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Ji, Kaipeng (author), Wang, C. (author), Hong, Hanlie (author), Yin, Ke (author), Zhao, Chenlei (author), Prins, Maarten (author), Lourens, Lucas J. (author), Gingerich, Philip D. (author), Abels, H.A. (author)The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM) global warming event at ∼56 million years before present changed catchment weathering and erosion. Increased chemical weathering of silicate minerals is thought to be an important process removing CO<sub>2</sub> from the atmosphere. However, changes in clay mineralogy can often be explained by...journal article 2023
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Zou, Yingxue (author), Pang, Ling (author), Chen, Shuaichao (author), Xu, S. (author), Wu, Shaopeng (author), Amirkhanian, Serji (author), Xu, Haiqin (author), Zhao, Zenggang (author)Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) can shield polymeric materials from UV light, which allows reducing material aging and erosion damage of bituminous pavement under physical and chemical action. In this study, the physicochemical properties, aging resistance, and erosion resistance to the aqueous solution of LDHs modified bitumen mastic (BM) were...journal article 2023
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Huang, R. (author), Zhao, Xuan (author), Yuan, Y. (author), Yu, Qiang (author), Liu, Chengqing (author), Daamen, W. (author)Pedestrian tactical choices and operational movement in evacuations essentially pertain to decision-making under risk and uncertainty. However, in microscopic evacuation models, this attribute has been greatly overlooked, even lacking a methodology to delineate the related decision characteristics (bounded rationality and risk attitudes), let...journal article 2023
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Pickard, Daniel (author), Martynowych, Dmitro (author), Lem, Jet (author), Koshakji, Anwar (author), Lin, Shaoting (author), Zhao, Xuanhe (author), Nelson, Keith (author), Giovanardi, Bianca (author), Radovitzky, Raul (author)Intense surface eruptions are observed along the curved surface of a confined cylindrical film of hydrogel subject to laser-induced converging-diverging shock loading. Detailed numerical simulations are used to identify the dominant mechanisms causing mechanical instability. The mechanisms that produce surface instability are found to be...journal article 2023
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Hua, Yuan (author), Lu, Qi (author), Li, Shuangmu (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)This brief presents a 48V-to-1V 10-level dual inductor hybrid converter (DIHC) containing 11 on-chip switches and an off-chip gallium nitride (GaN) switch. Thanks to the 10-level Dickson switched-capacitor (SC) circuit, most of the voltage stress will be taken over by off-chip capacitors, which reduces the voltage stress of each switch to 4.8...journal article 2023
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Wang, Q. (author), Zhao, C. (author), Yao, Zhenpeng (author), Wang, Jianlin (author), Wu, Fangting (author), Kumar, Sai Govind Hari (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Eustace, S.J. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)Developing liquid electrolytes with higher kinetics and enhanced interphase stability is one of the key challenges for lithium batteries. However, the poor solubility of lithium salts in solvents sets constraints that compromises the electrolyte properties. Here, it is shown that introducing multiple salts to form a high-entropy solution,...journal article 2023
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Quan, D. (author), Liu, Jiaming (author), Yao, L. (author), Dransfeld, C.A. (author), Alderliesten, R.C. (author), Zhao, Guoqun (author)The production of advanced composites from recycled carbon fibres (rCFs) is critical for the sustainable development of carbon fibre industry. Herein, non-woven mats consisting of commingled rCFs and Polyphenylene-sulfide (PPS) fibres were compression moulded to manufacture rCF/PPS composites, with the fibre/matrix adhesion being tailored by...journal article 2023
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Ni, Tao (author), Lan, G. (author), Wang, Jia (author), Zhao, Qingchuan (author), Xu, Weitao (author)Radio-frequency (RF) energy harvesting is a promising technology for Internet-of-Things (IoT) devices to power sensors and prolong battery life. In this paper, we present a novel side-channel attack that leverages RF energy harvesting signals to eavesdrop mobile app activities. To demonstrate this novel attack, we propose AppListener, an...conference paper 2023
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Tu, Botao (author), Yang, Xinkui (author), Xu, S. (author), Zhao, Zenggang (author), Zhou, Yuheng (author), Jiang, Jian (author), Fan, Lulu (author), Tu, Liangliang (author)As a kind of solid waste, using Prestressed High-Strength Concrete Pile Waste Concrete (PPWC) as the replacement for limestone filler in asphalt concrete can not only reduce the accumulation of PPWC and increase its utilization but also avoid the increased road construction costs and environmental degradation associated with limestone mining....journal article 2023
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Blanco, Adrian Fuertes (author), Shi, Z. (author), Roy, Debraj (author), Zhao, Zhiming (author)The emergence of blockchain technologies has created the possibility of transforming business processes in the form of immutable agreements called smart contracts. Smart contracts suffer from a major limitation; they cannot authenticate the trustworthiness of real-world data sources, creating the need for intermediaries called oracles....conference paper 2023
