Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie +13 more
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Hydrogenation and Entanglement Effects on Tensile Properties and Energy Absorption of Entwined Coiled Carbon Nanotubes: A Molecular Dynamics Study. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Nie F, Su X, Lin H.
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Kinetics‐Controlled Architecture of Binder‐Free Organic Electrodes for Enhanced Ion Transport
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Pulse reverse electrodeposition controls nucleation and growth to create hierarchically porous Py‐derived oligomeric electrodes with enhanced ionic accessibility and reduced transport resistance. The resulting binder‐free architectures translate these transport advantages into practical sodium‐storage functionality.
Satendra Kumar +1 more
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Donor‐Engineered Chiral Indium–Salen Complexes for Tunable Circularly Polarized Luminescence
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Chiral indium–salen complexes bearing electronically and structurally diverse donor substituents are presented as modular main‐group luminophores exhibiting tunable blue‐to‐green circularly polarized luminescence. Donor engineering systematically controls frontier‐orbital distribution, intraligand charge transfer, and excited‐state relaxation ...
Haein Kim +14 more
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Processing-Microstructure-Performance Relations in Thermoformed Auxetic Hyperelastic Foams with Enhanced Energy Absorption Capacity. [PDF]
ACS Appl Polym MaterDas B +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A sequential dual‐alignment strategy independently programs the orientation of conductive metal‐organic framework (c‐MOF) microrods and liquid crystals within a composite film. This approach creates an asymmetric bilayer structure that enables precise, multi‐responsive actuation.
Taegyun Hong +5 more
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Metamortar Composites Reinforced with Re-Entrant Auxetic Cells: Mechanical Performance and Enhanced Energy Absorption. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Fernández J +5 more
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Preferential Interfacial Engineering of Hydrogels via Interdigitated Nanoparticle Assembly
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Robust surface functionalization of hydrogel surfaces is performed via interdigitated metal nanoparticle assembly, inducing strong affinity with the hydrogel matrix. The partially exposed nanoparticle domains act as interfacial nanobridges that mediate both chemical and physical bonding with diverse materials, including small molecules, fluorous ...
Hyeonjin Kim +11 more
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Investigation on Damage and Energy Absorption Performance of Aluminum Foam Sandwich Plates Under Low-Velocity Impact. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Guo K, Zhu Y, Zhou S, Zhu L.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Inspired by skeletal muscles’ precision and endurance, CoilLCE integrates a self‐sensing liquid crystal elastomer/graphene artificial muscle with an embedded Joule‐heating copper coil, enabling closed‐loop multistage actuation with programmable intermediate states (strain accuracy of 2%), and antagonistic coordination (32% total strain). These features
Ziyun Zhang +9 more
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