3D‐Printed Actuator Powered by Liquid Crystal Elastomer Muscles at the Water–Air Interface
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Soft robots for unstructured environments require responsive, durable actuators. Liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs) provide large reversible deformations under thermal or optical stimuli. Direct ink writing enables fabrication of LCE actuators integrated with silicone, with mesogen chemistry and oligomers optimized for printable inks.
Cecilie Ryberg +5 more
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Doubly grounded buck‐boost PV grid‐connected inverter without shoot‐through problem
Electronics LettersTransformerless grid‐connected inverters (GCIs) are universally utilized in the PV system. However, they have the shoot‐through issue and common mode leakage current (CMLC).
Zhilei Yao, Ximing Zhang, Changlei Shan
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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Guest Editorial: AC/DC transmission and distribution technology supporting the new‐type power system
IET Generation, Transmission & Distribution, 2023 Rong Zeng +3 more
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A family of Z‐source‐based half‐bridge inverters: Topology derivation
IET Power ElectronicsZ‐source‐based half‐bridge inverters are a type of Z‐source inverters whose outer stage is a half‐bridge inverter. This paper presents a generalized structure from which 16 configurations can be derived. Once this topology has been introduced, one of the
Mohmmadamin Aalami +2 more
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Multimodal Human–Robot Interaction Using Human Pose Estimation and Local Large Language Models
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.A multimodal human–robot interaction framework integrates human pose estimation (HPE) and a large language model (LLM) for gesture‐ and voice‐based robot control. Speech‐to‐text (STT) enables voice command interpretation, while a safety‐aware arbitration mechanism prioritizes gesture input for rapid intervention.
Nasiru Aboki +2 more
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A Soft, Flexible Implant for Wireless Photothermal–Pyroelectric Neurostimulation
Advanced Science, EarlyView.A replication strategy is used to enlarge the exposed surface area of barium titanate within flexible films with embedded carbon nanotubes, enabling efficient photothermal‐pyroelectric stimulation. Polar crystalline nanosheets show superior performance in guiding neural progenitor cells toward neuronal differentiation.
Jiang Wu +7 more
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Magnetoelectric nanoparticles (MENPs) enable fully wireless, minutely invasive neuromodulation, and potentially neural recording, by converting magnetic into electric and, conversely, electric into magnetic fields, respectively, at high spatiotemporal resolution.
Elric Zhang +14 more
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Development and Modelling of Gallium Nitride Based Lateral Schottky Barrier Diodes with Anode Recesses for mmWave and THz Applications. [PDF]
Micromachines (Basel), 2022 Alathbah M.
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Neuromorphic Near‐Sensor and In‐Sensor Computing Enabled by Next‐Generation Material‐Based Sensors
Advanced Science, EarlyView.This Review presents a structural framework that classifies neuromorphic sensing into near‐sensor and in‐sensor architectures, clarifying physical coupling between sensing and computation. The framework connects neural and synaptic device functions with recent advances in optical, mechanical, and chemical sensing, compares energy consumption and ...
Su Yeon Jung +7 more
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