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Article The Impact of Quaternization Degree in Polyepichlorohydrin-Based Anion Exchange Membranes on Salinity Gradient Energy Generation by Reverse Electrodialysis(Elsevier, 2025) Cihanoglu, Aydin; Guler, Enver; Kabay, NalanAnion exchange membranes with tailored fixed-charge densities can improve monovalent ion selectivity and performance in reverse electrodialysis for salinity gradient power generation. In this study, poly(epichlorohydrin) was blended with polyacrylonitrile and quaternized with 1,4-diazabicyclo[2.2.2]octane at three different molar ratios to produce AEMs with systematically varied quaternization degrees via a one-step amination/ crosslinking procedure. The resulting membranes were characterized for their physicochemical, electrochemical, and RED performance using ATR-FTIR, XPS, SEM, AFM, water uptake, swelling degree, contact angle, surface zeta potential, ion exchange capacity, fixed charge density, and electrical resistance. Higher quaternization increased the IEC, reduced resistance, and shifted surface charge, leading to improved stack power output in model NaCl solutions. In the presence of Na2SO4, power loss was reduced for more highly quaternized membranes, indicating enhanced exclusion of divalent anions (SO42-) and reduced uphill transport. Fouling tests with humic acid/fulvic acid mixtures showed greater stability for quaternized membranes compared to a commercial benchmark. Moreover, stability tests conducted on fouled membranes revealed that the tailor-made membrane exhibits superior durability and lower fouling-induced power loss than commercial Fujifilm Type II AEMs. Overall, these results demonstrate that tuning the degree of quaternization is an effective strategy to balance conductivity and ion selectivity in AEMs for RED applications.Article Citation - WoS: 16Citation - Scopus: 16Fixed Points of Weakly Compatible Mappings Satisfying Generalized Φ-Weak Contractions(Malaysian Mathematical Sciences Soc, 2015) Vetro, Calogero; Chauhan, Sunny; Karapinar, Erdal; Shatanawi, WasfiIn this paper, utilizing the notion of the common limit range property, we prove some new integral type common fixed point theorems for weakly compatible mappings satisfying a phi-weak contractive condition in metric spaces. Moreover, we extend our results to four finite families of self mappings, and furnish an illustrative example and an application to support our main theorem. Our results improve, extend, and generalize well-known results on the topic in the literature.Review Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 4Smart Hydrogels in Lab-On (loc) Applications(Elsevier, 2024) Tevlek, Atakan; Cretin, Esin Akbay; Çetin, Esin AkbayLaboratory on-chip (LOC) technology facilitates numerous developments across diverse disciplines, such as medicine, tissue engineering, materials science, biomedical engineering, and biotechnology. Moreover, the potential applications appear boundless when LOC is integrated with intelligent hydrogels. In the literature, however, there are few accounts of the vast array of developments and applications that this combination has spawned. These new systems, which integrate smart hydrogels and LOC and thus significantly advance cuttingedge technology, have been thoroughly examined in this review. The functions of smart hydrogels in LOC applications were described and subsequently the developed intelligent hydrogels were classified as multiresponsive, thermo-responsive, pH-responsive, and stimuli-responsive (light, magnetic, and electric). Following this, details regarding tunable properties for LOC functions were provided, followed by a discussion of the fabrication processes and integration of these intelligent hydrogels into LOC systems, including their benefits and drawbacks. Following that, current literature examples of LOC systems utilizing these intelligent hydrogels for biosensing, 3D culture, tissue engineering, controlled release, personalized medicine, drug delivery, analyte enrichment, and organ-on-a-chip applications were presented. Following the presentation of state-of-the-art information regarding smart hydrogel characterization techniques, present challenges and prospective prospects were discussed.Article Citation - WoS: 15Citation - Scopus: 14Generalized Transportation Cost Spaces(Springer Basel Ag, 2019) Ostrovska, Sofiya; Ostrovskii, Mikhail I.The paper is devoted to the geometry of transportation cost spaces and their generalizations introduced by Melleray et al. (Fundam Math 199(2):177-194, 2008). Transportation cost spaces are also known as Arens-Eells, Lipschitz-free, or Wasserstein 1 spaces. In this work, the existence of metric spaces with the following properties is proved: (1) uniformly discrete metric spaces such that transportation cost spaces on them do not contain isometric