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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
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Modifications in Wheelchair Propulsion Technique with Speed

Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology, 2015
Objective: Repetitive loading of the upper limb joints during manual wheelchair propulsion has been identified a factor that contributes to shoulder pain, leading to loss of independence and decreased quality of life.
Ian Miles Russell, Shashank eRaina, Philip Santos Requejo, Rand eWilcox, Sara eMulroy, Jill L McNitt-Gray, Jill L McNitt-Gray   +6 more
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Interstitium‐Mimicking Porous Alveolar Membranes Enable Physiologic Aerosol Transport and Distinct Acute‐Chronic Lung Injury Responses

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An interstitium‐mimicking membrane combines three‐dimensional alveolar geometry, high pore interconnectivity, and mechanical compliance to overcome transport limitations of conventional lung‐on‐chip barriers. The resulting platform supports physiologic aerosol transport, quantitative analysis of cross‐barrier particle movement, and reveals divergent ...
Jae‐Won Choi, Sheng Zhang, Abbas Jalili, August Kohls, Woo‐Youl Maeng, Sikandar Azam, Wu Liu, Barbie Varghese, Yixin Zhao, Xi Ren, Shimin Liu, Si‐Yang Zheng   +11 more
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Self-propulsion through symmetry breaking [PDF]

EPL (Europhysics Letters), 2013
In addition to self-propulsion by phoretic mechanisms that arises from an asymmetric distribution of reactive species around a catalytic motor, spherical particles with a uniform distribution of catalytic activity may also propel themselves under suitable conditions.
de Buyl, Pierre, Mikhailov, Alexander, Kapral, Raymond   +2 more
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Toward Enhanced Inertial Sensing via Dynamically Soft Topological States in Piezoelectric Microacoustic Metamaterials

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A piezoelectric microacoustic wave device exploiting topologically protected interface states with significantly higher dynamic compliance than Lamb or Rayleigh modes achieves record‐high out‐of‐plane particle velocities exceeding 51 m/s. These findings indicate that leveraging topological interface states can overcome key limitations of piezoelectric ...
Onurcan Kaya, Niccolò Scalise Pantuso, Marco Galli, Jacopo M. De Ponti, Tommaso Maggioli, Davide Pavesi, Siddhartha Ghosh, Attilio Frangi, Luca Colombo, Benyamin Davaji, Matteo Rinaldi, David Horsley, Cristian Cassella   +12 more
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Investigation on the influence of inflow plane parameters on the prediction of full formed ship’s self-propulsion performance

Polish Maritime Research
The configuration of the inflow plane plays a critical role in self-propulsion simulations of ships using the body force method. In this study, we investigate the impact and applicability of different inflow plane settings on the self-propulsion ...
Gu Feichi, Wang Min, Zheng Long, Wang Hao, Chen Shunhuai   +4 more
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A Numerical Study for the Self-Propulsion Performance of a Propulsion System Using the Coanda Effect

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering
This study evaluated the performance of a ship propeller numerically using the Coanda effect. The simulations applied a model based on a 6.5K DWT tanker and conducted self-propulsion assessments for three types of propellers: the original propeller, a ...
Jun-Hee Lee, Kwang-Jun Paik, Do-Han Oh
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Noncentral forces mediated between two inclusions in a bath of active Brownian rods

Scientific Reports, 2021
Using Brownian Dynamics simulations, we study effective interactions mediated between two identical and impermeable disks (inclusions) immersed in a bath of identical, active (self-propelled), Brownian rods in two spatial dimensions, by assuming that the
Mahmoud Sebtosheikh, Ali Naji
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Embedded Ferroelectric Nanoclusters Can Drive Polarization Reversal in a Non‐Ferroelectric Polar Film via the Proximity Effect

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ferroelectric nanoclusters create local internal fields in a normally non‐switchable polar film because of polarization mismatch at their interfaces. That field opposes polarization in the regions with larger polarization and reinforces polarization in the regions with smaller polarization.
Anna N. Morozovska, Eugene A. Eliseev, Sergei V. Kalinin, Long‐Qing Chen, Dean R. Evans, Venkatraman Gopalan   +5 more
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Versatile Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators Enabled by Fiber‐Polymer Composite Fabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work reports composite Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators with embedded Kevlar fibers that convert pneumatic or hydraulic pressure into powerful linear motion. A novel precise manufacturing technique is used to systematically explore how design variables influence actuator mechanics and dynamics.
William J. Townsend, Jeongmin Kim, Samuel Tsai, Yichao Shi, Sameh Tawfick, James H. Pikul   +5 more
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