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An Adaptive Path Planning Algorithm for USV in Complex Waterways: SA-Bi-APF-RRT*

  • Sixian Li,
  • Ke Chen,
  • Dongfang Li,
  • Jieyu Xian,
  • Tieli Lyu,
  • Yimeng Li,
  • Hong Zhu and
  • Maohua Xiao
J. Mar. Sci. Eng.2026, 14(1), 45;https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse14010045 
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25 December 2025

In recent years, the RRT* algorithm has been widely applied in industrial fields because of its asymptotic optimality. However, the traditional RRT* algorithm exhibits limitations in terms of convergence speed and quality of generated paths, and its...

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  • Open Access
9 Citations
2,212 Views
16 Pages

9 September 2022

Rock burst disasters occurring in underground high-stress rock mass mining and excavation engineering seriously threaten the safety of workers and hinders the progress of engineering construction. Rock burst classification prediction is the basis of...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,124 Views
14 Pages

23 December 2020

In this paper, surface projection micron stereo-lithography technology (PμSL) by 3D printing was used to prepare two resin honeycomb materials with different levels, and the mechanical behavior of these materials was studied. The quasi-static comp...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,283 Views
13 Pages

21 June 2022

This work studied the influence of hydrogel’s physical properties (geometry and hierarchical roughness) on the in vitro sorption/release profiles of molecules. To achieve this goal, chitosan (CS) solutions were cast in 3D-printed (3DP) molds pr...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,383 Views
15 Pages

A hierarchical random graph (HRG) model combined with a maximum likelihood approach and a Markov Chain Monte Carlo algorithm can not only be used to quantitatively describe the hierarchical organization of many real networks, but also can predict mis...

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1,050 Views
19 Pages

To address the limited generalization capability of data-driven fault diagnosis models caused by scarce gearbox fault samples in engineering practice, this paper proposes a hierarchical attention-guided data–knowledge dual-driven fusion network...

  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
2,972 Views
19 Pages

Co- and Ni-Doped TiO2 Nanoparticles Supported on Zeolite Y with Photocatalytic Properties

  • Gabriela Petcu,
  • Florica Papa,
  • Irina Atkinson,
  • Adriana Baran,
  • Nicoleta G. Apostol,
  • Simona Petrescu,
  • Lionel Richaudeau,
  • Jean-Luc Blin and
  • Viorica Parvulescu

28 July 2023

Zeolite Y samples with microporous and hierarchical structures containing Ti–Ni and Ti–Co oxides were obtained as active photocatalysts. Different Ti amounts (5, 10% TiO2) were supported, followed by the loading of Ni or Co oxides (5%). X...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,536 Views
9 Pages

The Synthesis of Materials with a Hierarchical Structure Based on Tin Dioxide

  • Ekaterina Bondar,
  • Elena Dmitriyeva,
  • Igor Lebedev,
  • Anastasiya Fedosimova,
  • Aigul Shongalova,
  • Sayora Ibraimova,
  • Ainagul Kemelbekova,
  • Ulzhalgas Issayeva,
  • Bagdat Rakymetov and
  • Bedelbek Nurbaev

13 November 2024

This article presents the results of the formation of hierarchical micro–nano structures in nanostructured tin dioxide films obtained from the lyophilic film-forming system SnCl4/EtOH/NH4OH. The classification of the shape and size of the synth...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,569 Views
11 Pages

Evolution of Superhydrophilic Aluminum Alloy Properties in Contact with Water during Cyclic Variation in Temperature

  • Alexander G. Domantovsky,
  • Elizaveta V. Chulkova,
  • Kirill A. Emelyanenko,
  • Konstantin I. Maslakov,
  • Alexandre M. Emelyanenko and
  • Ludmila B. Boinovich

26 March 2022

Hydrophilic or superhydrophilic materials in some cases are considered to be potentially icephobic due to a low ice-adhesion strength to such materials. Here, the evolution of the properties of a superhydrophilic aluminum alloy with hierarchical roug...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
3,099 Views
14 Pages

