Owing to the variation between lithium-ion battery (LIB) cells, early discharge termination and overdischarge can occur when cells are coupled in series or parallel, thereby triggering a decrease in LIB module performance and safety. This study provi...
Computed tomography (CT) imaging has proven to be effective for detecting and visualizing a wide range of inhomogeneities and defects. Applying computer vision (CV)-based image processing enables detailed feature measurements on selected CT image sli...
The reproductive physiology in camelid species has its particularities. The present study aimed to characterize the ovarian follicular dynamics and its functional significance in relation to follicular deviation, vaginal cytological characteristics,...
A balancing circuit in a multi-series battery pack prevents a specific cell from being overcharged by reducing the voltage difference between the cells. Passive cell balancing is widely used for easy implementation and volume and size reduction. For...
Manufacturing tolerances inevitably induce cell-to-cell inconsistencies. These inconsistent cells are connected in series and parallel to form battery packs, which will affect the safety and reliability of the battery system. This study presents a no...
Battery modules in eco-friendly mobility are composed of series and parallel connections of multiple lithium-ion battery cells. As the number of lithium-ion cells in the battery module increases, the cell connection configuration becomes a critical f...
Combining the additive manufacturing (AM) process of extrusion with lightweight concrete, mono-material but multi-functional elements with an internal cellular structure can be created to achieve good thermal performance of a wall at low resource con...
Based on the WAVEWATCH III wave model, China’s National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center has developed an operational global ocean wave forecasting system that covers the Arctic region. In this study, in situ buoy observations and satell...
Electrokinetic (EK) microsystems, which are capable of performing separations without the need for labeling analytes, are a rapidly growing area in microfluidics. The present work demonstrated three distinct binary microbial separations, computationa...
The number of battery systems is also growing significantly along with the rise in electric and hybrid car sales. Different vehicles use different types and numbers of batteries. Furthermore, the layout and operation of the control and protection ele...
Realising an ideal lithium-ion battery (LIB) cell characterised by entirely homogeneous physical properties poses a significant, if not an impossible, challenge in LIB production. Even the slightest deviation in a process parameter in its production...
We present a pilot quality assurance (QA) study of a clinical-scale, automated, third-generation (GEN-3) 129Xe hyperpolarizer employing batch-mode spin-exchange optical pumping (SEOP) with high-Xe densities (50% natural abundance Xe and 50% N2 in ~2....
Predicting lithium-ion battery behavior is essential for optimizing performance and managing degradation. This work focuses on the retrospective detection of regime changes and cell-level fault isolation, validated using historical BMS datasets from...
The main characteristic of materials with a functional gradient is the progressive composition or the structure variation across its geometry. This results in the properties variation in one or more specific directions, according to the functional ap...
The development of accurate dynamic battery pack models for electric vehicles (EVs) is critical for the ongoing electrification of the global automotive vehicle fleet, as the battery is a key element in the energy performance of an EV powertrain syst...
This paper compares the performance of three electrical models (the single diode model, the Bishop model, and the Direct–Reverse model) in representing photovoltaic cells. Such comparison is performed in both the first quadrant (positive cell v...
An algorithm has been implemented and it is provided in this article as an executable program to extract the five solar cell parameters within the one-diode solar cell model. Boole’s integration rule has been put into practice to integrate the...
Driven by the urgent demand for low-frequency vibration and noise control in engineering scenarios such as automobiles, acoustic metamaterials (AMs), as a new class of functional materials, have demonstrated significant application potential. This pa...
Cell voltage equalization is mandatory to eliminate voltage imbalance of series-connected energy storage cells, such as lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) and electric double-layer capacitors (EDLCs), to ensure years of safe operations. Although a variety...
Additive manufacturing (AM) technologies have witnessed remarkable advancements, offering opportunities to produce complex components across various industries. This paper explores the potential of AM for fabricating bipolar plates (BPPs) in fuel cel...
In this article, the phenomena of beam deviation in reflectarray is discussed. The radiation pattern of the unit cell, which plays a vital role in shaping the beam of the reflectarray, is analyzed by considering undesired specular and scattered refle...
In harsh marine environments, vessel energy storage systems (VESS) face elevated thermal runaway (TR) risk, yet practical early warning remains difficult because early voltage differences between TR high-risk cells and normal cells are often weak, wa...
Upscaling perovskite solar cells and modules requires precise laser patterning for series interconnection and spatial characterization of cell parameters to understand laser–material interactions and their impact on performance. This study inve...
The heat transport management in catalytic reactors is crucial for the overall reactor performance. For small-scale dynamically-operated reactors, open-cell foams have shown advantageous heat transport characteristics over conventional pellet catalys...
Structural deviation detection in calligraphic layout is an important problem in intelligent calligraphy tutoring systems. Existing approaches typically rely on isolated geometric or pixel-level statistics and lack a unified representation across spa...
The degradation of lithium-ion cells is an important aspect, not only for quality management, but also for the customer of the application like, e.g., scooters or electric vehicles. During the lifetime of the system, the overall health on the battery...
