Forests need water. Without water, there is no vegetation. When it rains over a forest, the rainwater wets the leaves and the soil surface. The…
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Aluminum is an abundant metal in the Earth’s crust and has become widely used in a large diversity of applications also due to its desirable…
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Buildings concentrate 40% of total energy used in Europe, so the improvement of the sustainability of constructions through a more efficient and use of buildings…
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The story that we are often told about modern electricity grids goes like this: In the smart grid, the smart meter is the gateway for…
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Riding along industrial developments, the railroad carries many peoples’ lives and dreams. Various electrical devices are running constantly and anonymously, keeping rail networks operating safely, efficiently,…
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Harvesting energy from pedestrians could be used to power sensors in smart infrastructure, monitor structural health, and provide environmental sensing data. Energy harvesting tiles have…
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The Nordic countries — Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, and Sweden — have aggressive climate and energy policies in place and have already emerged as leaders…
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Distributed intelligence (or blockchain intelligence, as the recent trends insist to refer) is another valid paradigm of “less is more.” During the recent past decades,…
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Currently, renewable energy-based power generation is rapidly growing across the world as a response to technical, economic, and environmental developments, as well as political and…
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Quantum mechanics famously enables certain cryptographic tasks that would be classically impossible, among them, distributing a string of bits between two or more players unconditionally…
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Platelet-derived microparticles (PMP) are nano-sized fragments (100-1000 nm) released from platelets under various physiological and pathological conditions (Nieuwland and Sturk 2002). Many diseases have now…
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