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Li, Zhen (author), Chen, Zhiyuan (author), Wang, Jing (author), Wang, Jiawei (author), Jiang, Junmin (author), Du, S. (author), Cheng, Xu (author), Zeng, Xiaoyang (author), Han, Jun (author)This article presents a piezoelectric energy harvesting (PEH) interface circuit using a new self-bias-flip with the charge recycle (SBFR) technique without employing any additional energy reservoir. Traditional designs, including synchronous-switch harvesting on inductor (SSHI), synchronous-switch harvesting on capacitor (SSHC), synchronous...journal article 2023
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Chen, L.M. (author), Keisham, Sunanda (author), Tateno, Hiroaki (author), van Ede, J.M. (author), Pronk, M. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author), Lin, Y. (author)Bacteria can synthesize a diverse array of glycans, being found attached to proteins and lipids or as loosely associated polysaccharides to the cells. The major challenge in glycan analysis in environmental samples lies in developing high-throughput and comprehensive characterization methodologies to elucidate the structure and monitor the...journal article 2023
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Ghiassi, S. (author), Birke, Robert (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author)Learning robust deep models against noisy labels becomes ever critical when today's data is commonly collected from open platforms and subject to adversarial corruption. The information on the label corruption process, i.e., corruption matrix, can greatly enhance the robustness of deep models but still fall behind in combating hard classes....conference paper 2023
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Chen, Y. (author), Rahmani, Hossein (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Copuroglu, Oguzhan (author)The implementation of extrusion-based 3D concrete printing (3DCP) in large-scale constructions is currently limited by concerns regarding rheology control and the sustainability of this process. To address these issues, this study presents an approach to develop limestone-calcined clay-based cementitious (LC3) materials accelerated by Ca(NO...journal article 2023
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Li, Zejiao (author), Wang, Jixiang (author), Liu, Jialin (author), Chen, Xingyu (author), Lei, Zhongfang (author), Yuan, Tian (author), Lee, Duu Jong (author), Lin, Y. (author), van Loosdrecht, Mark C.M. (author)Reducing CO<sub>2</sub> emission and energy consumption is crucial for the sustainable management of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). In this study, an algal-bacterial aerobic granular sludge (AGS) system was developed for efficient carbon (C) assimilation and nitrogen (N)/phosphorus (P) removal without the need for mechanical aeration....journal article 2023
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Qiu, Xiujiao (author), Chang, Z. (author), Chen, J. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Ye, G. (author), Schutter, Geert De (author)In our former paper, based on a published 3D reactive transport model at microscale with the capability of simulating the chemical reactions involved in ASR, the location of expansive ASR gel related to the reactivity of aggregate, temperature, aggregate porosity and silica content in aggregate, is clarified. Based on the simulation results,...journal article 2023
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Rahimi, E. (author), Sanchis-Gual, Roger (author), Chen, Xiangzhong (author), Imani, Amin (author), Gonzalez Garcia, Y. (author), Asselin, Edouard (author), Mol, J.M.C. (author), Fedrizzi, Lorenzo (author), Pané, Salvador (author), Lekka, Maria (author)The last two decades have witnessed the emergence of micro- and nanoswimmers (MNSs). Researchers have invested significant efforts in engineering motile micro- and nanodevices to address current limitations in minimally invasive medicine. MNSs can move through complex fluid media by using chemical fuels or external energy sources such as...review 2023
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Zhou, Hui (author), Docherty, Scott R. (author), Phongprueksathat, N. (author), Chen, Zixuan (author), Bukhtiyarov, Andrey V. (author), Prosvirin, Igor P. (author), Safonova, Olga V. (author), Urakawa, A. (author), Copéret, Christophe (author), Müller, Christoph R. (author), Fedorov, Alexey (author)The direct synthesis of methanol via the hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub>, if performed efficiently and selectively, is potentially a powerful technology for CO<sub>2</sub> mitigation. Here, we develop an active and selective Cu-Zn/SiO<sub>2</sub> catalyst for the hydrogenation of CO<sub>2</sub> by introducing copper and zinc onto...journal article 2023
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Diao, Yan (author), Chen, Long (author), Huang, Y. (author)Waste glass (WG), as a nonbiodegradable material, poses a threat to environmental protection. The reuse of WG as a raw material to replace cement or aggregate in concrete production is gaining attention for recycling purposes. However, the optimal proportion of WG in concrete mixtures and its particle size distribution are hard to determine....journal article 2023
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Wei, Ziyi (author), Huang, Kai (author), Chen, Ying (author), Wang, D. (author), Yu, Yajuan (author), Xu, Ming (author), Kapelan, Z. (author)To alleviate the geographical mismatch between supply and demand of water resources, virtual water trade had attracted extensive attention. Many studies had estimated the virtual water flow and measured the virtual water inequality using Environmental Input-Output (EIO) model. However, EIO model ignores the feedback effect in the trade, which...journal article 2023
