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Cutting soft materials: how material differences shape the response. [PDF]

NPJ Comput Mater
Moreno-Mateos MA, Steinmann P.
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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A Matter of Shape: Contact Area Optimization in Soft Lubricated Impact. [PDF]

Tribol Lett
Garcia-Suarez J.
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A Soft Microrobot for Single‐Cell Transport, Spheroid Assembly, and Dual‐Mode Drug Screening

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A soft, untethered hydrogel microrobot enables precise single‐cell delivery, self‐assembly into 3D spheroids, and real‐time thermal actuation. Driven by light‐induced convection and embedded with gold nanorods and temperature sensors, the microrobot guides cells, modulates local microenvironments, and supports drug testing.
Philipp Harder, Nergishan İyisan, Yukun Wang, Berna Özkale   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Feldspar reduces fault frictional healing rate under hydrothermal conditions. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Feng W, Wang W, Yao L, Gomila R, Ma S, Li Q, Di Toro G.   +6 more
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Review of Thin Lithium Metal Battery Anode Fabrication – Microstructure – Electrochemistry Relations

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Thin, lightweight lithium‐metal anodes are pivotal for practical high‐energy batteries. This review surveys processing routes that convert diverse Li precursors, e.g., ingots, melts, solutions, and vapor, into Li‐rich foils with controlled thickness, areal density, and tailored functionality.
Yuhang Hu, Zidong Chen, Yixian Wang, Haorui Hou, Bingcheng Chen, David Mitlin, Wei Liu   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Crystal Engineering of Reticular Materials for Gas‐ and Liquid‐Phase Hydrocarbon Separation

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Crystal engineering enables systematic study of structure/function relationships as exemplified by pore engineering of reticular sorbents, including porous coordination networks and covalent organic frameworks. This review assesses such studies applied across the full scope of industrially relevant hydrocarbon separations to provide insight into how ...
Xia Li, Soumya Mukherjee, Michael J. Zaworotko   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Editorial: Exploring burrowing in biological and robotic systems. [PDF]

Front Robot AI
Ozkan-Aydin Y.
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Adaptive Twisting Metamaterials

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces torque‐controlled twisting metamaterials as a transformative platform for adaptive crashworthiness. By combining multiscale predictive modeling with experimental validation on additively manufactured gyroids, it demonstrates tunable stiffness, collapse stress, and energy absorption.
Mattia Utzeri, Maria L. Gatto, Edoardo Mancini, Donato Orlandi, Daniele Cortis, Marco Sasso, Shanmugam Kumar   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Frictional strength regulated by roughness alignment. [PDF]

Sci Adv
Huang S, Zhang S, Wei D, Song H, Li Y, Cheng J, Zhao H, Song S, Li Z, Li L, Shao S, Zhai C, Xu M.   +12 more
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