MOST completed publications and projects

This category lists completed projects for the Category:MOST. Following the individual links leads to a summary of the project and key findings, related literature reviews, methods, protocols, and equipment, and an open access version of the paper published in a peer reviewed journal.

2021 Completed Projects & Publications[edit | edit source]

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  3-D printed magnetic soft magnetic helical coil actuators of iron oxide embedded polydimethylsiloxane

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  Potential of microbial protein from hydrogen for preventing mass starvation in catastrophic scenarios

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  A review of the value of solar methodology with a case study of the U.S. VOS

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  Conceptual Design and Rationale for a New Agrivoltaics Concept: Pastured-Raised Rabbits and Solar Farming

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  Applying a Relationally and Socially Embedded Decision Framework to Solar Photovoltaic Adoption: A Conceptual Exploration

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  Electric Vehicle Charging Potential from Retail Parking Lot Solar Photovoltaic Awnings

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  Low emissions analysis platform model for renewable energy: Community-scale case studies in Nigeria

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  Economics of Grid-Tied Solar Photovoltaic Systems Coupled to Heat Pumps: The Case of Northern Climates of the U.S. and Canada

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  Geographic potential of shotcrete photovoltaic racking: Direct and low-concentration cases

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  Reaction Induced Multifunctional TiO2 Rod/Spherical Nanostructured Materials for Screen Printed Dye Sensitized Solar Cells

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  Integrating solar energy with agriculture: Industry perspectives on the market, community, and socio-political dimensions of agrivoltaics

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  Demonstration of the integrated rural energy planning framework for sustainable energy development in low-income countries: Case studies of rural communities in Nigeria

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  Open Source 3D-Printable Planetary Roller Screw for Food Processing Applications

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  Optoelectronic Properties: Carrier Transport, Recombination, and Stability

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  U.S. Potential of Sustainable Backyard Distributed Animal and Plant Protein Production During & After Pandemics

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  Open Source 3-D Filament Diameter Sensor for Recycling, Winding and Additive Manufacturing Machines

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  Performance and analysis of retail store‐centered microgrids with solar photovoltaic parking lot, cogeneration, and battery‐based hybrid systems

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  Open Source Vacuum Oven Design for Low-Temperature Drying: Performance Evaluation for Recycled PET and Biomass

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  Finite Difference Heat Exchanger Model: Flow Maldistribution with Thermal Coupling

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  Systems Analysis Approach to Polyethylene Terephthalate and Olefin Plastics Supply Chains in the Circular Economy: A Review of Data Sets and Models

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  Open source disease analysis system of cactus by artificial intelligence and image processing

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  Cost Effectiveness of AGI Safety Versus Preparation for Loss of Electricity/Industry

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  Rapid Repurposing of Biorefinery, Pulp & Paper and Breweries for Lignocellulosic Sugar Production in Global Food Shortages

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  Methane Single Cell Protein: securing protein supply during global food catastrophes

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  Do Agrivoltaics Improve Public Support for Solar Photovoltaic Development? Survey Says: Yes!

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  To Catch the Sun

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  Overcoming Supply Chain Disruptions During Pandemics by Utilizing Found Hardware for Open Source Gentle Ventilation

2021 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  How to turn plastic waste in your recycle bin into profit

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  Pearce Interview on Little DaVinces

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  Get Better at Garbage: Episode 24: How to turn your plastic waste into profit utilizing the DRAM 3D printing method.

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  STEM Everyday #190 - Open Source & STEM & Making

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  Tobacco killed 500,000 Americans in 2020 – is it time to control cigarette-makers?

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  Authors from All Over the World Share Their Tech in HardwareX to Battle COVID-19

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  Zero Waste Countdown

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  Affordable high-temperature 3D printers at home

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  Distributed Recycling and Additive Manufacturing for Sustainable Development Goals

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  Delivering in Decade of Action for achievement of the 2030 Agenda and its SDGs: Next steps for the TFM and its partners

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  Show Me the Money! Economic and Policy Aspects of Open Source Scientific Hardware at CZI's Open and Reproducible Hardware for Science Workshop

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  Panel: Preparing for the Next Global Crisis

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  Systems analysis approach to PET and olefin plastics supply chains in the circular economy: A review of datasets and models

2020 Completed Projects & Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Create, Share, and Save Money Using Open-Source Projects

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  Polymer-derived SiOC Replica of Material Extrusion-based 3-D Printed Plastics

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  The Potential for Grid Defection of Small and Medium Sized Enterprises Using Solar Photovoltaic, Battery and Generator Hybrid Systems

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  Bridging the Social and Environmental Dimensions of Global Sustainability in STEM Education with Additive Manufacturing

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  Scaling of greenhouse crop production in low sunlight scenarios

