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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The graphic illustrates the design of a hybrid bilayer composed of a liquid crystal hydrogel (LCH) and a liquid crystal network (LCN). The figure highlights the magnetic alignment of the chromonic hydrogel and the thermal‐responsive actuation of the LCN along with the LCH when both layers are aligned or misaligned, enabling programmable, light‐driven ...
Ramón Santiago Herrera Restrepo +13 more
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Using multiple self-sorting for switching functions in discrete multicomponent systems
Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, 2020 Over years self-sorting has developed into a powerful tool in supramolecular chemistry, for instance, to promote the error-free formation of intricate multicomponent assemblies.
Amit Ghosh, Michael Schmittel
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IEEE Access, 2020 Fixed morphology cleaning robots mostly face significant challenges in cleaning the narrow spaces in the environment. To overcome this, a new class of self-reconfigurable floor cleaning robot, hTetrakis, made of four triangular blocks, is built.
Rizuwana Parween +3 more
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Decoupling Dynamics and Crosslink Stability in Supramolecular Hydrogels Using Associative Exchange
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.How does reorganization impact the stability of supramolecular hydrogels? In contrast to dissociative crosslink exchange, implementing associative exchange in macroscale DNA hydrogels enables decoupling of reorganization dynamics from thermal and mechanical stability.
Pierre Le Bourdonnec +4 more
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Liquid Metal Microrobots for Magnetically Guided Transvascular Navigation
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.Liquid metal‐based microrobots combine magnetic steering, intrinsic X‐ray visibility and softness, to navigate blood vessels even against flow. Under clinically relevant magnetic fields, liquid metal microrobots roll along vessel walls, cross endothelial barriers, and accumulate in target tissues.
Xiaohui Ju +7 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A machine learning‐guided bio‐interfacial design strategy resolves the long‐standing strength–toughness–functionality trade‐off in nanocomposites. By efficiently mapping high‐performance regions in the composition–processing space, the approach delivers hierarchically entangled, nanosheet‐pinned architectures that combine mechanical robustness ...
Hao Wang +10 more
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International Journal of Distributed Sensor Networks, 2015 For large structural health monitoring in practical applications, the sensor failure in large sensor network will generate the failure of the damage evaluation or the leaving of unmonitored area in a large structure.
Dong Liang +3 more
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Distributed and Dynamic Map-less Self-reconfiguration for Microrobot Networks
, 2013 International audienceMEMS micro robots are low-power and low memory capacity devices that can sense and act. One of the most challenges in MEMS micro robot applications is the self-reconfiguration, especially when the efficiency and the scalability of ...
Bourgeois, Julien +2 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj +8 more
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Antagonistic chemical coupling in self-reconfigurable host–guest protocells
Nature Communications, 2018 Multi-compartmentalised soft micro-systems are used as models of synthetic protocells. Here, the authors developed nested host–guest protocell constructs capable of self-reconfiguration in response to changes in pH generated by antagonistic modes of ...
Nicolas Martin +5 more
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