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Liquid-solid contact electrification when water droplets hit living plant leaves
Communications Materials, 2022 Contact electrification can generate useable charge on a variety of surfaces. Here, surface charge creation when a single water droplet hits various plant leaves is investigated, including the effect of droplet characteristics and whether the plant leaf ...
Serena Armiento +3 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Miniature Soft Robot With Magnetically Reprogrammable Surgical Functions
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Miniature soft robots have great prospects to revolutionize minimally invasive treatments. Here we present a miniature soft robot, which can be reprogrammed to perform five surgical functionalities with six‐degrees‐of‐freedom motions. This soft robot can prospectively make minimally invasive surgery considerably safer and painless, and enable ...
Chelsea Shan Xian Ng +4 more
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Contact electrification and the work of adhesion [PDF]
EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2013 5 pages, 2 ...
B. Persson +3 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.An Aloe‐pinspired droplet electricity generator (A‐DEG) overcomes the limited energy collection zone of conventional DEGs by guiding impact droplets through a channeling midrib and artificial cuticle. The channeling midrib induces uni‐directional droplet spreading, while the artificial cuticle on the midrib further reinforces this behavior through its ...
Gibeom Lee +8 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A transparent, deformable stevia–PVA hydrogel triboelectric nanogenerator delivers significantly enhanced mechanical strength and electrical output through biomimetic hydrogen‐bonded networks. Coupled with machine learning–assisted signal recognition, the self‐powered hydrogel enables accurate human‐motion sensing for intelligent wearable and IoT ...
Thien Trung Luu +5 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Stacked nanoflake assembly (SNA) membranes can oscillate autonomously, offering opportunities for soft actuation and energy harvesting. This work uncovers the physical mechanism behind the sustained oscillation of SNA membranes in gradient humidity and identifies three governing dimensionless parameters, enabling rational design for optimizing SNA ...
Zijing Zhang +5 more
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Advances in Magnesium‐Based Thermoelectrics: A Critical Review
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Magnesium‐based thermoelectric materials have emerged as promising candidates for low‐to‐mid‐temperature energy conversion due to their abundance, low cost, and competitive performance. This review summarizes recent advances in Mg3X2, MgAgSb, and Mg2X systems, covering transport mechanisms, fabrication strategies, stability challenges, and device ...
Li‐Min Zhang +5 more
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Review on charging model of sand particles due to collisions
Theoretical and Applied Mechanics Letters, 2020 : In this paper, the models describing the charge transfer between two sand particles due to collisions are reviewed. By comparing the experimental results and the calculated results by the models carried on an individual particle due to a single ...
Li Xie, Junjie Li, Yakui Liu
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Self‐standing, strong sulfonated covalent organic framework membranes with varied ionic‐group density are developed for osmotic energy conversion. Optimized charge‐governed nanochannels enable highly selective ion transport, delivering a power density of 24.53 W m−2 under seawater/freshwater salinity gradients.
Xi Ma +5 more
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