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Expanding Chemical Space of Nucleic Acid Nanoparticles for Tunable Antiviral‐Like Immunomodulatory Responses and Potent Adjuvant Activity

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We introduce a nucleic acid nanoparticle (NANP) platform designed to be rrecognized by the human innate immune system in a regulated manner. By changing chemical composition while maintaining constant architectural parameters, we identify key determinants of immunorecognition enabling the rational design of NANPs with tunable immune activation profiles
Martin Panigaj, Hannah S. Newton, Jian Wang, Laxmi Pandey, Yelixza I. Avilla, Phong Nguyen, Morgan Chandler, Justin Halman, Yasmine Radwan, Stephanie Smith, Elijah Edmondson, Simone Difilippantonio, Chelsea Sanders, Bao Tran, Yongmei Zhao, Shaojun Xie, Edward Cedrone, Barry W. Neun, Meni Wanunu, Nikolay V. Dokholyan, Marina A. Dobrovolskaia, Kirill A. Afonin   +21 more
wiley   +1 more source

Progress in perfluoropolyether-based elastomers

Hecheng xiangjiao gongye
Perfluoropolyether(PFPE)-based elastomers were new elastomers with extremely low glass transition temperature and excellent resistance to polar solvents.
"FENG Yu-zhi1, WEN Jing-bin2, QIU Bo3, LI Lin-hua1, DONG Jing1, HUANG Quan-jing3, LI Fu-Chong1, GONG Guang-bi1, WANG Wei4"
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3D printing of silicone and polyurethane elastomers for medical device application: A review

Advances in Industrial and Manufacturing Engineering, 2023
Elastomers play a significant role across different fields including healthcare. They have similar mechanical properties to some of the soft tissues of the human body, which makes them useful in applications such as implants and prosthetics.
Myka Mae Duran, Gafaru Moro, Yang Zhang, Aminul Islam   +3 more
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Electroactive Liquid Crystal Elastomers as Soft Actuators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electroactive liquid crystal elastomers (eLCEs) can be actuated via electromechanical, electrochemical, or electrothermal effects. a) Electromechanical effects include Maxwell stress, electrostriction, and the electroclinic effect. b) Electrochemical effects arise from electrode redox reactions.
Yakui Deng, Min‐Hui Li
wiley   +1 more source

Response to: Relevance of Breast Silicone Elastomer Surface Roughness and Area to the Inflammatory Process and Immune System Activation: Is It Time to Reexamine This Issue? [PDF]

, 2021
Gisela Hobson Pontes, Luis Alejandro Vargas Guerrero, Ricardo Ariel Kam Vargas, Werneck Ramos Clara Pontes   +3 more
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Melt Grafting of Geometry‐Tailored Voltage Stabilizers for High‐Performance Polypropylene Insulation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A scalable one‐step melt grafting strategy is developed to enhance the dielectric properties of isotactic polypropylene by covalently incorporating thermally stable aromatic voltage stabilizers. This solvent‐free approach improves volume resistivity and DC breakdown strength through deep trap formation and charge localization, offering a sustainable ...
Nazirul Mubin bin Normansah, Taehoon Kwon, Hana Kim, Shin‐Ki Hong, Seung Won Lee, Se Hee Lee, Ik‐Su Kwon, Masahiro Kozako, Minhee Kim, Seunggun Yu   +9 more
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Block Copolymers: Emerging Building Blocks for Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review addresses how block copolymer (BCP) physics and rheology have led to the widespread use of BCPs in advanced additive manufacturing techniques, with particular emphasis on the untapped potential of these nanostructured materials toward achieving multi‐scale architected materials with unique, programmable material properties.
Alice S. Fergerson, Hemish B. Thakkar, Jiaen Wu, Emily C. Davidson   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Revisiting the Thermal Transitions of Polydimethylsiloxane (PDMS) Elastomers: Addressing Common Misconceptions with Comprehensive Data

Macromolecular Materials and Engineering
An important characteristic of silicone elastomers is their ability to maintain their properties over a wide temperature range. This results from the Si─O bond's high flexibility and thermal stability, causing a very low glass transition temperature (Tg)
Saul Utrera‐Barrios, Liyun Yu, Anne Ladegaard Skov   +2 more
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Proposal of a generic constitutive model for deformation-dependent dielectric constant of dielectric elastomers

Engineering Science and Technology, an International Journal, 2021
Dielectric elastomers (DEs) are electroactive polymers that could be used as soft actuators, stretchable generators and sensors. Their performance is dependent on both their mechanical and dielectric properties.
Ajeet Kumar, Karali Patra
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Fault-tolerant silicone dielectric elastomers

International Journal of Smart and Nano Materials, 2010
Soft silicone films have garnered a great deal of interest for use in dielectric elastomer transducers due to their excellent properties, including high elongation to rupture, low viscoelasticity, and broad application temperature range. However, silicone films generally have higher stiffness and lower dielectric strength than VHB acrylic elastomers ...
Wei Yuan, Huafeng Li, Paul Brochu, Xiaofan Niu, Qibing Pei   +4 more
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