Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
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The interplay between hydraulic capacitance and stomatal regulation strategy affects soil-plant hydraulics and transpiration. [PDF]
New PhytolMartinetti S +3 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska +2 more
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Arbitrarily Large Area Graphene Suspension with Ultralow Standoff for Varying Capacitance Applications. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel)Amin TB +5 more
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Advances in Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers for Intelligent Robotics and Electronics
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) integrate molecular anisotropy with electrical functionality to enable programmable actuation and reconfigurable electronics. This review classifies eLCEs into robotic actuators and adaptive electronics, summarizes key actuation mechanisms, and highlights fabrication strategies that bridge materials to ...
Kavita Ramesh Rathod +14 more
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Data-Driven Material Selection for Flexible Wearable Sensors Under Environmental Coupling Conditions. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Lu Y, Lu Y, Kim M, Zhang H.
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Advanced Science, EarlyView.Nuclear metabolism oscillates during cell cycle progression. Quantitative chromatome proteomics and imaging reveal phase‐specific dynamics of PIP5K1A and nuclear PIP2, linking phosphatidylinositol metabolism to histone methylation. This work identifies nuclear lipid metabolism as a previously unrecognized regulatory axis coordinating chromatin ...
Antoni Gañez‐Zapater +13 more
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Monitoring Adhesive Joint Integrity Degradation Under Tensile and Fatigue Loading in Aluminum and CFRP by Electrical Impedance. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Huang SH, Shin CS.
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Paternal Circadian Disruption Impairs Offspring Cognition via Sperm microRNAs
Advanced Science, EarlyView.Paternal circadian disruption remodels the sperm small RNA payload, elevating miR‐92a‐3p/miR‐25‐3p levels and perturbing early embryonic gene regulatory programs. Microinjection experiments and single‐embryo transcriptomics reveal sex‐specific developmental vulnerabilities, ultimately impairing offspring hippocampal synaptic plasticity and cognition ...
Kexin Zou +22 more
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Advances in Calibration Methods for FDR-Based Capacitive Soil Moisture Sensors. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Xu Y +9 more
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