Fabrication of an Anti-Icing Aluminum Alloy Surface by Combining Wet Etching and Laser Machining

  • Annan Xia,
  • Lei He,
  • Shihang Qie,
  • Jingchen Zhang,
  • Hanlong Li,
  • Ning He and
  • Xiuqing Hao

17 February 2022

The phenomenon of icing on the surface of the fuselage while aircraft pass through clouds has an impact on flight safety. This aircraft icing may adversely affect metrological conditions and cause aerodynamic mechanical effects, resulting in a threat...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,061 Views
24 Pages

A Coordination Optimization Framework for Multi-Agent Reinforcement Learning Based on Reward Redistribution and Experience Reutilization

  • Bo Yang,
  • Linghang Gao,
  • Fangzheng Zhou,
  • Hongge Yao,
  • Yanfang Fu,
  • Zelong Sun,
  • Feng Tian and
  • Haipeng Ren

Cooperative multi-agent reinforcement learning (MARL) has emerged as a powerful paradigm for addressing complex real-world challenges, including autonomous robot control, strategic decision-making, and decentralized coordination in unmanned swarm sys...

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27 Citations
7,085 Views
13 Pages

12 January 2012

Flower-like NiO hierarchical structures with 2–5 μm diameter assembled from nanosheet building blocks have been successfully fabricated via a wet-chemical method combined with thermodecomposition technology. The template-free method is facile and eff...

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7 Citations
2,880 Views
13 Pages

1 October 2019

Porous ZnGa2O4 microspheres (P-ZGO) are synthesized by a facial glucose-mediated microwave hydrothermal method followed by annealing. The morphological, photoelectric and photocatalytic properties of the as-prepared P-ZGO sample are characterized in...

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97 Citations
11,617 Views
12 Pages

10 May 2013

Hierarchical flower-like ZnO nanorods, net-like ZnO nanofibers and ZnO nanobulks have been successfully synthesized via a surfactant assisted hydrothemal method. The synthesized products were characterized by X-ray powder diffraction and field emissi...

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  • Open Access
18 Citations
6,910 Views
15 Pages

Genes Controlled by DNA Methylation Are Involved in Wilms Tumor Progression

  • João Victor da Silva Guerra,
  • Bruna Maria de Sá Pereira,
  • Jéssica Gonçalves Vieira da Cruz,
  • Nicole de Miranda Scherer,
  • Carolina Furtado,
  • Rafaela Montalvão de Azevedo,
  • Paulo Sergio Lopes de Oliveira,
  • Paulo Faria,
  • Mariana Boroni and
  • Beatriz de Camargo
  • + 1 author

17 August 2019

To identify underlying mechanisms involved with metastasis formation in Wilms tumors (WTs), we performed comprehensive DNA methylation and gene expression analyses of matched normal kidney (NK), WT blastemal component, and metastatic tissues (MT) fro...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,245 Views
14 Pages

27 October 2023

The main challenges in reconstruction-based anomaly detection include the breakdown of the generalization gap due to improved fitting capabilities and the overfitting problem arising from simulated defects. To overcome this, we propose a new method c...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,926 Views
19 Pages

Au/Ti Synergistically Modified Supports Based on SiO2 with Different Pore Geometries and Architectures

  • Gabriela Petcu,
  • Elena Maria Anghel,
  • Elena Buixaderas,
  • Irina Atkinson,
  • Simona Somacescu,
  • Adriana Baran,
  • Daniela Cristina Culita,
  • Bogdan Trica,
  • Corina Bradu and
  • Madalina Ciobanu
  • + 1 author

28 September 2022

New photocatalysts were obtained by immobilization of titanium and gold species on zeolite Y, hierarchical zeolite Y, MCM-48 and KIT-6 supports with microporous, hierarchical and mesoporous cubic structure. The obtained samples were characterized by...

