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Spinning Out Greentech Start-ups

Adam Swetloff

The Paris Agreement has made combating climate change a priority and has incentivised innovation for the greentech industry. Higher education institution[s] (HEI[s]) play an important role in fueling this innovation by developing disruptive technologies an ...

Bern2023

On the inefficiency of ride-sourcing services towards urban congestion

Nikolaos Geroliminis, Caio Vitor Beojone

The advent of shared-economy and smartphones made on-demand transportation services possible, which created additional opportunities, but also more complexity to urban mobility. Companies that offer these services are called Transportation Network Companie ...

2020

The Dynamic Emission Zone in Sandwich Polymer Light-Emitting Electrochemical Cells

Roland Hany, Beat Ruhstaller, Balthasar Bluelle, Matthias Diethelm

In light-emitting electrochemical cells (LECs), the position of the emission zone (EZ) is not predefined via a multilayer architecture design, but governed by a complex motion of electrical and ionic charges. As a result of the evolution of doped charge tr ...

WILEY-V C H VERLAG GMBH2019

Catalytic synthesis of polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME): A review

Oliver Kröcher, Alimohammad Bahmanpour, Christophe Jean Baranowski

Polyoxymethylene dimethyl ethers (OME) containing 3-5 CH2O units (OME3-5) are appealing oxygenated fuels, which can be used in diesel engines with only slight fuel system modifications. Their combustion leads to reduced hazardous exhaust gas emissions comp ...

Elsevier2017

Energy integration on multi-periods and multi-usages for hybrid electric and thermal powertrains

François Maréchal, Zlatina Kirilova Dimitrova

The improvement of the efficiency of vehicle energy systems promotes an active search to find innovative solutions during the design process. This requires more accurate modeling of complex systems, which offers new ways to improve the design efficiency of ...

Elsevier2015

Optimizing Fueling Decisions for Locomotives in Railroad Networks

Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar

Even though rail transportation is one of the most fuel efficient forms of surface transportation, the cost of fuel constitutes one of the major categories of very high operating costs for railroad companies. In the United States, unlike in Europe, fueling ...

2015

Hybridations durables

Cyrill Silvan Baumann

De la stratégie urbaine aux détails de construction, le développement de Microcity à Neuchâtel s’inscrit dans une recherche de cohérence globale et intégrée en matière de durabilité.Un des traits communs à ces multiples axes d’action est la notion d’hybrid ...

2014

Novel Laminated Connections

Manuel Santarsiero

As an alternative to standard adhesive connections, the PhD research project ‘Novel Laminated Connections for Structural Glass Applications’, which recently started at the ICOM-EPFL, focuses on the use of polymer foil/interlayer materials to laminate (meta ...

University Press2012

Optimizing Fueling Decisions for Locomotives in Railroad Networks

Michel Bierlaire, Prem Kumar

Even though rail transportation is one of the most fuel efficient forms of surface transportation, fueling costs are one of the highest operating cost head for railroad companies. In US, unlike Europe, fueling costs are indeed, by far, the single highest o ...

2011

New Approaches towards Organic Photodetection and Bio-Integration

Diego Ghezzi

Organic semiconductors technology has only recently started to merge with biology and medicine, especially in the field of polymeric coatings as protective layers for artificial devices. Very few examples, however, report the use of semiconducting polymers ...

2010