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Development of Affordable Steel-Framed Modular Buildings for Emergency Situations (Covid-19) (2021)
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Gatheeshgar, P., Poologanathan, K., Gunalan, S., Shyha, I., Sherlock, P., Rajanayagam, H., & Nagaratnam, B. (2021). Development of Affordable Steel-Framed Modular Buildings for Emergency Situations (Covid-19). Structures, 31, 862-875. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.istruc.2021.02.004

This paper presents the development of novel affordable steel-framed modular units for construction with enhanced overall (healthcare, structural, fire, and lightweight) performance, which ideally suits for emergency response situation, such as curre... Read More about Development of Affordable Steel-Framed Modular Buildings for Emergency Situations (Covid-19).

Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts (2021)
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Cunningham, S., & McGregor, I. (2021). Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts. International Journal of Human-Computer Interaction, 37(11), 1074-1087. https://doi.org/10.1080/10447318.2020.1870818

Auditory alerts are an essential part of many multi-modal interaction scenarios, particularly in safety and mission critical settings, such as hospitals and transportation. A variety of strategies can be employed in the design of auditory alerts, oft... Read More about Evaluating Use of the Doppler Effect to Enhance Auditory Alerts.

Top-down synthesis of graphene: A comprehensive review (2021)
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Kumar, N., Salehiyan, R., Chauke, V., Joseph Botlhoko, O., Setshedi, K., Scriba, M., …Sinha Ray, S. (2021). Top-down synthesis of graphene: A comprehensive review. FlatChem, 27, Article 100224. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.flatc.2021.100224

Graphene research has become an emerging frontier in materials science because of its potential as a versatile material in multiple applications, from electronics, sensors, water treatment, batteries, displays, advanced composites, and coatings to bi... Read More about Top-down synthesis of graphene: A comprehensive review.

Performance Studies of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells with Different Flow Field Designs – Review (2021)
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Marappan, M., Palaniswamy, K., Velumani, T., Chul, K. B., Velayutham, R., Shivakumar, P., & Sundaram, S. (2021). Performance Studies of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells with Different Flow Field Designs – Review. Chemical Record, 21(4), 663-714. https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202000138

Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cell (PEMFC) is majorly used for power generation without producing any emission. In PEMFC, the water generated in the cathode heavily affects the performance of fuel cell which needs better water management. The flow ch... Read More about Performance Studies of Proton Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells with Different Flow Field Designs – Review.

Preparation and characterization of PLA/PBAT/CNC blend nanocomposites (2021)
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Sarul, D. S., Arslan, D., Vatansever, E., Kahraman, Y., Durmus, A., Salehiyan, R., & Nofar, M. (2021). Preparation and characterization of PLA/PBAT/CNC blend nanocomposites. Colloid and Polymer Science, 299(6), 987-998. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00396-021-04822-9

In this study, the effect of cellulose nanocrystals (CNCs) on the properties of polylactide (PLA)/poly(butylene adipate-co-terephthalate) (PBAT) blends was investigated. Samples were prepared via (i) solution casting (SC) and (ii) combination of solu... Read More about Preparation and characterization of PLA/PBAT/CNC blend nanocomposites.

A Review on Heavy Metal Ions and Containing Dyes Removal Through Graphene Oxide-Based Adsorption Strategies for Textile Wastewater Treatment (2021)
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Velusamy, S., Roy, A., Sundaram, S., & Kumar Mallick, T. (2021). A Review on Heavy Metal Ions and Containing Dyes Removal Through Graphene Oxide-Based Adsorption Strategies for Textile Wastewater Treatment. Chemical Record, 21(7), 1569-1569. https://doi.org/10.1002/tcr.202000153

Textile wastewater heavy metal pollution has become a severe environmental problem worldwide. Metal ion inclusion in a dye molecule exhibits a bathochromic shift producing deeper but duller shades, which provides excellent colouration. The ejection o... Read More about A Review on Heavy Metal Ions and Containing Dyes Removal Through Graphene Oxide-Based Adsorption Strategies for Textile Wastewater Treatment.

Adaptive and Optimum Secret Key Establishment for Secure Vehicular Communications (2021)
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Bottarelli, M., Karadimas, P., Epiphaniou, G., Ismail, D. K. B., & Maple, C. (2021). Adaptive and Optimum Secret Key Establishment for Secure Vehicular Communications. IEEE Transactions on Vehicular Technology, 70(3), 2310-2321. https://doi.org/10.1109/tvt.2021.3056638

In intelligent transportation systems (ITS), communications between vehicles, i.e. vehicle-to-vehicle (V2V) communications are of greatest importance to facilitate autonomous driving. The current state-of-the-art for secure data exchange in V2V commu... Read More about Adaptive and Optimum Secret Key Establishment for Secure Vehicular Communications.

