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Photothermomechanically Efficient, Low‐Cost, High‐Cycle‐Life, Hybrid MXene‐Polymer Actuators

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The addition of MXenes to elastomer‐plastic‐paper films enables the creation of easily prepared actuators that are scalable for small robotic applications. Known as MXene‐polymer Trilayer Actuators (MPTAs), they bend from UV light. Their usefulness is demonstrated through kirigami‐inspired flower‐shaped art design, parallel manipulator for waveguiding,
Ken Iiyoshi, Georgios Korres, Orsolya Nagy, Gabriel Roldán, Panče Naumov, Stefan Schramm, Mohamad Eid   +6 more
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Hydrogel‐Based Functional Materials: Classifications, Properties, and Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Conductive hydrogels have emerged as promising materials for smart wearable devices due to their outstanding flexibility, multifunctionality, and biocompatibility. This review systematically summarizes recent progress in their design strategies, focusing on monomer systems and conductive components, and highlights key multifunctional properties such as
Zeyu Zhang, Zao Cheng, Patrizio Raffa
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Disrupting J‐Aggregation in Triazatruxene Dimers to Develop Responsive Luminescent Inks for Anti‐Counterfeiting Applications

Advanced Optical Materials, Volume 13, Issue 8, March 13, 2025.
This study investigates the stimulus‐responsive behavior of trialkylated triazatruxene dimers for third‐generation luminescent security inks. In particular, the derivative with flexible dodecyl chains displays high‐contrast, reversible color changes upon heating or shear, driven by liquid crystalline phase transitions and involving J ...
Raúl Martín, Marcelo Echeverri, Francisco González, Alicia de Andrés, M. Carmen Ruiz Delgado, Alberto Concellón, José Luis Serrano, Berta Gómez‐Lor   +7 more
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Molecular Engineering for Enhanced Second‐Order Nonlinear Response in Spontaneously‐Oriented Evaporated Organic Films

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
Intramolecular bridge‐locking frustrates detrimental anti‐parallel packing in evaporated organic films. This design enhances net polar orientation, leading to a twofold off‐resonance increase in the second‐order nonlinear susceptibility (χ(2)) without electric‐field poling.
Pierre‐Luc Thériault, Heorhii V. Humeniuk, Zhechang He, Gabriel Juteau, Alexandre Malinge, Dmytro F. Perepichka, Stéphane Kéna‐Cohen   +6 more
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Microcapsule‐Mediated Vibration‐Induced Emission for Real‐Time Visualization of Polymer Deformation

Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.
A mechanochromic microcapsule is reported that combines vibration‐induced luminescence (VIE) with mechanically controlled release functionality. By embedding the microcapsules into a polymer matrix, the conformational changes of VIE molecules can be precisely amplified into visual fluorescent color signals, enabling real‐time, high‐sensitivity ...
Jie Sun, Zizhao Huang, Zhenyi He, Ying Hu, Chunli Li, Zhiqin Wu, He Tian, Xiang Ma   +7 more
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Multitasking Smart Intestinal Capsule Robot: A Cutting‐Edge Platform for Sampling, Diagnosis, and Therapy

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Gut microbiota and biomarkers are linked to diseases like neurological disorders and metabolic syndromes. Ingestible capsule robots enable minimally invasive gut health assessment. This article proposes a promising direction for the advancement of capsule robots, integrating in situ sampling, real‐time diagnostics, and personalized therapy.
Xizong Chen, Libing Huang, Lei Ren, Miao Wang   +3 more
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Ultrasound-activated mechanochemical reactions for controllable biomedical applications

Smart Materials in Medicine
Intramolecular bonds in small organic molecules, macromolecules, and organic-inorganic hybrids are broken or formed by ultrasound-activated mechanical force that can be applied with spatial and temporal precision for contactless external control of ...
Maocheng Zuo, Rong Xiao, Fangxue Du, Chong Cheng, Raul D. Rodriguez, Lang Ma, Bihui Zhu, Li Qiu   +7 more
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JOYCE3.0: A General Protocol for the Specific Parameterization of Accurate Intramolecular Quantum Mechanically Derived Force-Fields [PDF]

Samuele Giannini, P. M. Martinez, Abderrahmane Semmeq, J. Gálvez, Anna Piras, Alessandro Landi, Daniele Padula, J. G. Vilhena, Javier Cerezo, Giacomo Prampolini   +9 more
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Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi, Hemin Pan, Yang Zong, Yongfeng Mei, Jizhai Cui   +4 more
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Hypertrophic cardiomyopathy mutations Y115H and E497D disrupt the folded-back state of human β-cardiac myosin allosterically

Nature Communications
At the molecular level, clinical hypercontractility associated with many hypertrophic cardiomyopathy (HCM)-causing mutations in β-cardiac myosin appears to be driven by their disruptive effect on the energy-conserving, folded-back ‘OFF’-state of myosin ...
Neha Nandwani, Debanjan Bhowmik, Camille Glaser, Matthew Carter Childers, Rama Reddy Goluguri, Aminah Dawood, Michael Regnier, Anne Houdusse, James A. Spudich, Kathleen M. Ruppel   +9 more
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