bluuebunny/crossref_metadata_2025_split huggingface dataset:
Direct Induction of Porous Graphene from Mechanically Strong and Waterproof Biopaper for On‐Chip Multifunctional Flexible Electronics
Authors: Zhao Nan , Zhang Hanwen , Yang Shuhong , Sun Yisheng , Zhao Ganggang , Fan Wenjun , Yan Zheng , Lin Jian , Wan Caixia 
Published: June 2023

AbstractGraphene with a 3D porous structure is directly laser‐induced on lignocellulosic biopaper under ambient conditions and is further explored for multifunctional biomass‐based flexible electronics. The mechanically strong, flexible, and waterproof biopaper is fabricated by surface‐functionalizing cellulose with lignin‐based epoxy acrylate (LBEA). This composite biopaper shows as high as a threefold increase in tensile strength and excellent waterproofing compared with pure cellulose one. Direct laser writing (DLW) rapidly induces porous graphene from the biopaper in a single step. The porous graphene shows an interconnected carbon network, well‐defined graphene domains, and high electrical conductivity (e.g., ≈3 Ω per square), which can be tuned by lignin precursors and loadings as well as lasing conditions. The biopaper in situ embedded with porous graphene is facilely fabricated into flexible electronics for on‐chip and paper‐based applications. The biopaper‐based electronic devices, including the all‐solid‐state planer supercapacitor, electrochemical and strain biosensors, and Joule heater, show great performances. This study demonstrates the facile, versatile, and low‐cost fabrication of multifunctional graphene‐based electronics from lignocellulose‐based biopaper.
An Unusual Microdomain Factor Controls Interaction of Organic Halides with the Palladium Phase and Influences Catalytic Activity in the Mizoroki‐Heck Reaction
Authors: Kashin Alexey S. , Prima Darya O. , Arkhipova Daria M. , Ananikov Valentine P. 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIn this work, using a combination of scanning and transmission electron microscopy (SEM and TEM), the transformations of palladium‐containing species in imidazolium ionic liquids in reaction mixtures of the Mizoroki‐Heck reaction and in related organic media are studied to understand a challenging question of the relative reactivity of organic halides as key substrates in modern catalytic technologies. The microscopy technique detects the formation of a stable nanosized palladium phase under the action of an aryl (Ar) halide capable of forming microcompartments in an ionic liquid. For the first time, the correlation between the reactivity of the aryl halide and the microdomain structure is observed: Ar‐I (well‐developed microdomains) > Ar‐Br (microphase present) > Ar‐Cl (minor amount of microphase). Previously, it is assumed that molecular level factors, namely, carbon‐halogen bond strength and the ease of bond breakage, are the sole factors determining the reactivity of aryl halides in catalytic transformations. The present work reports a new factor connected with the nature of the organic substrates used and their ability to form a microdomain structure and concentrate metallic species, highlighting the importance of considering both the molecular and microscale properties of the reaction mixtures.
Tri‐Layered Bicomponent Microfilament Composite Fabric for Highly Efficient Cold Protection
Authors: Zhang Heng , Zhai Qian , Guan Xiaoyu , Zhen Qi , Qian Xiaoming 
Published: June 2023

AbstractFunctional thin fabric with highly efficient cold protection properties are attracting the great attention of long‐term dressing in a cold environment. Herein, a tri‐layered bicomponent microfilament composite fabric comprised of a hydrophobic layer of PET/PA@C6F13 bicomponent microfilament webs, an adhesive layer of LPET/PET fibrous web, and a fluffy‐soft layer of PET/Cellulous fibrous web is designed and also successfully been fabricated through a facile process of dipping, combined with thermal belt bonding. The prepared samples exhibit a large resistance to wetting of alcohol, a high hydrostatic pressure of 5530 Pa, and brilliant water slipping properties, owing to the presence of dense micropores ranging from 25.1 to 70.3 µm, as well as to the smooth surface with an arithmetic mean deviation of surface roughness (Sa) ranging from 5.112 to 4.369 µm. Besides, the prepared samples exhibited good water vapor permeability, and a tunable CLO value ranging from 0.569 to 0.920, in addition to the fact that it exhibited a very suitable working temperature range of −5 °C to 15 °C. Additionally, it also showed excellent clothing tailorability including high mechanical strength with a remarkably soft texture and lightweight foldability that suitable for cold outdoor clothing applications.
Bioenergy and nutrition: Positive linkages for the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals
Authors: Testa Lorenzo , Morese Maria Michela , Miller Constance , Traverso Lorenzo , Pirelli Tiziana , Fracassi Patrizia , Kato Tomoko , McGinnis Caitlin , Colangeli Marco , Chiaramonti David 
Published: June 2023

