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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
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Spatially Regulated Silicon Clusters in Trimodal Composite Anodes for High‐Energy Lithium‐Ion Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A trimodal anode architecture spatially regulates silicon clusters within confined interstitial environments formed by graphite and contorted hexabenzocoronene. This confinement suppresses silicon aggregation and localized stress while enabling efficient Li‐ion transport, achieving high‐capacity, stable lithium‐ion batteries.
Jeongmi Joo, Minsung Kang, Seung Hak Oh, Jee Ho Ha, Hyunji Cha, Jimin Han, Ji‐Su Lim, Dae Hyeon Kwon, Won‐Jin Kwak, Sang Kyu Kwak, Seokhoon Ahn, Seok Ju Kang   +11 more
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Logistics platforms’ ‘new’ mode of appropriation?: An analysis of four trends from inside Germany’s Q-commerce sector

Work Organisation, Labour and Globalisation
This article investigates the ‘newness’ of platformised logistics labour through an ethnographic study of a Q-Commerce platform – ‘Smart Groceries’ – in Germany.
Harry Parfitt, Ercüment Çelik
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Abolition Of Forced Labour: Case Of Uzbekistan

, 2021
The article analyzes the legal problems in the implementation of international labour standards on the abolition of forced labour in the national legislation of the Republic of Uzbekistan. Fundamental documents of the International Labour Organization on
et. al., Odiljon Sulaymanov,
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Electrically Induced Phase Transition and Synaptic Functionality in MoTe2/Graphene Memristors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An electrically induced reversible 2H ↔ 1T′ phase transition is demonstrated in a vertical Au/Ti/MoTe2/graphene memristor with a laterally contacted graphene electrode. Resistive switching proceeds through a compositionally invariant amorphous/2H ↔ amorphous/1T′ transformation, in which a self‐formed amorphous MoTe2 interfacial region is proposed to ...
Chien‐Hua Wang, Mu‐Pai Lee, Jhen‐Dong Tsai, Liang‐Ying Hsieh, Jui‐Yuan Chen, Chun‐Wei Huang, Yen‐Fu Lin, Wen‐Wei Wu   +7 more
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Self‐Assembled Crystalline Peptoid Nanomaterials as Metal‐Free Enzyme Mimics for Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Hydration and Precipitation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by metal‐free carbonic anhydrases (CAs) that achieve efficient catalysis without metal cofactors, we herein report a sequence‐defined supramolecular peptoid platform that mimics metal‐free CAs and exhibits hydrolytic activity via a supramolecular assembly‐mediated proton‐transfer mechanism.
Progyateg Chakma, Ying Chen, Thi Kim Hoang Trinh, Anthony R. Perez, Jonathan Gil, Maria Casco Hidalgo, Botao Hao, Kyle Whitaker, Chun‐Long Chen   +8 more
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Forced labour and UK immigration policy : status matters?

, 2011
This paper: investigates the links between immigration status and migrants’ vulnerability to forced labour; explores how socio-legal status (specific rights to residence, work and social welfare) impacts on migrants’ risk of forced labour, and; reviews ...
Lewis, H, Waite, L, Scullion, LC, Dwyer, PJ   +3 more
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Accelerated Discovery of Topological Spin Phase Diagrams in CrSBr Magnets Via High‐Throughput Optimization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Here, we develop a high‐throughput algorithm that accelerates the elucidation of phase diagrams of topological spin textures using limited computational resources at high numerical accuracy. Applying this framework to the van der Waals magnet CrSBr, we unveiled a hierarchy of previously unknown topological textures (domain‐wall bimerons, bimeron chains,
Andrew Lyall, Mohammad H. Badarneh, Cristian Bonato, Rebecca Cheung, Elton J. G. Santos   +4 more
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Deciphering the Photopolymerization‐Induced Nanostructures and Interface Formation for Submicrometer Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work reveals the UV‐curing‐induced monomer‐rich domain, oligomer‐rich domain, and entangled oligomer domain. The cured submicron films in stressed state induce interlayer nano‐wrinkle structures during the deposition of the second layer. Stress‐free cured films in relaxed state form non‐diffusive, diffusive and semi‐diffusive interlayer ...
Shouzheng Chen, Yufeng Zhai, Jungui Zhou, Lixing Li, Simon Schraad, Guangjiu Pan, Xuehe Jiang, Sarathlal Koyiloth Vayalil, Rolf A. T. M. van Benthem, Julien R. G. Navarro, Johan F. G. A. Jansen, Mats K. G. Johansson, Peter Müller‐Buschbaum, Stephan V. Roth   +13 more
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Genetically Programmed Shape‐Morphing of Engineered Living Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Here, bacterial and mammalian engineered living materials (ELMs) are presented, in which living cells direct genetically programmed and enzymatically mediated shape‐morphing. The resulting deformation and shape‐recovery can be actuated in a genetically controlled manner by an ELM incorporating out‐of‐equilibrium counteracting biochemical reactions with
Jan Becker, Yuchen Liu, Miguel Baños, Rosanne Schmachtenberg, Mahmudul Hasan, Claudia Fink‐Straube, Luai R. Khoury, Wilfried Weber   +7 more
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