Dongguan University of Technology

High‐Entropy Engineering to Stabilize Single‐Atom Ru Catalysts for Efficient and Durable Water Splitting

ABSTRACT Developing efficient and durable electrocatalysts for oxygen and hydrogen evolution reactions (OER/HER) remains fundamentally challenging due to the intrinsic trade‐off between activity and stability. We herein report a high‐entropy‐engineered strategy to stabilize singl...

Hybrid RLHF-AIF: Uncertainty-Guided Routing of Human and AI Feedback for Cost-Efficient Safety Alignment of Large Language Models

Safety alignment of large language models faces a feedback dilemma: human judgment is reliable but costly to scale; automated judgment is cheap but less trustworthy. Existing methods commit to one source per run, so misjudged responses are never corrected. This paper proposes Hyb...

Pan-African genomics of Pseudomonas aeruginosa highlights regional population structure and AMR stratification

Abstract Background Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a leading cause of life-threatening nosocomial infections and a World Health Organization "Priority 1" critical pathogen. Despite the escalation of global antimicrobial resistance (AMR), the genomic landscape of P. aeruginosa across A...

Microgrid energy management optimization using PPO with curriculum learning trained in virtual simulation environment

Abstract Microgrid energy management systems (EMS) require real-time, economically optimal, and safe dispatch strategies under high renewable uncertainty. While Deep Reinforcement Learning (DRL) offers promising online decision-making capabilities, standard DRL algorithms struggl...

Thermal Behavior of a Large-Span Continuous-Welded Stainless Steel Roof System

The structure of the large-span metal roof system is complex, and the thermal effect at the key nodes under the thermal load of the operation is significant, leading to fatigue failure risk of load-bearing members and structural safety hazards. Existing studies on metal roof ther...

Data-Driven Molecular Design of TFC Membrane Monomers with Reduced PFAS Affinity

Abstract Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are persistent aquatic contaminants that challenge nanofiltration (NF) and reverse osmosis (RO) treatment, particularly when trace-level permeation compromises water-quality goals. Beyond steric and electrostatic exclusion, PFAS...

Sn 4 P 3 @C as a High‐Capacity Additive to Reinforce Hard Carbon Anodes for Practical High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Batteries

ABSTRACT Sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs) are promising for large‐scale energy storage, yet their energy density is constrained by anode materials. Commercially mature hard carbon (HC) suffers from low capacity, initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE), and tap density, whereas high‐capacit...

Experimental Investigation and Response Surface Optimization of Fiber-Reinforced Polymer Concrete for Mining Roadway Support

The escalating intensity and depth of coal mining operations have exacerbated underground strata pressure, resulting in fracture-induced air leakage channels that heighten risks of coal spontaneous combustion and gas explosions. These challenges necessitate enhanced flexibility a...

Programmable Te/MoTe 2 van der Waals Heterojunction for Image Preprocessing and Dynamic Recognition

ABSTRACT Van der Waals materials and their heterostructures offer strong gate tunability, enabling multilevel and polarity‐switchable photoresponse states in programmable photodetectors for in‐sensor encoding and computing. However, current gate‐programmable photodetectors often...

Immunogenetic determinants of influenza B virus susceptibility and vaccine response: current evidence, gaps, and future directions

Influenza B virus (IBV) remains an important but comparatively underexamined contributor to seasonal influenza burden, particularly in children, adolescents, and older adults. Although IBV lacks the broad animal reservoir and pandemic potential of influenza A virus, its epidemiol...

Permeability effect on heat transfer and flow dynamics past two tandem 45°-inclined square cylinders

In this study, two-dimensional transitional flow and convective heat transfer past two tandem porous square cylinders inclined at 45° are numerically investigated using the lattice Boltzmann method (LBM) at a Reynolds number ( R e ) of 150 and a Prandtl number ( P r ) of 0.71 acr...

How Achievement Emotions and Grit Affect Learners' Psychological Well‐Being in AI ‐Based Language Education: A Bifactor Analysis

ABSTRACT The presentation of Artificial Intelligence (AI) within educational settings has changed the conventional learning settings to advanced tools that improve the students' academic achievement. Psychological Well‐being (PWB) is a critical element of students' achievement in...

Surface‐Charge‐Regulated Porous Water for Interfacial Phase‐Transition Control

Angstrom-confined water in porous scaffolds is sensitive to interfacial electrostatics, yet cross-material predictability is limited because pore geometry and surface chemistry change simultaneously. This work introduces Surface-Charge-Regulated Porous Water (SCR-PW) as a tunable...

Sequential Ultrasound-Assisted Enzymatic Hydrolysis and Microwave Treatment of Gluten–Starch Complexes: Functionality, Volatile Profiles, In Vitro Immunoreactivity and Interactions

Sequential non-thermal and thermal processing offers a route to jointly adjust the functionality, color/volatile profile and immunoreactivity of gluten-containing systems. This study aimed to evaluate the effects of sequential ultrasound-assisted enzymatic hydrolysis, wheat/rice...

The deep operator finite element method: A discrete variational neural operator for elasticity under variable loading

Learning solution operators for parametric partial differential equations is essential for real-time simulation and engineering analysis. However, existing physics-informed neural operators often suffer from unstable training due to numerical quadrature errors, sampling variabili...

Trans-SAC: gamification design for sustained user engagement in residential demand response

Abstract Residential Demand Response (DR) is a critical mechanism for maintaining the supply-demand balance in modern smart grids. While gamification has recently emerged as a promising strategy to incentivize residential participation, existing programs suffer from severe long-t...

Neutron Total Scattering Investigation of the Dissolution Mechanism of Chitotriose in Alkali/Urea Aqueous Solutions

Abstract Despite the promise of alkali/urea aqueous solutions as green solvents, the atomistic-scale mechanism of chitin dissolution remains elusive. In contrast to the ability to dissolve cellulose, the order of alkali effectiveness for dissolving chitin is potassium hydroxide (...

Regulating H‐Aggregation via a Thiazole‐Modified Acceptor‐Based Packing Reshaper Toward Highly Efficient and Stable Organic Solar Cells

ABSTRACT Organic solar cells (OSCs) based on non‐fullerene acceptors have achieved power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) exceeding 20%. However, their long‐term stability remains limited by uncontrolled molecular aggregation and morphological degradation in bulk heterojunction (BH...

Macrocyclization of native peptides through (thio)urea crosslinking of two amines

Cyclopeptides have emerged as promising candidates for drug development. However, owing to the scarcity of efficient cyclization strategies for natural peptides, the development of diverse cyclopeptides remains a formidable challenge. In this study, a variety of macrocyclic pepti...

Large maximal subgroups of almost simple classical groups

Abstract A proper subgroup 𝐻 of a finite group 𝐺 is called large if | H | 3 ≥ | G | \lvert H\rvert^{3}\geq\lvert G\rvert . This paper characterises all the large maximal subgroups of almost simple groups whose socle is a finite simple classical group. For such a socle G 0 G_{0} a...