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2D Skeletal Muscle Thin Film Actuators Enhance Efficiency of Biohybrid Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
2D skeletal muscle thin film actuators generate millinewton‐scale forces and millimeter‐scale strokes while remaining functional for over 30 days. Their force density is 20‐fold higher than 3D skeletal muscle actuators, enabling multi‐fin robots with tunable speed and multidirectional steering.
Maheera Bawa, Arielle Berman, Laura Schwendeman, Ferdows Afghah, Seanbiron Johnson, Ritu Raman   +5 more
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Fiber-optic microstructured sensors based on abrupt field patterns: theory, fabrication, and applications

Opto-Electronic Science
Fiber-optic sensing technology has the advantages of passivity, anti-electromagnetic interference, long-distance measurement, high sensitivity and high accuracy, small size, and adaptability to harsh environments such as high-vacuum, high-pressure, and ...
Yuxuan Yi, Wanlai Zhu, Zao Yi, Zigang Zhou, Shubo Cheng, Majid Niaz Akhtar, Sohail Ahmad   +6 more
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Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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Modeling and Analysis of Optical Time-domain Reflectometry in Strongly-coupled Multi-core Fiber

Guangtongxin yanjiu
【Objective】In the modern field of communications, optical fibers have become an important transmission medium in optical network systems due to their ultra-high transmission bandwidth and excellent optical properties.
XING Rui, YANG Zhiqun, YAN Hui, LIU Yaping, WANG Xutao, WANG Yanze, ZHANG Wendou, ZHANG Lin   +7 more
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Conformal integration of multifunctional nanomembranes on fibers towards intelligent optical platform

Nature Communications
Integrating materials onto optical fibers, enabling optical signal tuning during low-loss light transmission, is essential in optical communications, biosensors, and implantable devices.
Yunqi Wang, Yang Wang, Hong Zhu, Chunyu You, Yang Zong, Zhi Zheng, Xiang Dong, Yuhang Hu, Xiangzhong Chen, Enming Song, Jizhai Cui, Gaoshan Huang, Yongfeng Mei   +12 more
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
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Development Strategy of Key Active Optical Fiber Materials in China

中国工程科学
Fiber lasers and amplifiers are widely used in intelligent manufacturing, life and health, new generation of information technology, national defense, and military fields.
Song Xiangyang , 2, 3, Tang Guowu , Dong Guoping , 3, Yang Zhongmin , 2, 3   +8 more
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Designing Vanadium‐Based Oxide Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting: Experimental and Mechanistic Insights with Machine Learning

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review establishes structure‐property‐mechanism relationships across six modification strategies for V‐based oxide water‐splitting electrocatalysts: lattice engineering, heteroatom doping, interface engineering, carbon‐based hybridization, morphology engineering, and surface reconstruction and pre‐catalyst design, where dissolution is reframed as ...
Youness El Issmaeli, Amina Lahrichi, Hoje Chun, Rafael Gómez‐Bombarelli, Bruno G. Pollet   +4 more
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Upcycling Keratin‐Based Textile Waste Into High‐Performance Hybrid Fibers Via Tuning the Interfacial Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Keratin recovered from animal‐hair textile waste is fractionated and blended with cellulose to produce continuously spun hybrid fibers. Selecting the high‐molecular‐weight keratin fraction enables 30 wt.% keratin incorporation while maintaining high strength in dry and wet states.
Mian Zhai, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Inge Schlapp‐Hackl, Teemu Välisalmi, Markus Linder, Michael Hummel, Wenwen Fang   +6 more
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Hydroxypropyl Cellulose‐Based Meter‐Long Structurally Colored Fibers for Advanced Fabrics

Advanced Science
Structurally colored fibers are attractive alternatives to chemically colored fibers due to their rich optical properties, color stability, and environmental friendliness.
Qinan Qin, Yan Xu
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