Abstract: A charging apparatus for electric vehicle may comprise a charging apparatus and an electric vehicle. The charging apparatus has a rectifier and a mobile connector, and the connector covered by a plastic cover has a primary coil electrically connected to the rectifier. The cover comprises a vertical first plane, and a plurality of first engaging portions formed at an outer periphery of the cover. The electric vehicle has a converter, a battery pack and a charge port, and the charge port covered by a plastic shell comprises a secondary coil electrically connected to the converter. The charge port has a vertical second plane and at least a second engaging portion. When the first plane of the connector is coupled to the second plane of the charge port, the primary coil and the secondary coil are spaced apart by a fixed distance, thereby achieving the effect of safe charging.

Abstract: A detection device includes a rectangular tube, an alignment film, a probe, and a nematic liquid crystal (LC). The rectangular tube has a tube wall and a receiving space located inside the tube wall. The tube wall has one or more light-transmittable region. The alignment film is located on the tube wall and corresponds to the light-transmittable region. The probe is distributed on the alignment film. The nematic LC is located in the receiving space. The probe includes an antibody, an antigen, or both the antibody and the antigen. Furthermore, a detection system is also provided.

Abstract: A connection assembly is provided and includes a first conductor, a second conductor and a friction stir welded connection connecting the first conductor and the second conductor, with the second conductor having a bundle of conductor wires. The friction stir welded connection is provided by a friction stir welding tool having a pin connecting a front side of the second conductor pressed onto the first conductor along a connecting direction between the first conductor and the second conductor.

Abstract: The present invention discloses a two-terminal vertical 1T-DRAM and a method of fabricating the same. According to one embodiment of the present invention, the two-terminal vertical 1T-DRAM includes a cathode layer formed of a first-type high-concentration semiconductor layer; a base region including a second-type low-concentration semiconductor layer formed on the cathode layer and a first-type low-concentration semiconductor layer formed on the second-type low-concentration semiconductor layer; and an anode layer formed of a second-type high-concentration semiconductor layer on the first-type low-concentration semiconductor layer.

Abstract: Disclosed is an in-loop filtering method according to an adaptive pixel classification standard. The in-loop filtering method according to an adaptive pixel classification standard in a video decoding apparatus comprises the steps of: classifying reconstructed samples according to an absolute or relative classification standard; acquiring offset data on the basis of results of classifying the reconstructed samples; adding an offset value to the reconstructed samples by referencing the acquired offset data; and outputting the offset value-added reconstructed samples. Accordingly, errors in the reconstructed image can be corrected.

Abstract: Titanium-based thermal ground planes are described. A thermal ground plane in accordance with the present invention comprises a titanium substrate comprising a plurality of pillars, wherein the plurality of Ti pillars can be optionally oxidized to form nanostructured titania coated pillars, and a vapor cavity, in communication with the plurality of titanium pillars, for transporting thermal energy from one region of the thermal ground plane to another region of the thermal ground plane.

Abstract: A system featuring a substrate and a multiplicity of nanostructures arranged on the substrate is provided. At least one portion of the nanostructures feature a capturing moiety covalently attached to a surface thereof and at least another portion of the nanostructures, which can be the same or different from the first portion, feature a light-activatable moiety covalently attached to a surface thereof. The capturing moiety is such that selectively interacts with an analyte, and the light-activatable moiety generates, upon exposure to light, a reactive moiety that interferes with an interaction of the capturing moiety and the analyte. Further provided are systems featuring a substrate and a multiplicity of nanostructures aligned generally vertically to the substrate, at least a portion of these nanostructures being branched nanostructures. Uses of the systems in extracting, and optionally identifying, the analyte from a sample are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a collaborative optimization method for bus timetables based on big data, which belongs to the technical field of urban bus operation and management. Bus GPS data, IC card data and line station data are fused together to provide real-time operation data for the formulation of bus timetables, and a bus timetable optimization model considering transfer between buses and rail transit lines is proposed. In the model, by taking the departure interval of each time period as a decision variable and taking the minimum total system cost as an objective function, the waiting time cost of non-transfer passengers, the waiting time cost of transfer passengers, and the operation cost of bus operation enterprises are comprehensively considered. By means of the present invention, passenger flow data are acquired through multisource data fusion, a large number of manpower is saved, and the accuracy of data is increased.

