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Thermal Self‐Protection of Zinc‐Ion Batteries Enabled by Smart Hygroscopic Hydrogel Electrolytes

, 2020
Efficient thermal protection is essential to battery safety. Here, a self‐adaptive strategy is demonstrated to circumvent the thermal runaway of aqueous zinc‐ion batteries, by using a zinc chloride‐enriched hygroscopic hydrogel electrolyte.
Kang Liu, Liu, Yipu, Peihua Yang, Cheng, Ting, Yang, Xuelong, Ting Cheng, Xuelong Yang, Huidong Liu, Yang, Peihua, Hong Jin Fan, Liu, Huidong, Chunzao Feng, Fan, Hong Jin, Liu, Kang, Yipu Liu, Feng, Chunzao   +15 more
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Autonomous Reconfigurable Modular Conductive Hydrogels for Adaptive and Degradable Bioelectronic Interfaces

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Bridging rigid electrodes with soft, irregular tissues demands more than conductivity alone. Modular conductive hydrogels autonomously reconfigure into conformal electrode‐tissue interfaces, coupling mixed ionic‐electronic conduction with tissue‐like mechanics, self‐healing, and degradability.
Matthew K. Burgess, Zofia B. Wolny, Zekun Liu, Karolina Cysewska, Malavika Nair   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Tough Cellulose Hydrogel Electrolyte with Low Solvation for Highly Reversible and Flexible Aqueous Zinc‐Ion Battery

Advanced Science
Recent advancements in hydrogel electrolytes for aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (AZIBs) have drawn considerable interest due to their soft nature, offering potential to overcome challenges including reversibility and flexibility. As the most abundant natural
Fan Chen, Xuan Li, Shi‐Peng Chen, Yilin Zhang, Hua‐Dong Huang, Hongli Yang, Shengyang Zhou, Zhong‐Ming Li   +7 more
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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Light‐Driven Quadrupedal Walking Biohybrid Robot With Antagonistic Muscle‐Rings and Inclined Joints

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a light‐driven quadrupedal walking biohybrid robot powered by antagonistic muscle‐rings that achieve alternating walking gait. Optical training improved reproducibility of cultured muscle tissues, while caffeine treatment enhanced contractile force.
Shotaro Saito, Byeongwook Jo, Tomohiro Morita, Shota Noda, Minghao Nie, Shoji Takeuchi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Advanced Flexible Robotic Systems for the Early Diagnosis and Treatment of Cancer and Cardiovascular Diseases

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible surgical robots are advancing minimally invasive interventions for cardiovascular diseases and cancer by enabling precise navigation through complex, submillimeter anatomical pathways. This review highlights recent innovations in actuation, bio‐integrated sensing, AI‐assisted control, and friction‐reduction technologies, discusses current ...
Hermione Truong, Chi Cong Nguyen, Hannah Thuy Truong, Kefan Zhu, Adrienne Ji, James Davies, Emanuele Nicotra, Bibhu Sharma, Jingjing Wan, Patrick Pruscino, Shing Wai Wong, Hoang‐Phuong Phan, Phuoc Thien Phan, Nigel H. Lovell, Thanh Nho Do   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Carboxylic bacterial cellulose fiber-based hydrogel electrolyte with imidazole-type ionic liquid for dendrite-free zinc metal batteries

Materials Reports: Energy
Aqueous zinc metal batteries are regarded as the most promising energy storage system due to their advantages of high safety, low cost, and high theoretical capacity.
Tianyun Zhang, Xiaohong Shi, Yu Li, Sambasivam Sangaraju, Fujuan Wang, Liang Yang, Fen Ran   +6 more
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Multidimensional and Multifunctional Laser‐Induced Graphene (LIG) for Point‐of‐Care and Wearable Biosensing, Theranostics, and Bioactive Interfaces Toward Personalized Healthcare and Regenerative Medicine

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Multidimensional laser‐induced graphene (LIG) spanning from 0D to 3D architectures is comprehensively reviewed for multifunctional biomedical platforms, including biosensing, theranostics, and bioactive interface applications, which highlights its potentials for point‐of‐care diagnostics, wearable health monitoring, smart drug delivery, and tissue ...
Li Zhang, Yurou Yuan, Xiaohong Ding, Wing Cheung Mak   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Mechano-electrochemically stable fibrous zinc-ion batteries with unified aramid nanofibres skeleton

Nature Communications
Hydrogel electrolyte-based fibrous zinc-ion batteries exhibit exceptional safety and flexibility, positioning them as promising candidates for wearable electronics.
Yinan Yang, Zhaochang Chen, Xianda Ma, Bingyun Ma, Haochen Huang, Gang Xiao, Miaoyi Xu, Zewan Lin, Yanyan Shao, Ziyan Xiong, Weifeng Yang, Xiaoxu Zhao, Jin Zhang, Tao Cheng, Xuan Zhang, Yuanlong Shao   +15 more
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Hygroscopic Nature of Lithium Ions: A Simple Key to Super Tough Atmosphere-Stable Hydrogel Electrolytes

Gel electrolytes have emerged as a versatile solution to address numerous limitations associated with liquid electrolytes in electrical energy storage (EES) devices, in terms of safety, flexibility, and affordability.
Keller, Stephan Sylvest, Kohestanian, Mohammad, Mehrali, Mehdi, Hasany, Masoud, Rezaei, Babak   +4 more
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