Background Electrodeposition is a process that uses an electric current to deposit a layer of metal onto a conductive surface, essentially creating a coating on the material. Electrodeposition helps to protect against corrosion, enhance properties like conductivity, and achieve decorative finished in batteries (in addition to other porous substrates)....

Background Hydrogen (H2) offers a promising solution in the global energy transition toward net-zero-carbon, particularly for decarbonizing challenging sectors like long-distance transportation, heavy industries, and renewable energy storage. However, most hydrogen is now produced by large-scale natural gas reforming without carbon capture and storage. Water...

Background Filtering capacitors are ubiquitous components used in power conversion and conditioning for electronic devices, industrial power supplies, electrified transportation, and renewable energy generation. Aluminum electrolytic capacitors (AECs) have typically been used for these applications, particularly when large capacitance (>10µF)...

Background Electrified transportation and renewable energy are both rapidly growing in recent years. These demands require high-performance electrical energy storage devices such as lithium-ion batteries which currently are widely used. However, lithium-ion batteries tend to have high costs, minimal material availability and low capacity. There is...

Obesity and related metabolic diseases are a significant public health issue in the US and worldwide. Studies have shown that pathologically expanded white adipose tissue is associated with multiple obesity-related comorbidities including diabetes, cardiovascular disease as well as certain types of cancer. Current strategies to combat obesity and metabolic...

The architecture information of a Deep Neural Network (DNN) model is considered a valuable, sensitive piece of property for a company. Knowledge of a DNN’s exact architecture allows any adversary to build a substitute model and use this substitute model to launch devastating adversarial attacks. Side-channel based DNN architecture stealing can...

Background Recent efforts to address climate change and develop a clean-energy economy in the United States have focused on the electrification of the transportation sector. Sustainable battery manufacturing has become a critical part of these efforts, and current manufacturing practices face challenges relating to environmental impact, advancing electrode...

Obesity and related metabolic diseases are increasing in prevalence in the US and worldwide. Pathologically expanded white adipose tissue (WAT) has been associated with multiple obesity-related comorbidities including diabetes, cardiovascular disease, cancers and more. Lifestyle intervention, pharmacotherapy, and various surgical procedures are used...

Traditional von-Neumann computing architectures, such as CPUs and GPUs, demonstrate limitations in memory bandwidth and energy efficiency. However, their high demand lies in their programmability and flexible functionality. Such platforms execute a wide spectrum of bit-wise logic and arithmetic operations. In this regard, recent application-specific...

The success of conventional supervised learning relies on large-scale labeled datasets to achieve high accuracy. However, annotating millions of data samples is labor-intensive and time-consuming. This promotes self-supervised learning as an attractive solution with artificial labels being used instead of human-annotated ones for training. Contrastive...