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Arvin Hadlos and colleagues simulate multi-hazard loss reductions of a housing stock in a resource-constrained setting, identifying optimal housing typology distributions. Their approach integrates a socio-technical analysis to guide practical policy recommendations.
Amir Afshani and colleague propose and demonstrate an efficient method to develop mmWave switches by integrating VO₂ thin films with PCB technology. The approach simplifies fabrication, supports scalability, and achieves good performance.
Real-time long-horizon temperature prediction in metal additive manufacturing is critical for process control and quality assurance. Mingxuan Tian and colleagues propose a physics-informed machine learning model to predict temperature field for future 1.25 s.
Handling large volumes of recorded data is a challenge in high-density brain implants. Mahdi Nekoui and Amir Sodagar propose a hardware-efficient method to compress neural spikes by fitting primitive curves to a small number of salient spike samples.
Siyu Chen, Zheli Liu and colleagues propose a holistic co-design optical communication scheme based on the self-homodyne coherent structure, anti-resonant hollow core fibre, and Fermat number transform. This scheme provides a promising path for the realization of high-speed data centre optical interconnect with low power consumption and low latency.
Yongfei Zhao and colleagues report the aerodynamic behaviour of an oscillating airfoil in various turbulence. It could serve as a foundation for aerodynamic analysis to examine the stability of airfoils in turbulent flows.
Yang Bai and colleagues propose a hypersonic levitation and spinning technique for rapid tissue dissociation. The method enables fast acquisition of high-quality single cells, preserves rare cell types, and supports single-cell sequencing.
Higgins M. Wilson and colleagues report a high-performance interfacial steam generator that combines solar and high-power Joule heating for rapid water evaporation. This was enabled by a stable, low-resistance glassy carbon sponge and a high-power electric supply
Kwang-Woon Lee and colleagues present an innovative algorithmic enhancement that enables faster and more efficient TCAD device simulations. This breakthrough enables more efficient simulations of advanced semiconductor technologies and large-scale design.
Nan Du and colleagues propose a mixed-mode computing paradigm using voltage- and memristance controlled logic in memristive cells. The researchers experimentally demonstrate efficient, robust, and scalable in-memory computing implementations.
Barri and colleagues introduce a tuneable rotational bistable element that can be modularly combined to create multistable mechanisms. Their concept enables more energy-efficient and adaptable designs for aerial drones and other engineering systems.
Jarrett Eshima and colleagues report a tool named Biodome which can aid in the recovery of volatile organic compounds from cell cultures. Their method enables the sampling of complex biological matrices and identification of volatile metabolites.
Nocera, Gamal and colleagues present a decision-making framework for infrastructure development that considers natural-hazard-induced service losses and adverse socioeconomic impacts of infrastructure expansion. It can guide inclusive, risk-sensitive urban planning in hazard-prone cities.
Inverse problems governed by high-order differential equations become unstable when extreme discontinuities are present. Mingsheng Peng and Hesheng Tang introduce an information-distilled, multi-domain physics-informed neural network that suppresses pathological gradients and accurately recovers spatially varying fields and material properties.
Enhancing traffic capacity to alleviate urban congestion is a key objective for connected autonomous driving. Shi-Teng Zheng and colleagues report a sixfold traffic capacity improvement enabled by a communication topology involving only the two vehicles ahead.
Fluorescence microscopes lose over half the emitted light, limiting image clarity. Weidong Yang and colleagues here report the Paired-Objectives Photon Enhancement method to double photon capture, enhancing brightness and resolution in biological imaging.
Hong Wang and colleagues developed a wastewater treatment process using powder carriers and a hydrocyclone to enhance enrichment of functional bacteria and granulation. This offers an efficient, low-carbon solution for municipal wastewater treatment.
Anibal Tafur and colleagues develop a probabilistic framework to quantify railway system resilience by integrating structural damage, restoration models, and resource allocation strategies. The findings highlight the critical influence of resource availability, allocation decisions and sea-level rise on system recovery, enabling better informed resilience planning in railway infrastructure.
Dao-Yuan Tan and colleagues present a real-time acoustic sensing system with hierarchical clustering for monitoring large-diameter aqueduct flow states. A 6 km aqueduct case study demonstrated improved water management and infrastructure reliability.
