Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.By analyzing the thermal‐mechanical properties and molecular‐scale interactions in polyacrylamide (PAAM) hydrogels, this research demonstrates a rubber‐glass‐crystal phase transition under the combined stimuli of temperature and moisture. Because of these hybrid phase transitions, PAAM hydrogels exhibit shape memory behavior in thermal and moist ...
Shuai Xu +7 more
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Evaluating the Precision of 3D Morphological Reconstruction for Asphalt Pavement Textures via Close-Range Photogrammetry. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Song L, Yun D, Wang L, Jiang S, Gao J.
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Scalable Fabrication of Chemically Stabilized Gelatin Hydrogel Fibers by Thermal Drawing
Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.Scalable processing of hydrogel fibers remains a major challenge. By coupling thermal drawing with Maillard chemistry, a transient viscous‐flow window is created that enables continuous fabrication of microstructured gelatin fibers tens of meters long, while continued in situ crosslinking during drawing stabilizes the fibers for physiological ...
Chaoqun Dong +5 more
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Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.The article overviews past and current efforts on caloric materials and systems, highlighting the contributions of Ames National Laboratory to the field. Solid‐state caloric heat pumping is an innovative method that can be implemented in a wide range of cooling and heating applications.
Agata Czernuszewicz +5 more
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Preliminary Feasibility Evaluation of Groove-Filling Thermochromic Polyurea Composites for Low-Temperature Visual Warning in Black Ice-Prone Pavements. [PDF]
Polymers (Basel)Lee J +6 more
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Two‐Way Shape Memory Polymer Composite Gripper for Adaptive Robotic Applications
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.A two‐way shape memory polymer (SMP) composite is developed with intrinsic shape‐changing capability driven solely by temperature, eliminating external actuation loads. Embedding the SMP in a low‐stiffness elastomeric matrix enabled reversible transformations during heating and cooling cycles.
Aamna Hameed, Kamran Ahmed Khan
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Grey Wolf Optimization Inverse Mix Design of Steel Slag Asphalt Mixtures. [PDF]
Materials (Basel)Song H, Wang Z, Zheng Y.
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Reliability in pavement design
, 2015 This research presents a methodology that accounts for variability of key pavement design input variables and variations due to lack-of-fit of the design models and assesses effects on pavement performance (fatigue and deformation life). Variability is described by statistical terms such as mean and standard deviation and by its probability density ...
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Skin‐Like Tri‐Modal Sensors Based on Soft Piezoelectric and Ionic Composites
Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.Inspired by the multimodal perception of human skin, a soft, skin‐like tri‐modal sensor is presented. The device incorporates an ionically conductive, piezoelectric, elastic composite as its active layer, enabling independent detection of temperature, static strain, and dynamic strain within a single two‐terminal architecture.
Liren Wang +9 more
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Reproducibility-Based Field Validation of Complementary Subsurface Sensing Using a Quantum Diamond Magnetometer and Multi-Frequency Ground-Penetrating Radar. [PDF]
Sensors (Basel)Oh CG, Choi B, Shin DH.
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