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Elephant‐Skin‐Inspired Porous Cementitious Tiles with Programmable Crack Networks for Passive Cooling

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Droplet Electricity Generators With Maximized Energy Collection Zone Enabled by Aloe‐Inspired Midrib and Cuticle

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
An Aloe‐pinspired droplet electricity generator (A‐DEG) overcomes the limited energy collection zone of conventional DEGs by guiding impact droplets through a channeling midrib and artificial cuticle. The channeling midrib induces uni‐directional droplet spreading, while the artificial cuticle on the midrib further reinforces this behavior through its ...
Gibeom Lee   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Three-Dimensional Long-Wave Instability of an Evaporation/Condensation Film

open access: yesFluids
This paper explores the stability and dynamics of a three-dimensional evaporating/condensing film while falling down a heated/cooled incline. Instead of using the Hertz–Knudsen–Langmuir relation, a more comprehensive phase-change boundary condition is ...
Weiyang Jiang   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Heat flux characteristics of spray wall impingement with ethanol, butanol, iso-octane, gasoline and E10 fuels [PDF]

open access: yes, 2013
Aleiferis, PG   +4 more
core   +1 more source

Precise Microstructural and Stoichiometric Control Advances Flexible Ag2Te Thin‐Film Thermoelectrics for Wearable Energy Harvesting

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible Ag2Te thin films achieving a record‐high mobility of 4756 cm2 V−1 s−1 and a peak power factor of 18.5 µW cm−1 K−2 are developed via precise structural control. The assembled flexible devices demonstrate excellent mechanical stability and ultrafast voltage response, enabling precise thermal detection when integrated into a robotic gripper for ...
Yue‐Xing Chen   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Scalable Perovskite Platform With Multi‐State Photoresponsivity for In‐Sensor Saliency Detection

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
A scalable in‐sensor computing platform (32 × 32 array) with ultra‐low variability is developed by incorporating ferroelectric copolymers into halide perovskite thin films. These devices achieve 1000 programmable photoresponsivity states and high thermal reliability.
Xuechao Xing   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Experimental & modeling studies on novel scraped surface falling film crystallizer for freeze desalination

open access: yesDesalination and Water Treatment
Freeze Desalination (FD) is a low-temperature thermal desalination technique that utilizes the freezing process to form and harvest ice crystals from saline water for production of fresh water.
Mayank Soni   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Multifunctional Alginate‐Based Films Reinforced With Ag‐ZnO/AgO/TiO2 Nanocomposites for Advanced Packaging and Biomedical Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Biodegradable polymeric films incorporated with a synergistic blend of metallic nanocomposites are developed and characterized. The films exhibit enhanced antibacterial activity against foodborne pathogens, demonstrating their potential as active materials for food packaging.
Adriana Dos Santos Silva   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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