Improved Heat Exchanger Lifecycle Prognostic Methods for Enhanced Light Water Reactor Sustainability by Zachary Welz, Alan Nam, Michael Sharp, J. Wesley Hines, Belle R. Upadhyaya

“…As the licenses of many nuclear power plants in the US and abroad are being extended, accurate knowledge of system and component condition is becoming increasingly important. The US Department of Energy (DOE) has funded a project with the primary goal of developing lifecycle prognostic methods to generate accurate and continuous Remaining Useful Life (RUL) estimates as components transition through unique stages of the component lifecycle. …”
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Enhanced charge carrier mobility and lifetime suppress hysteresis and improve efficiency in planar perovskite solar cells by Nienhaus, Lea, Bawendi, Moungi G, Correa-Baena, Juan-Pablo

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Metal- and covalent-organic frameworks as solid-state electrolytes for metal-ion batteries by Miner, Elise Marie, Dinca, Mircea

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A Heterogeneous Kinetics Model for Triplet Exciton Transfer in Solid-State Upconversion by Geva, Nadav, Nienhaus, Lea, Wu, Mengfei, Bulovic, Vladimir, Baldo, Marc A, Van Voorhis, Troy, Bawendi, Moungi G

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Volume 11 - July 2020 (COMPUTATIONAL ARRANGEMENT OF DEMOLITION DEBRIS) by Marshall, Daniel, Meuller, Caitilin, Clifford, Brandon, Kennedy, Sheila

“…The average builder in the USA provides a warrantee for 10 years, and the US Department for Energy calculates that US office buildings have an average lifespan of 73 years. …”
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The effects of regulation on the performance of nuclear power in the United States and the Federal Republic of Germany by Hulkower, Seth David

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Solar photovoltaics in Developing countries : expanding the private market through multi- and bi-lateral programs by Lundgren, Annika (Annika Beth), 1973-

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Model-assisted formate dehydrogenase-O (fdoH) gene knockout for enhanced succinate production in Escherichia coli from glucose and glycerol carbon sources by Mienda, B.S., Shamsir, M.S., Md. Illias, R.

“…Succinic acid is an important platform chemical that has broad applications and is been listed as one of the top twelve bio-based chemicals produced from biomass by the US Department of Energy. The metabolic role of Escherichia coli formate dehydrogenase-O (fdoH) under anaerobic conditions in relation to succinic acid production remained largely unspecified. …”

The lichen symbiosis re-viewed through the genomes of Cladonia grayi and its algal partner Asterochloris glomerata by Daniele Armaleo, Olaf Müller, François Lutzoni, Ólafur S. Andrésson, Guillaume Blanc, Helge B. Bode, Frank R. Collart, Francesco Dal Grande, Fred Dietrich, Igor V. Grigoriev, Suzanne Joneson, Alan Kuo, Peter E. Larsen, John M. Logsdon, David Lopez, Francis Martin, Susan P. May, Tami R. McDonald, Sabeeha S. Merchant, Vivian Miao, Emmanuelle Morin, Ryoko Oono, Matteo Pellegrini, Nimrod Rubinstein, Maria Virginia Sanchez-Puerta, Elizabeth Savelkoul, Imke Schmitt, Jason C. Slot, Darren Soanes, Péter Szövényi, Nicholas J. Talbot, Claire Veneault-Fourrey, Basil B. Xavier

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Transcriptomics of Temporal- versus Substrate-Specific Wood Decay in the Brown-Rot Fungus <i>Fibroporia radiculosa</i> by Byoungnam Min, Steven Ahrendt, Anna Lipzen, Cristina E. Toapanta, Robert A. Blanchette, Dan Cullen, David S. Hibbett, Igor V. Grigoriev

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Variance of the Equatorial Atmospheric Circulations in the Reanalysis by Emmanuel OlaOluwa Eresanya, Yuping Guan

