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Hydrolysis Mechanism Analysis of (Ca, Sr)AlSiN₃:Eu²⁺ Red Phosphor Aged Under Pressure Cooker Test and 85°C&85%RH Test: Kinetics Modeling and First-principles Calculation

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...

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Eunomia: Anonymous and Secure Vehicular Digital Forensics based on Blockchain

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...

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A Contribution to the Development of High-Voltage dc Circuit Breaker Technologies: A Review of New Considerations

Liu, Zhou (author), Mirhosseini, S.S. (author), Liu, L. (author), Popov, M. (author), Ma, Kaiqi (author), Hu, Weihao (author), Jamali, Sadegh (author), Palensky, P. (author), Chen, Zhe (author)

To promote the integration of renewable energy resources into modern energy systems, high-voltage dc (HVdc) and circuit breaker (CB) technologies have become critical to achieving secure and efficient energy transmission. This article reviews the technical development of the related areas, compares diverse breaker concepts and topologies,...

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Novel Solid-State Sodium-Ion Battery with Wide Band Gap NaTi₂(PO₄)₃ Nanocrystal Electrolyte

Dai, Hanqing (author), Xu, Wenqian (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Gu, Jing (author), Xie, Fengxian (author), Wei, Wei (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)

NaTi2(PO4)3 (NTP), a well-known anode material, could be used as a solid wide-band gap electrolyte. Herein, a novel solid-state sodium-ion battery (SSIB) with the thickness of electrolyte up to the millimeter level is proposed. The results of the difference in charge density investigated by the first-principles calculations imply that using...

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Morphodynamic changes in the Yangtze Estuary under the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, estuarine engineering interventions and climate-induced sea level rise

Cheng, H. Q. (author), Chen, W. (author), Li, J. F. (author), Jiang, Y. H. (author), Hu, X. (author), Zhang, X. L. (author), Zhou, F. N. (author), Hu, F. X. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)

The estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) in the Yangtze Estuary Delta (YED) is muddy by definition and lacks bottom undulations. However, since 2013, a remarkable change has occurred in the YED. Recent images detected by a multibeam echosounder system, SeaBat 7125, for the first time have confirmed widespread regions of subaqueous dunes in the...

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High-Voltage Cathode α-Fe₂O₃Nanoceramics for Rechargeable Sodium-Ion Batteries

Dai, Hanqing (author), Xu, Wenqian (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Gu, Jing (author), Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Wei, Wei (author)

Previously, α-Fe2O3 nanocrystals are recognized as anode materials owing to their high capacity and multiple properties. Now, this work provides high-voltage α-Fe2O3 nanoceramics cathodes fabricated by the solvothermal and calcination processes for sodium-ion batteries (SIBs). Then, their structure and electrical conductivity were...

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Left ventricular thrombus after acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction: Multi-parametric cardiac magnetic resonance imaging with long-term outcomes

Shi, Ruo yang (author), Chen, Bing hua (author), Wu, Chong wen (author), Wesemann, Luke (author), Hu, Jiani (author), Xu, Jian rong (author), Zhou, Yan (author), Tao, Q. (author), Wu, Lian ming (author)

Left ventricular thrombus (LVT) after acute ST-segment elevation myocardial infarction (STEMI) are generally associated with poorer outcomes for patients at long-term follow-up. We hypothesis that tissue characteristics and strain parameters by cardiac magnetic resonance (CMR) imaging may indicate the interactions of LVT with ventricular...

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High Cationic Dispersity Boosted Oxygen Reduction Reactivity in Multi-Element Doped Perovskites

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...

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Resilience assessment of chemical industrial areas during Natech-related cascading multi-hazards

Zeng, Tao (author), Chen, Guohua (author), Reniers, G.L.L.M.E. (author), Hu, Kun (author)

In chemical industrial areas, technological accidents triggered by natural events (Natech events) may escalate. Complex cascading multi-hazard scenarios with high uncertainties may be caused. Resilience is an essential property of a system to withstand and recover from disruptive events. The present study focuses on the change of the resilience...

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Identification and Suppression of Multicomponent Noise in Audio Magnetotelluric Data Based on Convolutional Block Attention Module

Zhang, Liang (author), Li, Guang (author), Chen, Huang (author), Tang, Jingtian (author), Yang, Guanci (author), Yu, Mingbiao (author), Hu, Yong (author), Xu, Jun (author), Sun, J. (author)

Audio magnetotelluric (AMT) is commonly used in mineral resource exploration. However, the weak energy of AMT signals makes them susceptible to being overwhelmed by noise, leading to erroneous geophysical interpretations. In recent years, deep learning has been applied to AMT denoising and has shown better denoising performance compared to...

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Deriving vegetation drag coefficients in combined wave-current flows by calibration and direct measurement methods

Chen, Hui (author), Ni, Yan (author), Li, Yulong (author), Liu, Feng (author), Ou, Suying (author), Su, Min (author), Peng, Yisheng (author), Hu, Zhan (author), Uijttewaal, W.S.J. (author), Suzuki, T. (author)

Coastal vegetation is efficient in damping incident waves even in storm events, thus providing valuable protections to coastal communities. However, large uncertainties lie in determining vegetation drag coefficients (C_D), which are directly related to the wave damping capacity of a certain vegetated area. One major uncertainty is...

