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10 June 2025

Na-layered Li-containing Mn-based cathodes (NaxLiyMn1-yO2, NLMOs) with additional Na+ storage ability resulting from the anionic redox reaction (ARR) hold great promise for sodium-ion batteries (NIBs). However, practical applications of NLMOs encount...

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  • Open Access
100 Citations
10,632 Views
14 Pages

Efficient Removal of Cr(VI) from Water by Biochar and Activated Carbon Prepared through Hydrothermal Carbonization and Pyrolysis: Adsorption-Coupled Reduction Mechanism

  • Anh Tuan Vo,
  • Van Phuong Nguyen,
  • Abdelkader Ouakouak,
  • Aileen Nieva,
  • Bonifacio T. Doma,
  • Hai Nguyen Tran and
  • Huan-Ping Chao

3 June 2019

Three carbonaceous porous materials (biochar and activated carbon) were developed from the Tectona grandis tree sawdust. The applied process of two-stage preparation included pre-treatment through hydrothermal carbonization at 190 °C and subseque...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,470 Views
18 Pages

Analysis of Surface Drag Reduction Characteristics of Non-Smooth Jet Coupled Structures

  • Jinming Kou,
  • Qiannan Lou,
  • Yunqing Gu,
  • Junjun Zhang,
  • Chengqi Mou,
  • Jiayun Yu,
  • Youting Ding and
  • Chengbo Xu

29 September 2024

To enhance the service life of shipping equipment and minimize surface wear, this study employs biomimetic principles, integrating fitted structures with jet dynamics to model three configurations: non-smooth structures, single jet structures, and no...

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  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,268 Views
28 Pages

Research on Ditching Mechanism of Self-Excited Vibration Ditching Machine

  • Jun Li,
  • Hongcai Li,
  • Yingyi Chen,
  • Peiyi Lin,
  • Qianqian Zhang,
  • Ying Cheng,
  • Zhou Yang and
  • Guangwen Huang

18 March 2023

A vibration ditching machine is a machine that can effectively reduce ditching resistance and energy consumption. In this paper, taking a self-developed, self-excited vibration ditching machine as the research object, we explore its internal dynamic...

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33 Citations
3,754 Views
17 Pages

Defect Reduction and Quality Optimization by Modeling Plastic Deformation and Metallurgical Evolution in Ferritic Stainless Steels

  • Silvia Mancini,
  • Luigi Langellotto,
  • Paolo Emilio Di Nunzio,
  • Chiara Zitelli and
  • Andrea Di Schino

27 January 2020

Manufacturing of ferritic stainless steels flat bars is an important industrial topic and the steel 1.4512 is one of the most commonly used grades for producing this component. In this paper, the origin of some edge defects occurring during hot rolli...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
763 Views
14 Pages

Experimental Study of Complex Coupled Deep Tillage Mechanism and Drag Reduction

  • Lihe Wang,
  • Yonglai Zhao,
  • Ying Li,
  • Xu Zhang and
  • Hongjie Su

27 February 2025

The high resistance and energy consumption of deep tillage operations reduce the economic benefits of conservation tillage. This study is based on an air-assisted wing-shaped deep tillage subsoiler previously developed by the research team. Biomimeti...

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  • Open Access
755 Views
17 Pages

Study on Strength Variation Law and Microstructure Evolution of Q125 Casing Materials Under Thermal–Mechanical Coupling Alternating Loads

  • Caihong Lu,
  • Hui Zhang,
  • Lin Shi,
  • Jianjun Wang,
  • Shangyu Yang,
  • Lihong Han,
  • Fangpo Li,
  • Yue Qi and
  • Baishan Chen

4 June 2025

Temperature and pressure coupling fluctuations are often encountered in oil and gas development processes, especially in the multi-stage volume fracturing process of shale gas development. The operations can lead to repeated changes in temperature an...

