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    3D Magnetic Nanocomposite Aerogel (3D-MANCA) for Humidity Sensing and Dye Adsorption Applications
    (Institute of Physics, 2026) Shah, N.; Tetik, H.; Lin, D.
    Introducing magnetic properties to aerogels not only opens new application areas but also enhances their performance in various applications. Herein, we report a novel 3D magnetic agar nanocomposite aerogel (3D-MANCA) with outstanding characteristics such as high porosity, magnetic property, rapid swelling behavior, and a unique stimuli-driven electrical conductivity. Agar and nanocellulose mixture were selected as the matrix material, while magnetic Fe<inf>3</inf>O<inf>4</inf> nanoparticles, CuO nanoparticles, and graphene nanopowder were incorporated as functional additives. 3D-MANCA obtained after a uni-directional freeze casting process exhibited a highly-ordered microporosity. It showed excellent magnetic properties and methylene-blue adsorption capability and a great performance as humidity sensor. © 2026 The Author(s). Published on behalf of The Electrochemical Society by IOP Publishing Limited.
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    Material Optimisation for Future Double Skin Façade System Design
    (Institute of Physics, 2025) Unluturk, M.S.; Kazanasmaz, Z.T.; Ekici, B.; Göksal Özbalta, T.G.
    Façades have a significant impact on energy consumption in interiors. Designers aimed to reduce energy consumption by developing different façade systems. Double Skin Façade (DSF) aims to increase thermal and ventilation performance in the interior. The depth of the cavity gap between the two façade layers with air inside may adversely affect indoor daylight performance. In addition, studies in the literature indicate that this façade system shows optimum performance in cold climates. With the right design decisions, the DSF system can provide optimum performance in hot climates. In building designs with DSF systems in these climate zones, daylight and energy simulations can make the right design decisions. However, the climate crisis (CC) is increasing air temperatures and sunshine hours in hot and arid climate zones. Simulations are based on current climate data, and the recommendations obtained may not show optimum performance in the future. The study aims to propose an educational building model with a DSF system that will provide optimum visual comfort for 50 years in the Mediterranean climate type (CSA). Meteonorm has created weather scenarios for Izmir for 2050 and 2080. Opossum and Galapagos carried out the optimisation process using this data. The study proposes models that will perform optimally in Izmir for 50 years. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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    Design of Adaptive Shading Device with Rigid Origami Technique: Improving Outdoor Thermal Comfort on Pathways of University Campus
    (Institute of Physics, 2025) Dağlier, Y.; Ekici, B.; Korkmaz, K.
    Since urbanization emerged with consequences for the built environment, shadows have played a key role in outdoor comfort. In hot climates, shadow has become a vital element in public spaces as it significantly affects social interaction on various occasions, such as university campus areas. The current state of the art shows that the role of shadings in outdoor environments is crucial to increasing pedestrian comfort and supporting overall well-being. While trees and canopies are commonly used for shading, their applicability is sometimes limited in pedestrian pathways. For example, the Izmir Institute of Technology (IZTECH) campus copes with outdoor discomfort during the extremely hot summer days. Due to the changing environmental conditions, static shading devices offer effective shadows only at specific times. This creates a necessity to design shading devices that can rotate and fold to mitigate temperatures more effectively and increase outdoor thermal comfort. A parametric shading model was developed using Grasshopper and Kangaroo Physics®, and its effectiveness was analyzed using Building Performance Simulation (BPS) tools. The research integrates heuristic optimization techniques to enhance shading performance, including Galapagos (Genetic Algorithm) and Opossum (RBF-opt and CMA-ES). Results indicate that the proposed kinetic shading devices reduced the universal thermal climate index (UTCI) by approximately 20% during peak sunlight hours. These findings suggest that adaptive shading strategies efficiently improve outdoor thermal comfort in urban public spaces. © 2025 Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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    Energy-Efficient Urban Design Proposal in Urban Heat Island Formation: The Case of CSA Climate
    (Institute of Physics, 2025) Unluturk, I.U.; Yavuz, E.; Unluturk, M.S.; Akgun, B.