Towards an Energy Balancing Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node (2021)
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Thomson, C., Wadhaj, I., Tan, Z., & Al-Dubai, A. (2021). Towards an Energy Balancing Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node. Computer Communications, 170, 50-64. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.comcom.2021.01.011

The issue of energy holes, or hotspots, in wireless sensor networks is well referenced. As is the proposed mobilisation of the sink node in order to combat this. However, as the mobile sink node may communicate with some nodes more than others, issue... Read More about Towards an Energy Balancing Solution for Wireless Sensor Network with Mobile Sink Node.

High-temperature BaTiO3-based ternary dielectric multilayers for energy storage applications with high efficiency (2021)
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Li, W., Zhou, D., Liu, W., Su, J., Hussain, F., Wang, D., Wang, G., Lu, Z., & Wang, Q. (2021). High-temperature BaTiO3-based ternary dielectric multilayers for energy storage applications with high efficiency. Chemical Engineering Journal, 414, Article 128760. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.cej.2021.128760

High-temperature BaTiO3-based ceramic capacitors have broad application prospects in energy storage devices. However, energy density and efficiency of BaTiO3-based ceramic capacitors are bottleneck challenges that limit the applications of ceramic ca... Read More about High-temperature BaTiO3-based ternary dielectric multilayers for energy storage applications with high efficiency.

Cold sintered, temperature-stable CaSnSiO5-K2MoO4 composite microwave ceramics and its prototype microstrip patch antenna (2021)
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Ji, Y., Song, K., Zhang, S., Lu, Z., Wang, G., Li, L., Zhou, D., Wang, D., & Reaney, I. M. (2021). Cold sintered, temperature-stable CaSnSiO5-K2MoO4 composite microwave ceramics and its prototype microstrip patch antenna. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 41(1), 424-429. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2020.08.053

Dense (1-x)wt%CaSnSiO5-xwt%K2MoO4 (CSSO-KMO) composite ceramics were fabricated by the cold sintering process at 180 °C under 400 MPa for 60 min. X-ray diffraction, Energy dispersive X-ray and Raman spectroscopy confirmed that CSSO and KMO coexisted... Read More about Cold sintered, temperature-stable CaSnSiO5-K2MoO4 composite microwave ceramics and its prototype microstrip patch antenna.

The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts (2021)
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Coleman, S., Terras, M., Thornton, P., Smyth, M., Schafer, B., Drost, S., …Speed, C. (2021). The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts. Big Data and Society, 8(1), https://doi.org/10.1177/20539517211006165

How can digitised assets of Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums be reused to unlock new value? What are the implications of viewing large-scale cultural heritage data as an economic resource, to build new products and services upon? Drawing up... Read More about The value of mass-digitised cultural heritage content in creative contexts.

Sampled-data integral control of multivariable linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities (2021)
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Gilmore, M. E., Guiver, C., & Logemann, H. (2022). Sampled-data integral control of multivariable linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities. Mathematical Control and Related Fields, 12(1), 17-47. https://doi.org/10.3934/mcrf.2021001

A low-gain integral controller with anti-windup component is presented for exponentially stable, linear, discrete-time, infinite-dimensional control systems subject to input nonlinearities and external disturbances. We derive a disturbance-to-state... Read More about Sampled-data integral control of multivariable linear infinite-dimensional systems with input nonlinearities.

The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites (2021)
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Levin, I., Krayzman, V., Playford, H., Woicik, J., Maier, R., Lu, Z., Bruma, A., Eremenko, M., & Tucker, M. (2021). The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites. Acta materialia, 207, Article 116678. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.actamat.2021.116678

Local distortions in perovskite-like A-site-deficient (Sr,La)TiO3 solid solutions have been determined by refining large-scale atomic configurations against neutron/X-ray total-scattering and extended-X-ray-absorption-fine-structure data. Structural... Read More about The mediation of bond strain by vacancies and displacive disorder in A-site-deficient perovskites.