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  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,465 Views
20 Pages

14 March 2023

At present, there are two modes between urbanization and carbon emissions, namely mechanisms of increasing carbon and mechanisms of decreasing carbon. This paper uses the definition of environmental coupling and coordination to study the effect of th...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,385 Views
34 Pages

7 December 2024

In the context of China’s electricity market reform, green certificate trading and carbon trading, as important policy tools to promote the development of renewable energy and energy conservation and emission reduction in the power industry, wi...

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8 Citations
2,705 Views
13 Pages

29 April 2024

Hexavalent chromium (Cr(VI)) is known as the most hazardous species of chromium. Speciation analysis of Cr in foods is of a great significance for assessing its influences on human health. In this study, a fast HPLC-ICP-MS method for the determinatio...

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  • Open Access
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14 November 2024

In this study, a multiscale model is developed through secondary development (UMAT and UEXTERNALDB) in Abaqus with the objective of simulating the thermal deformation process with dynamic recrystallization behavior. The model couples the finite eleme...

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12 Pages

Coupling Mechanism of Multiple-Thermal-Fluid Multi-Cycle Stimulation in Ultra-Heavy-Oil Reservoirs

  • Hongfei Ma,
  • Bing Bo,
  • Anzhu Xu,
  • Shuqin Wang,
  • Chenggang Wang,
  • Minghui Liu,
  • Fachao Shan,
  • Lun Zhao and
  • Gang Ma

29 April 2024

Multiple-thermal-fluid (MTF) stimulation technology has been successfully applied in heavy-oil reservoir development, resulting in the significant enhancement of oil production. However, the underlying mechanism of multi-component coupling remains un...

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  • Open Access
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20 Pages

Numerical Study of Chemo–Mechanical Coupling Behavior of Concrete

  • Feng Guo,
  • Weijie He,
  • Longlong Tu and
  • Huiming Hou

1 August 2025

Subsurface mass concrete infrastructure—including immersed tunnels, dams, and nuclear waste containment systems—frequently faces calcium-leaching risks from prolonged groundwater exposure. An anisotropic stress-leaching damage model incor...

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  • Open Access
15 Citations
4,173 Views
21 Pages

25 January 2019

Heavy reduction (HR) is a novel technology that could effectively improve the internal porosities and other internal quality problems in continuously cast steel, during which a large reduction deformation is implemented at and after the strand solidi...

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4 Citations
2,670 Views
16 Pages

22 July 2024

The mechanism of the electrochemical CO2 reduction reaction on a Cu(110) surface has yet to be fully revealed. In this work, based on first-principles calculations, we investigate the mechanisms of the CO2 reduction reaction to produce C1 (including...

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31 October 2025

In recent years, China has faced the dual challenge of achieving high-quality economic development (HQED) alongside carbon emission reduction (CER), with new-quality productivity (NQP) emerging as a key driver integrating both agendas. Research on th...

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  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,653 Views
2 Pages

A Different Behaviour of the Phthalimide Ion in Srn1 Reactions

  • Manuel Bajo Maquieira,
  • Alicia B. Peñéñory and
  • Roberto A. Rossi

22 March 2000

The phthalimide anion reacts by the SRN1 mechanism under photostimulation with different substrates. Whilst with 1-iodonaphthalene only reduction of the naphthyl radical is observed, with 1-iodoadamantane coupling at the carbon instead of at the nitr...

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  • Open Access
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During operation, dynamic cables endure coupled thermo-mechanical loads (mechanical: tension/bending; thermal: power transmission) that degrade stiffness, amplifying extreme responses and impairing configuration optimization. To address this, this st...

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  • Open Access
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Interfacial Shrinkage Properties and Mechanism Analysis of Light-Conductive Resin–Cement-Based Materials

  • Shengtian Zhai,
  • Ran Hai,
  • Zhihang Yu,
  • Jianjun Ma,
  • Chao Hou,
  • Jiufu Zhang,
  • Shaohua Du and
  • Xingang Wang

5 August 2025

To address the issue of interfacial shrinkage deformation in optical resin–cement-based composites, this study examined the effects of casting methods and coupling agent treatments on the interfacial deformation behavior and underlying mechanis...

