Nanyang Technological University

In Situ Generation of Gel Foam via Heat‐Accelerated Calcium Ion Release From Nano‐CaCO 3 for Lithium‐Ion Battery Fire Suppression and Prevention

ABSTRACT Thermal runaway and its propagation in lithium‐ion battery packs pose significant safety risks to energy storage systems. While complete immersion in water‐based agents is an effective suppression strategy, conventional agents often fail to achieve sustained battery enca...

Long-duration aqueous manganese metal anode by hydrogel solvation regulation

The key challenge of implementing aqueous manganese (Mn) metal batteries is severe water-related parasitic reactions, including the hydrogen evolution reaction and Mn corrosion. These issues originate largely from the high reactivity of solvated water around manganese ions (Mn 2+...

Fermentation-Derived Active Lixiviants from Heterogeneous Fruit Waste for Sustainable Hydrometallurgical Recycling of Lithium-Ion Batteries

Abstract Lithium-ion battery (LIB) recycling plays a key role in reducing global e-waste production, and hydrometallurgy is the current technology of choice due to its efficiency and reliability. Most hydrometallurgy processes use inorganic acids that are corrosive in nature, and...

A physics-regularized reliability-aware learning framework for non-contact blink monitoring using millimeter-wave radar

Continuous monitoring of eye-blink activity provides a non-contact behavioral indicator relevant to fatigue-related applications and human-state monitoring. Reliable radar-based sensing remains difficult under the tested single-user office-like desktop conditions because blink-in...

Students’ problem-solving patterns in arithmetic series tasks viewed through reflective thinking

Abstract Reflective thinking plays an important role in mathematical problem-solving because it enables students to monitor their reasoning, adjust strategies, and integrate prior knowledge when confronting non-routine tasks. This study aimed to identify the problem-solving patte...

Polarization-controlled ultrafast carrier dynamics in sliding ferroelectrics revealed by machine learning-accelerated nonadiabatic dynamics simulations

Sliding ferroelectrics offer a unique pathway to electrically reconfigurable polarization at the atomic scale, offering compelling opportunities for ultralow-power optoelectronic devices. Yet, despite rapid advances in materials discovery, the fundamental question of how polariza...

Effects of graphene nanoplatelets and carbon nanotubes on the mechanical–electrochemical performance and hydration evolution mechanisms of solid-waste-based cementitious structural electrodes

Abstract Building-integrated distributed energy storage offers a promising route toward energy self-sufficiency in buildings. In this study, industrial solid-waste-based composite structural electrodes were fabricated by incorporating graphene nanoplatelets (GNP) or carbon nanotu...

Fleeting Light (流光): a playable chaotic reconstructive spectrometer

Fleeting Light (流光) is a single-file browser game about the physics of reconstructive spectrometers. The player places circular scatterers inside a leaky rectangular cavity to shape the dwell-time distribution of a handful of photons. The correspondence to the physics is exact...

“Law at Your Fingertips”: Understanding Legal Information Seeking on Video-Sharing Platforms in China

Equipping laypeople with the capabilities to seek legal information has been an important goal for Legal Empowerment in modern society. However, unlike general information-seeking behaviors, legal information seeking is characterized by high stakes, urgency, and a critical need f...

Matrices as graded BiHom-algebras and decompositions

We present matrices as graded regular BiHom-associative algebras and study several features of their decompositions. More precisely, we introduce a notion of connection in the support of the grading and use it to construct a family of canonical graded ideals. We show that, under...

Coupling Porous Architecture and Fe–F Coordination Engineering Enables Highly Reversible FeF3 Cathode Materials

Abstract Iron trifluoride (FeF3) is a promising conversion-type cathode material for next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) owing to its high theoretical capacity enabled by multielectron redox chemistry. However, its practical application is limited by sluggish reaction ki...

Extreme‐Fast‐Charging Li‐Ion Batteries via Activation‐Energy Regulation With a Li 3 PO 4 ‐Li 2 SO 4 ‐Rich Solid Electrolyte Interphase

ABSTRACT Extreme‐fast‐charging (XFC) batteries are essential for widespread electric vehicle adoption. Although heating‐assisted charging enables ultrafast charging at elevated temperatures (e.g., 65°C), it increases the risk of thermal runaway. Lowering the activation energy of...

Functional antibody responses and protection against symptomatic dengue

Exposure to dengue virus (DENV) triggers the development of anti-viral antibodies that may contribute to either protection or disease progression. Antibodies exist in different isotypes and subtypes, with diverse specificities and functions. IgG antibodies are produced during pri...

Coupling modeling and optimization strategy of wind power reserves across different time-scales for frequency-constrained unit commitment

Under the dual‑carbon goals, the large-scale integration of renewable energy has introduced new challenges to the operational flexibility of power system. Existing research has confirmed that wind turbines (WTs) can provide reserve capacity and inertial support to the power grid....

Phase Boundary Engineering Enables Multivalley Activation for High-Performance ZrCoSb Half-Heuslers

Abstract P-type ZrCoSb-based half-Heusler compounds are promising thermoelectric materials for high-temperature power generation because of their excellent thermal stability and mechanical robustness. However, their performance still lags behind that of state-of-the-art p-type Zr...

Comparative Numerical Interpretation of Uplift Mechanisms of Surface and Skirted Shallow Foundations on Clay

Uplift of shallow foundations from clay seabeds is governed by the generation and dissipation of negative excess pore pressure beneath the foundation. Previous centrifuge tests have revealed markedly different uplift responses between surface and skirted foundations, but the unde...

Liquid–Metal-Induced Metal–Support Interactions for CO2 Hydrogenation

Abstract Metal–support interaction (MSI) is central to numerous industrial heterogeneous catalytic processes yet its classical realization typically requires high-temperature treatment (typically >500 °C), which often induces metal sintering and excessive encapsulation. Herein, w...

Activating Aqueous Multivalent Metal–Sulfur Electrochemistry via Kinetic Promoter

Abstract Sulfur-based aqueous batteries for sustainable energy storage have the advantages of material abundance, low cost, and high theoretical capacity. While aqueous multivalent metal–sulfur electrochemistry is effective in suppressing sulfide dissolution due to its low solubi...

Benchmarking Auto‐Regressive Spatio‐Temporal Predictions of Wildfire Spread From the FireBench Simulation Data Set With a Machine Learning Competition

Abstract As wildfire severity increases, predicting wildfire spread is important for fire and landscape management. However, wildfire spread is a complex phenomenon that is challenging to capture because it depends on many factors, such as wind speed, slope, landscape topography,...

Single-fiber hyperspectral imaging via nanophotonic disordered dispersion

Optical fibers are widely used to transmit optical signals for communications and sensing. Extending this capability to hyperspectral imaging is attractive for compact imaging systems, but is fundamentally constrained by limited channel capacity and transmission distortion of fib...