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Structural design and safety performance of a novel high-strength steel lightweight guardrail.

PLoS One

January 2025

Key Laboratory of Road and Traffic Engineering of Ministry of Education, Tongji University, Shanghai, China.

Highway guardrails are critical safety infrastructure along roadways, designed to redirect vehicles back into their lanes and facilitate a gradual deceleration to a complete stop. Traditional highway steel guardrails exhibit significant limitations, including inadequate energy absorption, susceptibility to corrosion, and an increased risk of vehicles leaving the roadway during severe collisions. Furthermore, the production and transportation of these guardrails contribute to substantial carbon emissions and environmental pollution.

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Study on the mechanics and self-sensing properties of ultrahigh-performance shotcrete containing waste glass aggregates.

Sci Rep

January 2025

Research Center of Traffic Disaster Prevention and Mitigation, Jilin Jianzhu University, Jilin Jianzhu University, Xincheng Street, Changchun, 130118, Jilin, China.

To promote the recycling of waste glass and satisfy the demands of environmental sustainability for ultrahigh performance concrete (UHPC), in this study, glass sand was employed to partially or entirely replace machine-made sand, and steel fibres were incorporated to fabricate ultrahigh performance shotcrete (UHPS). The effects of glass sand and steel fibres on the mechanical and electrical properties of composite materials were analysed in this study. Furthermore, alkali‒silica reaction (ASR) tests and microstructural analyses were conducted.

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Environmental Catalysis for NO Reduction by Manipulating the Dynamic Coordination Environment of Active Sites.

Environ Sci Technol

January 2025

Innovation Institute of Carbon Neutrality, International Joint Laboratory of Catalytic Chemistry, State Key Laboratory of Advanced Special Steel, Department of Chemistry, College of Sciences, Shanghai University, Shanghai 200444, China.

Nowadays, it is challenging to achieve SO-tolerant environmental catalysis for NO reduction because of the thermodynamically favorable transformation of reactive sites to inactive sulfate species in the presence of SO. Herein, we achieve enhanced low-temperature SO-tolerant NO reduction by manipulating the dynamic coordination environment of active sites. Engineered by coordination chemistry, SiO-CeO composite oxides with a short-range ordered Ce-O-Si structure were elaborately constructed on a TiO support.

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Ultrahigh Specific Strength by Bayesian Optimization of Carbon Nanolattices.

Adv Mater

January 2025

Department of Mechanical & Industrial Engineering, University of Toronto, 5 King's College Road, Toronto, M5S 3G8, Canada.

Nanoarchitected materials are at the frontier of metamaterial design and have set the benchmark for mechanical performance in several contemporary applications. However, traditional nanoarchitected designs with conventional topologies exhibit poor stress distributions and induce premature nodal failure. Here, using multi-objective Bayesian optimization and two-photon polymerization, optimized carbon nanolattices with an exceptional specific strength of 2.

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Five commercially available cut-resistant gloves were sourced from four different worldwide manufacturers which were advertised to contain graphene. A method was developed to assess the fibers composing each glove, including dissolution of the constituent fibers using sulfuric acid or liquid paraffin at elevated temperature, to extract and analyze particle additives. Scanning electron microscopy with energy-dispersive X-ray spectroscopy was applied to fibers and extracted particles for morphological and elemental analysis; Raman spectroscopy was applied to discern the composition of carbonaceous materials for the ultimate purpose of identifying any graphenic additives.

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