    Nowadays, unplanned construction resulting from urban growth and population increase reduces the resilience of cities and their historical texture and increases the need for buildings for housing in cities. This situation, which increases the density/height of city buildings, increases the surface temperature and reduces the green tissue, causes urban heat island. In this study, the Dumlupinar neighbourhood of Balıkesir, which attracts attention with its historical texture and where new buildings are designed in certain parts today, will be discussed. First, the areas with traditional and new buildings in the region are modelled parametrically in the Rhino/Grasshopper interface, obtained and compared through Dragonfly software and an urban prototype is created. However, in the computational design algorithms to be performed, not only today's weather scenario but also the weather scenario of 2050 was used. Models were created to minimise the urban heat island in 2050 climate conditions. This urban prototype is a proposal for sustainable cities to be built in cities in CSA climate types (Mediterranean climate). This proposal will guide municipalities in designing energy-efficient and carbon-neutral cities using the urban model of the urban heat island effect. © 2025 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
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    Building-Level Circularity Assessment in Urban Regeneration: A Mediterranean Case Study
    (Institute of Physics, 2025) Aral, D.; Khadim, N.; Kayaçetin, N.C.; Durmus Arsan, Z.D.
    As the urgency to operate within planetary boundaries intensifies, adopting the circular economy (CE) in the built environment has become essential to mitigate environmental emissions, resource depletion, and waste generation. However, CE implementation at the building level remains fragmented in rapidly urbanizing lower-income countries. There is a pressing need for robust assessment to quantify the current level of circularity and identify context-specific opportunities for improvement. This study aims to evaluate the circularity potential of a residential building block in an urban regeneration project in Izmir, Türkiye, using the Whole Building Circularity Indicator (WBCI) applied to assess circularity across key lifecycle stages and system levels. The results indicate a WBCI score of 0.17 (on a scale of 1 fully circular to 0 fully linear) and a moderate flexibility of 0.70. This reflects a linear building profile driven by virgin materials, mass-intensive construction, limited adaptability, disassembly, and low end-of-life recovery potential. The structure layer presents the lowest system circularity score of 0.11. The study contributes to the literature on building circularity assessment by highlighting the critical role of the assessment framework in guiding the built environment toward more resource-efficient and sustainable outcomes in Mediterranean contexts, and offers practical insights to inform policy development. © Published under licence by IOP Publishing Ltd.
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    Effective Geometry of Bell-Network States on a Dipole Graph
    (Institute of Physics, 2025) Baytaş, B.; Yokomizo, N.
    Bell-network states are a class of entangled states of the geometry that satisfy an area-law for the entanglement entropy in a limit of large spins and are automorphism-invariant, for arbitrary graphs. We present a comprehensive analysis of the effective geometry of Bell-network states on a dipole graph. Our main goal is to provide a detailed characterization of the quantum geometry of a class of diffeomorphism-invariant, area-law states representing homogeneous and isotropic configurations in loop quantum gravity, which may be explored as boundary states for the dynamics of the theory. We found that the average geometry at each node in the dipole graph does not match that of a flat tetrahedron. Instead, the expected values of the geometric observables satisfy relations that are characteristic of spherical tetrahedra. The mean geometry is accompanied by fluctuations with considerable relative dispersion for the dihedral angle, and perfectly correlated for the two nodes. © 2024 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights, including for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies, are reserved.
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    Edge-State Rkky Coupling in Graphene Nanoflakes
    (Institute of Physics, 2024) Canbolat, A.U.; Çakır, I.
    We investigate the long-range behavior and size dependence of the Ruderman-Kittel-Kasuya-Yosida (RKKY) interaction in hexagonal and triangular graphene nanoflakes with zigzag and armchair edges. We employ the tight-binding model with exact diagonalization to calculate the RKKY interaction as a function of the distance between magnetic impurities, nanoflake size, and edge geometry. Our findings demonstrate a strong dependency of the RKKY interaction on edge geometry and flake size, with notable changes in the RKKY interaction strength. We further analyze the influence of structural defects on the interaction strength of exchange interactions. © 2024 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights, including for text and data mining, AI training, and similar technologies, are reserved.
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    Circular Economy in the Built Environment: a Systematic Literature Review on the Role of Digital Technologies Across Regional Contexts
    (Institute of Physics, 2024) Aral,D.; Kayaçetin,N.C.; Durmuş Arsan,Z.
