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Recent Advances in Collective Behaviors of Micro/Nanomotor Swarms

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review describes the driving forces behind collective motion, explores the self‐organization of micro/nano swarms across zero‐dimensional (0D), one‐dimensional (1D), two‐dimensional (2D), and three‐dimensional (3D) spaces, and highlights their potential in drug delivery, environmental monitoring, and smart devices.
Siwen Sun, Bingbing Sun, Alexander B. Cook, Tania Patiño Padial, Jan C. M. van Hest   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Removal of endocrine disrupting chemicals using low pressure reverse osmosis membrane [PDF]

, 2009
Endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) are one of the major focuses of contaminants in current environmental issues, as they can cause adverse health effects on animals and human, particularly to endocrine function.
Abd. Razak, Azri Rasyidi
core  

Autonomous Spatiotemporal Regulation of Reversible Hydrogel Actuators by Chemical Reaction Networks

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Hydrogel actuators with reversible response to thiols are developed using reversible binding of thiols to Michael acceptors. Autonomous spatiotemporal regulation of reversible movement of these hydrogels is achieved using thiol‐based chemical reaction networks containing both positive and negative feedback.
Fan Liao, Ajith George, Xiao‐Meng Sui, Sergey N. Semenov   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Hydrogel Thermostat Inspired by Photoprotective Foliage Using Latent and Radiative Heat Control

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Guided by Populus alba foliage, this hydrogel latent‐radiative thermostat (LRT) actively balances latent and radiative heat fluxes. An LRT switches solar reflectance, maintains high mid‐IR emissivity, and reversibly evaporates/regenerates water, while titanium oxide (TiO2) nanoparticles toughen the film.
Se‐Yeon Heo, Hyung Rae Kim, Yoonsoo Shin, Hyun Su Lee, Hyunkyu Kwak, Do Hyeon Kim, Dong Hyun Seo, Joo Hwan Ko, Hyo Eun Jeong, Sehui Chang, Min Seok Kim, Longnan Li, Jyotirmoy Mandal, Wei Li, Dae‐Hyeong Kim, Young Min Song   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Utilizing Hybrid RO-OARO Systems as New Methods for Desalination Process

Iraqi Journal of Chemical and Petroleum Engineering
The scarcity of fresh water and its essential role in sustaining life on Earth have motivated researchers to seek new, low-cost, scalable technologies for water desalination.
Hassanain A. Hassan, Ahmed Faiq Al-Alawy, Muayad Al-shaeli   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Electrically Tunable Friction: From Sticky to Slippery with Ionic Hydrogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates electrically tunable friction “from sticky to slippery” using ionic hydrogels, achieving reversible more‐than‐fifty‐fold modulation without liquid lubricants. An electric field extracts a salt‐rich interfacial layer that dramatically reduces friction.
Chenxu Liu, Yuan Yao, Yuanyuan Wang, Qi Zhou, Ziqian Zhao, Chenyu Qiao, Yongxiang Sun, Yonggang Meng, Yu Tian, Hongbo Zeng   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

A Lyapunov-Sylvester numerical method for solving a reverse osmosis model

AIMS Mathematics
Clean water is a necessity for many organisms, especially human life. Due to many factors, there is a significant shortage of potable water. This has led to efforts involving recovering water from wastewater or the sea through different technologies ...
Saloua Helali , Anouar Ben Mabrouk , Mohamed Rashad, Nizar Bel Hadj Ali, Munirah A. Ȧlanazi, Marwah A. Alsharif , Elham M. Al-Ali, Lubna A. Alharbi , Manahil S. Mustafa   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

Cancer Cells Traverse Faster in Confined Space by Modifying Vimentin filaments With Nuclear Deformation and Promoting the Growth of Desired Tumor Spheroids

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This study demonstrates how the Vimentin intermediate (VIM) filaments distribution/density regulates the attainment of different migration modes through cytoskeleton rearrangement and controls the nuclear morphology in migrating cells under physical confinement, which facilitates the faster traversing of those cells and the growth of post‐migration ...
Md Kowsar Alam, Jiao Zhai, Heng Zou, Yu Chen, Michael Yang   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Clay Reimagined: Phyllosilicates as Future Membrane Technologies

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Recent advancements in membrane technologies based on 2D materials have drawn attention for molecular‐scale separations owing to these materials’ tunable nanoscale interlayer properties. Phyllosilicates, natural and abundant layered clay minerals, have emerged as scalable and cost‐effective candidates.
Min A Kim, Yining Liu, Austin J. Booth, Kelsey B. Hatzell, Seth B. Darling   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Influence of osmotic energy recovery/osmotic dilution on seawater desalination energy demand [PDF]

, 2013
Supplying fresh, potable water to an ever increasing world population is becoming a major challenge. One possibility is to produce fresh water from seawater by Reverse Osmosis (RO), a process that is very energy intensive.
Bakelants, Annelise, Derese, Sebastiaan, Vanoppen, Marjolein, Verliefde, Arne   +3 more
core   +1 more source