An energy-saving oriented air balancing method for demand controlled ventilation systems with branch and black-box model by Cui, Can, Zhang, Xin, Cai, Wenjian

“…In the lab, the proposed air balancing method was validated on a real DCV system of 5 zones under various design flow conditions. The experimental results verified the effectiveness of the proposed method on both the air balancing control accuracy and the energy saving ability.…”
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Monolayer tungsten disulfide in photonic environment : angle-resolved weak and strong light-matter coupling by Zhang, Xuewen, Wu, Lishu, Wang, Xu, He, Silin, Hu, Hanwei, Shi, Guangchao, Zhang, Xingwang, Shang, Jingzhi, Yu, Ting

“…By embedding 1L-WS2 into a dielectric microcavity, strong exciton-photon coupling results in the formation of lower and upper polariton branches with an appreciable Rabi splitting of 34 meV at room temperature, where the observed blueshift of the lower polariton branch is indicative of the enhanced polariton-polariton scattering. …”
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Fabrication of SiC ceramic foams with light weight and ultrahigh strength by a direct foaming method by Wee, Christian Luke Chye Hin

“….% to the weight of SiC dry powder, the sintered sample has porosities up to 67% with an average pore size of ~56 µm and a predicted compressive strength of 32.5 MPa, which brings a good balance of strength and interconnectivity of pores. …”
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Properties of copper slag concrete by Zhang, Weide

“…As such, a conclusion was made that the replacement of copper slag is beneficial up to 30% as the workability is increased significantly by 83% compared to the control mix, while keeping the compressive strength decrease to 5%. The dynamic compressive strength is also increased by 8%. …”
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Graphdiyne/graphene heterostructure: a universal 2D scaffold anchoring monodispersed transition-metal phthalocyanines for selective and durable CO₂ electroreduction by Gu, Huoliang, Zhong, Lixiang, Shi, Guoshuai, Li, Jiaqiang, Yu, Ke, Li, Jiong, Zhang, Shuo, Zhu, Chenyuan, Chen, Shaohua, Yang, Chunlei, Kong, Ya, Chen, Chen, Li, Shuzhou, Zhang, Jin, Zhang, Liming

“…The per-site turnover frequency of CoPc reaches 37 s-1 at -1.0 V vs RHE, outperforming most of the reported phthalocyanine- and porphyrin-based electrocatalysts. …”
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Comparison between CaO- and MgO-activated ground granulated blast-furnace slag (GGBS) for stabilization/solidification of Zn-contaminated clay slurry by Zhang, Yunhui, Ong, Yi Jie, Yi, Yaolin

“…The results showed that the application of the MgO-GGBS (GGBS dosage of 10 % and MgO of 0 %-3 % (of dry clay by mass)) had positive effects on the mechanical strength and Zn immobilization of the contaminated clay slurry while the CaO-GGBS affected negatively and the situation became even worse at a higher CaO dosage (0 %-1.5 % of dry clay by mass). In comparison with OPC, the application of MgO-GGBS produced higher mechanical strength and that for CaO-GGBS was the lowest. …”
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Selective separation and recovery of lithium, nickel, MnO₂, and Co₂O₃ from LiNi₀.₅Mn₀.₃Co₀.₂O₂ in spent battery by He, Hongping, Feng, Junli, Gao, Xiaofeng, Fei, Xunchang

“…The recovery of valuable metals from the LiNi0·5Mn0·3Co0·2O2 in spent batteries deserves more attention. …”
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Seepage effects on settling velocity by Goh, Alvin Hanchang.

“…Uniform plastic spherical particles of varying diameters (0.630cm, 0.790cm, 0.950cm and 1.285cm) and densities under different seepage inflow rates (0 m3/s, 1X10-4 m3/s, 2X10-4 m3/s and 5X10-4 m3/s) are used. The drag coefficient is the most important property in the mechanics of particle motion and fluid dynamics because most particles in real life are employed either to overcome or to utilize the drag caused by the fluid. …”
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Efficiency boosting by thermal harvesting in InGaN/GaN light-emitting diodes by Lu, Shunpeng, Zhang, Yiping, Qiu, Ying, Liu, Xiao, Zhang, Menglong, Luo, Dongxiang

“…The underlying reason is that the wall-plug efficiency of the LED with a voltage lower than photon voltage (V < ℏω/q) is surprisingly enhanced by elevated temperature owing to the heat transmission by the LED under a high biased voltage in Group A. …”
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Interval job scheduling with machine launch cost by Ren, Runtian, Zhu, Yuqing, Li, Chuanyou, Tang, Xueyan