A Novel Heuristic Data Routing for Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks (2021)
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Hawbani, A., Wang, X., Al-Dubai, A., Zhao, L., Busaileh, . O., Liu, P., & Al-qaness, M. (2021). A Novel Heuristic Data Routing for Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks. IEEE Internet of Things Journal, 8(11), 8976-8989. https://doi.org/10.1109/JIOT.2021.3055504

This work is devoted to solving the problem of multi-criteria multi-hop routing in vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs), aiming at three goals, increasing the end-to-end delivery ratio, reducing the end-to-end latency, and minimizing the network overhe... Read More about A Novel Heuristic Data Routing for Urban Vehicular Ad-hoc Networks.

Via-less Electromagnetic Band-Gap-Enabled Antenna based on Textile Material for Wearable Applications (2021)
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Elamin, N., Zubair, . M., Ashyap, A. I., Dahlan, S. H., Abidin, Z., See, C. H., Fadhali, A., Mukred, J. A. A., Salehv, . G., & Esmail, . B. F. (2021). Via-less Electromagnetic Band-Gap-Enabled Antenna based on Textile Material for Wearable Applications. PLOS ONE, 16(1), Article e0246057. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0246057

A compact fabric antenna structure integrated with a miniature electromagnetic band-gap structures (EBGs) covering the desired frequency spectrum between 2.36 GHz and 2.40 GHz of the Medical Wireless Body Networks (MBANs), is introduced. To satisfy t... Read More about Via-less Electromagnetic Band-Gap-Enabled Antenna based on Textile Material for Wearable Applications.

Natural Jute Fibre‐Based Supercapacitors and Sensors for Eco‐Friendly Energy Autonomous Systems (2021)
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Manjakkal, L., Franco, F. F., Pullanchiyodan, A., González‐Jiménez, M., & Dahiya, R. (2021). Natural Jute Fibre‐Based Supercapacitors and Sensors for Eco‐Friendly Energy Autonomous Systems. Advanced Sustainable Systems, 5(3), Article 2000286. https://doi.org/10.1002/adsu.202000286

Environmentally friendly energy devices and systems are of increasing interest for the circular economy and sustainable information and communications technology. To this end, an energy-autonomous system comprised of natural jute fiber-based supercap... Read More about Natural Jute Fibre‐Based Supercapacitors and Sensors for Eco‐Friendly Energy Autonomous Systems.

Thermally-induced local structural transformations in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-KNbO3 ceramics (2021)
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Wang, G., Goetzee-Barral, A., Lu, Z., Keeble, D. S., & Hall, D. A. (2021). Thermally-induced local structural transformations in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-KNbO3 ceramics. Journal of the European Ceramic Society, 41(6), 3832-3837. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jeurceramsoc.2021.01.040

The local symmetry of (1-x)Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-xKNbO3 (NBT-xKN, x = 0.01−0.07) ceramics was thoroughly examined using high-energy synchrotron x-ray scattering and analysed using the pair distribution function (PDF) method. At room temperature, the structu... Read More about Thermally-induced local structural transformations in Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-KNbO3 ceramics.

Ultrahigh energy density in short-range tilted NBT-based lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors by nanodomain percolation (2021)
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Ji, H., Wang, D., Bao, W., Lu, Z., Wang, G., Yang, H., Mostaed, A., Li, L., Feteira, A., Sun, S., Xu, F., Li, D., Ma, C., Liu, S., & Reaney, I. M. (2021). Ultrahigh energy density in short-range tilted NBT-based lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors by nanodomain percolation. Energy Storage Materials, 38, 113-120. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ensm.2021.01.023

Dense pseudocubic 0.62Na0.5Bi0.5TiO3-0.3Sr0.7Bi0.2TiO3-0.08BiMg2/3Nb1/3O3 (NBT-SBT-0.08BMN) ceramics with excellent recoverable energy density, Wrec = 7.5 J/cm3, and conversion efficiency, η = 92%, were synthesized. Large electric breakdown strength... Read More about Ultrahigh energy density in short-range tilted NBT-based lead-free multilayer ceramic capacitors by nanodomain percolation.

The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers (2021)
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Guo, C., Li, C., Zhang, K., Cai, Z., Ma, T., Maggi, F., …Shen, L. (2021). The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers. Applied Energy, 286, Article 116513. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.apenergy.2021.116513

Widely distributed aquifers have been proposed as effective storage reservoirs for compressed air energy storage (CAES). This aims to overcome the limitations of geological conditions for conventional utility-scale CAES, which has to date used cavern... Read More about The promise and challenges of utility-scale compressed air energy storage in aquifers.