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Electrical and Optical Manifestations of Flat Band Physics in Van der Waals Materials

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Fusing Pre-existing Knowledge and Machine Learning for Enhanced Building Thermal Modeling and Control

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Beyond the average consumer: Mapping the potential of demand-side management among patterns of appliance usage

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Green hydrogen production using Shewanella oneidensis MR-1 bioanode and cuprous oxide-based photocathode

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On the prediction of the induced damage by the start-up sequence of Francis turbines: On operational resilience framework

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Development of Sustainable Carbohydrate-Based Solvents by Acetal Functionalisation of Biomass

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Hybrid organic/metal-oxide shells on semiconductor nanocrystals via colloidal atomic layer deposition

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Tailoring nanocatalysts and reaction interfaces for water- and CO2-electrolysis

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Energy Management of Price-Maker Community Energy Storage by Stochastic Dynamic Programming

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Network time series forecasting in photovoltaics power production

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Accurate forecasting of photovoltaic (PV) power production is crucial for the integration of more renewable energy sources into the power grid. PV power production is highly intermittent, due to the stochastic cloud behaviour and cloud dynamics. Previous w ...

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Reliability and Long-term Performance of Building Integrated Photovoltaic (BIPV) Modules

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Solar photovoltaics (PV) is one of the most competitive renewable energy technologies in order to meet the increasing global energy demand and decrease CO2 emissions by competing effectively with fossil fuels. One of the important applications of PV energy ...

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Fair real-time control of energy storage systems in active distribution networks in the presence of uncertainties

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Filiform Variable Stiffness Technologies for Medical Robotics

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In recent years, soft robotics has surged in applications like wearables, drones, smart fabrics, and medical instruments. Due to their compliance, these devices excel in tasks demanding dexterity and adaptability, such as manipulation, locomotion, crash re ...

EPFL2024