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  Limiting liability with positioning to minimize negative health effects of cellular phone towers

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  Open-Source Three-Dimensional Printable Infant Clubfoot Brace

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  Atomic layer deposited aluminium oxide mitigates outgassing from fused filament fabrication–based 3-D printed components

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  Towards national policy for open source hardware research: The case of Finland

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  Technical pathways for distributed recycling of polymer composites for distributed manufacturing: Windshield wiper blades

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  Energy Conservation with Open Source Ad Blockers

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  Plastic recycling in additive manufacturing: A systematic literature review and opportunities for the circular economy

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  Antibacterial and anticancer activity of hydrothermally-synthesized zinc oxide nanomaterials using natural extracts of neem, pepper and turmeric as solvent media

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  Potential of distributed recycling from hybrid manufacturing of 3-D printing and injection molding of stamp sand and acrylonitrile styrene acrylate waste composite

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  A review of open source ventilators for COVID-19 and future pandemics

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  From Open Access to Open Science: The Path From Scientific Reality to Open Scientific Communication

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  Open-Source Medical Hardware for Pandemics

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  Energy Policy for Energy Sovereignty: Can policy tools enhance energy sovereignty?

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  Demonstration of a simple encapsulation technique for prototype silicon solar cells

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  Open Source Digitally Replicable Lab-Grade Scales

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  Open-Source Grinding Machine for Compression Screw Manufacturing

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  The energy crises revealed by COVID: Intersections of Indigeneity, inequity, and health

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  Conversion of Self-Contained Breathing Apparatus Mask to Open Source Powered Air-Purifying Particulate Respirator for Fire Fighter COVID-19 Response

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  U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emission Bottlenecks: Prioritization of Targets for Climate Liability

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  Open Source Computer Vision-based Layer-wise 3D Printing Analysis

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  Real-Time Eye State Detection System for Driver Drowsiness Using Convolutional Neural Network

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  Vacuum Outgassing Characteristics of Unpigmented 3-D Printed Polymers Coated with ALD Alumina

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  RepRapable Automated Open Source Bag Valve Mask-based Ventilator

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  Open Source High-Temperature Reprap for 3-D Printing Heat-Sterilizable PPE and Other Applications

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  Parametric Nasopharyngeal Swab for Sampling COVID-19 and Other Respiratory Viruses: Open Source Design, SLA 3-D Printing and UV Curing System

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  Decentralized Renewable Hybrid Mini-Grids for Rural Communities: Culmination of the IREP Framework and Scale up to Urban Communities

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  Economic Savings for Scientific Free and Open Source Technology: A Review

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  Additively Manufactured Parametric Universal Clip-System: An Open Source Approach for Aiding Personal Exposure Measurement in the Breathing Zone

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  Open Source Arc Analyzer: Multi-Sensor Monitoring of Wire Arc Additive Manufacturing

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  Towards Distributed Recycling with Additive Manufacturing of PET Flake Feedstocks

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  Distributed manufacturing of after market flexible floating photovoltaic modules

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  Mechanical Properties of Direct Waste Printing of Polylactic Acid with Universal Pellets Extruder: Comparison to Fused Filament Fabrication on Open-Source Desktop Three-Dimensional Printers

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  A First Investigation of Agriculture Sector Perspectives on the Opportunities and Barriers for Agrivoltaics

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  Water Conservation Potential of Self-Funded Foam-Based Flexible Surface-Mounted Floatovoltaics

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  The Economics of Classroom 3-D Printing of Open-Source Digital Designs of Learning Aids

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  Image Analysis Method for Quantifying Snow Losses on PV Systems

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  Detecting Covert Legal Killing to Stop A New Approach to Terrorist Intention

2020 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  MOST News Coverage 2020

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  Nuclear war could be devastating for the US, even if no one shoots back

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  Contribute to open source healthcare projects for COVID-19

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  What you need to know about open source ad blockers

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  As the coronavirus interrupts global supply chains, people have an alternative – make it at home

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  The 3D printing revolution is finally here

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  Finland's Research Dollars Stretch Further with Open Source

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  VR Roundtable- How to audit and secure for your COVID19 product?

