GX Research Hub · English
GX & Decarbonization Research
This page provides an English interface to the gxceed GX paper corpus. The corpus aggregates papers from 14 contributing scholarly metadata sources and uses AI-assisted classification to identify signals related to measurement, policy narratives, outcomes, implementation, industrial adoption, and verification.
The goal is not only to discover papers, but to observe how GX research is distributed across research substance, implementation narratives, external expectations, implementation substance, and judgment formation.
Summaries are AI-assisted. Always refer to the original paper for authoritative conclusions.
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnvironmental Science & Technology2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Energy-Efficient Lighting Transitions Create a Material-Climate Trade-Off
Xueyue Hu, Mengyuan Dang, Ayman Elshkaki +2
Using a dynamic stock-driven model of China's lighting transition (2000-2060), this study shows that LED adoption cuts operational electricity but raises material intensity and embodied GHG emissions. Among four decoupling strategies, effic…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnergies2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Multi-Objective Optimization of Energy Use, Thermal Comfort, and Carbon Emissions in an Underground Supermarket
Zhongcheng Duan, Pengju Li, Dongdong Zhu
This study optimizes energy use, thermal comfort, and carbon emissions for an underground supermarket in Xuzhou, China. Using 2000 Latin hypercube samples, a Rhino-Grasshopper/Ladybug-Honeybee workflow, BP neural-network surrogates, Morris …
Peer-reviewedJournalThe Open Civil Engineering Journal2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
The Effect of Longitudinal Hollows on the Carbon Footprint and Economic Behavior of RC Deep Beams
Abbas H. Abdulabbas, Murtada Ameer Ismael, Anwar D. Mahmoud
Sixteen RC deep beams were tested to assess longitudinal hollows' environmental and economic effects. Hollows cut peak load by 2.8-20.1% but reduced weight 3.56-12.35%, CO2 emissions 3.82-13.82%, embodied energy 3.48-13.80%, and constructio…
Peer-reviewedJournalInternational Journal of Urban Sustainable Development2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
The comfort–carbon paradox: post-occupancy evaluation of thermal mass, comfort, and carbon resilience in four contemporary UK homes
Özlem Duran, Rosemary Fieldson, Jing Zhao
This study examines how thermal mass, building services, and occupant behaviour affect comfort and carbon performance in four UK private homes (EPC A/B) using monitoring, energy data, surveys, interviews, and LCA. High-thermal-mass masonry …
Peer-reviewedJournalCivil Engineering Science and Technology2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Bio-Cemented Concrete with Industrial By-Products for Low-Carbon Urban Infrastructure
Julian Fairmont, Eleanor Wren
This study developed low-carbon bio-cemented concrete combining fly ash, GGBS, and Sporosarcina pasteurii-induced calcite precipitation. The hybrid mix achieved 46.8 MPa compressive strength (22.5% above control) with improved durability an…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalUrban Informatics2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
An advanced generative framework for low-carbon urban morphology optimization
Tao Wu, Zeyin Chen, Shiqi Zhou +1
This study presents PC-GAN, an automated block design tool integrating Pix2pix with a two-step GAN mechanism inspired by CycleGAN, generating high-resolution 3D urban forms under specific climatic and energy-reduction targets. Focusing on G…
Peer-reviewedJournalJournal of Engineering, Design and Technology2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
BIM and digital twin integration in circular construction: addressing lifecycle fragmentation
Muhammad Afzal, Juan Carlos Flores Lara, A. Acquaye +1
A PRISMA review of 266 studies synthesizes how BIM and digital twins enable circular economy practices across building lifecycle stages. Digital-enabled circularity remains design-centric, with weak continuity into operation, maintenance an…
🇪🇺 EuropeJournalORBi (University of Liège)2026#Energy Efficiency
Whole Life Carbon Assessment of Residential Building Renovation
Aurora Bertini, Shady Attia
This study presents a method for assessing whole-life carbon impacts of residential renovation at early design, combining building simulation with LCA to compare an unrenovated reference with six retrofit scenarios. Sensitivity and uncertai…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalBuildings2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Advancing Low-Carbon Buildings Through Integrative Acoustic Educational Architectural Design
Liudmila Cazacova, Balkız Yapıcıoğlu
A pilot study at an Emirati university compared four student building projects before and after acoustic design interventions using Revit Insight, tracking total, embodied, and operational carbon plus energy use intensity. Reductions varied…
Peer-reviewed🇪🇺 EuropeJournalce/papers2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
How Lightweight Membrane Architecture Contribute to Decarbonization
Thomas Bonneville
