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Boosting capacitive blue-energy and desalination devices with waste heat [PDF]

, 2014
We show that sustainably harvesting "blue" energy from the spontaneous mixing process of fresh and salty water can be boosted by varying the water temperature during a capacitive mixing process.
Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Härtel, Andreas, Janssen, Mathijs, Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Van Roij, René   +4 more
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From Food to Power: Hydrogel Thermoelectrics for Ingestible Electronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We introduce a fully edible thermoelectric–electrochromic platform that harvests heat from food and converts it into a visible color change. N‐type and p‐type hydrogel thermoelectric generators connected in series power anthocyanin‐based electrochromic displays, demonstrating the feasibility of safe, biodegradable, ingestible systems for on‐food ...
Antonia Georgopoulou, Bokeon Kwak, Dario Floreano, Esther Amstad   +3 more
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Monodisperse elastic shells: a 3D study of jammed granular matter and microencapsulation [PDF]

, 2014
This thesis focusses on two, admittedly rather different, applications of spherical elastic shells. First in the field of microencapsulation as a smart container to encapsulate and release functional materials.
Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Jose, J., Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics   +2 more
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Pushing the glass transition towards random close packing using self-propelled hard [PDF]

, 2013
Although the concept of random close packing with an almost universal packing fraction of approximately 0.64 for hard spheres was introduced more than half a century ago, there are still ongoing debates.
Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Dijkstra, M., Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Ni, R., Cohen Stuart, M.A.   +4 more
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Room‐Temperature Synthesis of Strongly Confined Lead Halide Perovskite Quantum Dots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
CsPbX3${\rm CsPbX}_3$ lead halide perovskite quantum dots (QDs) are synthesized in a room‐temperature, five‐minute synthesis, yielding size‐controlled QDs with bright, tunable emission governed by reaction conditions and halide composition. A strongly binding ligand, OD‐PEA, ensures months‐long stability under ambient conditions and facilitates their ...
Anna Abfalterer, Yuzhen J. Zhou, Roshini Jayabalan, Julian Holzinger, Lukas M. Rescher, Rik Hooijer, Aladin Ullrich, Nina A. Henke, Immanuel Plangger, Erkan Aydin, Bert Nickel, Anne K. Schütz, Wolfgang Brütting, Alexander S. Urban   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Small asymmetric Brownian objects self-align in nanofluidic channels [PDF]

, 2019
Although the self-alignment of asymmetric macro-sized objects of a few tens of microns in size have been studied extensively in experiments and theory, access to much smaller length scales is still hindered by technical challenges.
Fiorucci, Giulia (author), Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Padding, J.T., Padding, J.T. (author), Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Dijkstra, Marjolein (author), Padding, Johan T., Dijkstra, Marjolein, Fiorucci, Giulia   +8 more
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Embedded Ferroelectric Nanoclusters Can Drive Polarization Reversal in a Non‐Ferroelectric Polar Film via the Proximity Effect

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric nanoclusters create local internal fields in a normally non‐switchable polar film because of polarization mismatch at their interfaces. That field opposes polarization in the regions with larger polarization and reinforces polarization in the regions with smaller polarization.
Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin, Long‐Qing Chen, Dean R. Evans, Venkatraman Gopalan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Using Light Scattering to Track, Characterize and Manipulate Colloids [PDF]

, 2011
A new technique is developed to analyze in-line Digital Holographic Microscopy images, making it possible to characterize, and track colloidal particles in three dimensions at unprecedented accuracy.
Sub Soft Condensed Matter, van Oostrum, P.D.J., Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics   +2 more
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Fabrication and characterization of emulsions with pH responsive switchable behavior [PDF]

, 2013
We report the fabrication of pH responsive switchableemulsions that quickly destabilise at acidic pH, but switch back to the stable state when the pH is neutralized. The pH triggered flocculation is further used to influence the assembly of droplets into
Patel, AshokUGent8020013201459752482365307F7C4CBE-0C13-11E2-AA3C-3DCD10BDE39D, Sub Soft Condensed Matter, Velikov, Krasimir P, Drost, Ellen, Velikov, Krassimir P., Patel, Ashok, Soft Condensed Matter and Biophysics, Patel, Ashok R., Seijen Ten Hoorn, Jack   +8 more
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Bio‐Inspired Biopolymeric Implantable Platform for Localized and Sustained Drug Delivery in Solid Tumor Treatment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A bio‐inspired biopolymeric implantable drug delivery platform enables localized and sustained release of 7‐ethyl‐10‐hydroxycamptothecin (SN‐38) in solid tumor treatment. The three‐dimensional (3D) structured crosslinked‐chitosan implants are fabricated via 3D‐printed molds and provide drug release over 3 months, significantly inhibiting tumor growth ...
Mercedes Lozano‐Garcia, Constantine Vogiatzis, Alejandra Planells‐Devesa, Emre Dikici, Caroline Vieira Maluf, Vasudev Vivekanand Nayak, Paulo G. Coelho, Lukasz Witek, Alicia Bilbao, Daniel Bilbao, Prasoon Mohan, Sapna Deo, Sylvia Daunert   +12 more
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