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Nonplanar Bouligand Architectures for Enhanced Mechanical Performance in Cementitious Composites

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by the impact region of the Mantis shrimp dactyl club, nonplanar additive manufacturing translates sinusoidal Bouligand architectures into cementitious composites. Printing‐induced anisotropy and architected interfaces promote distributed damage and arrest crack propagation, enhancing strength and energy absorption.
Yu Wang, Loukham Shyamsunder, Phani Saketh Dasika, Andrew Nguyen, David Kisailus, Jan Olek, Jeffrey P. Youngblood, Pablo D. Zavattieri   +7 more
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Durability of Soft Pneumatic Actuators: A Review and Benchmarking Protocol

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Lack of durability is a key challenge hindering the broad scale adoption of soft pneumatic actuators (SPAs) in automation industries. This review provides a comprehensive overview of existing research on SPA durability, introduces a standardized durability benchmarking protocol to consolidate the testing of SPAs, and outlines promising directions for ...
Dickson Chiu Yu Wong, Yucheng Luo, Rob Bernardus Nicolaas Scharff   +2 more
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JITA Social Business Bangladesh Limited: Reaching the unreachable in Bangladesh

Field Actions Science Reports, 2014
This article analyses how the NGO Care has created with various stakeholders a new social enterprise –JITA.  By integrating distribution channel, market creation model, research initiative and multi dimensional partnerships JITA is exploring a powerful ...
Saif Rashid
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INCLUSIVE ENTREPRENEURSHIP PROGRAMMES IN ROMANIA IN 2014-2020. THERE IS AN IMPROVEMENT COMPARED TO 2007-2013? [PDF]

Annals of the University of Oradea: Economic Science, 2018
In addition to our previous research regarding inclusive entrepreneurship, this paper tries to analyse the progresses made by Romania in the field of entrepreneurship programmes for disadvantaged groups on labor market in 2014 - 2020 by comparison with ...
Pop Cohut Ioana, Anca Dodescu
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Continuum Robots in Surgery: From Engineering Design to Clinical Practice

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
The hyper‐redundant nature of continuum robot structures enables near‐infinite degrees of freedom leading to immense potential for medical applications. This review provides a historical background of continuum robots and novel ideas shaping their progress to current structural design, sensing technology, modeling techniques, and control methods.
Griffin Smith, Kaitlyn Clancy, Siwen Xie, Xiaochen Li, Sarah Khalife, Benjamin van der Woerd, Onaizah Onaizah   +6 more
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Phase‐Resolved Dual Control of Phenol Photodissociation at the Air–Water Interface From Structure‐Resolved Statistics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Faster phenol photolysis at the air–water interface arises from two cooperative factors: a more favorable initial microenvironment for solvent‐side electron stabilization, which lowers CI access, and a more labile hydrogen‐bond network, which more readily reorganizes to stabilize the dark‐state intermediate.
Qiang Yin, Jialing Shi, Jinping Zhao, Chengjun Li, Yongbo Xie, Benkun Tan, Da Wang, Ziyun Wang, Yu Mao   +8 more
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Black Hole Quencher‐Enhanced Plasmonic Photothermal Conversion

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Researchers have developed a universal method to boost plasmonic photothermal conversion by attaching black hole quencher (BHQ) molecules to matched metal nanostructures. This hybrid approach increases efficiency by roughly threefold, reaching up to 69.1% in the near‐infrared‐II window.
Ruiyuan Zhang, Xinru Chen, Lin Shen, Jin Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inflation bites: The dynamic interdependence between financial market volatility and energy consumption during pandemic

International Review of Economics & Finance
We examine how energy production, financial systems, and the COVID-19 pandemic influence inflation, eventually offering insights into cleaner energy transition policies.
Ahmed Imran Hunjra, Muhammad Azam, Nirosha Hewa Wellalage, Tapas Mishra   +3 more
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Rocket‐Inspired Sequentially Targeted Nanotherapeutics for Mitochondrial Regulation and Inflammatory Reprogramming in Ischemic Stroke

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A novel neutrophil‐hitchhiking, rocket‐inspired nanoplatform is developed to cross the blood‐brain barrier for sequential, spatiotemporal drug delivery. By responsive surface transformation in the ischemic penumbra, it precisely targets mitochondria to suppress Drp1‐mediated fission.
He Bai, Zihao Yong, Yang Li, Qingmin Chen, Yong Liu, Xiaomeng Guo, Fukai Li, Shicheng Tang, Zhuo Yang, Yufei Zhang, Ruwei Jie, Xiaohong Lv, Huacheng Wang, Chunming Huang, Liwei Xie, Jianqi Xiao, Qingchun Mu, Longguang Tang   +17 more
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Lipidomic Profile Reconstruction of Therapeutic Membrane Targets Using Physics‐Based Optimization with Limited Activity Data

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Using a minimal set of experimentally labeled antimicrobial and non‐antimicrobial peptides, we reconstruct the effective lipid composition of a pathogenic membrane ‐demonstrated at the example of bacterial membranes‐ through a physics‐based evolutionary molecular dynamics (Evo‐MD) approach. Optimization based on peptide insertion reveals broad‐spectrum
Maximilian Krebs, Herre Jelger Risselada
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