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Soft Artificial Ciliary Brush with Integrated Haptic Feedback for Efficient Airway Mucus Cleaning

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
A fundamental mucus cleaning mechanism is reported, which utilizes both artificial cilia mechanical sweeping and suction‐based mucus cleaning. A novel haptic feedback interface for the artificial cilia provides touch feedback on tissue contact, enhancing operator control and safety.
Zhongming Lyu, Yusheng Wang, Ruijian Ge, Darren Wang, Matthew Bacchetta, Caitlin T. Demarest, Fabien Maldonado, Xiaoguang Dong   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

A holistic review of nanomaterials in strain-hardening cementitious composites: Insights into micro- and macromechanical, deformation, smart, and durability properties

Results in Engineering
Strain-hardening cementitious composites (SHCC) are rapidly gaining popularity as building materials because of their remarkable ductility, increased tensile strain capacity, and controlled saturated microcrack propagation with tight crack width. Careful
Isyaka Abdulkadir, Leong Sing Wong, Lee Woen Ean, G. Murali, Bashar S. Mohammed   +4 more
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Environmental fatigue of an Al-Li-Cu alloy. Part 1: Intrinsic crack propagation kinetics in hydrogenous environments [PDF]

Deleterious environmental effects on steady-state, intrinsic fatigue crack propagation (FCP) rates (da/dN) in peak aged Al-Li-Cu alloy 2090 are established by electrical potential monitoring of short cracks with programmed constant delta K and K(sub max)
Gangloff, Richard P., Piascik, Robert S.
core   +1 more source

Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim, Hayeon Shin, Seik Park, Changbeom Shim, Seonggun Joe   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Human Leukocyte Elastase Triggered Nanoparticles for Targeted Antimicrobial Delivery and Oral Microbial Modulation

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
This study explores enzyme‐responsive nanoparticles for targeted antimicrobial release in inflamed oral environments. Nanoparticles formed by complexing peptides and chlorhexidine respond to human leukocyte elastase and release chlorhexidine selectively. P7 (ECAAPVCE)‐based formulations show optimal properties and stability, with antimicrobial activity
Mohammed A. Hadis, Ignacio Insua, Farah N. S. Raja, Álvaro Vila, William M. Palin, Michael R. Milward, Paul R. Cooper, Sarah A. Kuehne, Owen Addison, Paco Fernandez‐Trillo   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Injectable Bone Cements: A Generational Framework for Bioactivity, Porosity, and Mechanobiological Design at the Nanoscale

Advanced NanoBiomed Research, EarlyView.
Key demographic, biological, and material considerations that drive the need for advanced injectable bone cement technologies. Injectable bone cements (IBCs) are widely used in orthopaedic and craniofacial applications due to their minimally invasive delivery and ability to provide early mechanical stabilisation.
Frank Fei, Yogambha Ramaswamy, Young Jung No   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

On stress analysis of a crack-layer [PDF]

This work considers the problem of elastic interaction of a macrocrack with an array of microcracks in the vicinity of the macrocrack tip. Using the double layer potential techniques, the solution to the problem within the framework of the plane problem ...
Chudnovsky, A., Dolgopolsky, A., Kachanov, M.   +2 more
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Description of the skull, braincase, and dentition of Moschognathus whaitsi (Dinocephalia, Tapinocephalia), and its palaeobiological and behavioral implications

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
Abstract A subadult Moschognathus whaitsi from the Eastern Cape Province, South Africa, was scanned using synchrotron radiation X‐ray computed tomography (SRXCT). Its subadult state allowed the cranial bones and teeth to be identified and individually reconstructed in 3D.
Tristen Lafferty, Luke A. Norton, Aliénor Duhamel, Julien Benoit   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Functional anatomy, jaw mechanisms, and feeding behavior of Dunkleosteus terrelli (Placodermi, Arthrodira)

The Anatomical Record, EarlyView.
A new musculoskeletal reconstruction and revision of the cranio‐mandibular anatomy of the Devonian arthrodire placoderm Dunkleosteus terrelli from a comparative and functional anatomical perspective. Dunkleosteus is a specialized arthrodire with many specializations for feeding on large vertebrates, and many of its features are part of broader ...
Russell K. Engelman, Robert K. Carr, Kate Trinajstic, Zerina Johanson, Oleg A. Lebedev   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The role of the host—Neutrophil biology

Periodontology 2000, EarlyView., 2023
Abstract Neutrophilic polymorphonuclear leukocytes (neutrophils) are myeloid cells packed with lysosomal granules (hence also called granulocytes) that contain a formidable antimicrobial arsenal. They are terminally differentiated cells that play a critical role in acute and chronic inflammation, as well as in the resolution of inflammation and wound ...
Iain L. C. Chapple, Josefine Hirschfeld, Alpdogan Kantarci, Asaf Wilensky, Lior Shapira   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source