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Versatile Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators Enabled by Fiber‐Polymer Composite Fabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work reports composite Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators with embedded Kevlar fibers that convert pneumatic or hydraulic pressure into powerful linear motion. A novel precise manufacturing technique is used to systematically explore how design variables influence actuator mechanics and dynamics.
William J. Townsend, Jeongmin Kim, Samuel Tsai, Yichao Shi, Sameh Tawfick, James H. Pikul   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

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
wiley   +1 more source

Transport of a colloidal particle driven across a temporally oscillating optical potential energy landscape

New Journal of Physics, 2019
A colloidal particle is driven across a temporally oscillating one-dimensional optical potential energy landscape and its particle motion is analysed. Different modes of dynamic mode locking are observed and are confirmed with the use of phase portraits.
Joshua L Abbott, Arthur V Straube, Dirk G A L Aarts, Roel P A Dullens   +3 more
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Electrostatically‐Stabilized PEG‐Free Lipid Nanoparticles for Systemic Nucleic Acid Delivery

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work describes non‐PEGylated layered lipid nanoparticles (nonPEG LLNPs), a gene delivery platform that improves upon standard PEGylated LNPs via electrostatic adsorption of charged polymers. nonPEG LLNPs maintain colloidal stability under biological stresses, enhance circulation time, and mitigate accelerated blood clearance and hepatic ...
Namita Nabar, Deeksha Kumaresh, Eduardo Nombera Bueno, Mae Pryor, Paula T. Hammond   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Waveguide Array Fiber Laser

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2012
A waveguide array fiber laser is demonstrated. An AlGaAs waveguide array is used as a saturable absorber to achieve passive mode-locking in an erbium-doped fiber laser. The output consists of a very regular train of pulses. Autocorrelations show that the
Qing Chao, Darren D. Hudson, J. Nathan Kutz, S. T. Cundiff   +3 more
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Chemically Fueled Systems Chemistry Across Length Scales

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Chemically fueled reaction cycles regulate processes through single and multiple catalytic sites on the molecular and assembly scale. This gives rise to unique kinetically controlled properties/functions like spatio‐temporal catalysis, oscillations, optical properties, and perform work.
Brigitte A. K. Kriebisch, Job Boekhoven
wiley   +1 more source

Critical Cavities Design for High-Repetition-Frequency Self-Starting Kerr-Lens Mode-Locked Lasers

Photonics
The mode-locking mechanism of Kerr-lens mode-locked lasers is analyzed using the nonlinear ABCD matrix formalism. Our findings demonstrate that positioning the Kerr medium at the beam waist and operating the resonator near the stability boundary ...
Xinxin Wang, Xing Chen, Zhigang Zhang, Bin Luo, Song Yu   +4 more
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Charge Generation and Recombination Pathways in All‐Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Multimodal spectroscopy and device analysis reveal how field‐dependent charge generation, transport limitations, and non‐geminate recombination govern performance losses in all polymer solar cells. The results identify the key processes controlling charge extraction and recombination, providing insights for the design of more efficient all‐polymer ...
Shahidul Alam, Wejdan Althobaiti, Safakath Karuthedath, Christopher E. Petoukhoff, Amr Dahman, Khawla Alkhezaim, Oleksandr Matiash, José P. Jurado, Mariia Ferree, Ning Su, Jacob Blaskovits, Denis Andrienko, Vladimir Dyakonov, Andreas Sperlich, Vojtech Nádaždy, Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Frédéric Laquai   +17 more
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Replica symmetry breaking in the aperiodic pulsating regime of a passive mode-locked ultrafast fiber laser

Communications Physics
While replica symmetry breaking (RSB) was originally formulated in spin-glass theory, its photonic counterpart has been realized in the last decade.
Yishan Chen, Jiafeng Shan, Jiangying Xia, Deng Pan, Benli Yu, Anderson S. L. Gomes, Ernesto P. Raposo, Zhiqiang Wang   +7 more
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