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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
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Advanced Photothermal Spectroscopy for Trace PFAS Detection

ECS Sensors Plus
The widespread industrial and consumer use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) has led to their persistent presence in the environment, driven by their robust carbon-fluorine bonds and bioaccumulative properties.
Yaoli Zhao, N. K. Jannabhatla, Thomas Thundat   +2 more
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Freestanding PZT Films for Integrated Wearable Sensing and Intelligent Acoustic Recognition

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A freestanding epitaxial PZT/LaNiO3/Pt heterostructure is achieved via water‐assisted delamination from mica, effectively eliminating substrate‐induced clamping and releasing intrinsic ferroelectricity. The released film exhibits substantially enhanced remanent polarization and piezoelectric response, delivering excellent mechanical flexibility and ...
Hailong Pan, Zhichao Xu, Rongxiao Liu, Jianmei Pei, Changhong Yang, Shifeng Huang, Michael Wübbenhorst   +6 more
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A Microfluidic Paper-Based Lateral Flow Device for Quantitative ELISA

Micro
This study presents an innovative lateral flow microfluidic paper-based analytical device (μPAD) designed for conducting quantitative paper-based enzyme-linked immunosorbent assays (p-ELISA), seamlessly executing conventional ELISA steps in a paper-based
Ashutosh Kumar, Cameron Hahn, Stephen Herchen, Alex Soucy, Ethan Carpio, Sophia Harper, Nassim Rahmani, Constantine Anagnostopoulos, Mohammad Faghri   +8 more
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Interface Rectification via Roll‐to‐Roll Dual‐Confinement Nanocoatings for High‐Temperature Polymer Capacitors

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Dual confinement in self‐assembled nanocoatings regulates polymer dynamics and hot‐carrier transport, enabling an interface‐rectification strategy for high‐temperature polymer capacitive energy storage. ABSTRACT Polymer film capacitors are indispensable for energy storage and power conversion, yet their energy density and efficiency deteriorate rapidly
Ning Guo, Marina Dabaghian, Jierui Zhou, Josh N. Bodin, Chong Xiang, Fei Wang, Antigoni Konstantinou, Dingxin Wei, Yifei Wang, Chao Wu, Riccardo Casalini, Bryan Huey, Priya Vashishta, Luyi Sun, Yang Cao   +14 more
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BESO Topology Optimization Driven by an ABAQUS-MATLAB Cooperative Framework with Engineering Applications

Applied Sciences
The Bi-directional Evolutionary Structural Optimization (BESO) method, owing to its algorithmic simplicity and strong scalability, has emerged as one of the most prevalent topology optimization methodologies in current research and industrial ...
Dong Sun, Xudong Yang, Hui Liu, Hai Yang
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A Multimodal Piezoelectric Vertical Sidewall Architecture for Scalable In‐Plane NEMS Resonators

Advanced Electronic Materials, EarlyView.
A vertical in‐plane piezoelectric resonator design shifts frequency tuning from film thickness to lithographic lateral definition, facilitating monolithic multiband integration. Initially validated via microscale length‐extensional resonators, this cavities‐first fabrication approach scales to the nanoscale for high‐frequency operation.
Artem Gabrelian, Kristina Bespalova, Glenn Ross, Mervi Paulasto‐Kröckel   +3 more
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Global and Local Approaches Applied to Mode I Fracture Toughness Measurement of Bi-Material Bonded Joints

Applied Sciences
Nowadays, the application of different materials is quite common to optimise the performance of structural components. In this context, bonding between metals and composites becomes a frequent strategy.
Raul D. F. Moreira, Marcelo F. S. F. de Moura, Filipe G. A. Silva   +2 more
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Crease‐Encoded Soft Origami Chambers: A Unified Design‐to‐Fabrication Framework for Low‐Pressure Pneumatic Joints

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Origami turns a single silicone chamber into three different soft fluidic actuators. Crease angles alone decide whether it elongates, bends, or twists, and the fully folded chambers are cast monolithically in one day. Below 15 kPa, they reach 268% axial stretch, 72° bending, and 55° twist—no strain‐limiting layers, no rigid reinforcements, no vacuum ...
Alexia Le Gall, Mattia Franchi de’ Cavalieri, Gastone Ciuti, Arianna Menciassi, Matteo Cianchetti   +4 more
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Spin Transport in Thin Copper Channels Fabricated via Thermal Scanning Probe Lithography

Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
Thermal scanning probe lithography (t‐SPL) is demonstrated as an alternative to electron‐beam lithography for fabricating all‐metallic non‐local spin valves with ∼100 nm features. Devices exhibit strong spin signals and clean magnetic switching, demonstrating the viability of t‐SPL for nanoscale spintronics.
A. J. Wright, D. Bromley, O. J. Barker, S. B. Tekin, I. Z. Mitrovic, C. Leighton, L. O'Brien   +6 more
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