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A special issue of Technologies (ISSN 2227-7080). This special issue belongs to the section "Innovations in Materials Processing".

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Prof. Dr. Bungo Ochiai

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Dear Colleagues,

We are planning to publish a Special Issue on “Smart Systems” related to the International Conference of Smart Systems Engineering (SmaSys2021, http://smasys.yz.yamagata-u.ac.jp/2021/) held on 7–8 October 2021 in Yonezawa, Japan. This Special Issue provides opportunities for collaboration across a wide range of fields and technologies related to emerging smart systems. Smart systems regard broad scientific and engineering fields. They include organic materials, organic electronics, organic devices, biomaterials, biomedical and biosystem engineering, electrical engineering and informatics, mechanical systems engineering, smart flexible structures and systems, green materials and their processing, tourism engineering with agriculture and foods, and new engineering education.

All the participants of SmaSys2021 and their colleagues—especially students—are encouraged to submit their works to this Special Issue.

Prof. Dr. Bungo Ochiai
Prof. Dr. Go Matsuba
Prof. Dr. Tomoya Higashihara
Dr. Sathish K. Sukumaran
Dr. Kohei Osawa
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organic materials, organic electronics, and organic devices
biomaterials, biomedical, and biosystems engineering
electrical engineering and informatics
mechanical systems engineering
smart flexible structures and systems
green materials and processing
tourism engineering with agriculture and foods
new engineering education

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Electronic Structure Calculation of Cr³⁺ and Fe³⁺ in Phosphor Host Materials Based on Relaxed Structures by Molecular Dynamics Simulation

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Technologies 2022, 10(3), 56; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10030056 - 27 Apr 2022

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The electronic structures of the luminescent center ions Cr³⁺ and Fe³⁺ in the deep red phosphors LiAl₅O₈:Cr³⁺, α-Al₂O₃:Cr³⁺, and γ-LiAlO₂:Fe³⁺ were calculated by the DV-Xα method, in which the local distortion induced by the replacement of Al³⁺ sites in the host crystals by the luminescent center ions was reproduced by classical molecular dynamics (MD) simulation. The MD simulations based on classical dynamics allowed for the handling of more than 1000 atoms for the lattice relaxation calculations, which was advantageous to simulate situations in which a small number of foreign atoms (ions) were dispersed in the host lattice as in phosphors, even when typical periodic boundary conditions were applied. The relaxed lattices obtained after MD indicated that the coordination polyhedra around Cr³⁺ and Fe³⁺ expanded in accordance with the size difference between the luminescent center ions and Al³⁺ in the host crystals. The overall profiles of the partial density of states (p-DOSs) of the isolated Cr³⁺ and Fe³⁺ 3d orbitals were not significantly affected by the lattice relaxation, whereas the widths of the energy splitting of the 3d orbitals were reduced. The electronic structure calculations for Fe–Fe pairs in γ-LiAlO₂ showed that the antiferromagnetic interactions with antiparallel electron spins between the Fe³⁺ ions were preferred, especially when the Fe–Fe pair was on the first-nearest neighboring cation sites. Full article

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Water-Assisted Perovskite Quantum Dots with High Optical Properties

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Technologies 2022, 10(), 11; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10010011 - 17 Jan 2022

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Lead halide perovskite quantum dots (PeQDs) have excellent optical properties, such as narrow emission spectra (FWHM: 18–30 nm), a tunable bandgap (λ_PL: 420–780 nm), and excellent photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs: >90%). PeQDs are known as a material that is easily decomposed when exposed to water in the atmosphere, resulting in causing PeQDs to lower performance. On the other hand, according to the recent reports, adding water after preparing the PeQD dispersion decomposed the PeQD surface defects, resulting in improving their PLQY. Namely, controlling the amount of assisting water during the preparation of the PeQDs is a significantly critical factor to determining their optical properties and device applications. In this paper, our research group discovered the novel effects of the small amount of water to their optical properties when preparing the PeQDs. According to the TEM Images, the PeQDs particle size was clearly increased after water-assisting. In addition, XPS measurement showed that the ratio of Br/Pb achieved to be close to three. Namely, by passivating the surface defect using Ostwald ripening, the prepared PeQDs achieved a high PLQY of over 95%. Full article

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Enhanced Air Stability of Perovskite Quantum Dots by Manganese Passivation

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Technologies 2022, 10(), 10; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies10010010 - 16 Jan 2022

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Organic-inorganic perovskite quantum dots (PeQDs) have attracted attention due to their excellent optical properties, e.g., high photoluminescence quantum yields (PLQYs; >70%), a narrow full width at half maximum (FWHM; 25 nm or less), and color tunability adjusted by the halide components in an entire tunability (from 450 nm to 730 nm). On the other hand, PeQD stability against air, humidity, and thermal conditions has still not been enough, which disturbs their application. To overcome these issues, with just a focus on the air stability, Mn²⁺ ion passivated perovskite quantum dots (Mn/MAPbBr₃ QDs) were prepared. Mn²⁺ could be expected to contract the passivating layer against the air condition because the Mn²⁺ ion was changed to the oxidized Mn on PeQDs under the air conditions. In this research, Mn/MAPbBr₃ QDs were successfully prepared by ligand-assisted reprecipitation (LARP) methods. Surprisingly, Mn/MAPbBr₃ QD films showed more than double PLQY stability over 4 months compared with pure MAPbBr₃ ones against the air, which suggested that oxidized Mn worked as a passivating layer. Improving the PeQD stability is significantly critical for their application. Full article

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A Deep Learning-Based Dirt Detection Computer Vision System for Floor-Cleaning Robots with Improved Data Collection

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Technologies 2021, 9(4), 94; https://doi.org/10.3390/technologies9040094 - 01 Dec 2021

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Floor-cleaning robots are becoming increasingly more sophisticated over time and with the addition of digital cameras supported by a robust vision system they become more autonomous, both in terms of their navigation skills but also in their capabilities of analyzing the surrounding environment. This document proposes a vision system based on the YOLOv5 framework for detecting dirty spots on the floor. The purpose of such a vision system is to save energy and resources, since the cleaning system of the robot will be activated only when a dirty spot is detected and the quantity of resources will vary according to the dirty area. In this context, false positives are highly undesirable. On the other hand, false negatives will lead to a poor cleaning performance of the robot. For this reason, a synthetic data generator found in the literature was improved and adapted for this work to tackle the lack of real data in this area. This synthetic data generator allows for large datasets with numerous samples of floors and dirty spots. A novel approach in selecting floor images for the training dataset is proposed. In this approach, the floor is segmented from other objects in the image such that dirty spots are only generated on the floor and do not overlap those objects. This helps the models to distinguish between dirty spots and objects in the image, which reduces the number of false positives. Furthermore, a relevant dataset of the Automation and Control Institute (ACIN) was found to be partially labelled. Consequently, this dataset was annotated from scratch, tripling the number of labelled images and correcting some poor annotations from the original labels. Finally, this document shows the process of generating synthetic data which is used for training YOLOv5 models. These models were tested on a real dataset (ACIN) and the best model attained a mean average precision (mAP) of 0.874 for detecting solid dirt. These results further prove that our proposal is able to use synthetic data for the training step and effectively detect dirt on real data. According to our knowledge, there are no previous works reporting the use of YOLOv5 models in this application. Full article

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