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Unusual Swelling Behavior of Hydrogels Modified with Spiropyran as Appendage or Crosslinker

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Not so innocent after all—spiropyran crosslinkers in methylenebisacrylamide‐crosslinked poly(acrylamide‐co‐acrylic acid) hydrogels increase crosslinking density, but also, counterintuitively, increase swelling. Charge complexation, cooperative chemo‐mechanical effects, and aggregation may explain these observations.
Michael M. Lerch, Ankita Shastri, Thomas B. H. Schroeder, Amos Meeks, Shucong Li, Anna V. Shneidman, Michael Aizenberg, Joanna Aizenberg   +7 more
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Nanoindentation-Induced Deformation Mechanisms in Sintered Silver: A Multiscale Study Combining Experimental and Molecular Dynamics Simulations

Crystals
Sintered silver, widely used in WBG electronic device packaging for its excellent electrothermal properties and high-temperature stability, faces challenges in macroscopic mechanical behavior and reliability due to porosity, especially for pressureless ...
Yiping Sun, Xinyue Wang, Haixue Chen, Pan Liu   +3 more
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The effect of water storage on nanoindentation creep of various CAD-CAM composite blocks

BMC Oral Health, 2023
Background To study the effect of water storage (3 months) on the creep deformation of various CAD-CAM composite structures at the nanoscale and compare it to that at the macroscale.
Rasha A. Alamoush, Nesreen A. Salim, Alaaeldin Elraggal, Julian D. Satterthwaite, Nikolaos Silikas   +4 more
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Multiple Twinning in Nacre and Aragonite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electron backscatter diffraction map of a cluster of geologic aragonite, exhibiting single, double, and triple twins. The whole cluster is approximately 2 cm wide. Colors indicate crystal orientations, so that pixels where the a‐, b‐, and c‐axis is perpendicular to the image plane are green, red, and blue, respectively.
Connor A. Schmidt, William O. Nachlas, Bil Schneider, Xiaoming Mao, Eric Tambutté, Alexander A. Venn, Sylvie Tambutté, Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert   +7 more
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Anomalous Stiffening of a Conjugated Polymer During Electrochemical Oxidation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The electromechanical response of a thienothiophene‐based conjugated polymer with triethylene glycol side chains is investigated. Electrochemical nanoindentation and atomic force microscopy reveal a modest and reversible increase in elastic modulus at room temperature upon electrochemical oxidation.
Judith Pons i Tarrés, Di Zhu, Chiara Musumeci, Youngseok Kim, Dilara Meli, Hang Yu, Meghna Jha, Bryan D. Paulsen, Ruiheng Wu, Joost Kimpel, Zachary Laswick, Sri Harish Kumar Paleti, Yadong Zhang, Stephen Barlow, Seth R. Marder, Jenny Nelson, Jonathan Rivnay, Christian Müller   +17 more
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Selection Strategies for Flexible Pressure Sensor Electrode Materials Toward Ultrafast Response

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study reveals, for the first time, how the electrode–organic interface governs the temporal performance of flexible pressure sensors. By pairing high‐conductivity CVD PEDOT with commonly used metal electrodes, the authors demonstrate that interfacial energy alignment dictates microsecond‐scale response, providing a straightforward design strategy ...
Jinwook Baek, Yuxuan Zhang, Hyeondong Yang, Minyoung Kim, Pavlos P. Vlachos, Jeongok Choe, Bo‐Gyu Bok, Kejie Zhao, Han‐Wook Song, Min‐Seok Kim, Martin Byung‐Guk Jun, Sunghwan Lee   +11 more
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A Biologically‐Architected Wear and Damage‐Resistant Nanoparticle Coating From the Radular Teeth of Cryptochiton stelleri

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The ultrahard teeth of mollusks that feed on rocky substrates contain a wear‐resistant coating on their surfaces consisting of densely packed mesocrystalline magnetic nanoparticles within an organic matrix. These coatings display significant hardness and toughness through their highly controlled mesocrystalline architectures.
Taifeng Wang, Yu Chen, Ezra Sarmiento, Taige Hao, Atsushi Arakaki, Michiko Nemoto, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +7 more
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Toughening β‐Ga2O3 via Mechanically Seeded Dislocations

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
β‐Ga2O3 is promising for next‐generation semiconductors but its brittleness limits flexible and high‐precision applications. Here, mechanically seeded dislocations introduced by surface deformation improved damage tolerance in (001) β‐Ga2O3. Nanoindentation and characterization show dislocations suppress cleavage cracks by enabling stable plastic ...
Zanlin Cheng, Jiawen Zhang, Peng Gao, Guosong Zeng, Xufei Fang, Wenjun Lu   +5 more
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Biomimetic Ion‐Orchestrated Hierarchical Armored Hydrogel Coating for Robust and Multifunctional Surface Protection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by the skin‐toughening mechanism of marine sponges, an ion‐orchestrated structural engineering strategy is proposed to regulate the surface microstructure of hydrogel coatings, enabling the in situ formation of a robust armor layer that enhances mechanical integrity and provides multifunctional protection by suppressing fouling attachment and ...
Wenshuai Yang, Ziqian Zhao, Weiyan Zhu, Lu Gong, Yongxiang Sun, Haoyu Yang, Ling Zhang, Wenfei Zhang, Hao Zhang, Fang Zhou, Xuwen Peng, Hongbo Zeng   +11 more
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NANOINDENTATION AND ACCELERATED PROPERTY MAPPING OF PORTLAND CEMENT PASTE

Acta Polytechnica CTU Proceedings, 2020
This paper presents a new nanoindentation mode: accelerated property mapping (XPM) applied to one year old Portland cement paste. The principle of the innovative method is similar to classical quasi-static nanoindentation but the time necessary for ...
Jiří Němeček, Jiří Němeček, Jaroslav Lukeš   +2 more
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