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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The cohesive and adhesive performances of bituminous materials significantly affect the service life of asphalt pavement. The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method has been proved as an effective tool to predict the thermodynamics parameters of different multisubstance and multi-phase bitumen models during different diffusion, self-healing,...review 2022
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Liu, X. (author), Li, Shizhen (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Liu, Yang (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Nano copper sintering technology has great potential to be widely applied in the wide-bandgap semiconductor packaging. In order to investigate the coalescence kinetics of copper nano particles for this application, a molecular dynamic (MD) simulation was carried out at low temperature on a special model containing two substrate and multiple...journal article 2022
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Gao, Y. (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Zhang, Chao (author), Liu, X. (author), Jing, R. (author)Bitumen in asphalt pavements reacts slowly with atmospheric oxygen, resulting in oxidative ageing. This oxidative reaction is strongly dependent on the physical diffusion of the oxygen into the bitumen. This study aims to use molecular dynamics (MD) simulation to investigate the oxygen diffusion into the bitumen film and analyse the effects...journal article 2022
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Yi, Jinming (author), Feng, Jianlin (author), Li, Yuanyuan (author), Bai, Tao (author), Chen, Anqi (author), Gao, Y. (author), Wu, Fan (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Liu, Quantao (author), Li, Chuangmin (author)To meet the needs of the road industry for maintenance operations, a new cement emulsified bitumen mixture (CEBM) with early-strength, self-compacting, and room-temperature construction characteristics was designed. The strength formation mechanism of CEBM was revealed with a scanning electron microscope (SEM) and the surface free energy (SFE...journal article 2022
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Li, Shizhen (author), Liu, X. (author), Jiang, Jing (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Liu, Yang (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Cu-Ag core-shell (CS) nanoparticle (NP) is considered as a cost-effective alternative material to nano silver sintering material in die attachment application. To further reduce the cost, the thickness of the Ag shell can be adjusted. Whereas the shell thickness will also affect the thermal stability of the Cu-Ag CSNPs. In this study, molecular...conference paper 2022
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Yang, Fan (author), Li, Xueyuan (author), Liu, Qi (author), Li, Z. (author), Gao, Xin (author)In the autonomous driving process, the decision-making system is mainly used to provide macro-control instructions based on the information captured by the sensing system. Learning-based algorithms have apparent advantages in information processing and understanding for an increasingly complex driving environment. To incorporate the...journal article 2022
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Gao, Xin (author), Li, Xueyuan (author), Liu, Qi (author), Li, Z. (author), Yang, Fan (author), Luan, Tian (author)As one of the main elements of reinforcement learning, the design of the reward function is often not given enough attention when reinforcement learning is used in concrete applications, which leads to unsatisfactory performances. In this study, a reward function matrix is proposed for training various decision-making modes with emphasis on...journal article 2022
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Gao, Shibin (author), He, Zonglun (author), Wei, Xiaoguang (author), Liu, Y. (author), Huang, Tao (author), Lei, Jieyu (author)A topology attack, as a special class of false data injection attacks, tampers with topology information of a system to mislead the decision of the control center. This article conducts an in-depth study on topology attacks that aim to interfere with the judgment in topology information and pose potential damage by tampering with measurement...journal article 2022
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Xu, Jingyi (author), Li, Z. (author), Gao, Li (author), Ma, Junyi (author), Liu, Qi (author), Zhao, Yanan (author)The deep reinforcement learning-based energy management strategies (EMS) have become a promising solution for hybrid electric vehicles (HEVs). When driving cycles are changed, the neural network will be retrained, which is a time-consuming and laborious task. A more efficient way of choosing EMS is to combine deep reinforcement learning (DRL)...conference paper 2022
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Kim, Kwantae (author), Gao, C. (author), Graca, Rui (author), Kiselev, Ilya (author), Yoo, Hoi Jun (author), Delbruck, Tobi (author), Liu, Shih Chii (author)This article presents the first keyword spotting (KWS) IC that uses a ring-oscillator-based time-domain processing technique for its analog feature extractor (FEx). Its extensive usage of time-encoding schemes allows the analog audio signal to be processed in a fully time-domain manner except for the voltage-to-time conversion stage of the...journal article 2022
