The need for monitoring the condition of large-scale infrastructure systems has motivated a recent interest in novel sensor technologies for structural health monitoring. To provide the structural health monitoring system with data that captures local structural behavior, the measurement of component-level strain is valuable. Although current foil-based strain gauges are capable of measuring st...

Low access to electricity is a significant problem in small and distant areas, where power intensive treatment systems like reverse osmosis can complicate handling requirements. In order mitigate the energy requirements such forward (FO) an advance option desalinate provide potable water cost effectively. this study, cellulose acetate (CA) was selected as cheap natural green polymer along with ...

In this study, novel thin-film nanocomposite (TFN) membranes were developed by incorporating graphene oxide (GO) and Aquaporin Z (AqpZ) reconstituting nanostructure (AQN) into the polyamide (PA) active layer to improve forward osmosis (FO) performances of PA TFN membranes. First, AQN loading in was optimized, followed GO addition at various loadings until optimal FO process performance attained...

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