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  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,543 Views
21 Pages

Integrated Au/TiO2 Nanostructured Photoanodes for Photoelectrochemical Organics Degradation

  • Roberto Matarrese,
  • Michele Mascia,
  • Annalisa Vacca,
  • Laura Mais,
  • Elisabetta M. Usai,
  • Matteo Ghidelli,
  • Luca Mascaretti,
  • Beatrice R. Bricchi,
  • Valeria Russo and
  • Carlo S. Casari
  • + 3 authors

5 April 2019

In this work, hierarchical Au/TiO2 nanostructures were studied as possible photoanodes for water splitting and bisphenol A (BPA) oxidation. TiO2 samples were synthetized by Pulsed Laser Deposition (PLD), while Au nanoparticles (NPs) were differently...

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  • Open Access
12 Citations
3,144 Views
21 Pages

28 March 2022

Accurately mapping surface water fractions is essential to understanding the distribution and area of small water bodies (SWBs), which are numerous and widespread. Traditional spectral unmixings based on the linear mixture model require high-quality...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,541 Views
16 Pages

30 October 2024

Bone is a natural composite of the hierarchical arrangement of mineralized collagen fibrils in various orientations. This study aims to understand how the orientation of the bone mineral, guiding the removal of water contained in the humidity-respons...

  • Review
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,462 Views
36 Pages

Hierarchical Nanobiosensors at the End of the SARS-CoV-2 Pandemic

  • Jael Abigail Medrano-Lopez,
  • Isaela Villalpando,
  • Ma Isabel Salazar and
  • Carlos Torres-Torres

18 February 2024

Nanostructures have played a key role in the development of different techniques to attack severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). Some applications include masks, vaccines, and biosensors. The latter are of great interest for d...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,597 Views
12 Pages

Superhydrophobic and Antibacterial Hierarchical Surface Fabricated by Femtosecond Laser

  • Bing Wang,
  • Wenyuan An,
  • Liang Wang,
  • Lishi Jiao,
  • Hongsheng Zhang,
  • Haiying Song and
  • Shibing Liu

29 September 2022

Superhydrophobic surfaces are important in many applications owing to their special properties such as self-cleaning, anti-icing, antibacterial, and anti-fogging. In this paper, a micro/nano hierarchical superhydrophobic surface with a low roll-off a...

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  • Open Access
1,436 Views
19 Pages

4 November 2025

To address the demand for lightweight, high-precision, real-time, and low-computation detection of targets with limited samples—such as laboratory instruments in portable AR devices—this paper proposes a small dataset object detection alg...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,724 Views
11 Pages

Preliminary Study on Red Wine Aroma: The Volatile Profiles of Six Grape Cultivars in Different Vinification Phases

  • Roberta Ascrizzi,
  • Ylenia Pieracci,
  • Bernardo Melai,
  • Pier Luigi Cioni,
  • Patrizio Narri,
  • Guido Flamini and
  • Luisa Pistelli

Consumers’ appreciation of wines is mainly driven by their aroma, which is the most important organoleptic characteristic and key attribute. The volatile bouquet derives from the grape berries and from the processing phases of vinification. In...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,051 Views
14 Pages

Biogenic Calcium Carbonate: Phase Conversion in Aqueous Suspensions

  • Brian Espinosa-Acosta,
  • Jake J. Breen,
  • Meghan Burchell and
  • Kristin M. Poduska

29 June 2024

Powdered biogenic calcium carbonate from butter clams shows variations in its tendency to convert from aragonite to calcite when suspended in water, depending on whether the suspension has additional calcite or not. Our investigations treat these bio...

