Seats need to be more lightweight for airplanes, cars, busses and even trains to contribute to a better environment and to reduce energy consumption. However, a reduction in comfort due to weight reduction is not preferable, which opens a new area of research: improving comfort with a minimum of material or with lightweight materials and systems. In this paper three experiments are performed to...

Two-dimensional materials have emerged as promising candidates to augment existing optical networks for metrology, sensing, and telecommunication, both in the classical and quantum mechanical regimes. Here, we review the development of several on-chip photonic components ranging from electro-optic modulators, photodetectors, bolometers, and light sources that are essential building blocks for a...

Under very mild conditions, functionalized benzoxaborole derivatives were prepared in good to excellent yields via a palladium-catalyzed Miyaura borylation reaction of readily available unprotected o-bromobenzylalcohols, and bis(pinacolato)diboron (B2pin2) without the assistance of an acid. Blue-light-emitting materials based on spiro benzoxaborole building blocks have been obtained with potent...

In accordance with current efforts for building QoS models for the Internet, DiffRes provides a light weight QoS signaling protocol that allows for per-flow reservation establishment without the need for maintaining state information in the core routers. In this paper, we describe the functionality and design of the DiffRes protocol and possible interaction with other QoS signaling protocols.