copies of l(1), this result answers a question raised by Cuth and Johanis (Proc Am Math Soc 145(8):3409-3421, 2017); (2) locally finite metric spaces which admit isometric embeddings only into Banach spaces containing isometric copies of l(1); (3) metric spaces for which the double-point norm is not a norm. In addition, it is proved that the double-point norm spaces corresponding to trees are close to l(infinity)(d) of the corresponding dimension, and that for all finite metric spaces M, except a very special class, the infimum of all seminorms for which the embedding of M into the corresponding seminormed space is isometric, is not a seminorm.Article Citation - WoS: 36Citation - Scopus: 42Development of a Personalized Thermal Comfort Driven Controller for Hvac Systems(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2021) Turhan, Cihan; Simani, Silvio; Akkurt, Gulden Gokcen; Gokcen Akkurt, GuldenIncreasing thermal comfort and reducing energy consumption are two main objectives of advanced HVAC control systems. In this study, a thermal comfort driven control (PTC-DC) algorithm was developed to improve HVAC control systems with no need of retrofitting HVAC system components. A case building located in Izmir Institute of Technology Campus-Izmir-Turkey was selected to test the developed system. First, wireless sensors were installed to the building and a mobile application was developed to monitor/ collect temperature, relative humidity and thermal comfort data of an occupant. Then, the PTC-DC algorithm was developed to meet the highest occupant thermal comfort as well as saving energy. The prototypes of the controller were tested on the case building from July 3rd, 2017 to November 1st, 2018 and compared with a conventional PID controller. The results showed that the developed control algorithm and conventional controller satisfy neutral thermal comfort for 92 % and 6 % of total measurement days, respectively. From energy consumption point of view, the PTC-DC decreased energy consumption by 13.2 % compared to the conventional controller. Consequently, the PTC-DC differs from other works in the literature that the prototype of PTC-DC can be easily deployed in real environments. Moreover, the PTC-DC is low-cost and user-friendly. (c) 2021 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 12Citation - Scopus: 11Investigation of the Structural and Optoelectronic Properties of the Se/Ga2< Heterojunctions(Elsevier Science Sa, 2018) Qasrawi, A. F.In the current study, the structural and optical properties of the Se/Ga2S3 heterojunctions are investigated by means of X-ray diffraction and ultraviolet-visible light spectrophotometry techniques. The optical interface which was prepared by the physical vapor deposition technique, comprises a polycrystalline orthorhombic selenium layer of thickness of 500 nm coated with amorphous layer of 200 nm thick Ga2S3. The top layer is observed to cause yield stress on the Se layer leading to strained type interface. Optically, the evaporation of Ga2S3 onto selenium blue shifted the energy band gap of Se. The conduction and valence band offsets exhibited values of 1.28 and 0.20 eV, respectively. On the other hand, the optical conductivity spectra which were studied and modeled by the Drude-Lorentz approach in the terahertz frequency domain of 275-675 THz revealed enhanced optical conduction parameters. The use of Se as substrate to Ga2S3 enhanced the drift mobility and plasmon frequency of the Ga2S3. The value of the drift mobility reached 64 cm(2)/Vs at plasmon frequency of 2.04 GHz. In addition, the Se/Ga2S3 interface are observed to exhibit high biasing dependent photosensitivity to visible light irradiation. Such properties of this interface nominate it for use in optoelectronics including visible light communications. (C) 2018 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 10Citation - Scopus: 14An Intelligent Indoor Guidance and Navigation System for the Visually Impaired(Taylor & Francis inc, 2022) Kahraman, M.; Turhan, C.Intelligent guidance in complex environments where various procedures are required for navigation is critical to achieving mobility for the visually impaired. This study presents a newly developed software prototype with a hybrid RFID/BLE infrastructure to provide intelligent navigation and guidance to the visually impaired in complex indoor environments. The system enables the users to input their purpose via a specially designed user interface, and provides intelligent guidance through a chain of destination targets which are determined according to the inherent procedures of the environment. Path optimization is performed by adaptation of the traveling salesman problem, and real-time instantaneous instructions are provided to guide the users through the predetermined destination points. For evaluation purposes, a hospital environment