Adaptive Hydrogels With Spatiotemporal Stiffening Using pH‐Modulating Enzymes
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The chemomechanical coupling in an adaptive hydrogel is studied to further the development of adaptive hydrogels. This coupling is achieved by embedding a pH‐modulating enzyme in a pH‐responsive hydrogel. The enzymatic reaction can be triggered locally, which generates a pH‐decreasing wave throughout the system, increasing the crosslinking density and ...
Natascha Gray +3 more
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Smoking and Health Investments: Impacts of Health Adaptation and Damage Reversibility [PDF]
In the present paper we examine how different sets of beliefs about the health effects of smoking would influence a rational smoker. By embedding the rational addiction theory in a Grossman model of health investment modified to take account of ...
Carbone, Jared +2 more
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Photon Avalanching Nanoparticles: The Next Generation of Upconverting Nanomaterials?
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.This Perspective outlines the mechanistic foundations that enable photon‐avalanche (PA) behavior in lanthanide nanomaterials and contrasts them with emerging application spaces and forward‐looking design strategies. By bridging threshold engineering, energy‐transfer dynamics, and materials engineering, we provide a coherent roadmap for advancing the ...
Kimoon Lee +7 more
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Hydrogels as Reversible Adhesives: A Review on Sustainable Design Strategies and Future Prospects
Colloids and InterfacesReversible adhesives enable temporary yet robust bonding between surfaces, allowing controlled detachment without structural or interfacial damage. This capability is gaining increasing recognition as a crucial requirement for sustainable technologies ...
Monica Tonelli, Massimo Bonini
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Not by Serendipity: Rationally Designed Reversible Temperature-Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescence Inversion by Coupling Two Scenarios of Harata–Kodaka’s Rule [PDF]
, 2020 Xuejiao Wang +6 more
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Engineering Strategies for Stable and Long‐Life Alkaline Zinc‐Based Flow Batteries
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Alkaline zinc‐based flow batteries face persistent challenges from unstable zinc deposition, including dendrite growth, passivation, corrosion, and hydrogen evolution, which severely limit cycling stability. Current research addresses these issues through coordinated electrode structuring, electrolyte regulation, and membrane design to control zinc ...
Yuran Bai +6 more
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Multi-Ion Strategies Toward Advanced Rechargeable Batteries: Materials, Properties, and Prospects
Energy Material AdvancesAs alternatives to conventional rocking-chair lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), novel rechargeable batteries utilizing abundant elements (such as sodium-ion batteries, potassium-ion batteries, and magnesium-ion batteries) have shown excellent performance ...
Zilu Wang +10 more
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Single‐ and Dual‐Atom Configurations in Atomically Dispersed Catalysts for Lithium–Sulfur Batteries
Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.Single‐atom and dual‐atom‐based atomically dispersed catalysts (ADCs) effectively address the shuttle effect and sluggish redox kinetics in Li–S batteries. With nearly 100% atomic utilization and tunable coordination environments, ADCs enhance LiPSs adsorption, lower conversion barriers, and accelerate sulfur redox reactions.
Haoyang Xu +4 more
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The citric acid/urea (CA‐Urea) precursor system offers a versatile, scalable route to carbon dots with tunable luminescence and multifunctionality. Mechanistic insights into precursor chemistry and reaction parameters have enabled doping, surface modification, and hybridization strategies, yielding CDs for luminescent devices, sensing, catalysis ...
Yupeng Liu +10 more
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Rational Assent and Self–Reversion: A Neoplatonist Response to the Stoics [PDF]
, 2016 This paper begins by arguing that, according to the Stoics, humans are accountable for assenting (and withholding assent) just because of the way in which the capacity for assent is reason-responsive. The paper then goes on to raise a question for this view.
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