Decision-Theoretic Ecological Optimization of the Curzon-Ahlborn Heat Engine. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Huruntz KK +3 more
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Photo‐Switchable Molecular Module Programming PET Biodegradation in Aquatic Environments
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.We address the plastic durability paradox by integrating an itaconic acid–derived pyrrolidone module into polymer backbones. Sunlight in water triggers Norrish Type I ring‐opening and hydrophilization, enabling rapid biodegradation into nontoxic minerals.
Mohammad Asif Ali +16 more
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Architecture‐Driven Functional Coupling in Vertically Aligned Nanocomposites
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Vertically aligned nanocomposites define a growth‐engineered architecture in which vertical interfaces, strain fields, defect pathways, and phase connectivity are created simultaneously. This review shows how these architectural features couple ferroic, optical, ionic, electrochemical, and device responses, establishing design rules and open challenges
Md Shatil Islam‐Shanto +4 more
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Energy, Exergy, Economic, Environment Analysis and Multiobjective Optimization of the Organic Rankine Cycle Integrating an Absorption Heat Transformer Driven by Geothermal Energy for Data Center Power Supply and Waste Heat Recovery. [PDF]
ACS OmegaChen Z, Wu X, Li H, Hu H, Yang S.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Inspired by metal‐free carbonic anhydrases (CAs) that achieve efficient catalysis without metal cofactors, we herein report a sequence‐defined supramolecular peptoid platform that mimics metal‐free CAs and exhibits hydrolytic activity via a supramolecular assembly‐mediated proton‐transfer mechanism.
Progyateg Chakma +8 more
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Covalent Functionalization of 2D Semiconductors: A Roadmap to Advanced Electronic Devices
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Review presents recent advances in the covalent functionalization strategies for two‐dimensional semiconductors and their implementation in modern technologies. Layered materials are modified through diverse molecular chemistries (e.g., thiols, diazonium salts, alkyl halides, and electron‐deficient species) to tailor their surface properties ...
Ramiro Quirós‐Ovies +2 more
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Irreversibility, Uncertainty and Growth.
This paper studies the aggregate implications of microeconomic investment irreversibility and idiosyncratic uncertainty. We explore the ability of irreversibility to endogenously generate differences in firms sizes.INVESTMENTS ...
Jamet, S.
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Looking at Economics Through the Eyes of Thermodynamics: A New Approach to the Second Law of Economics, and Its Main Revelations. [PDF]
Entropy (Basel)Costa V.
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Genetically Programmed Shape‐Morphing of Engineered Living Materials
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Here, bacterial and mammalian engineered living materials (ELMs) are presented, in which living cells direct genetically programmed and enzymatically mediated shape‐morphing. The resulting deformation and shape‐recovery can be actuated in a genetically controlled manner by an ELM incorporating out‐of‐equilibrium counteracting biochemical reactions with
Jan Becker +7 more
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