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Hua, Zhongsheng (author), Wu, Xiaobin (author), Zhu, Zengli (author), He, Jiwen (author), He, Shiwei (author), Liu, Huan (author), Xu, Liang (author), Yang, Y. (author), Zhao, Zhuo (author)Exploring more efficient and low-cost electrocatalysts to replace platinum (Pt) is highly desired to promote the practical hydrogen production through water splitting. Herein, a facile and effective strategy is proposed to fabricate self-standing Al<sub>3</sub>Ni<sub>2</sub>/Ni electrode with controlled phase composition and surface...journal article 2022
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Xu, Yaowen (author), Wan, Chaojun (author), Liang, X. (author), Yang, Hongyu (author)This paper employs PVA, PE, steel fibers, as well as the hybrids of two of the three fibers to reinforce alkali-activated slag (AAS) material, aiming to prepare strain-hardening and clinker-free composites. The flexural strength, compressive strength, uniaxial tensile performance of the composites and bond behavior between fibers and the...journal article 2022
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Yang, Tingli (author), Fan, Xiaochun (author), Gao, Xu (author), Gu, Qian (author), Xu, S. (author), Shui, Zhonghe (author)In this study, a modified alkali activated slag system is designed by introducing additional calcium and aluminum containing phases in the binder, aiming at promote the formation of Friedel's salt (Fs) within the reaction products and therefore achieve a better chloride binding capacity. The effect of calcium and alumina contents on phase...journal article 2022
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Xu, Shihao (author), Yang, Zixu (author), Chakraborty, Debsubhra (author), Chua, Yi Han Victoria (author), Tolomeo, Serenella (author), Winkler, Stefan (author), Birnbaum, Michel (author), Tan, Bhing Leet (author), Lee, Jimmy (author), Dauwels, J.H.G. (author)Schizophrenia (SCZ) and depression (MDD) are two chronic mental disorders that seriously affect the quality of life of millions of people worldwide. We aim to develop machine-learning methods with objective linguistic, speech, facial, and motor behavioral cues to reliably predict the severity of psychopathology or cognitive function, and...journal article 2022
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Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Xie, Yanhua (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Xu, Yong (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author)Vegetation is important for urban heat mitigation. The cooling intensity of vegetation is affected by background climate and urban design. How to evaluate vegetation cooling efficiency under different climate conditions is still an issue open to discussion. In this study, a normalized indicator of urban vegetation cooling efficiency (NVCE) is...journal article 2022
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Guo, Yuanyuan (author), Wang, Quan (author), LI, H. (author), Gao, Yixun (author), Xu, Xuezhu (author), Tang, Biao (author), Yang, B. (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author)Fluorescent patterns with multiple functions enable high-security anti-counterfeiting labels. Complex material synthesis and patterning processes limit the application of multifunctional fluorescent patterns, so the technology of in situ fluorescent patterning with tunable multimodal capabilities is becoming more necessary. In this work, an...journal article 2022
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Xu, Xing (author), Lin, Kaiyi (author), Yang, Yang (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Shen, Heng Tao (author)Recently, generative adversarial network (GAN) has shown its strong ability on modeling data distribution via adversarial learning. Cross-modal GAN, which attempts to utilize the power of GAN to model the cross-modal joint distribution and to learn compatible cross-modal features, is becoming the research hotspot. However, the existing cross...journal article 2022
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Pang, Min (author), Sun, Zhenping (author), Ji, Yanliang (author), Yang, Jingbin (author), Wang, Peiming (author), Xu, Yaling (author), Li, Huanhuan (author), Liu, Jiaying (author), Li, Fei (author)Characteristics of fly ash(FA) blended mortars (50%, 70% and 90%) at different curing ages (28 days and 180 days) under ammonium chloride solution(ACS) leaching were investigated. Mass loss under leaching, initial CaO content, Ca(OH)2 content(CH), content of chemical bonded water, and hydration degree of blended pastes were tested by XRF and DSC...conference paper 2021
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Xu, L. (author), Guo, Fang (author), Hoes, Pieter-Jan (author), Yang, Xudong (author), Hensen, Jan (author)This paper presents a modeling and simulation method that supports energy performance assessment and operation strategy investigation of borehole thermal energy storage in the Chifeng district heating (DH) system. A living laboratory in Chifeng, China that integrates a 0.5 million m3 borehole thermal energy storage system, an on-site solar...journal article 2021
