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Effects of colored disorder on the heat conductivity of SiGe alloys from first principles

Semiconducting alloys, in particular SiGe, have been employed for several decades as high-temperature thermoelectric materials. Devising strategies to reduce their thermal conductivity may provide a substantial improvement in their thermoelectric performan ...

American Physical Society (APS)2025

Pinpointing the thermal history of lunar basaltic meteorites in a nutshell

Cyril Cayron, Philippe Gillet, Rongrong Cai, Arthur Brian Aebersold

Native metals of igneous origin are recognized as one of the distinctive features of basalts from the Moon. Our study demonstrates that the tiny Fe-Ni metal blebs nucleated from lunar magma exhibit unanticipated, nutshell-like, crystallographic microstruct ...

Springer Science and Business Media LLC2025

Thermomechanical constitutive modeling of the Kirigami-inspired shape memory alloy

Yves Perriard, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Marjan Ghorbani, Xinxin Liao

Shape memory alloys (SMAs) are unique materials capable of recovering predefined shapes through reversible phase transformations between austenite and martensite phases. This behavior enables SMAs to exhibit the shape memory effect and pseudoelasticity, al ...

2025

Polymer-bridged Nanofibrils in a High-molar-mass Polyester via Co-assembly of Benzenetricarboxamide End Groups and an Additive

John Christopher Plummer, Holger Frauenrath, Daniel Görl, Sophia Thiele, Michael Alan Giffin, Matthieu Claude Wendling

Benzenetricarboxamide (BTA) derivatives are versatile compounds widely employed as nucleating agents in commercial semicrystalline plastics and as supramolecular ligands in self-assembling telechelic polymer-based organogels, hydrogels, and bulk elastomers ...

ROYAL SOC CHEMISTRY2025

First-principles characterization of thermal conductivity in LaPO 4 -based alloys

Nicola Marzari, Michele Simoncelli

Alloys based on lanthanum phosphate (LaPO4) are often employed as thermal barrier coatings, due to their low thermal conductivity and structural stability over a wide temperature range. To enhance the thermal-insulation performance of these alloys, it is e ...

American Physical Society (APS)2024

Improvement of Shape Memory Alloy (NiTi) Actuation Frequency Using Highly Thermally Conductive Metal Layer

Yves Perriard, Thomas Guillaume Martinez, Marjan Ghorbani, Xinxin Liao

In this paper, we investigate a novel passive approach to improve the actuation frequency of Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) with the Kirigami-inspired design using a thin layer of highly thermally conductive material. By depositing an 80 nm layer of gold on th ...

Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers Inc.2024

Salt Bridge Structure of Microhydrated Arginine Kinetically Trapped in the Gas Phase by Evaporative Cooling

Oleg Boyarkine, Andrei Zviagin

Aminoacids and peptides generally exhibit zwitterionic forms withsalt bridge (SB) structures in solution but charge-solvated (CS) motifsin the gas phase. Here, we report a study of non-covalent complexesof the protonated amino acid arginine, ArgH(+)(H2O)( ...

2023

Efficacy of temporal and spatial abstraction for training accurate machine learning models: A case study in smart thermostats

Rachid Guerraoui, Alexandre David Olivier Maurer

Smart thermostats are increasingly popular in homes and buildings as they improve occupant comfort, lower energy use in heating and cooling systems, and reduce utility bills by automatically adjusting room temperature according to measurements of their bui ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2023

Adiabatic two-phase pressure drop of carbon dioxide in different channel orientations

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Rémi Revellin, David Schmid

Adiabatic pressure drop measurements of two-phase Carbon Dioxide (CO2) have been carried out in horizontal, vertical upward and downward direction with a dedicated test facility at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). A database of more t ...

2022

Convection of water vapour in snowpacks

Michael Lehning, Varun Sharma, Mahdi Jafari

This paper studies numerically the convection of water vapour in snowpacks using an Eulerian-Eulerian two-phase approach. The convective water vapour transport in snow and its effects on snow density are often invoked to explain observed density profiles, ...

