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Advanced Science, EarlyView.A green, thermoreversible self‐assembly strategy yields a multifunctional and recyclable supramolecular nanofibrous membrane. Graphene oxide (GO) nanosheet acts as a heterogeneous nucleation‐templating agent, simultaneously modulating the supramolecular crystal packing while tailoring the nanofibrous architecture for elite performance.
Wenjing Sun +6 more
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Alexandria Engineering Journal, 2017 Improving outdoor human thermal comfort could be considered as one of the most important targets for achieving successful open space designs. In hot arid climate, residential neighborhoods are responsible for the high request of energy to provide cooling
Asmaa Barakat, Hany Ayad, Zeyad El-Sayed
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An Economic Model-Based Predictive Control to Manage the Users' Thermal Comfort in a Building [PDF]
, 2017 The goal of maintaining users' thermal comfort conditions in indoor environments may require complex regulation procedures and a proper energy management. This problem is being widely analyzed, since it has a direct effect on users' productivity.
Antonio Ruano +7 more
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Wearable Tailored Passive Radiative Cooling Textile for Flexible Electronic Integration
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A scalable, additive‐free wearable tailored passive radiative cooling textile (WRCT) with hierarchically structured fibers delivers exceptional thermal management, combining >95% solar reflectance, 0.96 mid‐infrared emissivity, and ultralow thermal conductivity (0.041 W/m·K).
Lung Chow +24 more
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Frontiers in Built EnvironmentGlobal warming has caused an increase in extreme heatwaves. Research on outdoor thermal comfort in urban parks has been carried out in different countries under various climatic conditions. However, there is lack of information on outdoor thermal comfort
Rupendra Subedi +4 more
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Outdoor thermal comfort research in urban areas of Central and Southeast Europe: A review [PDF]
Geographica Pannonica, 2019 Constant urban population growth and intensive urbanization lead to increased pressure on urban areas leading to uncomfortable living conditions. The quality of urban living conditions often depends on the thermal comfort of the open urban spaces, which ...
Dunjić Jelena
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Leveraging the multidimensional self‐catalytic merits of the alkali‐polyphenol synergistic self‐catalytic platform, this work delineates the intrinsic mechanism governing the regulation of hydrogel properties and puts forward an innovative design paradigm for frost‐tolerant electrode materials, providing critical scientific insights and technical ...
Mengting Zhou +10 more
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BuildingsAccording to piloti design, the outdoor thermal environment can be improved in cities with hot summer conditions. Taking Chinese cities with a hot summer and cold winter as the research object, this paper discusses the improvement of the outdoor thermal ...
Jinhan Li, Xiaofang Shan, Qinli Deng
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Thermal performance of residential house using interlocking compressed earth brick (ICEB) as an alternative wall material [PDF]
, 2012 Buildings are usually designed and constructed without the concern of its impact to the environment and human comfort. Most contributes to poor thermal performance and high energy consumption.
Razman, Ruzaimah
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Thermal comfort in the historical urban canyon: the effect of innovative materials [PDF]
, 2017 Urban heat island (UHI) can considerably affect the thermal quality of the urban environment, especially within urban canyons, that have typically low sky view factor and limited surface heat re-emission capability.
Castaldo, Veronica Lucia +8 more
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