    The built environment has a significant role in ecosystems and resource depletion. Therefore, its transition from linear into the circular economy (CE) is critical yet still progressing. While research on CE in the built environment (BE) is growing, an in-depth understanding of facilitators as digital technologies (DT) is required to accelerate its implementation. Investigating these digitalization efforts, considering the regional variations of developed and developing economies, needs to be deepened. This study aims to demonstrate state-of-the-art CE research, providing insight into how digital technology preferences evolved through regional context as a facilitator in the built environment. For this purpose, 80 articles were assessed by (i) descriptive and (ii) thematic analysis through a systematic literature review (SLR). The descriptive analysis highlights the trends in the literature on CE-enabling DT in the built environment. The thematic analysis indicates the prominent DT to facilitate the transition with a link to the regional context and related variations. The results identify integrated DT in CE studies and their relevance to the economic levels of several countries, and they show research gaps to guide future research. This study contributes to an emerging field of research at the nexus of the built environment, the circular economy, and digital technology by mapping regional research tendencies. © 2024 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
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    Experimental and Numerical Investigation of Energy Absorption Characteristics of a E-glass/Epoxy Crash Box
    (Institute of Physics, 2024) Bilmez,S.A.; Taşdemirci,A.
    Crash boxes are energy absorbing components generally placed at the front end of cars to reduce the amount of damage at especially low impact velocities. The number of electric vehicles has been increasing recently, so weight reduction studies are. For this reason, lighter glass or carbon fiber reinforced composite crash boxes are preferred instead of steel ones. In the current study, the dynamic compression behavior of a rectangular cross-section thin-walled composite crash box was investigated both experimentally and numerically. The main aim of the study was to understand the effective damage modes and monitor the deformation sequence experimentally and numerically. Once the numerical model is verified then it can be further used to reveal the behavior at different impact velocities and geometries. The methodology followed in the study first started with the static mechanical characterization of the composite material. Within the scope of this study, 2x2 twill-woven glass fiber/epoxy crash boxes were produced using the vacuum bagging method. Quasi-static compression and tension tests were carried out in accordance with ASTM D3039 and ASTM D6641 standards. In the numerical part, Radioss finite element package was used with the material model of MAT 25 along with the failure option of Tsai-Wu. Experimental dynamic crushing tests of the crash box was carried out using a custom made drop-weight tester at impact velocity of 4.4 m/s and dropping mass with 450 kg. The material model constants were obtained once the coupon based static and dynamic tests were completed. From the dynamic crushing tests, maximum and mean force values of 225 and 65.0 kN were noted, respectively. There is close agreement between the experimental and numerical results both in terms of force and displacement values. This verified numerical model can further be used to investigate the crushing characteristics at different impact conditions. © 2024 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.
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    Machine-Learning Assisted Insights Into Cytotoxicity of Zinc Oxide Nanoparticles
    (Institute of Physics, 2024) Bilgi,E.; Karakus,C.O.
    Zinc oxide nanoparticles (ZnO NPs) are commercially used as an active ingredient or a color additive in foods, pharmaceuticals, sun protection lotions, and cosmetic products. While the use of ZnO NPs in everyday products has not been linked to any serious health issues so far, the scientific evidence generated for their safety is not conclusive and, in most cases, could not be validated further in in vivo settings. To settle controversies arising from inconsistent in vitro findings in previous research focusing on the toxicity ZnO NPs, we combined the results of 25+ independent studies. One way analysis of variance (ANOVA) and classification and regression tree (CART) algorithm were used to pinpoint intrinsic and extrinsic factors influencing cytotoxic potential of ZnO in nanoscale. Particle size was found to have the most significant impact on the cytotoxic potential of ZnO NPs, with 10 nm identified as a critical diameter below which cytotoxic effects were elevated. As expected, strong cell type-, exposure duration- and dose-dependency were observed in cytotoxic response of ZnO NPs, highlighting the importance of assay optimization for each cytotoxicity screening. Our findings also suggested that ≥12 hours exposure to NPs resulted in cytotoxic responses irrespective of the concentration. Considering the cumulative nature of research processes where advances are made through subsequent investigations over time, such meta-analytical approaches are critical to maximizing the use of accumulated data in nano-safety research. © 2024 Institute of Physics Publishing. All rights reserved.