doi:US8544224 B1Jim HafendorferMatthew LyonsLoren StoutUSUS8544224 * Mar 21, 2011 Oct 1, 2013 Jim Hafendorfer Thermally efficient frames for use in construction of structures using insulated concrete forms (ICF) and methods for making and using same...
Applying parameter investigation or numerical optimization methods to a differential-algebraic (DAE) model of a building provides a systematic way of estimating efficient building designs. However, using detailed numerical calculations of the components in the building is a time consuming process, which ...
efficient thermal management.Extensive studies have been focusing on constructing graphene networks in polymer composites to achieve high thermal conductivities.Compared with conventional composite fabrications by directly mixing graphene with polymers,preconstruction of three-dimensional graphene networks followed ...
degrade too easily and can only serve as static carrier materials. Graphene oxide (GO) is an efficient photothermal conversion carbon-based nanomaterial [23] that can absorb near-infrared (NIR) laser energy to supply thermal energy for thermosensitive materials like poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM...
The current demand for cost-efficient and renewable materials for energy applications has recently acted as a great driving force towards the development of low cost photovoltaic cells. The majority of commercial solar cells currently use crystalline silicon as the base semiconductor; in all probability...
For the energy domain, new design methods will have to be adopted to leverage the increased flexibility of digital fabrication. As demonstrated with this work, the digital twin approach can be used to support new methods of construction by evaluating performance in terms of a whole building ...
we do not understand the effects of amino acid substitutions remote from the active site, many of which influence activity and thermostability. Therefore, effective methodology is needed to create thermally stable enzymes with efficient catalytic activity at moderate or even low temperatures without relyi...
Cost efficient due to lower investment cost, maintenance cost and low life cycle cost Main benefits: Uponor Contec and Contec ON is integrated into the building structure and activates the thermal mass of the building for heating and cooling ...
respectively. For efficient RISC process, strong vibronic coupling (VC) between the3LE and3CT should be involved. With closely lying excited states, ΔE3LE-3CTvalues are 0.07 and 0.06 eV, respectively, which is small enough to efficiently induce the VC. Additionally, large SOCME values ...
(see details in Methods), we numerically calculated the THz diffracted field distributions on thexOzplane. In the calculation, the transmission amplitude of the meta-atoms contributing to the focal point is set to 1. The results at 0.99 THz are shown in Fig.3c. For the forward incidence,...