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  FitWorld board game

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  The Free Quarantine Board Game

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  Fulbright Finland: A Life Changing Experience

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  Open Source and Renewable Energy Solutions to Improve our Quality of Life

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  3-D Printing Waste into Profit

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  BioPROTEIN

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  Guest Blog: MTU Releases Three New Open-source Tools for COVID-19

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  Open source tools provide an economic advantage for science

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  29 Best Sites to Read Online or Download Free Books (Legally) in 2020

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  How to influence people to join open source

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  Open hardware is economically efficient and generates a massive return on public investment

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  如何感召人们让其参与到开源活动中

2019 Completed Projects & Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Compatibility of 3-D printed devices in cleanroom environments for semiconductor processing

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  MACE nano-texture process applicable for both single- and multi-crystalline diamond-wire sawn Si solar cells

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  Scalable honeycomb top contact to increase the light absorption and reduce the series resistance of thin film solar cells

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  Effect of microwave power irradiation on TiO2 nano-structures and binder free paste screen printed dye sensitized solar cells

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  Mechanical properties of 3-D printed truss-like lattice biopolymer non-stochastic structures for sandwich panels with natural fibre composite skins

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  Towards Quantifiable Metrics Warranting Industry-Wide Corporate Death Penalties

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  Dual morphology titanium dioxide for dye sensitized solar cells

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  Policies to Overcome Barriers for Renewable Energy Distributed Generation: A Case Study of Utility Structure and Regulatory Regimes in Michigan

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  Food without sun: Price and life-saving potential

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  Could 79 People Solarize the U.S. Electric Grid?

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  Green Fab Lab Applications of Large-Area Waste Polymer-based Additive Manufacturing

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  Preliminary Automated Determination of Edibility of Alternative Foods: Non-Targeted Screening for Toxins in Red Maple Leaf Concentrate

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  Systems Analysis for PET and Olefin Polymers in a Circular Economy

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  Influence of metal assisted chemical etching time period on mesoporous structure in as-cut upgraded metallurgical grade silicon for solar cell application

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  Open Source Completely 3-D Printable Centrifuge

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  Mechanical Properties and Applications of Recycled Polycarbonate Particle Material Extrusion-Based Additive Manufacturing

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  Mechanical Properties of Ultraviolet-Assisted Paste Extrusion and Postextrusion Ultraviolet-Curing of Three-Dimensional Printed Biocomposites

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  Economic viability of captive off-grid solar photovoltaic and diesel hybrid energy systems for the Nigerian private sector

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  Low-cost open source ultrasound-sensing based navigational support for visually impaired

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  Ystruder: open source multifunction extruder with sensing and monitoring capabilities

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  Open Source Waste Plastic Granulator

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  Design and Testing of a Low-Cost, Open Source, 3-D Printed Air-Bearing-Based Attitude Simulator for CubeSat Satellites

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  Expanded microchannel heat exchanger: Non-destructive evaluation

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  Differences in Snow Shedding in Photovoltaic Systems with Framed and Frameless Modules

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  Performance of Bifacial Photovoltaic Modules on a Dual-Axis Tracker in a High-Latitude, High-Albedo Environment

2019 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  MOST News Coverage 2019

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  Open Source 3-D Printing

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  Expanding Equitable Access to Experimental Research and STEM Education by Supporting Open Source Hardware Development

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  Take a free course on OpenSCAD, FreeCAD, and Blender

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  Are We Measuring Research Success Wrong?

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  Do-it-yourself guides to better food production

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  Efectos potenciales de Sci-Hub sobre la publicación académica

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  Interview with Professor (Hardware)X on open source hardware

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  How to open source your academic work in 7 steps

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  How to leverage open hardware to improve your research (Oct24)

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  How universities are using open source to attract students

2018 Completed Projects & Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Tightening the loop on the circular economy: Coupled distributed recycling and manufacturing with recyclebot and RepRap 3-D printing

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  Decarbonizing the boardroom? Aligning electric utility executive compensation with climate change incentives

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  General Design Procedure for Free and Open-Source Hardware for Scientific Equipment

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  Cost-effectiveness of interventions for alternate food in the United States to address agricultural catastrophesCost-effectiveness of interventions for alternate food in the United States to address agricultural catastrophes

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  Open-source parametric 3-D printed slot die system for thin film semiconductor processing

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  Economic impact of substituting solar photovoltaic electric production for tobacco farming

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  Development of a Resilient 3-D Printer for Humanitarian Crisis Response

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  Applications of Open Source GMAW-Based Metal 3-D Printing

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  Micromorphology analysis of sputtered indium tin oxide fabricated with variable ambient combinations

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  Effects of silver catalyst concentration in metal assisted chemical etching of silicon

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  Open-source 3-D Printing in Managing Humanitarian Innovation

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  Properties of Al-Doped Zinc Oxide and In-Doped Zinc Oxide Bilayer Transparent Conducting Oxides for Solar Cell Applications

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  Design Optimization of Polymer Heat Exchanger for Automated Household-Scale Solar Water Pasteurizer

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  Expanding the Consumer Bill of Rights for material ingredients

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  Anisotropic mechanical property variance between ASTM D638-14 type I and type IV fused filament fabricated specimens

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  How to perform a literature review with free and open source software

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  Optimal Design of Thin-film Plasmonic Solar Cells using Differential Evolution Optimization Algorithms

