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Mineral Deposition From Liquid Precursors Triggered by Complementary Polyelectrolytes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Polyelectrolyte additives can delay or prevent crystal nucleation in supersaturated solutions of insoluble mineral salts such as calcium carbonate. This work reports that adding a second, oppositely‐charged polyelectrolyte leads to immediate mineral crystallization from such metastable solutions.
Mohammed Kayes Patoary, Eli Halperin Pierce, Elizabeth Siu, Brigitte Gallagher, Md Abul Shahid, Yang Zhang, Thomas B. H. Schroeder   +6 more
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Assessing Rebar Corrosion through the Combination of Nondestructive GPR and IRT Methodologies

Remote Sensing, 2019
Corrosion is one of the pathologies that most affects the resistance of reinforced concrete. There are numerous ancient structures still in use affected by corrosion that need proper evaluation and remedial treatment for their maintenance. In this sense,
Mercedes Solla, Susana Lagüela, Norberto Fernández, Iván Garrido   +3 more
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An Edible Chitosan‐Based Acoustic Sensor for Sound‐Responsive Actuation in Edible Robots

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study introduces an edible acoustic sensor for robotic food and edible robotics. Built from a chitosan piezoelectric film between gold electrodes, the sensor enables acoustic communication through ON/OFF keying. Integrated into an edible robot with pneumatically actuated arms and neck, it responds to high‐frequency tones.
Valerio Francesco Annese, Bokeon Kwak, Gaia de Marzo, Giulia Coco, Valentina Antonaci, Leonardo Lamanna, Massimo De Vittorio, Dario Floreano, Mario Caironi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Disentangling Bulk and Surface Contributions to Charge and Discharge Fading in High‐Voltage LiCoO2

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
High‐voltage operation of LiCoO2 accelerates capacity fading through bulk and surface degradation. By introducing a LiTaO3 coating to selectively suppress surface degradation, bulk and surface contributions to charge and discharge fading are decoupled.
Hyungjoon Moon, Sangbin Park, Jaewoo Jung, Seongeun Lee, Chanwoo Jung, Min‐Sik Park, Won‐Sub Yoon   +6 more
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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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Field test of high-power microwave-assisted mechanical excavation for deep hard iron ore

Journal of Rock Mechanics and Geotechnical Engineering
Microwave-assisted mechanical excavation has great application prospects in mines and tunnels, but there are few field experiments on microwave-assisted rock breaking.
Feng Lin, Xia-Ting Feng, Shiping Li, Xiao Hai, Jiuyu Zhang, Xiangxin Su, Tianyang Tong, Jianchun Song   +7 more
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The reflective cracking in thin surfacings

, 1998
This paper shows a laboratory study on reflection cracking in thin surfacings, where the reflective cracking take an important point in pavement life, undertaken with the Reflective Cracking Device and the Crack Activity Meter. The Crack Activity Meter was used to measure load associated differential vertical and horizontal movement between the two ...
Pais, Jorge C., Pereira, Paulo A. A., Azevedo, M. C. M., Sousa, Jorge B.   +3 more
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Solution‐Processed Mn‐Doped 2d Perovskite Wavelength Shifters for Noble‐Liquid Photon Detection

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Solution‐processed Mn2+‐doped PEA2PbBr4 two‐dimensional perovskite films are demonstrated as large‐area wavelength shifters for noble‐liquid photon detectors. Mn2+ incorporation introduces a broad emission band at ∼620 nm with a large Stokes shift, suppressing self‐absorption and matching SiPM sensitivity.
Elisabetta Colantoni, Laura Basiricò, Andrea Ciavatti, Nicolò Tosi, Valentina Cicero, Massimo Loriggiola, Beatrice Fraboni   +6 more
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2D Co‐Assembly of Solid Acids Enables Stable Superprotonic Conduction Above 260°C

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A two‐dimensional co‐assembly strategy integrates antimony phosphate and phosphotungstic acid nanosheets into free‐standing inorganic lamellar membranes with confined acid–acid interfaces. The resulting interfacial hydrogen‐bond network enables anhydrous proton conductivity exceeding 0.1 S cm−1 at 260°C and supports stable high‐temperature fuel‐cell ...
Qiuning Li, Kaiqiang He, Dehua Dong, Fanmengjing Wang, Xiangcheng Liu, Zhikao Li, Jacek J. Jasieniak, Paul A. Webley, Huanting Wang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

CRACKS IN ROADWAY COVERING: METHODS FOR IMPROVEMENMT OF CRACK RESISTANCE

Наука и техника, 2011
Crack formation is presently considered as an actual problem in the global practice. The paper provides various approaches pertaining to improvement of asphalt-concrete composition with the purpose to prevent formation of temperature and fatigue cracks ...
I. I. Leonovich, I. S. Melnikova
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