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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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Of Animal Husbandry and Food Production—A First Step towards a Modular Agent-Based Modelling Platform for Socio-Ecological Dynamics

Land, 2021
Agent-based models provide detailed, bottom-up approaches to investigate complex socio-ecological systems. This study presents a first step towards a modular agent-based simulation that is based upon empirical data, as well as environmental suitability ...
Gerrit Günther, Thomas Clemen, Rainer Duttmann, Brigitta Schütt, Daniel Knitter   +4 more
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Ionic Gating of Liquid‐Crystal‐Like Pteridine Assemblies Enables Tunable Light Scattering

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Tunable optical properties emerge through developmentally regulated ionic gating, which transforms disordered, ultraviolet (UV)‐absorbing organelles into concentrically ordered, liquid‐crystal‐like light scatterers. By integrating analyses of pteridine composition, potassium‐dependent assembly, hierarchical ultrastructure, and optical behavior, the ...
Sourabh Bera, Zohar Eyal, Yael Noy, Yuval Barzilay, Siddharth Sahoo, Srikant Moharana, Avi Baram, Tali Lerer‐Goldshtein, Neta Varsano, Bar Bader, Lothar Houben, Uwe Heinig, Iddo Pinkas, Moshe Goldsmith, Tamar Unger, Shira Albeck, Andrea Sorrentino, Maxim Itkin, Sergey Malitsky, Ziv Porat, Ido Hadar, Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Dvir Gur   +22 more
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Low-Temperature Fermented Straw Compost Regulates Rice Growth and Yield by Affecting Soil Physicochemical Properties and the Expression of Important Signaling Pathway Genes

Agronomy, 2023
Soil physicochemical properties affect crop growth and yield. The addition of fertilizers can improve the soil quality during crop cultivation, leading to increased agricultural production.
Tongtong Liu, Ziguang Liu, Ziyi Zhao, Kai Xu, Heshu Chen, Yanzhong Feng, Wentao Wang, Nan Zhang, Di Liu, Xinmiao He, Juan Wu   +10 more
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Soft and Transient Bioelectronics Enabled by Polymer‐Free Ti3C2Tx MXene Hydrogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We present Ti3C2Tx MXene hydrogel (MXgel) bioelectronics, a soft, flexible, and fully transient platform for high‐fidelity neural recording and stimulation. MXgel bioelectronics exhibit exceptional electrical conductivities, low electrochemical impedances, and high charge injection capacities.
Raghav Garg, Franco A. Laimo, Stefano Ippolito, Prastuti Upadhyay, Spencer R. Averbeck, Dimitris Boufidis, Charles‐Antoine Assenmacher, Dayo O. Adewole, Sai Panigrahy, Bita Soltan Mohammadlou, Lucy Plant, Yuan Zhang, Andrew G. Richardson, Yury Gogotsi, D. Kacy Cullen, Flavia Vitale   +15 more
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Analysis on ecological construction path of animal husbandry and feed industry under Chinese path to modernization

Siliao yanjiu, 2023
Facing Chinese path to modernization, the ecological construction of animal husbandry and feed industry is not only an inevitable requirement to comply with the circular economy and break through the trade barriers, but also the only way to meet the ...
ZHU Wei
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Biomass DNA: An Emerging Building Block for Advanced Materials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biomass DNA is rapidly emerging from its traditional role as a genetic blueprint to serve as a versatile abundant, highly programmable polymeric building block. This review highlights the transformation of macroscopic bulk biomass DNA into next generation of functional materials, spanning from dynamic hydrogels, sustainable bioplastics, and high ...
Yuwei Hu, Itamar Willner, Li Niu
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
wiley   +1 more source

Technical Feasibility Study of Autonomous Field Robot‐Based on‐the‐go Assessment of Soil Nutrients Using Ion‐Sensitive Field‐Effect Transistors

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Autonomous field robots equipped with ISFET‐based sensors enable rapid, spatially resolved soil nutrient analysis directly in the field. An automated system based on the BoniRob platform is presented for standardized on‐site extraction and measurement of key macronutrients and soil pH.
Vadim Riedel, Stefan Hinck, Edgar Peiter, Arno Ruckelshausen   +3 more
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Strategies for improving toughness of animal husbandry industry chain under background of Chinese-style modernization

Siliao yanjiu, 2023
Improving the resilience of the livestock industry chain is of great significance to ensure the stability and security of domestic food supplies, which is also an internal requirement to promote the development of Chinese-style modernization.
LI Zheng
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