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Remorphable Architectures: Reprogramming Global Bistability through Locally Bistable Metamaterials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Local bistable reconfiguration in mechanical metamaterials is leveraged in globally bistable architectures to enable in situ reprogrammable transition pathways through state flip of individual building blocks. The local‐to‐global correspondence of instabilities empowers soft robotic systems with on‐demand morphing traits, as well as aerospace ...
Lei Wu, Shujia Chen, Ali Elias Acha, Damiano Pasini   +3 more
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Design Strategies and Roles of Hydrogels for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Harvesting from Natural and Biological Environments

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines hydrogel‐based technologies driven by environmental stimuli and emphasizes their unique contributions to energy conversion. It provides insights into design strategies and recent advancements in functional hydrogels, highlighting opportunities and challenges in this field.
Wanheng Lu, Wei Li Ong, Xinglong Pan, Zhiwei Li, Guo Tian, Ghim Wei Ho   +5 more
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Manipulating Individual Topological Solitons and Bisolitons in an Electronic System

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
While localized topological modes in quantum materials promise loss‐less delivery of classical and quantum information, manipulating them individually has been challenging. This work succeeded in manipulating topological solitons formed along atomic wires on silicon surfaces with high reproducibility in various ways, including translating, transforming
Taehwan Im, Jae Whan Park, Han Woong Yeom   +2 more
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Physical Intelligence in Small‐Scale Robots and Machines

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Physical intelligence” (PI) empowers biological organisms and artificial machines, especially at the small scales, to perceive, adapt, and even reshape their complex, dynamic, and unstructured operation environments. This review summarizes recent milestones and future directions of PI in small‐scale robots and machines.
Huyue Chen, Metin Sitti
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Spatiotemporal Reservoir Computing with a Reconfigurable Multifunctional Memristor Array

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a hardware physical reservoir computing system using a tri‐modal memristive crossbar array. Stochastic masking, bistable nonlinear activation, and analog readout enable fully in‐memory spatiotemporal processing. Demonstrations on cellular automata, Lorenz prediction, ADHD EEG classification, and chaotic KS modeling highlight its ...
Sungho Kim, Dong Hoon Shin, Wonho Choi, Sunwoo Cheong, Sung Keun Shim, Soo Hyung Lee, Janguk Han, Yoon Ho Jang, Kunhee Son, Néstor Ghenzi, Cheol Seong Hwang   +10 more
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Transistor‐Level Activation Functions via Two‐Gate Designs: From Analog Sigmoid and Gaussian Control to Real‐Time Hardware Demonstrations

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Screen gate‐based transistors are presented, enabling tunable analog sigmoid and Gaussian activations. The SA‐transistor improves MRI classification accuracy, while the GA‐transistor supports precise Gaussian kernel tuning for forecasting. Both functions are implemented in a single device, offering compact, energy‐efficient analog AI processing ...
Junhyung Cho, Youngmin Han, Won Woo Lee, Youngwoo Yoo, Kannan Udaya Mohanan, Chang‐Hyun Kim, Junhwan Choi, Young‐Joon Kim, Wonjun Shin, Hocheon Yoo   +9 more
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Review of Thin Lithium Metal Battery Anode Fabrication – Microstructure – Electrochemistry Relations

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Thin, lightweight lithium‐metal anodes are pivotal for practical high‐energy batteries. This review surveys processing routes that convert diverse Li precursors, e.g., ingots, melts, solutions, and vapor, into Li‐rich foils with controlled thickness, areal density, and tailored functionality.
Yuhang Hu, Zidong Chen, Yixian Wang, Haorui Hou, Bingcheng Chen, David Mitlin, Wei Liu   +6 more
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Challenges of II‐VI and III‐V Blue Quantum Dot Light‐Emitting Diodes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Blue‐emitting electroluminescent quantum dot light‐emitting diodes (QD‐LEDs) face critical challenges that limit their practical application, including short operational lifetimes, low color purity, broad spectral linewidths, and unpredictable transient effects like blinking and positive aging.
Shaun Tan, Jonah R. Horowitz, Oliver J. Tye, Moungi G. Bawendi   +3 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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Acidity‐Mediated Metal Oxide Heterointerfaces: Roles of Substrates and Surface Modification

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The role of local space charge, not only at heterointerfaces, but also at grain boundaries, influenced by surface acidity modulation is elucidated through model platforms composed of Pr‐doped ceria (mixed ionic‐electronic conducting oxide) nanowire arrays.
Gyu Rac Lee, Thomas Defferriere, Jinwook Kim, Han Gil Seo, Yeon Sik Jung, Harry L. Tuller   +5 more
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