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Vieira Valente, R.D. (author), De Ruijter, Chris (author), Vlasveld, Daniel (author), van der Zwaag, S. (author), Groen, W.A. (author)Conductive polymer composites have been receiving increased interest both from the scientific community and industry with a special focus on electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding applications. In this paper, we present the design, EM wave simulation, and validation through S-parameters measurements of an EMI shielding effectiveness (SE...journal article 2017
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Ceperley, Natalie C. (author), Mande, Theophile (author), van de Giesen, N.C. (author), Tyler, Scott (author), Yacouba, Hamma (author), Parlange, Marc B. (author)Rain-fed farming is the primary livelihood of semi-arid west Africa. Changes in land cover have the potential to affect precipitation, the critical resource for production. Turbulent flux measurements from two eddy-covariance towers and additional observations from a dense network of small, wireless meteorological stations combine to relate...journal article 2017
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Lv, Leyang (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Xing, Feng (author)Water ingress into cracked concrete structures is a serious problem, as it can cause leakage and reinforcement corrosion and thus reduce functionality and safety of the structures. In this study, the application of water-swelling rubber particles for providing the cracked concrete a self-sealing function was developed. The feasibility of...journal article 2017
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Croxall, K. V. (author), Smith, J. D T (author), Pellegrini, E. (author), Groves, Brent (author), Bolatto, Alberto (author), Herrera-Camus, Rodrigo (author), Sandstrom, K. M. (author), Draine, Bruce (author), Wolfire, M. G. (author), Armus, Lee (author), Boquien, Mederic (author), Brandl, B.R. (author), Dale, Daniel A. (author), Galametz, Maud (author), Hunt, L. K. (author), Kennicutt, R. C. (author), Kreckel, K. (author), Rigopoulou, D. (author), van der werf, p (author), Wilson, C (author)The [C ii] 158 μm fine-structure line is the brightest emission line observed in local star-forming galaxies. As a major coolant of the gas-phase interstellar medium, [C ii] balances the heating, including that due to far-ultraviolet photons, which heat the gas via the photoelectric effect. However, the origin of [C ii] emission remains...journal article 2017
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Kabiri, Y. (author), Ananth, A.N. (author), van der Torre, J. (author), Katan, A.J. (author), Hong, Jin Yong (author), Malladi, S.R.K. (author), Kong, Jing (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author), Dekker, C. (author)While graphene may appear to be the ultimate support membrane for transmission electron microscopy (TEM) imaging of DNA nanostructures, very little is known if it poses an advantage over conventional carbon supports in terms of resolution and contrast. Microscopic investigations are carried out on DNA origami nanoplates that are supported...journal article 2017
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Lantsoght, E.O.L. (author), van der Veen, C. (author), de Boer, A (author)The loads that are used for the assessment of existing reinforced concrete slab bridges are the self-weight, superimposed loads, and distributed and concentrated live loads. As such, the shear capacity of reinforced concrete slabs under a combination of distributed and concentrated live loads is a topic of practical relevance. For slabs...journal article 2017
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Rocha, I.B.C.M. (author), Raijmaekers, S (author), Nijssen, RPL (author), van der Meer, F.P. (author), Sluys, Lambertus J. (author)In this work, a glass/epoxy material system applied in wind turbine blades was used to evaluate degradation processes induced by water ingression. Composite and neat epoxy specimens were conditioned in demineralised water at 50 °C for 4800 h and tested quasi-statically and in fatigue. Comparing results from mechanical tests in composite...journal article 2017
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Bui, H.V. (author), Grillo, F. (author), Kulkarni, S.S. (author), Bevaart, Ronald (author), Nguyên, V.T. (author), van der Linden, B. (author), Moulijn, J.A. (author), Makkee, M. (author), Kreutzer, M.T. (author), van Ommen, J.R. (author)We tailored the size distribution of Pt nanoparticles (NPs) on graphene nanoplatelets at a given metal loading by using low-temperature atomic layer deposition carried out in a fluidized bed reactor operated at atmospheric pressure. The Pt NPs deposited at low temperature (100 °C) after 10 cycles were more active and stable towards the...journal article 2017
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Reyes, Maria Fernanda (author), Trifunović, Nemanja (author), Sharma, Saroj Kumar (author), Behzadian, Kourosh (author), Kapelan, Zoran (author), Kennedy, M.D. (author)Santa Cruz Island (Galápagos Archipelago), like many other tourist islands, is currently experiencing an exponential increase in tourism and local population growth, jeopardizing current and future water supply. An accurate assessment of the future water supply/demand balance is crucial to capital investment for water infrastructure. This...journal article 2017
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Localised estimation and control of linear instabilities in two-dimensional wall-bounded shear flowsTol, H.J. (author), Kotsonis, M. (author), de Visser, C.C. (author), Bamieh, B. (author)A new framework is presented for estimation and control of instabilities in wall-bounded shear flows described by the linearised Navier-Stokes equations. The control design considers the use of localised actuators/sensors to account for convective instabilities in an optimal control framework. External sources of disturbances are assumed to...journal article 2017
