Claudia Fabiani

Claudia Fabiani
University of Perugia | UNIPG · Centro Interuniversitario di Ricerca sull'Inquinamento da Agenti Fisici

Doctor of Philosophy

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September 2017 - December 2017
Princeton University
Position
  • Visiting Student Research Collaborator
November 2015 - October 2018
University of Perugia
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  • PhD Student

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Publications (128)
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In recent years, substantial progress has been achieved in the development of multifunctional cement-based composites, targeting improved energy efficiency and environmental sustainability while minimizing material depletion. Leveraging the high thermal capacity of these materials facilitates controlled heat storage and release, providing versatile...
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Cerate nanoceramics have been recently considered key materials for radiative thermal management and enhanced solar reflectance. Herein, we demonstrate by means of first-principles Density Functional Theory calculations how experimentally prepared La2Ce2O7 and Al2Ce2O7 materials with defective fluorite structure exhibit superior temperature stabili...
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Cerate nanoceramics have been recently considered key materials for radiative thermal management and enhanced solar reflectance. Herein, we demonstrate by means of first-principles Density Functional Theory calculations how experimentally prepared La2Ce2O7 and Al2Ce2O7 materials with defective fluorite structure exhibit superior temperature stabili...
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Environmental concerns related to heat-absorbing materials in the construction industry can be effectively addressed by optimising the reflectivity of incoming sunlight and thermal emissivity of materials. These radiative properties are closely tied to the surface morphology characteristics of building materials, making superficial topography a cri...
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Phosphorescence (PP) has emerged as a promising passive cooling solution for the built environment, characterized by its ability to emit radiation persistently after photon absorption, thereby enhancing the solar radiation rejection capability and effective albedo of the surface. While various compounds have shown excellent properties for energy-sa...
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In recent years, the use of numerical simulations to model real atmospheric conditions over cities has become increasingly popular. One of the primary objectives of these models is to assess the efficacy of various strategies for mitigating the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon. At the same time, researchers have developed and studied new adaptive...
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The multi-domain comfort theory investigates human-environmental perception and comfort by accounting for people's simultaneous exposure to various stimuli from different physical domains. Multi-domain studies describe human reactions to environmental conditions, including indoor occupants' behaviour and comfort. Building simulation is essential to...
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Greenhouse gas emissions reduction is a critical topic in the scientific community, as researchers strive to produce knowledge for the betterment of society. However, it is important to acknowledge that researchers themselves engage in activities that have a significant environmental impact. Group meetings and conferences are under the spot due to...
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Daytime radiative cooling (DRC) is an innovative concept of passive cooling that can achieve sub-ambient temperatures, even in the presence of intense sunlight. By integrating DRC as a finishing layer in building envelope systems, it becomes possible to take advantage of this phenomenon to increase the indoor comfort in hot seasons. In this study,...
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In the framework of intense research about high-entropy materials and their applications in energy-oriented technologies, in the present work, we discuss the potential applicability of selected oxides and of the alloys they form at different concentrations for daytime radiative cooling implementation. In particular, by combining density functional...
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Urban development and growth have a significant impact on the environment, contributing to ongoing climate change and affecting the resilience of urban communities. However, cities also have the potential to become innovation centers and drive the urgent green transition. Smart cities, in particular, rely on digital services to enhance citizens’ qu...
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Purpose Environmental impacts associated with the fashion industry concern society and require commitment to sustainable development goals from leading companies. The role of the luxury sector in setting trends and negotiating power within the supply chain can lead this industry towards sustainability. This study constructs a comprehensive operatio...
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Glazed envelopes play a strategic role in the environmental performance of buildings, significantly affecting indoor comfort and energy consumption while allowing the penetration of natural light into the interior space. Over the last few years, the research activity related to the building envelope has been focused on the achievement of higher ene...
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Adopting energy storage systems is crucial in the transition to sustainable energy sources. However, significant obstacles hinder their widespread use, often attributed to socio-cultural factors such as low user awareness. In this study, we examine the societal awareness of energy storage in Italy by analyzing online news, through innovative method...
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In the last years, the sensitivity towards environmental impacts of industrial activities is of growing interest. Construction sector, with particular reference to cement-based materials, possesses a high environmental footprint due to raw resources’ consumption and waste, energy use, greenhouse gasses emissions produced during the preparation of t...
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In this work, a commercial phase change material (PCM) was stabilized in biochar, by vacuum impregnation technique and later incorporated into cement pastes to be used in real building applications. The selected paraffin is characterized by a phase transition temperature of 27 ℃, i.e., within the most common thermal comfort conditions in building a...
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Effects of intense anthropogenic activities motivated several actions and following agreements establishing coordinated implementation initiatives toward sustainable development. The built environment is responsible for 37% of the global greenhouse gas emissions, about 10% only from production materials. Innovative eco-friendly solutions for the bu...
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Earth is an easy-to-find resource, and its application in construction involves reusing a natural material that can provide good energy efficiency and environmental comfort, thanks to its inertia and hygroscopicity. This chapter analyses the thermo-acoustic performance of earth-based concretes produced using the Shot-earth technique and traditional...
