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Design Strategies and Emerging Applications of High‐Performance Flexible Piezoresistive Pressure Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible piezoresistive pressure sensors underpin wearable and soft electronics. This review links sensing physics, including contact resistance modulation, quantum tunneling and percolation, to unified materials/structure design. We highlight composite and graded architectures, interfacial/porous engineering, and microstructured 3D conductive networks
Feng Luo, Artur Ciesielski, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
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Cyclic Olefin Copolymers as Versatile Materials for Advanced Engineering Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cyclic olefin copolymers (COCs) are presented as highly versatile materials combining tunable synthesis, excellent optical properties, and mechanical robustness. Their potential spans microfluidics, bioengineering, and advanced electronics, while emerging self‐healing and sustainable solutions highlight future opportunities.
Giulia Fredi, Norma Mallegni, Andrea Dorigato, Mario Milazzo   +3 more
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Light‐Actuated Fiber‐Climbing Inchworm Robot Toward Endoluminal Navigation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A kirigami‐inspired soft inchworm robot harnesses optical energy from a customized side‐emitting optical fiber, guaranteeing its propulsion along the fiber body. The wavelength‐selective responsiveness of dye‐functionalized liquid crystal elastomers and the application of temporal illumination patterns enable sequential control of robot components. The
Antonio Lobosco, Leilei Song, Fan Liu, Yu‐Hsiang Lin, Venkatasubramanian Kalpathy Venkiteswaran, Hao Zeng, Sarthak Misra   +6 more
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Coating Artificial Spider Silk Fiber with Magnetic FeCo: An Effective Strategy for Creating a Flexible Magneto‐Responsive Material

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An original method is presented for producing artificial spider silk fibers with magnetic and magnetomechanical responsiveness, which consists in coating them with a nanometer‐thick layer of FeCo alloy by sputtering deposition. The challenge of combining organic materials and inorganic magnetic nanostructures is addressed, thus taking a step forward ...
Filippo Lanaro, Federico Spizzo, Gabriele Greco, Benjamin Schmuck, Anna Rising, Lucia Del Bianco   +5 more
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Manipulating energy migration in nanoparticles toward tunable photochromic upconversion

Nature Communications
Smart control of energy interactions plays a key role in manipulating upconversion dynamics and tuning emission colors for lanthanide-doped materials. However, quantifying the energy flux in particular energy migration in the representative sensitizer ...
Jinshu Huang, Langping Tu, Haozhang Huang, Haopeng Wei, Qinyuan Zhang, Bo Zhou   +5 more
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Texoskeletons: Developing the Fundamental Technologies for Creating Intelligent Soft Robotic Clothing With Integrated 1D Sensors and Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Traditional wearable exoskeletons rely on rigid structures, which limit comfort, flexibility, and everyday usability. This work introduces the fundamental technologies to create the first soft, lightweight, intelligent textile‐based exoskeletons (Texoskeletons) built using 1D sensors and actuators.
Amy Lukomiak, Rameesh Bulathsinghala, Jack Varga, Shuxin Meng, Kalana Marasinghe, Imaad Refai, Biyon Fernando, Amitkumar Patel, Chamika M. Halloluwa‐Arachchige, Carlos Oliveira, Arash M. Shahidi, Zahra Rahemtulla, Alexander Turner, Ziyun Ding, Bernard X. W. Liew, Andy Kerr, Ezio Preatoni, Theo Hughes‐Riley, Ishara Dharmasena, Pasindu Lugoda   +19 more
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Spatiotemporal control of photochromic upconversion through interfacial energy transfer

Nature Communications
Dynamic control of multi-photon upconversion with rich and tunable emission colors is stimulating extensive interest in both fundamental research and frontier applications of lanthanide based materials.
Long Yan, Jinshu Huang, Zhengce An, Qinyuan Zhang, Bo Zhou   +4 more
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Exploring Pb‐Chelation Chemistry in the Crystallization Dynamics of Halide Perovskites

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A mechanism of how Pb‐chelation chemistry governs coordination geometry and initial nucleation behavior at the precursor level of halide perovskite, by regulating the deprotonation state of a chelating additive, is elucidated. This allows for innovative reaction‐system design principles that promote coherent growth while suppressing defect formation in
Byeong Jun Kim, Inseo Cho, Jung Geon Son, Yifan Yu, Gunhee Kim, Eunseo Shin, Seyeon Eom, Minsub Um, Subeom Shin, Hyungju Ahn, Dong Suk Kim, Hochan Song, Hyosung Choi, Jonghee Yang   +13 more
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High Performance Flexible Optical Fiber Sensor Enabled by Er3+/Yb3+ Co‐Doped near Pure‐Green Upconversion Emission Phosphor for Implantable Temperature Sensing

Advanced Materials Interfaces
Er3+/Yb3+ co‐doped upconversion (UC) emission phosphors play crucial roles for advancing implantable temperature sensing technologies. However, the fabrication of high‐performance optical fiber temperature sensor (OFTS) via these sensing materials ...
Jing Lyu, Sijie Su, Xin Wang, Enhai Song, Qinyuan Zhang   +4 more
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Swelling‐Induced Stress‐Assisted Transfer of Nanodiamond Arrays With a PVA Carrier Tape for Conformal Bio‐Integrated Sensing and Labelling

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces a swelling‐induced, stress‐assisted water‐soluble PVA tape strategy to transfer‐print nanodiamond quantum‐sensor arrays onto soft, curved biological interfaces. The room‐temperature, water‐triggered process achieves >98% fidelity and residue‐free integration, enabling conformal quantum sensing on contact lenses, neural probes, and ...
Luyao Zhang, Lingzhi Wang, Xinhao Hu, Tai Nam Yip, Mingze Sun, Jixiang Jing, Lizhi Xu, Yuan Lin, Yong Hou, Zhiqin Chu   +9 more
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