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26 March 2026

We present a checkerboard metasurface integrating interleaved Helmholtz resonator arrays with distinct geometrical parameters, enabling decoupled dual-band coherent perfect absorption (CPA) in both in-phase and anti-phase excitation conditions. Full-...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Emerging Trends in Meta-Optics Designs, Structures and Devices)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
772 Views
30 Pages

17 June 2026

Electric dipole antennas can be designed in a variety of geometries and applied across a wide range of configurations. Appropriately designed dipole antennas can provide deep tissue penetration and low radiofrequency (RF) power deposition in magnetic...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in MRI Technologies for Biomedical Application)
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  • Open Access

Fractal Distribution of Antenna Array Elements for CubeSat Applications

  • Beibit Karibayev,
  • Bagdat Kozhakhmetova,
  • Marat Zaidyn,
  • Nurlykhan Raulyev and ,
  • Timur Namazbayev and
  • Dana Turlykozhayeva
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

13 November 2026

Compact antenna design for CubeSats is severely constrained by a limited surface area, necessitating efficient space-sharing strategies. This study investigates a recursive fractal distribution algorithm using the similarity dimension parameter (Df)...

  • Communication
  • Open Access

13 November 2026

Near-field-shaped focusing has broad applications in wireless power transfer and microwave imaging. Traditional near-field focusing antenna arrays have a large size and require the design of complex feeding networks. This paper proposes a scheme for...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Advances in Antenna Design and Applications)
  • Review
  • Open Access
34 Citations
12,083 Views
26 Pages

28 June 2022

Metasurfaces have gained growing interest in recent years due to their simplicity in manufacturing and lower insertion losses. Meanwhile, they can provide unprecedented control over the spatial distribution of transmitted and reflected optical fields...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Tunable Nanophotonics and Reconfigurable Metadevices)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,852 Views
24 Pages

Comparing a New Passive Lining Method for Jet Noise Reduction Using 3M™ Nextel™ Ceramic Fabrics Against Ejector Nozzles

  • Alina Bogoi,
  • Grigore Cican,
  • Laurențiu Cristea,
  • Daniel-Eugeniu Crunțeanu and ,
  • Constantin Levențiu and
  • Andrei-George Totu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This study investigates the complementary noise control capabilities of two passive jet noise mitigation strategies: a traditional ejector nozzle and a novel application of 3M™ Nextel™ 312 ceramic fabric as a thermal–acoustic liner...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Aviation Science and Technology Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,353 Views
18 Pages

A New Design of MIMO Antenna with Dual-Band/Dual-Polarized Modified PIFAs for Future Handheld Devices

  • Haleh Jahanbakhsh Basherlou,
  • Naser Ojaroudi Parchin and
  • Chan Hwang See

This paper introduces a compact sub-6 GHz multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) antenna array developed for 5G smartphone applications. The design employs eight planar inverted-F antenna (PIFA) elements arranged to realize dual-band and dual-polarize...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Microwave Devices and Circuit Design)
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  • Open Access
1 Citations
751 Views
15 Pages

4 March 2026

This paper investigates Direction-of-Arrival (DOA) estimation of Long-Range Navigation-C (Loran-C) signals using an Ultra-Short Baseline (USBL) receiving array. Two least-squares angle estimation approaches based on inter-element delay measurements a...

(This article belongs to the Section Communications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,821 Views
15 Pages

30 December 2022

This article presents the design and analysis of a low profile double-negative (DNG) metamaterial unit structure for 5G mmWave (millimeter wave) applications. The structure, comprised of double-slotted rectangular ring patches, experiences the peak c...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Antennas, RFID and Metamaterials for 5G and Internet of Things (IoT) Application Areas)
  • Article
  • Open Access
9 Citations
1,601 Views
18 Pages

Thickness Uniformity Assessment of Epoxy Asphalt Pavement Layer on Steel Bridge Decks Using Three-Dimensional Ground-Penetrating Radar

  • Lei Huang,
  • Zhijian Jin,
  • Zhian Yao,
  • Bo Chen and ,
  • Weixiong Li,
  • Xuetang Xiong and
  • Huayang Yu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

19 June 2025

To address the challenge of assessing the thickness uniformity of epoxy asphalt layers on steel bridge decks, three-dimensional ground-penetrating radar (3D-GPR) was employed for non-destructive, full cross-sectional detection of the pavement layer&r...

