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Identification and degradation of structural extracellular polymeric substances in waste activated sludge via a polygalacturonate-degrading consortium

Hu, Zhi Yi (author), Lin, Yi Peng (author), Wang, Qing Ting (author), Zhang, Yi Xin (author), Tang, Jie (author), Wang, Shuai (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Zeng, Raymond Jianxiong (author), Zhang, Fang (author)

By maintaining the cell integrity of waste activated sludge (WAS), structural extracellular polymeric substances (St-EPS) resist WAS anaerobic fermentation. This study investigates the occurrence of polygalacturonate in WAS St-EPS by combining chemical and metagenomic analyses that identify ∼22% of the bacteria, including Ferruginibacter and...

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A Novel High-temperature Pressure Sensor Based on Graphene Coated by Si3N4

Zeng, Simei (author), Tang, Chenggang (author), Hong, H. (author), Yuan, Fang (author), Li, Yuning (author), Wang, Yuqiang (author), Kong, Lingbing (author), Sun, Jingye (author), Zhu, Mingqiang (author), Deng, Tao (author)

The high-temperature pressure sensors have wide applications in aerospace, petroleum, geothermal exploration, automotive electronics, and other fields. However, the traditional silicon-based pressure sensors are restricted to pressure measurement under 120~{\circ }\text{C} and cannot be satisfied to measure the pressure of various gases or...

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Asymmetric Sites on the ZnZrO_x Catalyst for Promoting Formate Formation and Transformation in CO₂ Hydrogenation

Feng, Zhendong (author), Tang, Chizhou (author), Zhang, Pengfei (author), Li, Kun (author), Li, G. (author), Wang, Jijie (author), Feng, Zhaochi (author), Li, Can (author)

The role of formate species for CO₂ hydrogenation is still under debate. Although formate has been frequently observed and commonly proposed as the possible intermediate, there is no definite evidence for the reaction of formate species for methanol production. Here, formate formation and conversion over the ZnZrO_x solid...

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A micro graphene high temperature sensor with a single Si₃N₄ protective layer

Tang, Chenggang (author), Zeng, Simei (author), Hong, H. (author), Fang, Yuan (author), Li, Yuning (author), Wang, Yuqiang (author), Zhu, Mingqiang (author), Sun, Jingye (author), Deng, Tao (author)

Temperature sensors are widely used in industrial production, national defense and military fields. The traditional temperature sensors normally operate in a limited temperature range no more than 200 °C, which cannot be used for extreme high temperature detections. In this paper, a thermal protection method for the sensing graphene membrane...

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A Hybrid Modulation Featuring Two-phase Clamped Discontinuous PWM and Zero Voltage Switching for 99% Efficient DC-Type EV Charger

Xu, J. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Wang, Yong (author), Gao, Fei (author), Tang, Houjun (author), Bauer, P. (author)

Two-stage AC-DC converters are considered as a prominent solution for DC-type electric vehicle (EV) chargers. However, this kind of architecture suffers from high switching losses with large heatsink and DC-link capacitor volume. To relieve this issue, this paper presents a new hybrid modulation for DC-type EV chargers, where a two-phase...

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A Carrier-based Two-Phase-Clamped DPWM Strategy With Zero-Sequence Voltage Injection for Three-Phase Quasi-Two-Stage Buck-Type Rectifiers

Xu, J. (author), Soeiro, Thiago B. (author), Wu, Y. (author), Gao, Fei (author), Wang, Y. (author), Tang, Houjun (author), Bauer, P. (author)

A three-phase buck-type rectifier features a step-down ac-dc conversion function, which is considered as a prominent solution for electric vehicle chargers and telecommunication systems integrated to the grid above 380 V line to line. However, traditional solutions for those applications employ cascaded architectures with an ac-dc boost-type...