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Reflecting the radiation of the sun while emitting thermal radiation to cold outer space has proven to be an effective solution against urban overheating. The latter severely impact the energy consumption of buildings, outdoor pollution levels, and heat-related morbidity and mortality, which is why recent research has focused on new advanced mitiga...
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Future perspectives to improve the energy efficiency of concentrating solar power (CSP) plants are focused on increasing temperatures above 600 °C. Among the different components of a CSP plant, the thermal energy storage (TES) medium must withstand high operating temperatures. Concrete was identified as an exciting candidate for its mechanical and...
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The application of cool materials (CMs) into the built environment is a widespread solution for mitigating urban overheating. Different types of CMs, e.g. reflective, evaporative, or energy harvesting, have been found to maintain lower superficial temperatures than conventional materials typically used within cities, such as asphalt and concrete. R...
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The use of green roofs is demonstrated to improve the energy performance of buildings, increase biodiversity, reduce environmental impacts of urban areas, and mitigate climate change phenomena. Their use on a large scale is desirable in the coming years. Still, the choice of the most suitable green roof design solution should also consider the impa...
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The COVID-19 pandemic has changed people's habits, causing them to use large amounts of disposable items and exacerbating the already existing issue of pollution. One way to reduce the environmental impact of this shift in daily habits is to recycle these items, e.g. surgical masks that are the most common personal protective equipment against the...
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The incorporation of recycled materials in concrete as a partial replacement of cement is becoming an alternative strategy for decreasing energy-intensive and CO2 emissions imputable to the cement manufacture, while investigating new potential uses of such multifunctional materials for environmental sustainability opportunities. Therefore, low-cost...
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Photoluminescent materials are widely considered crucial elements in sustainable lighting, and they are also gaining credit in passive cooling applications in buildings. In this study, we investigate different photoluminescent pigments, connecting their emission behavior to the specific afterglow color and evaluating their potential use as passive...
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Energy communities are a promising strategy for a global energy transition. European Union (EU) regulatory frameworks are already established and clearly explained, aiming to develop as many projects as possible in the different European countries. Accordingly, it is necessary to present two different types of countries: the laggards and the pionee...
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The incoming transformation of urban built-up areas, surroundings morphology, and local climate due to global warming connected to the necessity of renewable energy use maximization is the fundamental to the main aim of the present research. Indeed, urban policies can benefit from the accurate monitoring of microclimate variables in order to ensure...
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To increase food availability, optimizing production systems and reducing burdens related to human activities is essential in a scenario of population growth and limited natural resources. In this context, the life cycle methodology can represent a valuable asset for assessing the environmental performance of agricultural products and services. Thi...
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We have here performed a campaign of first-principles calculations comparing the effect of confinement in two ABO3-perovskites, SrTiO3 and BaSnO3. The study is motivated by the quest of novel materials for daytime radiative cooling devices, a recently suggested mechanism to passively cool down the temperature of sky facing objects (mainly buildings...
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In this study, photoluminescent glass tiles with different content of yellow-emitting pigments are tested as a promising adaptive strategy for investigating their potential for lighting energy saving and passive cooling in the built environment. The capability of such materials to re-emit light after a certain solicitation period has indeed gained...
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Recently, the approach for studying human comfort indoors has been changing for a multi-domain framework once some studies have reported cross-effects between different comfort domains (i.e., thermal, visual, acoustic, and air quality). An example of cross-effects between comfort domains is the hue-heat hypothesis (HHH), referring to the possible a...
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The paper presents a new generalized formulation of the electromechanical model of smart bricks, novel strain sensors for masonry structures, considering changes in temperature and humidity. Electromechanical tests are carried out on standard-sized smart bricks to experimentally validate the proposed theoretical model by exposing sensors to control...
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The whole metallurgic sector produces up to 200 million tons of slag, which are tapped from the blast furnace (at a temperature of 1,500°C), and then need to be cooled down before disposal. These cooling processes are generally conducted open-air, significantly affecting local environmental quality of the surroundings. The present study aims at inv...
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In recent years, a mass of scientific literature has been developed in the attempt of providing guidance to control and reduce greenhouse gas emissions and preserve the Earth’s natural resources. Several contributions showed that the life cycle assessment (LCA) is a useful methodology to evaluate the performance of a service or a good by means of a...
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The continuous population growth in nowadays cities, combined with the constantly developing human needs, calls for innovation in urban design and planning. This innovation can be achieved through the implementation of modern paradigms in Architecture, Engineering, and Technology. These three topics were selected for this book due to their interdis...
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Global waste is expected to grow substantially by 2050, therefore, defining an effective waste management strategy is a crucial topic for both industry and academia. Nowadays, food and green waste, in particular, represent a large share of the total waste production. All this considered, effectively processing and eventually reusing materials such...
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Pavements affect the urban microclimate and the overall quality of the outdoor environment. Cool pavements, in particular, can guarantee lower surface temperature than conventional ones, e.g. asphalt and concrete. These solutions often comprise reflective coatings placed above existing pavements or more complex configurations, i.e. evaporative and...
