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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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Physical Intelligence in Small‐Scale Robots and Machines

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
“Physical intelligence” (PI) empowers biological organisms and artificial machines, especially at the small scales, to perceive, adapt, and even reshape their complex, dynamic, and unstructured operation environments. This review summarizes recent milestones and future directions of PI in small‐scale robots and machines.
Huyue Chen, Metin Sitti
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Review of Thin Lithium Metal Battery Anode Fabrication – Microstructure – Electrochemistry Relations

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Thin, lightweight lithium‐metal anodes are pivotal for practical high‐energy batteries. This review surveys processing routes that convert diverse Li precursors, e.g., ingots, melts, solutions, and vapor, into Li‐rich foils with controlled thickness, areal density, and tailored functionality.
Yuhang Hu, Zidong Chen, Yixian Wang, Haorui Hou, Bingcheng Chen, David Mitlin, Wei Liu   +6 more
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Colloidal Heterostructures Enable Interfacial Transport of Immiscible Molecules in Printable Organohydrogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Multiphase printable organohydrogels with tunable microstructures are developed to control molecular transport pathways for immiscible cargo. The tortuosity and domain size of the colloidal phases are tuned by adjusting temperature and shear during processing, which enables the tailoring of diffusion kinetics due to different transport pathways.
Riley E. Dowdy‐Green, Rony Waheibi, Nazanin Shakoury, Yuemei Ye, Lilian C. Hsiao   +4 more
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The Parametric Study of Electroosmotically Driven Flow of Power-Law Fluid in a Cylindrical Microcapillary at High Zeta Potential. [PDF]

Micromachines (Basel), 2017
Deng S.
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Rainbow Photonic Crystals: Self‐Assembly of Carbohydrate Bottlebrushes Block Copolymers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Full‐color reflective 1D photonic crystals, capable of a tunable, responsive, and reversible color with high repeatability, are created from the self‐assembly of carbohydrate‐based brush block copolymers (BR01‐04). Abstract Tunable and responsive photonic crystal systems are the subject of great research interest owing to their ability to actively ...
Hong Li, Muhammad Mumtaz, Takuya Isono, Toshifumi Satoh, Cheng‐Liang Liu, Wen‐Chang Chen, Redouane Borsali   +6 more
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Porous Hybrid Soft Actuators From Liquid Crystal Networks and Lyotropic Chromonic Liquid Crystal Templated Hydrogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The graphic illustrates the design of a hybrid bilayer composed of a liquid crystal hydrogel (LCH) and a liquid crystal network (LCN). The figure highlights the magnetic alignment of the chromonic hydrogel and the thermal‐responsive actuation of the LCN along with the LCH when both layers are aligned or misaligned, enabling programmable, light‐driven ...
Ramón Santiago Herrera Restrepo, Irving Hafed Tejedor García, Matthew Gene Scarfo, Negin Bouzari, Negar Rajabi, Olga Bantysh, Joel Torres‐Andrés, Christopher W. V. James, Maria Guix, Amirreza Aghakhani, Jordi Ignés‐Mullol, Salvador Pané, Josep Puigmartí‐Luis, Hamed Shahsavan   +13 more
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Topology‐Optimized Stretchable Piezoelectric Sensors With Tailored Liquid‐Metal Circuits for Anisotropic Stress‐Adaptive Motion Monitoring

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Schematic showing the leveraging of topology optimization, the printing of a tailored eutectic gallium‐indium liquid alloy electrode, and porous ceramic engineering to simultaneously enhance mechanical durability, stretchability, and sensing sensitivity to produce a highly deformable and stretchable sensor capable of monitoring complex and anisotropic ...
Hanmin Zeng, Qianqian Xu, Jianxun Zhang, Peiqiong Zhou, Jiachen Zhang, Jinlan Li, Senfeng Zhao, Kechao Zhou, Dou Zhang, Chris Bowen, Yan Zhang   +10 more
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Phase‐Change Solvents for Thermally Switchable Ion Conduction in Organogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Organogels containing salts dissolved in phase‐change solvents exhibit thermally switchable ion conduction. The organogels, which display an over 10 000‐fold on‐off ratio and high cycling stability, can be synthesized with a wide range of salts and customizable conductivity/temperature relations for applications in ionotronics and energy storage ...
Yi‐ming Yuan, Thomas B. H. Schroeder
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Ultrasound in Women's Health: Mechanisms, Applications, and Emerging Opportunities

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
As healthcare moves toward decentralization, ultrasound technologies are evolving from strictly imaging tools in clinical settings into versatile diagnostic and therapeutic platforms, with growing roles addressing women's health needs. This review highlights how ultrasound's underlying physical mechanisms can be harnessed to reduce disparities in women'
Sarah B. Ornellas, Bilal Kizilaslan, Aastha Shah, Jason F. Hou, Yoonsoo Shin, Alejandra Hernandez Moyers, Claudia Lozano, Canan Dagdeviren   +7 more
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