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A Soft Robotic Fish With a Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Body and Negative Stiffness Spine

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work introduces a bio‐mimetic soft robotic fish driven by fiber‐reinforced dielectric elastomer actuators integrated as its body. By prestretching this active skin against a flexible spine, a negative stiffness system is created, enabling large‐amplitude bending.
Markus Koenigsdorff, Simon Holzer, Stefania Konstantinidi, Yoan Civet, Yves Perriard   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Antivenom Evaluation by Electrophysiological Analysis

Toxins, 2017
Scorpion stings on humans are medically relevant because they may contain toxins that specifically target ion channels. During antivenom production, pharmaceutical companies must use a large number of experimental animals to ensure the antivenom’s ...
Rita Restano-Cassulini, Walter Garcia, Jorge F. Paniagua-Solís, Lourival D. Possani   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

3D‐Printing Aided Rapid Prototyping of Pretensioned Tensegrity Structures for Robotic Applications

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Printing, injection molding, and assembly (PMA) is a method for rapid prototyping mesoscale, topologically complex, and tensioned tensegrity structures. In combination with PMA method, two mold design strategies: modular mold and compact channel layout, enable efficiency and scalability for tensegrity fabrication.
Yi Sun, Jan Petrš, Omar Aloui, Dario Floreano   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

ASIC currents in cultured primate retinal amacrine/ganglion cells

Physiological Reports
Acid‐sensing ion channels (ASICs) are proton‐gated cation channels belonging to the epithelial Na + channel/degenerin superfamily. In the CNS, ASICs are involved in synaptic plasticity, learning/memory, and acidosis‐mediated injury.
Talib Saafir, Tiandong Leng, Koichi Inoue, Zhi‐Gang Xiong, Peter MacLeish   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cardiac toxicity of Triptergium wilfordii Hook F. may correlate with its inhibition to hERG channel

Heliyon, 2019
Tripterygium wilfordii Hook F. (TWHF) is a Chinese traditional medicine with cardiac toxicities. However, the mechanism of acute cardiac toxicity is not very clear.
Wei Zhao, Liping Xiao, Lanying Pan, Xianfu Ke, Yanting Zhang, Dian Zhong, Jianwei Xu, Fumin Cao, Liren Wu, Yuan Chen   +9 more
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Design and Modeling of a High‐Displacement, Skin‐Integrated Flexible Electromagnetic Actuator for Haptic Interfaces in Virtual Reality

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A flexible, skin‐integrated electromagnetic actuator is developed for wearable virtual/augmented reality (VR/AR) haptic systems. A tunable design model enables control over displacement and resonance frequency. The system is validated through a custom VR application with a 6 × 4 actuator array, demonstrating real‐time, spatially targeted tactile ...
Naji Tarabay, Alexandra Zhang Jiang, Ziteng Liu, Rachel Villamor, Derek Cha, Ananya Renuka Balakrishna, Tianshu Liu, Priyanshu Agarwal, Rainer Dömer, Camilo Velez   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

In Situ X‐Ray Tomography and Acoustic Emission Monitoring of Damage Evolution in C/C‐SiC Composites Fabricated by Liquid Silicon Infiltration

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study investigates how the internal structure of fiber‐reinforced ceramic composites affects their resistance to damage. By combining 3D X‐ray imaging with acoustic emission monitoring during mechanical testing, it reveals how silicon distribution influences crack formation.
Yang Chen, Renato S. M. Almeida, Stefan Flauder, Guillaume Couégnat, Kamen Tushtev, Jürgen Horvath, Peter Wriggers, Kurosch Rezwan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Development of Automated Patch Clamp Technique to Investigate CFTR Chloride Channel Function [PDF]

, 2017
International audienceThe chloride (Cl-) channel cystic fibrosis transmembrane conductance regulator (CFTR) is defective in cystic fibrosis (CF), and mutation of its encoding gene leads to various defects such as retention of the misfolded protein in the
Becq, Frederic, Arnaud Billet, Lionel Froux, Billet, Arnaud, Froux, Lionel, John W. Hanrahan, Hanrahan, John, Frederic Becq   +7 more
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Microscale Mapping of Fiber Strain and Damage in Composite Wrinkled Laminates Using Computed Tomography Assisted Wide‐Angle X‐Ray Scattering

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study combines full‐field tomography with diffraction mapping to quantify radial (ε002$\varepsilon _{002}$) and axial (ε100$\varepsilon _{100}$) lattice strain in wrinkled carbon‐fiber specimens for the first time. Radial microstrain gradients (−14.5 µεMPa$\varepsilon \mathrm{MPa}$−1) are found to signal damage‐prone zones ahead of failure, which ...
Hoang Minh Luong, James Trevarthen, Igor Dolbnya, Wadwan Singhapong, Nicholas Pilato, Richard Butler, Jiraphant Srisuriyachot, Alexander J. G. Lunt   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

NeuroSuite for Long‐Term Functional and Structural Studies of Air‐Liquid Interface Cerebral Organoids

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
NeuroSuite provides a modular hardware‐software platform integrating Neuroweb and NeuroMaps to enable long‐term, in situ electrophysiological interrogation of air–liquid interface organoid slices while preserving tissue architecture. Its components can be used together or independently to capture real‐time activity, spatial network dynamics, and ...
Belquis Haider, Sagnik Middya, Daniel J. Lloyd‐Davies‐Sánchez, Nino F. Läubli, Sulay Vora, Jakob Träuble, Rohan N. Krajeski, Yuqing Feng, Daniel Duncko, Josiah S. Riley, Rubén Ruiz‐Mateos Serrano, Ole Paulsen, Madeline A. Lancaster, George G. Malliaras, Gabriele S. Kaminski Schierle   +14 more
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