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Unusual Swelling Behavior of Hydrogels Modified with Spiropyran as Appendage or Crosslinker

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Not so innocent after all—spiropyran crosslinkers in methylenebisacrylamide‐crosslinked poly(acrylamide‐co‐acrylic acid) hydrogels increase crosslinking density, but also, counterintuitively, increase swelling. Charge complexation, cooperative chemo‐mechanical effects, and aggregation may explain these observations.
Michael M. Lerch, Ankita Shastri, Thomas B. H. Schroeder, Amos Meeks, Shucong Li, Anna V. Shneidman, Michael Aizenberg, Joanna Aizenberg   +7 more
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Roles in construction projects: analysis and terminology [PDF]

, 2001
Standard form contracts are typically developed through a negotiated consensus, unless they are proffered by one specific interest group. Previously published plans of work and other descriptions of the processes in construction projects tend to focus on
Hughes, Will, Joint Contracts Tribunal, Murdoch, John Robert   +2 more
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Tuning the Electronic Structure and Spin State of Fe─N─C Catalysts Using an Axial Oxygen Ligand and Fe Clusters for High‐Efficiency Rechargeable Zinc–Air Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A FeN4─O/Clu@NC‐0.1Ac catalyst containing atomically‐dispersed FeN4─O sites (medium‐spin Fe2+) and Fe clusters delivered a half‐wave potential of 0.89 V for ORR and an overpotential of 330 mV at 10 mA cm−2 for OER in 0.1 m KOH. When the catalyst was used in a rechargeable Zn–air battery, a power density of 284.5 mW cm−2 was achieved with excellent ...
Yongfang Zhou, Yu Mao, Mengyao Chang, Ziyun Wang, Wenke Xie, Cuizhu Ye, Shanghai Wei, Lars Thomsen, Geoffrey I. N. Waterhouse   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Generating Cell Surface Nucleated Hydrogels with an Artificial Membrane‐Binding Transglutaminase

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cell‐based therapies require advanced strategies to enhance cell delivery and bioactivity. Cell membrane engineering offers an avenue to impart new functions to delivered cells to boost their viability and function. Here, an artificial membrane‐binding transglutaminase is generated and biophysically characterized.
Rosalia Cuahtecontzi Delint, Tao Li, Kapil D. Patel, Will H. Zhang, Ben M. Carter, Graham J. Day, Adam W. Perriman   +6 more
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Multilayer Soft Photonic Arrays Inspired by Cephalopod Skin for High‐Density, Independent, and Multimodal Actuation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A vertically stacked, DEA‐driven photonic array inspired by cephalopod skin, featuring highly crystalline colloidal crystal gels with vivid color, low FWHM and scalability is presented. The multilayer design removes lateral pixel interference, achieving near‐100% fill factor with fully independent RGB actuation.
Maga Kim, Imbo Kong, Do Yoon Kim, Jaeyoung Choi, Seong‐Yu Choi, Yun Hyeok Lee, Sihwan Lee, Byung Ik Park, Gimin Sung, In‐Suk Choi, Wook Sung Kim, Jeong‐Yun Sun   +11 more
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Controlled Movement of Soft Actuators using Multi‐Responsive Microgel Arrays and Microcirculatory Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Microscale hydrogels (microgels) feature improved mass transport characteristics supportive of fast actuation and chemical tunability amenable to programmed stimuli response. A unique soft actuator architecture is realized by encapsulating microgels in soft microcirculatory systems which enable the convenient delivery of liquid stimuli for powering and
Nengjian Huang, Brennan P. Watts, Stephen A. Morin   +2 more
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Critical Factors Influencing Adoption of Blockchain-Enabled Smart Contracts in Construction Projects

Journal of construction engineering and management, 2023
E. Ameyaw, D. J. Edwards, B. Kumar, N. Thurairajah, D. Owusu-Manu, Goodenough D. Oppong   +5 more
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Adaptive 4D‐Printed Vascular Stents With Low‐Temperature‐Activated and Intelligent Deployment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Microarchitected coronary artery stents were fabricated using a polycaprolactone (PCL)‐based shape memory polymer (SMP) composite via projection micro‐stereolithography (PµSL) 4D printing. By incorporating diethyl phthalate (DEP) as a plasticizer, the thermal transition temperature (Ttran) was modulated to about 37°C, enabling rapid and autonomous ...
Yannan Li, Yifan Pan, Chikahiro Imashiro, Chaolun Xu, Jianxian He, Jingao Xu, Kewei Song, Ze Zhang, Chen Gao, Junbo Jiang, Runhuai Yang, Kayo Hirose, Shinjiro Umezu   +12 more
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Sub-Contractors’ readiness on the Malaysian security of payment legislation in construction industry [PDF]

In Malaysia, subcontractors are definitely benefited from payment provisions in the proposed Construction Industry Payment and Adjudication Act (CIPA Act).
Adnan, Hamimah, Mohammad, Mohammad Fadhil, Supardi, Azizan   +2 more
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Spatially Tailorable Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Alignment During Digital Light Process 3D Printing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Here, we report the fabrication of 3D printable liquid crystalline elastomer (LCE) structures with spatially tailorable alignment domains within the same layer. This work addresses the long‐standing challenge of preparing complex 3D LCE architectures with patterned functional domains to achieve nonlinear deformations. Fabrication of multi‐domains in 3D
Adam Bischoff, Saman Jamshididana, Zach Miller, Kassandra Hernandez, Nicolas Gonsalves, Andre Olarra, Elliot Yoo, Jeremy A. Herman, Devin J. Roach   +8 more
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