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Innovative boron nitride-doped propellants

Defence Technology, 2016
The U.S. military has a need for more powerful propellants with balanced/stoichiometric amounts of fuel and oxidants. However, balanced and more powerful propellants lead to accelerated gun barrel erosion and markedly shortened useful barrel life.
Thelma Manning, Richard Field, Kenneth Klingaman, Michael Fair, John Bolognini, Robin Crownover, Carlton P. Adam, Viral Panchal, Eugene Rozumov, Henry Grau, Paul Matter, Michael Beachy, Christopher Holt, Samuel Sopok   +13 more
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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Mechanisms of Degradation in Li‐Ion Batteries Under Low Temperature Exposures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Low‐temperature exposures, or freeze‐thaw cycles, are observed to significantly accelerate the degradation of Li‐ion batteries. A combination of electrolyte phase separation and mechanochemical stress leads to reversible and irreversible performance losses.
Mihir Ojha, Shervin Alaei, Jayanth Ramamurthy, Luke P. Lounsbury, Md Mahdi Ul Ishtiaque, Stuart Leland, Niraj P. Atale, Sourav Das, Siddhartha Pathak, Pranav Shrotriya, Steve W. Martin, Todd A. Kingston, Cary L. Pint   +12 more
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Interaction‐Driven Assembly Pathways in Heterogeneous Active Microrobotic Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Peanut‐ and cube‐shaped light‐powered microrobots exhibit distinct magnetic and photocatalytic responses that determine their heterogeneous self‐assembly. In the dark, magnetic dipole interactions drive colloidal copolymerization with cubes acting as nucleation centers, whereas under light irradiation, phoretic interactions compete with magnetic ...
Domenico Calabrò, Roshan Velluvakandy, Martin Pumera, Francesco Priolo, Salvo Mirabella, Mario Urso   +5 more
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Studies on Measurement of Yield Stress of Propellant Suspensions Using Forced Falling Ball and Slump Test

Applied Rheology, 2017
Visco-plasticity characterized by yield stress is an important rheological property of composite propellant suspensions. The yield stress along with viscosity affects various unit operations in propellant processing as well as the quality of final ...
Dombe Ganesh, Yadav N. K., Lagade R.M., Bhongale Chetan, Mehilal   +4 more
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Molecular Rotors: From Newtonian Fluids to Functional Materials as Viscosity and Temperature Sensing Tools

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Molecular rotors are fluorescent molecules that are sensitive to viscosity and temperature variations in the environment. They exhibit a direct correlation between fluorescence and viscosity within Newtonian fluids. However, this correlation becomes less straightforward in complex systems.
Flavia Di Scala, Alice Briole, Valerii Myndrul, Thomas J. Cleij, Hanne Diliën, Bérengère Abou, Bart van Grinsven   +6 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
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2D Co‐Mo‐Hydroxide‐Based Multifunctional Material for the Development of H2‐Based Clean Energy Technologies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
2D α‐Co(OH)2 interleaved with Mo species displays an appealing dual functionality for the production and use of green hydrogen.Mo incorporation greatly benefits the electrochemical behaviour in Oxygen Evolution Reaction for H2 production, while the magnetocaloric response at liquid H2 temperature paves the way for alternative cryogenic refrigerants ...
Daniel Muñoz‐Gil, Celia Castillo‐Blas, Dawid Krystian Feler, Isabel Gómez‐Recio, Miguel Tinoco, Ana Querejeta‐Fernández, Rodrigo González‐Prieto, Felipe Gándara, Romualdo Santos Silva Jr, Pilar Ferrer, Carlos Prieto, Luc Lajaunie, José Luis Martinez‐Peña, María Luisa Ruiz‐González, José María González‐Calbet   +14 more
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Cu–Co–O nano-catalysts as a burn rate modifier for composite solid propellants

Defence Technology, 2016
Nano-catalysts containing copper–cobalt oxides (Cu–Co–O) have been synthesized by the citric acid (CA) complexing method. Copper (II) nitrate and Cobalt (II) nitrate were employed in different molar ratios as the starting reactants to prepare three types
D. Chaitanya Kumar Rao, Narendra Yadav, Puran Chandra Joshi   +2 more
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