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Luisa Boni, Marco Bassetto and Alessandro A. Quarta
Photonic solar sails are a class of advanced propellantless propulsion systems that use thin, large, lightweight membranes to convert the momentum of light from the Sun into thrust for space navigation. The conceptually simple nature of such a fascinatin...
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Babak Nemat, Mohammad Razzaghi, Kim Bolton and Kamran Rousta
It is widely acknowledged that environmental impacts from packaging waste depend on how consumers sort this waste fraction. In this research, ?design for sustainable behavior? (DfSB) strategies are used to improve a cream packaging design that can suppor...
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Safal Lama and Taher Deemyad
This paper introduces a new gripper mechanism that is capable of grasping objects of various sizes and shapes without the need for a closed-loop control system. Industries such as the food and beverage industry are seeking innovative soft grippers with a...
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Roman Jannes, Pieter Vanhauwermeiren, Peter Slaets and Marc Juwet
Large amounts of PET bottles are used worldwide as primary packaging for numerous liquids, including water and soft drinks. In many cases, between two and eight of such bottles are bundled for transport and sales using plastic collation shrink film. This...
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Rodrigo S. Araújo, Gisele C. Silva, Itamar R. Teixeira, Guilherme R. Silva, Bruna Mayara F. Souza, Ivano A. Devilla, Marcos Eduardo V. Araújo and Paulo C. Corrêa
Inoculants containing strains of bacteria that fix atmospheric N that are tolerant or resistant to chemical products commonly used in seed treatment are classified as long-life inoculants, which contribute to improving the efficiency of nodulating bacter...
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Lei Zhang, Yang Liu, Jianneng Chen, Heng Zhou, Yunsheng Jiang, Junhua Tong and Lianlian Wu
To address the problems of the complex structure and single packing trajectory of a packing machine, a hybrid-driven, five-bar packing machine for same-point pickup and different points of release in unmanned plant factories was designed, and a GRA-C met...
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Yingzheng Ren, Zhongzhu Liang, Xiaoyan Shi, Fuming Yang, Xiqing Zhang, Rui Dai, Shoutao Zhang and Weizhen Liu
Beam splitters are widely applied in various optical systems as a common beam-splitting device. The conventional stereoscopic and flat-type beam splitters greatly limit the packaging and integration of optical systems due to their large size and restrict...
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Zeeshan Asim, Ibrahim Rashid Al Shamsi, Mariam Wahaj, Ahmed Raza, Syed Abul Hasan, Sohaib Ahmed Siddiqui, Alaeldeen Aladresi, Shahryar Sorooshian and Tan Seng Teck
The present case study-based research provides insights of the current packaging practices with a supply chain perspective and proposed sustainable packaging options that would cut down the environmental impact from supply chain operations at Midas Safet...
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Anne Charina, Ganjar Kurnia, Asep Mulyana and Kosuke Mizuno
COVID-19 severely impacted small industries in Indonesia and many collapsed. Sustainable education is essential to help small industries recover post-pandemic through an open innovation design program to improve small industries? economic, social, and en...
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Shaun Whitehead
Life on Venus Expedition (LOVE) Bugs are a proposed family of miniature, featherlight probes for exploring and sensing the Venusian atmosphere. The Bugs carry tiny ThumbSat femtosatellite buses and instruments beneath balloons or flexible parawings. They...
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