Abstract: Disclosed herein is a shape compliant electroadhesive gripper for picking up an atypical object. The shape compliant electroadhesive gripper comprises a body, and an electroadhesive module disposed on the body and including an electrorheological elastomer, wherein, when a voltage is not applied, a shape of the electroadhesive module is deformed according to a shape of an external object coming into contact with the electroadhesive module, and when the voltage is applied, rigidity of the electrorheological elastomer is increased to maintain the shape of the electroadhesive module, and when the voltage is applied to the electroadhesive module, electroadhesion is made due to an electrostatic force generated between the electrorheological elastomer and the adjacent external object.

Abstract: Systems and methods for fracture mapping may utilize frequency changing to aid in providing high-resolution mapping. Integrated chips may be injected into a well and dispersed into a formation. A downhole tool that provides a transmitter and receiver may be positioned in the well. The transmitter may transmit electromagnetic (EM) signals into the formation. The dispersed integrated chips may receive the transmitted EM signal and return a frequency-changed signal to the receiver of the downhole tool. Utilizing the returned frequency changed signal, the system is able to determine the locations of the integrated chips that have been dispersed into the formation and provide fracture mapping. In another variation, the integrated chips may communicate with each other to provide fracture mapping.

Abstract: A process for grain boundary engineering of an aluminum alloy of AA5XXX series which includes steps of annealing the aluminum alloy at a first temperature of from about 350° C. to about 450° C.; deforming the annealed aluminum alloy to reduce the thickness by from about 2% to about 20% of the original thickness of the aluminum alloy; heat treating the deformed aluminum alloy at a second temperature from about 450° C. to about 550° C., and optionally sensitizing the heat treated alloy in one or more sensitizing steps. Aluminum alloys of the AA5XXX series treated by the process of the present invention are also provided.

Abstract: The present invention is directed to aqueous solid polymer electrolytes that comprise a lithium salt and battery cells comprising the same. The present invention is also directed to methods of making the electrolytes and methods of using the electrolytes in batteries and other electrochemical technologies.

Abstract: Systems and methods of manufacturing a thermoelectric, high performance material by using ball-milling and hot pressing materials according to various formulas, where some formulas substitute a different element for part of one of the elements in the formula, in order to obtain a figure of merit (ZT) suitable for thermoelectric applications.

Abstract: In one embodiment, an electroactive material includes a piezoelectric polymer substrate and a conducting polymer coating provided on the substrate.

Abstract: The present disclosure relates to wheat plants having grain with high ?-glucan content, methods for constructing said wheat plants, grain therefrom and uses thereof. Wheat lines homozygous for the HvCslF6 gene from barley having five times the fiber content and an increased ?-glucan content of TA5790, TA5792, and TA5795 are disclosed.

Abstract: The present invention presents 2-(acylamino)imidazoles with therapeutic activity, including selective activity against cancer cells, and compositions comprising them. Methods of using and preparing the 2-(acylamino)imidazoles are also presented.

Abstract: Direct pixel-by-pixel phase engineering in a SLM is an effective method for the holographic fabrication of graded photonic super-quasi-crystals with desired disorder and graded photonic super-crystals with rectangular unit-cells. Multiple levels of filling fractions of dielectric in the crystal have been created in the graded regions. Fabrication of these graded photonic super-crystals and super-quasi-crystals with small feature size is possible, using a laser projection system consisting of integrated spatial light modulator and reflective optical element.

Abstract: The present invention provides a carbon-lithium composite powder and a preparation method thereof. In the present invention, a carbon material is used as a skeleton to support metal lithium, which increases the specific surface area of the composite powder, and can effectively reduce the current density and stabilize the surface potential of an electrode, thereby effectively inhibit the growth of lithium dendrites during the process in which the metal lithium is used as an anode material. The present invention provides a method for preparing a lithium metal secondary battery electrode. In the present invention, a roller-press flaking process is adopted to prepare the electrode, such that it is easy to regulate the effective capacity of the metal lithium loaded on the current collector, thereby better matching the corresponding active cathode material to improve the effective utilization rate of the metal lithium.

Abstract: A method in an autonomous vehicle (AV) is provided. The method includes determining, from vehicle sensor data and road geometry data, a plurality of range measurements and obstacle velocity data; determining vehicle state data wherein the vehicle state data includes a velocity of the AV, a distance to a stop line, a distance to a midpoint of an intersection, and a distance to a goal; determining, based on the plurality of range measurements, the obstacle velocity data and the vehicle state data, a set of discrete behavior actions and a unique trajectory control action associated with each discrete behavior action; choosing a discrete behavior action and a unique trajectory control action to perform; and communicating a message to vehicle controls conveying the unique trajectory control action associated with the discrete behavior action.

Abstract: The present invention provides methods for inhibiting respiratory complex III in a cell. The present invention also provides methods for treating cancer in a subject.