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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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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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Analyzing the Costs and Benefits of Installing Unmanned Parcel Lockers: Focusing on Residential Complexes in Korea [PDF]

Journal of International Logistics and Trade, 2019
A boom in e-commerce in Korea has sparked off high daily-volume demand for small-sized home delivery services, which poses a great challenge to distribution networks, especially in urban areas where traffic congestion, accessibility, and pollution are ...
Hoang Thai Pham, Hyangsook Lee
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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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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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Locating Automated Parcel Lockers (APL) with known customers’ demand: a mixed approach proposal

European Journal of Transport and Infrastructure Research, 2023
Logistics Service Providers (LSP) are increasingly adopting Automated Parcel Lockers (APLs) to mitigate the operational pressure of last-mile logistics.
Filippo Maria Ottaviani, Giovanni Zenezini, Alberto De Marco, Antonio Carlin   +3 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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A Review of Literature on Vehicle Routing Problems of Last-Mile Delivery in Urban Areas

Applied Sciences, 2023
Logistics has long been important in an industrial society. Compared with the traditional structure of distribution, which requires freight to be delivered mostly to warehouses or retail stores, customers now often prefer packages to be delivered to ...
Reza Jazemi, Ensieh Alidadiani, Kwangseog Ahn, Jaejin Jang   +3 more
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Charge Generation and Recombination Pathways in All‐Polymer Bulk Heterojunction Solar Cells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Multimodal spectroscopy and device analysis reveal how field‐dependent charge generation, transport limitations, and non‐geminate recombination govern performance losses in all polymer solar cells. The results identify the key processes controlling charge extraction and recombination, providing insights for the design of more efficient all‐polymer ...
Shahidul Alam, Wejdan Althobaiti, Safakath Karuthedath, Christopher E. Petoukhoff, Amr Dahman, Khawla Alkhezaim, Oleksandr Matiash, José P. Jurado, Mariia Ferree, Ning Su, Jacob Blaskovits, Denis Andrienko, Vladimir Dyakonov, Andreas Sperlich, Vojtech Nádaždy, Tobin J. Marks, Antonio Facchetti, Frédéric Laquai   +17 more
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Ultrafast Thermal Shock Synthesis of CuNiSnLa Medium‐Entropy Metallic Glass for Sustainable Nitrogen Fixation via Plasma‐Coupled Electrocatalysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces an ultrafast thermal shock strategy to synthesize a CuNiSnLa medium‐entropy metallic glass (MEMG). The rapid heating and cooling process generates a robust, highly active catalyst for electrocatalytic nitrate reduction to ammonia (NRA).
Hongbo Chen, Peng‐Jun Deng, Yang Liu, Shenglong Huang, Shuo Sun, Haoxuan Li, Jiajia Lu, Panagiotis Tsiakaras   +7 more
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