“…The structure of the equatorial atmospheric circulation, as defined by the zonal mass streamfunction (ZMS), computed using the new fifth-generation ECMWF reanalysis for the global climate and weather (ERA-5) and the National Centers for Environmental Prediction NCEP–US Department of Energy reanalysis (NCEP-2) reanalysis products, is investigated and compared with Coupled Model Intercomparison Project Phase 6 (CMIP 6) ensemble mean. …”
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Multizone Modeling of Airborne SARS-CoV-2 Quanta Transmission and Infection Mitigation Strategies in Office, Hotel, Retail, and School Buildings by Shujie Yan, Liangzhu (Leon) Wang, Michael J. Birnkrant, Zhiqiang (John) Zhai, Shelly L. Miller

“…This study evaluates engineering mitigation strategies for five selected US Department of Energy prototype commercial buildings (i.e., Medium Office, Large Office, Small Hotel, Stand-Alone Retail, and Secondary School). …”
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Structural Basis of CO2 Adsorption in a Flexible Metal-Organic Framework Material by Andrew J. Allen, Winnie Wong-Ng, Eric Cockayne, Jeffrey T. Culp, Christopher Matranga

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Disentangling the Coupled Atmosphere‐Ocean‐Ice Interactions Driving Arctic Sea Ice Response to CO2 Increases by Oluwayemi A. Garuba, Hansi A. Singh, Elizabeth Hunke, Philip J. Rasch

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Michaelis-like complex of SARS-CoV-2 main protease visualized by room-temperature X-ray crystallography by Daniel W. Kneller, Qiu Zhang, Leighton Coates, John M. Louis, Andrey Kovalevsky

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Surface-based observations of cold-air outbreak clouds during the COMBLE field campaign by Z. Mages, P. Kollias, P. Kollias, Z. Zhu, E. P. Luke

“…The CAOs in the Marine Boundary Layer Experiment (COMBLE) deployment of the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurement (ARM) Mobile Facility (AMF) provided the first comprehensive view of CAOs using a suite of ground-based observations at the northern coast of Norway. …”
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Enhancing performance of advanced fuel cell design with functional energy materials and process by Nazmus Saadat, Shaffiq Jaffer, Jimi Tjong, Kristiina Oksman, Mohini Sain

“…Advanced composite plates have been designed to be mechanically flexible, electrically conductive and cost effective; this newly designed composite for bipolar plate supersedes by far the US Department of Energy (DOE) target for fuel cell bipolar plate with a flexural strength of over 64 MPa and exceeding electrical conductivity of 200 S/cm. …”
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An improved hydrometeor detection method for millimeter-wavelength cloud radar by J. Ge, Z. Zhu, C. Zheng, H. Xie, T. Zhou, J. Huang, Q. Fu, Q. Fu

“…<q>Square clouds</q> were constructed to test our algorithm and the method used for the US Department of Energy Atmospheric Radiation Measurements Program millimeter-wavelength cloud radar. …”
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Analysis and Design of an Electric Machine Employing a Special Stator With Phase Winding Modules and PMs and a Reluctance Rotor by Chandra Sekhar Goli, Murat Gurhan Kesgin, Peng Han, Dan M. Ionel, Somasundaram Essakiappan, James Gafford, Madhav D. Manjrekar

“…This paper introduces a new motor design for traction applications that achieves high power density and meets the power density target of 50kW/L target set by the US Department of Energy. The proposed motor has a doubly salient structure with concentrated toroidal 3-phase windings and permanent magnets (PMs) in the stator and a reluctance rotor, improves torque capability and operating speed compared to traditional designs. …”
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Dynamic Probabilistic Risk Assessment Based Response Surface Approach for FLEX and Accident Tolerant Fuels for Medium Break LOCA Spectrum by Asad Ullah Amin Shah, Robby Christian, Junyung Kim, Jaewhan Kim, Jinkyun Park, Hyun Gook Kang

“…After the Fukushima Daiichi Accident, the safety features such as accident tolerant fuel (ATF) and diverse and flexible coping strategies (FLEX) for existing nuclear fleets are being investigated by the US Department of Energy under the Light Water Reactor Sustainability Program. …”
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