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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Skins With Reversible Thickness Morphing: Materials, Mechanisms, and Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Evolution of electronic skin (e‐skin) technologies toward adaptive, multifunctional soft skins. Phase I highlights early rigid and discrete sensory interfaces. Phase II shows the transition toward flexible, stretchable, and large‐area e‐skin. Phase III captures the emergence of computational e‐skin.
Oliver Ozioko, Chiamaka Akah, Ravinder Dahiya   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconfigurable assembly, disassembly, and self-propulsion of microparticles via optoelectronic tweezers. [PDF]

Microsyst Nanoeng
Wang A, Wang Z, Niu W, Ni C, Huang S, Wang C, Tan M, Zhang L, Feng L.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Ultrathin Hydrogel Membranes Inspired by Soap Films Enable Physiologically Relevant Breathing Lung Models

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A soap‐film inspired strategy enables the fabrication of ultrathin yet robust GelMA‐PAAm membranes for breathing lung culture. The hydrogel membrane supports long‐term cyclic deformation under air‐liquid interface conditions, enabling physiologically relevant breathing motions of engineered lung tissue culture. ABSTRACT Breathing continuously stretches
Yunji Lee, Gwang Myeong Kim, Wookyeom Kim, Fenny Soetanto, Gyungin Ryu, Taehun Chung, Youn Soo Kim, Junmin Lee, Hwa‐Rim Lee, Sungjune Jung   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nano‐Architected Metallic Metamaterial With Enhanced Fatigue Resistance via Dislocation Starvation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoscale Ni single crystals exhibit remarkable fatigue resistance over an order of magnitude higher than that of bulk single crystals through dislocation starvation. By translating this mechanism into geometric nano‐architecture, nano‐architected Ni single‐crystal metamaterials achieve about twice the fatigue resistance of the bulk, despite their ...
Kota Sugisaka, Yamato Ishizaka, Hiroki Ikeda, Shigeo Arai, Masataka Abe, Yoshitaka Umeno, Hiroyuki Shima, Takashi Sumigawa   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Transient Cytoskeletal Anisotropy Encodes Short‐Term Mechanical Memory in Glioblastoma Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The same mechanical deformation can produce distinct cytoskeletal states depending on loading history. Experiments and constitutive modeling reveal that transient actin–vimentin anisotropy stores mechanical information and governs short‐term mechanical memory in glioblastoma cells.
Clara Gomez‐Cruz, Matthieu Gelin, Lucas Pradeau‐Phélut, Arrate Muñoz‐Barrutia, Sandrine Etienne‐Manneville, Daniel Garcia‐Gonzalez   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The quest and opportunities for air-breathing propulsion. [PDF]

NPJ Microgravity
Duppada GS, Taploo A, Zhuang T, Spinelli J, Keidar M.   +4 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Mechanically Assisted Magnetic Actuation in Ceramic‐Based Microscrolls for Fast and Durable Soft Robotic Systems

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Ceramic‐based V2O5/Fe3O4 hybrid films are shaped into butterfly‐proboscis‐inspired microscroll actuators. Magnetic triggering initiates unrolling, while geometry‐programmed elastic strain energy drives rapid recoil, enabling fast, reversible, durable, and load‐bearing actuation under near‐field magnetic stimulation.
Semi Kim, Shravan R. Kousik, Petia Atanasova, Eberhard Goering, Joachim Bill, Zaklina Burghard   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid Crystal Elastomer‐Based Haptic Pixel Arrays at Your Fingertips for Advanced Human–Machine Interfaces

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
We mechanically program liquid crystal elastomer coatings as a stimuli‐responsive and digitally addressable platform for refreshable tactile displays; we validate the perceptual performance of our dynamic device matches conventional static tactile media.
Tom Bruining, Enjun Lin, Yu Zou, Meike Heldoorn, Pengrong Lyu, Samuël A. M. Weima, Astrid M. L. Kappers, Myrthe A. Plaisier, Satoshi Aya, Danqing Liu   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrogel-Based Micro/Nanorobots for Advanced Biomedical Applications. [PDF]

Gels
Cho G, Ko J, Lee Y.
europepmc   +1 more source