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Liquids, crystals, and liquid crystals [PDF]

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, 1987
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Structure‐Guided Dynamical Mechanics in Bioinspired Double Twisted Laminated Thin Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work explores a dynamic mechanistic study of crack propagation and puncture testing via real‐time monitoring of crack initiation, propagation, and termination through nature‐inspired single and double twisted architectures fabricated from cellulose nanocrystals.
Justin Brackenridge, Olivia Harper, Jaejun Lee, Sergio Gonzalez‐Munoz, Vladimir V. Tsukruk   +4 more
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Ultrafast Electron Transfer Coupled with a Proton Relay in an Anisotropic Dual S‐Scheme Heterojunction for Overcoming Kinetics Mismatch in H2O2 Photosynthesis

Advanced Science
The kinetic mismatch between electron transfer and proton diffusion fundamentally limits the efficiency of photocatalytic H2O2 production. To address this, an anisotropic dual S‐scheme heterojunction (C3N4/SubPc‐1/C3N5) is constructed to achieve ...
Bing Wang, XiangBo Feng, Yao Liu, XinYi Wang, EnZhou Liu, YuZhen Zhao, ZongCheng Miao, Zhuo Li   +7 more
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Bio‐Inspired Synthesis of Macroporous Single Crystal Particles as Scattering Agents

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A general strategy is presented that delivers unique, single‐crystal microparticles that combine submicron macroporosity and uniform particle shapes. A bioinspired approach is used to occlude three distinct types of additives – polystyrene microspheres, polymer vesicles and amino acids – within calcite single crystals, and subsequent thermal annealing ...
Stephanie E. Foster, Gianni Jacucci, Ouassef Nahi, Thomas Kress, Zabeada Aslam, Stuart Micklethwaite, Alexander N. Kulak, Rik Drummond‐Brydson, Melinda J. Duer, Yi‐Yeoun Kim, Silvia Vignolini, Fiona C. Meldrum   +11 more
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Bioinspired Hierarchically Interconnected Supermacroporous Hydrogels via Dual‐Templating for Rapid Atmospheric Water Harvesting

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by lung alveolar architecture, a dual‐templating strategy combining CO2 bubble and ice templating creates mechanically robust super‐macroporous hydrogels with highly interconnected transport pathways. The resulting material achieves 3.37× faster moisture sorption and 1.72× higher solar‐driven water release than single‐templated counterparts ...
Pan Huang, Weiyan Zhu, Yuanyuan Wang, Hanxiao Zhang, Ying Hu, Siyuan Yang, Wenshuai Yang, Hongbo Zeng   +7 more
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Liquid Crystalline Structures Formed by Sphere–Rod Amphiphilic Molecules in Solvents

Crystals
Self-assembly of amphiphilic molecules is an important phenomenon attracting a broad range of research. In this work, we study the self-assembly of KTOF4 sphere–rod amphiphilic molecules in mixed water–dioxane solvents.
Nilanthi P. Haputhanthrige, Yifan Zhou, Jingfan Wei, Min Gao, Tianbo Liu, Oleg D. Lavrentovich   +5 more
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Single‐Step Recovery of Water from Stable Crude Oil‐Water Emulsion Using Surface Engineered Hybrid Inorganic‐Polymer Membranes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Atomic layer deposition is used to conformally surface engineer polymeric membranes to fabricate inorganic–organic hybrid membranes. These membranes have exceptionally strong attraction toward water even in high oil containing emulsions, which leads to an extremely strong hydration layer at the interface.
Bratin Sengupta, Yining Liu, Gaurab Sarkar, Rouke Cai, Katrina Sparks, Chi Thang Nguyen, Tamar Segal‐Peretz, Seth B. Darling, Jeffrey W. Elam   +8 more
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From Photoalignment to Structured Light: Liquid Crystal Platforms for Beam Shaping and Complex Wavefronts

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Photoaligned and photopatterned liquid crystal platforms provide programmable control of optical phase, polarization, and spin‐orbit interactions, enabling compact generation of structured light and complex wavefronts. This review highlights how tailored molecular orientations transform simple beams into designed optical fields, opening versatile ...
Le Zhou, Tingjun Zhong, Sijie Liu, Pouya Nosratkhah, Ke Xu, Yuzhen Zhao, Kristiaan Neyts   +6 more
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Three‐Dimensional Biomimetic Aerogel Conduits with Electro‐Ionic‐Immune Coupling Reverse the Pathological Cascade of Spinal Cord Injury

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A biomimetic aerogel conduit was engineered from a nanofiber of gelatin/poly(l‐lactic acid) doped with polypyrrole nanoparticles, integrated with tannic acid and Mg2+. This “electro‐ionic‐immune” strategy mimicked spinal cord properties, reduced calcium overload, inflammation, oxidative damage, promoted neural stem cell differentiation, suppressed ...
Qingxiang Liu, Xin Yu, Jingtong Li, Chunyang Zheng, Yukang Zhang, Mingyu Jia, Tan Tian, Weiwei Zheng, Pinghui Zhou, Yingji Mao   +9 more
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