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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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Entangled Multistable Origami with Reprogrammable Stiffness Amplification and Damping

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a class of origami‐inspired metamaterials that overcome the limitations of existing multistable metamaterials by eliminating the need for rigid lateral confinements. Panel entanglement, snap‐through interactions, and instabilities synergy enable them to achieve extensive shape‐shifting, enhanced stiffness, and remarkable energy ...
Amin Jamalimehr, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh, Damiano Pasini   +2 more
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Comprehensive evaluation of public comfort on street roads considering the combined effects of thermal and acoustic environments

Discover Cities
The development and high population in urban areas contribute to environmental pollution. Countermeasures have been separately implemented for each type of pollution. However, public comfort in urban areas is influenced by multiple factors. Therefore, we
Yasuhiro Shimazaki, Jihui Yuan, Masaki Tajima   +2 more
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Thermal comfort analysis of intelligent cabin seat ventilation and heating considering heat transfer between human and seat

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering
Based on the development of intelligent control system for automotive cabin thermal comfort, this paper uses CFD simulation analysis to explore the effects of seat heating and seat ventilation functions on occupant cabin thermal environment and occupant ...
Yingchao Zhang, Ruizhuo Zhou, Guohua Wang, Ziqiao Li, He Chang   +4 more
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HVAC energy savings, thermal comfort and air quality for occupant-centric control through a side-by-side experimental study

, 2021
Meng Kong, Bing Dong, Rongpeng Zhang, Zheng O’Neill   +3 more
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The Influence of Annealing on the Sb Layer in the Synthesis of [001]‐Oriented Sb2Se3 Film for Photoelectrochemical Hydrogen Gas Generation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
[001]‐oriented Sb2Se3 film with improved crystallinity and adjusted composition is achieved via a new thermal treatment approach consisting of preliminary annealing of the Sb layer before its selenization. The findings of this work demonstrate enhanced charge carriers' transportation, a stable performance, and an improvement of H2 generation from ...
Magno B. Costa, Moisés A. de Araújo, Joaquim Puigdollers, Pablo Ortega, Teresa Andreu, Cristobal Voz, Edgardo Saucedo, Lucia H. Mascaro   +7 more
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The Mechanism of Street Spatial Form on Thermal Comfort from Urban Morphology and Human-Centered Perspectives: A Study Based on Multi-Source Data

Buildings
The influence of street spatial form on thermal comfort from urban morphology and human-centered perspectives has been underexplored. This study, utilizing multi-source data and focusing on urban central districts, establishes a refined index system for ...
Fei Guo, Mingxuan Luo, Chenxi Zhang, Jun Cai, Xiang Zhang, Hongchi Zhang, Jing Dong   +6 more
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Performance evaluation of ductless personalized ventilation in comparison with desk fans using numerical simulations [PDF]

, 2020
The performance of ductless personalized ventilation (DPV) was compared to the performance of a typical desk fan since they are both stand-alone systems that allow the users to personalize their indoor environment.
Alsaad, Hayder (Dr.-Ing.), Voelker, Conrad (Prof.)   +1 more
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Demonstration of an All‐Optical AND Gate Mediated by Photochromic Molecules

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A logic AND gate that runs on photons is demonstrated. It relies on two spatially separated photochromic molecules that work in tandem. Abstract The realization of a photonic logic AND gate, i.e. a logic AND gate that runs on photons rather than electrons, and where all steps are controlled by light, is demonstrated. In a proof‐of‐principle experiment,
Heyou Zhang, Max Gießübel, Pankaj Dharpure, Andrea Albert, Vira Niestierkina, Paul Mulvaney, Mukundan Thelakkat, Jürgen Köhler   +7 more
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Linking Sustainable Development Goals with Thermal Comfort and Lighting Conditions in Educational Environments [PDF]

, 2020
Isabel Montiel, María Asunción Martínez Mayoral, José Navarro-Pedreño, Silvia Maiques, Gema Marco Dos Santos   +4 more
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