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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
wiley   +1 more source

2D Skeletal Muscle Thin Film Actuators Enhance Efficiency of Biohybrid Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
2D skeletal muscle thin film actuators generate millinewton‐scale forces and millimeter‐scale strokes while remaining functional for over 30 days. Their force density is 20‐fold higher than 3D skeletal muscle actuators, enabling multi‐fin robots with tunable speed and multidirectional steering.
Maheera Bawa, Arielle Berman, Laura Schwendeman, Ferdows Afghah, Seanbiron Johnson, Ritu Raman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
wiley   +1 more source

Biomimetic Core–Shell Liposome Nanoparticles Deplete Lipoproteins and Enhance the Purity of Extracellular Vesicles from Human Blood

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Lipoprotein‐mimicking nanoparticles (SL‐NPs), comprising Fe3O4@SiO2 cores coated with liposomal bilayers, selectively capture lipoproteins through protein corona formation. The resulting SL‐NP‐lipoprotein complexes can be removed by low‐speed centrifugation, thereby enhancing the purity of small extracellular vesicles (sEVs) isolated from human serum ...
Man‐Di Wang, Andrew J. Perciaccante, David Inman, Bong Hwan Sung, Alissa M. Weaver, Suzanne M. Ponik, Ying Ge, Song Jin   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

CO2‐to‐CO Conversion in a Gas‐Fed, Zero‐Gap, PEM Electrolyzer Enabled by Polycations and Nitrogen‐Doped Carbon‐Supported Cobalt Nanoparticles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A gas‐fed, zero‐gap, PEM CO2 electrolyzer is realized by incorporating PDDA+ ions onto the carbonaceous Co/N‐C electrocatalyst, with gaseous H2 and CO2 fed into the anode and cathode, respectively. Operating without an aqueous electrolyte, the system sustains a peak FECO of 65.1% at 100 mA cm−2. ABSTRACT Electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction (ECO2R)
Yuen Leong Chow, Hsi‐Wen Wu, Aimin Li, Yalou Guo, Duhong Chen, Jie Zhang, Paul A. Webley   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Electron cyclotron current start-up using a retarding electric field in the QUEST spherical tokamak

Nuclear Fusion
The plasma current start-up experiment is conducted through electron cyclotron (EC) heating in the QUEST spherical tokamak. During the EC heating, the application of a toroidal electric field in the opposite direction to the plasma current effectively ...
T. Onchi, H. Idei, K. Hanada, O. Watanabe, R. Miyata, Y. Zhang, Y. Koide, Y. Otsuka, T. Yamaguchi, A. Higashijima, T. Nagata, I. Sekiya, S. Shimabukuro, I. Niiya, K. Kono, F. Zennifa, K. Nakamura, R. Ikezoe, M. Hasegawa, K. Kuroda, Y. Nagashima, T. Ido, T. Kariya, A. Ejiri, S. Murakami, A. Fukuyama, Y. Kosuga   +26 more
doaj   +1 more source

Enhanced Ferroelectric Phase Formation via Local Structure Modification in the Pre‐Crystalline State of Hafnium Zirconium Oxide Thin Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Hafnium zirconium oxide thin films are grown using plasma‐enhanced atomic layer deposition with the addition of an atomic layer annealing (ALA) step. ALA leads to a change in the short‐range structure of the deposit and encourages formation of the ferroelectric Pca21 phase. The result is wake‐up‐free performance with films exposed to ALA.
Nicolas K. Lam, Gerald R. Bejger, Waseem A. Wani, Kristina M. Holsgrove, Andrew N. Titus, Niyorjyoti Sharma, Shihao Wang, Keithen Orson, Megan K. Lenox, Liron Shvilberg, Yong Kyu Choi, Ian A. Brummel, Benjamin L. Aronson, Petra Reinke, Quentin Ramasse, Amit Kumar, Brian J. Rodriguez, Christina M. Rost, Jon F. Ihlefeld   +18 more
wiley   +1 more source

Plasma heating during the chiral plasma instability

26 pages + 9 appendices and references, 7 ...
Armstrong, Balin, Long, Andrew J., Seller, Károly, Sigl, Günter   +3 more
openaire   +2 more sources

ATP‐Mediated Bidirectional Communication Between Natural and Artificial Cells for Controlled Bioreactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Establishment of bidirectional communication behavior between natural and artificial cells. The first type of communication from natural dendritic cells to artificial polymeric cells was achieved via ATP release after cell lysis. The released ATP was taken up via gated UV‐controlled permeability increase of the polymeric membrane for performing ...
Ilona Kalte, Tsvetomir Ivanov, Leonhard Seufert, Shoupeng Cao, Lucas Caire da Silva, Volker Mailänder, Katharina Landfester   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Achievement of Sustained Net Plasma Heating in a Fusion Experiment with the Optometrist Algorithm. [PDF]

Sci Rep, 2017
Baltz EA, Trask E, Binderbauer M, Dikovsky M, Gota H, Mendoza R, Platt JC, Riley PF.   +7 more
europepmc   +1 more source