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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Shellac, a centuries‐old natural resin, is reimagined as a green material for flexible electronics. When combined with silver nanowires, shellac films deliver transparency, conductivity, and stability against humidity. These results position shellac as a sustainable alternative to synthetic polymers for transparent conductors in next‐generation ...
Rahaf Nafez Hussein +4 more
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, 2023 Natural dyes, natural mordanting agent, natural finishing agent and standard industrialized process of natural dyeing and finishing can be established by developing completely eco-friendly natural dyes and natural finishing agent which can be ap plied on cotton textiles (Oeko-Tech Products) by adopting a newer technique of simultaneous Mordanting ...
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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 +6 more
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Electrospun Wood‐Derived Biopolymers as Electrodes in Electrochemical Energy Storage Technologies
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Electrospinning transforms wood‐derived cellulose and lignin into architecturally defined, binder‐free carbon electrodes with tuneable porosity and functionality. This review shows how fibre design enables decoupled charge and mass transport, enhancing performance across battery systems, while identifying key challenges in spinnability, scalability ...
Michael W. Thielke +3 more
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Colour, health and wellbeing: the hidden qualities and properties of natural dyes [PDF]
, 2013 This paper addresses the questions: Is it feasible that the chemicals present in the natural dyes of both plants and insects which in the past, man has exploited for their colour, could exhibit other properties?
Wells, Kate
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Emerging DSSC designs: Comparative insights into purified and crude natural dyes as sensitisers
Next MaterialsDye-sensitised solar cells (DSSCs) sensitised with natural dyes are among the emerging solar cell technologies that have attracted significant interest among researchers due to their abundance, ease of preparation, and biodegradability.
Stanley Ferdinand Mwanga +3 more
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Indolo‐Fused MR‐TADF Materials and their Application in Organelle‐Targeted Bioimaging
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Using indolo‐fusion and sulfur bridging, four multi‐resonance thermally activated delayed fluorescent (MR‐TADF) materials are reported based on the quinolino[3,2,1‐de]acridine‐5,9‐dione (QAO) framework. Functionalization of these dyes with phosphonium groups enables cellular imaging with mitochondrial targeting in glassy organic nanoparticles ...
Sushil Sharma +5 more
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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 +6 more
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Results in ChemistryVarious antibacterial agents, including chemical agents, nanoparticles, and natural dyes, have been used to enhance the antimicrobial properties of textiles.
Ali Shams Nateri, Fatemeh Shams Nateri
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Magnesium‐Based Transient Bioelectronics, Bio‐Optics and Bio‐Scaffolds
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This paper reviews the state of the art and recent advances in magnesium‐based thin‐film, foils, and scaffolds for applications in transient bio‐optics, bioelectronics and tissue engineering. The design principles, fabrication methods, material properties, and integration strategies are discussed in detail.
Massimo Mariello, Yves Leterrier
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