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  RepRapable Recyclebot: Open source 3-D printable extruder for converting plastic to 3-D printing filament

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  Self-sufficiency of 3-D printers: utilizing stand-alone solar photovoltaic power systems

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  A National Pragmatic Safety Limit for Nuclear Weapon Quantities

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  Sponsored Libre Research Agreements to Create Free and Open Source Software and Hardware

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  Chemical Compatibility of Fused Filament Fabrication-based 3-D Printed Components with Solutions Commonly Used in Semiconductor Wet Processing

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  Fused Particle Fabrication 3-D Printing: Recycled Materials’ Optimization and Mechanical Properties

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  Modular Design for Spherical Microphone Arrays

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  Economic Advantages of Dry-Etched Black Silicon in Passivated Emitter Rear Cell (PERC) Photovoltaic Manufacturing

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  Belt-Driven Open Source Circuit Mill Using Low-Cost 3-D Printer Components

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  Coal with Carbon Capture and Sequestration is not as Land Use Efficient as Solar Photovoltaic Technology for Climate Neutral Electricity Production

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  Prospects of applying 3-D printing to economics of remote communities: Reindeer herder case

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  Approaches to Open Source 3-D Printable Probe Positioners and Micromanipulators for Probe Stations

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  Open Source Low-Cost Power Monitoring System

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  Micronutrient Availability in Alternative Foods During Agricultural Catastrophes

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  Wood Furniture Waste-Based Recycled 3-D Printing Filament

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  Chemical Synthesis and Characterization of Nano Alumina, Nano Composite of Carbon–Alumina and Their Comparative Studies

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  3-D Printable Polymer Pelletizer Chopper for Fused Granular Fabrication-Based Additive Manufacturing

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  Improved model and experimental validation of deformation in fused filament fabrication of polylactic acid

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  3-D printable open source dual axis gimbal system for optoelectronic measurements

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  Economic Potential for Distributed Manufacturing of Adaptive Aids for Arthritis Patients in the U.S.

2018 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  MOST News Coverage 2018

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  Can mirrors boost solar panel output - and help overcome Trump’s tariffs?

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  5 keys to building open hardware: Maximize your project's impact

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  Red Hat Honors Instructors Who Champion Open Source Education

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  Opportunities in Sustainable Development and Open Source Technology

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  How to Install a Heated Bed and Printhead Heater Cartridge for the Ultimaker 2 Go

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  How to make a 3-D printed corn sheller, This is Mold

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  Mainstream academia embraces open source hardware

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  How to set up an open source scholarship at your university

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  7 open source tools to make literature reviews easy

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  3D printers in the public library- Finland ahead of the curve

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  How Many Americans Will Die Because of Trump's Solar Tariffs?

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  What America Can Learn From Finland’s Education System: We Should Respect Teachers and Take Only the Best

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  What America Can Learn From Finland’s Education System Part 2: Embrace International Students and Pursue Graduate School for a Secure Future Mining Gazette

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  Tricks for telling if your 3D print is good enough for your bike

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  Trade wars will boost digital manufacturing – at consumers’ own homes with personal 3D printers

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  New research agreement opens up for universities and companies

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  An alternative to propping up coal power plants: Retrain workers for solar

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  3D printing scientific open hardware

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  3D-printed tools welcome

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  Open-source hardware could defend against the next generation of hacking

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  How open source hardware increases security

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  Why you should give your grandparents a 3D printer for Christmas

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  3D Printing of Open Source Hardware for Science

2017 Completed Projects & Publications[edit | edit source]

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  3-D Printing Solar Photovoltaic Racking in Developing World

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  Experimental Characterization of Heat Transfer in an Additively Manufactured Polymer Heat Exchanger

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  U.S. market for solar photovoltaic plug-and-play systems

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  Feeding Everyone if the Sun is Obscured and Industry is Disabled

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  Open-Source Automated Mapping Four-Point Probe

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  Emergence of Home Manufacturing in the Developed World: Return on Investment for Open-Source 3-D Printers

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  Tensile Strength of Commercial Polymer Materials for Fused Filament Fabrication 3-D Printing

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  Emerging Business Models for Open Source Hardware

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  Open Source Laboratory Sample Rotator Mixer and Shaker

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  Democratising design in scientific innovation: application of an open value network to open source hardware design

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  Open Source 3-D Printers: An Appropriate Technology for Developing Communities

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  U.S. strategic solar photovoltaic-powered microgrid deployment for enhanced national security

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  Thermal properties of 3-D printed polylactic acid-metal composites

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  Power and energy potential of mass-scale photovoltaic noise barrier deployment- A case study for the U.S.

