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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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Elastomer with Microchannel Nanofiber Array Inspired by Rabbit Cornea Achieves Rapid Liquid Spreading and Reduction of Frictional Vibration Noise

Biomimetics
Reducing friction-induced squeal noise is a common issue in daily life and industrial production, particularly for elastomers. However, adjusting structure and wettability in wet environments to solve the friction-induced squeal noise remains a challenge.
Bowen Zhang, Lei Jiang, Ruochen Fang
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Implantable Ionic Memristors Based on Natural Polymer Heterojunctions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We report an implantable natural polymer‐based ionic memristor composed of hyaluronic acid, chitosan, and PDMS. The device achieved 98.94% accuracy in MNIST classification while reducing training time by 36.8% compared with a conventional artificial neural network (ANN).
Dong‐yup Lee, Byung Ik Park, Gihyeon Yim, Hyunjae Yoo, Sangjun Ma, Jundong Park, Jeong‐Yun Sun   +6 more
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Hydrothermal Investigation of a Microchannel Heat Sink Using Secondary Flows in Trapezoidal and Parallel Orientations

Energies, 2020
Thermal performance enhancement in microchannel heat sinks has recently become a challenge due to advancements in modern microelectronics, which demand compatibility with heat sinks able to dissipate ever-increasing amounts of heat.
Safi Ahmed Memon, Taqi Ahmad Cheema, Gyu Man Kim, Cheol Woo Park   +3 more
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Gradient‐Conductivity Architecture Enables Synchronous Enhancement of Sensitivity and Detection Range in Multifunctional All‐Paper Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A gradient‐engineered all‐paper sensor is fabricated by integrating MXene and in situ grown AgNPs within hierarchical cellulose networks. The device breaks the sensitivity–detection range trade‐off through cascaded conductive pathways, enabling ultrahigh pressure sensitivity, humidity–pressure decoupled dual‐mode sensing, and outstanding EMI shielding,
Ao Li, Jun Xu, Dezhong Xu, Zhaohui Zhang, Jiyi Li, Daxian Cao, Kefu Chen, Mizi Fan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Study on the Coupling Effect of Heat Transfer and Refrigerant Distribution in the Flat Tube of a Microchannel Evaporator

Energies, 2022
Refrigerant maldistribution severely deteriorates the heat transfer performance of a microchannel evaporator. Compared with the refrigerant distribution among flat tubes along the header, refrigerant distribution among microchannels in the flat tube in ...
Wenju Hu, Xin Zhang
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Bio‐Inspired Artificial Ionic Mechanoreceptor

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A skin‐inspired artificial mechanoreceptor based on ionic interactions is presented for biomimetic tactile sensing. Pressure‐driven ionic redistribution within microfluidic channels generates a self‐powered electrical signal without external bias. The generated waveform exhibits mechanoreceptor‐like temporal features, including overshoot and undershoot,
Mohammad Akbari, Jeppe Don, Lasse A. N. Pedersen, John Noee, Rassoul Tabassian   +4 more
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Single-phase flow and flow boiling of water in horizontal rectangular microchannels [PDF]

, 2013
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel UniversityThe current study is part of a long term experimental project devoted to investigating single-phase flow pressure drop and heat transfer, flow boiling ...
Mirmanto
core   +4 more sources

Effect of Process Parameters and Material Properties on Laser Micromachining of Microchannels

Micromachines, 2019
Laser micromachining has emerged as a promising technique for mass production of microfluidic devices. However, control and optimization of process parameters, and design of substrate materials are still ongoing challenges for the widespread application ...
Matthew Benton, Mohammad Robiul Hossan, Prashanth Reddy Konari, Sanjeewa Gamagedara   +3 more
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Protein‐Nanoarchitectures for Low‐Field Intracellular Electro‐Immunomodulation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
DHQ‐SDH‐mediated binding of AuNPs drives the formation of interconnected, chain‐like nanoarchitectures with enhanced electrical conductivity. These conductive assemblies undergo macrophage uptake and enable low‐field electrical stimulation, promoting M1‐to‐M2 phenotypic switching with decreased iNOS and increased CD206 expression. Such protein‐mediated
Viktoriya Pakharenko, Djanira Rodrigues Negrão, Tanmay Gupta, Robert Jeng, Otavio Augusto Titton Dias, Maia Jaffer‐Diaz, Dinesh Christendat, Mohini Sain   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source