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Behavioural changes in the city: The common black garden ant defends aphids more aggressively in urban environments

Ecology and Evolution
Urbanisation alters biodiversity patterns and threatens to disrupt mutualistic interactions. Aside from pollination, however, little is known about how mutualisms change in cities.
Hannah Gaber, Florian Ruland, Jonathan M. Jeschke, Maud Bernard‐Verdier   +3 more
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The Hole Truth: Why Do Bumble Bees Rob Flowers More Than Once?

Plants
Primary nectar-robbers feed through holes they make in flowers, often bypassing the plant’s reproductive organs in the process. In many robbed plants, multiple holes are made in a single flower.
Judith L. Bronstein, Goggy Davidowitz, Elinor M. Lichtenberg, Rebecca E. Irwin   +3 more
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Microstructure, Thermal Transport, and Dry‐Sliding Tribology of Powder‐Metallurgy Al7075 Composites Reinforced With Sol–Gel‐Derived ZnO–rGO Hybrid Nanoparticles

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Sol–gel‐derived ZnO–rGO hybrid nanoparticles enable Al7075 powder‐metallurgy composites to achieve concurrent gains in hardness and thermal conductivity while markedly lowering friction and wear. The hybrid architecture couples ZnO‐based load support with rGO‐assisted lamellar sliding and heat spreading, revealing a promising route toward lightweight ...
Bunyamin Aksakal, Cevher Kursat Macit, Merve Ayık, Hakan Tutumlu   +3 more
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Stretching the Printability Metric in Direct‐Ink Writing with Highly Extensible Yield‐Stress Fluids

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces “drawability” as a new metric for assessing printability in direct‐ink writing, focusing on gap‐spanning performance and speed robustness. By designing yield‐stress fluids with high extensibility, we demonstrate that extensional strain‐to‐break significantly enhances printability.
Chaimongkol Saengow, Samya Sen, Joaquin Yus, Eliza E. Lovrich, Amanda G. Hoika, Kelly M. Chang, Arielle A. Pfeil, Nellie Haug, Amy J. Wagoner Johnson, Randy H. Ewoldt   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Rationally Designed Bilayer Passivation Strategy for High‐Performance Vacuum‐Processed Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A bilayer “Anchor‐and‐Seal” passivation strategy using EDAI2 and 4MeO‐PEAI effectively mitigates surface defects in vacuum‐processed perovskite films through synergistic hydrogen bonding and Lewis base coordination. This approach optimizes interfacial energy alignment and suppresses non‐radiative recombination, enabling vacuum‐deposited p‐i‐n ...
Mohammadhossein Kohan, Sang‐Heon Lee, Jaswinder Singh, Sung‐Nam Kwon, Seok‐In Na   +4 more
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Quantifying Subsurface Weak in‐Plane Magnetization of Mixed Phase BiFeO3 by Scanning Nitrogen Vacancy Magnetometry

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We use scanning nitrogen vacancy magnetometry to directly image the weak in‐plane magnetic moments in mixed phase BiFeO3 at the nanoscale and quantify the local magnetic moments to be 18.8±2.0 μB/nm2 in the rhombohedral‐like phase and 1.5±0.6 μB/nm2 in the well‐known non‐magnetic tetragonal‐like phase.
Lei Wang, Zhewen Xu, Yuwen Xu, Björn Josteinsson, Simon Josephy, Dawei Zhang, Yunlong Sun, Heung‐Sik Park, Jihun Kim, Kanghyun Chu, Kyung Song, Danyang Wang, Chan‐Ho Yang, Andrea Morales, Jan Seidel   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Separate, separated, and together: the transcriptional program of the Clostridium acetobutylicum-Clostridium ljungdahlii syntrophy leading to interspecies cell fusion

mSystems
Syntrophic cocultures (hitherto assumed to be commensalistic) of Clostridium acetobutylicum and Clostridium ljungdahlii, whereby CO2 and H2 produced by the former feed the latter, result in interspecies cell fusion involving large-scale exchange of ...
Noah B. Willis, Eleftherios T. Papoutsakis   +1 more
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Invisible Polymer Walls Enhance Reorientational Optical Nonlinearity in Oligothiophene‐Doped Liquid Crystals

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The polymer wall stabilized dye‐doped liquid crystals (PWLCs) enhance the sensitivity of photoinduced molecular reorientation in dye‐doped LC systems. The PWLC with an invisible polymer wall successfully reduces the threshold intensity and functions as an optical limiter under the incidence of low intensity light laser source.
Junki Yokota, Yuya Nakata, Erika Katayama, Miho Aizawa, Kyohei Hisano, Shoichi Kubo, Atsushi Shishido   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Powering Nanocrystal‐Based Heat Engines With Light‐Emitting Metasurfaces That Influence Their Temperature

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Metasurfaces and other structured photonic environments can dramatically modify the absorption and/or light emission of semiconductors. However, the consequences of these changes on the temperature of the system are not well understood. The authors address this problem for colloidal nanocrystals and leverage their findings to convert light into ...
Hugo Kowalczyk, Yihao Yuan, Augustin Caillas, Amel Saidoun, Roméo Bonnet, Pascal Filloux, Emmanuel Lhuillier, Aloyse Degiron   +7 more
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Surprising Water Slipping Performance on Highly Hydrophilic PEG‐Derived Monolayer‐Covered Surfaces: Preparation, Mechanism, and Application

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Highly hydrophilic surfaces (water contact angle, ≈17.7°) exhibiting surprising water slipping performance (sliding angle, ≈7.3°) are successfully prepared via simple chemisorption of polyethylene glycol (PEG) organosilane and subsequent alkali‐treatment.
Hyeonjin Kim, Kouki Akaike, Jerred Wassgren, Hiroshi Kakiuchida, Masahisa Okada, Atsushi Hozumi   +5 more
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