Over 2500 active satellites are in orbit as of October 2020, with an increase of~ 1000
smallsats in the past two years. Since 2012, over 1700 smallsats have been launched into …

Marine biofouling remains one of the key challenges for maritime industries, both for
seafaring and stationary structures. Currently used biocide-based approaches suffer from …

The demand for environmental monitoring and remediation stimulates tremendous research
efforts to develop highly efficient and advanced functional nanomaterials capable of …

There are a number of pressing problems mankind is facing today that could, at least in part,
be resolved by space systems. These include capabilities for fast and far-reaching …

Propulsion is a critical subsystem of many spacecraft,,–. For efficient propellant usage,
electric propulsion systems based on the electrostatic acceleration of ions formed during …

This paper is concerned with the fault-tolerant consensus control problem for a general class
of linear continuous-time multi-agent systems (MASs) with the data privacy preserving (DPP) …

Low-dimensional copper oxide nanostructures are very promising building blocks for
various functional materials targeting high-demanded applications, including energy …

Plasma-enhanced synthesis and modification of polymers is a field that continues to expand
and become increasingly more sophisticated. The highly reactive processing environments …

Supercapacitors and other innovative devices for electric energy generation and storage
could significantly improve ecological situation in large densely populated cities. However …

Summary Colonization of Mars: As humans gradually overcome technological challenges of
deep space missions, the possibility of exploration and colonization of extraterrestrial …