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Community Essay: Climate-change mitigation and adaptation in small island developing states: the case of rainwater harvesting in Jamaica

Sustainability: Science, Practice, & Policy, 2012
This essay seeks to further the dialogue concerning climate-change impacts for small island developing states (SIDS). Climate-change adaptation and mitigation strategies must be developed to cope with changes such as shifting precipitation patterns ...
Marilyn Waite
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Compression‐Tension‐Asymmetry and Stiffness Nonlinearity of Collagen‐Matrigel Composite Hydrogels

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐assembled collagen hydrogel matrices are widely used in tissue engineering applications. These matrices stiffen and contract laterally under tension due to fiber alignment and soften and collapse under compression due to fiber buckling. It is demonstrated that filler materials, such as Matrigel, linearize the mechanical behavior of collagen ...
David Böhringer, Jan Hinrichsen, Radik Gataulin, Sandra Wiedenmann, Marina Spörrer, Selda Sherifova, Paul Steinmann, Gerhard A. Holzapfel, Ben Fabry, Silvia Budday   +9 more
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Shapeshifting Liquid Metal Droplets for Soft Fluidic Machines

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This study presented a liquid metal shape shifting strategy which harnesses Lorentz force, surface tension and fluid instabilities to achieve autonomous fluidic power. By using a liquid metal droplet as a mobile current carrier, this strategy enables the development of low‐voltage, self‐oscillating pumps that outperform existing soft pumps.
Saba Firouznia, Christian Romero, Hemma Philamore, Andrew Conn, Martin Garrad, Jonathan Rossiter   +5 more
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Dew and Rain Evolution from Climate Change in Semi-Arid South-Western Madagascar between 1991 and 2033 (Extrapolated)

Atmosphere
In the context of global warming and the increasing scarcity of fresh water resources, it becomes significant to evaluate the contribution and evolution of non-rainfall waters such as dew.
Adriana Rasoafaniry, Marc Muselli, Daniel Beysens   +2 more
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Layered gravel soil slope stability of a waste dump considering long-term hard rain

工程科学学报, 2016
In order to examine the effect of long-term hard rain on the layered gravel soil slope stability of a waste dump, the for-mula derivation relating natural water content, natural unit weight and natural volumetric water content was conducted to help to ...
ZHENG Kai-huan, LUO Zhou-quan, LUO Cheng-yan, WEN Lei   +3 more
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A Soft Microrobot for Single‐Cell Transport, Spheroid Assembly, and Dual‐Mode Drug Screening

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A soft, untethered hydrogel microrobot enables precise single‐cell delivery, self‐assembly into 3D spheroids, and real‐time thermal actuation. Driven by light‐induced convection and embedded with gold nanorods and temperature sensors, the microrobot guides cells, modulates local microenvironments, and supports drug testing.
Philipp Harder, Nergishan İyisan, Yukun Wang, Berna Özkale   +3 more
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Integrated Lead/Iodine Management for Sustainable Perovskite Solar Modules

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Perovskite solar modules face environmental risks from lead and iodine leakage. A dual‐function adsorbent—porphyrin‐modified whitlockite nanocomposites—effectively captures iodine and Pb2+, even under severe damage. Combined with a semi‐closed recycling process, it recovers 96.9% high‐purity PbI2 and reduces residual Pb2+ to <10 ppb, offering an ...
Guo‐Bin Xiao, Niansheng Xu, Zhen‐Yang Suo, Sibei Mai, Dandan Hu, Feng Gao, Jing Cao   +6 more
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Mercury Concentrations in Bulk Atmospheric Deposition over the Coast of Rio de Janeiro, Southeast, Brazil

Journal of the Brazilian Chemical Society, 2002
Total Hg concentrations were measured in bulk atmospheric deposition from three sampling stations along the Rio de Janeiro State coast, Southeast, Brazil, from October 1998 to December 1999. Samples were collected at Campos dos Goytacazes, an agriculture
Lacerda Luiz D., Paraquetti Heloisa Helena M., Rezende Carlos E., Silva Luiz Fernando F., Silva Filho Emanuel V., Marins Rozane V., Ribeiro Mario G.   +6 more
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Recent Advances on Thermochromic Inks for Security Applications

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Thermochromic security inks have garnered interest in recent years as security elements for authentication, information encryption, and anti‐counterfeiting. This review outlines different types of thermochromic materials, how they have been developed as functional inks, and how advancements in property enhancement, sustainability, and printing ...
Duarte B. Oliveira, Andreia Araújo, Elvira Fortunato, Rodrigo Martins, Marta C. Corvo, Emanuel Carlos   +5 more
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani, Carlo Antonini, Teresa Gatti, Mengjiao Wang   +3 more
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