Academic Articles & Research Papers

Advances of Commercial and Biological Materials for Electron Transport Layers in Biological Applications

Electron transport layer (ETL), one of the important layers for high-performing perovskite solar cells (PSCs), also has great potential in bioengineering applications. It could be used for biological sensors, biological imaging, and biomedi...

A Heuristic Home Electric Energy Management System Considering Renewable Energy Availability

This paper presents the development of a heuristic-based algorithm for a Home Electric Energy Management System (HEEMS). The novelty of the proposal resides in the fact that solutions of the Pareto front, minimizing both the energy consumpt...

Monostearin effects on the formation of precipitate in palm oil biodiesel and petroleum diesel blends with various storage temperature

Biodiesel is one of the renewable energy forms that is on demand in Indonesia. In the biodiesel production process, impurities such as Saturated Monoglycerides (SMG) in the form of monostearin that precipitate at low temperature are commonl...

Thermal performance analysis of net zero energy home for sub zero temperature areas

With the increase in energy demand globally, environmental risks are also becoming more serious than ever before. Emission of carbon dioxide (CO2) and other greenhouse gases (GHGs) are hastily contributing to global warming and ozone deplet...

District Heating Tariffs, Economic Optimisation and Local Strategies during Radical Technological Change

This paper addresses economic aspects of heat savings in the context of strategic heat planning. The analysis uses the city of Aalborg, Denmark, as a case where municipalisation through a recent acquisition of a coal-fired cogeneration of h...

Tailoring Alfalfa-Derived Biochar via Pyrolysis Temperature for Enhanced Adsorption of Diverse Per- and Polyfluoroalkyl Substances in Water.

Cold plasma Technology for Removal of Endotoxin from Dialysis Water

Cold plasma has emerged as a powerful energy-efficient and environmentally friendly advanced oxidation technique in recent decades as a non-thermal approach in a wide range of applications. It is a form of plasma that is created at low temp...

The role of renewable energy in the global energy transformation

This paper explores the technical and economic characteristics of an accelerated energy transition to 2050, using new datasets for renewable energy. The analysis indicates that energy efficiency and renewable energy technologies are the cor...

Independent Acidic pH Reactivity of Non-Iron-Fenton Reaction Catalyzed by Copper-Based Nanoparticles for Fluorescent Dye Oxidation

The process of hydrogen peroxide decomposition, facilitated by copper oxide nanoparticles, produces reactive oxidants that possess the ability to oxidize multiple pollutants. CuO/Cu2O hybrid nanoparticles were successfully synthesized throu...

Achieving high thermal conductivity of Al–50Si alloy through heat treatment and its microstructural evolution

Al–50Si alloys were prepared by powder extrusion and characterized for electronic packaging. The optimization of powder size, extrusion temperature, and heat treatment parameters was performed to enhance the microstructure and thermo-physic...

OPTIMIZATION OF HOT AIR SOLDER LEVELING (HASL) MACHINE FOR A ROBUST SURFACE FINISH IN SOLDERING APPLICATIONS

Hot Air Solder Leveling (HASL) is one of the most commonly used surface finishes in the industry. HASL is also one of the least expensive types of PCB surface finishes available. This study aims to examine the influence on the solder joint ...

On the Preparation of Mg2Ni by Combining Electrodeoxidation and Electrolysis Techniques

Mg2Ni is a well-known hydrogen storage alloy. Most of the preparative methods for this alloy require high temperature processing of pure magnesium and nickel. The proposed method, studied in this work, involves the production of Mg2Ni alloy...

Effects of Annealing and Deformation on Sagging Resistance of a Hot-Rolled, Four-Layered Al Alloy Clad Sheet

Multilayer brazeable aluminum alloy sheet is prone to collapse during high-temperature brazing process. The sagging resistance of the aluminum composite sheet needs to be further improved for quality control. Effects of annealing and rate o...

Fundamentals of Materials Science and Engineering : An Integrated Approach

Chapter 1 - Introduction. 1.1 Historical Perspective 1.2 Materials Science and Engineering 1.3 Why Study Materials Science and Engineering? 1.4 Classification of Materials Materials of Importance-Carbonated Beverage Containers 1.5 Advanced ...

Rarefied Reactive Gas Flows over Simple and Complex Geometries Using an Open-Source DSMC Solver

During atmospheric reentry, a significant number of chemical reactions are produced inside the high-temperature shock wave formed upstream of the spacecraft. Chemical reactions can significantly alter the flowfield structure surrounding the...

Cryo-CMOS for quantum computing

Cryogenic CMOS, or cryo-CMOS circuits and systems, are emerging in VLSI design for many applications, in primis quantum computing. Fault-tolerant quantum bits (qubits) in surface code configurations, one of the most accepted implementations...

Quantum computing with defects

Identifying and designing physical systems for use as qubits, the basic units of quantum information, are critical steps in the development of a quantum computer. Among the possibilities in the solid state, a defect in diamond known as the ...

Externally triggered drug delivery systems

Externally triggered drug delivery systems empower patients or healthcare providers to utilize external stimuli to initiate drug release from implanted systems. This approach holds significant potential for clinical disease management, offe...

Effect of heat treatment on the microstructure and corrosion resistance of laser powder bed fusion ODS-316L

As a candidate cladding material for fourth-generation nuclear energy systems, the microstructure and properties of oxide dispersion strengthened 316L (ODS-316L) steel are significantly affected by heat treatment (HT) processes. This paper ...

Investigation on Individual and Collective PV Self-Consumption for a Fifth Generation District Heating Network

Renewable Energy Communities have been recently introduced in European legislation to promote distributed generation from renewable energy sources. In fact, they allow to produce and consume energy from shared local power plants. Low temper...