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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Impact of Design Factors of Piloti Forms on the Thermal Environment in Residential Quarters

Buildings
According 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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Tri–Band and Dual–Response Smart Windows With Asymmetric Mid–Infrared Emissivity for Year–Round Energy Conservation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Our promising smart window exhibits exceptional optical properties, enabling the indoor temperature reduction of 12°C during summer and delivering the annual energy savings of 14.2%–24.4% across mid–to–low latitudes. ABSTRACT Building energy consumption accounts for 20%–40% of global energy usage, with windows among the least energy–efficient ...
Cheng Wang, Junwei Liu, Zhihua Zhou, Yuechao Chao, Xueqing Yang, Yan Liang, Yifan Zhou, Weiyi Zhang, Yahui Du, Wufan Wang, Shuqi Zhang, Jinyue Yan   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Occupant behaviour in naturally ventilated and hybrid buildings [PDF]

, 2009
Adaptive thermal comfort criteria for building occupants are now becoming established. In this paper we illustrate their use in the prediction of occupant behaviour and make a comparison with a non-adaptive temperature threshold approach.
Clarke, J.A., Humphreys, M.A., Nicol, F., Rijal, H.B., Tuohy, P.G.   +4 more
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Recent Advances in Laser‐Induced Graphene‐Based Gas Sensors: From Sensing Mechanisms to Biomedical Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Laser‐induced graphene (LIG) provides a scalable, laser‐direct‐written route to porous graphene architecture with tunable chemistry and defect density. Through heterojunction engineering, catalytic functionalization, and intrinsic self‐heating, LIG achieves highly sensitive and selective detection of NOX, NH3, H2, and humidity, supporting next ...
Md Abu Sayeed Biswas, Ankan Dutta, Shuvendu Das, Abu Musa Abdullah, Wanqing Zhang, Fatema Tuz Zohra, Huanyu Cheng   +6 more
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Introducing the T-MCCR Index for Evaluating Urban Thermal Comfort and Morphological Performance

Urban Science
Urban morphology plays a key role in shaping outdoor thermal comfort, especially as cities experience increasing heat stress under climate change. While the Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI) is widely applied in outdoor thermal comfort studies ...
Hossein Abdeyazdan, Daniele Santucci
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Thermal comfort investigation in traditional and modern urban canyons in Bandar Abbas, Iran [PDF]

, 2013
Urban design plays an important role in a city’s daily life. Therefore, accessibility to thermal comfort spaces for citizens engaged in urban outdoor activities could be one of the main goals of urban designers.
Dalman, Masoud, Saadatian, Omidreza, Salleh, Elias, Sapian, Abdul Razak   +3 more
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A Fully Self‐Powered Digital Wearable System for the Auxiliary Treatment of Plantar Fasciitis

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reports a system‐level fully self‐powered digital wearable system (FS‐DWS) for the auxiliary treatment of plantar fasciitis. By integrating arch support, energy harvesting, wearable sensing, and machine learning‐driven closed‐loop visualized feedback, the system enables effective plantar pressure reduction and self‐powered, real‐time plantar
Jiacheng Hou, Ying Hong, Shiyuan Liu, Qiqi Pan, Jingyu Zhang, Qingyang Xu, Qiyi Nie, Zhonghe Wang, Liming Xin, Yilong Wang, Biao Wang   +10 more
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Behavioural Perspectives of Outdoor Thermal Comfort in Urban Areas: A Critical Review

Atmosphere, 2019
The thermal characteristics of outdoor urban spaces and the street networks connecting them are vital to the assessment of the liveability and sustainability of cities.
Mohamed H. Elnabawi, Neveen Hamza
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Comfort driven adaptive window opening behaviour and the influence of building design [PDF]

, 2007
It is important to understand and model the behaviour of occupants in buildings and how this behaviour impacts energy use and comfort. It is similarly important to understand how a buildings design affects occupant comfort, occupant behaviour and ...
Clarke, J., Humphreys, M. A., Nicol, J. F., Rijal, H. B., Samuel, A., Tuohy, P.   +5 more
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