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Chapter and Conference Paper
Determining Grasp Positions with 4-Finger Gripper Manipulator Using Reinforcement Learning
This paper discusses the use of a 4-finger gripper manipulator and a reinforcement learning-based approach to enable a robot to grasp a wide range of objects with different shapes and sizes. We especially focu...
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Chapter
Bio-inspired Carbon Nanostructures: Advances and Challenges
Researchers have mimicked nature and biological organisms to form carbon nanostructures with specific properties and novel morphologies. The design has been inspired by, for example, the nanosized fibers in le...
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Article
Effect of Al2O3 ALD coating on thermal stability of silica aerogel
An optically transparent and thermally insulating (OTTI) silica aerogel demonstrates promising results for various solar thermal applications, particularly concentrated solar power systems. Higher system effic...
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Article
Open AccessAdsorption-based atmospheric water harvesting device for arid climates
Water scarcity is a particularly severe challenge in arid and desert climates. While a substantial amount of water is present in the form of vapour in the atmosphere, harvesting this water by state-of-the-art ...
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Article
Three-dimensional graphene enhanced heat conduction of porous crystals
We present functionalized three-dimensional graphene as a promising thermal additive to increase the effective thermal conductivity of porous crystal adsorbents. Due to the percolation and high porosity of thr...
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Open AccessCharacterization of Adsorption Enthalpy of Novel Water-Stable Zeolites and Metal-Organic Frameworks
Water adsorption is becoming increasingly important for many applications including thermal energy storage, desalination and water harvesting. To develop such applications, it is essential to understand both a...
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Article
Sulfur-doped zinc oxide (ZnO) Nanostars: Synthesis and simulation of growth mechanism
We present a bottom-up synthesis, spectroscopic characterization, and ab initio simulations of star-shaped hexagonal zinc oxide (ZnO) nanowires. The ZnO nanostructures were synthesized by a low-temperature hydrot...