Household-level transition methodology towards sustainable material footprints

Household ecological footprints – moving towards sustainability?

Towards Sustainable Future by Transition to the Next Level Civilisation

Universal and rigorously derived concept of dynamic complexity shows that any system of interacting components, including society and civilisation, is a process of highly uneven development of its unreduced complexity. Modern civilisation state corresponds to the end of unfolding of a big complexity level. Such exhausted, totally “replete” structure cannot be sustainable in principle and shows ...

Biopolymer-Activated Graphitic Carbon Nitride towards a Sustainable Photocathode Material

Photoelectrochemical (PEC) conversion of solar light into chemical fuels is one of the most promising solutions to the challenge of sustainable energy. Graphitic carbon (IV) nitride polymer (g-CN) is an interesting sustainable photocathode material due to low-cost, visible-light sensitivity, and chemical stability up to 500 °C in air. However, grain boundary effects and limited active sites gre...

Towards a Methodology of Material Guided Digital Fabrication

The distinction between material behavior (mechanics) and material response (electronics) in the framework of responsive building skins has promoted unique design protocols for integrating sensor technologies into material components. Such a distinction results in the implementation of remote sensing devices post the process of material fabrication. Sensors are commonly perceived as electronic ...

Electronic Supplementary Material for Level Set Simulation Methodology

The purpose of this supplement is to provide details of the numerical scheme that we have used in studying the problem of coupled grain boundary (GB) motion in the main paper. Our simulations are based on the local level set method of Peng et al. [11], which is a modification of the classical level set method [10, 13], combined with discretization and reinitialization schemes of Jiang and Peng ...