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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Interface Effects in Ultrathin Silicon on Insulator Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work establishes a systematic framework to discriminate how bulk and interface phenomena affect charge transport in ultrathin P‐doped silicon‐on‐insulator (SOI) films. For Si films below 15 nm, electrical characterization demonstrates that interface states drive charge transport, shifting the metal‐insulator transition (MIT) critical dopant ...
Andrea Pulici, Gabriele Seguini, Fabiana Taglietti, Roman Gumeniuk, Riccardo Chiarcos, Michele Laus, Johannes Heitmann, Marco Fanciulli, Michele Perego   +8 more
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Mesoscale Domain Evolution Mechanism during Alternating Current (AC) Poling of Relaxor Ferroelectrics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric domain variants that are energetically equivalent are expected to remain preserved during polarization reversal. However, phase‐field simulations reveal that inclined domain walls in relaxor ferroelectrics can undergo irreversible elimination during alternating current poling through a proximity effect driven by long‐range elastic ...
Yuan‐Jie Sun, Bo Wang, Long‐Qing Chen   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Support‐Controlled Reaction Pathways via Dynamic Sulfur‐Mediated Interfaces for Selective Urea Electrolysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Sulfur‐doped graphitized carbon nanofibers act as adaptive catalyst–support platforms, enabling dynamic sulfur‐mediated reconstruction and strong metal–support interactions. This unique behavior enhances catalyst stability and controls reaction pathways, achieving highly selective urea oxidation (∼92% N2) coupled with efficient hydrogen evolution ...
Melanie Guillén‐Soler, Lucía Vizcaíno‐Anaya, Ahmad Tayyebi, José Manuel Vila‐Fungueiriño, María del Carmen Giménez‐López   +4 more
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Submicron Metasurface Reconfigured Multiband Smart Windows

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work presents a submicron metasurface reconfigured multiband thermochromic smart window. By integrating subwavelength nanostructures into a Fabry−Perot resonator configuration, it mitigates conventional trade‐offs to simultaneously deliver high luminous transmittance and robust solar heating and radiative cooling modulation capabilities ...
Guanya Wang, Shancheng Wang, Bin Li, Xinyi Tian, Rong Liu, Jian Chen, Zhendong Dai, Shouqin Tian, Yi Long   +8 more
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Sustainable Electrochemical Synthesis of High‐Quality MXenes: Mechanistic Insights, Applications, Challenges, and Technological Prospects

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrochemical etching provides an eco‐friendly alternative to hazardous HF methods for MXene production. This approach facilitates the selective isolation of the A‐layer from MAX phases with tunable surface terminations. Controlling voltage, electrolytes, temperature, and duration enables the optimal structural integrity. Nevertheless, existing scale
Jagdeep Singh, Madhusudhana M Devadiga, Santosh K. Tiwari, AS Dhaliwal, Gurpreet Singh Selopal   +4 more
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Labour and the 1949 Parliament Act

Contemporary British History, 2012
This article examines the reasons why the Attlee government passed the 1949 Parliament Act to reduce the House of Lords' power to delay legislation from two years to one year. It is argued that this was a departure from pre-war Labour policy and ideology on the upper house, which was located firmly within the progressive tradition, and that therefore ...
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Labour acts to cut NHS costs

BMJ, 1997
The new British government made its first moves last week to change the NHS, although the BMA and others in the field regard the changes as more cosmetic than creative. They include deferring the next round of GP fundholders to save £120m ($192m) and an £80m cut in management costs, to release an extra £10m to treat breast cancer.
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Acts of Representation: A Labour of Love

2013
Exploring the relationships between performing and representing performing on the page has been and remains a labour of love for me (Barbour, 2011a, 2012a). This labour of love has led me to explore, articulate – and sometimes contribute to – emerging methods in qualitative, feminist, autoethnographic and performance research.
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Acting up as the labour ward matron

British Journal of Midwifery, 2016
As an experienced labour ward coordinator, Sophie Windsor has faced a variety of new challenges since stepping up to cover the role of labour ward matron.
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