AbstractBioenergy and nutrition represent two key elements in maintaining health and well‐being. Bioenergy is a form of renewable energy produced from organic materials, which can be used for generating power, while nutrition, on the other hand, is related to the ability of food to provide the proper nutrients to living beings and the factors that make up a healthy diet. The 2030 Sustainable Development Agenda has brought considerable attention to the importance of food security and nutrition, particularly under SDG2, while concurrently highlighting the need to ensure affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy access for all under SDG7. The accomplishment of these two Goals is crucial for almost all others, as they are closely interconnected with many cross‐cutting elements and commonly framed in the Water Energy Food Nexus. In this context, modern bioenergy has the potential to aid in the accomplishment of the SDGs, when value chains and conversion processes are designed and managed in an appropriate and sustainable manner. Nevertheless, the positive relationship between bioenergy and nutrition is an overlooked nexus, whose analysis has been too often limited to the competition for resources, such as land, water, energy, and other inputs. Considering this, the present review was developed for both the nutrition and bioenergy communities to begin to overcome the limits of the food versus fuel paradigm, by analyzing this intricate nexus and bringing to light interlinkages and potential synergies existing between bioenergy and nutrition. So far, such linkages appear indirect or implied, therefore further research in this area would be beneficial. The strongest links between bioenergy and nutrition identified include: greater cooking efficiency, reduced indoor air pollution, and improved environmental sanitation through bioenergy clean cooking solutions; energy access for transporting, storing, and cooking food, thus reducing food loss and waste and diversifying diets; improved soil fertility through Carbon Capture and Storage (CCS), phytoremediation, and integrated biomass production systems; and better rural livelihoods and increased income by introducing bioenergy production and use as a circular economy practice. The major significance of this review is the identification of examples of good practices applied along the different stages of the bioenergy value chain with potential co‐benefits for nutrition. In this way, this work aims to provide preliminary findings for researchers to better determine the ways in which bioenergy can be deployed to improve global nutrition.This article is categorized under:
Sustainable Energy > Bioenergy
Sustainable Development > Goals
Sustainable Development > Energy‐Water‐Food Nexus
SKI complex: A multifaceted cytoplasmic RNA exosome cofactor in mRNA metabolism with links to disease, developmental processes, and antiviral responses
Authors: Tomecki Rafal , Drazkowska Karolina , Kobylecki Kamil , Tudek Agnieszka 
Published: June 2023

AbstractRNA stability and quality control are integral parts of gene expression regulation. A key factor shaping eukaryotic transcriptomes, mainly via 3′–5′ exoribonucleolytic trimming or degradation of diverse transcripts in nuclear and cytoplasmic compartments, is the RNA exosome. Precise exosome targeting to various RNA molecules requires strict collaboration with specialized auxiliary factors, which facilitate interactions with its substrates. The predominant class of cytoplasmic RNA targeted by the exosome are protein‐coding transcripts, which are carefully scrutinized for errors during translation. Normal, functional mRNAs are turned over following protein synthesis by the exosome or by Xrn1 5′–3′‐exonuclease, acting in concert with Dcp1/2 decapping complex. In turn, aberrant transcripts are eliminated by dedicated surveillance pathways, triggered whenever ribosome translocation is impaired. Cytoplasmic 3′–5′ mRNA decay and surveillance are dependent on the tight cooperation between the exosome and its evolutionary conserved co‐factor—the SKI (superkiller) complex (SKIc). Here, we summarize recent findings from structural, biochemical, and functional studies of SKIc roles in controlling cytoplasmic RNA metabolism, including links to various cellular processes. Mechanism of SKIc action is illuminated by presentation of its spatial structure and details of its interactions with exosome and ribosome. Furthermore, contribution of SKIc and exosome to various mRNA decay pathways, usually converging on recycling of ribosomal subunits, is delineated. A crucial physiological role of SKIc is emphasized by describing association between its dysfunction and devastating human disease—a trichohepatoenteric syndrome (THES). Eventually, we discuss SKIc functions in the regulation of antiviral defense systems, cell signaling and developmental transitions, emerging from interdisciplinary investigations.This article is categorized under:
RNA Turnover and Surveillance > Turnover/Surveillance Mechanisms
RNA Turnover and Surveillance > Regulation of RNA Stability
RNA Interactions with Proteins and Other Molecules > RNA‐Protein Complexes
Opening Lecture: Digital Spaces and the Material Culture
Authors: Montani Pietro 
Published: June 2023

