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Identification and Suppression of Multicomponent Noise in Audio Magnetotelluric Data Based on Convolutional Block Attention Module

Zhang, Liang (author), Li, Guang (author), Chen, Huang (author), Tang, Jingtian (author), Yang, Guanci (author), Yu, Mingbiao (author), Hu, Yong (author), Xu, Jun (author), Sun, J. (author)

Audio magnetotelluric (AMT) is commonly used in mineral resource exploration. However, the weak energy of AMT signals makes them susceptible to being overwhelmed by noise, leading to erroneous geophysical interpretations. In recent years, deep learning has been applied to AMT denoising and has shown better denoising performance compared to...

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Photochromic Thermoelectric Smart Window for Season-Adaptive Solar Heat and Daylight Management

Meng, Weihao (author), Kragt, A.J.J. (author), Hu, Xiaowen (author), van der Burgt, Julia S. (author), Schenning, Albertus P.H.J. (author), Yue, Yuchen (author), Zhou, Guofu (author), Li, Yong (author), Wang, Jingxia (author)

Photochromic smart windows have drawn increasing attention as an approach to improve building energy efficiency and enhance indoor daylight comfort. However, existing photochromic smart windows still block sunlight from entering the room on sunny winter days, causing additional energy consumption for heating. Herein, a dual-mode smart window...

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Eunomia: Anonymous and Secure Vehicular Digital Forensics based on Blockchain

Li, Meng (author), Chen, Yifei (author), Lal, C. (author), Conti, M. (author), Alazab, Mamoun (author), Hu, Donghui (author)

Vehicular Digital Forensics (VDF) is essential to enable liability cognizance of accidents and fight against crimes. Ensuring the authority to timely gather, analyze, and trace data promotes vehicular investigations. However, adversaries crave the identity of the data provider/user, damage the evidence, violate evidence jurisdiction, and leak...

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High Cationic Dispersity Boosted Oxygen Reduction Reactivity in Multi-Element Doped Perovskites

Li, Wenhuai (author), Li, Mengran (author), Guo, Y. (author), Hu, Zhiwei (author), Zhou, Chuan (author), Brand, Helen E.A. (author), Peterson, Vanessa K. (author), Pao, Chih Wen (author), Chen, Chien Te (author)

Oxygen-ion conducting perovskite oxides are important functional materials for solid oxide fuel cells and oxygen-permeable membranes operating at high temperatures (>500 °C). Co-doped perovskites have recently shown their potential to boost oxygen-related kinetics, but challenges remain in understanding the underlying mechanisms. This...

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Roles of waste carbon fibers on the efficiency of multiple induction heating healing behavior in asphalt mixture for sustainable infrastructure

Ye, Xiangqian (author), Xiao, Zhenyong (author), He, Chuang (author), Li, Wenyu (author), Lin, P. (author), Meng, Yuanyuan (author), Hu, Chichun (author)

This study systematically investigated the potential of waste carbon fibers (WCFs) as a sustainable solution in enhancing the multiple induction heating healing of asphalt mixture, thereby tackling two major concerns: the environmental impact of WCFs and the durability of asphalt pavement. Firstly, four groups of asphalt binder samples with...

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Role of Defects, Pores, and Interfaces in Deciphering the Alkali Metal Storage Mechanism in Hard Carbon

Vasileiadis, A. (author), Li, Yuqi (author), Lu, Yaxiang (author), Hu, Yong Sheng (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)

There are several questions and controversies regarding the Na storage mechanism in hard carbon. This springs from the difficulty of probing the vast diversity of possible configurational environments for Na storage, including surface and defect sites, edges, pores, and intercalation morphologies. In the effort to explain the observed voltage...

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Large-Area and Visible-Light-Driven Heterojunctions of In₂O₃/Graphene Built for ppb-Level Formaldehyde Detection at Room Temperature

Guo, Lanpeng (author), Liang, Hongping (author), Hu, Huiyun (author), Shi, Shenbin (author), Wang, Chenxu (author), Li, Hao (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, Yao (author)

Achieving convenient and accurate detection of indoor ppb-level formaldehyde is an urgent requirement to ensure a healthy working and living environment for people. Herein, ultrasmall In₂O₃ nanorods and supramolecularly functionalized reduced graphene oxide are selected as hybrid components of visible-light-driven (VLD)...