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Zhao, J. (author), Liu, X. (author), Wu, Zijin (author), Ibrahim, B. (author), Thieme, J. (author), Brocks, Geert (author), Tao, Shuxia (author), Bannenberg, L.J. (author), Savenije, T.J. (author)State-of-the-art triple cation, mixed halide perovskites are extensively studied in perovskite solar cells, showing very promising performance and stability. However, an in-depth fundamental understanding of how the phase behavior in Cs<sub>0.05</sub>FA<sub>0.85</sub>MA<sub>0.10</sub>Pb(I<sub>0.97</sub>Br<sub>0.03</sub>)<sub>3</sub> (CsMAFA)...journal article 2023
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Wang, Xiaoda (author), Zhao, Yuqing (author), Han, Lumin (author), Li, Ling (author), Kiss, A.A. (author)Cylcohexanol is an essential bulk chemical that can be produced via cyclohexene hydration, a liquid-liquid two-phase reaction that is limited by the low reaction rate and the equilibrium conversion. Adding an appropriate solvent is the most promising method to break through these limitations. However, in previous works the solvent was almost...journal article 2023
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Singh, M. (author), Amarnath, A. (author), Wagner, Fabian (author), Zhao, Y. (author), Yang, G. (author), Mazzarella, L. (author), Weeber, A.W. (author), Zeman, M. (author), Isabella, O. (author)Single junction crystalline silicon (c-Si) solar cells are reaching their practical efficiency limit whereas perovskite/c-Si tandem solar cells have achieved efficiencies above the theoretical limit of single junction c-Si solar cells. Next to low-thermal budget silicon heterojunction architecture, high-thermal budget carrier-selective...journal article 2023
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Ying, Chong (author), Cheng, Bin (author), Zhao, Youwei (author), Huang, He Liang (author), Zhang, Y.N. (author), Gong, Ming (author), Wu, Yulin (author), Wang, S. (author), Liang, Futian (author)Although near-term quantum computing devices are still limited by the quantity and quality of qubits in the so-called NISQ era, quantum computational advantage has been experimentally demonstrated. Moreover, hybrid architectures of quantum and classical computing have become the main paradigm for exhibiting NISQ applications, where low-depth...journal article 2023
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Zhao, Zheyu (author), Cheng, H. (author), Xu, Xiaohua (author)Massive terminal users have brought explosive need of data residing at edge of overall network. Multiple Mobile Edge Computing (MEC) servers are built in/near base station to meet this need. However, optimal distribution of these servers to multiple users in real time is still a problem. Reinforcement Learning (RL) as a framework to solve...conference paper 2023
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Liu, Shurui (author), Lu, T. (author), Tang, Z. (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Zhao, Bo (author), Du, S. (author)In this article, we propose a reconfigurable regulating rectifier with a wide operational range for wireless power transfer. The proposed three-mode rectifier achieves a broad range voltage regulation without global loop control to minimize the chip area occupation. Compared with previous work, more working modes and greater voltage gain...journal article 2023
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Li, Jie (author), Xin, Haohui (author), Wang, Zhiqiang (author), Veljkovic, M. (author), Bingzhen, Zhao (author), Zhao, Junjie (author), Correia, José A.F.O. (author)High strength bolts are widely used in the engineering field due to their good compressive properties. Accurate assessment of the ultimate capacity performance of high strength bolts under combined loading is essential to ensure the safety of steel structures in the connection zone. Existing studies are not sufficiently clear on the economic...journal article 2023
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Wang, Jinpeng (author), Zhang, Shang (author), Fenn, Peter (author), Luo, Xiaowei (author), Liu, Y. (author), Zhao, Lilin (author)Previous studies revealed that Building Information Modeling (BIM) has the potential to reduce project uncertainties, design errors, change orders, and delays, which might facilitate achieving effective dispute management in the construction industry. However, research into the adoption of BIM to holistically enhance effective dispute...review 2023
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Zhao, Yuan Yuan (author), Rozpedek, F.D. (author), Hou, Zhibo (author), Wu, Kang Da (author), Xiang, Guo Yong (author), Li, Chuan Feng (author), Guo, Guang Can (author)Quantum uncertainty is a well-known property of quantum mechanics that states the impossibility of predicting measurement outcomes of multiple incompatible observables simultaneously. In contrast, the uncertainty in the classical domain comes from the lack of information about the exact state of the system. One may naturally ask, whether the...journal article 2022
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Yuan, Xiangyang (author), Cui, Endian (author), Liu, K. (author), Jiang, Ying (author), Yang, Xiaoyan (author), Tang, Jianfeng (author), Yang, Lu (author), Liao, Xiaoling (author), Zhao, Yanan (author)In this work, different lanthanides (Tm<sup>3+</sup>, Er<sup>3+</sup>; Yb<sup>3+</sup>, Ho<sup>3+</sup>, Nd<sup>3+</sup>) were doped into NaYF<sub>4</sub> via a high-temperature coprecipitation method, and followed by SiO<sub>2</sub> coating to improve the water dispersibility, resulting in NaYF<sub>4</sub>:Tm<sup>3+</sup>, Er<sup>3+</sup>...journal article 2022