Publications by authors named "Christopher Marton"

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  • The European Union is working towards climate neutrality by 2050, highlighting the need to explore greenhouse gas reduction and carbon dioxide removal strategies from a comprehensive life cycle perspective of buildings.
  • This study identifies and categorizes 35 measures under 11 carbon removal strategies, analyzing their impact and feasibility across various EU Member States.
  • Short-term gains in reducing greenhouse gas emissions can be achieved by improving energy use, using low-carbon materials, and managing space efficiently, while long-term strategies like promoting circularity and renovation are expected to gain traction as supply chains and skill sets evolve.
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The challenging problem of ultra-high-energy-density, high-efficiency, and small-scale portable power generation is addressed here using a distinctive thermophotovoltaic energy conversion mechanism and chip-based system design, which we name the microthermophotovoltaic (μTPV) generator. The approach is predicted to be capable of up to 32% efficient heat-to-electricity conversion within a millimeter-scale form factor. Although considerable technological barriers need to be overcome to reach full performance, we have performed a robust experimental demonstration that validates the theoretical framework and the key system components.

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Despite their great promise, small experimental thermophotovoltaic (TPV) systems at 1000 K generally exhibit extremely low power conversion efficiencies (approximately 1%), due to heat losses such as thermal emission of undesirable mid-wavelength infrared radiation. Photonic crystals (PhC) have the potential to strongly suppress such losses. However, PhC-based designs present a set of non-convex optimization problems requiring efficient objective function evaluation and global optimization algorithms.

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