Results 41 to 50 of about 311,854 (261)

From Nature to Engineering: Mortar Volume and Interfacial Mechanics in Bioinspired Ceramics

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by natural armors like nacre, this study explores how varying the volume fraction of the soft mortar layer impacts the interfacial strength and toughness of bioinspired ceramics. Experimental and computational analysis reveals that higher mortar volumes increase energy dissipation but reduce interfacial stiffness, offering insights for ...
Ehsan Azad, Hamidreza Yazdani Sarvestani, Behnam Ashrafi, Farjad Shadmehri, Mehdi Hojjati   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advancing Wildfire‐Retardant Materials: Engineering Strategies for Direct and Indirect Suppression

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Here, the evolution, ecological impact, and performance of current fire‐retardant materials and suppression strategies are reviewed, offering an engineering perspective to address existing challenges and propose pathways for the development of more effective, scalable, and sustainable solutions to meet the demands of a changing climate. Wildfires cause
Changxin Dong, Samya Sen, Athena Kolli, Stewart G. Wilson, Eric Andrew Appel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Safety in road transport [PDF]

Scientific Journal of the Military University of Land Forces, 2018
The article describes the transport process and the drivers’ approach with regard to respecting the applicable driver's working time standards. This paper presents and discusses the results of a survey conducted among professional drivers, the primary ...
Leszek Gil, Daniel Pieniak, Agata Walczak   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

In Situ Formation of a Melt‐Solid Interface Toward Stable Oxygen Reduction in Protonic Ceramic Fuel Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 35, Issue 12, March 18, 2025.
Protonic ceramic fuel cells offer a promising route to generate power efficiently but face critical challenges in achieving industrially viable activity and stability at their cathodes in CO2‐containing air. This report proposes a new cathode material design strategy to enable the cathode to be both catalytically active and CO2 tolerant through the ...
Desheng Feng, Mengran Li, Vanessa K. Peterson, Rijia Lin, Anita D'Angelo, Olexandra Marenych, Anya Yago, Dominique Appadoo, Tianjiu Zhu, Muhammad Yazid Bin Zulkifli, Shuai Gao, Yuming Wu, Xiaohe Tian, Xiaoyang Du, Zhonghua Zhu   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Wearable Haptic Feedback Interfaces for Augmenting Human Touch

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The wearable haptic feedback interfaces enhance user experience in gaming, social media, biomedical instrumentation, and robotics by generating tactile sensations. This review discusses and categorizes current haptic feedback interfaces into force, thermal, and electrotactile stimulation‐based haptic feedback interfaces, elucidating their current ...
Shubham Patel, Zhoulyu Rao, Maggie Yang, Cunjiang Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Size-resolved particulate matter inside selected fire stations and preliminary evaluation of the effectiveness of washing machines in reducing its concentrations

Scientific Reports
The study aimed to determine and compare the mass concentration and size distribution of particulate matter (PM) at two Polish fire stations, one equipped with a washing machine intended for the decontamination of uniforms (FSN) and the other not ...
Karolina Bralewska, Adrian Bralewski, Piotr Wolny, Błażej Chiliński   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Implementation of the Behavioural Observation Programme as Part of the Work Safety Strategy

Safety & Fire Technology, 2020
Aim: The purpose of this article is to present the implementation of the behavioural observation programme in a large manufacturing company belonging to a global concern in the household appliances industry.
Aneta Kułakowska, Ewa Frankowska, Beata Sadzińska   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advancing Electronic Application of Coordination Solids: Enhancing Electron Transport and Device Integration via Surface‐Mounted MOFs (SURMOFs)

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The layer‐by‐layer (LbL) assembly of coordination solids, enabled by the surface‐mounted metal‐organic framework (SURMOF) platform, is on the cusp of generating the organic counterpart of the epitaxy of inorganics. The programmable and sequential SURMOF protocol, optimized by machine learning (ML), is suited for accessing high‐quality thin films of ...
Zhengtao Xu, Christof Wöll, Stefan Bräse   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Novel Approach to Implementing Artificial Thalamic Neurons with Ferroelectric Transistors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Artificial neurons created using CMOS technology often require a large number of transistors and capacitors. This study introduces an artificial thalamic neuron that employs only five CMOS compatible ferroelectric transistors. The manufactured thalamic neuron demonstrates leaky integrate‐and‐fire‐or‐burst (LIFB) functionalities, featuring self ...
Andreas Grenmyr, Jiayuan Zhang, Jingxuan Sun, Kenta Moto, Stefan Wiefels, Seong‐Ryong Koh, Detlev Grützmacher, Qing‐Tai Zhao   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impact of ionic liquids on absorption behaviour of natural fibers/biopolyethylene biocomposites

Scientific Reports, 2021
For many years, there has been a growing interest in technologies enabling the replacement of conventional polymer composites with new materials made from renewable raw materials.
Joanna Rakowska, Magdalena Węgrzyn, Ewa Rudnik   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source