Browsing NTNU Open by Author "Ng, Serina"
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A Review of Materials Science Research Pathways and Opportunities for Building Integrated Photovoltaics
Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Ng, Serina; Gao, Tao; Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Kolås, Tore (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) represent a powerful and versatile tool for achieving the ever increasing demand for energy-efficient and energy-harvesting buildings of the near future. The BIPV systems offer an ... -
A Review of Research Pathways and Opportunities for Building Integrated Photovoltaics from a Materials Science Perspective
Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Ng, Serina; Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Gao, Tao (Chapter, 2016)Research within materials science photovoltaics (PV) technologies may enable and accelerate the development of highly innovative and efficient building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) materials and systems. Sandwich, ... -
Avoiding Snow and Ice Formation on Exterior Solar Cell Surfaces - A Review of Research Pathways and Opportunities
Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gao, Tao; Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Kolås, Tore; Stenstad, Per Martin; Ng, Serina (Integrating Data Science, Construction and Sustainability;ICSDEC 2016, Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Today energy-efficient and energy-harvesting buildings experience an ever-increasing interest and demand. Building integrated photovoltaics (BIPV) may in this respect represent a powerful and versatile tool for reaching ... -
Calcined Clays as Binder for Thermal Insulating and Structural Aerogel Incorporated Mortar
Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Stæhli, Tor (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)Partial replacement of ordinary Portland cement with calcined clay as binder in the aerogel incorporated mortars (AIM) was shown to decrease their thermal conductivities while maintaining the mechanical strength. It was ... -
Development and Investigation of New Materials and Technologies for Utilization in Zero Emission Buildings
Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Gao, Tao; Ng, Serina (Chapter, 2018)The demand for zero emission buildings (ZEB) and energy-producing buildings is increasing along with the growing focus on material resource abundance and scarcity, energy efficiency, renewable and non-polluting energy ... -
Development of a New Thermally Insulating and Structural Green Concrete for Lean Constructions
Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter (Chapter, 2016)A new class of thermally insulating, structural concrete was designed and developed in-house. This was carried out by the fusion of current concrete/ mortar technology with aerogel granulates in an effort to produce a lean ... -
Effect of acoustic cluster therapy (ACT®) combined with chemotherapy in a patient-derived xenograft mouse model of pancreatic cancer
Ng, Serina; Healey, Andrew J.; Sontum, Per Christian; Kvåle, Svein; Torp, Sverre Helge; Sulheim, Einar; Von Hoff, Daniel; Han, Haiyoung (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2022)Pancreatic ductal adenocarcinomas respond poorly to chemotherapy, in part due to the dense tumor stroma that hinders drug delivery. Ultrasound (US) in combination with microbubbles has previously shown promise as a means ... -
Effect of storage and curing conditions at elevated temperatures on aerogel-incorporated mortar samples based on UHPC recipe
Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Zhen, Yingpeng; Wallevik, Olafur Haralds (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016)The effect of elevated temperature during storage and curing of ultra-high performance concrete (UHPC) formulated aerogel-incorporated mortar (AIM) samples was investigated. It was found that an effective aerogel loading ... -
Experimental Investigations of Aerogel-Incorporated Ultra-High Performance Concrete
Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Sandberg, Linn Ingunn Christie; Gao, Tao; Wallevik, Olafur Haralds (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)Improvements to concrete will have a large impact in the construction and building sector. As the attention is drawn towards energy-efficient and zero emission buildings, the thermal properties of concrete will be important. ... -
Filler and Water Reducer Effects on Sedimentation, Bleeding and Zeta-Potential of Cement Paste
Peng, Ya; Pedersen, Bård; Ng, Serina; De Weerdt, Klaartje; Jacobsen, Stefan (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Bleeding and sedimentation quantify the stability of fresh cement paste, whereas the addition of fillers and water reducers affect the stability. The effect of various types of fillers and water reducers was investigated ... -
High-Performance Nano Insulation Materials for Energy-Efficient Buildings
Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Tilset, Bente Gilbu; Gao, Tao; Grandcolas, Mathieu; Løvvik, Ole Martin; Bohne, Rolf André; Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Ng, Serina; Sagvolden, Espen (Chapter, 2017) -
Hollow Silica Nanospheres as Thermal Insulation Materials for Construction: Impact of their Morphologies as a Function of Synthesis Pathways and Starting Materials
Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Sandberg, Linn Ingunn; Gao, Tao; Alex Mofid, Sohrab (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2018)Hollow silica nanospheres (HSNS) show a promising potential to become good thermal insulators with low thermal conductivity values for construction purposes. The thermal conductivity of HSNSs is dependent on their structural ... -
Incorporation of Polymers into Calcined Clays as Improved Thermal Insulating Materials for Construction
Ng, Serina; Jelle, Bjørn Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)Calcined clay is a Type Q supplementary cementing material according to EN197-1:2000. It possesses lower thermal conductivity than cement. To further improve its thermal insulation property, polymer-calcined clay complexes ... -
Influence of crushed aggregate fines with micro-proportioned particle size distributions on rheology of cement paste
Cepuritis, Rolands; Jacobsen, Stefan; Smeplass, Sverre; Mørtsell, Ernst; Wigum, Børge J.; Ng, Serina (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2017)This paper presents a study on how crushed concrete aggregate fines affect rheological properties of cement paste. The fines (≤250 μm) were produced by high-speed vertical shaft impact (VSI) crushing of rock types from 10 ... -
Insulating and Strength Properties of an Aerogel-Incorporated Mortar Based on UHPC Formulations
Ng, Serina; Sandberg, Linn Ingunn Christie; Jelle, Bjørn Petter (Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)With the increasing attention towards energy-efficient and zero emission buildings, improvement to concrete properties is becoming more and more significant in construction and building sectors. One such area is to enhance ... -
Utilization of Size-Tunable Hollow Silica Nanospheres for Building Thermal Insulation Applications
Alex Mofid, Sohrab; Jelle, Bjørn Petter; Zhao, Xinpeng; Gao, Tao; Grandcolas, Mathieu; Cunningham, Bridget; Ng, Serina; Yang, Ronggui (Peer reviewed; Journal article, 2020)Hollow silica nanospheres (HSNS) have been the subject of intense studies as a possible building block that may successfully bring about nano insulation materials (NIM) with substantially reduced thermal conductivity. The ...