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

Advanced 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, Kubra Kocak, Andrea Michel, Enrico Cavarzerani, Ali Raza, Petr Rohzin, Nouha Loudhaief, Saimir Frroku, Nicolò Baldovin, Hazrat Bilal, Alvise Perosa, Maurizio Selva, Flavio Rizzolio, Luca Sbuelz, Sabrina Tamburini, Domenico De Fazio, Giovanni Antonio Salvatore   +16 more
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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced 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, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
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Strong Lead‐Free Bioinspired Piezoceramics for Durable Energy Transducers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We fabricated brick‐and‐mortar lead‐free piezoceramics with Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3 monocrystal platelets as bricks and amorphous silica as mortar. The alignment of the bricks and the presence of the amorphous silica led to anisotropic residual stresses. These residual stresses increase the samples toughness, strength and durability while the brick alignment ...
Ruxue Yang, Temesgen Tadeyos Zate, Peiren Wang, Soumyajit Mojumder, Elo Overgaard Mogensen, Oriol Gavalda‐Diaz, Zihe Li, Shitong Zhou, Ajeet Kumar, James Roscow, Hamideh Khanbareh, Astri Bjørnetun Haugen, Florian Bouville   +12 more
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A Portable and Flexible Self-Powered Multifunctional Sensor for Real-Time Monitoring in Swimming

Biosensors, 2021
A portable and flexible self-powered biosensor based on ZnO nanowire arrays (ZnO NWs) and flexible PET substrate has been designed and fabricated for real-time monitoring in swimming.
Yupeng Mao, Yongsheng Zhu, Tianming Zhao, Changjun Jia, Meiyue Bian, Xinxing Li, Yuanguo Liu, Baodan Liu   +7 more
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An Edible Chitosan‐Based Acoustic Sensor for Sound‐Responsive Actuation in Edible Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces an edible acoustic sensor for robotic food and edible robotics. Built from a chitosan piezoelectric film between gold electrodes, the sensor enables acoustic communication through ON/OFF keying. Integrated into an edible robot with pneumatically actuated arms and neck, it responds to high‐frequency tones.
Valerio Francesco Annese, Bokeon Kwak, Gaia de Marzo, Giulia Coco, Valentina Antonaci, Leonardo Lamanna, Massimo De Vittorio, Dario Floreano, Mario Caironi   +8 more
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Bio‐Inspired Artificial Ionic Mechanoreceptor

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A skin‐inspired artificial mechanoreceptor based on ionic interactions is presented for biomimetic tactile sensing. Pressure‐driven ionic redistribution within microfluidic channels generates a self‐powered electrical signal without external bias. The generated waveform exhibits mechanoreceptor‐like temporal features, including overshoot and undershoot,
Mohammad Akbari, Jeppe Don, Lasse A. N. Pedersen, John Noee, Rassoul Tabassian   +4 more
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
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Numerical Analysis of Piezoelectric Active Repair in the Presence of Frictional Contact Conditions

Sensors, 2013
The increasing development of smart materials, such as piezoelectric and shape memory alloys, has opened new opportunities for improving repair techniques. Particularly, active repairs, based on the converse piezoelectric effect, can increase the life of
Antonio Messineo, Calogero Orlando, Alberto Milazzo, Andrea Alaimo   +3 more
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Autonomous Multi‐Objective Nanoscale Characterization of Combinatorial (Al, Sc, B)N Films Reveals Composition‐Dependent Ferroelectric Regimes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Autonomous scanning probe microscopy and multi‐objective Bayesian optimization navigate a ternary (Al,Sc,B)N combinatorial library. Registered photoluminescence, electron‐probe compositional mapping, and X‐ray diffraction connect local electromechanical function to defect‐sensitive emission, composition, and crystal structure.
Yu Liu, Aditya Raghavan, Utkarsh Pratiush, Ian Mercer, Pochun Hsieh, Albert Suceava, Chih‐Yu Lee, Edgar Dimitrov, Mauricio Terrones, Ichiro Takeuchi, Venkatraman Gopalan, Jon‐Paul Maria, Sergei V. Kalinin   +12 more
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PVDF Based Static Charge Induced Flexoelectric Microphone

Advanced Electronic Materials, 2023
Polyvinylidenedifluoride (PVDF)‐based microphones are either categorized as piezoelectric (PE) microphones or flexoelectric (FE)‐induced PE microphones. Based on the production of electrostatic charge and higher sensitivity, here, a static charge induced
Mudassar Shehzad, Han Pan, Shuhao Wang, Yaojin Wang   +3 more
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