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From the Discovery of the Giant Magnetocaloric Effect to the Development of High‐Power‐Density Systems

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz, Yaroslav Mudryk, Jun Cui, Lucas Griffith, Duane D. Johnson, Julie Slaughter   +5 more
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Toward Practical Benchmarks of Ising Machines: A Case Study on the Quadratic Knapsack Problem

IEEE Access
Combinatorial optimization has wide applications from industry to natural science. Ising machines bring an emerging computing paradigm for efficiently solving a combinatorial optimization problem by searching a ground state of a given Ising model ...
Kentaro Ohno, Tatsuhiko Shirai, Nozomu Togawa   +2 more
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4D Printing of Multimaterial Flexible Magneto‐Active Polymers

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Magneto‐active polymers are 3D‐printed with tunable mechanical and magnetic properties using both superparamagnetic and hard ferromagnetic fillers. Nano‐CT imaging reveals the spatial distribution of particles within the matrix. Programmable magnetization patterns and soft, flexible architectures enable responsive actuation, offering exciting ...
Naji Tarabay, Mahtab Shakibmanesh, Javier Alonso López Medina, Hongyi Guan, Alan Mitchell, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Camilo Velez   +6 more
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Accelerating Discovery to Deployment: Argonne's Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) and Its Role in Scaling Materials Technologies for Water and Resource Solutions

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
In this Perspective, we highlight the processing science and scale‐up capabilities of the Materials Engineering Research Facility (MERF) at the U.S. Department of Energy's Argonne National Laboratory, with an emphasis on practical solutions for sustainable water and critical resource recovery. We demonstrate how national laboratories bridge fundamental
Yuepeng Zhang, Bratin Sengupta, Xiaoao Shi, Haihui Pu, Jeffrey W. Elam, Gregory K. Krumdick, Jessica Durham Macholz, Allison Bennett Irion, Junhong Chen, Seth B. Darling   +9 more
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An Integrated All‐Optical Ising Machine with Unlimited Spin Array Size and Coupling

Advanced Photonics Research
Artificial spin systems are used to solve combinatorial optimization problems by mapping them to the ground state search of the Ising model. Ising machines of various designs, in fields as diverse as photonics and electronics, have been proposed and ...
Yuchi Lan, Guanyu Chen, Yuan Gao, Wujie Fu, Aaron J. Danner   +4 more
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An Area-Efficient Continuous-Time Ising Machine Featuring Dynamic Threshold Annealing

IEEE Access
Recently, Ising machines have received rising attention as efficient alternatives for solving combinatorial optimization problems (COPs), compared to von Neumann architectures with high power consumption and prolonged latencies. While prior discrete-time
Yufeng Wu, Xiaofeng Li, Jiayin Song, Yi Zhan, Shushan Qiao   +4 more
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Modeling higher-order correlations within cortical microcolumns. [PDF]

PLoS Computational Biology, 2014
We statistically characterize the population spiking activity obtained from simultaneous recordings of neurons across all layers of a cortical microcolumn.
Urs Köster, Jascha Sohl-Dickstein, Charles M Gray, Bruno A Olshausen   +3 more
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Smart and Sustainable Sizing: Investigating the Sensing Behavior of Glass Fabrics Coated With Waterborne Polyurethane/Graphene Dispersions

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Waterborne polyurethane/graphene formulations are developed as piezoresistive coatings on glass fabric to enable flexible strain sensing. The graphene‐enabled conductive network provides a stable electromechanical response under cyclic compression. The coating demonstrates reliable pressure‐dependent resistance changes, highlighting its potential for ...
Vishnu Vijayan Pillai, Premika Govindaraj, Sai Aditya Pradeep, Olivia Sequerth, Srikanth Pilla, Franz Konstantin Fuss, Peter Kingshott, Nishar Hameed, Nisa V Salim   +8 more
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Penalty Coefficient Adjustment Technique for Extended Ising Machines

IEEE Access
We have developed an extended Ising machine that extends the energy function, which is restricted to a binary-quadratic form in conventional Ising machines, to include a variety of penalty functions representing inequality constraints and higher-order ...
Fang Yin, Hirotaka Tamura, Yuki Furue, Yasuhiro Watanabe   +3 more
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Microfluidic Engineering of Chitosan‐Coated Nanoemulsions for Controlled Release and Stability in Space Pharmaceutics

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Microfluidic engineering enables the fabrication of chitosan‐coated, melatonin‐loaded nanoemulsions with controlled release and enhanced physicochemical stability for space pharmaceutics. Interfacial biopolymer coating modulates droplet behavior under accelerated thermal stress and simulated microgravity.
Modupe Adebowale, Nguyen Van Duc Long, Philip M Williams, Volker Hessel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source