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Delamination of Vermiculite into Ultrahigh‐Aspect‐Ratio Nanosheets

Zeitschrift für anorganische und allgemeine Chemie, EarlyView.
Efficient ion exchange allows for thermodynamically driven delamination of vermiculite into high‐aspect ratio nanosheets. The applicability of sustainable materials in the packaging industry is currently limited by the poor gas barrier performance of most biodegradable polymers.
Felix Uhlig, Alexander M. Stich, Kevin Hagmann, Sabine Rosenfeldt, Josef Breu   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The importance of being discrete: fluctuations, defects, and density-orientation coupling in agent-based active nematics

New Journal of Physics
We propose an agent-based model of active flexible rods. Inspired by cytoskeletal flows, we introduce activity by an internal flow that contributes to the dissipative forces.
M Dedenon, C Blanch-Mercader, K Kruse, J Elgeti   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Elinvar Materials: Recent Progress and Challenges

Advanced Engineering Materials, Volume 28, Issue 9, 6 May 2026.
Elinvar materials, exhibiting temperature‐invariant elastic modulus, are critical for precision instruments and emerging technologies. This article reviews recent progress in the field, with a focus on the anomalous thermoelastic behavior observed in key material systems.
Wenjie Li, Yang Ren
wiley   +1 more source

Harnessing the Orientation of Columnar Discotic Liquid Crystals for Narrowband Blue Emission with Enhanced Out‐Coupling Efficiency Toward Improvement of SP‐OLEDs Performance

Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 36, 4 May 2026.
Solution‐processed OLEDs containing discotic liquid‐crystalline MR‐TADF emitters are reported. Supramolecular self‐assembly induces homeotropic columnar alignment, enforcing preferential horizontal orientation of the emitter transition dipole moment in spin‐coated films, which leads to an enhancement in the device light outcoupling efficiency while ...
Joydip De, Abhishek Kumar Gupta, Džiugas Litvinas, Francisco Tenopala‐Carmona, Matthias Lehmann, Malte C. Gather, Eli Zysman‐Colman   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Thermo‐Mechanically Recyclable Smart Textiles from Circularly Knitted Liquid Crystal Elastomer Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 36, Issue 37, 7 May 2026.
Reprogrammable multi‐material smart textiles knitted from liquid crystal elastomer fibers undergo 2D and 3D deformation under thermal and photo stimuli. Circularly knitted tubular structures reversibly contract in radial and axial directions, enabling autonomous climbing, liquid release, and micro pumping.
Xue Wan, Tongxiang Deng, Linda Plaude, Bo Gao, Siyao Chen, Fabien Sorin, Kaspar M. B. Jansen, Kun Zhou, Albert P. H. J. Schenning   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Orientation Engineering of MXene Flakes

Advanced Materials, Volume 38, Issue 25, 4 May 2026.
Orientation engineering of MXene flakes refers to the transformation of disordered MXene flakes into ordered architectures with optimized multiphysical transport properties. Focusing on this topic, this review outlines key principles, characterization, fabrication strategies, and advanced applications of oriented MXene structures.
Yizhou Wang, Shuo Li, Tianchao Guo, Dekang Zhu, Ning Chu, Noor Albar, Dana Alsulaiman, Husam N. Alshareef   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Physically informed data-driven modeling of active nematics. [PDF]

Sci Adv, 2023
Golden M, Grigoriev RO, Nambisan J, Fernandez-Nieves A.   +3 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Terahertz Chiral Metamaterials Enabling Broadband Polarization Conversion Using Polarization Guiding Effect

Advanced Materials Technologies, Volume 11, Issue 9, 6 May 2026.
A broadband terahertz polarization rotator consisting of twistingly stacked silicon–air metagratings is designed based on the polarization guiding effect and experimentally shown to achieve 90° linear polarization rotation for both TE and TM incidences.
Yun‐Seok Choi, Tae Gwan Park, Antoinette J. Taylor, Hou‐Tong Chen, Abul K. Azad   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Evidence of topological charge polarization at active-passive interfaces in acoustically powered active liquid crystals

Physical Review Research
Theoretical and computational studies predict topological charge separation at active-passive interfaces in active nematics, but reliable experimental validation has been lacking.
Andrey Sokolov, Tadej Emersic, Paul Nealey, Juan de Pablo, Alexey Snezhko   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Programming Ionic Landscapes: Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals, Dielectric Fields, and Process‐Programmed Assembly for the Future of Solid‐State Batteries

Battery Energy, Volume 5, Issue 3, May 2026.
This perspective introduces a paradigm shift from optimizing disordered solid polymer electrolytes to actively programming ion transport architectures by integrating ferroelectric liquid crystals, dielectric engineering, and advanced manufacturing for all‐solid‐state batteries.
Sijie Liu, Yuzhen Zhao, Le Zhou, Jianjun Chen, Kristiaan Neyts   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source