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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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Shaping Matter with Acoustic Waves: From Particles to Functional Structures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Acoustic‐directed assembly is reviewed as a materials‐oriented strategy for organizing particles, polymers, metals, and biological systems into functional structures. The review distinguishes reversible manipulation from permanent structure formation through medium fixation, particle fixation, and in situ material generation, highlighting routes toward
Avraham Kenigsberg, Shelly Zlotnikov, Maya Fiorentino, Yuval Elias, Ornit Nagler‐Avramovitz, Hagay Shpaisman   +5 more
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Quantitative assessment of investment security risk in "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" countries [PDF]

Zhihui kongzhi yu fangzhen
The "21st Century Maritime Silk Road" is a new trade road linking China and other countries in the world in the new era, promoting the development of Asia Pacific integration.
MA Fengyuan, GE Shanshan, ZHANG Ren, WANG Yizhi
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CENTRAL ASIA – DEVELOPMENTS, CHALLENGES, STRATEGIES, PERSPECTIVES [PDF]

Romanian Journal of Historical Studies, 2021
Central Asia is the place where populations, conquerors, cultures and ideas have swept across the regions steppes, deserts and mountains for thousands of years, and has been the focus of ancient EastWest trade routes collectively called „The Silk Road”;
Paraschiva Bădescu
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THE BELT AND ROAD INITIATIVE AND THE DILEMAS OF LATIN AMERICA

Revista Tempo do Mundo, 2021
The article aims to discuss the role of the extension of the New Silk Road - or Belt and Road Initiative (BRI) - to Latin America in a framework of systemic transition.
Diego Pautasso, Tiago Soares Nogara, Carlos Renato Ungaretti, Gaio Doria   +3 more
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Microgel‐Based 3D Bioprinting: A Convergent Strategy Integrating Material Design, Jamming Dynamics, and Biological Function

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Microgel‐based 3D printed constructs represent a compelling and versatile innovation for engineering architecturally complex, dynamically remodelable, and biocompatible structures with high structural fidelity and bioactivity. By integrating material design, biofabrication, and biological function, these systems enable the development of adaptive ...
Elena Ghighină, Andreea Ioana Dinu, Jana Ghițman   +2 more
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New Silk Road infrastructure opportunities in developing tourism environment for residents better quality of life

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Residents’ communities feature to make innovative tourism development strategies. Residents play an indispensable role in developing policies and sustainable tourism infrastructure projects.
Gulnara Mamirkulova, Jianing Mi, Jaffar Abbas, Shahid Mahmood, Riaqa Mubeen, Arash Ziapour   +5 more
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Natural Biomaterials for Osteochondral Repair: From Source to Strategy

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Biological origin‐guided overview of natural biomaterials and therapeutic strategies for osteochondral tissue engineering. The circular diagram categorizes representative materials and strategies into plant/algae‐derived, microbial‐derived, animal‐derived, and human‐derived sources, centered on an osteochondral defect repair model.
Hengyu Liu, Hanyang Zhang, Wenbo Yang, Hao Chen, Jincheng Wang, Fei Chang   +5 more
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New‐Era Polymer Thermoelectrics: Material Innovations, Doping Frontiers, Decoupling Strategies, and Unconventional Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Leaftronics: Bio‐Fractal Scaffolds From Leaf Venation for Low‐Waste Electronics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Leaftronics” transforms naturally evolved leaf venation into quasi‐fractal scaffolds for sustainable electronics. Polymer‐infiltrated leaf skeletons can be used to fabricate ultra‐smooth, reflow‐ and thin‐film‐compatible decomposable substrates, while making the same lignocellulose networks conducting results in flexible transparent electrodes.
Rakesh Rajendran Nair, Hrisheekesh Thachoth Chandran, Karl Leo, Hans Kleemann   +3 more
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