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Nitrogen Dioxide Gas Sensor Based on Monolayer SnS: A First-Principle Study

Hu, Fa-Fei (author), Tang, H. (author), Ye, H. (author), Chen, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)

The sensing behavior of monolayer tin sulfide (SnS) for four gas molecules (NH₃, NO₂, CO, and H₂O) are studied by the first-principle calculation based on density-functional theory. We calculate adsorption energy, adsorption distance, and Hirshfeld charge to estimate the adsorption ability of monolayer SnS for...

journal article 2017

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Germanene on single-layer ZnSe substrate: Novel electronic and optical properties

Ye, H. (author), Hu, F.F. (author), Tang, H. (author), Yang, L.W. (author), Chen, X.P. (author), Wang, L.G. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)

In this work, the structural, electronic and optical properties of germanene and ZnSe substrate nanocomposites have been investigated using first-principles calculations. We found that the large direct-gap ZnSe semiconductors and zero-gap germanene form a typical orbital hybridization heterostructure with a strong binding energy, which shows...

journal article 2018

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Reduction kinetics of hematite powder in hydrogen atmosphere at moderate temperatures

Chen, Z. (author), Dang, Jie (author), Hu, Xiaojun (author), Yan, Hongyan (author)

Hydrogen has received much attention in the development of direct reduction of iron ores because hydrogen metallurgy is one of the effective methods to reduce CO₂ emission in the iron and steel industry. In this study, the kinetic mechanism of reduction of hematite particles was studied in a hydrogen atmosphere. The phases and...

journal article 2018

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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...

journal article 2018

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Revealing an Interconnected Interfacial Layer in Solid-State Polymer Sodium Batteries

Zhao, Chenglong (author), Liu, Lilu (author), Lu, Yaxiang (author), Wagemaker, M. (author), Chen, Liquan (author), Hu, Yong Sheng (author)

Replacing the commonly used nonaqueous liquid electrolytes in rechargeable sodium batteries with polymer solid electrolytes is expected to provide new opportunities to develop safer batteries with higher energy densities. However, this poses challenges related to the interface between the Na-metal anode and polymer electrolytes. Driven by...

journal article 2019

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A 31-μ W, 148-fs Step, 9-bit Capacitor-DAC-Based Constant-Slope Digital-to-Time Converter in 28-nm CMOS

Chen, Peng (author), Zhang, Feifei (author), Zong, Z. (author), Hu, Suoping (author), Siriburanon, Teerachot (author), Staszewski, R.B. (author)

This article proposes a power-efficient highly linear capacitor-array-based digital-to-time converter (DTC) using a charge redistribution constant-slope approach. A fringe-capacitor-based digital-to-analog converter (C-DAC) array is used to regulate the starting supply voltage of the constant discharging slope fed to a fixed-threshold...

journal article 2019

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Predictive maintenance of systems subject to hard failure based on proportional hazards model

Hu, Jiawen (author), Chen, P. (author)

The remaining useful lifetime (RUL) estimated from the in-situ degradation data has shown to be useful for online predictive maintenance. In the literature, the RUL is often estimated by assuming a soft-failure threshold for the degradation data. In practice, however, systems may not be subject to the degradation-induced soft failures....

journal article 2020

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Formation design for single-pass GEO InSAR considering earth rotation based on coordinate rotational transformation

Chen, Zhiyang (author), Dong, Xichao (author), Li, Y. (author), Hu, Cheng (author)

The single-pass geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar interferometry (GEO InSAR) adopts the formation of a slave satellite accompanying the master satellite, which can reduce the temporal decorrelation caused by atmospheric disturbance and observation time gap between repeated tracks. Current formation design methods for spaceborne SAR are...

journal article 2020

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Effective Approaches of Improving the Performance of Chalcogenide Solid Electrolytes for All-Solid-State Sodium-Ion Batteries

Dai, Hanqing (author), Xu, Wenqian (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Wei, Xian (author), Yang, Bobo (author), Chen, Zhihao (author), Gu, Jing (author), Yang, Dan (author), Xie, Fengxian (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Wei, Wei (author)

All-solid-state sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) possess the advantages of rich resources, low price, and high security, which are one of the best alternatives for large-scale energy storage systems in the future. Also, the chalcogenide solid electrolytes (CSEs) of SIBs have the characteristics of excellent room-temperature ionic conductivity (10...

review 2020

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A crack-tip element for modelling arbitrary crack propagations

Fu, Qiang (author), Yi, Sinan (author), Chen, B. Y. (author), Bui, Tinh Quoc (author), Hu, Xiaofei (author), Yao, Weian (author)

Numerical study on crack propagation are of great importance for structure design and assessment. In this contribution, the floating node method (FNM) is combined with the symplectic analytical singular element (SASE) to form a new crack-tip element. The four node quadrilateral crack-tip element contains a SASE for the crack tip area to...

journal article 2020

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Protection Testing for Multiterminal High-Voltage dc Grid: Procedures and Assessment

Liu, Z. (author), Mirhosseini, S.S. (author), Popov, M. (author), Audichya, Yash (author), Colangelo, Daniele (author), Jamali, Sadegh (author), Palensky, P. (author), Hu, Weihao (author), Chen, Zhe (author)

eAssessment The application of multiterminal (MT), high-voltage dc (HVdc) (MTdc) grid technology requires test procedures for the operation and implementation of the protection solutions. The test procedures are usually derived from experience and from extensive measurement data, which, at present, are still not widely available. Based on a...

journal article 2020

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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...

journal article 2021

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Research progress on geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar

Hu, Cheng (author), Chen, Zhiyang (author), Li, Y. (author), Dong, Xichao (author), Hobbs, Stephen (author)

Based on its ability to obtain two-dimensional (2D) high-resolution images in all-time and all-weather conditions, spaceborne synthetic aperture radar (SAR) has become an important remote sensing technique and the study of such systems has entered a period of vigorous development. Advanced imaging modes such as radar interferometry,...

review 2021

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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...

journal article 2021

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New innovations in pavement materials and engineering: A review on pavement engineering research 2021

Chen, Jiaqi (author), Dan, Hancheng (author), Ding, Yongjie (author), Gao, Y. (author), Guo, Meng (author), Guo, Shuaicheng (author), Han, Bingye (author), Hong, Bin (author), Hou, Yue (author), Hu, Chichun (author), Hu, Jing (author), Huyan, Ju (author), Jiang, Jiwang (author), Jiang, Wei (author), Li, Cheng (author), Liu, Pengfei (author), Liu, Yu (author), Liu, Zhuangzhuang (author), Lu, Guoyang (author), Ouyang, Jian (author), Qu, Xin (author), Ren, Dongya (author), Wang, Chao (author), Wang, Chaohui (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Wang, Di (author), Wang, Hainian (author), Wang, Haopeng (author), Xiao, Yue (author), Xing, Chao (author), Xu, Huining (author), Yan, Yu (author), Yang, Xu (author), You, Lingyun (author), You, Zhanping (author), Yu, Bin (author), Yu, Huayang (author), Yu, Huanan (author), Zhang, Henglong (author), Zhang, Jizhe (author), Zhou, Changhong (author), Zhou, Changjun (author), Zhu, Xingyi (author)

Sustainable and resilient pavement infrastructure is critical for current economic and environmental challenges. In the past 10 years, the pavement infrastructure strongly supports the rapid development of the global social economy. New theories, new methods, new technologies and new materials related to pavement engineering are emerging....

review 2021

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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...

journal article 2021

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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...

journal article 2021

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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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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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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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