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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

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, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Nanoconfinement‐Induced Second‐Harmonic Circular Dichroism via Chirality–Ferroelectric Coupling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoconfinement of a ferroelectric nematic liquid crystal within a chiral nanoporous sponge yields an enhanced second‐harmonic generation circular dichroism (|gSHG–CD| ≈ 1.1). Polarization‐resolved analysis suggests an additional magnetic‐dipole‐associated nonlinear contribution under nanoconfinement, highlighting chirality–ferroelectric coupling as a ...
Jae‐Jin Lee, Hiroya Nishikawa, Tae‐Woong Moon, Dong‐Ha Kim, Fumito Araoka, Suk‐Won Choi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

Event Stream Denoising Method Based on Spatio-Temporal Density and Time Sequence Analysis

Sensors
An event camera is a neuromimetic sensor inspired by the human retinal imaging principle, which has the advantages of high dynamic range, high temporal resolution, and low power consumption.
Haiyan Jiang, Xiaoshuang Wang, Wei Tang, Qinghui Song, Qingjun Song, Wenchao Hao   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

An Integrated Oxygen‐Supplying Device and Predictive Multiphysics Model for Extended Ambient Transport of Insulin‐Producing Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cell therapies typically rely on cold‐chain logistics and cryopreservation, limiting access and compromising cell quality. Here, a dual‐chamber device separates an oxygen‐supplying chamber from a hyaluronic acid cargo chamber, sustaining oxygen delivery for over 70 h and enabling ambient‐temperature shipment.
Daniel A. Domingo‐Lopez, Ruth Tarpey, Benjamin Brennan, Bryan D. Boyle, Amir M. Alsharabasy, Abhik Mallick, Gabriella Bellavia, Abhay Pandit, Garry P. Duffy, Ruth E. Levey   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Genetically Programmed Shape‐Morphing of Engineered Living Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Here, bacterial and mammalian engineered living materials (ELMs) are presented, in which living cells direct genetically programmed and enzymatically mediated shape‐morphing. The resulting deformation and shape‐recovery can be actuated in a genetically controlled manner by an ELM incorporating out‐of‐equilibrium counteracting biochemical reactions with
Jan Becker, Yuchen Liu, Miguel Baños, Rosanne Schmachtenberg, Mahmudul Hasan, Claudia Fink‐Straube, Luai R. Khoury, Wilfried Weber   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sub‐1 ms Optoelectronic Synapse Based on {ZnCdO/ZnO} Multilayer Structure for High‐Speed Neuromorphic Vision Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Eu‐doped {ZnCdO/ZnO} structures grown on Si are developed, showcasing dual‐functionality controlled by europium doping. While high europium concentration transforms the device into an ultrafast, self‐powered photodetector, low‐doped structures can be used as an optoelectronic synapse.
Igor Perlikowski, Eunika Zielony, Adrian Kaim, Ewa Przeździecka   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Event-Based Visual Simultaneous Localization and Mapping (EVSLAM) Techniques: State of the Art and Future Directions

Journal of Sensor and Actuator Networks
Recent advances in event-based cameras have led to significant developments in robotics, particularly in visual simultaneous localization and mapping (VSLAM) applications.
Mohsen Shahraki, Ahmed Elamin, Ahmed El-Rabbany   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Eye Tracking Based on Event Camera and Spiking Neural Network

An event camera generates an event stream based on changes in brightness, retaining only the characteristics of moving objects, and addresses the high power consumption associated with using high-frame-rate cameras for high-speed eye-tracking tasks ...
Lei Yu, Yizhou Jiang, Wenwei Wang, Chu He   +3 more
core   +1 more source

Biodegradable 3D‐Printable and Coatable Antifouling Composites for Marine Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Marine biofouling damages submerged surfaces and raises greenhouse gas emissions. Biodegradable antifouling biocomposites were developed by hot‐mixing beeswax, Tween 80, and calcium stearate or stearic acid. Adjusting the component ratio enables processing via hot‐pressing, 3D‐printing, or dip‐coating.
Gabriele Corigliano, Lorenzo Ravelli, Martina Nardi, Ruowen Tu, Elena Bellini, Valerio Isa, Carlo Filippeschi, Roberta Finazzi, Luca Ceseracciu, Niloofar Paknezhad, Vincenzo Scribano, Paolo Galli, Silvia Lavorano, Simone Montano, Barbara Mazzolai, Marco Contardi, Pietro Cataldi, Athanassia Athanassiou   +17 more
wiley   +1 more source