(This article belongs to the Section Building Materials, and Repair & Renovation)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,814 Views
16 Pages

Influence of Selected Electrode Array Parameters on Critical Propulsion Parameters in Biefeld–Brown Thrusters

  • Peter Čurma,
  • Marián Lázár,
  • Natália Jasminská,
  • Tomáš Brestovič and
  • Romana Dobáková

21 August 2025

The subject of this paper is how certain electrode array parameters affect the operating characteristics of electrohydrodynamic (EHD) propulsion systems. The focus is on how changes in the shapes and arrangements of electrodes, such as the diameter o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,119 Views
17 Pages

Highly Integrated System Design for Wide-Field and High-Resolution Imaging with Ultra-Small-Pixel Sensor

  • Zhiyu Zhang,
  • Sibo Niu,
  • Xue Dong,
  • Meng Xiang and ,
  • Yanyan Liu,
  • Tong Zhang,
  • Pingli Han and
  • Fei Liu
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

21 November 2025

This study introduces a novel imaging technology designed to address the critical challenges of high integration, wide field of view (FOV), and high-resolution detection in optoelectronic systems. The proposed approach leverages ultra-small pixels an...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advanced Optical Microscopy: Science and Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,665 Views
19 Pages

7 October 2020

This paper describes an exact linearizing control approach for a distributed actuation magnetic bearing (DAMB) supporting a thin-walled rotor. The radial DAMB design incorporates a circular array of compact electromagnetic actuators with multi-coil w...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Electromagnetic Levitation Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
279 Views
21 Pages

Active Maglev Vibration Isolation via a Slim Halbach Array Electromagnetic Actuator

  • Miaomiao Zhou,
  • Zhiwei Huang,
  • Zhijie Qu,
  • Huijie Liu and ,
  • Lingfeng Zhao,
  • Xianbo Yin and
  • Hao Gao
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

4 October 2026

Active vibration isolation via magnetic levitation provides an effective solution to the micro-vibration problem of high-precision satellites. However, limited volume and mass constraints of the satellites demand the active vibration isolation platfo...

(This article belongs to the Section Astronautics & Space Science)
  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
8,147 Views
29 Pages

Quantifying the Surface Strain Field Induced by Active Sources with Distributed Acoustic Sensing: Theory and Practice

  • Peter G. Hubbard,
  • Joseph P. Vantassel,
  • Brady R. Cox,
  • James W. Rector and ,
  • Michael B. S. Yust and
  • Kenichi Soga
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

17 June 2022

Quantitative dynamic strain measurements of the ground would be useful for engineering scale problems such as monitoring for natural hazards, soil-structure interaction studies, and non-invasive site investigation using full waveform inversion (FWI)....

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensors for Distributed Monitoring)
  • Article
  • Open Access
386 Views
21 Pages

18 June 2026

Ultrasonic inspection of welded steel components remains challenging due to weld-scale material gradients, local anisotropy, attenuation, and aperture limitations. These factors severely distort both the first-arrival wavefield and the late-arriving...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Simulation and Design)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
4,380 Views
12 Pages

Simultaneous Detection of CO2 and CH4 Using a DFB Diode Laser-Based Absorption Spectrometer

  • Xu Wu,
  • Yulong Du,
  • Shijian Shi,
  • Cong Jiang and ,
  • Xueliang Deng,
  • Song Zhu,
  • Xiaolong Jin and
  • Jingsong Li
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

24 September 2022

In this paper, an attractive gas sensing technique based on fiber optical sensing ideal was developed for the detection of multi-gas species simultaneously. Calibration-free laser absorption spectroscopy (LAS) was used and combined with a multi-pass...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Gas Sensors for Monitoring Environmental Changes)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,333 Views
13 Pages

Enhanced Near-Infrared Ultra-Narrow Absorber Based on a Dielectric Nano-Resonant Ring for Refractive Index Sensing

  • Xingyu Li,
  • Dingquan Liu,
  • Junli Su,
  • Leihao Sun and ,
  • Haihan Luo,
  • Gang Chen,
  • Chong Ma and
  • Qiuyu Zhang
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

12 October 2023

In this paper, a plasmon resonance-enhanced narrow-band absorber based on the nano-resonant ring array of transparent conductive oxides (TCOs) is proposed and verified numerically. Due to the unique properties of TCOs, the structure achieves an ultra...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,146 Views
11 Pages

A Hardware-Efficient Vector Quantizer Based on Self-Organizing Map for High-Speed Image Compression

  • Zunkai Huang,
  • Xiangyu Zhang,
  • Lei Chen,
  • Yongxin Zhu and ,
  • Fengwei An,
  • Hui Wang and
  • Songlin Feng
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

