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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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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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Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author), Hu, Donghui (author)Vehicular Digital Forensics (VDF) is essential to enable liability cognizance of accidents and fight against crimes. Ensuring the authority to timely gather, analyze, and trace data promotes vehicular investigations. However, adversaries crave the identity of the data provider/user, damage the evidence, violate evidence jurisdiction, and leak...journal article 2023
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Ma, Dong (author), Lan, G. (author), Hu, Changshuo (author), Hassan, Mahbub (author), Hu, Wen (author), Mushfika, Upama (author), Uddin, Ashraf (author), Youssef, Moustafa (author)We design a system, SolarGest, which can recognize hand gestures near a solar-powered device by analyzing the patterns of the photocurrent. SolarGest is based on the observation that each gesture interferes with incident light rays on the solar panel in a unique way, leaving its discernible signature in harvested photocurrent. Using solar...journal article 2023
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Hu, Zhi Yi (author), Lin, Yi Peng (author), Wang, Qing Ting (author), Zhang, Yi Xin (author), Tang, Jie (author), Wang, Shuai (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Zeng, Raymond Jianxiong (author), Zhang, Fang (author)By maintaining the cell integrity of waste activated sludge (WAS), structural extracellular polymeric substances (St-EPS) resist WAS anaerobic fermentation. This study investigates the occurrence of polygalacturonate in WAS St-EPS by combining chemical and metagenomic analyses that identify ∼22% of the bacteria, including Ferruginibacter and...journal article 2023
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Hu, Yan (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Ai, Zhengtao (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Ventilative cooling is an energy-saving technology to diminish thermal discomfort and overheating risk of buildings, meanwhile achieving high indoor air quality (IAQ). However, there is still no optimal control strategy in practice, which considerably limits its application. This study developed a typical office building model to evaluate the...journal article 2023
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Hu, Xuanyu (author), Stark, Alexander (author), Dirkx, D. (author), Hussmann, Hauke (author), Fienga, Agnès (author), Briaud, Arthur (author), Mémin, Anthony (author), Melini, Daniele (author), Fayolle-Chambe, M.S. (author)We investigate the impact of viscoelastic tidal deformation of the Moon on the motion of a polar orbiter. The dissipative effects in the Moon’s interior, i.e., tidal phase lags, are modeled as Fourier series sampled at given frequencies associated with linear combinations of Delaunay arguments, the fundamental parameters describing the lunar...journal article 2023
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Li, Wenhuai (author), Li, Mengran (author), Guo, Y. (author), Hu, Zhiwei (author), Zhou, Chuan (author), Brand, Helen E.A. (author), Peterson, Vanessa K. (author), Pao, Chih Wen (author), Chen, Chien Te (author)Oxygen-ion conducting perovskite oxides are important functional materials for solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen-permeable membranes operating at high temperatures (>500 °C). Co-doped perovskites have recently shown their potential to boost oxygen-related kinetics, but challenges remain in understanding the underlying mechanisms. This...journal article 2023
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Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Dai, Hanqing (author), Yan, Yukun (author), Piao, Zhiyan (author), Lu, Hanxu (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Wei, Wei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author)In recent years, various functional fabrics capable of responding to multistimuli have been widely recognized as promising wearable devices. However, the obtained composite functional fabrics have only been applied in a few scenarios, rendering the achievement of multifunctional wearable application scenarios a difficult goal. Therefore,...journal article 2023
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Wang, Chuan (author), Sun, Renjuan (author), Hu, Xinlei (author), Guan, Yanhua (author), Yang, Yingzi (author), Lu, Wei (author), Tian, Jun (author), Zhang, Hongzhi (author), Ge, Zhi (author), Šavija, B. (author)This paper presents a research on the chloride penetration behavior of engineered cementitious composites (ECC) under sustained flexural loads. Three load levels, i.e. 30 %, 60 % and 75 % of the ultimate flexural load were used. Chloride diffusion depth and concentration profile were measured 30, 60 and 150 days after the specimen was exposed...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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Tukker, Arnold (author), Behrens, Paul (author), Deetman, Sebastiaan (author), Hu, Mingming (author), Migoni Alejandre, E. (author), van der Meide, Marc (author), Zhong, Xiaoyang (author), Zhang, Chunbo (author)In terms of mass, construction materials and construction and demolition waste make up the largest part of humankind's material and waste footprints, particularly after an energy transition has largely phased out fossil energy. However, a circular use of building and construction materials is fraught with challenges.journal article 2023
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de Roda Husman, S. (author), Lhermitte, S.L.M. (author), Bolibar, J. (author), Izeboud, M. (author), Hu, Zhongyang (author), Shukla, S. (author), van der Meer, Marijn (author), Long, David (author), Wouters, B. (author)While the influence of surface melt on Antarctic ice shelf stability can be large, the duration and affected area of melt events are often small. Therefore, melt events are difficult to capture with remote sensing, as satellite sensors always face the trade-off between spatial and temporal resolution. To overcome this limitation, we developed...journal article 2023
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Hu, Chunyi (author), van Beljouw, S.P.B. (author), Nam, Ki Hyun (author), Schuler, Gabriel (author), Rodríguez Molina, A. (author), van Eijkeren-Haagsma, A.C. (author), Valk, M. (author), Pabst, Martin (author), Brouns, S.J.J. (author)The CRISPR-Cas type III-E RNA-targeting effector complex gRAMP/Cas7-11 is associated with a caspase-like protein (TPR-CHAT/Csx29) to form Craspase (CRISPR-guided caspase). Here, we use cryo-electron microscopy snapshots of Craspase to explain its target RNA cleavage and protease activation mechanisms. Target-guide pairing extending into the 5...journal article 2022
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Li, Y. (author), Hu, Cheng (author), Ao, Dongyang (author)Fast observations of rapid surface large-changes are demanded in disaster evaluations and scientific studies. Digital elevation model (DEM) differencing before and after the events is an effective way to retrieve the changes. Owing to a short repeat cycle, geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) systems can quickly obtain repeat...journal article 2022
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Zhao, Pengjun (author), Zeng, Liangen (author), Li, Peilin (author), Lu, Haiyan (author), Hu, Haoyu (author), Li, Chengming (author), Zheng, Mengyuan (author), Li, Haitao (author), Yu, Zhao (author), Qi, Y. (author)The threat of global climate change has caused the international community to pay close attention to atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Transportation sector carbon dioxide emissions efficiency (TSCDEE) is a key indicator used to prioritize sustainable development in the transportation sector. In this paper, the...journal article 2022