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  • Open Access
1,358 Views
24 Pages

1 July 2025

While deep learning has advanced object detection through hierarchical feature learning and end-to-end optimization, conventional random sampling paradigms exhibit critical limitations in addressing hyperspectral ambiguity and low-distinguishability...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,756 Views
14 Pages

Genomic Alterations Associated with Estrogen Receptor Pathway Activity in Metastatic Breast Cancer Have a Differential Impact on Downstream ER Signaling

  • Lindsay Angus,
  • Marcel Smid,
  • Saskia M. Wilting,
  • Manouk K. Bos,
  • Neeltje Steeghs,
  • Inge R. H. M. Konings,
  • Vivianne C. G. Tjan-Heijnen,
  • Johanna M. G. H. van Riel,
  • Agnes J. van de Wouw and
  • CPCT Consortium
  • + 5 authors

4 September 2023

Mutations in the estrogen receptor gene (ESR1), its transcriptional regulators, and the mitogen-activated protein kinase (MAPK) pathway are enriched in patients with endocrine-resistant metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Here, we integrated whole genome...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,066 Views
23 Pages

1 July 2025

The direct energy deposition (DED) metal additive manufacturing process enables rapid deposition and repair, providing an efficient approach to producing durable tool steel components. Here, 5 wt% Cr cold-work tool steel (Caldie) was developed by red...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,314 Views
26 Pages

A Hierarchical Multi-Feature Point Cloud Lithology Identification Method Based on Feature-Preserved Compressive Sampling (FPCS)

  • Xiaolei Duan,
  • Ran Jing,
  • Yanlin Shao,
  • Yuangang Liu,
  • Binqing Gan,
  • Peijin Li and
  • Longfan Li

5 September 2025

Lithology identification is a critical technology for geological resource exploration and engineering safety assessment. However, traditional methods suffer from insufficient feature representation and low classification accuracy due to challenges su...

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  • Open Access
125 Views
27 Pages

17 December 2025

Existing methods for identifying Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures (TTPs) from complex cyber-attack descriptions face three core challenges: (1) severe semantic asymmetry between unstructured attack narratives and standardized TTP definitions; (2)...

  • Article
  • Open Access
770 Views
21 Pages

CaDCR: An Efficient Cascaded Dynamic Collaborative Reasoning Framework for Intelligent Recognition Systems

  • Bowen Li,
  • Xudong Cao,
  • Jun Li,
  • Li Ji,
  • Xueliang Wei,
  • Jile Geng and
  • Ruogu Zhang

To address the challenges of high computational cost and energy consumption posed by deep neural networks in embedded systems, this paper presents CaDCR, a lightweight dynamic collaborative reasoning framework. By integrating a feature discrepancy-gu...

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  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,423 Views
21 Pages

The Mechanisms of Antibacterial Activity of Magnesium Alloys with Extreme Wettability

  • Alexandre M. Emelyanenko,
  • Alexander G. Domantovsky,
  • Valery V. Kaminsky,
  • Ivan S. Pytskii,
  • Kirill A. Emelyanenko and
  • Ludmila B. Boinovich

21 September 2021

In this study, we applied the method of nanosecond laser treatment for the fabrication of superhydrophobic and superhydrophilic magnesium-based surfaces with hierarchical roughness when the surface microrelief is evenly decorated by MgO nanoparticles...

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  • Open Access
27 Citations
6,209 Views
22 Pages

13 March 2025

Empathetic and coherent responses are critical in automated chatbot-facilitated psychotherapy. This study addresses the challenge of enhancing the emotional and contextual understanding of large language models (LLMs) in psychiatric applications. We...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2,709 Views
29 Pages

Textures of Personality: The Role of Attachment Insecurities and Defense Mechanisms in Maladaptive Personality Functioning

  • Alessandro Vito Di Caro,
  • Josephin Cavallo,
  • Andrea Scalone,
  • Alessia Passanisi and
  • Adriano Schimmenti

25 August 2025

Attachment styles and defense mechanisms are widely recognized as central components in personality development. However, few empirical studies have examined their combined contribution to maladaptive personality traits within the dimensional framewo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
2,087 Views
12 Pages

Fourier Ptychographic Microscopic Reconstruction Method Based on Residual Hybrid Attention Network

  • Jie Li,
  • Jingzi Hao,
  • Xiaoli Wang,
  • Yongshan Wang,
  • Yan Wang,
  • Hao Wang and
  • Xinbo Wang

