Xaioming Cheng and her husband Rick Hsu both came to the United States 15 years ago for grad school. “We traveled about the same journey to get here, for studying mostly,” Cheng said.

A new nonlinear programming (NLP) formulation of the conventional flexibility index model (Swaney and Grossmann, 1985) has been developed in this work for flexibility analysis of single-contaminant ...

Owing to growing environmental concerns, the development of lead-free piezoelectrics with comparable performance to the benchmark Pb(Zr,Ti)O3 (PZT) becomes of great urgency. However, a further ...