25 October 2017

This paper presents a compact vector quantizer based on the self-organizing map (SOM), which can fulfill the data compression task for high-speed image sequence. In this vector quantizer, we solve the most severe computational demands in the codebook...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
605 Views
23 Pages

A Dual-Channel Passive Limb Imaging System (DUALIS) for Mars with UV Airglow-Based CO2 Retrieval and 557.7 nm Doppler Wind Imaging Interferometry

  • Yanqiang Wang,
  • Shun Zhou,
  • Tingyu Yan,
  • Shiping Guo and ,
  • Zeyu Chen,
  • Yifan He and
  • Yao Lu
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 February 2026

Characterizing both the CO2 distribution and wind dynamics in the Martian mesosphere and lower thermosphere is vital for planetary atmospheric science and mission planning. In this work, we propose a novel dual-channel passive limb-viewing imaging sy...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Advances in Atmospheric Greenhouse Gases Observation and Remote Sensing Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,514 Views
21 Pages

Inherent Trade-Offs Between the Conflicting Aspects of Designing the Compact Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) Anti-Interference Array

  • Xiangjun Li,
  • Xiaoyu Zhao,
  • Xiaozhou Ye,
  • Zukun Lu and ,
  • Feixue Wang and
  • Peiguo Liu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 May 2025

The Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS) has emerged as a critical spatiotemporal infrastructure for ensuring the integrity of remote sensing data links. However, traditional GNSS antenna arrays, typically configured with the antenna spacing of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,145 Views
9 Pages

Tripod-Loop Metasurfaces for Terahertz-Sensing Applications: A Comparison

  • Irati Jáuregui-López,
  • Bakhtiyar Orazbayev,
  • Victor Pacheco-Peña and
  • Miguel Beruete

18 September 2020

The high electric field intensity achieved on the surface of sensors based on metasurfaces (metasensors) makes them an excellent alternative for sensing applications where the volume of the sample to be identified is tiny (for instance, thin-film sen...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Terahertz Sensing)
  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
9,463 Views
13 Pages

Single Headlamp with Low- and High-Beam Light

  • Shang-Ping Ying,
  • Bing-Mau Chen,
  • Han-Kuei Fu and
  • Chen-Yu Yeh

27 January 2021

Generally, automobiles are typically equipped with separate headlamp lanterns for generating low- and high-beam light. Compared with separate headlamp lanterns, a single headlamp producing both low- and high-beam light can be more compact and have le...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Photonics, Optics and Laser Technology)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,611 Views
17 Pages

Thermo-Fluidic Characterizations of Multi-Port Compact Thermal Model of Ball-Grid-Array Electronic Package

  • Valentin Bissuel,
  • Frédéric Joly,
  • Eric Monier-Vinard,
  • Alain Neveu and
  • Olivier Daniel

9 June 2020

The concept of a single-input/multi-output thermal network was proposed by the Development of Libraries of Physical models for an Integrated design environment (DELPHI) consortium more than twenty years ago. The present work highlights the recent imp...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Thermal and Electro-thermal System Simulation 2020)
  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,156 Views
14 Pages

Micromechanical Study of Hyperacetylated Nucleosomes Using Single Molecule Transverse Magnetic Tweezers

  • Santosh Gaire,
  • Roberto L. Fabian,
  • Raghabendra Adhikari,
  • Pamela L. Tuma and ,
  • Ian L. Pegg and
  • Abhijit Sarkar
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

Nucleosomes are stable complexes of DNA and histone proteins that are essential for the proper functioning of the genome. These structures must be unwrapped and disassembled for processes such as gene expression, replication, and repair. Histone post...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Protein and DNA Interaction)
  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,014 Views
14 Pages

A 3D Monte Carlo Simulation of Convective Diffusional Deposition of Ultrafine Particles on Fiber Surfaces

  • Shixian Wu,
  • Yongping Chen,
  • Can Qi,
  • Chunyu Liu and ,
  • Gang Li and
  • Hui Zhu
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

18 August 2022

The microscale simulation of ultrafine particle transport and deposition in fibrous filtration media was achieved with a novel particle tracking model using a 3D Monte Carlo model. The particle deposition process is governed by the convection–d...

