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Advances in Sustainable and Wearable Textile Based Soft Robotics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review examines advances in wearable textile‐based soft robotics, focusing on sustainable materials, integrated sensing, and scalable actuation. It discusses manufacturing and system integration across healthcare, assistive robotics, prosthetics, and human–machine interfaces, and highlights key challenges in circular design, including life‐cycle ...
Zahir Abbas, Marzia Dulal, Sophia K. Novoselov, Victoria K. Novoselov, Kostya S. Novoselov, Shaila Afroj, Nazmul Karim   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Realising the right to quality basic education in the Eastern Cape through infrastructure norms and standards

Frontiers in Education
This research project provides a comprehensive analysis of the pervasive infrastructural challenges impeding the realisation of the constitutional right to basic education in South Africa's Eastern Cape province.
Siyabulela Christopher Fobosi, Serone Jeanette Stal   +1 more
doaj   +1 more source

The reasons for girls' dropout in Yemen from the point of view of school principals and caretakers: A survey study

مجلة الدراسات الاجتماعية, 2013
It is important that girls have access to education as not only does it benefit girls' , but also the community in which they live. Education helps girls to develop skills that allow them to influence improving changes in key areas and to approve some of
Eman Alshargabi
doaj   +1 more source

Reliable load-balancing routing for resource-constrained wireless sensor networks

, 2012
Wireless sensor networks (WSNs) are energy and resource constrained. Energy limitations make it advantageous to balance radio transmissions across multiple sensor nodes.
Daabaj, Khaled
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Shaping Matter with Acoustic Waves: From Particles to Functional Structures

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Acoustic‐directed assembly is reviewed as a materials‐oriented strategy for organizing particles, polymers, metals, and biological systems into functional structures. The review distinguishes reversible manipulation from permanent structure formation through medium fixation, particle fixation, and in situ material generation, highlighting routes toward
Avraham Kenigsberg, Shelly Zlotnikov, Maya Fiorentino, Yuval Elias, Ornit Nagler‐Avramovitz, Hagay Shpaisman   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Approach of Afghan Actors to Hydropolitical Relations With Iran: A Trend Analysis and Foresight Study [PDF]

Faṣlnāmah-i Pizhūhish/hā-yi Rāhburdī-i Siyāsat
IntroductionWater is fundamental to human development, as every society and political entity strives to improve both the quantity and quality of its water resources.
Zakeyeh Aftabi, Morad Kaviani Rad, Shirkhan Anwari   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Sustainable Electrochemical Synthesis of High‐Quality MXenes: Mechanistic Insights, Applications, Challenges, and Technological Prospects

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electrochemical etching provides an eco‐friendly alternative to hazardous HF methods for MXene production. This approach facilitates the selective isolation of the A‐layer from MAX phases with tunable surface terminations. Controlling voltage, electrolytes, temperature, and duration enables the optimal structural integrity. Nevertheless, existing scale
Jagdeep Singh, Madhusudhana M Devadiga, Santosh K. Tiwari, AS Dhaliwal, Gurpreet Singh Selopal   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Spontaneous Helical Alignment of Smooth Muscle Cells to Form a Medial Layer for Engineered Microvasculature

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Spontaneous helical alignment of smooth muscle cells is induced within resistance‐vessel‐sized channels patterned within a hydrogel. The extent of the cells’ orientation angle is dependent on the presence and composition of ECM proteins lining the channel wall and cell seeding density.
Victoria D. Vest, Katherine J. Young, Isabella K. Holtz, Mark Mc Veigh, James D. West, Leon M. Bellan   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Secure and Reliable Communications Solution for SCADA and PPDR Use [PDF]

, 2013
Public Protection and Disaster Relief (PPDR) and Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems have similar needs for secured and reliable communications. All European PPDR organizations have similar requirements.
Ahokas, Jari
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