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Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.Phase‐changing liquids enable untethered pneumatic actuation in soft robotics but suffer from volatility and storage challenges. This work reports a simple method to encapsulate Novec 7000 within micron‐thin alginate shells via in situ injection and ionic crosslinking.
Rayan A. M. Basodan +3 more
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BMC Cardiovascular DisordersBackground Heart failure with improved ejection fraction (HFimpEF) has been regarded as a new heart failure (HF) type in 2022. However, studies on the impact of left ventricular ejection fraction (LVEF) trajectories on the prognosis of patients with ...
Yang Jiang +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Biofabrication aims at providing innovative technologies and tools for the fabrication of tissue‐like constructs for tissue engineering and regenerative medicine applications. By integrating multiple biofabrication technologies, such as 3D (bio) printing with fiber fabrication methods, it would be more realistic to reconstruct native tissue's ...
Waseem Kitana +2 more
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Biomimetic Iridescent Skin: Robust Prototissues Spontaneously Assembled from Photonic Protocells
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Uniform nanoparticles are induced to form arrays (photonic crystals) in the cores of biopolymer capsules, endowing these ‘protocells’ with structural color. These protocells are then assembled into large self‐standing objects, i.e., prototissues, with robust mechanical properties as well as iridescent optical properties.
Medha Rath +6 more
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Impact of Coronary Artery Bypass Graft on left Ventricular Systolic Function
Advanced Medical JournalBackground& objective: Coronary artery disease is the common cause of disease-specific mortality and morbidity in Iraq. The objective was to evaluate the effect of coronary artery bypass graft surgery on left ventricular systolic function.
Dilshad Abdulqadir Rasul +1 more
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Women's Health, 2022 Heart failure with preserved ejection fraction has a higher prevalence in women versus men. There are several proposed mechanisms to explain this sex discrepancy including differences in cardiovascular adaptation to comorbidities and potential underlying
Gurleen Kaur, Emily Lau
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Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Soft Actuators
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) can be actuated via electromechanical, electrochemical, or electrothermal effects. a) Electromechanical effects include Maxwell stress, electrostriction, and the electroclinic effect. b) Electrochemical effects arise from electrode redox reactions.
Yakui Deng, Min‐Hui Li
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Journal of Cardiothoracic Surgery, 2010 Background Preoperative left ventricular dysfunction is an established risk factor for early and late mortality after revascularization. This retrospective analysis demonstrates the effects of preoperative ejection fraction on the short-term and long ...
Martens Elisabeth J +6 more
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4D Printing of Self‐Immolative Polymers
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The integration of self‐immolative polymers (SIPs) into light‐based 3D printed structures is presented as a new “living” 4D printing strategy. By exploiting their metastability and stimuli‐responsiveness, SIP‐containing printed objects can undergo rapid and triggered degrowth under ambient conditions and subsequent regrowth through polymer ...
Johannes Markhart +3 more
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