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Reviews of High‐Longevity Aqueous Zinc Metal Batteries Achieved by Programmable Interface Architectures

open access: yesENERGY &ENVIRONMENTAL MATERIALS, EarlyView.
This review focuses on the mechanisms of Zn2+ electrodeposition and interfacial failure together with systematical artificial interphase layer design strategies from carbon materials, zincophilic alloys, to inorganic/organic compound layers, regulating ion flux and desolvation and providing guidance for programmable interface construction in aqueous ...
Bixian Chen   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Scaling Up Inclusive Business -- Solutions to Overcome Internal Barriers [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Sustainability challenges including poverty, social unrest, climate change and environmental degradation have become ever more urgent. Business has the technology, innovation capacity, resources, and skills to play a key role in providing the radical ...

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Flexible ionic pressure sensors: From migration‐electronic mechanisms to emerging iontronic paradigms

open access: yesInfoMat, EarlyView.
Mechanisms, materials, structures, and applications of the FIPSs. Abstract Flexible ionic pressure sensors (FIPS) have emerged as promising candidates for bridging the gap between electronics and biologically compatible interfaces. Unlike previous reviews, which focused primarily on materials or devices, this review presents a classification of FIPS ...
Mengjie Wang   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tantalum‐Driven Interfacial Reconstruction Enables Ultra‐Low Contact Resistance in TiAlTa/Au GaN HEMTs

open access: yesRare Metals, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The transformative potential of gallium nitride high electron mobility transistors (GaN HEMTs) in advancing carbon‐neutral power systems remains bottlenecked by contact resistance (Rc) at the metal–semiconductor (M‐S) interface, a critical determinant of switching losses and frequency response.
Ji‐Zhou Zhang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Why Autonomous Vehicles Are Not Ready Yet: A Multi‐Disciplinary Review of Problems, Attempted Solutions, and Future Directions

open access: yesJournal of Field Robotics, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Personal autonomous vehicles can sense their surrounding environment, plan their route, and drive with little or no involvement of human drivers. Despite the latest technological advancements and the hopeful announcements made by leading entrepreneurs, to date no personal vehicle is approved for road circulation in a “fully” or “semi ...
Xingshuai Dong   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Back to Business Fundamentals: Making “Bottom of the Pyramid” Relevant to Core Business

open access: yesField Actions Science Reports, 2012
Over the last half-decade, corporate interest in Bottom of the Pyramid (BOP) — strategies for profitably serving the world’s lowest income consumers—has dropped precipitously or migrated to the CSR (i.e., philanthropic) side of the business.
Erik Simanis, Mark Milstein
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Innovation Africa [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
It is now ten years since the Economist newspaper declared Africa to be “the hopeless continent”. Today, the same magazine offers a different prognosis, building on the World Bank’s prediction of growth rates for sub-Saharan African economies that will ...
Hall, M
core   +1 more source

Social Capital, Culture, and Commitment to Sustainability Among Small‐ and Medium‐Sized Enterprises

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Sustainable development is gaining attention, especially among SMEs in developing countries. This paper examines how social capital mediates the relationship between cultural factors and SMEs' commitment to sustainability. The research focuses on Albanian SMEs using a quantitative approach that includes confirmatory factor analysis and ...
Ina Keçi   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Challenges of transforming bottom of the pyramid markets [PDF]

open access: yes, 2015
Presented as enterprising solutions to poverty, inclusive business or micro-enterprise, BoP initiatives are campaigning for the youth, including women, as the untapped frontier of entrepreneurism.https://www.researchgate.net/publication ...
Goncalves, Marcus
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Constraints and Frugal Innovation: Enabling Sustainable Production Through the New Product Development Process

open access: yesSustainable Development, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This paper advances understanding of how constraint‐based thinking fosters sustainable innovation under resource limitations. Based on five case studies of small and medium‐sized enterprises and research groups developing frugal medical devices across diverse regions, it identifies how market, infrastructure, and user constraints shape design ...
Zulfiya Ukbaeva   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

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