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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
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Modeling and Stochastic Control for Home Energy Management [PDF]

IEEE Transactions on Smart Grid, 2013
The problem of modeling and stochastic optimization for home energy management is considered. Several different types of load classes are discussed, including heating, ventilation, and air conditioning unit, plug-in hybrid electric vehicle, and deferrable loads such as washer and dryer.
Zhe Yu 0001, Liyan Jia, Mary C. Murphy-Hoye, Annabelle Pratt, Lang Tong 0001   +4 more
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Microscopic Origin of Temperature‐Dependent Anisotropic Heat Transport in Ultrawide‐Bandgap Rutile GeO2

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Rutile GeO2${\rm GeO}_{2}$ exhibits orientation‐dependent heat transport with temperature‐dependent anisotropy, showing higher cross‐plane thermal conductivity along [001] than along the equivalent in‐plane [100] and [010] directions. Temperature‐dependent TDTR measurements and first‐principles phonon calculations identify the microscopic phonon ...
Pouria Emtenani, Marta Loletti, Felix Nippert, Eduardo Bedê Barros, Zbigniew Galazka, Hans Tornatzky, Christian Thomsen, Juan Sebastián Reparaz, Riccardo Rurali, Markus R. Wagner   +9 more
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Tough, Ductile, and Strong Hard‐Soft Cementitious Composite Enabled by Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Drawing inspiration from the layered hard‐soft architecture found in sea sponges, this work establishes a new framework for architected cementitious composites (ACC) through multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) process. The integration of mortar and elastomer phases into layered architectures enables synergistic toughening mechanisms, including
Aimane Najmeddine, Shashank Gupta, William Makinen, Zayvinn Lin, Krystal Delnoce, Reza Moini   +5 more
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Flexible Ag2Se‐Based Thermoelectrics: Fundamentals, Processing, and Device Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Ag2Se‐based thermoelectrics are reviewed from fundamental transport mechanisms to flexible device integration. Crystal structure, defect chemistry, and band features are correlated with performance optimization strategies and scalable fabrication routes.
Jie Qin, Yuchen Yang, Huangshui Ma, Yong Du, Min Hong, Qinfei Ke   +5 more
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Ultra-Short-Term Forecasting-Based Optimization for Proactive Home Energy Management

Energies
With the increasing integration of renewable energy and smart technologies in residential energy systems, proactive household energy management (HEM) have become critical for reducing costs, enhancing grid stability, and achieving sustainability goals ...
Siqi Liu, Zhiyuan Xie, Zhengwei Hu, Kaisa Zhang, Weidong Gao, Xuewen Liu   +5 more
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Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as highly promising materials for solar fuel and chemical synthesis. This perspective discusses advances made in the rational photoelectrode design to improve solar‐to‐chemical conversion, product scope, and scalability.
Virgil Andrei
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Reinforcement Learning-Based Energy Management of Smart Home with Rooftop Solar Photovoltaic System, Energy Storage System, and Home Appliances

Sensors, 2019
This paper presents a data-driven approach that leverages reinforcement learning to manage the optimal energy consumption of a smart home with a rooftop solar photovoltaic system, energy storage system, and smart home appliances.
Sangyoon Lee, Dae-Hyun Choi
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Weaving Intelligence: Thermally Drawn Multimaterial Fibers Toward AI‐Enabled Smart Textiles

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally drawn multimaterial fibers are rapidly advancing as intelligent structural units for next‐generation smart textiles. Integrating multimaterial architectures with neuromorphic and spiking‐neural‐network principles enables fabrics that can sense, compute, and adapt autonomously.
Vuong Dinh Trung, Jiaxiang Yi, Hieu Nguyen‐Duc, Tien Nu Hoang Lo, Weili Zhao, Chaoqun Dong, Fabien Sorin, Baris Caglar, Lei Wei, Tung Nguyen‐Dang   +9 more
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Near‐Unity Chiral Lasing Enabled by Quasi‐Bound States in the Continuum

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoimprinted chiral array that supports bound states in the continuum is doped with an efficient non‐chiral molecule (Rhodamine‐B) acting as gain medium to produce fully circularly polarized lasing emission. The chiral lasing wavelength can be tuned across the emission band of Rhodamine‐B by adjusting the coating thickness of the TiO2 high refractive ...
Jose Mendoza‐Carreño, Luis A. Pérez, Carlota Ruiz De Galarreta, Théo Rouanet, M. Isabel Alonso, Agustín Mihi   +5 more
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