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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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Zhao, J. (author), Santoso, A. (author), Garcia, Santiago J. (author)The interaction of 2,5-dimercapto-1,3,4-thiadiazole (DMTD) with the AA2024-T3 local microstructure (S-phase, secondary phases and matrix) as function of the NaCl concentration is studied. The inhibiting power and the local interaction of DMTD with the metal were studied by in–situ opto-electrochemistry, XPS and Raman spectroscopy. The...journal article 2023
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Shi, X. (author), Pumm, Anna Katharina (author), Maffeo, Christopher (author), Kohler, Fabian (author), Feigl, Elija (author), Zhao, W. (author), Verschueren, D.V. (author), Golestanian, Ramin (author), Aksimentiev, Aleksei (author), Dietz, Hendrik (author), Dekker, C. (author)Rotary motors play key roles in energy transduction, from macroscale windmills to nanoscale turbines such as ATP synthase in cells. Despite our abilities to construct engines at many scales, developing functional synthetic turbines at the nanoscale has remained challenging. Here, we experimentally demonstrate rationally designed nanoscale DNA...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Zheyu (author), Cheng, H. (author), Xu, Xiaohua (author), Pan, Yi (author)The deployment of edge servers make a significant impact on the service quality of a Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) system. This service quality relies on solving two key sub-problems: 1) interference management between servers 2) the placement of MEC servers. To improve the Quality of Service (QoS), we propose a method based on Graph Partition ...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Z. (author), Birke, Robert (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)An alternative method for sharing knowledge while complying with strict data access regulations, such as the European General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR), is the emergence of synthetic tabular data. Mainstream table synthesizers utilize methodologies derived from Generative Adversarial Networks (GAN). Although several state-of-the-art ...conference paper 2023
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Yang, G. (author), Gram, Remon (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Yao, Z. (author), Singh, M. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts based on poly-Si have enabled record-high c-Si solar cell efficiencies due to their excellent surface passivation quality and carrier selectivity. The eventual existence of pinholes within the ultra-thin SiOx layer is one of the key factors for carrier collection, beside the tunneling mechanism. However, pinholes are usually...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Y. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Cao, L. (author), Yang, G. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Alcañiz, Alba (author), Kovačević, K. (author), Limodio, G. (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Smets, A.H.M. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Silicon heterojunction (SHJ) solar cells have achieved a record efficiency of 26.81% in a front/back-contacted (FBC) configuration. Moreover, thanks to their advantageous high V<sub>OC</sub> and good infrared response, SHJ solar cells can be further combined with wide bandgap perovskite cells forming tandem devices to enable efficiencies well...journal article 2023
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Yao, Z. (author), Yang, G. (author), Han, C. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Özkol, E. (author), Yan, J. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Cao, L. (author), van Swaaij, R.A.C.M.M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Passivating contacts are crucial for realizing high-performance crystalline silicon solar cells. Herein, contact formation by plasma-enhanced chemical vapor deposition (PECVD) followed by an annealing step is focused on. Poly-SiO<sub>x</sub> passivating contacts by combining plasma-assisted N<sub>2</sub>O-based oxidation of silicon (PANO-SiO...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Y. (author), Datta, Kunal (author), Paggiaro, Giulia (author), Liu, Hanchen (author), Fardousi, Mohua (author), Santbergen, R. (author), Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Monolithic perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells have attracted enormous research attention and have achieved efficiencies above 30%. This work describes the development of monolithic tandem solar cells based on silicon heterojunction (SHJ) bottom- and perovskite top-cells and highlights light management techniques assisted by optical simulation...journal article 2023