In this paper, the electrical parameters of a hybrid power system made of hybrid renewable energy sources (HRES) generation are primarily discussed. The main components of HRES with energy storage (ES) systems are the resources coordinated with multi...
Pancreatic cancer (PC) is characterized by metabolic deregulations that often manifest as deviations in metabolite levels and aberrations in their corresponding metabolic genes across the clinical specimens and preclinical PC models. Cholesterol is o...
In this paper, the characterization of the main techniques and transducers employed to measure local and global strains induced by uniaxial loading of murine tibiae is presented. Micro strain gauges and digital image correlation (DIC) were tested to...
Much biomedical research focuses on the effects of UV light on human cells. UV light sources are a prerequisite for such research. This paper presents the design and achieved performance of a UVA (Ultraviolet A: 320–400 nm) and a UVB (Ultraviol...
An enhanced geothermal system (EGS) proposed on the basis of hot dry rock mining technology has become a focus of geothermal research. A novel procedure for coupled simulation of thermal and fluid flow models (NPCTF) is derived to model heat flow and...
This paper demonstrates a commercial-level field-portable lens-free cell analyzer called the NaviCell (No-stain and Automated Versatile Innovative cell analyzer) capable of automatically analyzing cell count and viability without employing an optical...
A compact electronic circuit capable of performing Electrochemical Impedance Spectroscopy (EIS) on either single Lithium-ion cells or modules formed by the series of two cells is presented. The proposed device, named Double Cell Management Unit (DCMU...
One recent area of cancer research is irreversible electroporation (IRE). Irreversible electroporation is a minimally invasive procedure where needle electrodes are inserted into the body to ablate tumor cells with electricity. The aim of this paper...
This study presents a comparative analysis of the influence of open-cell and closed-cell topologies on the manufacturing quality and resultant elasticity of 3D printed thermoplastic polyurethane (TPU) lattice structures. Lattice samples were designed...
Estimation of power consumption in digital circuits is performed at gate-level simulation. Its accuracy depends on the models of gate delays that capture the effects of spurious signal transitions, called “glitches”. Electronic Design Aut...
Assessing metastatic potential (MP) based on morphological parameters of cancer cells is a promising direction in experimental oncology. The shape of a cell often correlates with an invasive phenotype, characterized by greater elongation and decrease...
A global modeling method is developed to describe the relationship between multi-type parameters and fuel cell performance, which significantly contributes to the efficient performance prediction of fuel cell systems. The multi-type parameters includ...
The growing deployment of electric vehicles requires battery management systems that maintain cell uniformity while reducing hardware complexity and improving energy efficiency. Many cell-balancing methods rely on converter-based architectures and re...
Lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) are widely deployed in electric vehicles due to their high energy density and long cycle life. Even after retirement, typically at around 80% of their rated capacity, LIBs can still be repurposed for second-life applicati...
As a highly nonlinear system, the performance of proton exchange membrane fuel cell (PEMFC) is controlled by various parameters. If the effects of all parameters are considered during the performance optimization, low working efficiency and waste of...
Pathfinding for autonomous vehicles in large-scale complex terrain environments is difficult when aiming to balance efficiency and quality. To solve the problem, this paper proposes Hierarchical Path-Finding A* based on Multi-Scale Rectangle, called...
State-of-charge (SOC) and temperature inconsistencies among lithium-ion battery cells can significantly degrade the performance, safety, and lifespan of battery packs. To address this issue, this paper proposes a dynamic balancing strategy that simul...
Presented is a single-ended potentiostat topology with a new interface connection between sensor electrodes and potentiostat circuit to avoid deviation of cell voltage and linearly convert the cell current into voltage signal. Additionally, due to th...
In recent years, computation-intensive applications, such as artificial intelligence, video processing and encryption, have been developing rapidly. On the other hand, the problems of “storage wall” and “power consumption wall&rdquo...
In this paper, a numerical study was performed to investigate the flow distribution in a 52-cell proton exchange membrane (PEM) fuel cell stack. The non-uniformity factor and standard deviation parameters were used to determine the flow distribution...
This study aimed to develop and validate a deep learning system for diagnosing glaucoma using optical coherence tomography (OCT). A training set of 1822 eyes (332 control, 1490 glaucoma) with 7288 OCT images, an internal validation set of 425 eyes (1...
Background/Objectives: Predicting the biochemical pathway involvement of a compound could facilitate the interpretation of biological and biomedical research. Prior prediction approaches have largely focused on metabolism, training machine learning m...
Photodynamic therapy (PDT) appears to be a promising strategy in biomedical applications. However, the complexity of its parameters prevents wide acceptance. This work presents and characterizes a novel optical device based on knitted light-emitting...
Background: Although bone tissue engineering for dentistry has been studied for many years, the clinical outcome for severe cases has not been established. Furthermore, there are limited numbers of studies that include long-term follow-up. In this st...
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