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Governance choice on a serial network [PDF]

This paper analyzes governance choice in a two-level federation in providing road infrastructure across jurisdictions. Two models are proposed to predict the choice of centralized or decentralized spending structure on a serial road network shared by two
David Levinson, Feng Xie
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Chiral Nanohoops as an Efficient Spin Polarization System

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Chiral conjugated nanohoops with a central dibenzopentalene unit exhibit 90% spin polarization at low voltage and high conductivity. These properties make them ideal components in molecular spintronics applications. Abstract A central challenge in molecular spintronics is to achieve a high spin polarization at low operating voltages and ambient ...
Anu Gupta, Philipp Seitz, Mathias Hermann, Birgit Esser, Ron Naaman   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

All‐Aqueous Pullulan Fibers Enabling Visible‐to‐Near‐Infrared Waveguiding with Mechanical and Thermal Resilience

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Pullulan, a biomass‐derived polysaccharide, is transformed into transparent optical fibers using a solvent‐free borax hydrogel‐spinning method. The fibers outperform PMMA with ≈200 MPa tensile strength and 200 °C stability, while uniquely guiding visible‐to‐NIR light and enabling additive‐free humidity sensing.
Yuya Fukata, Aayush Kumar Jaiswal, Ari Hokkanen, Hannes Orelma, Tadahisa Iwata   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Near‐Infrared Light‐Programmable Negative Differential Transconductance in Organic Electrochemical Transistors for Reconfigurable Logic

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Organic electrochemical transistors based on a Near‐Infrared (NIR)‐responsive polymer p(C4DPP‐T) and iodide electrolyte exhibit optically programmable negative differential transconductance. NIR illumination triggers an iodine‐mediated redox process, enabling a transition from binary to ternary conductance states within a single‐layer device.
Debdatta Panigrahi, Christina J. Kousseff, Aristea Pavlou, Zeinab Hamid, Iain McCulloch, Fabrizio Torricelli, Paul W. M. Blom, Paschalis Gkoupidenis   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Road Improvement and Poverty Reduction in Laos [PDF]

Laos is a mountainous country with poor roads and a high rate of poverty incidence, especially in rural areas. It is obvious that better roads could reduce poverty, but by how much? And what forms of road improvement reduce poverty the most? The economic
Warr, Peter G.
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A Framework for Life Cycle Sustainability Assessment of Road Salt Used in Winter Maintenance Operations [PDF]

, 2016
It is important to assess from a holistic perspective the sustainability of road salt widely used in winter road maintenance (WRM) operations. The importance becomes increasingly apparent in light of competing priorities faced by roadway agencies, the ...
Cui, Na, Shi, Xianming, Xie, Ning
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Mechanistic Insights into a Synergistic FeOx/Fe‐N4 System for Practical Nitrate Abatement with Value‐Added Ammonia Recovery

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work provides a novel interpretation of the nitrate reduction mechanism on iron oxides (FeOx) by employing constant‐potential density functional calculations and reports the design and synthesis of a robust and high‐performance Fe3O4/Fe‐N4‐C catalyst with remarkable Faradaic efficiency, current density, and stability under practical reaction ...
Qiang Zhou, Hongzhi Liu, Shenglin Liu, Yuwei Liu, Mamiko Nakabayashi, Yunlong Xie, Naoya Shibata, Feng Gong, Jean‐Jacques Delaunay   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Consideration of Road Management from the View Points of Long- and Short-Distance Road User’s Satisfaction

Civil Engineering Dimension, 2011
This study observed long- and short-distance road user satisfaction with national road infrastructure in order to direct future road management strategies.
Wardhana A.P., Ishibashi K., Kiyota M.
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Differentiated sources of funding road infrastructure

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
Article reveals the growing need for increased investment in projects for the modernization and development of the motor road network and identifies the problem of high capital intensity of road construction facilities and the duration of the investment ...
Shibaeva Marina, Okolelova Ella, Shalnev Oleg   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source