In recent decades, Offshore Wind Turbines (OWTs) have become crucial to the clean energy transition, yet they face significant safety challenges due to harsh marine conditions. Key issues include blade damage, material corrosion, and structural degradation, necessitating advanced materials and real-time monitoring systems for enhanced reliability. ...
This review examines high-performance advanced composites (HPACs) for lightweight, high-strength, and multi-functional applications. Fiber-reinforced composites, particularly those utilizing carbon, glass, aramid, and nanofibers, are highlighted for their exceptional mechanical, thermal, and environmental properties. These materials enable diverse ...
Published in Nanotechnology
As a pivotal category in the realm of electronics skins, flexible pressure sensors have become a focal point due to their diverse applications such as robotics, aerospace industries, and wearable devices. With the growing demands for measurement accuracy, data reliability, and electrical system compatibility, enhancing sensor’s linearity has become...
Published in ECS Journal of Solid State Science and Technology
This study explored the impact of micropattern designs on slurry dynamics in chemical mechanical planarization (CMP), focusing on pressure distribution, slurry flow and streamlines, abrasive residence time, and drag force. Using computational fluid dynamics (CFD) simulations, we examined how different pad patterns, including circle, triangle, squar...
The development of thermoplastic starch (TPS) films is crucial for fabricating sustainable and compostable plastics with desirable mechanical properties. However, traditional design of experiments (DOE) methods used in TPS development are often inefficient. They require extensive time and resources while frequently failing to identify optimal mater...
With the rapid development of lead-based perovskite solar cells, tin-based perovskite solar cells are emerging as a non-toxic alternative. Material engineering has been an effective approach for the fabrication of efficient perovskite solar cells. This paper summarizes the novel materials used in tin-based perovskite solar cells over the past few y...
Published in Materials Futures
High-entropy oxides (HEOs), with their multi-principal-element compositional diversity, have emerged as promising candidates in the realm of energy materials. This review encapsulates the progress in harnessing HEOs for energy conversion and storage applications, encompassing solar cells, electrocatalysis, photocatalysis, lithium-ion batteries, and...
The use of artificial intelligence (AI) is revolutionizing many professions and research fields. Thus, the present study focuses on the implications that AI is having on research in materials science and engineering (MSE). To this end, a bibliometric review has been conducted to analyze the advances that AI is generating in MSE. Although expectatio...
Published in Progress in Energy
The development and design of energy materials are essential for improving the efficiency, sustainability, and durability of energy systems to address climate change issues. However, optimizing and developing energy materials can be challenging due to large and complex search spaces. With the advancements in computational power and algorithms over ...
With the advancement of the manufacturing industry, performing submerged arc welding subject to varying welding heat inputs has become essential. However, traditional thermodynamic models are insufficient for predicting the effect of welding heat input on elemental transfer behavior. This study aims to develop a model via CALPHAD technology to pred...