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  Aquavoltaics: Synergies for dual use of water area for solar photovoltaic electricity generation and aquaculture

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  Viability of Distributed Manufacturing of Bicycle Components with 3-D Printing: CEN Standardized Polylactic Acid Pedal Testing

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  Potential lives saved by replacing coal with solar photovoltaic electricity production in the U.S.

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  Enhancement of hydrogenated amorphous silicon solar cells with front-surface hexagonal plasmonic arrays from nanoscale lithography

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  Energy Payback Time of a Solar Photovoltaic Powered Waste Plastic Recyclebot System

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  Technical Solar Photovoltaic Potential of Scaled Parking Lot Canopies- A Case Study of Walmart U.S.A.

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  Open Source Multi-Head 3D Printer for Polymer-Metal Composite Component Manufacturing

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  Free and Open Source 3-D Model Customizer for Websites to Democratize Design with OpenSCAD

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  Three Hundred and Sixty Degree Real-Time Monitoring of 3-D Printing Using Computer Analysis of Two Camera Views

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  Inhibition of growth of S. epidermidis by hydrothermally synthesized ZnO nanoplates

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  Impact of DIY Home Manufacturing with 3D Printing on the Toy and Game Market

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  General Design Procedures for Airport-Based Solar Photovoltaic Systems

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  3-D printing open-source click-MUAC bands for identification of malnutrition

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  Defense for Covert Administrative Techniques for Neutralizing American Highly Qualified Personnel

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  Open source 3D printers: an appropriate technology for building low cost optics labs for the developing communities

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  Factors effecting real-time optical monitoring of fused filament 3D printing

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  Fabricating Ordered 2-D Nano-Structured Arrays Using Nanosphere Lithography

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  Open Source 3-D Printed Nutating Mixer

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  Agrivoltaic potential on grape farms in India

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  Micro-Raman Scattering of Nanoscale Silicon in Amorphous and Porous Silicon

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  Hypoeutectic Aluminum–Silicon Alloy Development for GMAW-Based 3-D Printing Using Wedge Castings

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  Ambiance-dependent Agglomeration and Surface-enhanced Raman Spectroscopy Response of Self-assembled Silver Nano-particles for Plasmonic Photovoltaic Devices

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  Synthetic Method Dependent Physicochemical Properties and Electrochemical Performance of Ni-Doped ZnO

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  Slicer and process improvements for open-source GMAW-based metal 3-D printing

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  Distributed Manufacturing of Flexible Products- Technical Feasibility and Economic Viability

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  Examining interconnection and net metering policy for distributed generation in the United States

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  Design of Post-Consumer Modification of Standard Solar Modules to Form Large-Area Building-Integrated Photovoltaic Roof Slates

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  Maximizing Returns for Public Funding of Medical Research with Open-source Hardware

2017 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  MOST News Coverage 2017

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  Search this database for inactive patents that are now in the public domain

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  Use the U.S. Patent System to Innovate (While Avoiding Willful Infringement)

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  Global Energy Leaders Podcast on Solar Energy

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  A graduate degree could springboard you into an open source job

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  Low-Cost 3D Printers Are Growing Up

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  3D design contest for medical tools in Africa

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  Could Trump's Deregulation Agenda Open An Additional $70 Billion Solar Market in the US?

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  Can You Earn 1000% ROI with 3-D Printing At Home?

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  America should recruit smart immigrants from every country

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  Obliterate the cost of consumer products with open hardware

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  Smart immigrants literally are making America great

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  3D Printing The Next Five Years by Prof. Joshua Pearce

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  Three reasons for open source tech in your 3D printing classroom

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  Clones welcome in scientific hardware

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  Open source hardware: first issue of HardwareX now available (Materials Today)

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  Life-Cycle Analysis of Distributed Manufacturing

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  The first open source 3D printer filament

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  Trump’s Apprenticeship Program Should Help Train Coal Miners For Solar Jobs

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  Learning from the U.S. Military: How Solar-Powered Microgrids Can Improve Your Company’s Security

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  Design and produce 3D printed, custom breast prosthetics

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  How an open source board game is saving the planet

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  HardwareX journal reveals the equipment behind the science

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  How solar power can protect the US military from threats to the electric grid (Salon, LA Times, Chicago Tribune, San Francisco Chronicle, Business Insider)

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  Editor's Note: Introduction to Open Hardware in Science and Engineering

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  Impacts of Open Source Hardware in Science and Engineering

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  Is the rise of open source connected to a decline in selfishness?

