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Multistage, Self‐Sensing Artificial Muscles With Coordination From Liquid Crystal Elastomer‐Graphene Composite Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by skeletal muscles’ precision and endurance, CoilLCE integrates a self‐sensing liquid crystal elastomer/graphene artificial muscle with an embedded Joule‐heating copper coil, enabling closed‐loop multistage actuation with programmable intermediate states (strain accuracy of 2%), and antagonistic coordination (32% total strain). These features
Ziyun Zhang, Xuelin Wu, Yinding Chi, Qingya Huang, Yaoye Hong, Antonio Proctor Martinez, Jingxian Wu, Bingzhi He, Cynthia Sung, Shu Yang   +9 more
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Thermoresponsive Liquid Crystalline Polymer Coatings Programmed by Field‐Induced Topological Defects for Tunable Optical and Topographical Responses

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Resonant standing waves generate large‐area lattices of liquid‐crystal topological defects that are permanently encoded into polymer coatings by photopolymerization. The preserved director architecture produces thermally reconfigurable surface topographies while maintaining programmable optical functionality, demonstrating a scalable strategy for ...
Jacques A. Peixoto, Mufeeduzaman Chavilkkadan, Alexander Fusi, Marko Beslać, Dirk J. Broer, Etienne Brasselet, Danqing Liu   +6 more
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Anisotropic Phonon Dynamics and Directional Transport in Actinide Van der Waals Semiconductor Uranium Triselenide

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
USe3 is introduced as an actinide van der Waals semiconductor that mirrors the quasi‐one‐dimensional physics of transition‐metal trichalcogenides. Polarization‐resolved Raman spectroscopy on exfoliated flakes maps strong in‐plane phonon anisotropy and strain‐tunable mode shifts.
Aljoscha Söll, Valentino Jadriško, Sourav Dey, Nassima Benchtaber, Kalyan Sarkar, Borna Radatović, Jan Luxa, Fedor Lipilin, Kseniia Mosina, Vojtěch Kundrát, Jakub Zalesak, Jana Vejpravová, Martin Žáček, Szymon J. Zelewski, Nikolas Antonatos, Christoph Gadermaier, José J. Baldoví, Zdeněk Sofer   +17 more
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High‐Efficiency Deep Blue Single‐Gaussian Europium(II) Emitters and Their Emitter‐Host Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Crown‐ether ligands and carborate anions enable vacuum‐processable Eu(II) emitters with efficient single‐Gaussian deep‐blue luminescence. Combined photophysical and computational analyses reveal that excited‐electron confinement and steric shielding of the europium center jointly govern compatibility with OLED host materials, establishing molecular ...
Mahmoud Soleimani, Paulius Imbrasas, Jan‐Michael Mewes, Felix Kaden, Stephanie Anna Buchholtz, Karl Leo, Sebastian Schellhammer, Carsten Rothe, Sebastian Reineke   +8 more
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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
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Embedded Direct Ink Writing of Thermoset and Elastomeric Polymers via Frontal Polymerization

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Embedded frontal polymerization direct ink writing (FP‐DIW) combines frontal ring‐opening metathesis polymerization with embedded 3D printing to decouple deposition from curing. A yield‐stress support bath stabilizes low‐viscosity inks, while on‐demand thermal initiation enables controlled front propagation. This approach expands the accessible feature
Mohammad Tanver Hossain, Yun Seong Kim, Pallab Layak, Pranav Krishnan, Young bum Lee, Minjiang Zhu, Shubh Singh, Philippe H. Geubelle, Paul V. Braun, Jeffery W. Baur, Nancy R. Sottos, Sameh H. Tawfick, Randy H. Ewoldt   +12 more
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Myogenic Fusogen‐Engineered Lipid Nanoparticles Enhance mRNA Delivery in Skeletal Muscle

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study reports a biomimetic strategy of engineering full‐length Myomaker, a muscle‐specific fusogen, into lipid nanoparticles (LNPs) to harness the native myoblast fusion capability for skeletal muscle mRNA delivery. The resulting Mymk‐LNPs enhance transfection in differentiating myocytes and enable Cre‐mediated reporter activation in injured ...
Fangyu Zhang, Zhisheng Xu, Yaou Duan, Yehui Sun, Shiying Wu, Tao Long, Mateusz Durbacz, Li Zhang, Yufen Xiao, Yu‐Chung Pien, Erick D. Guerrero, Zeru Tian, Xu Wang, Pratima Basak, Sumanta Chatterjee, Ning Liu, Xiaochun Li, Eric N. Olson, Daniel J. Siegwart   +18 more
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Hydrogel‐Based 3D‐Printed Anthropomorphic Breast Phantom for Emulating Mechanical and Dielectric Properties of Mammary Tissue. Applications in Microwave Imaging

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A 3D‐printable breast phantom is developed using patient‐derived MRI data and hydrogels that replicate the dielectric properties of healthy and cancerous tissues. Mechanical and dielectric characterization confirm its suitability for microwave imaging.
Carlos M. Andreu, Daniel Álvarez Sánchez‐Bayuela, Gianluigi Tiberi, Eliana Canicattì, Agostino Monorchio, Ester Vázquez   +5 more
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Confinement in Metal‐Organic Frameworks as a Route to Harnessing Liquid Barocalorics in the Solid‐State

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Encapsulation of solid–liquid barocalorics (BC) within MOFs harnesses their colossal BC performance whilst allowing active control of BC properties through BC‐MOF interactions. ABSTRACT Barocaloric (BC) effects at liquid–vapor transitions in hydrofluorocarbons drive most commercial technologies used for heating and cooling in the heating, ventilation ...
Ming Zeng, Frederic Rendell‐Bhatti, Eamonn T. Connolly, Yang Wang, Clàudia Pérez‐Junyent, Josep‐Lluís Tamarit, Ross S. Forgan, Pol Lloveras, David Boldrin   +8 more
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Upcycling Keratin‐Based Textile Waste Into High‐Performance Hybrid Fibers Via Tuning the Interfacial Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Keratin recovered from animal‐hair textile waste is fractionated and blended with cellulose to produce continuously spun hybrid fibers. Selecting the high‐molecular‐weight keratin fraction enables 30 wt.% keratin incorporation while maintaining high strength in dry and wet states.
Mian Zhai, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Inge Schlapp‐Hackl, Teemu Välisalmi, Markus Linder, Michael Hummel, Wenwen Fang   +6 more
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