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System-Wide Effects of Local Bed Disturbance on the Morphological Evolution of a Bifurcating Channel Network

Gao, Weilun (author), Shao, Dongdong (author), Wang, Zhengbing (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Yang, Zhifeng (author)

Deltaic channel networks are important conduits for water and material supplies to the fluvial and coastal communities. However, increasing human interventions in river deltas have altered the topology and geometry of channel networks as well as their long-term evolution. While the morphological evolution of a single channel has received...

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Subsidy allocation for residential building energy retrofit: A perspective of families' incomes

You, K. (author), Qian, QK (author), Cai, Weiguang (author), Wang, Xia (author), Visscher, H.J. (author)

High household end-user services demand of high-income families results in higher energy consumption compared with low-income families, indicating high-income families may save more energy from similar building energy retrofitting (BER) strategies. Therefore, current BER subsidy policies, which consider technique indicators and ignore...

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The potential of end-of-life ships as a floating seawall and the methodical use of gap resonance for wave attenuation

Wang, G. (author), Bar, Daniel (author), Schreier, S. (author)

This study examines the potential of a new type of floating seawall, made up of retired large-scale oceangoing vessels, to be used in open water and exposed coastal areas. The main objectives of the research are to assess the effectiveness of the floating seawall concept, to determine the contribution of the gap resonance to wave attenuation,...

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Liquid injectivity in a SAG foam process: Effect of permeability

Gong, J. (author), Wang, Yuan (author), Kamarul Bahrim, Ridhwan Zhafri B. (author), Tewari, Raj Deo (author), Mahamad Amir, Mohammad Iqbal (author), Farajzadeh, R. (author), Rossen, W.R. (author)

Foam is utilized in enhanced oil recovery and CO₂ sequestration. Surfactant-alternating-gas (SAG) is a preferred approach for placing foam into reservoirs, due to it enhances gas injection and minimizes corrosion in facilities. Our previous studies with similar permeability cores show that during SAG injection, several banks occupy...

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Predicting nodal influence via local iterative metrics

Zhang, S. (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Wang, H. (author)

Nodal spreading influence is the capability of a node to activate the rest of the network when it is the seed of spreading. Combining nodal properties (centrality metrics) derived from local and global topological information respectively has been shown to better predict nodal influence than using a single metric. In this work, we investigate...

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Centimeter-Level Indoor Visible Light Positioning

Zhu, R. (author), Van Den Abeele, Maxim (author), Beysens, Jona (author), Yang, J. (author), Wang, Q. (author)

Visible light positioning (VLP) based on the received signal strength (RSS) can leverage a dense deployment of LEDs in future lighting infrastructure to provide accurate and energy-efficient indoor positioning. However, its positioning accuracy heavily depends on the density of collected fingerprints, which is labor-intensive. In this work,...

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Fabrication of Living Entangled Network Composites Enabled by Mycelium

Wang, H. (author), Tao, Jie (author), Wu, Zhangyu (author), Weiland, K.M. (author), Wang, Zuankai (author), Masania, K. (author), Wang, B. (author)

Organic polymer-based composite materials with favorable mechanical performance and functionalities are keystones to various modern industries; however, the environmental pollution stemming from their processing poses a great challenge. In this study, by finding an autonomous phase separating ability of fungal mycelium, a new material...

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Near-infrared light-driven asymmetric photolytic reduction of ketone using inorganic-enzyme hybrid biocatalyst

Qiao, Li (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Jiang, Yongjian (author), Ma, Bianqin (author), Chen, Haomin (author), Gao, Peng (author), Zhang, Pengfei (author), Wang, Anming (author), Sheldon, R.A. (author)

Effective photolytic regeneration of the NAD(P)H cofactor in enzymatic reductions is an important and elusive goal in biocatalysis. It can, in principle, be achieved using a near-infrared light (NIR) driven artificial photosynthesis system employing H₂O as the sacrificial reductant. To this end we utilized TiO₂/reduced...

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Failure probability estimation of natural gas pipelines due to hydrogen embrittlement using an improved fuzzy fault tree approach

Qin, Guojin (author), Li, Ruiling (author), Yang, M. (author), Wang, Bohong (author), Ni, Pingan (author), Wang, Yihuan (author)

The estimation of failure probability is challenging in hydrogen embrittlement in steel pipelines due to the complexity of the synergistic effect of multiple factors. The present study proposed a hybrid methodology to estimate the failure probability of steel pipelines due to hydrogen embrittlement. The methodology integrates the fault tree...

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Naturally effective inhibition of microbial corrosion on carbon steel by beneficial biofilm in the South China Sea

Gao, Yu (author), Zhang, Jingru (author), Wang, Donglei (author), Fan, Jiaxin (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Wang, Fuhui (author), Zhang, Danni (author), Xu, Dake (author)

Microbially influenced corrosion (MIC) of metals exerts a negative effect on the marine environment and causes a great loss of marine facilities. Corrosion prevention in an eco-friendly and sustainable way is a difficult problem to address, especially in the marine environment. In this work, Nocardiopsis dassonville, a corrosive bacteria...

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A Resilience Enhanced Secondary Control for AC Micro-grids

Xiao, J. (author), Wang, L. (author), Qin, Z. (author), Bauer, P. (author)

Communication-based distributed secondary control is deemed necessary to restore the state of islanding AC microgrids to set points. As its limited global information, the microgrids become vulnerable to cyber-attacks, which by falsifying the communicating singles, like the angular frequency, can disturb the power dispatch in the microgrids...

