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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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Environmental Research Letters, 2020 Research on social vulnerability and adaptation to climate change assumes that increasing amounts of adaptive capacity increase the likelihood of actions to adapt to climate change.
Colette Mortreux +2 more
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Disaster response and climate change in the Pacific [PDF]
, 2013 Disasters, and therefore disaster response, in the Pacific are expected to be affected by climate change. This research addressed this issue, and focused on the immediate humanitarian needs following a disaster, drawing upon adaptive capacity as a ...
Anna Gero +2 more
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What influences the adaptive capacity of coastal critical infrastructure providers?
, 2023 Maintaining critical infrastructure functionality in the face of climate change through adaptation is a pressing issue for organisations responsible for critical infrastructure - especially in coastal areas.
Carmen Elrick-Barr +7 more
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke +3 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Unlocking thermomagnetic low‐grade waste heat recovery. This perspective provides a comprehensive roadmap for the development of thermomagnetic materials and systems. By addressing key engineering challenges across multiple scales, it bridges the gap between micro‐power IoT devices and large‐scale industrial applications. ABSTRACT Nearly half of global
A. Waske +13 more
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Frontiers in ClimateIntroductionNut farming in the island regions of Bangladesh faces considerable challenges due to climate change. This research investigates the climate change perceptions and adaptive capacity of strategies of male and female groundnut farmers in island ...
Ratna Begum +2 more
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Creating a climate for food security: the business, people & landscapes in food production [PDF]
, 2013 Balancing human and environmental needs is urgent where food security and sustainability are under pressure from population increases and changing climates.
Nazrul Islam +2 more
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Molecular Bridges for 2D Nanomaterials
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Molecular cross‐linking provides a versatile strategy to engineer interfaces in 2D materials. By tuning the linker backbone, binding mode, and interflake spacing, molecular bridges can regulate charge transport, mechanical integrity, chemical functionality, and processing.
Yudhajit Bhattacharjee +3 more
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Third-generation adaptive capacity assessment for climate-resilient development
, 2022 Human development seeks to enlarge freedoms by building capacity and is integral to achieving sustainable development, particularly in the era of the Anthropocene. However, the efficiency and effectiveness of capacity building is limited.
Carmen E. Elrick-Barr +8 more
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