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Entangled Multistable Origami with Reprogrammable Stiffness Amplification and Damping

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a class of origami‐inspired metamaterials that overcome the limitations of existing multistable metamaterials by eliminating the need for rigid lateral confinements. Panel entanglement, snap‐through interactions, and instabilities synergy enable them to achieve extensive shape‐shifting, enhanced stiffness, and remarkable energy ...
Amin Jamalimehr, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh, Damiano Pasini   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reconfigurable Three‐Dimensional Superconducting Nanoarchitectures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
3D superconducting nanostructures offer new possibilities for emergent physical phenomena. However, fabricating complex geometries remains challenging. Here 3D nanoprinting of complex 3D superconducting nanoarchitectures is established. As well as propagating superconducting vortices in 3D, anisotropic superconducting properties with geometric ...
Elina Zhakina, Luke Alexander Turnbull, Weijie Xu, Markus König, Paul Simon, Wilder Carrillo‐Cabrera, Amalio Fernández‐Pacheco, Uri Vool, Dieter Suess, Claas Abert, Vladimir M. Fomin, Claire Donnelly   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Is tuna ecolabeling causing fishers more harm than good?

npj Ocean Sustainability
Nearly 70,000 fishing crew are currently at sea catching the ecolabeled tuna in your sandwich or sushi. Tuna fishing on the High Seas is remote, making it difficult to detect forced labour and important to look into the welfare of fishers on vessels ...
Katrina Nakamura
doaj   +1 more source

Book review: precarious lives: forced labour, exploitation and asylum by Hannah Lewis, Peter Dwyer, Stuart Hodkinson and Louise Waite [PDF]

, 2016
Precarious Lives: Forced Labour, Exploitation and Asylum offers a groundbreaking examination of the forced labour experienced by migrants and asylum seekers seeking refuge in the United Kingdom.
Gurung, Tribeni
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Composition and Resulting Band Alignment at the TiO2/InP Heterointerface: A Fundamental Study Combining Photoemission Spectroscopy and Theory

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The chemical composition and band alignment are systematically investigated at the TiO2/InP heterointerface. Thin TiO2 films are deposited by ALD on atomically ordered, P‐terminated p‐InP(100). By combining UPS, XPS, and ab initio molecular dynamics, the atomistic structure and electronic alignment are revealed.
Mohammad Amin Zare Pour, Muhammad Nawaz Qaisrani, Christian Höhn, Johannes Laurenz Wolf, Negin Mogharehabed, Jennifer Velazquez Rojas, Wolfram Jaegermann, Erich Runge, Roel van de Krol, Thomas Hannappel, Christian Dreßler, Agnieszka Paszuk   +11 more
wiley   +1 more source

Climate-induced Exploitation: Workers’ rights and protections on a heated planet

Anti-Trafficking Review
This article envisions new approaches to worker protections on a heated planet. As worksites become increasingly hazardous, legal frameworks that regulate workplace standards as well as provide protections for forced labourers do not account—as of yet ...
Denise Brennan, Kathleen Kim, Julia Jackson   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Bimetallic Nanoparticles as Cocatalysts for Photocatalytic Hydrogen Production

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Recent developments have introduced bimetallic nanoparticles as effective cocatalysts for photocatalytic systems. This review explores the rapidly expanding research on bimetallic cocatalysts for photocatalytic production of hydrogen, emphasizing the creation of carrier‐selective contacts, localized surface plasmon resonance effects, methodologies for ...
Yufen Chen, Asier Agrelo‐Lestón, Ignasi Burgués‐Ceballos, Jordi Llorca, Lluís Soler   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Quantifying Electron and Ion Transfers in Contact Electrification with Ionomers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The concurrent existence of both electron and ion transfers in solid‐ionomer contact electrification is reported. The ion transfer contributes significantly to the process of contact electrification, especially at high humidity, although only less than 2% of ions participate in the ion transfer, suggesting that there is room for further performance ...
Xiaoting Ma, Jiaming Zhou, Eunjong Kim, Jingyi Gao, Wenyi Hu, Dong‐Myeong Shin   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Double Helical Plasmonic Antennas

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Plasmonic double helical antennas funnel circularly polarized light to the nanoscale, offering strong chiroptical interaction and directional light emission. Extending a single helix design tool, this study combines numerical modeling with experimental validation, revealing large, broadband dissymmetry factors in the visible range.
Aleksei Tsarapkin, Luka Zurak, Krzysztof Maćkosz, Lorenz Löffler, Victor Deinhart, Ivo Utke, Thorsten Feichtner, Katja Höflich   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Modern Slavery: State-Induced Forced Labour in Myanmar (Burma) and Reactions from the International Community

Malaysian Journal of International Relations, 2013
While human rights conditions began sharply deteriorating in Myanmar with the inception of military rule in 1962, however, it was not until 1988 that the international community began seriously taking notice of these abuses.
Sheila M Arianayagam, Jatswan S Sidhu
doaj   +1 more source