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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modelling and simulation of a heat pump for simultaneous heating and cooling

, 2012
International audienceThe heat pump for simultaneous heating and cooling (HPS) carries out space heating, space cooling and hot water production for small office and residential buildings. It works under heating, cooling and simultaneous modes to produce
Byrne, Paul, Lénat, Yves, Miriel, Jacques   +2 more
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A daily representation of Great Britain's energy vectors : Natural gas, electricity and transport fuels [PDF]

, 2013
In much of Europe there is a strong push to decarbonise energy demands, including the largest single end-use demand – heat. Moving heat demands over to the electrical network poses significant challenges and the use of hybrid energy vector and storage ...
Hall, Peter J., Kelly, Nicolas, Rennie, Anthony J.R., Wilson, I.A.Grant   +3 more
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Defects Dynamic in Photo‐Excited CeO2 and their Influence on CO2 Photoreduction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
X‐ray photoelectron spectroscopy study under light excitation is presented to track the defect dynamic (Ce4+ to Ce3+) in CeO2. Surface enhanced Raman spectroscopy confirmed the key role of Ce3+ states in controlling charge and energy transfer across the CeO2‐dye molecule interface.
Rambabu Yalavarthi, Shashi B. Mishra, Olivier Henrotte, Emiliano Cortes   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Division of Outdoor Nominal Condition of Air Source Heat Pumps in China

Zhileng xuebao, 2019
Air source heat pump,as an important heating and air-conditioning equipment, is widely used in various types of buildings in China.The different climate and building load characteristics within different zones create a gap between the demand for ...
Shi Wenxing, Yang Zixu, Wang Baolong
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Device Integration Technology for Practical Flexible Electronics Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible device integration technologies are essential for realizing practical flexible electronic systems. In this review paper, wiring and bonding techniques critical for the industrial‐scale manufacturing of wearable devices are emphasized based on flexible electronics.
Masahito Takakuwa, Kento Yamagishi, Sunghoon Lee, Yusaku Tagawa, Takao Someya, Tomoyuki Yokota   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design of a CO2 heat pump drier with dynamic modelling tools [PDF]

, 2019
Drying is an energy and time intensive process which thermal energy demand is mostly provided by fossil resources. Especially in the food processing industry it is important to increase the energy efficiency of drying processes in terms of organic ...
Bantle, M., Claussen, I.C., Jokiel, M., Kopp, C., Tolstorebrov, I.   +4 more
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Using In Situ TEM to Understand the Surfaces of Electrocatalysts at Reaction Conditions: Single‐Atoms to Nanoparticles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent advances in closed‐cell in situ TEM strategies for accurate determination of the activity and stability of single‐atom catalyst systems during operation. Operando conditions causing dynamic changes of SAC systems are highlighted and we explain why ensemble average‐based optical techniques may benefit from the technological
Martin Ek, Soshan Cheong, Julie Cairney, Richard D. Tilley, Ingemar Persson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of experimental research on supercritical and transcritical thermodynamic cycles designed for heat recovery application [PDF]

, 2019
Supercritical operation is considered a main technique to achieve higher cycle efficiency in various thermodynamic systems. The present paper is a review of experimental investigations on supercritical operation considering both heat-to-upgraded heat and
De Paepe, Michel, Kosmadakis, George, Lecompte, Steven, Manolakos, Dimitris, Ntavou, Erika, Pillai, Aditya, Tchanche, Bertrand   +6 more
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Electrically Tunable On‐Chip Topological Photonics with Integrated Carbon Nanotubes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates electrically tunable on‐chip topological THz devices by integrating 2D carbon nanotube (CNT) sheets with valley‐Hall photonic crystals, enabling broadband transmission modulation (71% modulation depth) and tunable narrowband filtering (0.54 GHz shift) through electrically induced thermal tuning. This advancement paves the way for
Jifan Yin, Wenhao Wang, Thomas Caiwei Tan, Abhishek Kumar, Ridong Jia, Nikhil Navaratna, Ranjan Singh, Lijuan Xie   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source