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Mi, Jie (author), Zhang, Min (author), Zhu, Zhenchang (author), Vuik, V. (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Gao, Hongkai (author), Bouma, Tjeerd J. (author)The risk of coastal storm flooding is deteriorating under global warming, especially for the heavily urbanized deltaic cities, like Shanghai. The Nature-Based Flood Defense (NBFD), as an eco-friendly design alternative for hard infrastructure against coastal flooding, is gaining attention. Nevertheless, the vulnerability of saltmarsh due to...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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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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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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Li, Meng (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Zhu, Liehuang (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Ride-Hailing Service (RHS) has drawn plenty of attention as it provides transportation convenience for riders and financial incentives for drivers. Despite these benefits, riders risk the exposure of sensitive location data during ride requesting to an untrusted Ride-Hailing Service Provider (RHSP). Our motivation arises from repetitive...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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Zhang, Chao (author), Tan, Yiqiu (author), Gao, Y. (author), Fu, Yongkang (author), Li, Jilu (author), Li, Shuai (author), Zhou, Xingye (author)The service performances of asphalt pavement, especially rutting, will be inevitably affected by climate change. However, existing studies have generally focused on the rutting depth and rutting life, and thus became insufficient for comprehensively evaluating the influence of climate change on rutting over the service life. A resilience...journal article 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Zhang, Zijian (author), Fu, Chaoping (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author)Shortest distance queries over large-scale graphs bring great benefits to various applications, i.e., save planning time and travelling expenses. To protect the sensitive nodes and edges in the graph, a user outsources an encrypted graph to an untrusted server without losing the query ability. However, no prior work has considered the user...conference paper 2022
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Li, Meng (author), Zhang, Mingwei (author), Gao, Jianbo (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author)Location-Based Services (LBSs) depend on a Service Provider (SP) to store data owners’ geospatial data and to process data users’ queries. For example, a Yelp user queries the SP to retrieve the k nearest Starbucks by submitting her/his current location. It is well-acknowledged that location privacy is vital to users and several prominent...conference paper 2022
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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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Gao, Y. (author), Zhang, Yuqing (author), Omairey, Eman L. (author), Al-Malaika, Sahar (author), Sheena, Husam (author)The aim of this study was to investigate the effects of different anti-ageing compounds (AACs) on the oxidative stability, rheological and mechanical properties of bitumen. Modified bitumen samples containing six different AAC combinations, with five samples containing Irganox acid (3,5-di-tert-butyl-4-hydoxyphenylpropionic acid), a hindered...journal article 2021
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Tang, H. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Sacco, L.N. (author), Sokolovskij, R. (author), Ye, H. (author), Vollebregt, S. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)In this paper, tin oxidation (SnO x )/tin-sulfide (SnS) heterostructures are synthesized by the post-oxidation of liquid-phase exfoliated SnS nanosheets in air. We comparatively analyzed the NO2 gas response of samples with different oxidation levels to study the gas sensing mechanisms. The results show that the samples oxidized at 325 °C are...journal article 2021
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Gao, Y. (author), Janssen, M.F.W.H.A. (author), Zhang, Congcong (author)The past decade has witnessed a rapid development of open government data practices and academic research. However, there is no systematic survey of existing research to understand the evolution of open government data. Such research can facilitate knowledge transfer within and across domains, and foster learning for countries in the early...journal article 2021
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Tan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Zhou, Quan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)The authors regret that one of the affiliations (affiliation f) was incorrectly omitted in the original manuscript. The corrected list of affiliations is as shown below. The Royal Society of Chemistry apologises for these errors and any consequent inconvenience to authors and readers.journal article 2021
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Du, Shiqiang (author), Scussolini, Paolo (author), Ward, Philip J. (author), Zhang, Min (author), Wen, Jiahong (author), Wang, Luyang (author), Koks, Elco (author), Diaz-Loaiza, Andres (author), Gao, Jun (author), Ke, Q. (author), Aerts, Jeroen C.J.H. (author)Flood risk is expected to increase in coastal cities, particularly in Asian megacities such as Shanghai. This paper presents an integrated modeling framework to simulate changes in the flood risk in Shanghai and provide a cost-benefit analysis of multiple adaptation strategies used to reduce risk. The results show that the potential flood...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Y. (author), Wang, Xuancang (author), Ji, Guanyu (author), Fan, Zhenyang (author), Guo, Yuchen (author), Gao, Wenze (author), Xin, Lei (author)Lignin, as a bio-based waste, has been utilized in the asphalt industry due to various advantages. This study aimed to investigate the effects of two lignin products (lignin powder and lignin fiber) on the mechanical properties of asphalt mixtures. The raveling, rutting, thermal and fatigue cracking resistance, and moisture susceptibility of...journal article 2020
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The inactivation mechanism of chemical disinfection against SARS-CoV-2: From MD and DFT perspectivesTan, C. (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Zhou, Quan (author), van Driel, W.D. (author), Ye, H. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Exploring effective disinfection methods and understanding their mechanisms on the new coronavirus is becoming more active due to the outbreak of novel coronavirus pneumonia (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). By combining molecular dynamics and first-principles calculations, we investigate the...journal article 2020
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Zhang, Jie (author), Gao, Ling (author), Hu, Jie (author), Wang, Chongjun (author), Hagedoorn, P.L. (author), Li, Ning (author), Zhou, Xing (author)Hypericin is a naturally occurring compound synthesized by certain species of the genus Hypericum, with various pharmacological effects. It is used as a natural photosensitizing agent with great potential in photodynamic therapy. This review discusses the latest results about the biosynthetic pathways and chemical synthetic routes to obtain...journal article 2020
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Gao, Yuan (author), Qiao, Tiezhu (author), Zhang, Haitao (author), Yang, Yi (author), Pang, Y. (author), Wei, Hongyan (author)During the operation of the belt conveyor, measuring speed of the belt conveyor is vital to the safe and efficient operation. In the existing measuring speed system, the measurement instrument is required contacting with the surface of the belt. The contact measurement method cannot avoid the occurrence of measuring error caused by slipping...journal article 2019
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Gao, P. (author), Zhang, Tong Sheng (author), Wei, Jiang Xiong (author), Yu, Qi Jun (author)Graded blended cement made of graded Portland cement (PC), blast furnace slag (BFS) and fly ash (FA) is attractive for cement production. For manufacturing graded blended cement, a suitable mathematical expression should be introduced to describe the particle size distribution (PSD) of its components and control the quality of graded blended...journal article 2018