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Lessons learned from the Pefki solar village in Athens, nearly 20 years on [PDF]
, 2006 Solar Village 3 in Pefki, Athens, was part of an ambitious program, with active and passive solar systems providing space and water heating for 1750 inhabitants, designed in the early 80's, and inhabited from the late 80's.
Croxford, B, Kalogridis, A
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Digital Actuation Control of Soft Robotic Origami With Self‐Folding Liquid Crystal Elastomer Hinges
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Self‐folding soft‐rigid hybrid robotic origami is enabled by liquid crystal elastomer actuators with embedded Joule heating and closed‐loop digital control. Digitally addressable hinges provide reversible and programmable transitions between distinct folded states while maintaining actuation performance at high cycle counts (over 1500).
David C. Bershadsky +3 more
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Nexus of thermal resilience and energy efficiency in buildings: A case study of a nursing home [PDF]
, 2020 Extreme weather events become more frequent and severe due to climate change. Although energy efficiency technologies can influence thermal resilience of buildings, they are traditionally studied separately, and their interconnections are rarely ...
Hong, T, Specian, M, Sun, K
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Meta‐Rod Mechanical Metamaterials With Programmable Reconfiguration
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Existing mechanical metamaterials achieve programmable large deformations in planar square or cubic configurations, restricted by required complex boundary conditions. This research proposes a 1D metamaterial, Meta‐rod, with linear, bending, twisting, area, and volume deformation modes.
Atharva Pande, Lyes Kadem, Hang Xu
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Cryogenic, polar lunar observatories [PDF]
In a geological vein, it is noted that some permanently shadowed regions on the Moon could provide natural passive cooling environments for astronomical detectors. A telescope located in one of the low, dark, polar regions could operate with only passive
Burke, J. D.
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Imaging of Biphoton States: Fundamentals and Applications
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Quantum states of two photons exhibit a rich polarization and spatial structure, which provides a fundamental resource of strongly correlated and entangled states. This review analyzes the physics of these intriguing properties and explores the various techniques and technologies available to measure them, including the state of the art of their ...
Alessio D'Errico, Ebrahim Karimi
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Bio‐Inspired Molecular Events in Poly(Ionic Liquids)
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Originating from dipolar and polar inter‐ and intra‐chain interactions of the building blocks, the topologies and morphologies of poly(ionic liquids) (PIL) govern their nano‐ and micro‐processibility. Modulating the interactions of cation‐anion pairs with aliphatic dipolar components enables the tunability of properties, facilitated by “bottom‐up ...
Jiahui Liu, Marek W. Urban
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Fail-safe system for activity cooled supersonic and hypersonic aircraft [PDF]
A fail-safe-system concept was studied as an alternative to a redundant active cooling system for supersonic and hypersonic aircraft which use the heat sink of liquid-hydrogen fuel for cooling the aircraft structure.
Braswell, D. O. +2 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.MAGTWIST: A compact magnetic rotary actuator, enabling smooth, stepless rotation, and on‐demand locking. Inspired by peristalsis, a soft polymer belt generates a traveling‐wave, enabling 270° rotation when heated. Cooling stiffens the belt, locking it in position and enabling it to withstand high loads.
Simon Frieler +3 more
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