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Buildings, 2019 The glass curtain wall system is an architectural, functional innovation where failures of insulation systems create areas of reduced resistance to heat transfer—thermal bridges—during a building’s operational lifetime. These failures enable energy flows
Albert Ficapal, Ivan Mutis
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Conductive Heat Transfer in Thermal Bridges
Encyclopedia, 2022 A thermal bridge is a component of a building that is characterized by a higher thermal loss compared with its surroundings. Their accurate modeling is a key step in energy performance analysis due to the increased awareness of the importance of ...
Mathias Fuchs
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Impact of point thermal bridges on thermal properties of building envelopes
, 2020 During the design of energy-efficient buildings with a ventilated facade systems, the evaluation of point thermal transmittance is complicated. It requires additional theoretical knowledge, special software and skills to use it.
J. Šadauskienė +2 more
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Thermal CFD Analysis of Tubular Light Guides
Energies, 2013 Tubular light guides are applicable for daylighting of windowless areas in buildings. Despite their many positive indoor climate aspects they can also present some problems with heat losses and condensation. A computer CFD model focused on the evaluation
Ondřej Šikula +2 more
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Rethinking plastic waste: innovations in enzymatic breakdown of oil‐based polyesters and bioplastics
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.Plastic pollution remains a critical environmental challenge, and current mechanical and chemical recycling methods are insufficient to achieve a fully circular economy. This review highlights recent breakthroughs in the enzymatic depolymerization of both oil‐derived polyesters and bioplastics, including high‐throughput protein engineering, de novo ...
Elena Rosini +2 more
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How to achieve Nearly zero-energy buildings standard
Građevinar, 2020 The implementation of the Nearly zero-energy buildings (NZEB) standard has enabled significant developments in the design and realisation of external building envelopes, which have the greatest influence on the quality of buildings in the sense of energy
Bojan Milovanović, Marina Bagarić
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Enzymatic degradation of biopolymers in amorphous and molten states: mechanisms and applications
FEBS Open Bio, EarlyView.This review explains how polymer morphology and thermal state shape enzymatic degradation pathways, comparing amorphous and molten biopolymer structures. By integrating structure–reactivity principles with insights from thermodynamics and enzyme engineering, it highlights mechanisms that enable efficient polymer breakdown.
Anđela Pustak, Aleksandra Maršavelski
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Annals of Clinical and Translational Neurology, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Objective Accurate localization of epileptogenic tubers (ETs) in patients with tuberous sclerosis complex (TSC) is essential but challenging, as these tubers lack distinct pathological or genetic markers to differentiate them from other cortical tubers.
Tinghong Liu +11 more
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Effect of thermal bridges on the energy performance of Chinese residential buildings
Energy and Built EnvironmentThermal bridges may represent up to 50 % of the building's envelope area and may increase the energy consumption of buildings by up to 30 %, however their impact is often not taken into account adequately in China.
Guojie Chen +6 more
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The The Occurrence of Thermal Bridges in Hemp-Lime Construction Junctions
Periodica polytechnica. Civil engineering, 2019 Thermal bridges increase heat losses in buildings and reduce the temperature of the internal envelope surface, causing moisture condensation and mould growth.
M. Grudzińska, P. Brzyski
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