Beyond Brown: Lignin's Emerging Role in Structural Color
Advanced Optical Materials, EarlyView.Lignin, long regarded as a brown industrial byproduct, is emerging as a sustainable platform for structural color. This Perspective highlights how lignin's refractive index, intrinsic absorption, and nanoscale assembly enable tunable photonic responses in colloidal and thin‐film architectures, and outlines design strategies to advance scalable, bio ...
Ravi Shanker, Anna Justina Svagan
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Partial Oxidation-Engineered Dendritic α-Fe<sub>2</sub>O<sub>3</sub>@Fe Photoanode: Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Water-Splitting Performance and Pt-Modified Stability. [PDF]
Nanomaterials (Basel)Yang Y +5 more
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Multi‐Material Additive Manufacturing of Soft Robotic Systems: A Comprehensive Review
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This review explores the transformative role of multi‐material additive manufacturing (MMAM) in the development of soft robotic systems. It presents current techniques, materials, and design strategies that enable functionally graded and adaptive structures.
Ritik Raj +2 more
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Techno-economic analysis for a 100% renewable hybrid energy systems integration in a research facility in Morocco. [PDF]
iScienceChoukri NE +3 more
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Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.Pak Biawak, a necrobot, embodies an unusual fusion of biology and robotics. Designed to repurpose natural structures after death, it challenges conventional boundaries between nature and engineering. Its movements are precise yet unsettling, raising questions about sustainability, ethics, and the untapped potential of biointegrated machines.
Leo Foulds +2 more
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Li<sup>+</sup>/H<sup>+</sup> Exchange in Solid-State Oxide Li-Ion Conductors. [PDF]
ACS Energy LettLi Z, Lam BX, Wang S, Ceder G.
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Evaluating Bicarbonate Electrolyzer Configurations for Energy‐Efficient Formate Production
Advanced Sustainable Systems, EarlyView.Reactive carbon capture (RCC) with bicarbonate electrolyzers (BEs) offers an efficient alternative to gas‐fed CO2 electrolyzers by eliminating regeneration and pressurization steps. This study optimizes BE configurations and compares RCC chains to gas‐fed carbon chains for formate production.
Alessio Mezza +5 more
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Synthesis-route-regulated structural and electronic evolution of Fe-doped Co<sub>3</sub>O<sub>4</sub> toward enhanced oxygen evolution reaction. [PDF]
RSC AdvLv J, Sun H, Li C, Cao Y, Liu J.
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