Currently, energy demand and environmental pollution have boosted the evolution of
different environment friendly technologies for the development of clean and renewable …

Quartz crystal microbalance (QCM) is a versatile sensing platform that has gained
increasing attention for its use in bioapplications due to its high sensitivity, real-time …

Foams with a pore size gradient are promising materials for tissue engineering applications
where a complex architecture involving morphological variations in space must be …

Efficiency and temperature compliance of last-mile refrigerated transport suffer from more
severe disturbances than stationary applications. The significant energy expenditure and …

This paper studies an innovative heat pump that couples both solar and thermoelectric
contributions and evaluates its implementation in an energy-efficient container house for …

The use of a digital twin as an enabling technology for industry 4.0 provides control systems
engineers with novel tools for modelling, designing, and controlling complex systems …

This study focuses on thermoelectric elements (TEE) as an alternative for room temperature
control. TEE are semi-conductor devices that can provide heating and cooling via a heat …

Thermally induced phase separation is a fabrication technique for porous polymeric
structures. By means of easy‐to‐tune processing parameters, such as system composition …

This paper presents the use of Electromechanical Impedance (EMI) technique as an
alternative tool to measure phase transformation temperatures of Shape Memory Alloys …

We propose a device for therapeutic hypothermia implemented with Peltier elements
controlled by a microcontroller, operated from a guided user interface. The control is based …