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The need for reducing the environmental impact of the building sector in terms of both energy consumptions and greenhouse gases emissions has led to the development of several types of materials characterized by tailored properties for optimizing surface energy balance of urban surfaces. Among the most acknowledged cool materials, photoluminescent...
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Concrete is identified in the literature as a suitable material for thermal energy storage applications, with even innovative application potentials such as storage media in concentrating solar power plants. To ensure a suitable heat transfer among concrete components, the binder material of concrete (cement paste) require further research and unde...
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In the last decades, fossil fuels have become the primary resource for electricity generation, contributing to the aggravation of problems like global warming and ozone depletion. For this reason, innovative solutions are being continuously developed in order to improve energy efficiency in the construction sector. Beyond heating and cooling, urban...
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In response to the disruptive changes brought upon our society by the COVID-19 pandemic, most work activities and service providers had to resort to remote working. This is credited to reduce emissions for transportation, however the role of forced confinement within dwellings, especially if not designed for hosting working stations, deserves to be...
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Novel, photoluminescent and translucent construction elements are considered for application on buildings’ envelope towards energy savings and avant-garde architectural expression. These elements allow natural light to pass through the envelope and charge the materials, which on their turn re-emit energy as visible light. By exploiting the intrinsi...
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In recent decades, research on persistent luminescence has led to new phosphors and promising performance. Efforts to improve the quality of phosphors’ afterglow have paved the way toward innovative solutions for many disciplines. However, there are few examples of the implementation of luminescent materials. In addition to providing a general back...
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Different passive strategies are investigated with the aim of reducing the overwhelming problem of energy consumption and greenhouse gases emissions in the built environment. A careful selection of the urban skin can mitigate the Urban Heat Island (UHI) phenomenon and, consequently, improve comfort conditions and reduce the ever-increasing energy c...
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Green roofs are a recurrent solution for improving environmental quality in buildings. Such systems can, among other things, reduce the urban heat island effect, improve indoor thermal comfort and visual quality, and reduce energy consumption in buildings, therefore promoting human comfort. This work presents the winter monitoring of a light-weight...
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Cool materials are an acknowledged, environmentally friendly and relatively cost-effective solution that can be easily integrated in the built environment with the threefold aim of reducing building cooling energy needs, mitigating the urban heat island (UHI) phenomenon and, at a larger scale, counteracting global warming. High solar reflectance an...
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Every day a wide amount of wastes is generated and landfilled, without giving them any new use. Among these wastes, biomass gathered from nature, as agricultural or forest wastes are found. From collecting and treating this biomass, a new composite can be obtained, reducing its environmental footprint. In this context, the present study focuses on...
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In recent years, the urgent need for reducing the environmental footprint of the building sector has prompted the development of several kinds of new adaptive materials for the built environment. In this work, cutting edge experimental and numerical techniques are used for exploring the potential integration of innovative photoluminescent component...
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Life cycle assessment (LCA) and life cycle costing (LCC) are innovative tools based on an innovative approach allowing to investigate the environmental and economic burdens of a product or service throughout its lifecycle. Although usually carried out individually, their integration in a comprehensive analysis could provide a substantial asset in e...
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The urban built environment is rapidly growing in terms of hosted population, density of construction, and intensity of anthropogenic generated actions. This rapidly mutable environment produces a variety of boundary conditions that play a key role in influencing building energy needs, in particular by exacerbating building overheating both indoors...
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Climate change intensifies the Urban Heat Islands (UHI) in hundreds of cities around the globe. Even though tests on traditional cool materials have shown promising results in terms of UHI mitigation, novel advanced solutions are deemed necessary for strategically counteracting UHI. Unlike traditional materials, phosphorescent materials can not onl...
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Passive systems and solutions aimed at improving local thermal comfort conditions represent a cutting-edge research field in building applications. However, only a few investigations were performed by taking into account the local distribution and spatial variability of the airflow generated by the application of both traditional and innovative pas...
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This workshop brought together a selection of H2020 EU-funded projects involving experts from the biomass, geothermal, solar thermal, and heat pump sectors to discuss a common strategy for increasing the use of renewable energy technologies for heating and cooling for buildings and industry.
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Urbanization and actions are responsible for overheated cities compared to the adjacent rural settings, a phenomenon known as Urban Heat Island (UHI). Additionally, conventional urban materials contribute towards the aggravation of urban noise pollution, a phenomenon that may be described as Urban Noise Island (UNI). Numerous solutions have been pr...
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Thermal energy storage using phase change materials (PCMs) plays a significant role in maintaining thermal comfort and reducing energy consumption in buildings because of its property to absorb/release heat within specific temperatures. However, the relatively sharp transition range of the most common high-performance components only allows designi...
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The proliferation of urban sensing, IoT, and big data in cities provides unprecedented opportunities for a deeper understanding of occupant behaviour and energy usage patterns at the urban scale. This enables data-driven building and energy models to capture the urban dynamics, specifically the intrinsic occupant and energy use behavioural profiles...