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Making the Case for Organ‐on‐Chip Platforms in Long‐Acting Therapeutics Development

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
LATs release drug from a tissue‐resident depot over weeks to months, improving adherence, but their development is hampered by preclinical models that cannot reproduce the coupled tissue processes, sustained release, local microenvironment change, interstitial transport, immune and foreign‐body responses, and clearance that govern depot performance in ...
Charlie Gowans, Abdulwahhab Khedr, Panagiotis G. Georgiou, Nehir Arik, Ozlem Sen, Steve P. Rannard, Tom O. McDonald, Christos Tapeinos   +7 more
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Rapid Fabrication of Self‐Propelled and Steerable Magnetic Microcatheters for Precision Medicine

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A rapid Joule heating fabrication method for the production of self‐propelling, adaptive microcatheters, with tunable stiffness and integrated microfluidic channels is presented. Demonstrated through three microrobotic designs, including a steerable guiding catheter, an untethered wave‐crawling TubeBot, and a distal‐end propelled microcatheter, it was ...
Zhi Chen, Boris Rivkin, David Castellanos‐Robles, Ivan Soldatov, Lukas Beyer, Mariana Medina‐Sánchez   +5 more
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Ammonium Salts as Curing Agents to Obtain Ionic Epoxy Resins With a Thermoplastic‐to‐Thermoset Transition

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Ionic epoxy networks are prepared using ammonium salts as hardeners, leading to a two‐stage curing process with a thermoplastic‐like intermediate. This uncommon behavior enables extrusion and fabrication of thermoplastic prepregs that can be cured into thermoset composites.
Izabela Kurowska, Leire Unanue, Itxaso Calafel, Dorleta Otaegui, Jorge L. Olmedo‐Martínez, Lourdes Irusta, Daniel Vinagre, Nora Aranburu, Nerea Casado, Ibon Odriozola, David Mecerreyes   +10 more
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Additive Manufacturing: A Key to Advancing Injection Molding Efficiency

Tehnički Glasnik
The increasing demand for custom-made products, small-batch production, and improved process efficiency is driving manufacturers to adopt advanced strategies that minimize costs and production time.
Mladomir Milutinović, Dejan Movrin, Miloš Pjević, Mihajlo Popović   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

In Vivo Monitoring of Thrombo‐Inflammatory Biomarkers via Molecularly Imprinted Polymer‐Integrated Hydrogel Microneedles

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A wearable electrochemical microneedle patch integrates Prussian Blue redox transduction with molecularly imprinted polymer recognition for reagent‐free sampling and detection of thrombo‐inflammatory biomarkers in dermal interstitial fluid. The platform tracks thrombin and inflammatory cytokines with sensitive in vitro, ex vivo, and in vivo performance,
Mahmoud Ayman Saleh, Peyman GhavamiNejad, Arash Khorrami Jahromi, Sanjana Srikant, Sripadh Guptha Yedire, Fatemeh Keyvani, Roozbeh Siavash Moakhar, Sajad Shiekh, Mackenzie Graham, Joe Quadrilatero, Mahla Poudineh, Sara Mahshid   +11 more
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Miniature Soft Robot With Magnetically Reprogrammable Surgical Functions

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Miniature soft robots have great prospects to revolutionize minimally invasive treatments. Here we present a miniature soft robot, which can be reprogrammed to perform five surgical functionalities with six‐degrees‐of‐freedom motions. This soft robot can prospectively make minimally invasive surgery considerably safer and painless, and enable ...
Chelsea Shan Xian Ng, Yu Xuan Yeoh, Nicholas Yong Wei Foo, Keerthana Radhakrishnan, Guo Zhan Lum   +4 more
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Optimizing injection molding parameters to reduce weight and warpage in PET preforms using Taguchi method and Analysis of Variance (ANOVA)

Next Materials
Plastic injection molding is widely utilized for the production of a variety of plastic products. However, defects can arise during the production process due to incorrect settings of process parameters, which are crucial for ensuring the quality of the ...
Rozeena Aslam, Awais Ahmed Khan, Hamza Akhtar, Sadia Saleem, Muhammad Sarfraz Ali   +4 more
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Lean Concept to Reduce Waste of Process Time in the Plastic Injection Industry in Indonesia

Nigerian Journal of Technological Development, 2023
The mapping that has been done previously shows that there is a high processing time for the injection molding and shaft assembly processes in the S/A worm gear-type plastic industry.
Choesnul Jaqin, Hibarkah Kurnia, Humiras Hardi Purba, Tosan Danumaya Molle, Siti Aisyah   +4 more
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Highly Entangled Bottlebrush Polymer Networks

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bottlebrush polymers are difficult to entangle, enabling ultrasoft yet brittle networks. We report highly entangled bottlebrush elastomers that remain ultrasoft (∼1 kPa) yet stretch to ∼1800% and exhibit exceptional fatigue resistance. Their intrinsic fatigue strength—fatigue threshold normalized by modulus—surpasses that of highly entangled linear ...
Myoeum Kim, Baiqiang Huang, Shiwang Cheng, Li‐Heng Cai   +3 more
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Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
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