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Highly dispersed Cd cluster supported on TiO2 as an efficient catalyst for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol

Wang, J. (author), Meeprasert, J. (author), Han, Z. (author), Wang, H. (author), Feng, Z. (author), Tang, C. (author), Sha, F. (author), Tang, S. (author), Pidko, E.A. (author)

The conversion of CO2 with high activity and high selectivity to methanol remains challenging because of both the kinetics and thermodynamics difficulties associated with the chemical reactivity of CO2. Herein, we report a new catalyst of Cd/TiO2 enabling 81% methanol selectivity at 15.8% CO2 conversion with the CH4 selectivity below 0.7%. The...

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Surface Redox Pseudocapacitance of Partially Oxidized Titanium Carbide MXene in Water-in-Salt Electrolyte

Wang, Xuehang (author), Bak, Seong Min (author), Han, Meikang (author), Shuck, Christopher E. (author), Mchugh, Conlan (author), Li, Ke (author), Li, Jianmin (author), Tang, J. (author), Gogotsi, Yury (author)

Achieving pseudocapacitive intercalation in MXenes with neutral aqueous electrolytes and driving reversible redox reactions is scientifically appealing and practically useful. Here, we report that the partial oxidation of MXene intensifies pseudocapacitive Li+ intercalation into Ti3C2Tx MXene from neutral water-in-salt electrolytes. An in...

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On the magnetic nanoparticle injection strategy for hyperthermia treatment

Jiang, Qian (author), Ren, Feng (author), Wang, Chenglei (author), Wang, Zhaokun (author), Kefayati, Gholamreza (author), Kenjeres, S. (author), Vafai, Kambiz (author), Liu, Yang (author), Tang, Hui (author)

We developed a dedicated computational framework by coupling the lattice-Boltzmann-method (LBM) modeling and the particle-swarm-optimization (PSO) algorithm to search optimal strategies of magnetic nanoparticle (MNP) injection for hyperthermia-based cancer treatment. Two simplified tumor models were considered: a circular model representing...

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A literature review of Artificial Intelligence applications in railway systems

Tang, Ruifan (author), De Donato, Lorenzo (author), Bešinović, Nikola (author), Flammini, Francesco (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author), Lin, Zhiyuan (author), Liu, Ronghui (author), Tang, Tianli (author), Vittorini, Valeria (author), Wang, Z. (author)

Nowadays it is widely accepted that Artificial Intelligence (AI) is significantly influencing a large number of domains, including railways. In this paper, we present a systematic literature review of the current state-of-the-art of AI in railway transport. In particular, we analysed and discussed papers from a holistic railway perspective,...

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A theoretical study of atmospheric pollutant NO₂ on as-doped monolayer WS₂ based on DFT method

Hou, Shuhan (author), Wang, Zhaokun (author), Yang, Huiru (author), Jiang, Jing (author), Gao, Chenshan (author), Liu, Yufei (author), Tang, Xiaosheng (author), Ye, H. (author)

For the relevant properties of pristine and doped (Si, P, Se, Te, As) monolayer WS₂ before and after the adsorption of CO, CO₂, N₂, NO, NO₂ and O₂, density functional theory (DFT) calculations are made. Calculation results reveal that the monolayer WS₂ doped with P and As atoms...

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Carbon Dots Embedded in Cellulose Film: Programmable, Performance-Tunable, and Large-Scale Subtle Fluorescent Patterning by in Situ Laser Writing

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...

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A Matheuristic for the Integrated Disruption Management of Traffic, Passengers and Stations in Urban Railway Lines

Bešinović, Nikola (author), Wang, Yihui (author), Zhu, Songwei (author), Quaglietta, E. (author), Tang, Tao (author), Goverde, R.M.P. (author)

In big cities, the metro lines usually face great pressure caused by huge passengers demand, especially during peak hours. When disruptions occur, passengers accumulate quickly at stations. It is of great importance for dispatchers to take passenger flow control into consideration for the traffic management to ensure passengers' safety and to...

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The effect of the standing angle on reducing fatigue among prolonged standing workers

Liu, Zhihui (author), Wang, Li (author), Kong, Fanlei (author), Huang, Xia (author), Tang, Zhi (author), He, Shi (author), Vink, P. (author)

BACKGROUND: Many occupations require workers to stand for prolonged periods, which can cause discomfort, pain and even injures. Some supermarkets in life provide a foot pad for checkout staff to let them stand on it at work, thereby reducing standing fatigue caused by standing for a long time. The inclined platform is the same as the foot pad...

