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Beyond the Rocket: A Review of Propellantless Propulsion Technologies and Concepts

Journal of Engineering Research and Reviews
For decades, the dream of unfettered space travel, free from the constraints of traditional chemical rockets, has captivated humanity's imagination.
Mostafa Essam Eissa
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High‐Concentration Mesogen‐Assisted Exfoliation of Low‐Dimensional Nanomaterials for Achieving Ultralow‐Temperature Actuations of Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Most matter is nominally frozen in the polar regions or space, and liquid crystal materials are no exception. Consequently, soft actuators, including liquid crystal elastomers (LCEs), are inoperative under such extreme cold in response to stimuli, as their motion relies on mechanical deformation.
Hyeonseong Kim, Yeon Gyeong Ha, Dong‐Gue Kang, Chinedum O. Osuji, Dae Seok Kim, Changyeon Lee   +5 more
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Elliptical Orbit Design Based on Air-Breathing Electric Propulsion Technology in Very-Low Earth Orbit Space [PDF]

, 2023
Yuxian Yue, Jinyue Geng, Guanhua Feng, Wenhao Li   +3 more
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CRISPR/Cas9‐Assisted Microrobots for Fast and Ultrasensitive “On‐The‐Fly” Next‐Generation DNA Detection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work presents self‐propelled CRISPR/Cas9‐functionalized Au–MRs for rapid, amplification‐free, “on‐the‐fly” DNA detection. By harnessing motion‐assisted signal recovery, the platform achieved the limit of detection in low fM DNA concentrations, enabling detection across a wide dynamic range within only 5 min, which is significantly faster than any ...
Jyoti, Petr Michálek, Zbyněk Heger, Martin Pumera   +3 more
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Photoswitching Conduction in Framework Materials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This mini‐review summarizes recent advances in state‐of‐the‐art proton and electron conduction in framework materials that can be remotely and reversibly switched on and off by light. It discusses the various photoswitching conduction mechanisms and the strategies employed to enhance photoswitched conductivity.
Helmy Pacheco Hernandez, Stefan Hecht, Wolfgang Wenzel, Lars Heinke, Mariana Kozlowska   +4 more
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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
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Future of antimatter production, storage, control, and annihilation applications in propulsion technologies

International Journal of Thermofluids
Antimatter propulsion is a groundbreaking technology with potential to transform space exploration, enabling travel to distant locations once deemed impossible.
Sawsan Ammar Omira, Abdel Hamid I. Mourad   +1 more
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Device Integration Technology for Practical Flexible Electronics Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Flexible device integration technologies are essential for realizing practical flexible electronic systems. In this review paper, wiring and bonding techniques critical for the industrial‐scale manufacturing of wearable devices are emphasized based on flexible electronics.
Masahito Takakuwa, Kento Yamagishi, Sunghoon Lee, Yusaku Tagawa, Takao Someya, Tomoyuki Yokota   +5 more
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Phase Change Material‐Driven Tunable Metasurface for Adaptive Terahertz Sensing and Communication in 6G Perceptive Networks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study explores the benefits of metasurfaces made from functional materials, highlighting their ability to be adapted and improved for various high‐frequency applications, including communications and sensing. It first demonstrates the potential of these functional material‐based metasurfaces to advance the field of sub‐THz perceptive networks ...
Yat‐Sing To, Jiachen Du, Cyril Decroze, Laure Huitema, Aurelian Crunteanu, Hang Wong   +5 more
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Application of iodine plasma for electric propulsion

Авіаційно-космічна техніка та технологія
Most state-of-the-art electric space propulsion systems, such as gridded and Hall effect thrusters, use xenon as the propellant gas. However, xenon is very rare and expensive to produce, and it is used in a number of competing industrial applications ...
Sai Vigness Ramasamy, Leonid Bazyma
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