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Placemaking and the Complexities of Measuring Impact in Aotearoa New Zealand’s Public and Community Housing: From Theory to Practice and Lived Experience

Architecture
This paper explores the complexities of measuring impact from placemaking in the context of public and community housing (sometimes known as social or subsidised housing) in Aotearoa New Zealand.
Crystal Victoria Olin, Karen Witten, Edward Randal, Elinor Chisholm, Amber Logan, Philippa Howden-Chapman, Lori Leigh   +6 more
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Membrane Distillation Trial on Textile Wastewater Containing Surfactants Using Hydrophobic and Hydrophilic-Coated Polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) Membranes

Membranes, 2018
Treating wastewater from textile plants using membrane distillation (MD) has great potential due to the high-salinity wastes and availability of waste heat. However, textile wastewaters also contain surfactants, which compromise the essential hydrophobic
Jesús Villalobos García, Noel Dow, Nicholas Milne, Jianhua Zhang, Leslie Naidoo, Stephen Gray, Mikel Duke   +6 more
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Entropy‐Driven Design of Low‐Melting‐Point Alloys via Compositionally Complex Strategy

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Conventional low‐melting‐point alloys (LMPAs) are limited by a narrow compositional space and inherent property trade‐offs. This review presents an entropy‐driven design strategy that overcomes these limitations, ushering in a new class of low‐melting‐point compositionally complex alloys (LMCCAs).
Yinghui Shang, Jianxiang Zhao, Zhaoqi Chen, Hao Gong, Yinsen Yan, Junlei Tao, Yong Yang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Short Term Load Forecasting for Transnet Port in East London South Africa [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Energy consumption patterns at Transnet in East London South Africa varies stochastically. This is because of the transient weather patterns that exists at the harbour. It has become imperative to manage this load to save electricity costs and for future
Figlan Mncedisi S., Markus Elisha D.
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Semiconducting Polymers Post‐Functionalized With Ureido‐Pyrimidinone for Robust Stretchable Transistors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The design of intrinsically robust stretchable semiconducting polymers was achieved through OTBS‐mediated post‐functionalization of PDPP2T side chains with UPy units, generating dual hydrogen‐bonding motifs comprising weaker urethane linkages and strong quadruple UPy interactions along the long alkyl side chain, which is crucial for achieving desirable
Dinda Bazliah, Livy Laysandra, Kosuke Terayama, Xingyu Yang, Atsushi Isobe, Tai‐Chin Chiang, Tsuyoshi Michinobu, Yu‐Cheng Chiu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Review on the Effects of Waste Textile Polymer Fiber on Concrete Strength: Exploring the Key Parameters

Buildings
The construction industry is one of the largest users of natural resources and can, thus, lead to significant environmental issues. Therefore, there is elevated interest worldwide in developing sustainable construction materials and techniques that can ...
Soorya Sasi, Paul Joseph, Robert Haigh, Malindu Sandanayake, Zora Vrcelj, Ehsan Yaghoubi   +5 more
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Sulfur‐Free Ultrahigh‐Refractive‐Index Polymers Enabled by Densely Packed Oxygen‐Bridged Dibenzofuran‐Cardo Architectures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A new class of sulfur‐free, oxygen‐bridged dibenzofuran‐based polymers is developed for ultrahigh‐refractive‐index applications. The rigid π‐extended architecture and enhanced molecular polarizability enable exceptional optical performance, combining refractive indices up to 1.848 with high Abbe numbers and full visible transparency. This work offers a
Hend A. Hegazy, Gyeongsoo Kim, Sooyoung Lee, Mohamed R. Elmasry, Youn‐Chul Kim, Changsik Song   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Confinement‐Engineered Thermally Programmed Ion‐Gating Separator for Decoupling Thermal–Electrochemical Feedback in High‐Energy Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A new phase‐change material encapsulated membrane offers more thermal resilience stability and safety than the conventional separators for batteries. ABSTRACT Thermal runaway in lithium‐ion batteries arises from the intrinsic coupling between heat generation and ion transport, yet conventional shutdown separators primarily rely on passive pore collapse
Sumedha Rajpoot, Wei‐Nien Su, Sheng‐Chiang Yang, Yu Chun Huang, Wahyu Fiqih Virdiansyah, Ashok Ranjan, Han‐Hsuan Hsieh, Chia‐Lung Hsieh, Yu‐Wei Li, Yosef Nikodimos, Zabish Bilew Muche, Yu Jen Liang, Chia‐Chi Wang, Chih‐Ching Liu, Gao‐Jhih Liang, Chun‐Chen Yang, She‐Huang Wu, Bing Joe Hwang   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Site-Related Factors Impacting the Cooling Performance of Urban Parks in Different Climate Zones: A Systematic Review

Land
As cities expand rapidly, the combined effects of urbanization, global warming, and the intensification of the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon have become more challenging for urban environments.
Maryam Norouzi, Hing-Wah Chau, Elmira Jamei   +2 more
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