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The mechanisms of pedestrian slip on flooring contaminated with solid particles [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Statistics by the UK Health and Safety Executive (HSE) suggest that slips, trips and falls account for up to one in three major workplace accidents. The vast majority of these accidents are the result of contaminant (fluid or solid) within the shoe-floor
Dwyer-Joyce, R.S.   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Laser‐Assisted Processing and Modification of Bioactive Glasses: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Laser technologies provide powerful tools to process and transform bioactive glasses for advanced biomedical applications. This review discusses laser‐matter interaction mechanisms, laser surface engineering, and laser‐assisted fabrication of scaffolds and nanofibers.
Antonio Riveiro   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sprayable Polymer Blends With Short‐Chain Surface Segregation for Preventing Postoperative Abdominal Adhesions

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Adhesions’ high occurrence rates and high morbidity render them a critical challenge to be addressed. Current prevention methods, such as physical barriers, have many limitations, resulting in inconsistent safety and efficacy. This study demonstrates the potential for sprayable polymeric materials as an adhesion barrier.
Robert J. Morris III   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coal gasification: New challenge for the Beaumont rotary feeder [PDF]

open access: yes, 1977
The use of rotary feeders in the coal gasification process is described with emphasis on the efficient conversion of coal to clean gaseous fuels.
Stelian, J.
core   +1 more source

Epidermal Patch Technologies for Integrated Healthcare and Infection Management

open access: yesAdvanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Epidermal patches have evolved from simple wound coverings into multifunctional, skin‐conformable platforms integrating drug delivery, biosensing, and therapeutic functionalities. This review highlights their material innovations, fabrication strategies, and intelligent designs, including hydrogels, microneedles, and flexible electronics, while ...
Yuqi Wang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Phenomenology, Kinetics and Application of Abrasive-Reactive Wear during Comminution (Overview)

open access: yesKONA Powder and Particle Journal, 2014
Valuable information on the phenomenology of mechanical activation will be obtained from the accurate characterization of wearing processes that take place within mechanochemical reactors.
Farit Kh. Urakaev   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

Microstructure and wear resistance of the laser-cladded Al0.8CrFeCoNiCu0.5Bx high-entropy alloy coating on aluminum

open access: yesMaterials Research Express, 2020
Coatings with excellent mechanical properties are difficult to prepare on the aluminum alloy surfaces by laser surface engineering because of the low melting point and active chemical properties of aluminum (Al).
Yanzhou Li, Yan Shi
doaj   +1 more source

Bioinspired Adaptive Sensors: A Review on Current Developments in Theory and Application

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes the recent progress in the design and fabrication of sensory‐adaptation‐inspired devices and highlights their valuable applications in electronic skin, wearable electronics, and machine vision. The existing challenges and future directions are addressed in aspects such as device performance optimization ...
Guodong Gong   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Highly Abrasion-resistant and Long-lasting Concrete [PDF]

open access: yes, 2019
Studded tire usage in Alaska contributes to rutting damage on pavements resulting in high maintenance costs and safety issues. In this study binary, ternary, and quaternary highly-abrasion resistant concrete mix designs, using supplementary cementitious ...
Liu, Jenny, Murph, Diane
core  

Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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