The financial supports from NSF(CMMI-1405355)and ACS Petroleum Research Fund(53780-DNI7)are gratefully acknowledged.
With appropriate stimuli,such as heat,humidity,or magnetic field,shape memory polymers(SMPs)can recover to their original shapes from temporary,programmed states.Using thermal responsive SMPs as substrates,we demonstr...
This work was supported in part by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(Grant Nos.11931018,61773411,11701588,11961005);the Guangdong Basic and Applied Basic Research Foundation(Grant No.2020B1515310021).
This paper attempts to study the optimal stopping time for semi- Markov processes (SMPs) under the discount optimization criteria with unbounded cost rates. In our work, we introduce an explicit construction of the eq...