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    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...

    Myunghyun Kim, Sumin Kang, Sungwoo Yang in Intelligent Autonomous Systems 18 (2024)

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    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...

    Zachary Ault, Sungwoo Yang in Carbon Nanostructures in Biomedical Applic… (2023)

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    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...

    Sungwoo Yang, Elise Strobach, David Bierman, Lin Zhao in Journal of Porous Materials (2022)

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    Adsorption-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 ...

    Hyunho Kim, Sameer R. Rao, Eugene A. Kapustin, Lin Zhao in Nature Communications (2018)

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    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...

    Sungwoo Yang, **aopeng Huang, Gang Chen, Evelyn N. Wang in Journal of Porous Materials (2016)

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    Characterization 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...

    Hyunho Kim, H. Jeremy Cho, Shankar Narayanan, Sungwoo Yang in Scientific Reports (2016)

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    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...

    **hyun Cho, Qiubao Lin, Sungwoo Yang, Jay G. Simmons Jr., Yingwen Cheng in Nano Research (2012)