Qualitative Approaches Towards Useful Photocatalytic Materials

Interdisciplinary Approaches towards Materials with Enhanced Properties for Electrical Engineering

The internationally growing demand for electrical energy is one of the most prominent triggers stimulating research these days. In this highly interdisciplinary research area, electrical engineers, material scientists and chemists collaborate for the design and fabrication of the next generation of high-voltage machinery and electro-technical devices. Nanocomposites with enhanced thermal conduc...

Academic Approaches and Attitudes towards Caa: a Qualitative Study

Towards qualitative approaches to multi-stage decision making

We extend Dubois and Prade's possibilistic decision theory to multi-stage decision making. EEects of actions are described by possibility distributions; objectives are speciied either by a partition of the nal states between goal and non-goal states, or more generally by a qualitative utility function. Optimal policies are computed by an algorithm in the style of dynamic programming.

Towards Materials Sustainability through Materials Stewardship

Materials sustainability requires a concerted change in philosophy across the entire materials lifecycle, orienting around the theme of materials stewardship. In this paper, we address the opportunities for improved materials conservation through dematerialization, durability, design for second life, and diversion of waste streams through industrial symbiosis.

Towards systems materials engineering.

Materials science has evolved over the past decades so that there is now an increasing need for efforts from the various subfields of materials science and engineering to come together to solve grand challenges. Such issues were discussed at a symposium on energy at the Collège de France1 that involved both the socio-economical stakes as well as the technological challenges. Indeed, nowhere has...