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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

Occupant comfort, the housing industry and electricity infrastructure: understanding the synergies [PDF]

, 2012
Despite increasingly stringent energy performance regulations for new homes, southeast Queensland has a high and growing penetration of, and reliance on, air conditioners to provide thermal comfort to housing inhabitants.
Miller, Wendy, Shah Nazari, Hoda
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Influence of Multisensory Perceptions on Thermal Comfort in Heat Wave Weather with Different Heat Pressures

Ecosystem Health and Sustainability
Under the dual effects of global climate change and urban heat islands, heat wave disasters have become a norm. With the development of the concept of resilient cities, the healthy development of urban systems and the physical and mental health of ...
Chang Liu, Wei Wu, Jingyi Ouyang, Jinshan Yan, Lina Tang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Inactivating SARS‐CoV‐2 Virus with MOF‐Composites as Smart Face Masks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In situ preparation and functionalization of MOF@Cotton fabrics as smart face masks for the immobilization of proteins and inactivation viruses, such as SARS‐CoV‐2. Abstract The significant impact of the SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) pandemic outbreak on people's lives has highlighted the urgent need for effective personal protective equipment.
Romy Ettlinger, Aamod V. Desai, Hau Lam Jody Cheong, Louise L. Major, Terry K. Smith, Aaron B. Naden, Jane Hilton, Catherine S. Adamson, A. Robert Armstrong, Russell E. Morris   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mitigation technologies for counteracting the UHI effects and for improving outdoor thermal comfort in mediterranean urban open spaces: a study of vegetation and cool materials effects on pedestrian comfort in Rome [PDF]

, 2017
The present study investigates the influence of building materials, traditional as well as innovative, and vegetated urban surfaces on the urban microclimate and on pedestrian outdoor thermal comfort in a typical Mediterranean city: Rome.
Battisti, A., Laureti, F.
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Subzone control method of stratum ventilation for thermal comfort improvement [PDF]

, 2019
The conventional control method of a collective ventilation (e.g., stratum ventilation) controls the averaged thermal environment in the occupied zone to satisfy the averaged thermal preference of a group of occupants.
Cheng, Y, Lin, Z, Oladokun, MO, Zhang, S
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Thermal comfort interventions of landscape elements in a humid and subtropical residential area in China [PDF]

, 2021
kunming Li, Huajing Zhang, Lihua Zhao
openalex   +1 more source

Device Integration Technology for Practical Flexible Electronics Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible device integration technologies are essential for realizing practical flexible electronic systems. In this review paper, wiring and bonding techniques critical for the industrial‐scale manufacturing of wearable devices are emphasized based on flexible electronics.
Masahito Takakuwa, Kento Yamagishi, Sunghoon Lee, Yusaku Tagawa, Takao Someya, Tomoyuki Yokota   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of external environment on thermal environment of cabin and optimization of air supply strategy of air conditioner

Results in Engineering
This paper employs CFD software to establish a mathematical model of a full-vehicle environmental wind tunnel, and couples it with the Berkeley thermal comfort evaluation model to assess human thermal comfort. The study investigates the impact of varying
Yingchao Zhang, Ruizhuo Zhou, Guohua Wang, Jincheng Xu, Zhe Zhang   +4 more
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Thermal Comfort Assessment of an Office Building in Tropical Climate Condition

MATEC Web of Conferences, 2018
As a lot of people spend their time indoor, indoor thermal comfort will affect the performance of the occupants in terms of health, comfort and productivity.
Koh Kelly, Al-Kayiem Hussain H., Kurnia Jundika C.   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source