Ultrasensitive Hierarchical Piezoresistive Pressure Sensor for Wide‐Range Pressure Detection
Advanced Intelligent Systems, 2021 Pressure sensitivity and wide range are two crucial features of flexible electromechanical sensors for applications in the next‐generation of intelligent electronics, such as wearable healthcare monitors and soft human–machine interfaces.
Jing Li +4 more
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Programmable mechanical metamaterials based on hierarchical rotating structures
, 2021 A novel two-dimensional (2D) mechanical metamaterial with highly programmable mechanical response under compressive load is presented in this paper by introducing hierarchical rotating structures, in which flexible structures are used to replace the ...
Fan, Zhengjie +7 more
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A highly efficient and durable solar evaporator based on hierarchical ion‐selective nanostructures
EcoMat, 2023 Solar‐driven vapor generation technology can directly produce clean water, but existing strategies remain challenging in achieving both high evaporation performance and good salt resistance due to complex water‐thermal management.
Lianhui Li +11 more
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Spatio-Temporally Efficient Coding Assigns Functions to Hierarchical Structures of the Visual System
Frontiers in Computational Neuroscience, 2022 Hierarchical structures constitute a wide array of brain areas, including the visual system. One of the important questions regarding visual hierarchical structures is to identify computational principles for assigning functions that represent the ...
Duho Sihn, Sung-Phil Kim
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Formation of Nanostructure during Replication of a Hierarchical Plant Surface
Nanomaterials, 2021 Plant and animal surfaces have become a model for preparing special synthetic surfaces with low wettability, reflectivity, or antibacterial properties. Processes that lead to the creation of replicas of natural character use two-step imprinting methods ...
Dora Kroisová +2 more
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Axial mechanical properties and robust optimization of foam-filled hierarchical structures
, 2023 In this study, two novel foam-filled hierarchical structures are proposed, namely foam-filled square hierarchical tubes (FSHT) and foam-filled circular hierarchical tubes (FCHT).
Gao, Y +6 more
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Hierarchical Fibers with a Negative Poisson’s Ratio for Tougher Composites [PDF]
, 2013 In this paper, a new kind of hierarchical tube with a negative Poisson’s ratio (NPR) is proposed. The first level tube is constructed by rolling up an auxetic hexagonal honeycomb.
Yongtao Sun +7 more
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Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2020 Skeletal muscles are considered to date the best existing actuator in nature thanks to their hierarchical multiscale fibrous structure capable to enhance their strength and contractile performances.
Carlo Gotti +8 more
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Monitored Tomographic Reconstruction—An Advanced Tool to Study the 3D Morphology of Nanomaterials
Nanomaterials, 2021 Detailed and accurate three-dimensional (3D) information about the morphology of hierarchically structured materials is derived from multi-scale X-ray computed tomography (XCT) and subsequent 3D data reconstruction.
Konstantin Bulatov +7 more
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Evaluation of hierarchical vector basis functions for quadrilateral cells [PDF]
, 2011 New hierarchical vector basis functions for quadrilateral cells are introduced, and the matrix condition numbers associated with their use are compared to those of existing vector basis families to assess the relative linear independence of the functions.
Peterson A. F. +4 more
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