• The Efficacy of Whole Oyster Shells for Removing Copper, Zinc, Chromium, and Cadmium Heavy Metal Ions from Stormwater 

  Xu, Zhiying; Valeo, Caterina; Chu, Angus; Zhao, Yao (Sustainability, 2021)

  This research investigates the use of a common food waste product for removing four different types of metals typically found in stormwater. Whole, unprocessed oyster shells are explored for use in stormwater management ...
• Decay of Free Residual Chlorine in Wells Water of Northern Brazil 

  Ferreira Vargas, Taise; Ceolin Baía, Célia; Lemos da Silva Machado, Tatiana; Chang Dórea, Caetano; Rodrigues Bastos, Wanderley (Water, 2021)

  The concentration of chlorine in water declines as it reacts with various substances, causing decay of the residual free chlorine until its total consumption. In light of the typical characteristics of the water from ...
• Bayesian Regularized Artificial Neural Network Model to Predict Strength Characteristics of Fly-Ash and Bottom-Ash Based Geopolymer Concrete 

  Aneja, Sakshi; Sharma, Ashutosh; Gupta, Rishi; Yoo, Doo-Yeol (Materials, 2021)

  Geopolymer concrete (GPC) offers a potential solution for sustainable construction by utilizing waste materials. However, the production and testing procedures for GPC are quite cumbersome and expensive, which can slow ...
• Performance of Repaired Concrete under Cyclic Flexural Loading 

  Wang, Boyu; Gupta, Rishi (Materials, 2021)

  There is limited research reported on the effect of cyclic loading on cement-based repair materials as conducting such tests is time consuming. To overcome this issue, this study utilized a novel loading regime consisting ...
• Not Just an Academic Exercise: Systems Thinking Applied to Designing Safer Alternatives 

  Schwarzman, Megan R.; Buckley, Heather L. (Journal of Chemical Education, 2019)

  For the last seven years, an interdisciplinary course known as Greener Solutions, offered by the University of California, Berkeley Center for Green Chemistry, has brought together graduate students in chemistry, environmental ...
• A Whittle Index Approach to Minimizing Age of Multi-Packet Information in IoT Network 

  Chen, Mianlong; Wu, Kui; Song, Linqi (IEEE Access, 2021)

  Age of information (AoI) captures the freshness of information and has been used broadly as an important performance metric in big data analytics in the Internet of Things (IoT). We consider a general scenario where a ...
• Low Complexity MIMO Channel Prediction for Fast Time-Variant Vehicular Communications Channels Based on Discrete Prolate Spheroidal Sequences 

  Talaei, Farnoosh; Zhan, Jinlong; Dong, Xiaodai (IEEE Access, 2021)

  Channel state information (CSI) is required at the transmitter for achieving the maximum potentials of multiple-input multiple-output (MIMO) systems. In fast time-variant vehicular communications channels high data rate ...
• A simple method for detection of low concentrations of fluoride in drinking water 

  Moradia, Vahid; Caws, Emmanuelle A.; Wilda, Peter M.; Buckley, Heather L. (Sensors and Actuators A: Physical, 2019)

  Naturally occurring elevated levels of fluoride in drinking water pose a health hazard throughout the developing world, with over 200 million people potentially impacted. In some cases, treatment methods or safer alternative ...
• Design and Testing of Safer, More Effective Preservatives for Consumer Products 

  Buckley, Heather L.; Hart-Cooper, William M.; Kim, Jong H.; Faulkner, David M.; Cheng, Luisa W.; Chan, Kathleen L.; Vulpe, Christopher D.; Orts, William J.; Amrose, Susan E.; Mulvihill, Martin J. (ACS Sustainable Chemistry & Engineering, 2017)

  Preservatives deter microbial growth, providing crucial functions of safety and durability in composite materials, formulated products, and food packaging. Concern for human health and the environmental impact of some ...
• Addressing technical barriers for reliable, safe removal of fluoride from drinking water using minimally processed bauxite ores 

  Buckley⁠, Heather L.; Molla⁠c, Nusrat J.; Cherukumilli⁠, Katya; Boden, Kathryn S.; Gadgil, Ashok J. (Development Engineering, 2018)

  Throughout the developing world, over 200 million people drink groundwater containing fluoride concentrations surpassing the World Health Organization's maximum recommended contaminant level (WHO-MCL) of 1.5 mg F−/L, ...
• Using Bayesian deep learning approaches for uncertainty-aware building energy surrogate models 