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Chen, Honghao (author), Lu, Ruofei (author), Gao, Yixun (author), Yue, Xiaorui (author), Yang, Haihong (author), Li, Hao (author), Lee, Yi Kuen (author), French, P.J. (author), Wang, Yao (author), Zhou, Guofu (author)Inspired by the CO<sub>2</sub>-induced reversible activation mechanism of the slow anion channel 1 (SLAC1) in plant stomatal guard cells during plant photosynthesis, we designed and prepared a CO<sub>2</sub>- switchable H<sup>+</sup>/OH<sup>−</sup> ion channel (CSPH ion channel). A high-performance chemiresistive room temperature CO<sub>2<...journal article 2023
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Chang, Z. (author), Liang, M. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Schlangen, E. (author), Šavija, B. (author)Cementitious materials may exhibit significant creep at very early age. This is potentially important for concrete 3D printing, where the material is progressively loaded even before it sets. However, does creep actually affect the buildability of 3D printed concrete? Herein, the influence of early-age creep on the buildability of 3D printed...journal article 2023
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Zhang, R. (author), Chen, Y. (author), Lei, Jiaxin (author), Zhou, Xin (author), Yao, P. (author), Stive, M.J.F. (author)Mangroves can function as a ‘bio-shield’ to protect coastal communities from harsh environments because of their strong ability to attenuate wave energy. However, as mangroves are usually oversimplified as rigid cylinders in antecedent studies, the effects of complex mangrove morphology on wave attenuation have not been well researched....journal article 2023
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Fu, Sheng (author), Chen, P. (author), Ye, Zhisheng (author)The multicategory support vector machine (MSVM) has been widely used for multicategory classification. Despite its widespread popularity, regular MSVM cannot provide direct probabilistic results and suffers from excessive computational cost, as it is formulated on the hinge loss function and it solves a sum-to-zero constrained quadratic...journal article 2023
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Chen, Qiting (author), Jia, Li (author), Menenti, M. (author), Hu, Guangcheng (author), Wang, Kun (author), Yi, Zhiwei (author), Zhou, Jie (author), Peng, Fei (author), Ma, Shaoxiu (author)Information on crop yield is important for food security, in particular under the conditions of climate change and growing population worldwide. We developed a new fully distributed, high spatial resolution, model of biomass accumulation and crop yield applicable to a highly heterogeneous desert-oasis agroecosystem. The bulk of required input...journal article 2023
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Huang, J. (author), Zhao, Z. (author), Chen, Lydia Y. (author), Roos, S. (author)Attacks on Federated Learning (FL) can severely reduce the quality of the generated models and limit the usefulness of this emerging learning paradigm that enables on-premise decentralized learning. However, existing untargeted attacks are not practical for many scenarios as they assume that i) the attacker knows every update of benign...conference paper 2023
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Chen, Wei (author), Yan, Xuyang (author), Ibrahim, Mesfin S. (author), Meda, Abdulmelik H. (author), Fan, X. (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author), Fan, J. (author)As the next generation of semiconductor devices, SiC MOSFETs have demonstrated significant performance improvements in switching loss, switching frequency, and high-temperature operation compared to Si-based MOSFETs. However, the long-term reliability of such devices and their packaging continues to be a major concern. Towards addressing this...conference paper 2023
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Dong, Y. (author), Chen, Kejia (author), Ma, Zhiyuan (author)Condition-based maintenance is becoming increasingly important in hydraulic systems. However, anomaly detection for these systems remains challenging, especially since that anomalous data is scarce and labeling such data is tedious and even dangerous. Therefore, it is advisable to make use of unsupervised or semi-supervised methods, especially...conference paper 2023
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Yang, Y. (author), Jia, Bin (author), Yan, Xiao Yong (author), Chen, Yan (author), Song, Dongdong (author), Zhi, Danyue (author), Wang, Y. (author), Gao, Ziyou (author)Accurate estimation of intercity heavy truck mobility flows is of vital importance to urban planning, transportation management and logistics operations. The inaccessibility of big data related to intercity transport systems and the heterogeneity of trucking activities pose challenges for the reliable estimation. Recently, the advance of...journal article 2023
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Chen, Yuanyuan (author), Dai, Hanqing (author), Hu, Zhe (author), Wei, Jinxin (author), Zhou, Wenjie (author), Duan, Zhongtao (author), Cui, Zhongjie (author), Wei, Wei (author), Zhang, Kouchi (author)Hydrogel materials have biocompatibility, flexibility, transparency, self-healing ability, adhesion with various substrates, anti-freeze ability, and high-temperature resistance. However, the existing hydrogel devices cannot continue to operate in the case of damage, and they cannot work during the repair period, which brings great challenges...journal article 2023