Publications related to Joule expansion

Fast and Durable Lithium Storage Enabled by Tuning Entropy in Wadsley-Roth Phase Titanium Niobium Oxides

Kangning Zhao, Yuehui Li, Liping Zhong, Rui Xia

Wadsley-Roth phase titanium niobium oxides have received considerable interest as anodes for lithium ion batteries. However, the volume expansion and sluggish ion/electron transport kinetics retard its application in grid scale. Here, fast and durable lith ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2023

Swiss dams: Overview of historical development

Anton Schleiss

With more than 220 large dams in operation, compared to its surface of some 41ʹ000 km2, Switzerland has a very large fleet. They were erected to meet various economic and protection needs. Their main assignments concern the storage of water for later use, ...

CRC Press/Balkema2023

A complete description of thermodynamic stabilities of molecular crystals

Venkat Kapil, Edgar Albert Engel

Predictions of relative stabilities of (competing) molecular crystals are of great technological relevance, most notably for the pharmaceutical industry. However, they present a long-standing challenge for modeling, as often minuscule free energy differenc ...

National Academy of Sciences2022

Long decay length of magnon-polarons in BiFeO3/La0.67Sr0.33MnO3 heterostructures

Jean-Philippe Ansermet, Dirk Grundler, Mohammad Hamdi, Peng Gao, Haiming Yu, Yu Zhang, Jilei Chen, Jianyu Zhang

Magnons can transfer information in metals and insulators without Joule heating, and therefore are promising for low-power computation. The on-chip magnonics however suffers from high losses due to limited magnon decay length. In metallic thin films, it is ...

Nature Research2021

A High Efficiency Pneumatic Drive System Using Vane-Type Semi-Rotary Actuators

Alfred Rufer

A compressed air driven generator is proposed, where the pneumatic energy is converted into mechanical energy using two vane-type rotational actuators. The use of a second actuator with a higher displacement in order to produce a thermodynamic expansion al ...

UNIV NIS2021

State selective cooling of SU(N) Fermi gases

Frédéric Mila, Miklos Lajko

We investigate a species selective cooling process of a trapped SU(N) Fermi gas using entropy redistribution during adiabatic loading of an optical lattice. Using high-temperature expansion of the Hubbard model, we show that when a subset N-A < N of the si ...

2021

Meso-scale finite element modeling of Alkali-Silica-Reaction

Jean-François Molinari, Emil Gallyamov, Roozbeh Rezakhani

The Alkali-Silica Reaction (ASR) in concrete is a chemical reaction, which produces an expansive product, generally called “ASR gel”, and causes cracking and damage in concrete over time. Affecting numerous infrastructures all around the world, ASR has bee ...

2021

Influence of Joule Effect Heating on Recrystallization Phenomena in Inconel 718

Roland Logé, Mathijs Pieter van der Meer

In this article, the Joule effect heating influence on recrystallization phenomena in the Inconel 718 nickel-based superalloy is investigated in details. On the one hand, static recrystallization kinetic studies at 1020 degrees C after cold deformation up ...

SPRINGER2021

Simulation and experimental validation of pulsating heat pipes

John Richard Thome, Jackson Braz Marcinichen, Philippe Aubin, Filippo Cataldo

The one-dimensional transient numerical code of JJ Cooling Innovation has been significantly improved to simulate the thermal/hydraulic performance of pulsating heat pipes (PHPs). Using a mechanistic approach, the liquid slug and vapor plug flows and their ...

PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD2021

Investigation of femtosecond laser-tuned thermomechanical properties of fused silica

Pieter Vlugter

The thermomechanical properties of materials are among the most important properties for designing precision instruments, in particular for devices seeking high-dimensional stability, invariant temperature-elastic properties or low thermoelastic losses. De ...

EPFL2020

Thermoelasticity of Flexible Organic Crystals from Quasi-harmonic Lattice Dynamics: The Case of Copper(II) Acetylacetonate

Berend Smit, Seyedmohamad Moosavi, Daniele Ongari

A computationally affordable approach, based on quasi-harmonic lattice dynamics, is presented for the quantum-mechanical calculation of thermoelastic moduli of flexible, stimuli-responsive, organic crystals. The methodology relies on the simultaneous descr ...

2020

Overcritical Current Resistivity of YBCO-Coated Conductors Through Combination of PCM and Finite-Element Analysis

Francesco Grilli, Nicolo' Riva, Bertrand Dutoit, Bertrand Dutoit

Understanding the electro-thermal behavior of high-temperature superconductor (HTS) materials is a critical aspect for designing efficient and reliable applications. In order to optimize cost and performance, one needs to understand the role played by the ...

IEEE Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers2019

Parameters affecting thermal risk through a kinetic model under adiabatic condition: Application to liquid-liquid reaction system

Thierry Meyer

Risk of thermal runaway for epoxidation is not negligible and should be analyzed and assessed. In industry, epoxidation of vegetable oils is carried out by the oxidation of Prileschajew, involving the in situ production of percarboxylic acid from hydrogen ...

2018

Semi-analytical modelling of linear scan voltammetric responses for soluble-insoluble system: The case of metal deposition

Hubert Girault, Imene Atek, Pekka Eero Peljo, Sunny Isaïe Maye

The absence of general theoretical models describing linear sweep voltammetry (LSV) or cyclic voltammetry (CV) responses for soluble-insoluble systems such as one-step electrodeposition reactions under quasi-reversible condition makes it difficult to extra ...

2018

Quantum chemical studies of reactive species in water

Daniela Trogolo

In this thesis, quantum chemical methods have been applied to elucidate the thermodynamics and the kinetics of reactions involving reactive species in water. Due to their high reactivity in water, many transient species are difficult to study by experiment ...

EPFL2016

Expansion and densification of cities: linking urban form to urban ecology

Jean-Louis Scartezzini, Nahid Mohajeri Pour Rayeni

Despite much research on the ecological impacts of urbanization, we still do not know what development patterns are most effective in supporting ecological function. In particular, it is as yet unclear if compact urban forms are ecologically more favourabl ...

2015

On The Strategies Towards Isothermal Gas Compression And Expansion

Alfred Rufer, Mahbod Heidari, Sylvain Lemofouet-Gatsi

Isothermal compression/expansion is regarded as the most promising process in many applications and many researchers and inventors have tried different methods to achieve this goal. The current article first studies the gradual roadmap from adiabatic towar ...

2014

Equation of state of liquid mercury to 520 K and 7 GPa from acoustic velocity measurements

Livia Eleonora Bove Kado

Ultrafast acoustics measurements on liquid mercury have been performed at high pressure and temperature in a diamond anvil cell using picosecond acoustic interferometry. We extract the density of mercury from adiabatic sound velocities using a numerical it ...

American Institute of Physics2014

Role of high-order electromechanical coupling terms in thermodynamics of ferroelectric thin films

Alexander Tagantsev, Alexander Kvasov

Currently used methods for the description of thermodynamics of ferroelectric thin films (Landau theory or ab initio based Monte Carlo simulations) are based on an energy expansion in terms of internal degrees of freedom. It was shown that these methods ca ...

American Physical Society2013

On the relevance of volume increase for the length changes of mortar bars in sulfate solutions

Karen Scrivener, Barbara Lothenbach, Wolfgang Kunther

The ingress of sulfate ions into cementitious materials leads to the formation of ettringite, gypsum and other phases. The increase in solid volume through the formation of these phases is often assumed to be the only reason for expansion. In this paper we ...

Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd2013