Publications

Engineering Sciences

Thermal Study of Hemp Concrete Behavior when Subjected to High Temperatures by X-ray Microtomography

Chady El Hachem, Joseph Moussa, Kamilia Abahri

SynerCrete'23, International RILEM Conference on Synergising Expertise towards Sustainability and Robustness of Cement-based Materials and Concrete Structures - 2023

Engineering Sciences

Experimental Investigation of the Influence of Hemp Particles on Hydration Kinetics of Multicomponent Mineral Binder

Dmytro Kosiachevskyi, Kamilia Abahri, Anne Daubresse, Evelyne Prat, Mohend Chaouche

International RILEM Conference on Synergising Expertise towards Sustainability and Robustness of Cement-based Materials and Concrete Structures. SynerCrete 2023 - 2023

Physics

Estimation of the drying process in porous media using the parallel and series moitrue transfer model

Moisture transfer is a very common phenomenon in a wide range of engineering fields, such as civil engineering (cement-based constructions), food processing, mining and soil penetration, drying and imbibition of porous media (including phase change…

Xiaoyan Ma, Rachid Bennacer, Farid Benboudjema, Longfei Chen

European Physical Journal: Applied Physics - 2023

Chemical Sciences

Unification of rheology of thixotropic yield stress fluids and screen printing properties of pastes

At present, the electrode width of solar cells has been successfully reduced to less than 20 µm. Ensuring its morphology and aspect ratio remains a major challenge to further reducing the electrode width, which puts higher requirements on the…

Chaobin Mao, Yuxin Tian, Xingyu Zhou, Jinbo Bai, Shenghua Ma, Hui Wang

Colloids and Surfaces A: Physicochemical and Engineering Aspects - 2023

Materials and structures in mechanics

Experimental mechanics and fracture: Toward a big data approach?

One of the main sources of data in experimental solid mechanics comes from the use of digital images and their registration via correlation techniques. Thanks to such measurements, one may state that experimental mechanics has entered the big-data…

Olivier Allix, Francisco Chinesta, François Hild

CFRAC - 2023

Solid mechanics

A gradient-enhanced bone remodelling approach to avoid the checkerboard phenomenon

Numerical simulation of bone remodelling enables the investigation of short-and long-term stability of bone implants and thus can be an essential tool for surgical planning. The first development of related mathematical models dates back to the…

Fynn Bensel, Marlis Reiber, Elise Foulatier, Philipp Junker, Udo Nackenhorst

Computational Mechanics - 2023

Other

Efficient industrial-current-density acetylene to polymer-grade ethylene via hydrogen-localization transfer over fluorine-modified copper

Electrocatalytic acetylene semi-hydrogenation to ethylene powered by renewable electricity represents a sustainable pathway, but the inadequate current density and single-pass yield greatly impedes the production efficiency and industrial…

Lei Bai, Yi Wang, Zheng Han, Jinbo Bai, Kunyue Leng, Lirong Zheng, Yunteng Qu, Yuen Wu

Nature Communications - 2023

Engineering Sciences

3D aerogel membrane-based evaporator with sandwich structure for superior solar-driven evaporation

Seawater desalination with solar-driven interfacial evaporators has emerged as a promising solution to alleviate global water scarcity. However, conventional twodimensional (2D) planar evaporators have high reflectivity, which poses a challenge in…

Xi Hu, Yutong Song, Yundi Lv, Beibei Wang, Jinbo Bai, Shenghua Ma

Desalination - 2023

Catalysis

Ru–W Pair Sites Enabling the Ensemble Catalysis for Efficient Hydrogen Evolution

Abstract Simultaneously optimizing elementary steps, such as water dissociation, hydroxyl transferring, and hydrogen combination, is crucial yet challenging for achieving efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in alkaline media. Herein, Ru…

Weilong Ma, Xiaoyu Yang, Dingding Li, Ruixin Xu, Liangpeng Nie, Baoping Zhang, Yi Wang, Shuang Wang, Gang Wang, Jinxiang Diao, Lirong Zheng, Jinbo Bai, Kunyue Leng, Xiaolin Li, Yunteng Qu

Advanced Science - 2023

Chemical Sciences

Direct Observation of Transition Metal Ions Evolving into Single Atoms: Formation and Transformation of Nanoparticle Intermediates

Abstract Understanding the dynamical evolution from metal ions to single atoms is of great importance to the rational development of synthesis strategies for single atom catalysts (SACs) against metal sintering during pyrolysis. Herein, an in situ…

Zheng Han, Yi Wang, Kunyue Leng, Jiming Zheng, Ren Li, Boqian Jia, Dingding Li, Lei Bai, Xuting Guo, Lirong Zheng, Yunteng Qu, Jinbo Bai

Advanced Science - 2023