sintered Cu. However,...conference paper 2023
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Hu, X. (author), Martin, H.A. (author), Poelma, René H. (author), Huang, J.L. (author), Rijckevorsel, H. (author), Scholten, H. (author), Smits, E.C.P. (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Resin-reinforced silver (Ag) sintering material is an effective and highly reliable solution for power electronics packaging. The hybrid material’s process parameters strongly influence its microstructure and pose a significant challenge in estimating its effective properties as a thin interconnect layer. This research demonstrates a novel 3D...conference paper 2023
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Qian, Cheng (author), Hu, D. (author), Liu, Xu (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)Nano-metal materials sintering has received increasing attention in recent years for its promising performance in the wide bandgap semiconductor packaging. In this paper, molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method were applied to simulate the nano-Cu sintering mechanism and the subsequent mechanical behavior. Hybrid sintering, comprising...conference paper 2023
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Chen, Qiting (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Wang, Kun (author), Yi, Zhiwei (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Peng, Fei (author), Ma, Shaoxiu (author)Information on crop yield is important for food security, in particular under the conditions of climate change and growing population worldwide. We developed a new fully distributed, high spatial resolution, model of biomass accumulation and crop yield applicable to a highly heterogeneous desert-oasis agroecosystem. The bulk of required input...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Chunbo (author), Hu, Mingming (author), van der Meide, Marc (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Yang, Xining (author), Gao, Xiaofeng (author), Li, Kai (author), Zhao, Hailong (author), Li, Chen (author)Meeting the current demand for concrete requires not only mining tons of gravel and sand, but also burning large amounts of fossil fuel resources in cement kilning. Consequently, concrete recycling is crucial to achieving a material-efficient society, especially with the application of various categories of concrete and the goal of phasing...journal article 2023
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Mao, Qi (author), Wang, Haiqing (author), Yang, M. (author), Hu, Jason (author)Safety instrumented systems(SIS) have been widely used in petroleum and chemical plants to detect and respond to dangerous events and prevent them from developing into accidents. The in-service time of SIS does not exceed its useful life is one of the crucial assumptions of IEC functional safety standards. The testing method recommended in the...journal article 2023
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Aydogmus, H. (author), Hu, M. (author), Ivancevic, Lovro (author), Frimat, Jean Philippe (author), van den Maagdenberg, Arn M.J.M. (author), Sarro, Pasqualina M (author), Mastrangeli, Massimo (author)Continuous monitoring of tissue microphysiology is a key enabling feature of the organ-on-chip (OoC) approach for in vitro drug screening and disease modeling. Integrated sensing units are particularly convenient for microenvironmental monitoring. However, sensitive in vitro and real-time measurements are challenging due to the inherently...journal article 2023
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Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Dai, Hanqing (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Wei, Jinxin (author), Zhou, Wenjie (author), Duan, Zhongtao (author), Cui, Zhongjie (author), Wei, Wei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Hydrogel materials have biocompatibility, flexibility, transparency, self-healing ability, adhesion with various substrates, anti-freeze ability, and high-temperature resistance. However, the existing hydrogel devices cannot continue to operate in the case of damage, and they cannot work during the repair period, which brings great challenges...journal article 2023
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Hu, Jie (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Ma, Guochuan (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author), Ai, Zhengtao (author)Past studies reveal that air infiltration through the building envelope and its impact on the indoor environment and energy consumption are significantly influenced by climate characteristics. However, little relevant information is available for buildings in southern China, where the building design traditionally follows a philosophy of...journal article 2023