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Xu, J. (author), Yang, Gongliu (author), Sun, Yiding (author), Picek, S. (author)The current navigation systems used in many autonomous mobile robotic applications, like unmanned vehicles, are always equipped with various sensors to get accurate navigation results. The key point is to fuse the information from different sensors efficiently. However, different sensors provide asynchronous measurements, some of which even...journal article 2021
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Yang, Jinxin (author), Shi, Qian (author), Menenti, M. (author), Wong, Man Sing (author), Wu, Zhifeng (author), Zhao, Qunshan (author), Abbas, Sawaid (author), Xu, Yong (author)Urban surface temperature is a very important variable in the observation and understanding of energy exchange. A comprehensive understanding of the urban thermal environment is of great significance towards the adaptability of urban areas to climate hazards. The heterogeneity of urban space increases the complexity of the urban surface...journal article 2021
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Zhai, X. (author), Xu, Ziming (author), Cui, Qirui (author), Zhu, Yingmei (author), Yang, Hongxin (author), Blanter, Y.M. (author)We propose a spin valve that is based on van der Waals antiferromagnetism and is fully electrically controlled. The device is composed of two antiferromagnetic terminals that allow for vertical bias control and a linked central scattering potential region. The magnetoresistance varies significantly when the bias orientations in two terminals...journal article 2021
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Yang, Fawei (author), Xu, Feng (author), Fioranelli, F. (author), Le Kernec, Julien (author), Chang, Shaoqiang (author), Long, Teng (author)The latest progress of the multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) radar system developed for small drones detection at Beijing Institute of Technology is presented herein. A low-cost S-band MIMO scanning radar system is designed for the detection of small drones. A practical design optimisation and implementation of a sparse array covering the...journal article 2021
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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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Yang, Y. (author), Xu, J. (author), Elkhuizen, W.S. (author), Song, Y. (author)Acquiring an accurate 3D scan of the human hand is a challenging task, mainly due to the complicated geometry and the instability of the hand. In this paper, we present a low-cost photogrammetry-based scanner that is designed for scanning the human hand. The scanner has fifty modules, each has a Raspberry Pi with an 8-megapixels camera. They...journal article 2021
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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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Procel Moya, P.A. (author), Xu, Haiyuan (author), Saez, Aurora (author), Ruiz Tobon, C.M. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Han, C. (author), Yang, G. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)The contact resistivity is a key parameter to reach high conversion efficiency in solar cells, especially in architectures based on the so-called carrier-selective contacts. The importance of contact resistivity relies on the evaluation of the quality of charge collection from the absorber bulk through adjacent electrodes. The electrode...journal article 2020
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Wang, Tan (author), Hanjalic, A. (author), Xu, Xing (author), Shen, Heng Tao (author), Yang, Yang (author), Song, Jingkuan (author)A major challenge in matching images and text is that they have intrinsically different data distributions and feature representations. Most existing approaches are based either on embedding or classification, the first one mapping image and text instances into a common embedding space for distance measuring, and the second one regarding...conference paper 2019
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Ren, M. (author), Wang, Shuzhong (author), Yang, Chuang (author), Xu, Haitao (author), Guo, Yang (author), Roekaerts, D.J.E.M. (author)This work reports an experimental study on supercritical water oxidation of quinoline. Moderate preheat temperature (420 °C–510 °C) and initial concentration (1 wt%–10 wt%) are selected to address the possibility of utilizing the heat released during the reaction, in order to realize high conversion rate at relatively low preheat temperature....journal article 2019
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Liu, Nan (author), Liu, D. (author), Wang, Weifei (author), Hollmann, F. (author), Xu, Long (author), Ma, Yunjian (author), Yang, Bo (author), Bai, Weidong (author), Sun, Xiaotao (author), Wang, Yonghua (author)α‐Linolenic acid‐rich diacylglycerol has been demonstrated with promising health promotion functions. This study examined the production, immobilization of lipase PCL, and its application in the synthesis of diacylglycerol by esterification of α‐linolenic acid with glycerol. The resin ECR8806 was selected as an effective support for the...journal article 2018