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  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,872 Views
15 Pages

7 January 2022

Mechanically driven magnetoelectric antennas are a promising new technology that enable a reduction in antenna size by many orders of magnitude, as compared to conventional antennas. The magnetoelastic coupling in these antennas, a phenomenon playing...

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  • Open Access
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28 Pages

Policy synergy, the evidence-based coordination of public policies, can aid in more rapidly achieving air pollutant and carbon dioxide (CO2) emission reduction targets. Using logarithmic mean Divisia index (LMDI) decomposition, coupling coordination...

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3 Citations
1,846 Views
14 Pages

6 January 2023

With the shortage of high-quality coking coal resources and the pursuit of low-cost smelting, the types and sources of coal have changed. Therefore, it is difficult to establish an effective correlation between the existing evaluation indexes of coke...

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  • Open Access
17 Citations
2,586 Views
16 Pages

21 January 2021

Natural gas hydrate (NGH) has been widely focused on having great potential for alternative energy. Numerous studies on gas production from hydrate-bearing sediments have been conducted in both laboratory and field. Since the strength of hydrate-bear...

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21 Pages

11 December 2025

Land subsidence caused by groundwater withdrawal remains a significant challenge in urbanized regions, requiring robust predictive models to manage its impact effectively. In this study, a set of coupled partial differential equations is formulated u...

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38 Pages

25 December 2025

To address the challenge of the synergistic optimization of carbon reduction and economic operation in the integrated energy systems (IES) of industrial parks, this paper proposes an optimization scheduling model that incorporates carbon trading and...

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17 February 2025

The reduction of noise and vibration is possible with passive, semi-active and active control strategies. Especially where self-adaptive control is required, it is necessary to evaluate the noise reduction potential before the control approach is app...

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12 Citations
6,291 Views
20 Pages

Study on the Bath Smelting Reduction Reaction and Mechanism of Iron Ore: A Review

  • Guilin Wang,
  • Jianliang Zhang,
  • Yaozu Wang,
  • Yubo Tan,
  • Zhen Li,
  • Bo Zhang and
  • Zhengjian Liu

29 March 2023

Against the background of low global carbonization, blast furnace ironmaking technology with coking puts huge amounts of pressure on the global steel industry to save energy and reduce emissions due to its high pollution levels and high energy consum...

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13 Citations
3,246 Views
16 Pages

19 April 2022

An acoustic black hole (ABH) has the ability to concentrate and manipulate flexural waves, which can be used for structural vibration suppression and noise attenuation. In this paper, a 2D ABH rectangular plate is designed and a 2D ABH plate-cavity c...

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2 Citations
1,949 Views
13 Pages

A 1D-3D Coupling Model to Evaluate Hydropower Generation System Stability

  • Meng Zhang,
  • Jinhai Feng,
  • Ziwen Zhao,
  • Wei Zhang,
  • Junzhi Zhang and
  • Beibei Xu

27 September 2022

This paper proposes a novel 1D-3D approach for the stability characteristics of the hydropower generation system (HGS) in transition processes. First, a 1D-3D coupling model was established for the HGS in the load-reduction process. Second, a sensiti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
11 Citations
1,635 Views
22 Pages

29 June 2024

To further optimize the low-carbon economy of the integrated energy system (IES), this paper establishes a two-stage P2G hydrogen-coupled electricity–heat–hydrogen–gas IES with carbon capture (CCS). First, this paper refines the two...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
712 Views
25 Pages

24 October 2025

The purpose of this paper is to quantitatively study the impact mechanism of urbanization, water resources, and forestry system coupling on carbon emissions, and explore new ways to reduce carbon emissions, as complex relationships exist among urbani...

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2 Citations
2,308 Views
19 Pages

Can Airport and Social Waste Reduction Measures Have a Synergistic Impact on Passenger Behavior?

