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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhancing Constrained Multi-Objective Optimization via Knowledge Transfer and Co-Evolution

International Journal of Computational Intelligence Systems
In constrained multi-objective optimization problems (CMOPs), two critical challenges persist for existing algorithms: effectively traversing infeasible regions based on problem-specific characteristics and utilizing auxiliary populations for efficient ...
Leyu Zheng, Ke Li, Chang Sun, Mingming Xiao   +3 more
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Development of an integrated fatigue measurement system for construction workers: a feasibility study

BMC Public Health, 2022
Background Construction workers working in physically and mentally challenging environments experience high levels of occupational fatigue, which is the primary cause of industrial accidents and illnesses.
Sojeong Seong, Soyeon Park, Yong Han Ahn, Heejung Kim   +3 more
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A Framework to Use Public-Private Partnership for Smart City Projects [PDF]

, 2013
The concept of Smart City has been emerging as a strategic set of integrated initiatives encompassing infrastructures, technology and digital services for the purpose of enhancing the quality of life of citizens.
Calderini, Mario, De Marco, Alberto, Mangano, Giulio, Michelucci, Fania Valeria   +3 more
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Roadmaps to Utopia: Tales of the Smart City

, 2018
Notions of the Smart City are pervasive in urban development discourses. Various frameworks for the development of smart cities, often conceptualized as roadmaps, make a number of implicit claims about how smart city projects proceed but the legitimacy ...
Alan-Miguel Valdez, Albino V, Bakıcı T, Bell S, Berkhout F, Boltanski L, Borup M, Braun V, Cairns S, Carvalho M, Clapson M, Cordella A, Deakin M, d’Aquin M, Edwards M, European Platform for Intelligent Cities, Finnegan R, Franklin J, Gooch D, Greenfield A, Hienerth C, Hollands RG, Hollands RG, Jasanoff S, Kitchin R, Lee JH, Llewelyn-Davies W, Martinez-Balleste A, Matthew Cook, Miles MB, Neirotti P, Phaal R, Pink S, Shapiro JM, Shelton T, Stephen Potter, Söderström O, Townsend AM, Velaga NR, Vilajosana I, Von Hippel E, Wiig A   +41 more
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Phase Change Material‐Driven Tunable Metasurface for Adaptive Terahertz Sensing and Communication in 6G Perceptive Networks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study explores the benefits of metasurfaces made from functional materials, highlighting their ability to be adapted and improved for various high‐frequency applications, including communications and sensing. It first demonstrates the potential of these functional material‐based metasurfaces to advance the field of sub‐THz perceptive networks ...
Yat‐Sing To, Jiachen Du, Cyril Decroze, Laure Huitema, Aurelian Crunteanu, Hang Wong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Scalable, Durable, Fire‐Safe All‐Day Passive Radiative Cooling Coating for Sustainable Buildings

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study reports a scalable, durable coating that combines a fire‑retardant copolymer adhesive, hollow glass microspheres, and boron oxide to achieve passive radiative cooling with over 94% solar reflectance and >95% mid‑infrared emissivity. The coating maintains performance after UV and rain exposure and exhibits UL‑94 V‑0 fire resistance, enabling ...
Zhewen Ma, Yuanhao Feng, Alex Y. Song, Toan Dinh, Min Hong, John Bell, Boyou Hou, Pingan Song, Wei Zheng   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Impacts of grid‐scale battery systems on power system operation, case of Baltic region

IET Smart Grid
Grid stability can be affected by the large‐scale utilisation of renewable energy sources because there are fluctuations in generation and load. These issues can be effectively addressed by grid‐scale battery energy storage systems (BESS), which can ...
Roya AhmadiAhangar, Freddy Plaum, Tobias Haring, Imre Drovtar, Tarmo Korotko, Argo Rosin   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Smart City Development with Urban Transfer Learning

, 2018
Nowadays, the smart city development levels of different cities are still unbalanced. For a large number of cities which just started development, the governments will face a critical cold-start problem: 'how to develop a new smart city service with ...
Guo, Bin, Wang, Leye, Yang, Qiang
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The Right to the Sustainable Smart City [PDF]

, 2019
Environmental concerns have driven an interest in sustainable smart cities, through the monitoring and optimisation of networked infrastructures. At the same time, there are concerns about who these interventions and services are for, and who benefits ...
Baggio Aline, Baibarac Corelia, Campbell-Dollaghan Kelsey, Cork Tristan, Harvey David, Karakasa Yoshifuyu, Khaorapapong Nanda, Minton Anna, Shenker Jack, Toland Alexandra Regan, Wolff Annika   +10 more
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