is constructed as an example of a complex environment and the system is tested by visually impaired participants. The results show that the intelligent purpose selection and destination evaluation mechanism modules of the system are found to be effective by all the participants.Article Citation - WoS: 15Finite deformation plasticity coupled with isotropic damage: Formulation in principal axes and applications(Elsevier Science Bv, 2010) Soyarslan, C.; Tekkaya, A. E.A local, isotropic damage coupled hyperelastic-plastic framework is formulated in principal axes. It is shown that, in a functional setting, treatment of many damage growth models, including those originated from phenomenological models (with formal thermodynamical derivations), micromechanics or fracture criteria, proposed in the literature, is possible. As a model problem, a Lemaitre-variant damage model with quasi-unilateral damage evolutionary forms is given with special emphasis on the feasibility of formulations in principal axes. To this end, closed form expression for the inelastic tangent moduli, consistent with the linearization of the closest point projection algorithm, is derived. It is shown that, generally, even in the absence of quasi-unilateral damage evolutionary conditions, the consistent tangent moduli are unsymmetric. The model is implemented as a user defined material subroutine (UMAT) for ABAQUS/Standard. The predictive capability of the selected model problem is studied through axi-symmetric application problems involving forward extrusion of a cylindrical billet, upsetting of a tapered specimen and tension of a notched specimen, in which characteristic failure mechanisms are observed. (C) 2010 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.Article Citation - WoS: 28Citation - Scopus: 27Lepton Flavor Universality Violation in Semileptonic Tree Level Weak Transitions(Amer Physical Soc, 2019) Azizi, K.; Sarac, Y.; Sundu, H.The recent deviations of the experimental data on some parameters of the tree-level semileptonic B and B-c mesons decays from the standard model (SM) predictions indicate considerable violations of the lepton flavor universality, and as a result possible new physics (NP) effects. To better understand the possible NP effects it is necessary to study deeply the physical quantities defining these decays from many aspects. The calculations of the physical quantities require the determinations of the hadronic form factors entering the matrix elements of the considered transitions as the main inputs. We calculate the form factors governing the tree-level B-c -> J/psi l nu and B-c -> eta(c)l nu transitions within the QCD sum rules method. The obtained form factors are used in the calculations of the branching ratios (BRs) of the B-c -> J/psi l nu and B-c -> eta(c)l nu transitions as well as R(J/psi) and R(eta(c)). Our result on R(J/psi) supports the present tension between the SM theory prediction and the experimental data. Our result on R(eta(c)) can be checked in future experiments.Review Citation - WoS: 39Citation - Scopus: 43Hydropower in Turkey: Analysis in the View of Vision 2023(Pergamon-elsevier Science Ltd, 2013) Melikoglu, MehmetTurkey is a recently developed country, a regional power in the Middle East and an economic powerhouse of the region. Turkey's electricity demand is continuously increasing due to fast economic growth coupled with the country's vibrant young population. It is envisaged that this demand would keep on increasing almost exponentially in the next decade according to the recently avowed Vision 2023 agenda. According to which, the Turkish government ambitiously wants to provide 30.0% of the country's electricity demand from renewable energy sources by 2023. Turkey has vast renewable energy potential including hydro, geothermal, solar and wind. However, historically there is only one playmaker that is hydropower. Thus a detailed review of the current status and future prospects of Turkish hydropower market is urgently needed to generate a roadmap for the Vision 2023 agenda. This paper was intended to provide that vital information. Currently, more than 25.0% or 57.5 TWh of the country's electricity demand is supplied from hydropower. According to official projections this would increase to approximately 116.0 TWh in 2023. In this study, hydropower's supply rate of Turkey's annual electricity demand was assessed based on the official projections and a forecast was generated. Results showed that between 22.0% and 27.0% of Turkey's annual electricity demand should be supplied from hydropower in 2023. Therefore, between 22.5 TWh and 45.0 TWh of electricity should be generated from renewable energy sources other than hydropower to provide a total of 30.0% renewable energy based electricity generation in 2023. (C) 2013 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
