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Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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High-Efficiency and Durable Flame Retardant Cotton Fabric with Good Physical and Mechanical Properties by Layer-by-Layer Assembly Polyethylenimine/Phytic Acid Coating

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
In this study, intumescent flame retardant coating of polyethylenimine/phytic acid (PEI/PA) with gradient structure was constructed on cotton fabric through a facile layer-by-layer (LBL) assembly method. The LOI value of coated cotton fabric reached over
Xinhua Liu, Hailong Liu, Yinchun Fang
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
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Upcycling Keratin‐Based Textile Waste Into High‐Performance Hybrid Fibers Via Tuning the Interfacial Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Keratin recovered from animal‐hair textile waste is fractionated and blended with cellulose to produce continuously spun hybrid fibers. Selecting the high‐molecular‐weight keratin fraction enables 30 wt.% keratin incorporation while maintaining high strength in dry and wet states.
Mian Zhai, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Inge Schlapp‐Hackl, Teemu Välisalmi, Markus Linder, Michael Hummel, Wenwen Fang   +6 more
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Development of self‐cleaning and antibacterial properties on cotton fabric using silver nanoparticles and PFOTS

SPE Polymers
The demand for superhydrophobic fabric with self‐cleaning and antibacterial features as potential practical applications has been rising steadily with the passage of time.
Mahnoor Khan, Muhammad Adnan Saeed, Sultan Ullah, Md. Reazuddin Repon, Arnob Dhar Pranta, Nurzod Yunusov, Md Monir Hossain   +6 more
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Effect of Sustainable Cotton Fibers on Denim Fabric Selected Properties

Journal of Natural Fibers, 2022
Natural resources are getting scarcer by the day as the world’s population grows. As a result, it is high time to repurpose textiles in order to save the environment and reduce waste.
Serin Mezarcıöz, Mutlu Toksöz, Md Emdad Sarker   +2 more
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Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
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A Systematic Review on the Improvement of Thermoregulating Properties of Cotton Fabrics with Nanocapsules of Phase Change Materials [PDF]

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Introduction: Workers who work in warm situations need clothes with better thermal regulation. Nowadays, improving the thermal regulation properties of cotton fabric by treating it with phase change materials (PCMs) has been considered.
Elnaz Rahimi, Azam Biabani, Maryam Ghaljahi, Farideh Golbabaei   +3 more
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Electrical conductivity and mechanical properties of conductive cotton fabrics

Journal of Industrial Textiles, 2022
Functional electrically conductive fabric with acceptable mechanical properties, which could be applied in electromagnetic shielding, was developed. Conductive cotton fabrics (cotton/PANI, cotton/Mn, cotton/Cu, and cotton/Co) were prepared by in situ ...
RM Attia, NM Yousif, MH Zohdy
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A Magneto‐Mechanically Activated Nerve Guidance Conduit Promotes Peripheral Nerve Regeneration via TIMP1‐Mediated Membrane Tension Transfer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a magneto‐mechanical strategy that incorporates FP@MSCs into an aligned PCL/GelMA nerve guidance conduit. Magnetic stimulation increases membrane tension in FP@MSCs, triggering cytoskeletal remodeling, Schwann cell‐like differentiation, and TIMP1 secretion. TIMP1 activates ITGB1/CD63–FAK signaling in NE‐4C cells, increasing membrane
Xinyu Zhu, Yumin Wu, Xiang Gao, Tianlu Wang, Wanting Jia, Xueying Mei, Huanzhong Ji, Zongxi Wu, Yujie Liang, Xiang Li, Kan Li, Jingyuan Li, Guangsen Zheng, Guiqing Liao, Siyong Gao   +14 more
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