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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
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Regulation of Heat Exchange across the Hornbill Beak: Functional Similarities with Toucans?

PLoS ONE, 2016
Beaks are increasingly recognised as important contributors to avian thermoregulation. Several studies supporting Allen's rule demonstrate how beak size is under strong selection related to latitude and/or air temperature (Ta).
T M F N van de Ven, R O Martin, T J F Vink, A E McKechnie, S J Cunningham   +4 more
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Iterative Selection of DNA Nanostructures for Cellular Uptake

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
DNA nanostructures are promising cell targeting delivery vehicles for therapeutics, but the targeting behavior is not fully understood. In this study, libraries of DNA nanostructures that can be amplified and sequenced are combined with cellular uptake as a selection pressure to iteratively refine DNA structures taken up in cells to better understand ...
Anjali Rajwar, Lisa Eichhorn, Jakub Palacka, Sandra Ly, Erik Benson   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Toward Perception‐Native Electronic Skin: Bio‐Inspired In‐/Near‐Sensor and Neuromorphic Computing for Humanoid Robots

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Dense tactile streams from across the humanoid body converge on collide in a central wiring and data bottleneck. By relocating computation closer to and then into the skin itself, near‐ and in‐sensor architectures, together with neuromorphic computing, chart a path toward perception‐native electronic skin, in which the conversion of stimulus into ...
Mijin Kim, Chang‐Jae Beak, Jiyoung Park, Youngdo Jung, Sunjong Oh, Sin‐Hyung Lee, Bo‐Yeon Lee   +6 more
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Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui, Raphael Zufferey, William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Simon Jeger, Dario Floreano   +5 more
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Infrared beak trimming protocols as an alternative to hot blade in commercial laying hens [PDF]

Revista Brasileira de Zootecnia
This study aimed to compare hot blade with infrared beak trimming with different protocols on performance, beak length, digestive system organ biometry, intestinal histomorphometry, and egg quality in white laying hens. One hundred and twenty chicks were
Verônica Letícia da Silva, Lilian Francisco Arantes de Souza, Rafael Victor Nunes Lima, Diogo Tsuyoshi Ito, Gustavo do Valle Polycarpo   +4 more
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Modulation of miR‐23b Wnt/β‐catenin Axis Strengthens Endothelial Barrier Properties

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Early blood‐brain barrier (BBB) disruption contributes to stroke and CNS disease pathology. miR‐23b was identified as a regulator of BBB integrity in brain endothelial cells. Inhibition of miR‐23b enhanced barrier‐associated properties, promoted repair‐related signaling, and reduced BBB leakage in experimental stroke models, supporting further ...
Victor Anthony Martinez, Rose E. Presby, Sara Nakanishi, Pallavi Gaur, Ugur Akcan, Johannes Daugaard Krog, Iben Daugaard Krog, Lipi Das, David S. Johnson, Danny Jamoul, Douglas Jury, Brian Lawson, Jacob Körbelin, Lewis M. Brown, Vilas Menon, Dritan Agalliu, Irene Munk Pedersen   +16 more
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Uso de la morfometría de las mandíbulas de cefalópodos en estudios de contenido estomacal Use of morphometry of cephalopod beaks in stomach content studie

Latin American Journal of Aquatic Research, 2011
La sistemática y taxonomía de cefalópodos del mar de Chile, sigue siendo escasa e incompleta. Muchas especies, raramente son capturadas por métodos convencionales, y regularmente son colectadas de estómagos de depredadores.
Marco Antonio Vega
doaj  

Phase Diagrams and Piezoelectric Properties of Wurtzite Al1−x−yScxGdyN Heterostructural Alloys

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates ferroelectricity and piezoelectric properties improvement of quaternary wurtzite Al1−x−yScxGdyN${\rm Al}_{1-x-y}{\rm Sc}_x{\rm Gd}_y{\rm N}$ films, guided by density functional theory calculations. Wurtzite Al1−x−yScxGdyN${\rm Al}_{1-x-y}{\rm Sc}_x{\rm Gd}_y{\rm N}$ films have a high optical bandgap, enhanced piezoelectric ...
Julia L. Martin, Cheng‐Wei Lee, Nate S.P. Bernstein, Thi Nguyen, Ande Bryan, Eli Cooper, John S. Mangum, Sage R. Bauers, Andriy Zakutayev, Keisuke Yazawa, Prashun Gorai, Rebecca W. Smaha   +11 more
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Auto‐Downregulation of the Florigen FT Production Prevents Precocious Flowering in Plants

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study shows that the leaf vein‐expressed FD complexes with the florigen FT to bind DNA motifs in FT promoter, which antagonizes CONSTANS‐mediated FT activation to feedback down‐regulate FT expression. This prevents an excessive induction of FT expression by inductive photoperiods, thereby precluding precocious transition to flowering in ...
Shu Tian, Xiao Luo, Bowen Cui, Yuehui He
wiley   +1 more source