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Fault-Tolerant Electro-Responsive Surfaces for Dynamic Micropattern Molds and Tunable Optics.
(2017-10-02)Electrically deformable surfaces based on dielectric elastomers have recently demonstrated controllable microscale roughness, ease of operation, fast response, and possibilities for programmable control. Potential applications ... -
Multilayer Formation in Self-Shaping Emulsion Droplets.
(2019-04-23)In several recent studies, we showed that micrometer-sized oil-in-water emulsion droplets from alkanes, alkenes, alcohols, triglycerides, or mixtures of these components can spontaneously "self-shape" upon cooling into ... -
Shape-shifting polyhedral droplets
(American Physical Society, 2019-09-16)Cooled oil emulsion droplets in aqueous surfactant solution have been observed to flatten into a remarkable host of polygonal shapes with straight edges and sharp corners, but different driving mechanisms - (i) a partial ... -
Rechargeable self-assembled droplet microswimmers driven by surface phase transitions
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Sustainably Grown: The Underdog Robots of the Future
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Flow reactor for preparation of lipid nanoparticles via temperature variations
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Extension of the TraPPE Force Field for Battery Electrolyte Solvents.
(2023-03-02)Optimizing electrolyte formulations is key to improving performance of Li-/Na-ion batteries, where transport properties (diffusion coefficient, viscosity) and permittivity need to be predicted as functions of temperature, ... -
Investigation of the Waste Heat Recovery System of a Biomass Combustion Plant through Ground Source Heat Pumps
(2022-06-08)Renewable energies are to respond to the challenges raised by the growing energy demands, consumption of fossil fuels and the resultant emission of greenhouse gases. Biomass is regarded as a very promising source of renewable ... -
Natural and synthetic superhydrophobic surfaces: A review of the fundamentals, structures, and applications
(Elsevier, 2023-02-02)Self-cleaning surfaces are nature-inspired and based on the surface processes occurring on butterfly wings and lotus leaves. Owing to their unique characteristics, they are usable in a number of industrial applications, ... -
Numerical investigation of premixed hydrogen/air combustion at lean to ultra-lean conditions and catalytic approach to enhance stability
(Elsevier, 2023-02-14)Premixed combustion of hydrogen/air over a platinum (Pt) catalyst is numerically investigated in a planar channel burner with the aim of stabilising the flame at lean to ultra-lean conditions. A steady laminar species ... -
A combination of large eddy simulation and physics-informed machine learning to predict pore-scale flow behaviours in fibrous porous media: A case study of transient flow passing through a surgical mask
(Elsevier, 2023-01-16)A predictive method using physics-informed machine learning (PIML) and large eddy simulation (LES) is developed to capture the transient flow field through microscale porous media (PSPM). An image processing technique ... -
Speakers Raise their Hands and Head during Self-Repairs in Dyadic Conversations
(Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers, 2023-03-10)People often encounter difficulties in building shared understanding during everyday conversation. The most common symptom of these difficulties are self-repairs, when a speaker restarts, edits or amends their utterances ...