Light-guided spectral sculpting in chiral azobenzene-doped cholesteric liquid crystals for reconfigurable narrowband unpolarized light sources. [PDF]
Selvaraj P, Yuan MH, Liu CK, Cheng KT.
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Tunable Multifunctional Terahertz Coding Metasurface for Polarization Manipulation
Coding metasurfaces (CMs) offer versatile control over electromagnetic waves. Herein, a tunable multifunctional terahertz (THz) metasurface integrated with vanadium dioxide (VO2) is presented, enabling propagation‐phase manipulation of linearly polarized waves and hybrid‐phase control of circularly polarized waves.
Chunsheng Zhang +10 more
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Topological and Reconfigurable Terahertz Metadevices. [PDF]
Zhao Z, Wang H, Hu G, Alù A.
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Recent advances in nanophotonics‐based chiral biosensing approaches are comprehensively reviewed, highlighting key trends, advantages, and limitations of each technology. Special attention is given to emerging strategies that exploit magneto‐optical and quantum plasmonic phenomena to enhance sensitivity down to the level of a few molecules, or even a ...
Jorge Ricardo Mejía‐Salazar
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Metasurface based on phase change materials for electrically reconfigurable THz beam steering in copolarized transmission mode. [PDF]
Kumar K, Vidal B, Garcia-Meca C.
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Recent Advances in Variable‐Stiffness Robotic Systems Enabled by Phase‐Change Materials
Phase‐change materials (PCMs), such as shape memory alloys, hydrogels, shape memory polymers, liquid crystal elastomers, and low‐melting‐point alloys, are driving advancements in stiffness‐tunable robotic systems across a wide range of applications. This review highlights recent progress in PCM‐enabled robotics, focusing on their underlying mechanisms,
Sukrit Gaira +5 more
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Vanadium dioxide thin films integrated with printed circuit board enables low-cost, reconfigurable millimeter-wave devices. [PDF]
Afshani A, Xiang W, Djerafi T, Chaker M.
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Modulus‐Switchable Miniature Robots for Biomedical Applications: A Review
Materials, robot designs, proof‐of‐concept functions, and biomedical applications of modulus‐switchable miniature robots. Miniature soft robots have shown great potential in biomedical applications due to their excellent controllability and suitable mechanical properties in biological environments.
Chunyun Wei, Yibin Wang, Jiangfan Yu
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Reconfigurable modular origami for tunable 2D symmetry groups. [PDF]
Liu W +9 more
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Strong‐Magnetic Flexible Composites for Magnetically Responsive Soft Robots
This perspective provides an overview of the performance mechanisms, preparation methods, and applications of strong magnetic flexible composite materials in soft actuators (such as gripping, movement, and sensing), and further explores current opportunities and challenges.
Wenwen Li +4 more
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