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Qiao, Qiyun (author), Zhang, Wenwen (author), Qian, Zhiwei (author), Cao, Wanlin (author), Liu, Wenchao (author)In order to quantitatively evaluate the shear-bearing capacity of shear connectors of square concrete filled steel tube (CFST), push-out tests on 14 square CFSTs with shear connectors have been carried out. Among the 14 CFSTs, there are 13 specimens with steel plate connectors and one specimen with steel bar connectors. The following factors...journal article 2017
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Wani, Omar (author), Beckers, Joost V.L. (author), Weerts, Albrecht H. (author), Solomatine, D.P. (author)A non-parametric method is applied to quantify residual uncertainty in hydrologic streamflow forecasting. This method acts as a post-processor on deterministic model forecasts and generates a residual uncertainty distribution. Based on instance-based learning, it uses a k nearest-neighbour search for similar historical hydrometeorological...journal article 2017
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Spekkers, M.H. (author), Rözer, Viktor (author), Thieken, Annegret (author), ten Veldhuis, Marie-claire (author), Kreibich, Heidi (author)Flooding is assessed as the most important natural hazard in Europe, causing thousands of deaths, affecting millions of people and accounting for large economic losses in the past decade. Little is known about the damage processes associated with extreme rainfall in cities, due to a lack of accurate, comparable and consistent damage data. The...journal article 2017
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Wang, Y. (author), Oord, Ramon (author), van den Berg, D. (author), Weckhuysen, Bert M. (author), Makkee, M. (author)Currently commercial NO<sub>x</sub> removal (DeNO<sub>x</sub>) abatement systems for lean-burn engines exceed regulation limits on the road for NO<sub>x</sub> emissions. Commercial DeNO<sub>x</sub> catalysts exhibit poor performance in the selective conversion of NO to N<sub>2</sub>, especially at high temperature and high gas hourly space...journal article 2017
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Bavykina, A.V. (author), Olivos Suarez, A.I. (author), Osadchii, D. (author), Valecha, R.R. (author), Franz, R.P.M. (author), Makkee, M. (author), Kapteijn, F. (author), Gascon, Jorge (author)A quasi chemical vapor deposition method for the manufacture of well-defined covalent triazine framework (CTF) coatings on cordierite monoliths is reported. The resulting supported porous organic polymer is an excellent support for the immobilization of two different homogeneous catalysts: (1) an Ir<sup>III</sup>Cp∗-based catalyst for the...journal article 2017
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Tang, H. (author), Ye, Huai-Yu (author), Chen, Xian-Ping (author), Qian, Cheng (author), Fan, Xue-Jun (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, the heat transfer performance of the multi-chip (MC) LED module is investigated numerically by using a general analytical solution. The configuration of the module is optimized with genetic algorithm (GA) combined with a response surface methodology. The space between chips, the thickness of the metal core printed circuit board...journal article 2017
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Jennings, Laurence (author), Waton, Gilles (author), Schosseler, François (author), Mendes, E. (author)Kinetically frozen copolymer micelles are commonly prepared by confining amphiphilic block copolymers in the evaporating dispersed phase of oil-in-water emulsions. We revisit the mechanisms of this process by examining its successive steps separately: the formation of the solvent/water interface, the emulsification, the solvent evaporation and...journal article 2017
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Palomba, F. (author), Bavota, Gabriele (author), Di Penta, Massimiliano (author), Fasano, Fausto (author), Oliveto, Rocco (author), De Lucia, Andrea (author)Code smells are symptoms of poor design and implementation choices that may hinder code comprehensibility and maintainability. Despite the effort devoted by the research community in studying code smells, the extent to which code smells in software systems affect software maintainability remains still unclear. In this paper we present a large...journal article 2017
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Neklyudova, M. (author), Erdamar, A.K. (author), Vicarelli, L. (author), Heerema, S.J. (author), Rehfeldt, T. (author), Pandraud, G. (author), Koladouz Esfahani, Z. (author), Dekker, C. (author), Zandbergen, H.W. (author)We present a technique to fabricate ultrathin (down to 20 nm) uniform electron transparent windows at dedicated locations in a SiN membrane for in situ transmission electron microscopy experiments. An electron-beam (e-beam) resist is spray-coated on the backside of the membrane in a KOH-etched cavity in silicon which is patterned using...journal article 2017
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Bercioux, D (author), Klapwijk, T.M. (author), Bergeret, F. S. (author)We investigate the transport properties of a junction consisting of an electron-hole bilayer in contact with normal and superconducting leads. The electron-hole bilayer is considered as a semimetal with two electronic bands. We assume that in the region between the contacts the system hosts an exciton condensate described by a BCS-like model...journal article 2017