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He, Yingdong (author), Zhou, Yuekuan (author), Yuan, Jing (author), Liu, Zhengxuan (author), Wang, Zhe (author), Zhang, Guoqiang (author)Cleaner power production, distributed renewable generation, building-vehicle integration, hydrogen storage and associated infrastructures are promising for transformation towards a carbon–neutral community, whereas the academia provides limited information through integrated solutions, like intermittent renewable integration, hydrogen sharing...journal article 2021
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Zhang, Wenqian (author), Dong, Wenhan (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Liu, Zongcheng (author), Zhou, Yang (author), Feng, Haoming (author)This work proposes a nonsingular adaptive fixed-time switching control method for a class of strict-feedback nonlinear dynamics subject to full state constraints. The peculiarity of this design lies in overcoming the singularity issue that typically appears in the existing backstepping-based fixed-time control methods caused by the iterative...journal article 2021
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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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Zhang, Fan (author), Zhou, He (author), Huang, Panfeng (author), Guo, J. (author)The tethered formation system has been widely studied due to its extensive use in aerospace engineering, such as Earth observation, orbital location, and deep space exploration. The deployment of such a multitethered system is a problem because of the oscillations and complex formation maintenance caused by the space tether's elasticity and...journal article 2021
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Bian, Dong (author), Zhou, Xiaochen (author), Liu, Jianing (author), Li, Wenting (author), Shen, Danni (author), Zheng, Yufeng (author), Gu, Wenda (author), Jiang, Jingjun (author), Li, Mei (author), Chu, Xiao (author), Ma, Limin (author), Wang, Xiaolan (author), Zhang, Yu (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Zhou, J. (author)Biodegradable stents can provide scaffolding and anti-restenosis benefits in the short term and then gradually disappear over time to free the vessel, among which the Mg-based biodegradable metal stents have been prosperously developed. In the present study, a Mg-8.5Li (wt.%) alloy (RE- and Al-free) with high ductility (> 40%) was...journal article 2021
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Hu, Feng (author), Ma, Lin (author), Zhan, X. (author), Zhou, Yinzuo (author), Liu, Chuang (author), Zhao, Haixing (author), Zhang, Zi Ke (author)The study of citation networks is of interest to the scientific community. However, the underlying mechanism driving individual citation behavior remains imperfectly understood, despite the recent proliferation of quantitative research methods. Traditional network models normally use graph theory to consider articles as nodes and citations as...journal article 2021
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Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Zhou, Quan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The authors regret that one of the affiliations (affiliation f) was incorrectly omitted in the original manuscript. The corrected list of affiliations is as shown below. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.journal article 2021
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Liu, G. (author), Yan, Qun (author), Zhou, Yanan (author), Zhang, X. (author), Spanjers, H. (author)2D-g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> nanosheet was prepared and employed for the adsorption of elemental mercury (Hg<sup>0</sup>). The g-C<sub>3</sub>N<sub>4</sub> was analyzed through X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscope (SEM) and Fourier transform infrared spectroscopy (FT-IR) methods, and the results showed that the prepared...journal article 2021
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Liu, Chuang (author), Zhou, Nan (author), Zhan, X. (author), Sun, Gui-Quan (author), Zhang, Zi-Ke (author)There is currently growing interest in modeling the information diffusion on social networks across multi-disciplines, including the prediction of the news popularity, the detection of the rumors and the influence of the epidemiological studies. Following the framework of the epidemic spreading, the information spreading models assume that...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Yan (author), Hopkins, Margaret A. (author), Liptrot, David J. (author), Khanbareh, Hamideh (author), Groen, W.A. (author), Zhou, Xuefan (author), Zhang, Dou (author), Bao, Yinxiang (author), Zhou, Kechao (author), Bowen, Chris R. (author), Carbery, David R. (author)We demonstrate that trimethylamine borane can exhibit desirable piezoelectric and pyroelectric properties. The material was shown to be able operate as a flexible film for both thermal sensing, thermal energy conversion and mechanical sensing with high open circuit voltages (>10 V). A piezoelectric coefficient of d<sub>33</sub>≈10–16 pC N...journal article 2020