“…Based on this lower bound, we propose a 5-approximation algorithm in the offline setting. …”
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Realizing high and stable electrocatalytic oxygen evolution for iron-based perovskites by co-doping-induced structural and electronic modulation by She, Sixuan, Zhu, Yinlong, Wu, Xinhao, Hu, Zhiwei, Shelke, Abhijeet, Pong, Way-Faung, Chen, Yubo, Song, Yufei, Liang, Mingzhuang, Chen, Chien-Te, Wang, Huanting, Zhou, Wei, Shao, Zongping

“…Impressively, SCFN shows more than an order of magnitude enhancement in mass-specific activity compared to the SrFeO3−δ (SF) parent oxide, and delivers an attractive small overpotential of 340 mV at 10 mA cm−2, outperforming many Co/Ni-rich perovskite oxides ever reported. …”
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Use of peptide asparginyl ligases (PALs) in generating alternative non-Ig protein-drug conjugates for cancer therapy by See, Julia Jing Yi

“…We verified pH-controlled OaAEP1b orthogonal ligation between Affibody & DARPin with 5(6)-Carboxyfluorescein (FAM), generating satisfactory yield. …”
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Detection of crop fields in Ukraine using S1_MSI index by Vaishnavi, Inbanathan

“…A database containing fields from 5 landuse classes (forest, residential, industrial, quarry, heath) apart from cropland was constructed, and used for cropland features extraction, classification, and accuracy testing. …”
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Experimental study for evaluating the performances of thermoelectric generator under steady-state and dynamic conditions by Chiang, Trevor Kai Teng

“…As compared with vapor/gas power cycle, the thermoelectric generator generates relatively lower power output with the efficiency ranging from 1% to 5% depending on the input heating source. However, in recent years, with the growing demand for sustainable and clean energy sources, there has been a surge in research interest towards the development of thermoelectric generators due to their ability of converting waste heat into electrical power. …”
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Elongated magma plumbing system beneath the Coso volcanic field, California, constrained by seismic reflection tomography by Wang, Dongdong, Wu, Shucheng, Li, Tianjue, Tong, Ping, Gao, Yongxin

“…Our final velocity model reveals a prominent low-velocity body sitting right beneath the CVF at 5–20 km depths, which we interpret as a rhyolite magma reservoir that supplies heat flux to the hot springs and also feeds the volcanic activities at Coso. …”
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A new method to estimate slab dip direction using receiver functions and its application in revealing slab geometry and a diffuse plate boundary beneath Sumatra by Feng, Mingye, Chen, Ling, Wei, Shengji, Wang, Xin, Wang, Xu, Wu, Zimu

“…The results also show increased dip direction of the slab Moho from 47 ± 5.3° in southern Sumatra to 70 ± 10.7° in northern Sumatra, indicating a complicated slab geometry and internal deformation along strike. …”
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Acidic corrosion behaviour of niobium-added welding overlays fabricated by self-shielded metal-cored wires by Liu, Dashuang, Wu, Yucheng, Long, Weimin, Wei, Ping, Wang, Rui, Zhou, Wei

“…In order to determine the amount of ferroniobium addition in the wire to achieve the best corrosion resistance, and find out the mechanism of ferroniobium enhancing the corrosion resistance of the welding overlays, the high-Cr iron-based welding overlays with different niobium addition were fabricated by using self-made self-shielded metal-cored wires and their acidic corrosion resistance in 3.5 wt.% NaCl solution + 0.01 mol/L HCl solution were investigated by electrochemical corrosion test. …”
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Using photogrammetry to investigate coral reef erosion by clionid sea sponges by Koh, Lucas David

“…This method was trialled on 5 Cliona caribbaea colonies in the Mexican Caribbean, south of the Puerto Morelos National Reef Park. …”
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Numerical methods for finite-size key rates with different entropic bounds in quantum key distribution by Chung, Rebecca Ru Byn

“…We then showed that the Renyi entropy indeed gives a tighter bound on the low-signal regime (N~10^5), and outperforms the bound using the von Neumann entropy in regimes of long channel distances and low signal number, thus paving the way for a better understanding of long-distance satellite-based QKD protocols in the presence of finite resources.…”
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A micropower analog-to-digital converter and an algorithm for an interface system for an infrared imaging system by Huang, Li.

“…On the basis of computer simulations, the proposed SAR-ADC can achieve ultra low power consumption in operation (188uW with 3.3V voltage supply). Layout of the proposed SAR-ADC is partially realized. …”
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