Applied Sciences, Volume 9, Issue 12

In structural component applications the use of composite materials is increasing thanks to their optimal mechanical characteristics. However, the complexity of the damage evolution in composite materials significantly limits their widespread diffusi...

Additive manufacturing (AM) has emerged as one of the most enabling new manufacturing technique; the topic has been extensively researched worldwide for almost two decades [...]

In this work we study the optical properties of one-dimensional photonic crystals in which layers of silica nanoparticles are alternated with layers of indium tin oxide nanoparticle (ITO)/titania nanoparticle mixture, using the transfer matrix method...

Gabor-domain optical coherence microscopy (GDOCM) is a high-definition imaging technique leveraging principles of low-coherence interferometry, liquid lens technology, high-speed imaging, and precision scanning. GDOCM achieves isotropic 2 μm resol...

Management of nutrient inputs and usage of nuisance biomass as feedstock for bioenergy may be the solution of coastal lagoons eutrophication. We studied the species composition, photosynthetic pigments (Chl-a and Chl-c) and performance (OJIP-kinetics...

The photovoltaic properties of two dyes (quercitin (Q) and rutin (R)) were experimentally investigated. The results showed that Q had excellent photoelectric properties with J s c of 5.480 mA·cm−2, V o c of 0.582...

To improve corrosion resistance and electronic conductivity of bipolar plates for proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC), coatings of TiNb and TiNbN on 316L stainless steel (SS) were prepared by magnetron sputtering. X-ray diffraction (XRD) measu...

The design of intermodal freight terminals requires extensive research and a thorough analysis of the technical, financial and organizational aspects. In the paper, the operation of the reposition of large cargo containers (one of the types of interm...

Convolutional neural networks (CNN) have achieved excellent results in the field of image recognition that classifies objects in images. A typical CNN consists of a deep architecture that uses a large number of weights and layers to achieve high perf...

This paper explores data caching as a key factor of edge computing. State-of-the-art research of data caching on edge nodes mainly considers reactive and proactive caching, and machine learning based caching, which could be a heavy task for edge node...