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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
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Nitrogen and phosphorus addition affects community assembly and network structure of phyllosphere and rhizosphere microbiomes in the Inner Mongolia steppe

Ecological Processes
Background Elucidating how plant-associated microbiome structure responds to nitrogen (N) and phosphorus (P) addition is crucial for predicting the impacts of anthropogenic disturbances on ecosystem functioning under global climate change scenarios ...
Zixuan Guo, Hui Yao, Jie Li, Cong Wang, Qingyi Yu, Jing Cai, Hongyi Wang, Liangchao Jiang, Jia Guo, Cheng Gao, Xingguo Han, Liangdong Guo, Xingchun Li   +12 more
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Textile Actuation Based on In‐Air Actuating Polypyrrole‐Based Tape Yarns for Wearable Soft Robotics: Toward On‐Body Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work reports on the actuation behavior of CP‐based polypyrrole/PVdF TYs soaked in electrolyte/ionic liquids and woven actuators where such TYs are integrated. These studies are important toward the creation of on‐body applications such as wearable soft robotics, where textiles offer many advantages such as increased force, integrated electrical ...
Carin Backe, Jose G. Martinez, Li Guo, Edwin W. H. Jager, Nils‐Krister Persson   +4 more
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Bioinspired Soft‐Skeleton Robotics With Cooperative Shape Transformation and Stiffness Adaptation

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A bioinspired soft‐skeleton robot that integrates variable‐stiffness chain skeletons into a soft textile skin is developed. The chain skeletons are highly flexible initially but can stiffen upon pneumatic actuation, enabling large deformation and enhanced load‐bearing capacity.
Mengyuan Niu, Xiaorui Hu, Chenmin Yuan, Haoyun Li, Xuzhong Su, Fengxin Sun   +5 more
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Continuous cropping drives assembly process of soil microbial community to alter keystone taxa causing challenges

BMC Microbiology
Background Healthy soil is crucial for maintaining the sustainability of soil ecosystem services and ensuring food security. The soil microbiome serves as a key indicator of soil health.
Fangfang Zhou, Yihong Pan, Jun Zhan, Xiaoting Li, Shunping Yu, Li Tang   +5 more
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Soil Salinity Drives the Arbuscular Mycorrhizal Fungal Generalists and Specialists Subcommunity Assembly in Extremely Dryland Forest in China

Microorganisms
AM fungi play a pivotal role in regulating ecosystem functioning and processes. However, the assembly of soil AM fungal communities and its drivers across Populus euphratica forests in extremely arid regions remain largely unclear.
Mengjun Qu, Jianming Wang, Yin Wang, Xuge Zou, Xun Lei, Meiwen Luo, Wenkai Wang, Jingwen Li   +7 more
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Identifying models of trait‐mediated community assembly using random forests and approximate Bayesian computation

Ecology and Evolution, 2019
Ecologists often use dispersion metrics and statistical hypothesis testing to infer processes of community formation such as environmental filtering, competitive exclusion, and neutral species assembly.
Megan Ruffley, Katie Peterson, Bob Week, David C. Tank, Luke J. Harmon   +4 more
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Intelligent Maintenance Review for Robots: Multimodal Information, Deep Diagnosis and Embodied Artificial Intelligence

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review maps the methods to monitor robots’ health by fusing vibration, sound, control signals, vision, force, and oil information with artificial intelligence. It identifies deep learning, transfer learning, digital twins, and physics‐informed models as key methodological pathways enabling earlier diagnosis, safer human–robot collaboration, and ...
Yuting Qiao, Hongbo Wang, Naipeng Li, Shuo Wang, Yaguo Lei, Tonghai Wu, Junyi Cao   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biogeographic Patterns and Community Assembly Processes of Bacterioplankton and Potential Pathogens in Subtropical Estuaries in China. [PDF]

Microbiol Spectr, 2023
Chen W, Sang S, Shao L, Li Y, Li T, Gan L, Liu L, Wang D, Zhou L.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source