Politecnico di Milano

Morpho-electrochemical behavior of particulate Zn electrodes revealed by X-ray and neutron tomography

Abstract Aqueous rechargeable Zn-based batteries are gaining attention for their sustainability, safety, and cost-effectiveness; however, no industrially viable solutions are yet available, due to the synergistic issues of passivation and shape change. In particular, flow batteri...

Research Opportunities and Challenges of the EU’s Digital Services Act

Proposing practical measures to ensure the Digital Services Act fulfills its transparency and accountability goals.

Politicians on board! does foreign ownership matter for corporate political activity?

Purpose The nexus between firms and political actors is increasingly complex, particularly for foreign-owned firms operating in host countries. While corporate political connections can provide local knowledge and legitimacy, potentially transforming foreign-owned firms from “out...

The Space of the Afterlife: Modelling Visible and Invisible Parts of New Kingdom Tombs at Saqqara

The cluster of New Kingdom tombs at Saqqara and associated earlier and later burials excavated by the EES–Leiden–Turin mission, located in the southern portion of the Unas South Cemetery, was used to test a method to construct a comprehensive three-dimensional model of all the kn...

Hydrological auditing of LISFLOOD v4.1.1: impacts of model setup on water balance components in the Po River Basin

Abstract. In recent years, large-scale hydrological models have been increasingly used at regional and global scales to support decision making. Their realism in simulating water balance components is crucial for building trust across different use cases. Hydrological models may...

Physics-based 3D ground motion simulations of the 1703 L’Aquila earthquake: from historical reconstruction to seismic scenarios

Abstract The city of L’Aquila (central Italy) and its surrounding villages have been struck several times throughout history by strong earthquakes, most recently by the $$M_w$$ M w 6.1 event of April 6, 2009. Previously, on February 2, 1703, L’Aquila was partially destroyed by a...

Meta-Reinforcement Learning for building temperature control: Design and experimental validation

This paper presents the design and experimental validation of a Meta-Reinforcement Learning approach for temperature control in a real building with not perfectly known thermal dynamics. The proposed architecture consists of three main modules: an encoder, a controller, and an ad...

Sustainability Certification Adoption in Small and Medium Enterprises' Food Supply Chains: Using a Complexity Approach to Build up Foundations

ABSTRACT Adopting certifications in food supply chains (FSCs) is a common practice for sustainable management, including among small and medium enterprises (SMEs). This study investigates how SMEs in FSCs navigate the complexities of certification adoption for sustainable supply...

Observation of erratic non-Hermitian skin localization and transport

Abstract Localization is a pervasive phenomenon across physics, shaping transport from electrons in solids to light and sound in engineered media. In traditional settings, disorder strongly impedes transport, resulting in dynamical localization or, at best, sub-ballistic or diffu...

Entropy maximization and weak Gibbsianity of quasi-free fermionic states

Abstract In their 1972 study of approach to equilibrium, Lanford and Robinson showed that gauge-invariant quasi-free states of lattice fermions maximize entropy among all translation-invariant states with a fixed two-point function and suggested that the maximizer is unique. In s...

Numerical proof-of-concept of nanofoam-based targets for proton acceleration and high-energy photon and positron generation in strong fields

A source of high-energy photons, ions, and positrons can be attained with the interaction of ultra-intense femtosecond laser pulses with advanced nanostructured targets. We present and characterise a numerical model that mimics the foam deposition process on solid substrates, as...

The evolution of non-digital platforms: The role of knowledge as an idle asset

Platforms are typically associated with digital infrastructures, algorithmic mediation, and large-scale network effects. Yet many organizations create platform value without relying on digital intermediation, raising the question of how non-digital platforms evolve over time. Thi...

Institutional change in the civic-institutional relation: outlining enabling conditions

The relationship between civic action and public institutions has long been central to planning debates. Many works have focused on the different relations between civic action and institutions, and on the possibility for both to change through this interaction. With this field o...

What does a territory tell? Co-constructing heritage through complex social values in inner contexts

Italian inner areas are increasingly affected by depopulation, demographic ageing, and territorial fragmentation. In these contexts, cultural heritage is frequently mobilised as a resource for local development and regeneration. While heritage studies have widely recognised that...

Disentangling damage from operational variability: A label-free self-supervised representation learning framework for output-only structural damage identification

Damage identification is a core task in structural health monitoring. In practice, however, its reliability is often compromised by confounding non-damage effects, such as variations in excitation and environmental conditions, which can induce changes comparable to or larger than...

Methodology for the evaluation of low-carbon fuels in power generation gas turbine applications

This paper introduces a novel methodology based on the Theory of Constraints (TOC) to evaluate the adoption potential of alternative fuels in gas turbine power plants. Unlike conventional multi-criteria decision-making approaches, this method identifies the single most critical c...

From data to decisions: how neural network input structures propagate to air quality policies

In air-quality planning, Artificial Neural Networks (ANNs) have emerged as surrogate models capable of capturing complex nonlinear relationships between emissions and pollutant concentrations with reduced computational time required by chemical and transport models. However, the...

Real‐time artificial intelligence‐based anatomy recognition in single‐port transvesical enucleation of the prostate

Objectives To evaluate the feasibility and accuracy of an artificial intelligence (AI) model to assist surgeons through automated real‐time detection and segmentation of key anatomical structures during robot‐assisted single‐port transvesical enucleation of the prostate (STEP). P...

BESS modeling: best available approaches for modeling from measurements

The rapid deployment of lithium-ion Battery Energy Storage Systems (BESS) in modern power systems has increased the need for accurate, computationally efficient, and application-oriented battery models to support design, operation, control, and lifetime management. This paper pre...

Occupancy Statistics and Entropy in Bose Systems

In this work, we compare three formulations of thermodynamic entropy for a non-interacting bosonic gas: (i) the grand-canonical Bose–Einstein entropy, (ii) the finite-N canonical entropy obtained from the exact partition function (Ziff, Uhlenbeck, and Kac construction), and (iii)...