As electricity from both photovoltaics and concentrating solar power has become dramatically more affordable in the last several years, the prospect of converting entire national electrical grids to run almost entirely on renewable energy has become feasible in any location with a strong solar resource. However, focusing only on the electric grid neglects the large portion of our energy usage which ...

Calcite, a prevalent mineral in the earth’s crust, plays a pivotal role in various geological and industrial processes, including carbon sequestration, water treatment, and enhanced oil recovery. Understanding how wettability (a crucial surface property influenced by the interaction between calcite and surrounding fluids) affects calcite’s dissolution is essential for optimizing these processes. We ...

Unscheduled power disturbances cause severe consequences both for customers and grid operators. To defend against such events, it is necessary to identify the causes of interruptions in the power distribution network. In this work, we focus on the power grid of a Norwegian community in the Arctic that experiences several faults whose sources are unknown. First, we construct a data set consisting ...

Unscheduled power disturbances cause severe consequences for customers and grid operators. To avoid suchevents, it is important to identify the causes and localize the sources of the disturbances in the power distribution network. In this work, we focus on a specific power grid in the Arctic region of Northern Norway that experiences an increased frequency of failures of unspecified origin.

Vertical stacking of monolayers via van der Waals (vdW) assembly is an emerging field that opens promising routes toward engineering physical properties of two-dimensional materials. Industrial exploitation of these engineering heterostructures as robust functional materials still requires bounding their measured properties so as to enhance theoretical tractability and assist in experimental designs. ...

Excessive utilization of antibiotics in human, animal, and aquaculture poses a substantial threat to human health and the environment. Photoelectrochemical processes are increasingly applied for water remediation because they generate oxidizing species and mineralize organic pollutants, making even small water quantities more amenable for utilization. Thus, this study presents the fabrication of an ...

The surface wettability of graphite has gained a lot of interest in nanotechnology and fundamental studies alike, but the types of adsorptions that dominate its time resolved surface property variations in ambient environment are still elusive. Prediction of the intrinsic surface wettability of graphite from first-principles simulations offers an opportunity to clarify the overall evolution. In this ...

Scientific editors shape the content of academic journals and set standards for their fields. Yet, the degree to which the gender makeup of editors reflects that of scientists, and the rate at which editors publish in their own journals, are not entirely understood. Here, we use algorithmic tools to infer the gender of 81,000 editors serving more than 1,000 journals and 15 disciplines over five ...

We demonstrate how to get Hamaker coefficients with an amplitude-modulation AFM operated in standard tapping mode. The Hamaker coefficient is a physical parameter that provides chemical information about the surface of samples. It is based or emerges from van der Waals forces. We use a Cypher scanning probe microscope from Asylum Research to demonstrate the method. The method is based on the research ...

We experimentally demonstrated an amorphous graphene-based metasurface yielding near-infrared super absorber characteristic. The structure is obtained by alternatively combining magnetron-sputtering deposition and graphene transfer coating fabrication techniques. The thickness constraint of the physical vapor–deposited amorphous metallic layer is unlocked and as a result, the as-fabricated graphene-based ...