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Smart Catheters for Diagnosis, Monitoring, and Therapy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a comprehensive review of smart catheters, an emerging class of medical devices that integrate embedded sensors, robotics, and communication systems, offering increased functionality and complexity to enable real‐time health monitoring, diagnostics, and treatment. Abstract This review explores smart catheters as an emerging class of
Azra Yaprak Tarman, Samiha Ahmed, Majed Othman Althumayri, Megan Guy, Darlenne Chavez Lugo, Frances S. Ligler, George T. Ligler, Rahmi Oklu, Hiroshi Kawahira, Michael J. McShane, Jun Kameoka, Jonathan Bova, Hatice Ceylan Koydemir   +12 more
wiley   +1 more source

Directional Liquid Transport Enabled pH‐Responsive Hierarchical Composite for Enhanced Wound Healing

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
A hierarchical composite with a gradient architecture transitioning from hydrophobic to hydrophilic layers integrates diode‐like liquid transport, efficient water absorption, breathability, and mechanical robustness. This device enables a multifunctional therapeutic platform with pH‐responsive dual‐drug release, providing synergistic anti‐inflammatory ...
Baolin Wang, Li‐Fang Zhu, Yuna Lang, Siyi Zhang, Fei Chen, Ming‐Wei Chang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shapeshifting Liquid Metal Droplets for Soft Fluidic Machines

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study presented a liquid metal shape shifting strategy which harnesses Lorentz force, surface tension and fluid instabilities to achieve autonomous fluidic power. By using a liquid metal droplet as a mobile current carrier, this strategy enables the development of low‐voltage, self‐oscillating pumps that outperform existing soft pumps.
Saba Firouznia, Christian Romero, Hemma Philamore, Andrew Conn, Martin Garrad, Jonathan Rossiter   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Soft Microrobot for Single‐Cell Transport, Spheroid Assembly, and Dual‐Mode Drug Screening

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A soft, untethered hydrogel microrobot enables precise single‐cell delivery, self‐assembly into 3D spheroids, and real‐time thermal actuation. Driven by light‐induced convection and embedded with gold nanorods and temperature sensors, the microrobot guides cells, modulates local microenvironments, and supports drug testing.
Philipp Harder, Nergishan İyisan, Yukun Wang, Berna Özkale   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Multifunctional Fluidic Units for Emergent, Responsive Robotic Behaviors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A multifunctional reconfigurable fluidic unit can be used as sensor, valve and actuator is presented. A unique configuration combines the features of the three components as a Responsive self‐oscillating actuator. The remarkable versatility of the fluidic unit is demonstrated by building different robots with the same fluidic units only by varying ...
Mostafa Mousa, Alberto Comoretto, Johannes T.B. Overvelde, Antonio E. Forte   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Asimetría bilateral de la forma de las valvas y posición espacial en matrices del chorito Perumytilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae) Bilateral asymmetry of shell shape and spatial position in matrices of the mussel Perumytilus purpuratus (Lamarck, 1819) (Bivalvia: Mytilidae)

Revista Chilena de Historia Natural, 2005
De las distintas formas de la asimetría bilateral, la asimetría direccional (AD) ha recibido considerablemente menos atención en la literatura que la asimetría fluctuante (AF). Si bien existen buenos ejemplos de AD conspicua en algunos grupos de moluscos
CAROLINA BRIONES, RICARDO GUIÑEZ
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Resolving the Structural Duality of Graphene Grain Boundaries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Cantilever ncAFM resolves the atomic structure of grain boundaries in graphene, revealing coexisting stable and metastable types. Both contain pentagon/heptagon defects, but metastable GBs show irregular geometries. Modeling shows metastable GBs form under compression, exhibiting vertical corrugation, while stable GBs are flat.
Haojie Guo, Emiliano Ventura‐Macías, Mariano D. Jiménez‐Sánchez, Nicoleta Nicoara, Pierre Mallet, Jean‐Yves Veuillen, Vincent T. Renard, Antonio J. Martínez‐Galera, Pablo Pou, Julio Gómez‐Herrero, Rubén Pérez, Iván Brihuega   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Slit2/Robo1 signaling constrains image stabilization responses to preserve ethologically favorable directional asymmetry. [PDF]

Curr Biol
Kiraly JK, Balraj A, Leary P, You Z, Harris SC, Hyer JD, Dunn FA, Kolodkin AL.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source