(This article belongs to the Section Air Pollution Control)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,931 Views
35 Pages

23 February 2024

The application of materials with changing visual properties with lighting and observation directions has found broad utility across diverse industries, from architecture and fashion to automotive and film production. The expanding array of applicati...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Imaging Technologies for Understanding Material Appearance)
  • Article
  • Open Access
462 Views
14 Pages

3D Coverage Shaping of an On-Glass 5G NR N78 Monopole Using Open/Short-Circuited Stubs

  • Fei-Lung Wu,
  • Jung-Sheng Liu,
  • Chia-Mei Peng,
  • Li-Wei Kao and ,
  • Pei-Hsuan Ko and
  • I-Fong Chen
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

This paper presents a compact modified monopole antenna tailored for 5G NR on-glass automotive applications operating in the n78 band. The design overcomes 3D radiation pattern limitations inherent in conventional monopole and inverted-F antennas (IF...

(This article belongs to the Section Microwave and Wireless Communications)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,309 Views
11 Pages

Acoustic emission (AE) monitoring in metal additive manufacturing (AM) requires compact sensors capable of high-frequency operation, broad bandwidth, and high sensitivity. However, increasing structural stiffness to achieve high resonance frequencies...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Applied Industrial Metrology: Methods, Uncertainties, and Challenges)
  • Article
  • Open Access
525 Views
31 Pages

Cyclic Movable Cultivation Rack with TIR-Based Supplemental Lighting for Hydroponic Barley Fodder

  • Sigao Li,
  • Fuxi Shi,
  • Quanquan Qian,
  • Zenglin Zhang and ,
  • Ziming Liu and
  • Bin Zhang
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

20 September 2026

Improving space use while reducing supplemental-lighting demand is important for compact hydroponic fodder production. We developed a cyclic movable cultivation rack with total internal reflection (TIR)-based supplemental lighting and evaluated its g...

(This article belongs to the Topic Optimizing Plants and Cultivation System for Controlled Environment Agriculture (CEA), 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
469 Views
16 Pages

All-Dielectric Stochastically Encoded Metasurface for Multifunctional Imaging Across Six-Polarization Channels

  • Linkun Zhang,
  • Shangshang Cui,
  • Mengfei Li,
  • Xin Cai and ,
  • Wenjing Fang,
  • Xinye Fan,
  • Xiaowei Yang and
  • Xueli Geng
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

We proposed an all-dielectric stochastically encoded metasurface operating in the 1310 nm near-infrared band, which enables multifunctional optical field manipulation across six independent polarization channels. Utilizing a shared-aperture stochasti...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Optical Imaging and Measurements: 2nd Edition)
  • Article
  • Open Access
502 Views
24 Pages

The rapid growth of data-intensive applications has increased the demand for efficient storage in large-scale key-value (KV) stores. Disaggregated memory architectures provide a scalable solution by separating compute and memory resources via RDMA. H...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Challenges in High-Performance Computing and Computer Architecture)
  • Article
  • Open Access
898 Views
16 Pages

17 April 2026

As the number of elderly individuals living alone increases, the risk of fall-related accidents correspondingly rises, underscoring the need for rapid fall detection systems. Because falls are difficult to predict in terms of location, detection syst...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sensor-Based Movement Signal Acquisition, Processing and Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,550 Views
14 Pages

Design of Circularly Polarized VCSEL Based on Cascaded Chiral GaAs Metasurface

  • Xiaoming Wang,
  • Bo Cheng,
  • Yuxiao Zou,
  • Guofeng Song and ,
  • Kunpeng Zhai and
  • Fuchun Sun
  • + 1 author+ 0 author

19 January 2026

Vertical cavity surface emitting lasers (VCSELs) have shown great potential in high-speed communication, quantum information processing, and 3D sensing due to their excellent beam quality and low power consumption. However, generating high-purity and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Vertical-Cavity Surface-Emitting Laser Technology: Innovations and Future Trends)
  • Review
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,062 Views
24 Pages

Advances in FPGA-Based Laser Frequency Stabilization Techniques

  • Zhilin Yan,
  • Wenqiang Fan,
  • Longjie Zhang,
  • Wanxiao Gao and ,
  • Cunwei Zhang,
  • Jiaming Zhang,
  • Tie Li,
  • Yancheng Guo,
  • Yulei Wang and
  • Zhenxu Bai
  • + 7 authors+ 2 authors

14 July 2026

Laser frequency stabilization underpins precision metrology, optical atomic clocks, quantum optics, and laser spectroscopy. In recent years, field-programmable gate arrays (FPGAs) have become attractive for this task because signal generation, phase-...

