In the last three decades, the development of new kinds of textiles, so-called smart and interactive textiles, has continued unabated. Smart textile materials and their applications are set to drastically boom as the demand for these textiles has bee...
Beyond conventional silicon, emerging semiconductor materials have been actively investigated for the development of integrated circuits (ICs). Considerable effort has been put into implementing complementary circuits using non-silicon emerging mater...
Energy-efficient materials are essential in buildings to reduce energy consumption, lower greenhouse gas emissions, and enhance indoor comfort. These materials help address the increasing energy demand and environmental impact of traditional construc...
Wide-bandgap (WBG) and ultrawide-bandgap (UWBG) semiconductors are key materials for high-power electronics, radio-frequency electronics, and ultraviolet optoelectronics. However, heterogeneous integration remains challenging because conventional het...
This research focuses on the mediating role of construction materials, sustainable use between the construction supply chain integration and the construction industry performance. In this concern, the case of Pakistan was considered specifically. The...
We present investigations on the impact of material-integrated sensors with the help of finite element-based modeling. A sensor (inlay) integrated with a material (matrix) is always a foreign body in the material, which can lead to a “wound effect”,...
A new and innovative approach is presented to integrate sensors in materials and set up “smart materials”. Semi-finished parts are functionalized by printed sensors and printed interconnects. These functionalized parts are then further processed to c...
The flexoelectricity, which is a new electromechanical coupling phenomenon between strain gradients and electric polarization, has a great influence on the fracture analysis of flexoelectric solids due to the large gradients near the cracks. On the o...
Wearable sensors are of interest for several application areas, most importantly for their potential to allow for the design of personal continuous health monitoring systems. For wearable sensors, flexibility is required and imperceptibility is desir...
Circular polarization detection plays a significant role in various fields, such as optical communication, quantum information processing, biomedical detection, polarization imaging, and sensing. Traditionally, similar to linear polarization detectio...
The combination of integrated optics technologies with nonlinear photonics, which has led to the growth of nonlinear integrated photonics, has also opened the way to groundbreaking new devices and applications. Here we introduce the main physical pro...
This study introduces a novel framework for the inverse design of sustainable food packaging materials using generative adversarial networks (GANs) and the recently released OMat24 dataset containing 110 million DFT-calculated inorganic material stru...
Landscape character change in mountain traditional villages is difficult to assess from a single perspective because roof-material replacement, material–color deviation, and visual exposure vary under complex terrain and settlement configuratio...
Within the extensive literature investigating the impacts of corporate disclosure in supporting the sustainable growth of an organization, few studies have included in the analysis the materiality issue referred to the information being disclosed. Th...
Structural biological materials with integrated soft and hard phases are ubiquitous in nature. Over recent decades, bio-inspired hard-soft-integrated materials (BHSIMs) have shown excellent mechanical properties of drag reduction and abrasion resista...
During the last few decades, the microelectronics industry has actively been investigating the potential for the functional integration of semiconductor-based devices beyond digital logic and memory, which includes RF and analog circuits, biochips, a...
Buffer material has been shown to be effective over the long term for radionuclide diffusion retardation and is used as the final artificial barrier of the multi-barrier system in the high-level waste disposal repository. The method of disposal raise...
In this study, through severe reduced-scale braking tests, we investigate the wear and integrity of organic matrix brake pads against gray cast iron (GCI) discs. Two prototype pad materials are designed with the aim of representing a typical non-meta...
Recent earthquakes and escalating energy demands are exposing building stock deficiencies, particularly in terms of seismic resilience and energy efficiency. Many aged constructions do not fulfil current regulations both in terms of seismic and therm...
Integrated periodic structure reference materials are crucial for calibration in optical instruments and micro-computed tomography (micro-CT), yet they face limitations concerning a restricted measurement range, a single pattern type, and a single ca...
The rapid growth of a modern industry results in a growing demand for construction materials with excellent operational properties. However, the improved features of these materials can significantly hinder their manufacturing, therefore they can be...
The work presented here aims to demonstrate the technical, architectural, and energy viability of solar thermal collectors made with ceramic materials and their suitability for domestic hot water (DHW) and building heating systems in the Mediterranea...
Natural redbeds are widely distributed throughout China. Ecological restoration entails implementing measures according to the local conditions and obtaining local materials, ensuring ecological environment conservation and restoration in a scientifi...
SiGe (Silicon Germanium) is a common semiconductor material with many excellent properties, and many photonic-integrated devices are designed and fabricated with SiGe material. In this paper, two photonic-integrated SiGe waveguides are researched, na...
In this study, a phase change material (PCM) in the form of technical-grade octadecane and oriented strand boards (OSBs), which are boards made from wood strands, are used to develop a latent heat storage board with the aim of utilizing this material...
