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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, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Advancing SafeWax, A Bio‐Inspired Superhydrophobic Coating, Toward Sustainable and Climate‐Resilient Crop Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study advances SafeWax, a bio‐inspired, fatty‐acids‐based superhydrophobic coating, by identifying an agriculturally compliant solvent and revealing how solvent‐controlled Fatty acid crystallization governs the coating's microscopic structure and performance.
Niv Ben‐Arie, Iryna Polishchuk, Franziska Tauber, Coralie Schneider, Elena Prudnikov, Alessia Calora, Silvia Milita, Simona Fermani, Mireia Alejandra Ibanez Revert, Ilaria Filippetti, Claudio Ratti, Matthias Kellermeier, Markus Rueckel, Boaz Pokroy   +13 more
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Spatial distribution and zonation characteristics of permafrost ground ice on the Qinghai‒Xizang Engineering Corridor, China

Advances in Climate Change Research
Permafrost ground ice represents a critical solid water resource and engineering medium, with high ice-content permafrost in the Qinghai‒Xizang Engineering Corridor (QTEC) exhibiting heightened sensitivity to degradation, which in turn limiting our ...
Xing-Wen Fan, Ze-Yong Gao, Jing Luo, Fu-Jun Niu, Wen-Jiao Li, Xu-Yang Wu, Zhan-Ju Lin   +6 more
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Research on the Characteristics of Thermosyphon Embankment Damage and Permafrost Distribution Based on Ground-Penetrating Radar: A Case Study of the Qinghai–Tibet Highway

Remote Sensing, 2023
In order to research the special embankment (thermosyphon embankment) damages and the distribution of permafrost under the Qinghai–Tibet Highway (QTH) embankment.
Shunshun Qi, Guoyu Li, Dun Chen, Fujun Niu, Zhizhong Sun, Gang Wu, Qingsong Du, Mingtang Chai, Yapeng Cao, Jianwei Yue   +9 more
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
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Analysing the environmental harms caused by coal mining and its protection measures in permafrost regions of Qinghai–Tibet Plateau

Environmental Protection and Natural Resources, 2017
The coal mining has brought a series of ecological problems and environmental problems in permafrost regions. Taking Muli coal-mining area as an example, this article attempts to analyse the environmental harms caused by coal mining and its protection ...
Wei Cao, Yu Sheng, Jichun Wu, Shengting Wang   +3 more
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Assessment of Freeze–Thaw Hazards and Water Features along the China–Russia Crude Oil Pipeline in Permafrost Regions

Remote Sensing, 2020
The China–Russia crude oil pipeline (CRCOP) traverses rivers, forests, and mountains over permafrost regions in northeastern China. Water accumulates beside the pipe embankment, which disturbs the hydrothermal balance of permafrost underlying the ...
Mingtang Chai, Guoyu Li, Wei Ma, Yapeng Cao, Gang Wu, Yanhu Mu, Dun Chen, Jun Zhang, Zhiwei Zhou, Yu Zhou, Qingsong Du   +10 more
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Freeze-Thaw Resistance of Thermal Insulating Materials Used in Cold Regions Engineering: A State-of-the-Art Review

Geofluids, 2022
Thermal insulating materials (TIMs) are widely used in roadways, tunnels, airfields, pipeline systems, and buildings in cold regions to prevent infrastructure from freeze damages and reduce energy consumption.
Lingjie Li, Dongna Li, Xiaoming Zhu, Kun Zhang, Yanhu Mu   +4 more
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Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
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Globalization of the Frozen Potato Industry [PDF]

This paper examines the globalization of the frozen potato industry, including the expansion of production and processing of potato products in the global market place, and future prospects for the industry.
Plummer, Charles, Makki, Shiva S.
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