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Simulation-Driven Design of a Portable Basketball Hoop System

Proceedings, 2020
A simulation-driven design process is proven to generate improved, more robust, and cost-effective designs within a shorter design cycle. Incorporating simulation and optimization early in the design cycle helps shape the concept designs so fewer ...
Drew Burkhalter
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Experimental Analysis and Physics‐Based Analytical Model on Twisted and Coiled Artificial Muscles

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Twisted and coiled artificial muscles made from silver‐coated nylon fibers are investigated through experiments and analytical modeling. The actuators achieve contractions up to 19.3% and specific work of 8 kJ kg−1, though efficiency remains limited (≈0.15%) by thermal losses.
Salvatore Garofalo, Chiara Morano, Leonardo Pagnotta, Luigi Bruno   +3 more
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Robot‐Assisted Automated Serial‐Sectioning and Imaging for 3D Microstructural Investigations

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A fully automated 3D microstructure characterization platform provides new insights into materials. This robot‐assisted system performs serial‐sectioning, etching, and optical imaging to generate large‐volume 3D reconstructions with submicron resolution.
Michael Moschetti, Anton Lemiasheuski, Evgenia Bajer, Ilja Porohovoj, Artur Göbel, Anja Pfennig, Dirk Bettge, Robert Maaß   +7 more
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Micropatterned Biphasic Printed Electrodes for High‐Fidelity on‐Skin Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Micropatterned biphasic printed electrodes achieve unprecedented skin conformity and low impedance by combining liquid‐metal droplets with microstructured 3D lattices. This scalable approach enables high‐fidelity detection of ECG, EMG, and EEG signals, including alpha rhythms from the forehead, with long‐term comfort and stability.
Manuel Reis Carneiro, Telmo Lopes, André F. Silva, Carmel Majidi, Mahmoud Tavakoli   +4 more
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Entangled Multistable Origami with Reprogrammable Stiffness Amplification and Damping

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces a class of origami‐inspired metamaterials that overcome the limitations of existing multistable metamaterials by eliminating the need for rigid lateral confinements. Panel entanglement, snap‐through interactions, and instabilities synergy enable them to achieve extensive shape‐shifting, enhanced stiffness, and remarkable energy ...
Amin Jamalimehr, Abdolhamid Akbarzadeh, Damiano Pasini   +2 more
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Modulating Two‐Photon Absorption in a Pyrene‐Based MOF Series: An In‐Depth Investigation of Structure–Property Relationships

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study investigates H4TBAPy‐based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) ‐ NU‐1000, NU‐901, SrTBAPy, and BaTBAPy ‐ for multiphoton absorption (MPA) performance. It observes topology‐dependent variations in the 2PA cross‐section, with BaTBAPy exhibiting the highest activity.
Simon N. Deger, Helmy Pacheco Hernandez, Yang Cui, Hongxing Hao, Vanessa Ramm, David C. Mayer, Khai‐Nghi Truong, Roland A. Fischer, Jürgen Hauer, Mariana Kozlowska, Alexander Pöthig   +10 more
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Progressive adaptation of whole-limb kinematics after peripheral nerve injury

Biology Open, 2018
The ability to recover purposeful movement soon after debilitating neuromuscular injury is essential to animal survival. Various neural and mechanical mechanisms exist to preserve whole-limb kinematics despite exhibiting long-term deficits of individual ...
Young-Hui Chang, Stephen N. Housley, Kerry S. Hart, Paul Nardelli, Richard T. Nichols, Huub Maas, Timothy C. Cope   +6 more
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Multiband Switchable Microwave Absorbing Metamaterials Based on Reconfigurable Kirigami–Origami

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A reconfigurable metamaterial featuring tunable microwave‐absorbing and load‐bearing performance is proposed. Stretchable kirigami and bistable origami configurations are integrated as actuating components, and the synergistic deformation mechanisms are systematically analyzed.
Weimin Ding, Zhong Zhang, Zeang Zhao, Shengyu Duan, Panding Wang, Xiaogang Guo, Hongshuai Lei, Daining Fang   +7 more
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Mechanisms of Landslide Destabilization Induced by Glacier‐Retreat on Tungnakvíslarjökull Area, Iceland

Geophysical Research Letters, 2022
The massive worldwide deglaciation leads to more frequent slope instabilities in mountainous terrains. The physical processes leading to such destabilizations are poorly constrained due to little monitoring of dynamic parameters at the local scale.
Pascal Lacroix, Joaquin M. C. Belart, Etienne Berthier, Þorsteinn Sæmundsson, Kristín Jónsdóttir   +4 more
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Reconfigurable Metamirrors Based on Compliant Mechanisms

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Providing the basis for numerous practical applications, the reconfigurability of metadevices is of great importance. Through the integration of controlled mechanical deformation with chiral meta‐atoms, a compliant mechanism based metamirror is demonstrated for active control over the polarization of electromagnetic waves.
Galestan Mackertich‐Sengerdy, Lei Kang, Sawyer D. Campbell, Douglas H. Werner   +3 more
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