  • Xinrui Guo,
  • Yifan Gu,
  • Yufeng Wu,
  • Chunhua Kang,
  • Yingjia Wang and
  • Tieyong Zuo

18 September 2023

As an integral part of urban functions, waste reduction behaviors inside the airport and outside in society form a linkage mechanism that influences each other, but the coupling mechanism between the two is not clear. In this study, we constructed a...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,572 Views
16 Pages

Experimental Study on Yield Strength Variation Law of Casing Materials under Alternating Thermal–Mechanical Coupling Loads

  • Caihong Lu,
  • Shangyu Yang,
  • Jianjun Wang,
  • Lihong Han,
  • Xinbo Zhao,
  • Yue Qi and
  • Hui Zhang

30 March 2024

Unconventional oil and gas reservoirs, characterized by low porosity and permeability, often require multistage fracturing techniques for development. The high-pressure fracturing fluids with large volumes can easily cause alternating changes in both...

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  • Open Access
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Fracture Properties of High-Performance High-Ductility Alkali-Activated Concrete Under Thermo-Mechanical Coupling: Effect of Fiber Hybrid Ratio

  • Tao Huang,
  • Bo-Yuan Huang,
  • Zhi-Feng Zhan,
  • Yu-Wen Huang,
  • Lei Wang,
  • Meng Li,
  • Zhi-Hong Xie,
  • Jian-Fa Li and
  • Jia-Ying Su

23 September 2025

This study investigated the fracture behavior of high-ductility alkali-activated composites (HDAACs) under thermo-mechanical coupling. Fracture tests were conducted on hybrid polypropylene/polyethylene (PP/PE) fiber-HDAAC with varying PP fiber replac...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,898 Views
25 Pages

Research on the Mechanism and Characteristics of Ultrasonically Coupled Mechanical Rock-Breaking Pre-Fracturing Technology

  • Chengwen Liu,
  • Mingyu Duan,
  • Yizhe Huang,
  • Qibai Huang,
  • Jiaqi Liu,
  • Zhicheng Wang and
  • Zhifu Zhang

29 September 2023

In this paper, we propose an ultrasonically coupled mechanical rock-breaking technology, creatively design an ultrasonically coupled mechanical rock-breaking drum, concurrently develop an ultrasonic cracking simulation method based on test coordinati...

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  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,502 Views
16 Pages

Numerical Simulation of Mechanical Coupling for Low-Back Booster with a 6-Year-Old Child during a Crash Test

  • Iván Lenín Cruz-Jaramillo,
  • Luis Martínez-Sáez and
  • Christopher René Torres-SanMiguel

25 May 2022

This research assessed a mechanical coupling for the ISOFIX Child Restraint System using the Finite Element Method (FEM) in a critical condition (simultaneous frontal and lateral collision). The mechanism was designed according to the R129 standard,...

  • Article
  • Open Access
762 Views
25 Pages

The hydro-mechanical coupling in fractures plays a significant role in fluid transport through fracture networks. However, current studies still exhibit certain limitations in the multi-parameter characterization of fracture permeability under stress...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
2,101 Views
45 Pages

28 July 2023

The applied mechanical modeling of train and bridge structures is essential in accurately predicting structural vibrations caused by high-speed trains, particularly for the often design-relevant structural accelerations. Considering the interaction e...

  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
3,733 Views
29 Pages

Analysis of Time-Varying Mesh Stiffness and Dynamic Response of Gear Transmission System with Pitting and Cracking Coupling Faults

  • Yiyi Kong,
  • Hong Jiang,
  • Ning Dong,
  • Jun Shang,
  • Pengfei Yu,
  • Jun Li,
  • Manhua Yu and
  • Lan Chen

21 April 2023

The gear transmission system is an important part of the mechanical system, so it is essential to judge its running state accurately. To solve the difficult problem of identifying the components of coupling faults, this paper derives the calculation...