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  Subsidizing coal and nuclear power could drive customers off the grid, Chicago Tribune, Lincoln Journal Star, Washington's Top News

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  Paying it forward at Finland's Aalto Fablab

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  Accelerating science and improving equitable access to hands-on STEM education through open science hardware

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  How to use OpenSCAD to design for 3D printing

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  Would Trump Block Low-Cost Foreign Gold Imports? Lessons for the Brewing Solar Trade War

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  U.S. makes renewable energy software open source

2016 Completed Projects and Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Retraining Investment for U.S. Transition from Coal to Solar Photovoltaic Employment

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  The potential of agrivoltaic systems

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  A Review of Greenhouse Gas Emission Liabilities as the Value of Renewable Energy for Mitigating Lawsuits for Climate Change Related Damages

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  Technical viability of mobile solar photovoltaic systems for indigenous nomadic communities in northern latitudes

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  Levelized cost of electricity for solar photovoltaic, battery and cogen hybrid systems

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  Emerging economic viability of grid defection in a northern climate using solar hybrid systems

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  A review of technical requirements for plug-and-play solar photovoltaic microinverter systems in the United States

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  Nuclear Insurance Subsidies Cost from Post-Fukushima Accounting Based on Media Sources

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  The Case for Weaker Patents

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  Return on Investment for Open Source Hardware Development

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  High-Efficiency Solar-Powered 3-D Printers for Sustainable Development

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  Franklin - Free and Open-source Control Software for 3-D Motion and Processing

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  How Accounting Costs Science Millions a Year

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  Open-source, self-replicating 3-D printer factory for small-business manufacturing

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  Open Source Laser Polymer Welding System: Design and Characterization of Linear Low-Density Polyethylene Multilayer Welds

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  Open-source Wax RepRap 3-D Printer for Rapid Prototyping Paper-Based Microfluidics

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  Open-source 3-D Platform for Low-cost Scientific Instrument Ecosystem

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  Global value chains from a 3D printing perspective

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  Free and open-source automated 3-D microscope

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  Structure-Property Relationships of Common Aluminum Weld Alloys Utilized as Feedstock for GMAW-based 3-D Metal Printing

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  Open Source Database and Website to Provide Free and Open Access to Inactive U.S. Patents in the Public Domain

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  Photovoltaic Materials and Electronic Devices

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  Influence of Oxygen Concentration on the Performance of Ultra-Thin RF Magnetron Sputter Deposited Indium Tin Oxide Films as a Top Electrode for Photovoltaic Devices

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  A new method of preparing highly conductive ultra-thin indium tin oxide for plasmonic-enhanced thin film solar photovoltaic devices

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  Plasmonic enhancement of amorphous silicon solar photovoltaic cells with hexagonal silver arrays made with nanosphere lithography

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  Structural and optical characterization and efficacy of hydrothermal synthesized Cu and Ag doped zinc oxide nanoplate bactericides

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  Are you overpaying your academic executive team? A method for detecting unmerited academic executive compensation

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  Alternative Foods as a Solution to Global Food Supply Catastrophes

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  Feeding Everyone if Industry is Disabled

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  Providing Non-food Needs if Industry is Disabled

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  Vitamins in Agricultural Catastrophes

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  Integrative Risk Management for Catastrophe Destroying 10-20% of Global Food Supply

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  Cost-Effectiveness of Interventions for Alternate Food to Address Agricultural Catastrophes Globally

2016 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  MOST News Coverage 2016

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  [hhttps://web.archive.org/web/20201028204738/https://www.journals.elsevier.com/hardwarex/news/greetings-from-the-editor-in-chief-of-hardwarex Greetings from the Editor-in-Chief of HardwareX]

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  The Best Defense is a Good Offense: How to kill patent trolls before they are born

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  Earth Day 2016: Why George W. Bush gives me hope for the future of the planet[1]

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  Consumers Can Profit from Leaving the Grid

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  3-D Printers Are Finally Easy Enough You Can Use Them

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  Potential Effects of Sci-Hub on Academic Publishing,[2]

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  Solar Industry Welcomes Coal Workers With Open Arms

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  HardwareX: New Open Access Journal for Open Source Hardware from Elsevier

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  Building Your Own Home From Open Source Blocks[3]

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  New journal HardwareX to promote open source hardware for science

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  A open source toolkit for building your own home

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  What If All U.S. Coal Workers Were Retrained to Work in Solar?