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Delamination toughening in a low carbon microalloyed steel plate rolled in the dual-phase region

Shen, X. J. (author), Li, D. Z. (author), Tang, S. (author), Chen, J. (author), Fang, H. (author), Wang, G. D. (author)

It is still a big challenge to obtain excellent low-temperature toughness for bulk steel materials. Delamination is an effective method to improve low-temperature toughness. In the present study, delamination toughening in a low carbon microalloyed steel plate with elongated and ultrafine-grained microstructure rolled in the dual-phase region...

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SlimML: Removing Non- critical Input Data in Large-scale Iterative Machine Learning

Han, Rui (author), Liu, Chi Harold (author), Li, Shilin (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Wang, Guoren (author), Tang, Jian (author), Ye, Jieping (author)

The core of many large-scale machine learning (ML) applications, such as neural networks (NN), support vector machine (SVM), and convolutional neural network (CNN), is the training algorithm that iteratively updates model parameters by processing massive datasets. From a plethora of studies aiming at accelerating ML, being data...

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Effect of Nano-SnS and Nano-MoS₂ on the corrosion protection performance of the polyvinylbutyral and zinc-rich polyvinylbutyral coatings

Qu, Zuopeng (author), Wang, Lei (author), Tang, H. (author), Ye, H. (author), Li, Meicheng (author)

In this paper, four composite coatings of nano-SnS/polyvinylbutyral (PVB), nano-MoS₂/PVB, nano-SnS-Zn/PVB, and nano-MoS₂-Zn/PVB were prepared, and their anti-corrosion mechanism was analyzed by experimental and theoretical calculations. The results of the electrochemical experiments show that the effect of nano-MoS<sub>2...

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Comparative performance of different scale-down simulators of substrate gradients in Penicillium chrysogenum cultures: the need of a biological systems response analysis

Wang, G. (author), Zhao, Junfei (author), Haringa, C. (author), Tang, W. (author), Xia, Jianye (author), Chu, Ju (author), Zhuang, Yingping (author), Zhang, Siliang (author), Deshmukh, A.T. (author), van Gulik, W.M. (author), Heijnen, J.J. (author), Noorman, H.J. (author)

In a 54 m³ large-scale penicillin fermentor, the cells experience substrate gradient cycles at the timescales of global mixing time about 20–40 s. Here, we used an intermittent feeding regime (IFR) and a two-compartment reactor (TCR) to mimic these substrate gradients at laboratory-scale continuous cultures. The IFR was applied to...

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Computational fluid dynamics simulation of an industrial P. chrysogenum fermentation with a coupled 9-pool metabolic model: Towards rational scale-down and design optimization

Haringa, C. (author), Tang, W. (author), Wang, G. (author), Deshmukh, A.T. (author), van Winden, Wouter A. (author), Chu, Ju (author), van Gulik, W.M. (author), Heijnen, J.J. (author), Mudde, R.F. (author), Noorman, H.J. (author)

We assess the effect of substrate heterogeneity on the metabolic response of P. chrysogenum in industrial bioreactors via the coupling of a 9-pool metabolic model with Euler-Lagrange CFD simulations. In this work, we outline how this coupled hydrodynamic-metabolic modeling can be utilized in 5 steps. (1) A model response study with a fixed...

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Germanene on single-layer ZnSe substrate: Novel electronic and optical properties

Ye, H. (author), Hu, F.F. (author), Tang, H. (author), Yang, L.W. (author), Chen, X.P. (author), Wang, L.G. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)

In this work, the structural, electronic and optical properties of germanene and ZnSe substrate nanocomposites have been investigated using first-principles calculations. We found that the large direct-gap ZnSe semiconductors and zero-gap germanene form a typical orbital hybridization heterostructure with a strong binding energy, which shows...

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