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Opolot, Michael (author), Zhao, Chunrong (author), Keane, Partrick F. (author), Liu, Ming (author), Mancin, Simone (author), Bruno, Frank (author), Hooman, K. (author)Thermal energy storage is increasingly needed in a sustainable world because of its potential of capturing waste heat and being incorporated in solar power plants. For power generation, in particular, as turbine technology advances, a demand for higher temperature thermal energy storage materials also grows. For this purpose, latent thermal...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Xiujie (author), Chen, P. (author), Lv, Shanshan (author), He, Zhen (author)Return of products within the warranty coverage induces additional cost and loss of reputation to manufacturers. It is of practical interest to predict the return rate by experimental means before introducing a product to the market. In this paper, we propose to optimize accelerated reliability tests to achieve the goal within limited time....journal article 2023
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Wang, Zaifa (author), Wang, Zhenyu (author), Xue, Dingchuan (author), Zhao, Jun (author), Zhang, Xuedong (author), Geng, Lin (author), Li, Yanshuai (author), Du, Congcong (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)The rock-salt phase (RSP) formed on the surface of Ni-rich layered cathodes in liquid-electrolyte lithium-ion batteries is conceived to be electrochemically "dead". Here we show massive RSP forms in the interior of LiNi<sub>x</sub>Mn<sub>y</sub>Co<sub>(1−x-y)</sub>O<sub>2</sub> (NMC) crystals in sulfide based all solid state batteries (ASSBs)...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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Zhao, Jiale (author), Yang, Fu Qiang (author), Guo, Yong (author), Ren, X. (author)As the shallow mineral resources are nearly depleted, the mining of deep resources has become an urgent problem to be studied. The increase in mine depth can lead to the increase of mine heat hazard, which is a critical concern for mining safety/occupational health and safety. However, there are limited review articles available regarding the...review 2023
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Zhao, Wenzhao (author), Fan, Yuling (author), Wang, Hongjian (author), Gemmeke, Hartmut (author), van Dongen, K.W.A. (author), Hopp, Torsten (author), Hesser, Jürgen (author)Objective. The image reconstruction of ultrasound computed tomography is computationally expensive with conventional iterative methods. The fully learned direct deep learning reconstruction is promising to speed up image reconstruction significantly. However, for direct reconstruction from measurement data, due to the lack of real labeled...journal article 2023
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Huang, Man (author), Su, Dongchao (author), Zhao, Zhirui (author), Wu, Lianghong (author), Fang, B. (author), Ning, Fulong (author)The trial production of natural gas hydrate reservoirs remains poor. Reasonable reservoir reconstruction, which can improve formation permeability, is an important approach to increasing the efficiency and enhancing production. In this work, water jet slotting is proposed to reconstruct an natural gas hydrate reservoir near a wellbore. The...journal article 2023
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Yan, Jingye (author), Wu, Ji (author), Gurvits, L. (author), Wu, Lin (author), Deng, Li (author), Zhao, Fei (author), Zhou, Li (author), Lan, Ailan (author), Fan, Wenjie (author)This paper introduces the first results of observations with the Ultra-Long-Wavelength (ULW) —- Low Frequency Interferometer and Spectrometer (LFIS) on board the selenocentric satellite Longjiang-2. We present a brief description of the satellite and focus on the LFIS payload. The in-orbit commissioning confirmed a reliable operational status...journal article 2023
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Zhang, Qunli (author), Zhao, Wenqiang (author), Sun, Donghan (author), Meng, Xiangzhao (author), Hooman, K. (author), Yang, Xiaohu (author)NO<sub>x</sub> emission reduction from gas boilers has become a key issue in improving air quality. Combustion air humidification technology is gradually being used to reduce NO<sub>x</sub> emissions. However, the NO<sub>x</sub> emission reduction effect of gas boilers at a higher combustion air humidity has been studied less. A flue gas with...journal article 2023
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Wang, Q. (author), Zhao, C. (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Wang, Shuwei (author), Kumar, Sai Govind Hari (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Eustace, S.J. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)High-entropy alloys/compounds have large configurational entropy by introducing multiple components, showing improved functional properties that exceed those of conventional materials. However, how increasing entropy impacts the thermodynamic/kinetic properties in liquids that are ambiguous. Here we show this strategy in liquid electrolytes...journal article 2023
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Ji, Kaipeng (author), Wang, C. (author), Hong, Hanlie (author), Yin, Ke (author), Zhao, Chenlei (author), Prins, Maarten (author), Lourens, Lucas J. (author), Gingerich, Philip D. (author), Abels, H.A. (author)The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) global warming event at ∼56 million years before present changed catchment weathering and erosion. Increased chemical weathering of silicate minerals is thought to be an important process removing CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere. However, changes in clay mineralogy can often be explained by...journal article 2023