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Tang, Zhuorui (author), Gu, Lin (author), Jin, Lei (author), Dai, Kefeng (author), Mao, Chaobin (author), Wu, Sanzhong (author), Zhang, Rongwei (author), Yang, Jinsong (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this work, 4H-SiC homoepitaxial layers were grown on 4°off-axis substrates at different susceptor rotation speeds by using a hot-wall horizontal CVD reactor. The effect of different susceptor rotation speed on the quality of 4H-SiC epitaxial layers in terms of thickness, thickness uniformity, crystallinity, surface morphology and...journal article 2024
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Zhou, Qiangqiang (author), Dai, Hanqing (author), Yan, Yukun (author), Qin, Zhiming (author), Zhou, Mengqi (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Wei, X. (author)The primary challenges posed by oral mucosal diseases are their high incidence and the difficulty in managing symptoms. Inspired by the ability of bioelectricity to activate cells, accelerate metabolism, and enhance immunity, a conductive polyacrylamide/sodium alginate crosslinked hydrogel composite containing reduced graphene oxide (PAA-SA...journal article 2024
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Dai, Zongbiao (author), Chen, H. (author), Sun, Junjie (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Sun, Jun (author)The carbon partitioning and lengthening rate of bainitic ferrite (α<sub>b</sub>) are excellent experimental parameters to estimate our level of understanding of the mechanism of bainitic transformation from a continuum perspective and our ability to capture it in analytical expressions. For Fe-C alloys and relatively simple steels the...journal article 2024
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Li, Siyue (author), Zhou, Shize (author), Xue, Yongqi (author), Fan, Wenjie (author), Cheng, Tong (author), Ji, Jinlun (author), Dai, Chenyang (author), Song, Wenqing (author), Gao, C. (author)Network-on-Chip (NoC) is a scalable on-chip communication architecture for the NN accelerator, but with the increase in the number of nodes, the communication delay becomes higher. Applications such as machine learning have a certain resilience to noisy/erroneous transmitted data. Therefore, approximate communication becomes a promising solution...journal article 2024
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Sun, Yubo (author), Mohan, Manu K. (author), Dai, Xiaodi (author), Zhang, Yiyuan (author), Ye, G. (author), De Schutter, Geert (author)The proper control of the rheological performance of silicate-based alkali-activated slag (AAS) mixtures is problematic, as the conventional superplasticizers become less effective in alkaline media. Nevertheless, several methods have been proposed to improve the workability of silicate-activated AAS, such as by extending the mixing time, and...journal article 2024
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Dai, Zhicheng (author), Li, Dewei (author), Feng, Y. (author), Yang, Yuming (author), Sun, Long (author)Understanding pedestrian wayfinding behavior is crucial for traffic management and building design. The use of virtual reality technology presents an efficient approach for investigating pedestrian wayfinding behavior in large public spaces, offering numerous advantages for data collection. However, the impact of different scenario dimensions on...journal article 2024
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Dai, Pengcheng (author), Yu, Wenwu (author), Wang, He (author), Baldi, S. (author)Actor-critic (AC) cooperative multiagent reinforcement learning (MARL) over directed graphs is studied in this article. The goal of the agents in MARL is to maximize the globally averaged return in a distributed way, i.e., each agent can only exchange information with its neighboring agents. AC methods proposed in the literature require the...journal article 2023
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Boekee, J. (author), Dai, Y. (author), Schilperoort, B. (author), van de Wiel, B.J.H. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author)To mitigate spring frost damage, fruit farmers use wind machines to mix warm overlying air down to the vegetation. Up to this point, studies on wind machine efficiency have focused on air temperatures. The temperature of different plant organs during operation remains unknown, while critical for the actual degree of frost damage. With...journal article 2023
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Fang, Jiaxing (author), Dai, Zihan (author), Li, Xiaoming (author), van der Hoek, J.P. (author), Savić, Dragan (author), Medema, G.J. (author), van der Meer, Walter (author), Liu, G. (author)Biofilm detachment contributes to water quality deterioration. However, the contributions of biofilm detachment from different pipes have not been quantified or compared. Following the introduction of partial reverse osmosis (RO) in drinking water production, this study analyzed particles at customers’ ends and tracked their origins to water...journal article 2023
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Dai, Hanqing (author), Dai, Wenqing (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author)The natural design and coupling of biological structures are the root of realizing the high strength, toughness, and unique functional properties of biomaterials. Advanced architecture design is applied to many materials, including metal materials, inorganic nonmetallic materials, polymer materials, and so on. To improve the performance of...review 2023
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Dai, T. (author), Hein, C.M. (author)A comprehensive understanding of water systems across space and time is key, both for sustainable urban development and heritage preservation. However, so far, a clear methodology that links the exploration of the past and the protection of heritage properties to the design of the future is still missing. We argue that an exploration of heritage...journal article 2023
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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,...journal article 2023
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Dai, Y. (author), Boekee, J. (author), Schilperoort, B. (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), van de Wiel, B.J.H. (author)Wind machines have been increasingly used for frost damage mitigation in the agricultural community. During radiative frost nights, wind machines are used to erode near-surface thermal inversion by air mixing. The underlying mixing processes remain poorly understood. A full picture of warming effects caused by air mixing requires measurements...journal article 2023
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Ma, Jinbo (author), Dai, Jiaxin (author), Guo, Xin (author), Fu, Dongmei (author), Ma, Lingwei (author), Keil, Patrick (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Zhang, Dawei (author)Following the construction of a dataset of cross-category corrosion inhibitors at different concentrations based on 1241 data from 184 research papers, a performance prediction model incorporating 2D–3D molecular graph representation and corrosion inhibitor concentration information was established. This model was shown to effectively predict...journal article 2023
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Xie, F. (author), Hao, Zhiguo (author), Ye, Dongmeng (author), Yang, Songhao (author), Li, Chuanxi (author), Dai, Guoan (author), Zhang, Baohui (author), Wang, Ting (author)The existing protection techniques for high-voltage direct-current (HVDC) grids suffer from several shortcomings such as high sampling frequency, poor robustness, and reliance on simulation for threshold setting. To solve these problems, this paper proposes a non-unit protection method for modular multilevel converter (MMC)-based HVDC grids...journal article 2023
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Jiang, Xi (author), Zhu, Hehua (author), Yan, Zhiguo (author), Zhang, Fengshou (author), Ye, Fei (author), Li, Peinan (author), Zhang, X. (author), Dai, Zhiren (author), Bai, Yun (author), Huang, Baoshan (author)Backfill grouting plays a vital role in shield tunneling. This paper aims to present a comprehensive review of the development and progress of backfill grouting materials specifically designed for shield tunneling. Initially, the various components of grouts, such as pozzolanic materials, filling fine aggregates, and chemical additives, are...journal article 2023
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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 NaFe<sub>3</sub>S<sub>5</sub>·2H<sub>2</sub>O (NFS), pose great challenges for exploitation and synthesis due to their high susceptibility to oxidation. To date, no successful precedent exists...journal article 2023
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Tsui, To Hung (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Dai, Yanjun (author), Tong, Yen Wah (author)Biorefinery systems are playing pivotal roles in the technological support of resource efficiency for circular bioeconomy. Meanwhile, artificial intelligence presents great potential in handling scientific tasks of high-dimensional complexity. This review article scrutinizes the status of machine learning (ML) applications in four critical...review 2023