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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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Giant Magnetic Coercivity Driven by Spin‐Bag Ferromagnetism in Epitaxial Sr3YCo4O10+δ Films with Engineered 2D Oxygen Vacancy Ordering

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A giant magnetic coercivity and a vertical shift of hysteresis loops are demonstrated in Sr3YCo4O10+δ epitaxial films. The hard magnetic behavior originates from ferromagnetic spin bags stabilized within a long‐range ordered oxygen‐vacancy structure.
Yanbin Chen, Roger Guzman, Xiaomin Jia, Jialu Wu, Xing Xu, Li Sun, Jinbo Pan, Shixuan Du, Myung‐Hwan Whangbo, Wu Zhou, Jing Ma, Ce‐wen Nan, Chonglin Chen   +12 more
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Modeling Defects, Shape Evolution, and Programmed Auto-origami in Liquid Crystal Elastomers

Frontiers in Materials, 2016
Liquid crystal elastomers represent a novel class of programmable shape-transforming materials whose shape change trajectory is encoded in the material’s nematic director field.
Andrew eKonya, Vianney eGimenez-Pinto, Vianney eGimenez-Pinto, Robin L. B. Selinger   +3 more
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Buckling of a nonlinear elastic rod

Journal of Mathematical Analysis and Applications, 1974
AbstractThe buckling of a pin-ended slender rod subjected to a horizontal end load is formulated as a nonlinear boundary value problem. The rod material is taken to be governed by constitutive laws which are nonlinear with respect to both bending and compression. The nonlinear boundary value problem is converted to a suitable integral equation to allow
Olmstead, W.E, Mescheloff, D.J
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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
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A quasistatic unilateral contact problem with friction for nonlinear elastic materials

Mathematical Modelling and Analysis, 2007
The aim of this paper is to prove the existence of a solution to the quasistatic unilateral contact problem with a modified version of Coulomb's law of dry friction for nonlinear elastic materials. We derive a variational incremental problem which admits
Arezki Touzaline, Djamel Eddine Teniou
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Compressive behaviour of soft contact lenses and its effect on refractive power on the eye and handling off the eye.

PLoS ONE, 2021
PurposeTo investigate the stress-strain behaviour of 9 soft contact lens materials, that are commonly used in the market, under uniaxial compression loading.MethodsSeven types of hydrogel and two types of silicone-hydrogel soft contact lens materials ...
Ahmad H Shihab, Ashkan Eliasy, Bernardo T Lopes, Richard Wu, Lynn White, Steve Jones, Brendan Geraghty, Akram Joda, Ahmed Elsheikh, Ahmed Abass   +9 more
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From Geometry to Function: Programmable Mechanical Response in 3D‐Printed Adipose‐Inspired Soft Metamaterials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Geometry‐driven design of soft cellular metamaterials is systematically investigated by combining experiments, finite element modeling, and statistical prediction. The study quantifies how unit cell geometry and material properties govern stiffness, instability, densification, and energy absorption.
Alice Berardo, Gianmarco Dolino, Damiano Coato, Paolo Gargiulo, Emanuele Luigi Carniel   +4 more
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Bio‐Inspired Biopolymeric Implantable Platform for Localized and Sustained Drug Delivery in Solid Tumor Treatment

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A bio‐inspired biopolymeric implantable drug delivery platform enables localized and sustained release of 7‐ethyl‐10‐hydroxycamptothecin (SN‐38) in solid tumor treatment. The three‐dimensional (3D) structured crosslinked‐chitosan implants are fabricated via 3D‐printed molds and provide drug release over 3 months, significantly inhibiting tumor growth ...
Mercedes Lozano‐Garcia, Constantine Vogiatzis, Alejandra Planells‐Devesa, Emre Dikici, Caroline Vieira Maluf, Vasudev Vivekanand Nayak, Paulo G. Coelho, Lukasz Witek, Alicia Bilbao, Daniel Bilbao, Prasoon Mohan, Sapna Deo, Sylvia Daunert   +12 more
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Polarization‐Dependent Synaptic‐Like Electro‐Optical Response in Ferroelectric Nematic Liquid Crystals

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric nematic liquid crystals (FNLCs) offer fast, tunable polarization and low‐voltage operation but suffer from poor polarization retention at zero field. Semiconductor‐modified FNLCs enhance polarization retention and exhibit short‐ and long‐term electro‐optical responses, while also supporting spike‐type signal integrations.
Kutay Sagdic, Weiming Yao, Danqing Liu
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