This presentation argues that lightweight tensile membrane architecture offers a scalable pathway to low-carbon buildings. A comparative LCA shows membrane solutions can cut embodied carbon by up to four times versus conventional assemblies…
Volume 10: Blue Economy Symposium; Specialty Symposium on OTEC and Correlate Devices; Smart and Sustainable Maritime Systems2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Probabilistic Fuel Consumption Prediction for Marine Vessels Using Conditional Diffusion Model
Tong-Tong Wang, Qin Liang, Bai-Heng Wu +2
This paper proposes a conditional diffusion probabilistic model that predicts the full conditional distribution of marine vessel fuel consumption given operational and environmental contexts. Using real-world voyage data across ship types, …
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalEnergy Sources Part B Economics Planning and Policy2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Green energy transition and energy efficiency in Türkiye: The roles of industrial productivity and fossil fuel inefficiency
Mustafa Naimoğlu, Gang Kou, Hasan Dınçer +1
Using Fourier-based econometric methods for Türkiye (1990–2024), this study examines how industrial productivity, fossil fuel inefficiency, energy imports, and green energy use jointly affect energy efficiency. Industrial energy effectivene…
Peer-reviewedJournalThe Journal of Horticultural Science and Biotechnology2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Assessment of pre-harvest fruit bagging for carbon and energy footprints, and quality attributes of mango
Kundan Kishore, Dinesh Kumar, Thukkaram Damodaran +7
Bagging mango fruits (Dashehri, Amrapali) with double-layered brown paper bags sharply cut pesticide sprays, reducing carbon emissions from 1200–1400 to 161–208 kg CE/ha and energy input from 2800–3700 to 120–145 MJ/ha. Unmarketable fruit w…
Peer-reviewed🇨🇳 ChinaJournalAdvances in Engineering Software2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Uncertainty-aware target-curve guided multi-objective inverse design framework for low-carbon square coal gangue concrete-filled steel tube stub columns under axial compression
Yuqing Zhao, Xiangyu Kong, Jinlong Liu +3
Proposes a target-curve-guided multi-objective inverse design (UTC-MOID) framework for low-carbon square coal gangue CFST stub columns. Nine ML surrogates trained on 1021 stress-strain curves; LSTM achieves R²=0.9996. Optimizes curve error,…
🌍 GlobalJournalZenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
The Economics of Sustainable Cooling During the Global South's Urbanization Transition
Hunter Hughes
As Global South urbanization drives steep cooling demand, this report centers the economics of sustainable cooling on 'avoided load.' Sequencing urban design, passive buildings, efficiency standards, refrigerant transition, and grid decarbo…
Peer-reviewedCNJournalApplied and Computational Engineering2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Sustainability & Environmental Performance of Graphene-on-Silicon Hybrid Transistors: Green Fabrication, Low-Carbon Application and Circular E-Waste Mitigation
Kai Yap Guo
This paper systematically assesses the full-life-cycle sustainability of graphene-on-silicon hybrid FETs (GoSFETs), covering material synthesis, fabrication, operation, and end-of-life disposal. It reviews low-carbon, low-toxicity manufactu…
Peer-reviewedJournalSustainability2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Exploring Barriers and Drivers to Energy Efficiency in the Tunisian Industrial Sector: A Qualitative Investigation
Hedia Hedhli, Imen Mahmoud, Najla Aouinti
This qualitative study interviews Tunisian industrial firms and stakeholders to identify barriers and drivers of industrial energy efficiency. High investment costs, limited capital access, and weak incentives are the main barriers, compoun…
PreprintResearch Square2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Explainable Machine Learning and Rule-Based Decision Support for Building Energy Prediction and Renewable-Aware Grid Demand Estimation
Yasin Ghad Yi, Muhammad Saqib S, SAMKARI HS +4
This study integrates IoT and explainable AI (XAI) for building energy management, combining Ridge regression forecasting (MAPE 5.45%, R² 0.63) with LIME/SHAP interpretation and DiCE counterfactual analysis. A rule-based decision module tra…
Peer-reviewed🌍 GlobalJournalJournal of Physics and Chemistry of Solids2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
A low-carbon waste-valorised electromechanical cementitious composite from deinking paper sludge and metakaolin for 3D printing construction: A hybrid ML–FEM digital twin
Mohammadmahdi Abedi
A self-sensing 3D-printable cementitious composite replaces 40 wt.% cement with metakaolin and adds 18 wt.% deinking-paper-sludge biochar as conductive filler. Internal humidity strongly governs electromechanical response, with gauge factor…
Peer-reviewed🇺🇸 USAJournalEnergy and Buildings2026#Energy EfficiencyDOI
Balancing collective thermal preference sensitivity and energy cost for occupant-centric demand response
Zhihao Ma, Hejia Zhang, Athanasios Tzempelikos
This study examines the trade-off between collective occupant thermal-preference sensitivity and energy cost in occupant-centric demand response for buildings. It focuses on how occupant-centered control design can reconcile energy savings …