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Retirement Security Across Generations: Are Americans Prepared for Their Golden Years? [PDF]

, 2013
When the Great Recession hit in 2007, the oldest baby boomers were nearly eligible for Social Security. Many of them recalled stories of the Great Depression and feared that their own nest eggs would vanish with too little time to make up the losses ...

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Shaping Ti3C2 MXene Nanospheres for Precision Near‐Infrared Photothermal Therapy

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In this study, we report producing spherical MXenes via fs laser fragmentation of Ti3C2 flakes in liquid medium. The nanoparticles demonstrated pronounced light absorption and high photothermal conversion efficiencies of 68% and 63% under heating with NIR‐I and NIR‐II lasers, respectively.
Julia S. Babkova, Ivan V. Zelepukin, Konstantin G. Shevchenko, Gleb V. Tikhonowski, Lyubov V. Gorelik, Anton A. Popov, Anna S. Sogomonyan, Alina Yu. Kapitannikova, Ivan S. Kazantsev, Dmitry V. Dyubo, Daria A. Panova, Daniil I. Tselikov, Anton A. Minnekhanov, Aziz B. Mirkasymov, Georgy A. Ermolaev, Alexander V. Syuy, Gleb I. Tselikov, Aleksey V. Arsenin, Andrei V. Kabashin, Kostya S. Novoselov, Sergey M. Deyev, Valentyn S. Volkov   +21 more
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High‐Resolution and Real‐Time In Situ Generation of Cellular Spheroids by Laser‐Assisted Bioprinting for Guided Microvascularization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Micro‐injection laser‐assisted bioprinting enables ultrafast and precise patterning of small endothelial cell spheroids by injecting a highly concentrated single‐cell suspension into GelMA/ColMA hydrogels. In co‐culture with fibroblasts, controlled pre‐vasculogenic network formation is obtained at microscale resolution.
Charles Handschin, Katharina Wulz, Clotilde Jugie, Marie‐Laure Stachowicz, Shane Fennell, Aurélien Mazet, Malou Lea, Nathalie Dusserre, Jean‐Christophe Fricain, Hugo Oliveira   +9 more
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Brutalist Premolition [PDF]

'Brutalist Premolition' is a high definition video, duration 8 minutes; installation, dimensions variable and performance, duration 40 minutes. 'Brutalist Premolition' is set within an apartment on the sprawling Robin Hood Gardens Estate in East London ...
Pickering, Gail
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Bio‐Inspired Magnetically Tunable Structural Colors from Elliptical Self‐Assembled Block Copolymer Microparticles

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cephalopod‐inspired photonic microparticles with dynamic structural coloration are fabricated via confined self‐assembly of linear block copolymers into ellipsoids containing stacked lamellae. Embedded superparamagnetic nanoparticles enable rapid magnetic alignment, restoring vivid, angle‐dependent color.
Gianluca Mazzotta, Simone Bertucci, Jose Mendoza‐Carreño, Agustín Mihi, Paola Lova, Davide Comoretto, Ullrich Steiner, Marco Lattuada, Andrea Dodero   +8 more
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Photo‐Controlled Antibacterial Drug Release From DASA‐Coated Silica Particles for Improved Treatment of Wound Infections

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Synthesis and characterization of light‐responsive donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA)‐coated chlorhexidine‐loaded silica nanoparticles. Such a controllable drug‐delivery system enables the release of the antimicrobial drug on demand and in consecutive cycles, thereby maintaining the concentration within the therapeutic window.
Michèle Clerc, Flavia Zuber, Lea Oberhänsli, Yvonne Elbs‐Glatz, Maria M. Miguel, Vera M. Kissling, Qun Ren, Markus Rottmar, Luciano F. Boesel, Giorgia Giovannini   +9 more
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The costs of remoteness: evidence from German division and reunification [PDF]

, 2004
This paper exploits the division of Germany after the Second World War and the reunification of East and West Germany in 1990 as a natural experiment to provide evidence of the importance of market access for economic development. In line with a standard
Redding, Stephen, Sturm, Daniel M.
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Amyloidogenic Peptide Fragments Designed From Bacterial Collagen‐like Proteins Form Hydrogel

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study identified amyloidogenic sequence motifs in bacterial collagen‐like proteins and exploited these to design peptides that self‐assemble into β‐sheet fibers and form hydrogels. One hydrogel supported healthy fibroblast growth, showing promise for biocompatible materials. Our work demonstrates that bacterial sequences can be harnessed to create
Vamika Sagar, Xuen J Ng, Lukas Lechel, Ashish Chand Rajwar, Hendrik Bargel, Abhishek A. Jalan   +5 more
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Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd, Satyajit Das, John Marc C. Puguan, Carolina Pierucci, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder   +5 more
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Bioactive Conductive Ti3C2Tx‐Ce Hydrogel Facilitates Spinal Cord Injury Repair Through ROS Scavenging and Mitochondrial Regulation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bioactive conductive Ti3C2Tx‐Ce hydrogels with with scavenging ROS and alleviating neuronal mitochondrial dysfunction are exploited for SCI treatment. This functionality is attributed to interfacial activation modification of Ti3C2Tx with Ce3+ ions to in‐situ form Ce(OH)x‐mediated protective layer, which is beneficial to enabling stable intracellular ...
Weikang Wang, Qing Liu, Ang Lv, Yabin Lin, Jiawei Chen, Ning Ding, Chunlei Zhang, Shuai Zhou, Bo Yuan, Weiwei Zhao, Liming Li, Luping Zhang, Fei Huang   +12 more
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