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Gao, Hanyan (author), Zhang, Jing (author), Zhu, Yingcan (author), Guo, Ruiqian (author), Zhang, Wanlu (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Liu, Pan (author)With the trend of miniaturization and the increasing power density, the operating temperature of electronic devices keeps climbing, especially for wide band-gap semiconductors such as silicon carbide and gallium nitride. The high operating temperature up to 250℃ brings challenges to encapsulation materials since traditional encapsulation...conference paper 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Erkens, S. (author)The compatibility potential of rejuvenators plays an important role in improving the blending degree of rejuvenated bitumen. This study aims at estimating the efficiency of molecular dynamics (MD) simulation in predicting the compatibility between rejuvenators and aged bitumen, and exploring the influence of rejuvenator type, aging degree of...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Lin, P. (author), Gao, Y. (author)The molecular dynamics (MD) simulation method is proved as an efficient tool to explore the intermolecular interaction between rejuvenators and aged bitumen, but the simple “singlemolecule” model of rejuvenator would bring the inaccuracy to simulation outputs due to a huge difference with its realistic multi-component chrematistic. This study...journal article 2022
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Moallemi, Enayat A. (author), Eker, Sibel (author), Gao, Lei (author), Hadjikakou, Michalis (author), Liu, Qi (author), Kwakkel, J.H. (author), Reed, Patrick M. (author), Obersteiner, Michael (author), Guo, Zhaoxia (author), Bryan, Brett A. (author)Progress to date toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) has fallen short of expectations and is unlikely to fully meet 2030 targets. Past assessments have mostly focused on short- and medium-term evaluations, thus limiting the ability to explore the longer-term effects of systemic interactions with time lags and delay. Here we undertake...journal article 2022
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Ren, S. (author), Liu, X. (author), Lin, P. (author), Erkens, S. (author), Gao, Y. (author)Molecular dynamics (MD) simulation is an advanced tool to explore the interaction mechanism between aged bitumen and rejuvenators at the nanoscale. However, the general MD molecular structures of rejuvenators led to the lower quantify and inaccuracy of the simulation outputs. This study aims at developing more realistic molecular models to...journal article 2022
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Hou, Shuhan (author), Wang, Zhaokun (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Jiang, Jing (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Liu, Yufei (author), Tang, Xiaosheng (author), Ye, H. (author)For the relevant properties of pristine and doped (Si, P, Se, Te, As) monolayer WS<sub>2</sub> before and after the adsorption of CO, CO<sub>2</sub>, N<sub>2</sub>, NO, NO<sub>2</sub> and O<sub>2</sub>, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are made. Calculation results reveal that the monolayer WS<sub>2</sub> doped with P and As atoms...journal article 2022
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Gao, Shibin (author), Lei, Jieyu (author), Wei, Xiaoguang (author), Liu, Y. (author), Wang, Tao (author)This letter develops a new bilevel optimization model to construct false data injection attack based on pre- and post- dispatch. In order to enhance the attack concealment, the proposed bilevel model can minimize the variation of uploaded measurements between pre- and post-attack before dispatching, after which the attack can lead the system...journal article 2022
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Yang, Huiru (author), Li, Junfeng (author), Shao, Ziyuan (author), Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Cui, Hongyuan (author), Tang, Xiaosheng (author), Liu, Yufei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Ye, H. (author)The development of high-performance gas sensing materials is one of the development trends of new gas sensor technology. In this work, in order to predict the gas-sensitive characteristics of HfSe<sub>2</sub> and its potential as a gas-sensitive material, the interactions of nonmetallic element (O, S, Te) doped HfSe<sub>2</sub> monolayer and...journal article 2022
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van Eeden, E.A.M. (author), Gao, Y. (author), Liu, Y. (author), Sun, Y. (author), Qi, K. (author), Zheng, Y. (author)This graduation studio explores the potential of a landscape-based regional design approach to contribute to more resilient coastal landscapes around the globe. Such an approach addresses the interaction between the natural and urban landscape throughout the scales of space and time. It takes the landscape as the basis for sustainable urban...report 2021
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Luan, Pengqian (author), Liu, Yunting (author), Li, Yongxing (author), Chen, Ran (author), Huang, Chen (author), Gao, Jing (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Jiang, Yanjun (author)An aqueous chemoenzymatic cascade reaction combining Pd-catalyzed C-C formation and enzymatic C=C asymmetric hydrogenation (AH) was developed for enantioselective synthesis of tertiary α-aryl cycloketones in good yields and excellent enantioselectivities. The stereopreference of the enzyme in AH of α-aryl cyclohexenones was studied. An...journal article 2021