This two-part paper deals with the coordination of the control actions in a network of many interacting components, where each component is controlled by independent control agents. As a case study we consider voltage control in large electric power systems, where ever-increasing pressures from the liberalization and globalization of the electricit...
In this article, we report on some properties of polymer nanocomposites prepared from dispersions of multi-wall carbon nanotubes (CNT) in aqueous solution prepared using amphiphilic block copolymers. These nanocomposites are made of polyethylene oxide as matrix and CNT wrapped with copolymers as fillers. We investigated the rheological and electric...
Recently developed CMOS-based microprobes contain hundreds of electrodes on a single shaft with inter-electrode distances as small as 30 μm. So far, neuroscientists needed to select electrodes manually from hundreds of electrodes. Here we present an electronic depth control algorithm that allows to select electrodes automatically, hereby allowing t...
In cognitive radio networks, imperfect spectrum sensing causes harmful interferences or low utilization of unused bands, depending on an access policy of the secondary system. Since these losses have a trade-off relationship, it is hard to decide proper sensing and access policies for the licensed bands. To deal with this problem, we propose a join...
Published in ACS synthetic biology
The assembly from modular parts is an efficient approach for creating new devices in Synthetic Biology. In the "bottom-up" designing strategy, modular parts are characterized in advance, and then mathematical modeling is used to predict the outcome of the final device. A prerequisite for bottom-up design is that the biological parts behave in a mod...
Published in Microfluidics and Nanofluidics
This paper aims at studying the asymmetrical breakup of bubbles at a microfluidic T-junction divergence stemming from the feedback effect of bubble behaviors at the T-junction convergence in a loop with the symmetrical branches by a high-speed digital camera. The experiments were performed under gas/liquid flow rates ratio ranging from 0.084 to 4.3...
Published in EMBO reports
We report a robust and direct route to fabricate a three-dimensional nano-foam of few-layer graphene (3D-NFG) with large area coverage via a chemical vapor deposition (CVD) technique. Pyrolysis of polymer/nickel precursor film under a hydrogen environment, simply prepared by spin-coating, leads to the creation of nano-foam in the film and the reduc...
Agritourism is an activity which associates two distinctive sectors, with their proper characteristics, in the economic, professional, organizational fields. Up to now agritourism was mostly considered and studied in relation to agricultural stakes, as the diversification of an agricultural activity (even if it is now acknowledged that it may be a ...
Two 2D metal-organic coordination polymers were synthesized through solvothermal reactions. The formation of 2D supramolecular networks was driven by intermolecular pi-pi stacking interactions between 2,2'bipyridyl units of 1D coordination polymer chains. These 2D networks showed large cavities and windows for encapsulation of guest molecules. The ...
