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Liquids as Reinforcements for Anisotropic and Tough Soft Matter Composites
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Liquid metal droplets are shaped and oriented within soft elastomers to create all‐soft matter composites with programmable mechanical anisotropy. These liquid inclusions act as fiber‐like reinforcements, enabling directional stiffness, enhanced toughness, and controlled crack steering under extreme deformation, offering new routes to resilient soft ...
Gwyneth M. Schloer +5 more
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Orientation Engineering of MXene Flakes
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Orientation engineering of MXene flakes refers to the transformation of disordered MXene flakes into ordered architectures with optimized multiphysical transport properties. Focusing on this topic, this review outlines key principles, characterization, fabrication strategies, and advanced applications of oriented MXene structures.
Yizhou Wang +7 more
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Geo-spatial Information ScienceAccurate estimation of forest terrain and canopy height is crucial for timely understanding of forest growth. Gao Fen-7 (GF-7) Satellite is China’s first sub-meter-level three-dimensional (3D) mapping satellite for civilian use, which was equipped with a
Liming Du +6 more
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20th-Century hurricanes leave long-lasting legacies on tropical forest height and the abundance of a dominant wind-resistant palm. [PDF]
Ecol Evol, 2023 Uriarte M +4 more
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Vertical variation in flight activity of the lesser short-tailed bat in podocarp and beech forests, Central North Island, New Zealand [PDF]
, 2013 Designing robust monitoring programmes for cryptic species is particularly difficult. Not detecting a species does not necessarily mean that it is absent from the sampling area. A conclusion of absence made in error can lead to misguided inferences about
Molles, Laura E. +2 more
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Tree Species Composition and Forest Stratification along the Gradients in the Dry Deciduous Forests of Godavari Valley, Telangana, India [PDF]
, 2018 It is important to understand the tree species composition, abundance, species diversity and stratification in tropical dry deciduous forests that are under threat. A quadrat study was attempted in the dry deciduous forests along the ecological
Raju, Vatsavaya S, Suthari, Sateesh
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This paper introduces a scalable strategy for producing hierarchically aligned PBDT threads through wet‐spinning, controlled drawing, and post‐spinning twisting. Ionic crosslinking reinforces structural stability, whereas alignment and twisting optimize mechanical performance.
Woojae Jeong +5 more
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Post-drought decline of the Amazon carbon sink [PDF]
, 2018 Amazon forests have experienced frequent and severe droughts in the past two decades. However, little is known about the large-scale legacy of droughts on carbon stocks and dynamics of forests.
Choi, Sungho +9 more
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A Comprehensive Review of Waste‐Derived Materials for Solar Still Performance Enhancement
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.ABSTRACT Solar desalination reduces energy use and produces freshwater sustainably, but its productivity is limited and cannot meet rising demand. Thus, solar desalination system improvements are sought to boost water productivity. Waste materials are abundantly available and burden the environment, making them low‐cost enhancers for solar desalination
A. S. Abdullah +6 more
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Insights on the Working Principles of a CNN for Forest Height Regression From Single-Pass InSAR Data
IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote SensingThe increasing use of artificial intelligence (AI) models in Earth Observation (EO) applications, such as forest height estimation, has led to a growing need for explainable AI (XAI) methods.
Daniel Carcereri +3 more
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