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Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

A Rigid Polymer Donor Based on a Simple Benzodithiophene-Thiazole Backbone for Organic Photovoltaics. [PDF]

ChemSusChem
Teshima Y, Yamanaka K, Sato Y, Jeon J, Saito M, Mikie T, Kim HD, Ohkita H, Osaka I.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
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Phase-Engineered Non-Degenerate Sliding Ferroelectricity Enables Tunable Photovoltaics in Monolayer Janus In₂S₂Se. [PDF]

Adv Sci (Weinh)
Li Y, Wang Q, Han K, Liang Y, Kong K, Liang Y, Frauenheim T, Lv X, Guo D, Wang B.   +9 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Clean electricity from photovoltaics

, 2015
The second edition of Clean Electricity from Photovoltaics , first published in 2001, provides an updated account of the underlying science, technology and market prospects for photovoltaics.
Archer, Mary D, Green, Martin A
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Effect of Alkyl Chain Length on the Bandgap, Ferroelectric, and Photoelectric Properties of Lead‐Based Molecular Ferroelectrics

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
This study develops a novel 2D molecular ferroelectric [C6N2H18]PbI4 with polarization enhanced photovoltaics. It systematically investigates the effect of alkylamine spacer cation chain lengths on the band gap, ferroelectric, and photoelectric properties, offering new design strategies.
Ganghua Zhang, Jinrong Wen, Ping Chen, Zhibo Chen, Pingying Tang, Dezeng Li, Jingshan Hou, Yongzheng Fang   +7 more
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Chemo-Strain Valence Engineering for Boosting Photovoltaic Response in Double Perovskite Epitaxial Films. [PDF]

Nanomicro Lett
Wu Y, Tu J, Xia J, Liu X, Shi L, Li H, Li M, Chen P, Yang Q, Du S, Song P, Li H, Zhan Q, Li X, Tian J, Zhang L.   +15 more
europepmc   +1 more source

A Soft, Flexible Implant for Wireless Photothermal–Pyroelectric Neurostimulation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A replication strategy is used to enlarge the exposed surface area of barium titanate within flexible films with embedded carbon nanotubes, enabling efficient photothermal‐pyroelectric stimulation. Polar crystalline nanosheets show superior performance in guiding neural progenitor cells toward neuronal differentiation.
Jiang Wu, Minmin Mao, Beltzane Garcia Cirera, Hao Ye, Xiangzhong Chen, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Ni Qin, Salvador Pané   +7 more
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Interfacial configurational entropy tuning strategy enabling liquid alloys for efficient depolymerization of polyolefin waste. [PDF]

Nat Commun
Xu C, Yan H, Wang P, Li J, Wen H, Wang X, Ma J, Zhang Q, Zhang X, Tang D, Jiang B.   +10 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Interfacial Engineering by Metallic Ions and Organic Ammonium Ligand Passivation for Perovskite Solar Cells

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A synergistic approach using phenethylammonium iodide (PEAI) and antimony iodide (SbI3) enhances the operational stabilities of perovskite solar cells by providing p‐type doping effect, suitable band energy alignment, reduced defect density, and minimized surface ion vacancies in the perovskite films.
Abraham Adenle, Purevlkham Myagmarsereejid, Selengesuren Suragtkhuu, Tuul Tsagaantsooj, Solongo Purevdorj, Eric Campbell, Sina Jamali, Oisín E. FitzGerald, Taylor J. Z. Stock, Thomas J. Macdonald, Joseph F. S. Fernando, Hui Jin, Paul E. Shaw, Michitoshi Hayashi, Batjargal Sainbileg, Chihaya Adachi, Yu Lin Zhong, Munkhbayar Batmunkh   +17 more
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