Tailoring high-energy storage NaNbO₃-based materials from antiferroelectric to relaxor states

Reversible field-induced phase transitions define antiferroelectric perovskite oxides and lay the foundation for high-energy storage density materials, required for future green technologies. However, promising new antiferroelectrics are hampered by transition´s irreversibility and low electrical resistivity. Here, we demonstrate an approach...

Train scheduling with flexible coupling and decoupling at stations for an urban rail transit line

More and more people in big cities choose urban rail transit as the main means of public transportation. With the increasing unbalanced passenger flow in time and space, the traditional operation mode with fixed train formation (or composition) is difficult to satisfy the varying passenger demands. This paper distinguishes different train...

Rational design of layered oxide materials for sodium-ion batteries

Sodium-ion batteries have captured widespread attention for grid-scale energy storage owing to the natural abundance of sodium. The performance of such batteries is limited by available electrode materials, especially for sodium-ion layered oxides, motivating the exploration of high compositional diversity. How the composition determines the...

Volumetric measurements of a self-similar adverse pressure gradient turbulent boundary layer using single-camera light-field particle image velocimetry

As a novel volumetric particle image velocimetry technique, single-camera light-field PIV (LF-PIV) is able to reconstruct three-dimensional flow fields with a single camera. The merits of LF-PIV lie in its concise hardware setup and minimum optical access requirement, its capability has been proved in many flow scenarios. In this study, LF-PIV...