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  Global citizens unite to improve housing with open design and development

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  Rehab Addict’s Nicole Curtis and Hackers Agree : Open Hardware Rules

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  Funding Universal Open Access via Academic Efficiency Gains from Government Funder Sponsored Open Access Journals

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  Practical Laboratory Automation Forward

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  How maker communities align with open source

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  Solar Is Being Held Back by Regulations, Not Technology

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  Best of Opensource.com - Hardware

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  Enzymes and Photometers

2015 Completed Projects and Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Feeding Everyone No Matter What

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  Feeding Everyone: Solving the Food Crisis in Event of Global Catastrophes that Kill Crops or Obscure the Sun

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  Resilience to global food supply catastrophes

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  A Virtual Educational Exchange: A North-South Virtually-Shared Class on Sustainable Development

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  Quantifying the Value of Open Source Hardware Development

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  Building Open Source Hardware in Academia

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  Maximizar la rentabilidad de la inversión para la salud pública con hardware médico de código abierto

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  Effect of ambient combinations of argon, oxygen, and hydrogen on the properties of DC magnetron sputtered indium tin oxide films

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  A novel synthesis of tin oxide thin films by the sol-gel process for optoelectronic applications

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  Peanut shaped ZnO microstructures: controlled synthesis and nucleation growth toward low-cost dye sensitized solar cells

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  Limitations of ultra-thin transparent conducting oxides for integration into plasmonic-enhanced thin-film solar photovoltaic devices

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  Optimization of annealing cycles for electric output in outdoor conditions for amorphous silicon photovoltaic–thermal systems

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  Total U.S. cost evaluation of low-weight tension-based photovoltaic flat-roof mounted racking

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  Polymer recycling codes for distributed manufacturing with 3-D printers

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  Open-source 3-D printing Technologies for Education: Bringing Additive Manufacturing to the Classroom

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  Evaluation of RepRap 3D Printer Workshops in K-12 STEM

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  Applications of Open Source 3-D Printing on Small Farms

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  Low-cost Open-Source Voltage and Current Monitor for Gas Metal Arc Weld 3-D Printing

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  In Situ Formation of Substrate Release Mechanisms for Gas Metal Arc Weld Metal 3-D Printing

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  Performance of U.S. hybrid distributed energy systems: Solar photovoltaic, battery and combined heat and power

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  Multi-material additive and subtractive prosumer digital fabrication with a free and open-source convertible delta RepRap 3-D printer

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  Open-Source Photometric System for Enzymatic Nitrate Quantification

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  Controlling optical absorption in metamaterial absorbers for plasmonic solar cells

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  Overcoming the North's Diesel Dependence With Renewable Energy

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  Educational Pathways to Remote Employment in Isolated Communities

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  Photovoltaic System Performance Enhancement With Non-Tracking Planar Concentrators: Experimental Results and Bi-Directional Reflectance Function (BDRF) Based Modelling

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  Impact of Snow and Ground Interference on Photovoltaic Electric System Performance

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  A novel approach to obviousness: An algorithm for identifying prior art concerning 3-D printing materials

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  Distributed manufacturing with 3-D printing: a case study of recreational vehicle solar photovoltaic mounting systems

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  Integrated Voltage—Current Monitoring and Control of Gas Metal Arc Weld Magnetic Ball-Jointed Open Source 3-D Printer

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  Preparation of meta-stable phases of barium titanate by sol-hydrothermal method

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  Solar Photovoltaic Powered On-Site Ammonia Production for Nitrogen Fertilization

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  Sharing Free Knowledge to Save Humanity

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  The Effects of PLA Color on Material Properties of 3-D Printed Components

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  Reducing the Threat of a Nuclear Iran with PV: The Generous Solar Option

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  Aligning executive incentives with global public health goals

2015 Popular Audience Articles[edit | edit source]

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  MOST News Coverage 2015

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  Intellectual Property as a Strategic National Industrial Weapon: the Case of 3D Printing

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  Michigan Tech course to build your own 3D printer

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  Science for All: How to Make Free, Open Source Laboratory Hardware

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  Buckle up for fast-tracked science thanks to open-source hardware

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  3-D printable photovoltaic module spacer

2014 Completed Projects and Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Laboratory equipment: Cut costs with open-source hardware

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  Open-source syringe pump

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  Free and Open Source Appropriate Technology

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  Technology whose time has come

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  Open-source hardware for science in Ecuador

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  Save the planet board game

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  Securitization of residential solar photovoltaic assets

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  Optimizing limited solar roof access by exergy analysis of solar thermal, photovoltaic, and hybrid photovoltaic thermal systems

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  Effects of spectral albedo on solar photovoltaic devices

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  Photovoltaic system performance enhancement with non-tracking planar concentrators

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  Effects of dispatch strategy for solar photovoltaic-thermal systems

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  Exchanging Ohmic losses in metamaterial absorbers with useful optical absorption for photovoltaics

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  Mobile Open-Source Solar-Powered 3-D Printers for Distributed Manufacturing in Off-Grid Communities

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  Life cycle analysis of distributed recycling of post-consumer high density polyethylene for 3-D printing filament

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  Mechanical Properties of Components Fabricated with Open-Source 3-D Printers Under Realistic Environmental

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  Implementing RepRaps into a Mechanical/Manufacturing Program

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  The RepRap 3-D Printer Revolution in STEM Education