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Life cycle assessment of material footprint in recycling: A case of concrete recycling

Zhang, Chunbo (author), Hu, Mingming (author), van der Meide, Marc (author), Di Maio, F. (author), Yang, Xining (author), Gao, Xiaofeng (author), Li, Kai (author), Zhao, Hailong (author), Li, Chen (author)

Meeting the current demand for concrete requires not only mining tons of gravel and sand, but also burning large amounts of fossil fuel resources in cement kilning. Consequently, concrete recycling is crucial to achieving a material-efficient society, especially with the application of various categories of concrete and the goal of phasing...

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Morphodynamic changes in the Yangtze Estuary under the impact of the Three Gorges Dam, estuarine engineering interventions and climate-induced sea level rise

Cheng, H. Q. (author), Chen, W. (author), Li, J. F. (author), Jiang, Y. H. (author), Hu, X. (author), Zhang, X. L. (author), Zhou, F. N. (author), Hu, F. X. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)

The estuarine turbidity maximum (ETM) in the Yangtze Estuary Delta (YED) is muddy by definition and lacks bottom undulations. However, since 2013, a remarkable change has occurred in the YED. Recent images detected by a multibeam echosounder system, SeaBat 7125, for the first time have confirmed widespread regions of subaqueous dunes in the...

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Rapid Surface Large-Change Monitoring by Repeat-Pass GEO SAR Multibaseline Interferometry

Li, Y. (author), Hu, Cheng (author), Ao, Dongyang (author)

Fast observations of rapid surface large-changes are demanded in disaster evaluations and scientific studies. Digital elevation model (DEM) differencing before and after the events is an effective way to retrieve the changes. Owing to a short repeat cycle, geosynchronous synthetic aperture radar (GEO SAR) systems can quickly obtain repeat...

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China's transportation sector carbon dioxide emissions efficiency and its influencing factors based on the EBM DEA model with undesirable outputs and spatial Durbin model

Zhao, Pengjun (author), Zeng, Liangen (author), Li, Peilin (author), Lu, Haiyan (author), Hu, Haoyu (author), Li, Chengming (author), Zheng, Mengyuan (author), Li, Haitao (author), Yu, Zhao (author), Qi, Y. (author)

The threat of global climate change has caused the international community to pay close attention to atmospheric levels of greenhouse gases such as carbon dioxide. Transportation sector carbon dioxide emissions efficiency (TSCDEE) is a key indicator used to prioritize sustainable development in the transportation sector. In this paper, the...

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Improve the long-term property of heat-cured mortars blended with fly ash by internal curing

Liu, C. (author), Yang, Lu (author), Li, Z. (author), Nie, Shuai (author), Hu, Chuanlin (author), Wang, Fazhou (author)

Due to the satisfactory property and high productivity, heat-cured concretes have been widely used in engineering practice. However, heat curing process also brings some drawbacks that are detrimental to the long-term property of this material. To address this issue, lightweight fine aggregate (LWFA) was employed to provide internal curing ...

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Regulating the reaction zone of electrochemical CO₂ reduction on gas-diffusion electrodes by distinctive hydrophilic-hydrophobic catalyst layers

Rabiee, Hesamoddin (author), Ge, Lei (author), Zhao, Jing (author), Zhang, Xueqin (author), Li, Mengran (author), Hu, Shihu (author), Smart, Simon (author), Rufford, Thomas E. (author), Zhu, Zhonghua (author)

Regulating the rational wettability on gas-diffusion electrodes (GDEs) plays a pivotal role to improve the efficiency of CO₂RR via fine-tuning the reaction zone and boosting the formation of triple-phase interfaces. Herein, we present a wettability regulation strategy that modulates the triple-phase reaction zone in the catalyst...

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The Effect of Phenotype and Genotype on the Plasma Proteome in Patients with Inflammatory Bowel Disease

Bourgonje, Arno R. (author), Hu, Shixian (author), Spekhorst, Lieke M. (author), Zhernakova, Daria V. (author), Vila, Arnau Vich (author), Li, Yanni (author), Charrout, M. (author), Mahfouz, A.M.E.T.A. (author), Reinders, M.J.T. (author)

Background and Aims: Protein profiling in patients with inflammatory bowel diseases [IBD] for diagnostic and therapeutic purposes is underexplored. This study analysed the association between phenotype, genotype, and the plasma proteome in IBD. Methods: A total of 92 inflammation-related proteins were quantified in plasma of 1028 patients...

