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VO2@TiO2 Photocatalytic Switch
The sharp changes in optical and electrical properties in the VO2 metal–semiconductor phase transition are regarded as an on–off switch to regulate the photocatalytic performance of VO2@TiO2. As the switch is ON,...
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Function-Based Synthesis of Combined Mechanisms by Clustering Fine-Grained Function Units in the Form Layer
Conceived functional hierarchies closely related to building blocks and the lack of sufficient and explicit knowledge to describe the relationship between a combining mechanism and its constituent mechanisms a...
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Effects of Kinematic Parameters on Planar 3-RPR PM’s Motion Stability at Singular Configurations
Inspired by the case that a running parallelogram mechanism can traverse the singular configuration without losing motion stability, parallel manipulator's (PM) motion stability at singular configurations corr...
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An ROS-Responsive Antioxidative Macromolecular Prodrug of Caffeate for Uveitis Treatment
Uveitis is a sophisticated syndrome showing a high relevance with reactive oxygen species (ROS). Herein, an ROS-responsive PEGylated polypeptide based macromolecular prodrug of herbaceous antioxidant ethyl caf...
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Open AccessFire Intumescent, High-Temperature Resistant, Mechanically Flexible Graphene Oxide Network for Exceptional Fire Shielding and Ultra-Fast Fire Warning
Graphene oxide-based hybrid networks were fabricated via introducing multi-amino molecule with triple roles (i.e., cross-linker, fire retardant and reducin...
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Assistant Teaching Platform for Creative Mechanical Design Course
Innovative engineering education plays a vital role in promoting inclusive and sustainable industrialization worldwide. Creative Mechanical Design is a course open to senior students and graduate students for ...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
An Ergonomic Analysis of Main Control Room Console in Nuclear Power Plant Based on Jack
In the process of human factor design and preliminary verification of the control room console in Nuclear Power Plant, traditional 2D human model design and analysis method is commonly used. However the result...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
A Grammar-Based Functional Synthesis Approach for Complex Mechanisms through Assigning Functional Requirements to Graphic Carriers
The function-based synthesis is a major approach for the AI (artificial intelligence)-based type synthesis of complex mechanisms. Due to a lack of knowledge to support functional reasoning from the behaviors o...
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Open AccessLaboratory Study on Disconnection Events in Comets
When comets interacting with solar wind, straight and narrow plasma tails will be often formed. The most remarkable phenomenon of the plasma tails is the disconnection event, in which a plasma tail is uprooted...
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New Insights into the Research on the Fiber Optical Monitoring Instruments
Fiber optical monitoring instrument is endowed with many characteristics that traditional materials do not have for its unique size and structure. In order to lead the development of science and technology, ma...
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Open AccessQuasi-steady-state air plasma channel produced by a femtosecond laser pulse sequence
A long air plasma channel can be formed by filamentation of intense femtosecond laser pulses. However, the lifetime of the plasma channel produced by a single femtosecond laser pulse is too short (only a few n...
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Open AccessPiezoelectric Size Effects in a Zinc Oxide Micropillar
In this work, the dependence of piezoelectric coefficients (PE) on the size of artificial fabricated ZnO micropillars on Si substrate is investigated. ZnO full film is grown with c-axis orientation and an aver...
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Traversing the singularity hypersurface by applying the input disturbances to 6-SPS parallel manipulator
The singular points of a 6-SPS Stewart platform are distributed on the multi-dimensional singularity hypersurface in the task-space, which divides the workspace of the manipulator into several singularity-free...
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Ablation pressure of the shock wave generated by laser interaction with solid targets
The time evolution process of the plasma generated by laser pulse interaction with solid target in air is observed by optical shadowgraph imaging technique. The ablation pressure of the shock wave generated wi...
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Coupling coefficient enhanced by prepulse in laser plasma propulsion
Compared with direct ablation, a prepulse is used to enhance the coupling coefficient in laser plasma propulsion. It is found that the coupling coefficient is related with the delay times between the main beam...
