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An Intrinsically Multimodal Self‐Powered Sensor Enhanced by Microstructured Powder Layer for AI‐Enabled Tactile Perception

Interdisciplinary Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a self‐powered, intrinsically multimodal tactile sensor capable of both static and dynamic pressure sensing. Enhanced with a microstructured polytetrafluoroethylene powder layer, it enables high‐accuracy material recognition and surface texture classification, offering AI‐compatible tactile perception for robotic systems.
Kequan Xia, Song Yang, Dong Qiang, Min Yu   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Coherence‐Gated Mirau Interferometry for Single‐Shot Quantitative Phase Imaging and Motion Sensing

Laser &Photonics Reviews, EarlyView.
This paper presents a compact add‐on module converting a Mirau or other on‐axis interferometer into a single‐shot quantitative phase imaging system using coherence gating and precise optical path matching. Demonstrations include time‐resolved imaging of human cells and streaming red blood cells, visualization of evaporation dynamics in liquid mixtures,
Petr Bouchal, Martin Konečný, Zdeněk Nováček, Radim Chmelík, Zdeněk Bouchal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Conductive Rubber Composites: Progress, Challenges, and Emerging Opportunities

Macromolecular Rapid Communications, EarlyView.
This study reviews the recent advances in conductive rubber composites, focusing on key aspects such as material selection, conductive mechanisms, interfacial engineering, processing methods, vulcanization strategies, and practical applications. It also discusses current challenges and highlights emerging directions that are shaping the development of ...
Lu Yin, Ali Vahidifar, Steven Yu, Boxin Zhao   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electrospun conducting polymers: recent trends and the transition towards a sustainable future

Polymer International, EarlyView.
This review discusses the electrospinning of conducting polymers, detailing procedures, fibrous morphologies, improved properties, applications in electronics, and challenges, while outlining future directions for nanofibre‐based devices in various fields.
Xenofon Karagiorgis, Sofia Sandhu, Peter J. Skabara, Ravinder Dahiya   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Direct evidence for electrostriction‐enhanced piezoelectricity in poly(vinylidene fluoride‐co‐trifluoroethylene) random copolymers

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
Direct experimental evidence for electrostriction‐enhanced piezoelectricity is obtained for a quenched‐stretched‐annealed‐poled P(VDF‐TrFE) 52/48 mol.% random copolymer using time‐resolved small‐angle X‐ray scattering and wide‐angle X‐ray diffraction. Upon stretching up to 6% strain, the crystallinity (xc) increases 10% at the expense of the contents ...
Zhiwen Zhu, Guanchun Rui, Siyu Wu, Honghu Zhang, Ruipeng Li, Lei Zhu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stress‐guided photo‐programming of cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers for 2D‐to‐3D shape–color information encoding

Responsive Materials, EarlyView.
We reported a stress‐guided photo‐programming strategy that enables cholesteric liquid crystal elastomers (CLCEs) to achieve synchronous 3D shape morphing and structural color evolution from a single 2D film. Abstract Flexible materials with dynamic structural colors have attracted considerable interest for multilevel information interaction, showing ...
Huimin Wu, Chenyi Bu, Yirui Sun, Rui Guo, Sixing Xiong, Kai Wang, Xiaoxuan Wang, Xiang Fang, Jin Qian   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Piezoelectric Thin-Film Actuator for Dynamic Tuning of Micro-Optical Cavities. [PDF]

Micromachines (Basel)
Tan D, Li P, Zhou X, Xiao Q, Wu C, Zhu Q, Lei M, Li T, Lu Q.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Suspendable and Scalable Ultrasound‐Actuated ZnO‐Nanosheet‐Based Piezoelectric Microdevices for Wireless Electrical Stimulation of Cells

Small, EarlyView.
Silicon microtechnology enables the scalable fabrication of cytocompatible microdevices for wireless electrical stimulation. Microdevices smaller than a cell allow accurate interaction with single cells. By integrating piezoelectric nanostructures that can be actuated by ultrasound within the biomedical range, remote electrical cell stimulation is ...
Laura Lefaix, Marc Navarro, Lucie Bacakova, Jaume Esteve, Carme Nogués, Andreu Blanquer, Gonzalo Murillo   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Precision Local Strain Engineering in 2D Semiconductors and Their van der Waals Heterostructures

Small, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in experimental techniques for mapping and quantifying strain, strategies for imparting programmable local strain via substrate, stressor, and interlayer coupling, and strain‐engineered functionalities in electronics, photonics, and quantum devices.
Byeong Chan Kim, Yoona Kim, Gwan‐Hyoung Lee   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hole Polaronic Confinement in (111) Yttria‐Stabilised Zirconia

Small, EarlyView.
Ultrathin epitaxial YSZ(111) films unexpectedly develop p‐type mixed conduction and amplified electromechanical coupling under oxidizing conditions. Combined transport measurements and first‐principles modeling reveal that nanoscale confinement and ordered dopant–vacancy complexes stabilize localized O 2p hole polarons at the surface. A canonical ionic
Milica Vasiljevic, Victor Buratto Tinti, Javier Zamudio‐García, José Maria Castillo Robles, Vasileios Bilalis, Imran Asghar, Simone Santucci, Yichen Wu, Simone Sanna, Carmela Aruta, Pasquale Orgiani, Dimitrios Koukoulis, David Marrero‐López, Weimin Wang, Ivano E. Castelli, Vincenzo Esposito   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source