21 August 2023

Fourier ptychographic microscopy (FPM) is a novel technique for computing microimaging that allows imaging of samples such as pathology sections. However, due to the influence of systematic errors and noise, the quality of reconstructed images using...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,075 Views
14 Pages

Noble Metal Modified TiO2 Hierarchically Structured Microspheres with Enhanced Photocatalytic Activity

  • Haisheng Huang,
  • Juan Wang,
  • Qi Kong,
  • Yao Xu,
  • Zhishun Wei and
  • Ying Chang

12 June 2023

Anatase TiO2 hierarchically structured microspheres with co-exposed {001}/{101} facets were prepared by a facile one-pot hydrothermal method. The influences of reaction temperature on the morphology and crystallization of microspheres were investigat...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
5,121 Views
23 Pages

MalHAPGNN: An Enhanced Call Graph-Based Malware Detection Framework Using Hierarchical Attention Pooling Graph Neural Network

  • Wenjie Guo,
  • Wenbiao Du,
  • Xiuqi Yang,
  • Jingfeng Xue,
  • Yong Wang,
  • Weijie Han and
  • Jingjing Hu

10 January 2025

While deep learning techniques have been extensively employed in malware detection, there is a notable challenge in effectively embedding malware features. Current neural network methods primarily capture superficial characteristics, lacking in-depth...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,876 Views
16 Pages

A High-Utility Differentially Private Mechanism for Space Information Networks

  • Ming Zhuo,
  • Wen Huang,
  • Leyuan Liu,
  • Shijie Zhou and
  • Zhiwen Tian

18 November 2022

Nowadays, Space Information Networks represented by the satellite internet are developing rapidly. For example, the Starlink of SpaceX plans to provide network access services worldwide and has drawn much attention. To operate and maintain Space Info...

  • Article
  • Open Access
705 Views
26 Pages

HLAE-Net: A Hierarchical Lightweight Attention-Enhanced Strategy for Remote Sensing Scene Image Classification

  • Mingyuan Yang,
  • Cuiping Shi,
  • Kangning Tan,
  • Haocheng Wu,
  • Shenghan Wang and
  • Liguo Wang

24 September 2025

Remote sensing scene image classification has extensive application scenarios in fields such as land use monitoring and environmental assessment. However, traditional methodologies based on convolutional neural networks (CNNs) face considerable chall...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,679 Views
16 Pages

Lung and bronchus cancer, collectively called lung cancer, remains one of the most lethal malignancies worldwide, with its incidence and mortality rates continuing to pose significant public health challenges. Numerous studies have explored various r...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,132 Views
18 Pages

Catalytic Oxidation of VOC over Cobalt-Loaded Hierarchical MFI Zeolite

  • Bozhidar Grahovski,
  • Ralitsa Velinova,
  • Pavletta Shestakova,
  • Anton Naydenov,
  • Hristo Kolev,
  • Iliyana Yordanova,
  • Georgi Ivanov,
  • Krasimir Tenchev and
  • Silviya Todorova

The zeolites ZSM-5 with different Si/Al ratios were modified with a buffer solution of HF and NH4F. This acidic treatment led to the obtaining of a material with secondary mesoporosity. The deposition of cobalt from an aqueous solution of cobalt acet...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,047 Views
21 Pages

Methodological Aspects of Obtaining and Characterizing Composites Based on Biogenic Diatomaceous Silica and Epoxy Resins

  • Marta Dobrosielska,
  • Renata Dobrucka,
  • Dariusz Brząkalski,
  • Michał Gloc,
  • Janusz Rębiś,
  • Julia Głowacka,
  • Krzysztof J. Kurzydłowski and
  • Robert E. Przekop

17 August 2021

Diatomaceous earth are sediments of unicellular algal skeletons with a well-defined hierarchical structure. Despite many tests conducted on systems using diatomaceous earth and epoxy resins, we can find many differences in the methods of acquisition...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
4,149 Views
15 Pages

