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Computationally Modelling the Use of Nanotechnology to Enhance the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials (2020)
Journal Article
Spriggs, P., & Wang, Q. (2020). Computationally Modelling the Use of Nanotechnology to Enhance the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials. Energies, 13(19), Article 5096. https://doi.org/10.3390/en13195096

The increased focus on global climate change has meant that the thermoelectric market has received considerably more attention. There are many processes producing large amounts of waste heat that can be utilised to generate electrical energy. Thermoe... Read More about Computationally Modelling the Use of Nanotechnology to Enhance the Performance of Thermoelectric Materials.

Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science (2020)
Journal Article
Punzo, G., Tewari, A., Butans, E., Vasile, M., Purvis, A., Mayfield, M., & Varga, L. (2020). Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science. IEEE Systems Journal, 14(3), 3865-3874. https://doi.org/10.1109/jsyst.2019.2958829

This position article addresses resilience in complex engineering and engineered systems (CES). It offers a synthesis of academic thinking with an empirical analysis of the challenge. This article puts forward argumentations and a conceptual framewor... Read More about Engineering Resilient Complex Systems: The Necessary Shift Toward Complexity Science.

Design of 1-Bit Digital Subwavelength Metasurface Element for Sub-6 GHz Applications (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Kazim, J. U. R., Ur-Rehman, M., Al-Hasan, M., Mabrouk, I. B., Imran, M. A., & Abbasi, Q. H. (2020, August). Design of 1-Bit Digital Subwavelength Metasurface Element for Sub-6 GHz Applications. Presented at 2020 International Conference on UK-China Emerging Technologies (UCET), Glasgow, Scotland, UK

This paper proposes a novel 1-bit, electronically reconfigurable, subwavelength metasurface unit cell for sub-6 GHz applications. 180° phase shift is achieved by integrating a single PIN diode in the structure. The unit cell incorporates three layers... Read More about Design of 1-Bit Digital Subwavelength Metasurface Element for Sub-6 GHz Applications.

On the Evaluation of Prohibited Item Classification and Detection in Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening Imagery (2020)
Presentation / Conference Contribution
Wang, Q., Bhowmik, N., & Breckon, T. (2020, July). On the Evaluation of Prohibited Item Classification and Detection in Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening Imagery. Presented at International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Glasgow, Scotland

X-ray Computed Tomography (CT) based 3D imaging is widely used in airports for aviation security screening whilst prior work on prohibited item detection focuses primarily on 2D X-ray imagery. In this paper, we aim to evaluate the possibility of exte... Read More about On the Evaluation of Prohibited Item Classification and Detection in Volumetric 3D Computed Tomography Baggage Security Screening Imagery.

System Design and Optimisation Study on a Novel CCHP System Integrated with a Hybrid Energy Storage System and an ORC (2020)
Journal Article
Ji, J., Ding, Z., Xia, X., Wang, Y., Huang, H., Zhang, C., Peng, T., Wang, X., Nazir, M. S., Zhang, Y., Liu, B., Jia, X., Li, R., & Wang, Y. (2020). System Design and Optimisation Study on a Novel CCHP System Integrated with a Hybrid Energy Storage System and an ORC. Complexity, 2020, Article 1278751. https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1278751

For achieving higher energy transferring efficiency from the resources to the load, the Combined Cooling, Heating, and Power (CCHP) systems have been widely researched and applied as an efficient approach. The key idea of this study is designing a no... Read More about System Design and Optimisation Study on a Novel CCHP System Integrated with a Hybrid Energy Storage System and an ORC.

Advanced concepts (2020)
Book Chapter
Simons, S., Schmitt, J., Tom, B., Bao, H., Pettinato, B., & Pechulis, M. (2021). Advanced concepts. In K. Brun, T. Allison, & R. Dennis (Eds.), Thermal, Mechanical, and Hybrid Chemical Energy Storage Systems (569-596). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/b978-0-12-819892-6.00010-1

New long-term and short-term storage concepts are continually being developed and improved upon to decrease capital costs and increase energy conversion efficiencies. Many of the novel ideas described here are based on existing technologies, but take... Read More about Advanced concepts.

The ABC of Soil Literacy - Evidence from Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe (2020)
Report
Johnson, K., Philip, D., & Engels, C. (2020). The ABC of Soil Literacy - Evidence from Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe. [No known commissioning body]

Climate change and soil health are intimately linked, as reflected in the United Nation’s Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) 15. Land degradation is responsible for a significant proportion of all global greenhouse gas emissions (WGII, IPCC, 2007), t... Read More about The ABC of Soil Literacy - Evidence from Ghana, South Africa and Zimbabwe.