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Emerging Devices Based on Two-Dimensional Monolayer Materials for Energy Harvesting
Research, 2019 Two-dimensional (2-D) materials of atomic thickness have attracted considerable interest due to their excellent electrical, optoelectronic, mechanical, and thermal properties, which make them attractive for electronic devices, sensors, and energy systems.
Feng Ru Fan, Wenzhuo Wu
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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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Artificial light-driven ion pump for photoelectric energy conversion
Nature Communications, 2019 Biological light-driven ion pumps move ions against a concentration gradient to create a membrane potential, converting sunlight into an osmotic potential. Here, the authors make an artificial ion pump which drives ions thermodynamically uphill against a
Kai Xiao +8 more
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Entropy, 2013 The paper introduces the notion of “entropy harvesting” in physical and biological systems. Various physical and natural systems demonstrate the ability to decrease entropy under external stimuli.
Edward Bormashenko
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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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Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.This review examines how cellular behavior is regulated by mechanical cues transmitted through soft biomaterials, from single‐cell mechanosensing to tissue‐level adaptation. It highlights why physiological relevance, rather than model complexity alone, is critical for translational mechanobiology and introduces a scoring framework linking material ...
Mathias Polz +9 more
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Plant Stress, 2022 Peanut (Arachis hypogaea L.) is an important cash crop in arid and semi-arid region. Study reports effects of salinity and osmatic stress on photosynthetic machinery along with physio-biochemical responses in peanut.
Kusum Khatri, Mangal S. Rathore
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Biointegrated Battery‐Based Electroceuticals
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Biointegrated batteries go beyond passive power to serve as active therapeutic platforms for delivering programmable electrical cues and bioactive agents. This review examines their mechanisms and applications and provides a framework to guide battery‐based therapeutic design and clinical translation.
Yan Zhou +6 more
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Plasma‐oxidized 2D MXenes subnanochannel membrane for high‐performance osmotic energy conversion
Carbon EnergyNanofluidic channels inspired by electric eels open a new era of efficient harvesting of clean blue osmotic energy from salinity gradients. Limited by less charge and weak ion selectivity of the raw material itself, energy conversion through nanofluidic ...
Zhengmao Ding +7 more
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Protocol for preparation of solid-state multipore osmotic power generators
STAR Protocols, 2023 Summary: Nanopore is an emerging energy-harvesting device that can create electricity directly from salt solutions. Here, we present a protocol for the preparation and structure optimization of solid-state multipore osmotic power generators.
Makusu Tsutsui +4 more
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