The increasing use of Twitter as a medium for sharing news related to various topics, facilitates methods for automatic news creation or event detection and prediction. However, these methods are hindered by users posting and propagating incorrect or irrelevant content. Choosing the right users is crucial in order to sample down the tweets to be analyzed, and preserve the quality of the predict...

A closed form Hierarchical Multi-interphase Model (HMM) based on the classical elasticity theory is proposed to study the influence of the interphase around inclusions on the enhancement mechanism of composites in the elastic regime. The HMM is verified by three-dimensional Finite Element simulations and highly consistent results are obtained for the cases with relatively low stiffness ratios (...

The mechanical behavior of TiO2 nanoparticle-reinforced resin-based dental composites was characterized in this work using a three-dimensional nanoscale representative volume element. The impacts of nanoparticle volume fraction, aspect ratio, stiffness, and interphase zone between the resin matrix and nanoparticle on the bulk properties of the composite were characterized. Results clearly demon...

Suppressing dendrite formation at lithium metal anodes during cycling is critical for the implementation of future lithium metal-based battery technology. Here we report that it can be achieved via the facile process of immersing the electrodes in ionic liquid electrolytes for a period of time before battery assembly. This creates a durable and lithium ion-permeable solid-electrolyte interphase...

Nitriles as efficient electrolyte additives are widely used in high-voltage lithium-ion batteries. However, their working mechanisms still mysterious, especially practical LiCoO2 pouch Herein, we adopt a tridentate ligand-containing 1,3,6-hexanetricarbonitrile (HTCN) an effective additive to shed light on the mechanism of stabilizing cathode (4.5 V) through nitriles. The LiCoO2/graphite cells w...

We investigate the mechanical property predictions for a three-phase viscoelastic (VE) composite by the use of two micromechanical models: the original Mori–Tanaka (MT) method and an extension of the Mori–Tanaka solution developed by Benveniste to treat fibers with interphase regions. These micro-mechanical solutions were compared to a suitable finite-element analysis, which provided the benchm...

The development of composite materials that are simultaneously strong and tough is one of the most active topics of current material science. Observations of biological structural materials show that adequate introduction of reinforcements and interfaces, or interphases, at different scales usually improves toughness, without reduction in strength. The prospect of interphase properties tuning m...