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Elephant‐Skin‐Inspired Porous Cementitious Tiles with Programmable Crack Networks for Passive Cooling

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang, Kun‐Hao Yu, Ji Yoon Bae, Yunchan Lee, Dorit Aviv, Shu Yang   +5 more
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Ambient Light‐Activatable Luminescent Particle‐Embedded Conformal Patch for Photochemical Tissue Bonding and Photobiomodulated Healing

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We report a wearable photonic patch integrating room light‐ and sunlight‐activatable luminescent particles (RSLPs) for both photochemical tissue bonding and photobiomodulation. RSLPs harvest ambient light and emit red luminescence to drive chlorin e6–mediated collagen crosslinking.
Kyungjoo Jo, Seong‐Jong Kim, Seung Oh Jung, Kyeongtaek Lee, Mungu Kim, Kwanghyeon Park, Yewon Seo, Boram Park, Dongchul Jo, Jongshin Kim, Jin Huh, Hyemin Kim, Sei Kwang Hahn   +12 more
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Analysis and Modeling of Mechanical Ventilation Operation Behaviors of Occupants in Cold Regions of North China

Applied Sciences, 2022
Mechanical ventilation has a great impact on building simulation performance, such as indoor environment quality and building energy consumption. However, there is still a lack of accurate mechanical ventilation models established from long-term field ...
Chenchen Zhang, Hejiang Sun
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Operation Limits of Integrated Photo‐Rechargeable Batteries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study elucidates the operational limitations of integrated photo‐rechargeable batteries. We demonstrate that the photo‐charging process is fundamentally restricted not only by material‐to‐material energy level alignment but also by transient capacitive charge accumulation within the cathode framework.
Byung‐Man Kim, Arvind Pujari, Hooman Abbasi, Weidong Xu, Yutong Han, Samuel D. Stranks, Michael De Volder   +6 more
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Electrochromic Adaptive Solar Heater and Sub‐Ambient Passive Daytime Radiative Cooler

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
An electrochromic Cu–Bi nanocluster device dynamically switches between solar heating and daytime sub‐ambient radiative cooling without mechanical motion. Defect‐activated graphene, minimized electrolyte loss, and pulse‐assisted reversible electrodeposition enable opposite solar and mid‐infrared modulation in one opaque platform, establishing a design ...
Chenxi Sui, Qizhang Li, Yu Han, Xinyu Dou, Gangbin Yan, Jiadong Liu, Blake Harris, Jinlei Li, Alexander S. Filatov, Qingsong Fan, Ching‐Tai Fu, Po‐Chun Hsu   +11 more
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Modulating the Evolution of Metastable CaO* for the Near‐Theoretical Performance Breakthrough of Ni/CeO2‐CaO in Integrated CO2 Capture and Methanation

Advanced Science
Integrated CO2 capture and utilization technology based on the calcium looping is burgeoning as an economical and viable strategy for achieving Carbon Neutrality. However, the drawback of easy sintering of CaO limits its potential to maximize CO2 capture
Lifei Wei, Rui Han, Gaoqi Han, Han Yan, Mingke Peng, Zhiyong Li, Chunfeng Song, Qingling Liu   +7 more
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Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui, Raphael Zufferey, William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Simon Jeger, Dario Floreano   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Indoor air quality and sick-building syndrome at a metro station in Tianjin, China

Environment International
Metro systems play a crucial role in public transportation worldwide. Given that metro stations are unique built environments with a significant volume of daily commuters, ensuring a satisfactory air quality in these spaces becomes paramount.
Zukun Wang, Junjie Liu, Mingyao Yao, Mingtong He, Wenzhe Shang, Xinyue Dong   +5 more
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Thermal environment optimization in a large space building for energy-saving

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2023
As the functionality of large space buildings becomes more sophisticated, to ensure that the interior of the building has a reasonable thermal environment when it is put to use, designers must consider the thermal comfort of the human body and the ...
Daixin Tu, Jinhui Tang, Zhichen Zhang, Hejiang Sun   +3 more
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Improving the Robustness of Visual Teach‐and‐Repeat Navigation Using Drift Error Correction and Event‐Based Vision for Low‐Light Environments

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Visual teach‐and‐repeat (VTR) navigation allows robots to learn and follow routes without building a full metric map. We show that navigation accuracy for VTR can be improved by integrating a topological map with error‐drift correction based on stereo vision.
Fuhai Ling, Ze Huang, Tony J. Prescott
wiley   +1 more source