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Multifunctional Bamboo Based Materials Empowered by Multiscale Hierarchical Structures—A Critical Review

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review summarizes the latest progress in transforming renewable bamboo resources into high‐value functional materials. It emphasizes how to leverage bamboo's multiscale hierarchical structures to realize innovative applications in energy, construction, environment, and medicine, providing key insights for developing high‐performance bio‐based ...
Yuxiang Huang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Basic study on promotion of thawing frozen soil by shock loading

open access: yesInternational Journal of Multiphysics, 2008
The aim of study is to confirm a new technique that can crush the frozen soil and/or ice block using underwater shock wave generated by the underwater explosion of explosive.
Toshiaki WATANABE   +2 more
doaj   +1 more source

Biological and Biologically Inspired Functional Nanostructures: Insights into Structural, Optical, Thermal, and Sensing Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
Biological and biologically‐inspired functional nanostructures with structural, thermal, optical, and sensing applications are reviewed. The role of nanoscale features in biological materials on performance is described, and their blueprints are used for bio‐inspired nanomaterials, synthesized using advanced techniques (i.e., photolithography, bio ...
Chao Hsuan (Joseph) Sung   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

Shocks in non-loaded bead chains with impurities

open access: yes, 1999
We numerically investigate the problem of the propagation of a shock in an horizontal non-loaded granular chain with a bead interaction force exponent varying from unity to large values.
Hascoet, E., Herrmann, H.
core   +2 more sources

Design Strategies and Roles of Hydrogels for Sustainable Energy Conversion and Harvesting from Natural and Biological Environments

open access: yesAdvanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines hydrogel‐based technologies driven by environmental stimuli and emphasizes their unique contributions to energy conversion. It provides insights into design strategies and recent advancements in functional hydrogels, highlighting opportunities and challenges in this field.
Wanheng Lu   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Exposure of zebra mussels to extracorporeal shock waves demonstrates formation of new mineralized tissue inside and outside the focus zone

open access: yesBiology Open, 2018
The success rate of extracorporeal shock wave therapy (ESWT) for fracture nonunions in human medicine (i.e. radiographic union at 6 months after ESWT) is only approximately 75%.
Katharina Sternecker   +8 more
doaj   +1 more source

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