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Sensorized Engineered Tissues with Built‐in Thermoregulation and Nutrient Supply
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work introduces a granular hydrogel‐based tissue engineering platform that includes a closed‐loop temperature control to maintain 37°C and sustainably releases nutrients, thereby enabling cells to retain a high viability even if stored at room temperature for up to 24 h.
Antonia Georgopoulou +5 more
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Bio-Inspired Design of Bi/Tridirectionally Anisotropic Sliding Superhydrophobic Titanium Alloy Surfaces. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel), 2020 Xu J, Hou Y, Lian Z, Yu Z, Wang Z, Yu H.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Optoelectronic synaptic devices based on solution‐processed molecular telluride GST‐225 phase‐change inks are demonstrated for three‐factor learning. A global optical signal broadcast through a silicon waveguide induces non‐volatile conductance updates exclusively in locally electrically flagged memristors.
Kevin Portner +14 more
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Journal of Materials Research and TechnologyBiological materials often possess remarkable properties and functionalities owing to their complex hierarchical and composite structures. Learning from nature can lead to revolutionary breakthroughs in materials science and innovative new technologies ...
Po-Yu Chen, Iwona Jasiuk
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Dynamic Bonds Enable Repair and Reprocessing of Glycol‐Modified PET
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Dynamic hindered urea bonds enable rapid healing in glycol‐modified PET‐based polyurethanes. Tuning the hindered‐amine content allows these polymers to balance mechanical integrity with fast repair, achieving complete scratch disappearance in 30 s at 130°C.
Chaninya Mak‐iad +3 more
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A hybrid bio-inspired sandwich structures for high strain rate energy absorption applications
Scientific ReportsDue to its advantages in terms of enhancing the performance of structures in the desired applications, the bio-inspired design approach has recently attracted the interest of researchers in a number of engineering disciplines.
Jaafar Ghanbari, Pezhman N. Panirani
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Mechanochromism of Glassy Polymers Enabled by a Loop‐Forming Supramolecular Mechanophore
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The supramolecular mechanophore LOOP is covalently introduced into glassy polymers, capable of reporting force‐induced pre‐failure damage and local fracture events in polymer glasses. Under different mechanical deformation modes, including grinding, tensile stretching, and scratching, LOOP probes irreversible events in polymer glasses through a ...
Linlin Deng +6 more
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Design of low density bio-inspired structures
, 2015 This study involves the development of novel methods to enhance structural efficiency in the development of high performance lightweight stiff metal mechanical components. Optimised designs are created from biologically-inspired templates, taking advantage of new additive manufacturing techniques which enable the realisation of more complex shapes. The
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Synthesis and characterization of light‐responsive donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA)‐coated chlorhexidine‐loaded silica nanoparticles. Such a controllable drug‐delivery system enables the release of the antimicrobial drug on demand and in consecutive cycles, thereby maintaining the concentration within the therapeutic window.
Michèle Clerc +9 more
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Chinese Journal of Mechanical EngineeringBiological load-bearing materials, like the nacre in shells, have a unique staggered structure that supports their superior mechanical properties. Engineers have been encouraged to imitate it to create load-bearing bio-inspired materials which have ...
Bo Dong, Yunfei Jia, Wei Wang
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