Cu/ZSM5-Geopolymer 3D-Printed Monoliths for the NH3-SCR of NOx

  • Elisabetta Maria Cepollaro,
  • Renata Botti,
  • Giorgia Franchin,
  • Luciana Lisi,
  • Paolo Colombo and
  • Stefano Cimino

9 October 2021

Geopolymer-based monoliths manufactured by direct ink writing, containing up to 60% by weight of presynthesized ZSM5 with low Si/Al ratio, were investigated as structured catalysts for the NH3-SCR of NOx. Copper was introduced as the active metal by...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,282 Views
14 Pages

11 July 2025

A superhydrophobic surface with hierarchical micro/nano-array structures was successfully fabricated on 6061 aluminum alloy through a combination of femtosecond laser etching and anodic oxidation. Femtosecond laser etching formed a regularly arranged...

  • Article
  • Open Access
64 Citations
5,523 Views
16 Pages

Synthesis of a Flower-Like g-C3N4/ZnO Hierarchical Structure with Improved CH4 Sensing Properties

  • Xiaojie Li,
  • Yanwei Li,
  • Guang Sun,
  • Na Luo,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Zhanying Zhang

In this paper, a hierarchical structure of graphite carbon nitride (g-C3N4) modified ZnO (g-C3N4/ZnO) was synthesized using a simple precipitation-calcination method. Through this method, g-C3N4 nanosheets with a controlled content were successfully...

  • Article
  • Open Access
630 Views
29 Pages

Determination of Annealing Temperature of Thin-Walled Samples from Al-Mn-Mg-Ti-Zr Alloys for Mechanical Properties Restoration of Defective Parts After SLM

  • Nikita Nikitin,
  • Roman Khmyrov,
  • Pavel A. Podrabinnik,
  • Nestor Washington Solis Pinargote,
  • Anton Smirnov,
  • Idarmachev Idarmach,
  • Tatiana V. Tarasova and
  • Sergey N. Grigoriev

The aim of this work is to investigate the effect of annealing (at temperatures ranging from 260 °C to 530 °C) of thin-walled Al-Mn-Mg-Ti-Zr samples manufactured by selective laser melting (SLM) on their tensile mechanical properties, hardnes...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,080 Views
17 Pages

High-Throughput Investigation of Multiscale Deformation Mechanism in Additively Manufactured Ni Superalloy

  • Abhijeet Dhal,
  • Priyanka Agrawal,
  • Ravi Sankar Haridas,
  • Supreeth Gaddam,
  • Aishani Sharma,
  • Digvijay Parganiha,
  • Rajiv S. Mishra,
  • Hirotsugu Kawanaka,
  • Shinji Matsushita and
  • Yusuke Yasuda
  • + 2 authors

17 February 2023

In this paper, Inconel 718 (IN718) superalloy was processed by laser powder-bed fusion additive manufacturing (L-PBFAM), followed by heat treatment. High-resolution nanoindentation was used to investigate the complex deformation mechanisms that occur...

  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
887 Views
19 Pages

Simple Spray Preparation of Multifunctional Organic–Inorganic Hybrid Coatings for Surface Strengthening of Flat Thin-Sheet Materials

  • Xianbo Yu,
  • Huaxin Li,
  • Hu Chen,
  • Shuao Xie,
  • Wei Han,
  • Xiaoxue Xi,
  • Zhongbo Hu,
  • Xian Yue and
  • Junhui Xiang

2 November 2025

To enhance the mechanical performance and surface hydrophobicity of flat thin-sheet materials, we have developed a facile, environmentally benign, and low-cost synthesis strategy for fabricating a robust waterborne superhydrophobic coating with excel...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,026 Views
18 Pages

23 December 2019

Superpixel clustering is one of the most popular computer vision techniques that aggregates coherent pixels into perceptually meaningful groups, taking inspiration from Gestalt grouping rules. However, due to brain complexity, the underlying mechanis...

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