AbstractIn this article, I will develop the following points: (1) The imagination is structurally technological as it is entangled with historically dominant technologies; (2) these orientate the reconfiguration of its multimodality, i.e., the fact that the imagination does not work only on the optical and visual level but extends its action to all of our sensorimotor system; (3) how this re-modeling is influenced by digital technologies remains to be clarified; and (4) in this problematic field, there are two opposing lines of development, which I will treat with some examples.
BIM and BPMN 2.0 Integration for Interoperability Challenge in Construction Industry
Authors: Al-Siah Hosam , Fioravanti Antonio 
Published: June 2023

AbstractInteroperability is a growing challenge for the construction industry in general, especially for the designing process, where it is exposed to many challenges due to the most critical part of this sector that related to heterogeneous information exchange. Particularly, during the implementation of a project where there is a need for sharing and exchanging a huge amount of data among several actors to accomplish the design process. Therefore, the need for real supportive tools has emerged to facilitate the process of data collection and digitalization in order to automate the whole process. However, different kinds of issues prevent improving the interoperability in the ACE industry. This paper focuses on the barriers of improving the interoperability in this industry sector and proposes a new method of linking and collecting the data from different actors. To this objective cloud storage for flowcharts and building information model “BIM” have been used. One of the best flowcharting languages—Business Process Modelling and Notation “BPMN” 2.0—has been adopted, where the data will be collected and the process will be explained and connected directly to the BIM model to be reviewed, used, and saved.
Technologies for the Construction of Buildings and Cities of the Near Future
Authors: Arbizzani Eugenio 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe objectives and solutions that become necessary, within the green and digital transition, can radically interfere with existing methods for designing and producing buildings and portions of cities. The “factory” and the “construction site” were one and the same thing, in the production of buildings, up until the seventies of the last century. Following the advent of prefabrication, the factory has gradually been separated from the construction site, to the point where industrial manufacturing now accounts for much of the production value of buildings through the dry-assembly of factory-made products and components. The development of enabling technologies involves knowledge-intensive technologies associated with a high level of research and development, rapid innovation cycles, substantial investment costs and highly qualified jobs. The development of this field could produce a new chain of industrial services for companies based in our country.
Digital Transformation Projects for the Future Digicircular Society
Authors: Fiesoli Irene 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe rapid technological development leads us to identify innovation with technology itself. This becomes the core piece of the innovation process in all sectors. In reality, digital transformation has the power to change the meaning of things (Epifani in Digital sustainability: why sustainability cannot disregard digital transformation. Digital Transformation Institute, Rome, 2020) and therefore needs to cultivate a strategic vision of systems and scenarios that can be implemented only through creative design. Designers, thanks to their ability to see, show, predict (Zurlo in Le strategie del design. Disegnare il valore oltre il prodotto. Libraccio editore, Milan, 2021), and design the future, have the role of meeting the challenges posed by digital evolution. This dichotomy between digital and sustainability is analyzed in the article thanks to the workshop “Space Transformation/Industrial Living Environment,” a pilot project for the valorization of productivity in the Valdelsa Senese area that involves, in interdisciplinary groups, students from the various design fields of the School of Architecture of the University of Florence. Another example of planning is the project SMAG—SMArt Garden (Tuscany Region Call RSI—POR FESR 2014–2020), which develops a product-service system equipped with an advanced technological set-up able to control vital parameters of public or private green spaces, using the Internet of things. These examples underline how the physical and digital worlds are interfacing more and more and getting closer. In this scenario, the role of the project is even more important because it allows to manage and direct the innovation and change processes in the direction of a “digicircular” transformation (Epifani in Digital sustainability: why sustainability cannot disregard digital transformation. Digital Transformation Institute, Rome, 2020).
A Systematic Catalogue of Design Solutions for the Regeneration of Urban Environment Contrasting the Climate Change Impact
Authors: Bologna Roberto , Hasanaj Giulio 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe article illustrates a research for the definition of a catalogue of design solutions for climate change adaptation in the process of urban regeneration, reducing the vulnerability to climate change impacts and increasing the city resilience. Based on the analysis of relevant case studies of architectural and urban projects in the main biogeographical regions of Europe, the paper describes the research methodology applied for the construction of a catalogue of spatial and technological adaptive design models mainly focusing on the category of “nature-based solutions” but also considering “artificial solutions”. In order to assess their effectiveness, different design alternatives are tested in a specific urban contest (a school courtyard in the City of Scandicci–Metropolitan City of Florence) prone to climate hazards of urban heat islands and pluvial flooding, simulating the impact on the more vulnerable user (children between 11 and 14 years old). For an adequate performance evaluation of multi-hazard effectiveness of the different adaptive design solutions, appropriate IT software and procedural models have been applied: ENVI-met microclimatic simulation software for thermal analysis and predictive method for hydraulic assessment. By comparing the results before and after the application, the climate-adaptive performance of alternative design solutions is measured through specific indicators. This approach is coherent to the design process management aiming to a predictive definition of performance evaluation through procedural models and digital instruments in order to properly address the complexity of architectural and urban project. The systematic catalogue of adaptive design solution offers useful tools and methods to designers and decision makers for the construction of climate change adaptation and mitigation plans in order to build a healthy and safe urban environment for citizens and drive an ecological and sustainable transition to green cities.
The Urban Potential of Multifamily Housing Renovation
Authors: Daglio Laura 
Published: June 2023

