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Health condition monitoring and failure detection play a crucial role in estimating the performance of solar panels such as degradation trend over time and occurrence of failures. Monitoring and detecting significant degradation can help...
Despite the attractive properties of advanced ceramics, they are not popular for structural applications even though they possess high strength. Their low fracture toughness and brittle fracture mode are unwelcome for high integrity...
Individual carbon nanotubes (CNTs) possess excellent piezoresistive performance, which is manifested by the significant electrical resistance change when subject to mechanical deformation. In comparison to individual CNTs, the CNT thin...
Recently, the interest for renewable resources for fibers particularly of plant origin has been increasing. Reduction of use of traditional textile materials is now considered more critical due to the increasing environmental concern....
Carbon nanotube (CNT) fibers are very promising materials for many applications. Strong interactions among individual CNTs could produce a dense yarn results in exceptional properties. These properties are used in the application of high...
A major challenge to the study of the structure-property relationship of carbon nanotube (CNT) networks is to characterize the complex nanostructure with complicated nanoscale contacts and pore structures. An image-based characterization...
As research progresses towards nanoscale materials, there has become a need for a more efficient and effective way to obtain ultra-thin samples for imaging under transmission electron microscope (TEM) for atomic resolution analysis....
Single-walled carbon nanotubes (SWCNTs) thin films exhibit great potential in various applications thanks to their extraordinary physical and mechanical properties. However, to fully take advantage of their superior properties there are...
Carbon nanotubes (CNTs) are known to exhibit outstanding mechanical, electrical, thermal, and coupled electromechanical properties. CNTs can be employed towards the design of an innovative strain sensor with enhanced multifunctionality...
On the Use of a Novel Recuperative Nanofluid Heat Transfer Methodology for Improving Photovoltaic Output Power in Residential and Industrial Applications
ABSTRACT Since there has been an increase in the price of petroleum, there has been an increased need for photovoltaic systems over the last two decades. An increased number of private citizens are attracted to photovoltaic (PV) power as...
Traditional multifunctional composite structures are produced by embedding parasitic parts, such as foil sensors, optical fibers and bulky connectors. As a result, the mechanical properties of the composites, especially the interlaminar...
Advanced ceramics and ceramic composites have a variety of advantageous properties, such as high hardness, strength, and wear resistance. This makes them good candidates for materials in the aerospace, automotive and defense industries, ...
Structural Health Monitoring (SHM) systems have been studied by engineers and researchers for years [1-7], yet the applications of Triboluminescence (TL)-based SHM system for aerospace and civil structures are to a degree unexplored....
To prepare dielectric materials for High Temperature Superconductor (HTS) cables, nanocomposites consisting of Polymethylmethacrylate (PMMA) and Barium Titanate (BTA) nanoparticles have been manufactured and evaluated. The main objective...
There is a pressing need from a broad range of industries for high-performance energy storage devices with high power, high energy capacity, light weight, long lifetime, high efficiency, and low cost. A typical energy storage device, ...
Nanomaterials are small structures that have at least one dimension less than ~100 nanometers. Depending on the number of dimensions that are not confined to the nanoscale range, nanomaterials can be classified into 0D, 1D and 2D types....
The inclusion of reinforcing particles in materials used for AM allows for the fabrication of tailored multifunctional parts with improved mechanical properties, thermal conductivity, reduced coefficient of thermal expansion, improved...
Aiming for high-temperature applications (1200-2000°C), traditional carbon/carbon (C/C) composites are composed of carbon fibers (CFs) and amorphous pyrolytic carbon (PyC) matrix. Although still heterogeneous in the nature, both the...
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