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Unraveling the hydrogen sulfide aging mechanism on electrical-thermal–mechanical property degradation of sintered nanocopper interconnects used in power electronics packaging

Chen, Wei (author), Liu, Xu (author), Hu, D. (author), Liu, X. (author), Zhu, Xi (author), Fan, Xuejun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)

During operation in environments containing hydrogen sulfide (H₂S), such as in offshore and coastal environments, sintered nanoCu in power electronics is susceptible to degradation caused by corrosion. In this study, experimental and molecular dynamics (MD) simulation analyses were conducted to investigate the evolution and...

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Polyacrylamide-Poly(vinyl alcohol)-Sodium Alginate-Reduced Graphene Oxide/Nylon Fabrics with Multistimuli Responses

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,...

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A computational framework for coating fatigue analysis of wind turbine blades due to rain erosion

Hu, Weifei (author), Chen, Weiyi (author), Wang, Xiaobo (author), Jiang, Zhiyu (author), Wang, Yeqing (author), Verma, Amrit Shankar (author), Teuwen, Julie J.E. (author)

The rain-induced fatigue damage in the wind turbine blade coating has attracted increasing attention owing to significant repair and maintenance costs. The present paper develops an improved computational framework for analyzing the wind turbine blade coating fatigue induced by rain erosion. The paper first presents an extended stochastic...

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System analysis and controller design for the electric pump of a deep-throttling rocket engine

Hu, R. (author), Ferrari, Riccardo M.G. (author), Chen, Z. (author), Cheng, Yuqiang (author), Zhu, Xiaobin (author), Cui, Xing (author), Wu, Jianjun (author)

This paper proposes a controller design for the electric pump of a deep-throttling rocket engine. The nonlinearity of the system is taken into consideration by analyzing the gap metric. Then, proportional-integral-derivative controller and gain-scheduling linear quadratic regulator are designed. Analyzing the amplitude- and phase-frequency...

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Comprehensive study on the degradation progress of crumb tire rubber during the preparation of terminal blended rubberized asphalt binder

Meng, Yuanyuan (author), Ye, Xiangqian (author), He, Fuqiong (author), Chen, Zhipeng (author), Hu, Chichun (author), Lin, P. (author)

Terminal blended rubberized asphalt binder (TB) technology, which blends crumb tire rubber (CR) with asphalt under high interaction conditions, offers a promising waste tire recycling solution for pavement construction. By precisely controlling the degradation progress of CR, it is possible to prepare TB with specific property requirements....

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Slight Multielement Doping-Induced Structural Order-Disorder Transition for High-Performance Layered Na-Ion Oxide Cathodes

Guo, Hao (author), Zhao, C. (author), Gao, Jianxiang (author), Yang, Wenyun (author), Hu, Xufeng (author), Ma, Xiaobai (author), Jiao, Xuesheng (author), Yang, Jinbo (author), Sun, Kai (author), Chen, Dongfeng (author)

To realize concurrently the high-energy density and excellent cycling stability, maximum utilization of redox couple, minimization of detrimental phase transition, and structural degradation of O3-type layered oxide cathodes are critical for developing Na-ion batteries. Ni²⁺/Ni⁴⁺ redox couple showing multielectron...

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A Series of Ternary Metal Chloride Superionic Conductors for High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

Liang, Jianwen (author), van der Maas, E.L. (author), Luo, Jing (author), Li, Xiaona (author), Chen, Ning (author), Adair, Keegan R. (author), Li, Weihan (author), Li, Junjie (author), Hu, Yongfeng (author), Liu, Jue (author), Zhang, Li (author), Zhao, W. (author), Parnell, S.R. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)

Understanding the relationship between structure, ionic conductivity, and synthesis is the key to the development of superionic conductors. Here, a series of Li_3-3_xM₁₊_xCl₆ (−0.14 < x ≤ 0.5, M = Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Er, Tm) solid electrolytes with orthorhombic and trigonal structures are...

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A Strategy Inspired by the Cicada Shedding Its Skin for Synthesizing the Natural Material NaFe₃S₅·2H₂O

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 NaFe₃S₅·2H₂O (NFS), pose great challenges for exploitation and synthesis due to their high susceptibility to oxidation. To date, no successful precedent exists...

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Characterizing the Effects of Al(OH)3 and Mg(OH)2 on Reaction Products and Drying Shrinkage Characteristics of Alkali-activated Slag

Li, Jing (author), Yin, Suhong (author), Huang, Haoliang (author), Hu, Jie (author), Yi, Chaofan (author), Chen, Zheng (author), Ma, Yuwei (author), Ye, G. (author)

This study is undertaken to explore the relationship between the reaction products and the drying shrinkage of alkali-activated slag (AAS) with the varying hydroxide dosage. AAS pastes were firstly produced with either Al(OH)3 or Mg(OH)2 to investigate the effects of hydroxide on the composition of reaction products and the drying shrinkage of...

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