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Zhou, X. (author), Ahmad, J.I. (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Zhang, Kejia (author)Thermal energy recovery from drinking water has a high potential in the application of sustainable building and industrial cooling. However, drinking water and biofilm microbial qualities should be concerned because the elevated water temperature after cold recovery may influence the microbial activities in water and biofilm phases in drinking...journal article 2020
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Cheng, Zhu (author), Liu, M. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Li, Z. (author), Zhang, Xiaoyu (author), He, Ping (author), Zhou, Haoshen (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Li, Chau (author)The influence of space-charge layers on the ionic charge transport over cathode-solid electrolyte interfaces in all-solid-state batteries remains unclear because of the difficulty to unravel it from other contributions to the ion transport over the interfaces. Here, we reveal the effect of the space-charge layers by systematically tuning the...journal article 2020
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The inactivation mechanism of chemical disinfection against SARS-CoV-2: From MD and DFT perspectivesTan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Zhou, Quan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Exploring effective disinfection methods and understanding their mechanisms on the new coronavirus is becoming more active due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). By combining molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations, we investigate the...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Jie (author), Gao, Ling (author), Hu, Jie (author), Wang, Chongjun (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Li, Ning (author), Zhou, Xing (author)Hypericin is a naturally occurring compound synthesized by certain species of the genus Hypericum, with various pharmacological effects. It is used as a natural photosensitizing agent with great potential in photodynamic therapy. This review discusses the latest results about the biosynthetic pathways and chemical synthetic routes to obtain...journal article 2020
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Zhou, X. (author), van Gelder, P.H.A.J.M. (author), Liang, Yongtu (author), Zhang, Haoran (author)As the main way for the long-distance transportation of refined products, multi-products pipelines are of vital importance to the regional energy security. The supply reliability evaluation of multi-product pipeline systems can improve the effective response to unexpected disruptions and guarantee the reliable oil supply. Based on reliability...journal article 2020
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Zhou, Rongfu (author), Ma, Fengkai (author), Su, Fang (author), Ou, Yiyi (author), Qi, Zeming (author), Zhang, Jianhui (author), Huang, Yan (author), Dorenbos, P. (author), Liang, Hongbin (author)RbBaPO4:Eu2+ phosphors have been prepared by a high-temperature solid-state reaction method, and the structure was determined by Rietveld refinement based on powder X-ray diffraction (P-XRD) data. Their VUV-UV-vis photoluminescence properties are systematically investigated with three objectives: (1) based on low-temperature spectra, we...journal article 2020
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Li, Y. (author), Lietaert, K. (author), Li, W. (author), Zhang, X.Y. (author), Leeflang, M.A. (author), Zhou, J. (author), Zadpoor, A.A. (author)The corrosion fatigue behavior of additively manufactured topologically ordered porous iron based on diamond unit cells was studied for the first time to understand its response to cyclic loading in a simulated physiological environment. The material exhibited high fatigue resistance with fatigue strengths being 70% and 65% of yield stress in...journal article 2019
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Chen, Yong (author), Lv, Maolong (author), Baldi, S. (author), Liu, Zongcheng (author), Zhang, Wenqian (author), Zhou, Yang (author)This work focuses on adaptive neural dynamic surface control (DSC) for an extended class of nonlinear MIMO strict-feedback systems whose control gain functions are continuous and possibly unbounded. The method is based on introducing a compact set which is eventually proved to be an invariant set: thanks to this set, the restrictive...conference paper 2019
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Zhao, Yuan (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Wu, Zengwen (author), Zhou, Zhengong (author), Fang, Guodong (author), Zhang, Jiazhen (author), Benedictus, R. (author)Finite-width-correction factors (FWCF) are required for GLARE to accurately predict fatigue crack growth using linear elastic fracture mechanics. As demonstrated in earlier work, these factors effectively correct for the change in specimen compliance, which in GLARE relates to intact fibre layers and the formation of delaminations between...journal article 2019
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Tao, Jianfeng (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhou, Zeng (author), Xu, Fan (author), Zhang, Changkuan (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)The radial sand ridges (denoted as “RSRs” hereafter) in the Southern Yellow Sea, China, are morphologically striking because of the remarkable size and radial planar orientation, standing out as a unique coastal geomorphology among the worldwide sand ridge systems. The formation of this giant fan‐shaped geomorphic feature requires delicate...journal article 2019