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Impacts of Vertical Greenery on Outdoor Thermal Comfort and Carbon Emission Reduction at the Urban Scale in Turin, Italy

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Urban heat islands (UHIs) increase urban warming and reduce outdoor thermal comfort due to changing surface characteristics and climate change. This study investigates the role of green walls (GWs) in mitigating UHI, improving outdoor thermal comfort ...
Amir Dehghan Lotfabad, Seyed Morteza Hosseini, Paolo Dabove, Milad Heiranipour, Francesco Sommese   +4 more
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Enhancement of the Through‐Thickness Electrical Conductivity of Carbon‐Fiber‐Reinforced Plastics Using Large Graphite Particles

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
To enhance through‐thickness conductivity without sacrificing impregnation, large spherical graphite particles are intentionally employed in a low‐viscosity resin. Unlike finer conductive fillers, these particles remain outside the fiber bundles and accumulate in resin‐rich interlaminar regions during molding.
Keito Hosoe, Yu Zhou, Shintaro Kamiyama, Takao Okada, Tomohiro Yokozeki, Ryoma Tokonami, Tatsuhiro Takahashi   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Assessing Uncertainties in Mean Radiant Temperature Measurements in Controlled or Outdoor Conditions.

Urban heatwaves have a significant impact on human health and thermal comfort in cities. The Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is widely used to evaluate outdoor thermal comfort in cities.  UTCI is based on meteorological inputs (air temperature, relative humidity, solar radiation…), clothing characteristics and a human physiological model ...
Wehbi, Zahra, Essaidi, Zacaria, Chanut, Clement, Garcia de Cezar, Martina, Cheviron, Bruno, Liron, Francois, Tomas, Severine, Aprin, Laurent   +7 more
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Study on a mean radiant temperature measure tool based on an almost spherical array of radiometric sensors

, 2012
Mean radiant temperature has significant influence on indoor thermal comfort conditions. It has gained greater importance with the wider application of heating and cooling systems based on the use of large surfaces with a temperature slightly higher or ...
L. Fontana, FONTANA, Lucia
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Enhancing Low‐Temperature Performance of Sodium‐Ion Batteries via Anion‐Solvent Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
DOL is introduced into electrolytes as a co‐solvent, increasing slat solubility, ion conductivity, and the de‐solvent process, and forming an anion‐rich solvent shell due to its high interaction with anion. With the above virtues, the batteries using this electrolyte exhibit excellent cycling stability at low temperatures. Abstract Sodium‐ion batteries
Cheng Zheng, Qian Yao, Yanan Sun, Hongyu Lv, Zhongchao Bai, Guoliang Zhang, Nana Wang, Jian Yang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova, Anna Chiara Bressi, Marina Galliani, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani, Eduardo Machado‐Charry, Hilda Gomez Bernal, Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani, Francesco Greco   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Composites of Shellac and Silver Nanowires as Flexible, Biobased, and Corrosion‐Resistant Transparent Conductive Electrodes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Shellac, a centuries‐old natural resin, is reimagined as a green material for flexible electronics. When combined with silver nanowires, shellac films deliver transparency, conductivity, and stability against humidity. These results position shellac as a sustainable alternative to synthetic polymers for transparent conductors in next‐generation ...
Rahaf Nafez Hussein, Tiago Carneiro Gomes, Eliza Ng, Simon Rondeau‐Gagné, Tricia Breen Carmichael   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Control of Polarization and Polar Helicity in BiFeO3 by Epitaxial Strain and Interfacial Chemistry

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In BiFeO3 thin films, the interplay of interfacial chemistry, electrostatics, and epitaxial strain is engineered to stabilize homohelicity in polarization textures at the domain scale. The synergistic use of a Bi2O2‐terminated Aurivillius buffer layer and a highly anisotropic compressive epitaxial strain offers new routes to control the polar‐texture ...
Elzbieta Gradauskaite, Lilia Huynh, Natascha Gray, Quintin N. Meier, Marta D. Rossell, Morgan Trassin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counterion Dependent Side‐Chain Relaxation Stiffens a Chemically Doped Thienothiophene Copolymer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oxidation of a thienothiophene copolymer, p(g3TT‐T2), via different doping strategies and dopant molecules resulted in materials with similar oxidation levels and a high electrical conductivity of ≈100 S cm−1. However, mechanical properties varied significantly, with sub‐glass transition temperatures and elastic moduli spanning from –44°C to –3°C and ...
Mariavittoria Craighero, Meghna Jha, Elsa Veronica Flores‐Vela, Joost Kimpel, Andreas Schaefer, Jiali Guo, Jesika Asatryan, Alberto Peinador Veiga, Shuichi Haraguchi, Per‐Anders Carlsson, Jaime Martín, Mariano Campoy‐Quiles, Christian Müller   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Towards a city-wide analysis of mean radiant temperature at high spatial resolution – An example from Berlin, Germany

, 2015
Heat stress is expected to increase in the future due to global climate change. Many epidemiological studies show the close link between elevated air temperature and increased morbidity and mortality, which are not restricted to subtropical and tropical ...
Jänicke, Britta, Meier, Fred, Scherer, Dieter, Lindberg, Fredrik,   +3 more
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