Lignin is one of the wood and plant cell wall components that is available in large quantities in nature. Its polyphenolic chemical structure has been of interest for valorization and industrial application studies. Lignin can be obtained from wood b...
The evolution of biosensors and diagnostic devices has been thriving in its ability to provide reliable tools with simplified operation steps. These evolutions have paved the way for further advances in sensing materials, strategies, and device struc...
Electro-optic frequency combs (EOFCs), generated through the microwave-driven modulation of continuous-wave lasers, have emerged as a highly reconfigurable and system-compatible class of optical frequency combs with growing importance in microwave ph...
The miniaturization of optical switches is a promising prospect with the use of phase-change materials (PCMs), and exploring various strategies to effectively integrate PCMs with integrated optical waveguides represents an intriguing research questio...
The input of exogenous organic materials is an effective way to improve soil organic matter (SOM) content in cropland. The exploration of the impact of new organic materials such as woody peat on black soil fertility can provide an important referenc...
This study presents a cradle-to-grave Life-Cycle Assessment of a multifunctional building-integrated photovoltaic (BIPV) skylight system combining a recycled aluminum frame, double-glazing unit, semi-transparent cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaic...
Ti6Al4V alloy has been widely used in many fields, such as aerospace and medicine, due to its excellent biocompatibility and mechanical properties. Most high-performance components made of Ti6Al4V alloy usually need to be polished to produce their sp...
The growing demand for sustainable and efficient energy harvesting and storage technologies has spurred interest in the integration of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) with supercapacitors (SCs). This combination offers a promising solution for p...
Reducing structural mass and volume is critical to improving efficiency and payload capacity in next-generation small satellites and CubeSats. Additive manufacturing, particularly material extrusion, offers design flexibility and enables the producti...
New formulations are produced for problems associated with multiple cracks in the upper part of thermoelectric-bonded materials subjected to remote stress using hypersingular integral equations (HSIEs). The modified complex stress potential function...
This paper develops a material-structure integrated design and optimization method based on a multiscale approach for the lightweight design of CFRP car doors. Initially, parametric modeling of RVE is implemented, and their elastic performance parame...
This paper investigates the integration of thermo-responsive materials into bio-inspired structures, combining biomimicry and adaptive technologies in architecture. A problem-based biomimetic approach and a morphological analogy with the plate-type s...
In vibration insulation projects, a parameter affecting the dynamic properties of the viscoelastic materials is the previous static load acting on the supports, denominated here as the ‘preload’. Most of the currently-used methodologies o...
The rapid development of the construction industry, which has brought economic prosperity, has been accompanied by ecological and environmental crises incurred by the generation of building materials. The development of the green building materials (...
The business model of building-integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) is developing expeditiously and BIPV will soon be recognised as a building envelope material for the entire building skins, among other alternatives such as brick, wood, stone, metals, et...
The biomedical area uses nanostructured materials to maximize therapeutic advantages while minimizing invasiveness and toxicity. Their applications include drug delivery, therapy activation, diagnostics, and real-time therapeutic response monitoring....
Engineering components often require different properties in different regions, and a single material may not provide all of them. Reliable joining is important for refractory metal–steel, dissimilar superalloy, and Ti/Mg combinations. Field-as...
Economic viability of small launch vehicles, i.e., microlaunchers, is impaired by several factors, one of which is a higher dry to wet mass ratio as compared to conventional size launchers. Although reusability may reduce launch cost, it can drive dr...
Two-dimensional material indium selenide (InSe) holds great promise for applications in electronics and optoelectronics by virtue of its fascinating properties. However, most multilayer InSe-based transistors suffer from extrinsic scattering effects...
Microencapsulated phase-change materials (MPCM) can be used to develop a structural–functional integrated cement paste having high heat storage efficiency and suitable mechanical strength. However, the incorporation of MPCM has been found to degrade...
This paper discusses the adoption of biomimicry and eco-friendly materials as overarching concepts in interior design education. It aims to investigate how biomimicry and eco-friendly materials can be integrated into the existing and established inte...
Carbon emissions from the construction material industry have become of increasing concern due to increasingly urbanization and extensive infrastructure. Faced with serious atmospheric deterioration, governments have been seeking to reduce carbon emi...
Universities are increasingly required to demonstrate how their governance, stakeholder relationships, and institutional priorities contribute to long-term value creation and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Yet higher education institutions...
Graphene, owing to its unique atomic structure, exhibits a set of outstanding physical and chemical properties, including ultrahigh carrier mobility, excellent thermal conductivity, superior mechanical strength, and high optical transparency. However...
Fast urbanization and economic development lead to a prosperous high-rise building industry with high material handling efficiency (MHE). However, the integrated material handling (IMH) framework optimization and empirical studies on Chinese high-ris...
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