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Unlocking the potential: How can parcel lockers drive efficiency and environmental friendliness in E-commerce?

Sustainable Futures
This paper analyses the efficiency and carbon footprint of different last-mile delivery solutions, including parcel lockers, pick-up points, and home deliveries.
Inger Beate Hovi, Eirill Bø
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High‐Entropy Alloy Interlayers Toward Advanced Joining for High‐Performance Structural Applications: Current Progress and Emerging Challenges

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
HEA interlayers offer a versatile route for joining high‐performance structural materials. Their compositional and structural design regulates interfacial reactions, suppresses brittle IMCs, and improves metallurgical bonding. Sandwich interlayers further integrate defect healing with precipitation strengthening, enabling improved strength–ductility ...
Lin Yuan, Jiafen Song, Jinglong Li, Jiangtao Xiong, Tao Yang   +4 more
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Planning location of parcel lockers using group Analytic Hierarchy Process in Spherical Fuzzy environment

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives
Parcel lockers have emerged as an effective solution to address inefficiencies in last-mile delivery. However, the selection of an appropriate location plays a crucial role in ensuring optimal service and enhanced logistic performance.
Sarbast Moslem, Francesco Pilla
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Innovative scenarios for modeling intra-city freight delivery

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2019
There has been a shift in the focus of freight modeling to the short-haul (or last-mile) due to an increase in online shopping. This study considers innovative freight delivery modes and multi-modal shifts, especially for the last-mile portion of intra ...
Amy M. Moore
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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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Analysis of User Attitudes and Behavior in the Context of Traditional Delivery and the Use of Parcel Lockers

Logistics
Background: The rapid development of e-commerce has led to significant changes in last-mile logistics, where innovative delivery solutions such as parcel lockers are increasingly considered to improve efficiency and flexibility.
Sreten Simović, Tijana Ivanišević, Aleksandar Trifunović   +2 more
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Biodegradable and Biocompatible Functional Polymers for Biomedical Applications

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable and biocompatible functional polymers integrate electrical, mechanical, and stimuli‐responsive functionalities while enabling programmed degradation under physiological conditions. This review introduces recent advances in conductive, shape‐memory, self‐healing, photocurable, and adhesive polymer systems, emphasizing material design ...
Won Bae Han, Shuvra Mondal, Sungkeun Han, Chan‐Hwi Eom, Venkata Ramesh Naganaboina, Suk‐Won Hwang   +5 more
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Conformational Switching of Proteins on Material Surfaces Enabled by Peptide‐Oriented Adsorption

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Responsive biointerfaces could be achieved using conformationally responsive proteins; however, their interconversion can be lost upon surface adsorption. Herein, we demonstrate that the incorporation a Au binding peptide into calmodulin allows for binding control on Au wherein the protein retains conformational switching. This capability was confirmed
Sakthirupini Ramamurthy, Kyle B. Meerbott, Lorenzo Travaglini, Garima S. Dobhal, Artur Sawicki, Marc R. Knecht, Tiffany R. Walsh, Dominic J. Glover   +7 more
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The Main Reasons for Customer Satisfaction with Parcel Locker Services: the Case of Lithuania

Regional Formation and Development Studies, 2022
Many business leaders agree that their performance depends on the quality of the service they provide and its impact on customer satisfaction. In order to survive in the market or to increase their market share, parcel service providers need to be aware of the key factors that affect customer satisfaction with parcel services.
Stašys, Rimantas, Švažė, Dovilė, Klimas, Edmundas   +2 more
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A spatial agent-based model of e-commerce last-mile logistics towards a delivery-oriented development

Transportation Research Interdisciplinary Perspectives, 2023
The spread of e-commerce has driven a major growth in the parcel delivery market, bringing a negative impact on sustainability, especially due to last-mile deliveries in urban areas.
Giovanni Calabrò, Michela Le Pira, Nadia Giuffrida, Martina Fazio, Giuseppe Inturri, Matteo Ignaccolo   +5 more
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