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A multi-step fast charging-based battery capacity estimation framework of real-world electric vehicles

Zhang, D. (author), Wang, Zhenpo (author), Liu, Peng (author), She, Chengqi (author), Wang, Qiushi (author), Zhou, Litao (author), Qin, Z. (author)

Accurately evaluating battery degradation is not only crucial for ensuring the safe and reliable operation of electric vehicles (EVs) but also fundamental for their intelligent management and maximum utilization. However, the non-linearity, non-measurability, and multi-stress coupled operating conditions have posed significant challenges for...

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Scalable Photochromic Film for Solar Heat and Daylight Management

Meng, Weihao (author), Kragt, A.J.J. (author), Gao, Yingtao (author), Brembilla, E. (author), van der Burgt, Julia S. (author), Schenning, Albertus P.H.J. (author), Klein, T. (author), van den Ham, E.R. (author), Wang, Jingxia (author)

The adaptive control of sunlight through photochromic smart windows could have a huge impact on the energy efficiency and daylight comfort in buildings. However, the fabrication of inorganic nanoparticle and polymer composite photochromic films with a high contrast ratio and high transparency/low haze remains a challenge. Here, a solution...

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Interference Mitigation for Automotive FMCW Radar Based on Contrastive Learning With Dilated Convolution

Wang, J. (author), Li, Runlong (author), Zhang, Xinqi (author), He, Yuan (author)

As one of the crucial sensors for environment sensing, frequency modulated continuous wave (FMCW) radars are widely used in modern vehicles for driving assistance/autonomous driving. However, the limited frequency bandwidth and the increasing number of equipped radar sensors would inevitably cause mutual interference, degrading target...

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Plastic particles affect N₂O release via altering core microbial metabolisms in constructed wetlands

Yang, X. (author), Chen, Yi (author), Liu, Tao (author), Zhang, Lu (author), Wang, Hui (author), Chen, Mengli (author), He, Qiang (author), Liu, G. (author), Ju, Feng (author)

Constructed wetlands (CWs) have been proven to effectively immobilize plastic particles. However, little is known about the differences in the impact of varying sized plastic particles on nitrous oxide (N₂O) release, as well as the intervention mechanisms in CWs. Here, we built a lab-scale wetland model and introduced plastic...

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Crossed Andreev Reflection and Elastic Cotunneling in Three Quantum Dots Coupled by Superconductors

Bordin, A. (author), Li, Xiang (author), van Driel, D. (author), Wolff, J.C. (author), Wang, Q. (author), ten Haaf, S.L.D. (author), Wang, Guanzhong (author), van Loo, N. (author), Kouwenhoven, Leo P. (author), Dvir, T. (author)

The formation of a topological superconducting phase in a quantum-dot-based Kitaev chain requires nearest neighbor crossed Andreev reflection and elastic cotunneling. Here, we report on a hybrid InSb nanowire in a three-site Kitaev chain geometry - the smallest system with well-defined bulk and edge - where two superconductor-semiconductor...

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Neural Oscillators for Generalization of Physics-Informed Machine Learning

Kapoor, T. (author), Chandra, Abhishek (author), Tartakovsky, Daniel M. (author), Wang, H. (author), Nunez, Alfredo (author), Dollevoet, R.P.B.J. (author)

A primary challenge of physics-informed machine learning (PIML) is its generalization beyond the training domain, especially when dealing with complex physical problems represented by partial differential equations (PDEs). This paper aims to enhance the generalization capabilities of PIML, facilitating practical, real-world applications where...

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Fast-charge high-voltage layered cathodes for sodium-ion batteries

Wang, Q. (author), Zhou, Dong (author), Zhao, C. (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Guo, Hao (author), Wang, Liguang (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Lu, Jun (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)

Sodium-ion batteries have not only garnered substantial attention for grid-scale energy storage owing to the higher abundance of sodium compared with lithium, but also present the possibility of fast charging because of the inherently higher sodium-ion mobility. However, it remains a phenomenal challenge to achieve a combination of these...

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Optimizing event-based neural networks on digital neuromorphic architecture: A comprehensive design space exploration

Xu, Yingfu (author), Shidqi, Kevin (author), van Schaik, Gert-Jan (author), Bilgic, Refik (author), Dobrita, Alexandra (author), Wang, Shenqi (author), Gebregiorgis, A.B. (author), Hamdioui, S. (author), Yousefzadeh, Amirreza (author)

Neuromorphic processors promise low-latency and energy-efficient processing by adopting novel brain-inspired design methodologies. Yet, current neuromorphic solutions still struggle to rival conventional deep learning accelerators' performance and area efficiency in practical applications. Event-driven data-flow processing and near/in-memory...

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Construction of AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistor-based biosensor for ultrasensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2 spike proteins and virions

Yang, Chenyang (author), Sun, Jianwen (author), Zhang, Yulong (author), Tang, Jingya (author), Liu, Zizheng (author), Zhan, Teng (author), Wang, Dian-Bing (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Zewen (author), Zhang, Xian-En (author)

The COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the need for rapid and sensitive detection of SARS-CoV-2. Here, we report an ultrasensitive SARS-CoV-2 immunosensor by integration of an AlGaN/GaN high-electron-mobility transistor (HEMT) and anti-SARS-CoV-2 spike protein antibody. The AlGaN/GaN HEMT immunosensor has demonstrated the capability to detect...

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