  Westermann, Paul; Evins, Ralph (Energy and AI, 2021)

  Fast machine learning-based surrogate models are trained to emulate slow, high-fidelity engineering simulation models to accelerate engineering design tasks. This introduces uncertainty as the surrogate is only an approximation ...
• Novel flexible buffering architectures for 3D-NoCs 

  Said, Mostafa; Sarihi, Amin; Patooghy, Ahmad; El-Mohandes, Awny M.; Badawy, Abdel-Hameed A.; Gebali, Fayez (Sustainable Computing: Informatics and Systems, 2021)

  In the conventional router architecture of Network-on-Chips (NoCs), each input port employs a set of dedicated flit buffers to store incoming flits. This mechanism unevenly distributes flits among router buffers, which in ...
• Renewable Additives that Improve Water Resistance of Cellulose Composite Materials 

  Buckley, Heather L.; Touchberry, Caitlin H.; McKinley, Jonathan P.; Mathe, Zachary S.; Muradyan, Hurik; Ling, Hannah; Fadadu, Raj P.; Mulvihill, Martin J.; Amrose, Susan E. (Journal of Renewable Materials, 2016)

  Waste cardboard is an underutilized resource that can be redirected for the creation of safer and higher quality building materials for low-income housing in the developing world, as well as to produce better materials for ...
• Urbanization under a Changing Climate-Impacts on Hydrology 

  Valeo, Caterina; He, Jianxun; Kasiviswanathan, Kasiapillai S. (Water, 2021)
• On the Design of Aeroelastically Scaled Models of High Aspect-Ratio Wings 

  Afonso, Frederico; Coelho, Mónica; Vale, José; Lau, Fernando; Suleman, Afzal (Aerospace, 2020)

  Recently, innovative aircraft designs were proposed to improve aerodynamic performance. Examples include high aspect ratio wings to reduce the aerodynamic induced drag to achieve lower fuel consumption. Such solution ...
• Real-Time Estimation of Disinfection By-Products through Differential UV Absorbance 

  Stéphanie, Guilherme; Caetano, Dorea (Water, 2020)

  E orts to control of unwanted disinfection by-products (DBPs) can be hindered by the relatively low-frequency data that is generated from DBP monitoring for regulatory purposes. Di erential UV absorbance (DUVA) has the ...
• A Relay Selection Protocol for UAV-Assisted VANETs 

  He, Yixin; Zhai, Daosen; Wang, Dawei; Tang, Xiao; Zhang, Ruonan (Applied Sciences, 2020)

  In this paper, we investigate the relay selection problem for the unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV)-assisted vehicular ad-hoc networks (VANETs). For the considered network, we first model and analyze the link quality of service ...
• A Velocity Meter for Quantifying Advection Velocity Vectors in Large Water Bodies 

  Allafchi, Farzam; Valeo, Caterina; Chu, Angus; He, Jianxun; Lee, Waltfred; Oshkai, Peter; Neumann, Norman (Sensors, 2020)

  A velocity meter was designed and built in order to meet market needs for an affordable instrument that measures the range of velocity magnitudes and direction experienced in medium- to large-sized water bodies. The velocity ...
• Assessing the Molecular Specificity and Orientation Sensitivity of Infrared, Raman, and Vibrational Sum-Frequency Spectra 

  Chen, Fei; Gozdzialski, Lea; Hung, Kuo-Kai; Stege, Ulrike; Hore, Dennis K. (Symmetry, 2021)

  Linear programming was used to assess the ability of polarized infrared absorption, Raman scattering, and visible–infrared sum-frequency generation to correctly identify the composition of a mixture of molecules adsorbed ...
• The Relative Contribution of Solutal Marangoni Convection to Thermal Marangoni Flow Instabilities in a Liquid Bridge of Smaller Aspect Ratios under Zero Gravity 

  Mendis, Radeesha Laknath Agampodi; Sekimoto, Atsushi; Okano, Yasunori; Minakuchi, Hisashi; Dost, Sadik (Crystals, 2021)

  The effect of solutal Marangoni convection on flow instabilities in the presence of thermal Marangoni convection in a Si-Ge liquid bridge with different aspect ratios As has been investigated by three-dimensional (3D) ...

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