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Introduction
As cities grow, they become more significant contributors to climate change while also being vulnerable to its effects, posing risks also for their citizens’ health and well-being. Urgent actions are needed to...
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Smart-Earth Multifunctional Cement Composites for Sustainable Constructions: Thermal and Sensing Characterization
In the last years, the sensitivity towards environmental impacts of industrial activities is of growing interest. Construction sector, with particular reference to cement-based materials, possesses a high envi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Phase Change Materials Shape Stabilized in Biochar for Energy Efficiency and Structural Strength Enhancement in Buildings
In this work, a commercial phase change material (PCM) was stabilized in biochar, by vacuum impregnation technique and later incorporated into cement pastes to be used in real building applications. The select...
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Quantum Confinement Effects in Materials for Daytime Radiative Cooling: An Ab-initio Investigation
We have here performed a campaign of first-principles calculations comparing the effect of confinement in two \(\text {ABO}_{3}\) ...