AbstractMultifamily post-war middle-class housing in Italy represents a significant heritage which strongly characterizes urban landscapes. Although this huge stock has long been addressed by national policies as a major potential to pursue European climate targets, only the recent massive incentive measures (Superbonus 110%) have started to produce results for the energy upgrading of the buildings, offering alternatives and motivations (through the size of the public funding and the institution of the credit transfer) to the issues of the typical ownership fragmentation. However, these first partial outcomes are controversial from a life cycle, a social and an economic point of view. In addition, policies focus only on the energy performance of the single building, conceiving the interventions through a narrow-minded and generic attitude. The typological obsolescence and the multifaceted relationships between the building and the neighborhood are neglected, although important social, economic and energy efficiency benefits might emerge when addressing the renovation through a multi-scalar, multifunctional, and place-based approach. Stemming from the collection and analysis of ongoing initiatives and projects, possible models are outlined, enlarging the scenario of the transformations to include the urban scale. For example, underused private spaces can host new public or semi-public functions to contribute on the one hand to the management costs of the condominium and on the other hand to trigger local neighborhood regenerations. Moreover, widening the transformation perspective can envisage a group of buildings and the adjacent public spaces as a system to create energy districts where energy infrastructures introduce new amenities and added value.
The Importance of Testing Activities for a “New” Generation of Building Envelope
Authors: Milardi Martino , Grillo Evelyn , Mandaglio Mariateresa 
Published: June 2023

AbstractThe construction sector is considered, directly or indirectly, one of the pillars for the application of technological solutions to rise the quality levels of building envelopes. The need to realize new processes capable of “dynamically” reading the responses of the built systems becomes an essential action to understand how the dynamics of climate change determine and trigger evident effects on the built environment. In this scenario, the contribution describes the experimental research activities on a curved facade—carried out at the TCLab Section of Building Future Lab of the Mediterranean University of Reggio Calabria—to verify its performance responses to extreme events according to specific standardized protocols. Therefore, this study focuses on the building envelope, as the main subsystem through which leakage occurs, not only in terms of thermal and dynamic fluxes, but of air and water permeability. Testing activities, nowadays of fundamental value for climate change phenomena, allow to predict the behavior of the built environment and at the same time to evaluate alternative solution. The research efforts go toward defining a design methodology for a new generation of building envelopes, capable of reacting to different contextual conditions by raising the environmental and performance quality according to adaptive dynamics. From the tests carried out, the results take the form of test protocols, giving real added value to research and implementing applied experimentation actions with highly reliable results.
Designing with Nature Climate-Resilient Cities: A Lesson from Copenhagen
Authors: Negrello Maicol 
Published: June 2023

AbstractClimate change is accelerating at a faster rate than previously anticipated, and a significant number of cities remain unprepared for this transition. There is a pressing need to reconsider the approach to the design of public spaces, directing attention towards the development of design concepts that can impart knowledge for adaptation to climate change. Landscape architects, through nature-based solutions, can emerge as key figures capable of regenerating urban spaces. The case study of this research is the city of Copenhagen, which has become the stage of the most innovative experiments to create climate-resilient urban spaces. It is evident that a multidisciplinary and site-specific approach can be the critical components for a successful transition. Such a transition necessitates innovative project management that involves the collaboration of municipalities, private stakeholders, and citizens. Natural-based solutions, through an ecosystem approach, can effectively address the environmental, social, and economic challenges presented by climate change.