Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas +6 more
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CARBON, TRADE POLICY, AND CARBON FREE TRADE AREAS [PDF]
This paper discusses both the potential contribution that trade policy initiatives can make towards the achievement of significant global carbon emissions reduction and the potential impacts of proposals now circulating for carbon reduction motivated ...
Yan Dong, John Whalley
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Sri Lankan Integration into Indian Supply Chains under the Bilateral Free Trade Agreement [PDF]
, 2013 Close economic ties and virtual 'free trade' between the small island economy of Sri Lanka and its growing big neighbor – India, appear to have created scope for the former to integrate into the supply chains of the latter. The paper is aimed at studying
686, 413, Abeyratne, Sirimal
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Do pilot free trade zones promote green innovation efficiency in enterprises? -Evidence from listed companies in China. [PDF]
Heliyon, 2023 Wang G, Hou Y, Du S, Shen C.
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Structure‐Guided Dynamical Mechanics in Bioinspired Double Twisted Laminated Thin Films
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This work explores a dynamic mechanistic study of crack propagation and puncture testing via real‐time monitoring of crack initiation, propagation, and termination through nature‐inspired single and double twisted architectures fabricated from cellulose nanocrystals.
Justin Brackenridge +4 more
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Stumbling Forward on Trade: The Doha Round, Free Trade Agreements, and Canada [PDF]
Before continuing a headlong rush to form free trade agreements with partners around the globe, Ottawa should pause to consider the effects of a web of FTAs. Matthew B.
Matthew B. Adler
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Assessing the effects of ROO and tariff margin on China-ASEAN free trade agreement utilization. [PDF]
PLoS One, 2023 Qu Y, Zhang R.
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke +3 more
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Fusogenic RNA Nanomodules for Fusion‐Mediated and Multiplexed siRNA Delivery
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.A fusogenic lipid‐layered RNA nanomodules (L‐CRAMs) enable high‐capacity and long‐lasting siRNA delivery through membrane fusion. These nanomodules carry exceptionally large siRNA payloads, avoid conventional endosomal uptake, and release multiple functional siRNAs through Dicer‐mediated processing.
Sunghyun Moon +5 more
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A Comparative Analysis of Trade Facilitation in Selected Regional and Bilateral Trade Agreement [PDF]
This study compared the treatment of trade facilitation in four selected regional trade agreements, AFTA, APEC, SAFRA and PACER, and in one bilateral free trade agreement being the Australia-Singapore Free Trade Agreement (ASFTA), with a view to ...
Institute for International Trade
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