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Adaptive Foam 3D Printing of Ultralight and Multifunctional Materials

open access: yesAdvanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Adaptive foam 3D printing, enabled by expandable microspheres, imparts cellular structures to thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers, manufactured through a variety of processes including fused filament fabrication, direct ink writing, digital light processing, and inkjet printing.
Nariman Rajabifar, Amir Ameli
wiley   +1 more source

The band alignment of nonpolar m-plane ZnO1−xSx/Mg0.4Zn0.6O heterojunctions

open access: yesAIP Advances, 2020
Heterostructures such as heterojunctions, quantum wells, and superlattices are core components of advanced optoelectronic devices. Herein, we attempted the first investigations on the band alignment of nonpolar m-plane oriented ZnO1−xSx/Mg0.4Zn0.6O ...
Lei Li   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Composites, Fabrication and Application of Polyvinylidene Fluoride for Flexible Electromechanical Devices: A Review

open access: yesMicromachines, 2020
The technological development of piezoelectric materials is crucial for developing wearable and flexible electromechanical devices. There are many inorganic materials with piezoelectric effects, such as piezoelectric ceramics, aluminum nitride and zinc ...
Shuaibing Guo   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

High‐Energy‐Density and High‐Rate Membraneless Ni−Fe Battery Enabled by a 1‐Butyl‐3‐Methylimidazolium Bromide‐Based Gel Electrolyte

open access: yesChemElectroChem, 2022
The aqueous Ni−Fe batteries offer great opportunities for energy storage and conversion devices and systems owing to their ultralong lifetime, high safety and reliability and eco‐friendly characteristics.
Dr. Yanfei Zeng   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source

Fabrication and characterization of free-standing thick-film piezoelectric cantilevers for energy harvesting [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Research into energy harvesting from ambient vibration sources has attracted great interest over the last few years, largely as a result of advances in the areas of wireless technology and low power electronics.
Kok, Swee Leong   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Wearable Smart Patches on Sustainable Chitosan With Reversible Microbial Growth‐Inhibitory Properties

open access: yesAdvanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Chitosan, a polysaccharide upcycled from biowaste, has long promised sustainable, biocompatible, and antimicrobial films and devices, an appeal reinforced by its recent regulatory recognition, with several chitosan‐based antibacterial dressings gaining clearance through the Food and Drug Administration's 510(k) pathway.
Jacopo Nicoletti   +16 more
wiley   +1 more source

Enhanced piezoelectric energy harvesting powered wireless sensor nodes using passive interfaces and power management approach [PDF]

open access: yes, 2014
Low-frequency vibrations typically occur in many practical structures and systems when in use, for example, in aerospaces and industrial machines. Piezoelectric materials feature compactness, lightweight, high integration potential, and permit to ...
Giuliano, Alessandro
core   +6 more sources

Enhanced Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution by Loading Cd0.5Zn0.5S QDs onto Ni2P Porous Nanosheets

open access: yesNanoscale Research Letters, 2018
Ni2P has been decorated on CdS nanowires or nanorods for efficient photocatalytic H2 production, whereas the specific surface area remains limited because of the large size.
Lingfeng Xiao   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

open access: yesAdvanced 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   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Recent Advances in Organic Piezoelectric Biomaterials for Energy and Biomedical Applications

open access: yesNanomaterials, 2020
The past decade has witnessed significant advances in medically implantable and wearable devices technologies as a promising personal healthcare platform.
Dong-Myeong Shin   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

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