Increasing the midsole bending stiffness of shoes alters gastrocnemius medialis muscle function during running. [PDF]
Sci Rep, 2021 Cigoja S +4 more
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Optimal shoe bending stiffness selection for human running economy
, 2015 Previous researches suggested that shoe with high bending stiffness help runner reduce metabolic cost. However, there have not been clear explanations for underlying mechanisms.
박수경, 오건영
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Nonlocal Metaspire: A Scalable Elastic Material Platform With Decoupled Mechanical Modes
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Nonlocal Metaspire introduces sequential rotation to realize wider scalability in implementing complex nonlocal couplings in elastic metamaterials while suppressing unintended mode coupling. Numerical results clarify the underlying wave motions, demonstrate mode‐decoupled roton and maxon formation, and support a straightforward extension to higher ...
Seung Han Kim +3 more
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Can changes in midsole bending stiffness of shoes affect the onset of joint work redistribution during a prolonged run? [PDF]
J Sport Health Sci, 2022 Cigoja S, Fletcher JR, Nigg BM.
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A soft–hard tri‐layer composite electrolyte that couples fast Li+ transport with reinforced interfacial stability to enable high‐conductivity, mechanically robust, dendrite‐free lithium‐metal batteries. ABSTRACT The development of solid polymer electrolytes is central to safe, high‐energy lithium‐metal batteries (LMBs); however, persistent challenges ...
Fazal Ur Rehman +9 more
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A Survey of Interlayer Interaction Models for Graphene and Other 2D Materials
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Van der Waals interactions arising from electronic polarization at atomically close interfaces generate corrugated interlayer energy landscapes that govern normal and tangential tractions. This review presents an overview of quantum, atomistic, analytical, and continuum modeling approaches, highlighting their roles across length scales in capturing ...
Gourav Yadav +2 more
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Xenes for Sustainable Energy: A Roadmap From First‐Principles Design to Practical Deployment
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Emerging 2D Xenes are advancing from theoretical predictions toward practical energy‐storage and conversion technologies through the integration of first‐principles modelling, experimental synthesis, electrochemical validation, and AI‐assisted materials design, enabling accelerated discovery of high‐performance and sustainable electrochemical systems ...
Onur Karaman, Ceren Karaman
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Finite element analysis-based optimization of longitudinal bending stiffness and rearfoot stability in carbon-plated running shoes. [PDF]
Front Bioeng BiotechnolKim S +6 more
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Optimal running occurs around natural bending stiffness of metatarsophalangeal joint
, 2015 Increase of bending stiffness of shoe has been known to improve the running performance and the running economy [1]. However, the underlying mechanism hasn’t been clearly known, partially due to separate studies of examining joint kinetics or metabolic ...
Park, Su Kyung, Oh, Keon Young
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Two‐Way Shape Memory Polymer Composite Gripper for Adaptive Robotic Applications
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A two‐way shape memory polymer (SMP) composite is developed with intrinsic shape‐changing capability driven solely by temperature, eliminating external actuation loads. Embedding the SMP in a low‐stiffness elastomeric matrix enabled reversible transformations during heating and cooling cycles.
Aamna Hameed, Kamran Ahmed Khan
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