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Designing Polymer Nanocomposites for X‐Ray Shielding: Mechanisms, Architectures, and Scalable Processing

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights advances in lightweight, lead‐free polymer nanocomposites for diagnostic X‐ray shielding. By linking filler chemistry, dispersion, architecture, and photon interaction mechanisms, it establishes structure–performance relationships guiding material design.
Aklilu G. Messele, Hossein Ipakchi, Tizazu H. Mekonnen   +2 more
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Intrinsic Photoactive Star ZnPc–Poly(glutamate) Nanoplatforms for Multimodal Glioblastoma Therapy and Brain‐Targeted Delivery

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An intrinsic photoactive star‐shaped zinc phtalocyanine‐poly(L‐glutamic acid) (ZnPc‐PGA) nanoplatform for multimodal glioblastoma (GBM) therapy and brain‐targeted elivery. A ZnPc‐PGA‐based multifunctional theranostic nanocarrier platform enables image‐guided, multimodal GBM therapy. ZnPc‐PGA nanocarriers support the integration of fluorescence imaging,
Amina Benaicha‐Fernández, Teodora Ranđelović, Ana Armiñán, Víctor Sebastián, Manuel Fuentes, Cristián Huck‐Iriart, Esther Masiá, Paula Carrascosa‐Marco, Pablo Juanes‐Velasco, Snežana Đorđević, Clara Bayona, Ignacio Ochoa, Maria Medel, Inmaculada Conejos‐Sánchez, María J. Vicent   +14 more
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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
wiley   +1 more source

Chamber‐Specific Decellularized Extracellular Matrices Differentially Modulate Cardiomyocyte Subtypes to Drive Engineered Heart Tissue Development and Function

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Chamber‐specific decellularized extracellular matrices (ECMs) were developed, preserving native proteomic profiles of ventricular and atrial myocardium. These innate biochemical cues differentially modulate cardiomyocyte subtypes to drive engineered heart tissue development and function, highlighting the importance of incorporating regional ECM cues in
Dong Gyu Hwang, Myungji Kim, Hwanyong Choi, Jinseon Park, Minji Kim, Donghwan Kim, Bo Ram Lee, Jinah Jang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Passive Fault-Tolerant Control Strategies for Power Converter in a Hybrid Microgrid

Energies, 2020
Control of AC/DC pulse-width modulation (PWM) power electronic converter, referred to as “AC/DC PWM converter”, is vital to the efficient regulation of power flow between AC and DC parts of a hybrid microgrid.
Saeedreza Jadidi, Hamed Badihi, Youmin Zhang   +2 more
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Mesoporous Silica Nanoparticles in Biomedicine: Advances and Prospects

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Mesoporous silica nanoparticles offer unique properties like high surface area, tunable pores, and functionalization. They excel in drug delivery, tissue engineering, and stimuli‐responsive therapies, enabling targeted and controlled treatments. With roles in cancer therapy and diagnostics, their clinical translation requires addressing challenges in ...
Miguel Manzano, María Vallet‐Regí
wiley   +1 more source

Robust qLPV Tracking Fault-Tolerant Control of a 3 DOF Mechanical Crane

Mathematical and Computational Applications, 2020
The main aim of this paper is to propose a robust fault-tolerant control for a three degree of freedom (DOF) mechanical crane by using a convex quasi-Linear Parameter Varying (qLPV) approach for modeling the crane and a passive fault-tolerant scheme. The
Francisco-Ronay López-Estrada, Oscar Santos-Estudillo, Guillermo Valencia-Palomo, Samuel Gómez-Peñate, Carlos Hernández-Gutiérrez   +4 more
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Self‐Assembled Monolayers in p–i–n Perovskite Solar Cells: Molecular Design, Interfacial Engineering, and Machine Learning–Accelerated Material Discovery

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review highlights the role of self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs) in perovskite solar cells, covering molecular engineering, multifunctional interface regulation, machine learning (ML) accelerated discovery, advanced device architectures, and pathways toward scalable fabrication and commercialization for high‐efficiency and stable single‐junction and
Asmat Ullah, Ying Luo, Stefaan De Wolf
wiley   +1 more source

Adaptive Minimum-Entropy Hybrid Compensation for Compound Faults of Non-Gaussian Stochastic Systems

IEEE Access, 2019
This study investigated minimum-entropy hybrid fault-tolerant control (FTC) theory for non-Gaussian stochastic systems with compound faults. After fuzzy linearization for the singular systems, the output probability density function (PDF) is generated by
Kaiyu Hu, Fuyang Chen, Zian Cheng, Changyun Wen   +3 more
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Cyber-attack-tolerant Frequency Control of Power Systems

Journal of Modern Power Systems and Clean Energy, 2021
Cyber attacks are emerging threats in the Internet of Things applications, and power systems are typical cyber attack targets. As one of the most essential operation functions, frequency control is threatened by cyber intrusions, and the existing ...
Chunyu Chen, Kaifeng Zhang, Ming Ni, Ying Wang   +3 more
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