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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
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The association between accounting and market-based risk measures [PDF]

The paper derives operating and financial measures of leverage and tests their association with market based measures of equity risk. It is the first such study to use purely accounting-based data to derive the leverage measures.
Salama, Aly, Toms, Steven, Nguyen, Duc Tuan   +2 more
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Synergistic Cu‐Fe Interactions Enhance Phase Transformation Kinetics Toward High‐Performance CuFeS2‐Based All‐Solid‐State Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
CuFeS2 is found to induce the formation of intermediate phases, highlighting a strong Cu–Fe synergistic effect during conversion reactions in lithium all‐solid‐state batteries (Li‐SSBs). The integrated reaction pathway effectively suppresses phase separation and accelerates reaction kinetics, leading to enhanced electrochemical reversibility and ...
Changjiang Bai, Katherine A. Mazzio, Florian Ruske, Goutham Srinivas, Tim Bernges, Junwei Meng, Xiangping Min, Yanan Sun, Vinita Ahuja, Román Healy Corominas, Volodymyr Baran, Götz Schuck, Michael Haumann, Jürgen Janek, Wolfgang G. Zeier, Philipp Adelhelm   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inflexibility and Leverage

, 2019
We examine whether a firm’s inflexibility (i.e., inability to adjust its scale in response to profitability shocks) influences its financial policy. Based on a firm’s historical range of operating costs-to-sales ratio, scaled by the volatility of its ...
Hackbarth, D, LI, T, Gu, L
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Mesoscale Domain Evolution Mechanism during Alternating Current (AC) Poling of Relaxor Ferroelectrics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric domain variants that are energetically equivalent are expected to remain preserved during polarization reversal. However, phase‐field simulations reveal that inclined domain walls in relaxor ferroelectrics can undergo irreversible elimination during alternating current poling through a proximity effect driven by long‐range elastic ...
Yuan‐Jie Sun, Bo Wang, Long‐Qing Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Financial Leverage, Economic Growth and Environmental Degradation: Evidence from 30 Provinces in China. [PDF]

Int J Environ Res Public Health, 2020
Zhao M, Yang R, Li Y.
europepmc   +1 more source

Sustainable Electrochemical Synthesis of High‐Quality MXenes: Mechanistic Insights, Applications, Challenges, and Technological Prospects

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrochemical etching provides an eco‐friendly alternative to hazardous HF methods for MXene production. This approach facilitates the selective isolation of the A‐layer from MAX phases with tunable surface terminations. Controlling voltage, electrolytes, temperature, and duration enables the optimal structural integrity. Nevertheless, existing scale
Jagdeep Singh, Madhusudhana M Devadiga, Santosh K. Tiwari, AS Dhaliwal, Gurpreet Singh Selopal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Determinants of Financial Conservatism: Evidence from Low-Leverage and Cash-Rich UK Firms [PDF]

This paper investigates the characteristics of firms that adopt persistent policies of low leverage and substantial cash reserves. In doing so, specific attention is paid to the role of internal corporate governance mechanisms in influencing firms ...
Leone Leonida, Aydin Ozkan, Alfonsina Iona   +2 more
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Aqueous Two‐Phase Bioinks for Discrete Packing and Compartmentalization of 3D Bioprinted Cells

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Aqueous two‐phase systems (ATPS) enable the formation of biomimetic interfaces crucial for tissue engineering. However, clinical translation remains limited by the challenge of precisely controlling cellular compartmentalization. Here, we developed ATPS biomaterial inks for 3D bioprinting allowing tuneable droplet formation via NaCl modulation.
Martina Marcotulli, Arianna Iacomino, Federico Serpe, Lucia Iafrate, Marco Bastioli, Giorgia Montalbano, Michele D'Orazio, Biagio Palmisano, Silvia Franco, Arianna Mencattini, Roberta Angelini, Eugenio Martinelli, Alessandro Corsi, Mara Riminucci, Giancarlo Ruocco, Chiara Scognamiglio, Andrea Barbetta, Gianluca Cidonio   +17 more
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Tranching, CDS and Asset Prices: How Financial Innovation Can Cause Bubbles and Crashes [PDF]

We show how the timing of financial innovation might have contributed to the mortgage boom and then to the bust of 2007-2009. We study the effect of leverage, tranching, securitization and CDS on asset prices in a general equilibrium model with ...
Ana Fostel, John Geanakoplos
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