Cambridge University Press2022

Heat transfer of flow boiling carbon dioxide in vertical upward direction

Jürg Alexander Schiffmann, Rémi Revellin, David Schmid

Heat transfer measurements of flow boiling Carbon Dioxide (CO2) in vertical upward direction have been carried out with a dedicated test facility at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN). The experiments have been conducted in a vertical up ...

2022

Process-informed adsorbent design guidelines for direct air capture

Berend Smit

Direct air capture using solid adsorbents is a proven technology critical to reducing our net greenhouse gas emissions to zero and beyond. Currently, academic research into the technology mainly focuses on the devel-opment of new adsorbents. However, there ...

ELSEVIER SCIENCE SA2022

Towards multifunctional building elements: thermal activation of a composite interior GFRP slab

Thomas Keller, Dolaana Khovalyg, Madeline Pugin

Modular multifunctional building elements can overcome major disadvantages of the traditional sequential design and become prospective design solutions for sustainable construction. Thus, this work explores lightweight glass fiber-reinforced polymer (GFRP) ...

IOP Science2021

Experimental investigation of sequential narrow impingement channels for turbine cooling

Peter Ott, Michele Gaffuri

Sequentially stacked impingement channels allow for a more effective use of the cooling fluid and can limit the heat transfer reduction due to the crossflow when the number of jets increases. In this paper, sequential impingement channels are experimentall ...

2021

Optimization of composition and structure of cemented carbide cutting tools

Samy Adjam

WC-Co cemented carbides are composites, which combine a hard phase consisting of WC grains and a metallic ductile phase as a binder. Their excellent mechanical properties, combining high hardness, toughness and refractory properties, make them excellent ma ...

EPFL2021

A Self-Biasing Shape Memory Alloy Gripper for Lightweight Applications

Gabriel Maquignaz, Yves Perriard, Adrien Jean-Michel Thabuis, Sean Thomas

Shape Memory Alloys (SMAs) are a type of smart material that are commonly used in compact and lightweight linear actuators. Paired with compliant motion conversion mechanisms, these alloys can be transformed into lightweight grippers ideal for applications ...

IEEE2021

Impact of air-flow on thermal performance of air-spaces behind cladding (ASHRAE 1759-TRP)

Dolaana Khovalyg, Mohammad Rahiminejad

The project ASHRAE 1759-RP addresses the impact of the ventilated cavity behind external claddings on the thermal performance of the wall structure by defining “effective thermal resistance” of air gaps based on the linearized network of thermal resistance ...

ASHRAE2020

Enhancing Two-Phase Cooling Efficiency through Thermal- Aware Workload Mapping for Power-Hungry Servers

David Atienza Alonso, Marina Zapater Sancho, Arman Iranfar, Ali Pahlevan

The power density and, consequently, power hungriness of server processors is growing by the day. Traditional air cooling systems fail to cope with such high heat densities, whereas single-phase liquid-cooling still requires high mass flowrate, high pumpin ...

IEEE and ACM Press2019

Solar heat gains through train windows: a non-negligible contribution to the energy balance

Josef Andreas Schuler, Luc Burnier, Olivia Valérie Charlotte Bouvard

The sector of transportation accounts for about one third of the total energy consumption in Switzerland. A monitoring campaign of the energy consumption of a regional train revealed the critical energy-consuming systems. Heating, cooling and ventilation w ...

2018

Improving surface heat flux estimation for a large lake through model optimization and two-point calibration: The case of Lake Geneva

David Andrew Barry, Ulrich Lemmin, Damien Bouffard, Abolfazl Irani Rahaghi, Andrea Cimatoribus

Net Surface Heat Flux (SurHF) was estimated from 2008 to 2014 for Lake Geneva (Switzerland/France), using long‐term temperature depth profiles at two locations, hourly maps of reanalysis meteorological data from a numerical weather model and lake surface w ...

Association for the Sciences of Limnology and Oceanography (ASLO)2018