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In operando-formed interface between silver and perovskite oxide for efficient electroreduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide

Wu, Xinhao (author), Guo, Y. (author), Gu, Yuxing (author), Xie, Fenghua (author), Li, Mengran (author), Hu, Zhiwei (author), Lin, Hong Ji (author), Pao, Chih Wen (author), Huang, Yu Cheng (author)

Electrochemical carbon dioxide (CO₂) reduction (ECR) is a promising technology to produce valuable fuels and feedstocks from CO₂. Despite large efforts to develop ECR catalysts, the investigation of the catalytic performance and electrochemical behavior of complex metal oxides, especially perovskite oxides, is rarely...

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A Series of Ternary Metal Chloride Superionic Conductors for High-Performance All-Solid-State Lithium Batteries

Liang, Jianwen (author), van der Maas, E.L. (author), Luo, Jing (author), Li, Xiaona (author), Chen, Ning (author), Adair, Keegan R. (author), Li, Weihan (author), Li, Junjie (author), Hu, Yongfeng (author), Liu, Jue (author), Zhang, Li (author), Zhao, W. (author), Parnell, S.R. (author), Ganapathy, S. (author), Wagemaker, M. (author)

Understanding the relationship between structure, ionic conductivity, and synthesis is the key to the development of superionic conductors. Here, a series of Li_3-3_xM₁₊_xCl₆ (−0.14 < x ≤ 0.5, M = Tb, Dy, Ho, Y, Er, Tm) solid electrolytes with orthorhombic and trigonal structures are...

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Characterizing the Effects of Al(OH)3 and Mg(OH)2 on Reaction Products and Drying Shrinkage Characteristics of Alkali-activated Slag

Li, Jing (author), Yin, Suhong (author), Huang, Haoliang (author), Hu, Jie (author), Yi, Chaofan (author), Chen, Zheng (author), Ma, Yuwei (author), Ye, G. (author)

This study is undertaken to explore the relationship between the reaction products and the drying shrinkage of alkali-activated slag (AAS) with the varying hydroxide dosage. AAS pastes were firstly produced with either Al(OH)3 or Mg(OH)2 to investigate the effects of hydroxide on the composition of reaction products and the drying shrinkage of...

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The Effect of Wet Treatment on the Distribution and Leaching of Heavy Metals and Salts of Bottom Ash from Municipal Solid Waste Incineration

Zhu, Yonghao (author), Hu, Yanjun (author), Guo, Qianqian (author), Zhao, Lingqin (author), Li, Lianming (author), Wang, Y. (author), Hu, Guixiang (author), Wibowo, Haryo (author), Di Maio, F. (author)

One of the main challenges of bottom ash reutilization is heavy metal and salts' leaching potential. The effect of wet treatment on chemical composition and leaching toxicity of bottom ash were investigated in this study to mitigate this leaching potential. Batch leaching and column leaching tests were first conducted to investigate the...

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Quantification of the influencing factors for flood peak discharge increase in the Lower Yellow River

Li, Wei (author), Zhu, Lehong (author), Xie, Guohu (author), Hu, Peng (author), de Vriend, H.J. (author)

The past decades have witnessed frequent flood peak discharges increase in the Lower Yellow River (LYR). Yet no consensus for its mechanism has been achieved. Here 21 events of the peak discharge increase (PDI) in the period of 1973–2012 are analysed. It is shown that the mean increment of peak discharge increases from 810 m³/s to...

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Study on the aging resistance of polyurethane precursor modified bitumen and its mechanism

Zhang, Liang (author), Li, Pengfei (author), Hu, Guanfeng (author), Zhang, Sufeng (author), Hong, Bin (author), Wang, H. (author), Wang, Dawei (author), Oeser, Markus (author)

As an environmentally friendly alternative for the production of high-performance modified asphalt by chemical reactions, a liquid-state polyurethane-precursor-based reactive modifier (PRM) was developed and employed in the asphalt modification. In contrast to the traditional solid bitumen modifier, for example, rubber and thermoplastic...

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