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  Open-source mobile water quality testing platform

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  Innovation through collaboration: scaling up solutions for sustainable development

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  Evaluating the Geographic Viability of the Solar Water Disinfection (SODIS) Method by Decreasing Turbidity with NaCl: A Case Study of South Sudan

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  A Virtual Educational Exchange: A North-South Virtually-Shared Class on Sustainable Development

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  Towards Low-Cost Microchannel Heat Exchangers: Vehicle Heat Recovery Ventilator Prototype

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  Delta Build Workshop

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  Simulations of Greenhouse Gas Emission Reductions from Low-Cost Hybrid Solar Photovoltaic and Cogeneration Systems for New Communities

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  Multi-resonant silver nano-disk patterned thin film solar cell

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  Evaluation of Potential Fair Trade Standards for an Ethical 3-D Printing Filament

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  Feeding Everyone No Matter What

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  Design of Multi-Junction Photovoltaic Cells Optimized for Varied Atmospheric Conditions

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  It Is Time to Move Research Expenditures to the Denominator in University Metrics

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  Substrate Release Mechanisms for Gas Metal Arc Weld 3D Aluminum Metal Printing

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  Feeding Everyone: Solving the Food Crisis in Event of Global Catastrophes that Kill Crops or Obscure the Sun

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  Reversing the Trend of Large Scale and Centralization in Manufacturing: The Case of Distributed Manufacturing of Customizable 3-D-Printable Self-Adjustable Glasses

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  Open source 3-D printable corn sheller

2013 Completed Projects and Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Open-source Lab

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  Open-source metal 3-D printer

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  Open-source 3D-printable optics equipment

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  Open-source colorimeter

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  Open-source hardware for research and education

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  The Internet and other ICTs as tools and catalysts for sustainable development

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  Open-source nanotechnology: solutions to a modern intellectual property tragedy

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  Environmental impacts of distributed manufacturing with 3-D printing

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  Environmental life cycle analysis of distributed 3-D printing and conventional manufacturing of polymer products

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  RecycleBots for distributed plastic recycling

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  Distributed recycling of post-consumer plastic waste in rural areas

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  Life-cycle economic analysis of distributed manufacturing with open-source 3-D printers

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  Open-source RepRap 3-D Printer Teacher Workshop

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  Toward renewable energy geo-information infrastructures

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  Automated quantification of solar photovoltaic potential in cities

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  Simple and low-cost method of planning for tree growth and lifetime effects on solar photovoltaic systems performance

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  Community Voices: Perspectives on Renewable Energy in Nunavut

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  Hybrid photovoltaic-trigeneration systems

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  Life cycle analysis of silane recycling in amorphous silicon-based solar photovoltaic manufacturing

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  Progress in indium gallium nitride materials for solar photovoltaics

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  Advances in plasmonic light trapping in thin-film solar photovoltaic devices

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  The viability of nanotechnology-based bandgap engineering in solar photovoltaic devices for sustainable energy generation

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  Installation of a variable-angle spectrometer system for monitoring diffuse and global solar radiation

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  The effect of spectral albedo on amorphous silicon and crystalline silicon solar photovoltaic device performance

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  Effects of snow on photovoltaic performance

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  A new method to determine the effects of hydrodynamic surface coatings on the snow shedding effectiveness of solar photovoltaic modules

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  Characteristics of self-assembled ultrathin Nafion films

2011-2012 Completed Projects and Publications[edit | edit source]

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  Open source nanotechnology

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  Technical feasibility of renewable electricity generation in Nunavut

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  Renewable energy policy in the north

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  Prediction of energy effects on photovoltaic systems due to snowfall events

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  Building research equipment with free, open-source hardware

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  Parametric empirical determination of PV short circuit current

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  Open source research in sustainability

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  A new model for enabling innovation in appropriate technology for sustainable development

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  Open-source development of solar photovoltaic technology

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  Analytical Model for the Optical Functions of Indium Gallium Nitride with Application to Thin Film Solar Photovoltaic Cells

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  Barriers to Appropriate Technology Growth in Sustainable Development

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  Industrial symbiosis in photovoltaic manufacturing

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  Open source 3-D printing of OSAT

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  Review of solar levelized cost

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  The Case for Open Source Appropriate Technology

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  Amorphous silicon Photovoltaic-thermal(PVT) hybrids

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  Using LiDAR to assess rooftop solar photovoltaic potential on a large scale

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  Open solar photovoltaic systems optimization

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  Shading losses in solar photovoltaic potential at the municipal scale

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  Decreasing turbidity to optimize solar water disinfection

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  Expanded microchannel heat exchanger

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  Limitations of nuclear power as a sustainable energy source

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  Design and implementation of mobile educational games