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Ru tailored hydrous cobalt phosphate as a rational approach for high-performance alkaline oxygen evolution reaction

Mohammad Khaja Nazeeruddin

The water splitting is an appealing approach to fulfil the demand of energy without any global concerns. The oxygen evolution reaction is one of way to achieve unlimited energy from water but the low stability, high energy required to drive the reaction (o ...

ELSEVIER SCI LTD2022

Vacuum Circuit Breaker Closing Time Key Moments Detection via Vibration Monitoring: A Run-to-Failure Study

Olga Fink, Gaëtan Michel Frusque

Circuit breakers (CBs) play an important role in modern society because they make the power transmission and distribution systems reliable and resilient. Therefore, it is important to maintain their reliability and to monitor their operation. A key to ensu ...

2022

Data-Driven Advancement of Homogeneous Nickel Catalyst Activity for Aryl Ether Cleavage

Anne-Clémence Corminboeuf, Matthew Wodrich, Benjamin André René Meyer, Manuel Cordova, Boodsarin Sawatlon

The increasing urgency to make chemical processes more environmentally friendly while continuing to derive the chemicals required for modern society from renewable resources requires the development of a forthcoming generation of synthetic processes and th ...

AMER CHEMICAL SOC2020

Londres, capitale du post-modernisme? : Transformations des modèles et des pratiques de l'architecture dans la culture britannique à la fin du XXe siècle

Nicolas Bruno Jacquet

The advantage of the dynamism of the London architectural scene seems rather ignored by historians and theorists. Not only is London absent from the grand narrative of modernity, but it is also denied the status of avant-garde, although since the 1960s, th ...

EPFL2016

Méduse face à Gaïa. Commentaire de Latour, Bruno. 2015. Face à Gaïa. Huit conférences sur le nouveau régime climatique

Alexandre André Robert Rigal

Ce commentaire de Face à Gaïa décrit la bataille intellectuelle que Bruno Latour engage contre les Modernes, à l’heure où la Terre les menace. Il use pour cela de l’icône Gaïa, personnage principal de l’ouvrage qui lui permet de représenter une Terre réani ...

Association Espaces Temps2016

Incentives for Subjective Evaluations with Private Beliefs

Boi Faltings, Goran Radanovic

The modern web critically depends on aggregation of information from self-interested agents, for example opinion polls, product ratings, or crowdsourcing. We consider a setting where multiple objects (questions, products, tasks) are evaluated by a group of ...

2015

Sustainable Architecture for Educational Space in Africa and China

Ning Liu

Countries in the Global South are producing the most important educational needs of the 21st century. Fast-growing cities can provide the most striking examples of these current tendencies. Just over a decade after the start of the new millennium, the need ...

EPFL2015

Perspectives of Active Atomic Clock Based on Modelocked Semiconductor Laser with Rubidium Vapor Cell Saturable Absorber

Xi Zeng

Atomic clocks are a vital technology in the day to day operation of modern society. While passive Rb and Cs microwave atomic clocks find widespread practical applications today, active atomic clocks have the potential to surpass them in frequency stability ...

EPFL2015

Steel, aluminium, plastic: the "unbearable lightness" of architectural modernity. The Centrale d'Allocations Familiales building of the XV th Arrondissement in Paris (1953-1959)

Giulia Marino

The Caisse Centrale d’Allocations Familiales de la Région Parisienne (or CCAFRP, shortened to CAF) was built between 1953 and 1959 as regional headquarters of a new post-war agency, the Central Fund for Family Allowance. Designed by French architects Raymo ...

2012

Contaminazioni linguistiche : il linguaggio vernacolare nella pratica architettonica moderna

Paola Tosolini

In contemporary debates about sustainable development, vernacular architecture plays an important role. Presenting itself as a dictionary of man’s constructive logic, it declares with no uncertainty its own usefulness, its connection to the soil, to the cl ...

EPFL2009