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Validated Performance Prediction of Adsorption Chillers: Bridging the Gap from Gram‐Scale Experiments to Full‐Scale Chillers
(2020)Energy TechnologyAdsorption chillers provide sustainable cooling from waste or solar heat. However, adsorption chillers currently show limited performance. To increase the performance, new working pairs and adsorber geometries are constantly proposed. Evaluating the performance of new working pairs and adsorber geometries requires time and large amounts of the material. To reduce time and material needs, a method is presented to reliably predict the heat ...Journal Article -
Toward optimal metal-organic frameworks for adsorption chillers: insights from the scale-up of mil-101(cr) and nh 2 -mil-125
(2020)Energy TechnologyThe metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) MIL‐101(Cr) and NH2‐MIL‐125 offer high adsorption capacities and have therefore been suggested for sustainable energy conversion in adsorption chillers. Herein, these MOFs are benchmarked to commercial Siogel. The evaluation method combines small‐scale experiments with dynamic modeling of full‐scale adsorption chillers. For the common temperature set 10/30/80 °C, it is found that MIL‐101(Cr) has the ...Journal Article -
Dissecting dual roles of MyoD during lineage conversion to mature myocytes and myogenic stem cells
(2021)Genes & DevelopmentThe generation of myotubes from fibroblasts upon forced MyoD expression is a classic example of transcription factor-induced reprogramming. We recently discovered that additional modulation of signaling pathways with small molecules facilitates reprogramming to more primitive induced myogenic progenitor cells (iMPCs). Here, we dissected the transcriptional and epigenetic dynamics of mouse fibroblasts undergoing reprogramming to either ...Journal Article -
Independent domestication events in the blue‐cheese fungus Penicillium roqueforti
(2020)Molecular EcologyDomestication provides an excellent framework for studying adaptive divergence. Using population genomics and phenotypic assays, we reconstructed the domestication history of the blue cheese mould Penicillium roqueforti. We showed that this fungus was domesticated twice independently. The population used in Roquefort originated from an old domestication event associated with weak bottlenecks and exhibited traits beneficial for pre‐industrial ...Journal Article -
Back to Basics: The Importance of Conceptual Clarification in Psychological Science
(2022)Current Directions in Psychological ScienceAlthough the lack of conceptual clarity has been observed to be a widespread and fundamental problem in psychology, conceptual clarification plays a mostly marginal role in psychological research. In this article, we argue that better conceptualization of psychological phenomena is needed to move psychology forward as a science. We first show how conceptual unclarity seeps through all aspects of psychological research, from everyday ...Journal Article -
Controlling and visualizing Dirac physics in topological semimetal heterostructures
(2022)Science AdvancesA bulk crystal of cadmium arsenide is a three-dimensional Dirac semimetal, but, in a thin film, it can behave like a three-dimensional topological insulator. This tunability provides unique opportunities to manipulate and explore a topological insulator phase. However, an obstacle to engineering such tunability is the subtlety of transport-based discriminants for topological phases. In this work, the quantum capacitance of cadmium ...Journal Article -
Integrating superstructure-based design of molecules, processes, and flowsheets
(2020)AIChE JournalThe key to many chemical and energy conversion processes is the choice of the right molecule, for example, used as working fluid. However, the choice of the molecule is inherently coupled to the choice of the right process flowsheet. In this work, we integrate superstructure‐based flowsheet design into the design of processes and molecules. The thermodynamic properties of the molecule are modeled by the PC‐SAFT equation of state. ...Journal Article -
Learning and Adaptation in Food Systems: Insights from Four Case Studies in the Global South
(2020)International Journal on Food System DynamicsThis article presents empirical results on learning and adaptation to risks among different groups of actors in food systems in two countries of the global south (Kenya and Bolivia). Using a resilience approach, the study sought to assess knowledge about risks perceived by actors, forms of learning that actors in food systems have access to and use, and how this knowledge and learning has contributed to adaptation and resilience build ...Journal Article -
Diversity begets diversity during community assembly until ecological limits impose a diversity ceiling
(2021)Molecular EcologyMicrobial communities are hugely diverse, but we do not yet understand how species invasions and extinctions drive and limit their diversity. On the one hand, the ecological limits hypothesis posits that diversity is primarily limited by environmental resources. On the other hand, the diversity-begets-diversity hypothesis posits that such limits can be easily lifted when new ecological niches are created by biotic interactions. To find ...Journal Article -
Genomic epidemiology of SARS-CoV-2 transmission lineages in Ecuador
(2021)Virus EvolutionCharacterisation of severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus-2 (SARS-CoV-2) genetic diversity through space and time can reveal trends in virus importation and domestic circulation and permit the exploration of questions regarding the early transmission dynamics. Here, we present a detailed description of SARS-CoV-2 genomic epidemiology in Ecuador, one of the hardest hit countries during the early stages of the coronavirus-19 pandemic. ...Journal Article