  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
3,169 Views
24 Pages

Fuzzy Adaptive Type II Controller for Two-Mass System

  • Piotr Derugo,
  • Krzysztof Szabat,
  • Tomasz Pajchrowski and
  • Krzysztof Zawirski

6 January 2022

This paper presents original concepts of control systems for an electrical drive with an elastic mechanical coupling between the motor and the driven mechanism. The synthesis procedure of the speed controller uses a proposed quality index (cost funct...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
8,020 Views
18 Pages

Design of an Advanced Bearing System for Total Knee Arthroplasty

  • Mark L. Morrison,
  • Shilesh Jani and
  • Amit Parikh

9 June 2015

The objective of this study was to develop an advanced-bearing couple for TKA that optimizes the balance between wear resistance and mechanical properties. The mechanical and structural properties of virgin and highly crosslinked, re-melted UHMWPE we...

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  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,145 Views
21 Pages

The strategic coordinated development of land urbanization and carbon emission systems in urban agglomerations is crucial for achieving dual carbon goals and sustainable development. While existing studies emphasize population and economic urbanizati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,048 Views
14 Pages

Copper-Catalyzed Homocoupling of Boronic Acids: A Focus on B-to-Cu and Cu-to-Cu Transmetalations

  • Aude Salamé,
  • Jordan Rio,
  • Ilaria Ciofini,
  • Lionel Perrin,
  • Laurence Grimaud and
  • Pierre-Adrien Payard

3 November 2022

Controlling and understanding the Cu-catalyzed homocoupling reaction is crucial to prompt the development of efficient Cu-catalyzed cross-coupling reactions. The presence of a coordinating base (hydroxide and methoxide) enables the B-to-Cu(II) transm...

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  • Open Access
6 Citations
3,091 Views
21 Pages

Rub-Impact Dynamics of Shrouded Blades under Bending-Torsion Coupling Vibration

  • Shangwen He,
  • Kunli Si,
  • Bingbing He,
  • Zhaorui Yang and
  • Ying Wang

16 June 2021

Shroud devices which are typical cyclic symmetric structures are widely used to reduce the vibration of turbine blades in aero engines. Asymmetric rub-impact of adjacent shrouds or aerodynamic excitation forces can excite the bending-torsion coupling...

  • Review
  • Open Access
16 Citations
5,049 Views
25 Pages

5 December 2023

Nitrogenases have the remarkable ability to catalyze the reduction of dinitrogen to ammonia under physiological conditions. How does this happen? The current view of the nitrogenase mechanism focuses on the role of hydrides, the binding of dinitrogen...

  • Article
  • Open Access
10 Citations
1,304 Views
24 Pages

Vibration–Collision Coupling Modeling in Grape Clusters for Non-Damage Harvesting Operations

  • Baocheng Xu,
  • Jizhan Liu,
  • Yucheng Jin,
  • Kaiyu Yang,
  • Shengyi Zhao and
  • Yun Peng

In the table grape production process, issues such as berry detachment and damage caused by cluster vibrations and berry collisions are significant challenges. To investigate the underlying mechanisms and dynamics of these phenomena, a vibration&ndas...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,707 Views
20 Pages

3 March 2023

The perovskite solar cell has recently gained momentum within the renewable energy industry due to its unique advantages such as high efficiency and cost-effectiveness. However, its instability remains a challenge to its commercialization. In this st...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
5,719 Views
15 Pages

25 October 2011

Palladium-catalyzed Suzuki-Miyaura cross-coupling of 2-aryl-4-azido-3-iodo-quinolines with arylboronic acids afforded the corresponding primary 4-amino-2,3-diarylquinolines in a single-pot operation along with symmetrical biaryls and traces of the 2,...

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  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,735 Views
18 Pages

27 December 2022

Benzylic alcohols are among the most important intermediates in organic synthesis. Recently, the use of abundant metals has attracted significant attention due to the issues with the scarcity of platinum group metals. Herein, we report a sequential m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,220 Views
16 Pages

19 August 2025

Most numerical studies on carbon fiber-reinforced polymer (CFRP) lightning damages fail to account for delamination, a factor that plays a significant role in the subsequent analysis of residual strength. This study establishes an electro-thermo-mech...

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