(This article belongs to the Topic Collaborative Innovation of Optical Fiber Communication, Optical Sensors, and Lasers: New Trends and Technologies)
  • Article
  • Open Access
522 Views
13 Pages

On-Chip Mid-Infrared Wavefront Sensing Based on Vectorial Photocurrent Manipulation

  • Tao Ye,
  • Xiaofei He,
  • Jun Ning,
  • Xueling Guo and ,
  • Xianda Zhang,
  • Ziao Li,
  • Wei Lu,
  • Xiaoshuang Chen and
  • Jing Zhou
  • + 4 authors+ 0 author

24 June 2026

Wavefront sensing (WFS) is fundamental to adaptive optics, astronomical observation, biological microscopy, and free-space optical communications. However, conventional approaches—including Shack–Hartmann sensors, shearing interferometers...

(This article belongs to the Section Optical Sensors)
  • Article
  • Open Access
230 Views
14 Pages

Optical Calibration of a Frequency-Domain-Multiplexed X-Ray TES Microcalorimeter Array via Photon-Number-Resolved Statistics

  • Giacomo Gorla,
  • Bernard Sohl,
  • Emanuele Taralli,
  • Martin de Wit and ,
  • Luciano Gottardi,
  • Kevin Ravensberg,
  • Kenichiro Nagayoshi,
  • Davide Vaccaro,
  • Hugo van Bohemen and
  • Wolfgang Löffler
  • + 6 authors+ 1 author

27 October 2026

Transition-edge sensor (TES) microcalorimeters for future X-ray space observatories require accurate low-energy calibration, a regime where conventional X-ray sources are limited by intrinsic linewidth, count rate, or experimental complexity. In this...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Cryogenic Detectors: From Their Fundamental Physics to Their Applications in Space)
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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,607 Views
29 Pages

27 February 2026

High-dimensional survival analyses require calibrated risk and measurable uncertainty, but standard elastic net Cox models provide only point estimates. We develop a Bayesian elastic net Cox (BEN–Cox) model for high-dimensional proportional haz...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Statistical Planning, Inference, and Decision Making in High-Dimensional Data Analysis)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,179 Views
20 Pages

22 December 2025

Accurate, real-time monitoring of meat freshness is essential for reducing food waste and safeguarding consumer health, yet conventional methods rely on costly, laboratory-grade spectroscopy or destructive analyses. This work presents a low-cost elec...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Built Environment and Building Energy for Decarbonization)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,360 Views
29 Pages

Laboratory Magnetoplasmas as Stellar-like Environment for 7Be β-Decay Investigations Within the PANDORA Project

  • Eugenia Naselli,
  • Bharat Mishra,
  • Angelo Pidatella,
  • Alessio Galatà and ,
  • Giorgio S. Mauro,
  • Domenico Santonocito,
  • Giuseppe Torrisi and
  • David Mascali
  • + 3 authors+ 0 author

18 June 2025

Laboratory magnetoplasmas can become an intriguing experimental environment for fundamental studies relevant to nuclear astrophysics processes. Theoretical predictions indicate that the ionization state of isotopes within the plasma can significantly...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Recent Outcomes and Future Challenges in Nuclear Astrophysics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
279 Views
13 Pages

Validation-Selected Constrained Incremental Learning for Simulation-Based UAV Subsystem Fault Prediction

  • Guang Rong,
  • Di Wu,
  • Chao Tang,
  • Ye Huang and ,
  • Xiangyu Meng,
  • Jian Wang and
  • Jianyuan Wang
  • + 2 authors+ 0 author

28 August 2026

Fixed offline prognostic models can lose accuracy when sensor-data distribution changes after model development. This paper presents a validation-selected incremental-learning framework for time-before-failure (TBF) regression in three simulated unma...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Application of Multidisciplinary Optimization and Artificial Intelligence Techniques to Aerospace Engineering (Volume III))
  • Review
  • Open Access
1 Citations
581 Views
32 Pages

Ocean current energy is abundant, yet its exploitation is severely constrained by the low-velocity conditions typical of most marine environments, where conventional lift-type turbines exhibit poor self-starting capability and low efficiency. This re...

(This article belongs to the Topic Marine Energy)
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,353 Views
21 Pages

23 September 2023

Municipal solid waste incineration fly ash (MSWI FA) consists predominantly of compounds comprising elements such as calcium, aluminum, silicon, sodium, and others. Additionally, it encompasses a complex mixture of heavy metals, chlorides, sulfates,...

(This article belongs to the Section Pollution Prevention, Mitigation and Sustainability)

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