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Designing dispersion- and mode-area-decreasing holey fibers for soliton compression

, 2007
We investigate numerically the adiabatic compression of solitons at 1.55 µm in holey fibers which exhibit simultaneously decreasing dispersion and effective mode area.
Tse, M.L.V., Horak, P., Richardson, D.J., Poletti, F.   +3 more
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2D Skeletal Muscle Thin Film Actuators Enhance Efficiency of Biohybrid Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
2D skeletal muscle thin film actuators generate millinewton‐scale forces and millimeter‐scale strokes while remaining functional for over 30 days. Their force density is 20‐fold higher than 3D skeletal muscle actuators, enabling multi‐fin robots with tunable speed and multidirectional steering.
Maheera Bawa, Arielle Berman, Laura Schwendeman, Ferdows Afghah, Seanbiron Johnson, Ritu Raman   +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

Mode selective photonic lantern integrated in a few mode erbium-doped fiber amplifier

, 2016
In the last decades, the development of the optical fiber technology has allowed increasing its transmission capacity roughly “ten times”. In the early stages, the data transmission was carried out over one single mode (or standard step index) fiber and ...
Gisela Lopez Galmiche
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
wiley   +1 more source

Designing Vanadium‐Based Oxide Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting: Experimental and Mechanistic Insights with Machine Learning

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review establishes structure‐property‐mechanism relationships across six modification strategies for V‐based oxide water‐splitting electrocatalysts: lattice engineering, heteroatom doping, interface engineering, carbon‐based hybridization, morphology engineering, and surface reconstruction and pre‐catalyst design, where dissolution is reframed as ...
Youness El Issmaeli, Amina Lahrichi, Hoje Chun, Rafael Gómez‐Bombarelli, Bruno G. Pollet   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polarization mode dispersion reduction in spun silica holey fibres

We report the fabrication of a spun holey optical fibre. Our experiments show that the complex air/glass transverse structure can be retained when the preform is spun during the fibre drawing process.
Petrovich, M.N., Fuochi, M., Baggett, J.C., Richardson, D.J., Monro, T.M., Hayes, J.R.   +5 more
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Upcycling Keratin‐Based Textile Waste Into High‐Performance Hybrid Fibers Via Tuning the Interfacial Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Keratin recovered from animal‐hair textile waste is fractionated and blended with cellulose to produce continuously spun hybrid fibers. Selecting the high‐molecular‐weight keratin fraction enables 30 wt.% keratin incorporation while maintaining high strength in dry and wet states.
Mian Zhai, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Inge Schlapp‐Hackl, Teemu Välisalmi, Markus Linder, Michael Hummel, Wenwen Fang   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rapid Microwave Plasma Engineering of HfO2/C@C Core‐Shell Fibrous Membrane Toward Flexible High‐Performance Electromagnetic Wave Absorption

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Rapid microwave plasma torch engineering tunes crystal phases, carbon graphitization and oxygen‐vacancy defects in HfO2/C@C core‐shell fibrous membranes. Synergistic multi‐loss effects optimize impedance matching to deliver −65.75 dB reflection loss and a 7.37 GHz effective bandwidth for flexible electromagnetic wave absorption.
Qichao Ding, Limeng Song, Wei Li, Jiangtao Hao, Xuewen Jiang, Mengru Li, Xinglai Yuan, Gang Wang, Yanqiu Zhu, Mi Tian, Hailong Wang, Hongxia Li, Biao Zhao, Rui Zhang, Bingbing Fan   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

An Epigenetic Fate Converter Based on Nuclei‐Targeting Lipid Nanoparticles Drives Neuronal Programming of Stem Cells for Spinal Cord Repair

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic illustration of LNP‐MPG nuclei‐targeting delivery of HMW‐FGF2 promoting histone acetylation to regulate the fate of DPSCs and treat spinal cord injury. LNPs components include pHMW‐FGF2 plasmid, DSPC, Dlin‐MC3‐DMA, cholesterol, and PEG2000, and are modified with MPG to form HMW‐FGF2@LNP‐MPG (HLM). HLM nuclei‐targets DPSCs to deliver HMW‐FGF2,
Heng Zhou, Qiang Qin, Xiqin Li, Hanyu Ding, Chun Xu, Yan He, Qingsong Ye   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source