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Sub‐Nanometer Curvature Unlocks Quantum Orbital Flexoelectricity in Graphene

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
In self‐assembled, reproducible, large‐area, quasi‐pristine graphene nanowrinkles, extreme curvature forces out‐of‐plane π‐electrons toward hybridization, driving a transition from classical to quantum orbital flexoelectricity. As curvature approaches the fundamental physical limit set by the C─C bond length, the resulting polarization increases by ...
Sathvik Ajay Iyengar, James G. McHugh, Jonathan P. Salvage, Robert Vajtai, Venkataramana Gadhamshetty, Alan B. Dalton, Manoj Tripathi, Pulickel M. Ajayan, Vincent Meunier   +8 more
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Miniature Soft Robot With Magnetically Reprogrammable Surgical Functions

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Miniature soft robots have great prospects to revolutionize minimally invasive treatments. Here we present a miniature soft robot, which can be reprogrammed to perform five surgical functionalities with six‐degrees‐of‐freedom motions. This soft robot can prospectively make minimally invasive surgery considerably safer and painless, and enable ...
Chelsea Shan Xian Ng, Yu Xuan Yeoh, Nicholas Yong Wei Foo, Keerthana Radhakrishnan, Guo Zhan Lum   +4 more
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Recent Progress in the Phase‐Controlled Synthesis of Ruthenium Nanocrystals for Catalytic Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Template effect and kinetic control enable crystal‐phase engineering of Ru nanocrystals, granting access to either metastable fcc‐Ru or stable hcp‐Ru with distinct surface structures, thermal stabilities, and catalytic behaviors. Moreover, the hcp‐Ru can further serve as an epitaxial template to direct Pd and Rh nanocrystals into the metastable hcp ...
Jianlong He, Zhiqi Wang, Jiaqi Guan, Younan Xia   +3 more
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Highly Entangled Bottlebrush Polymer Networks

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bottlebrush polymers are difficult to entangle, enabling ultrasoft yet brittle networks. We report highly entangled bottlebrush elastomers that remain ultrasoft (∼1 kPa) yet stretch to ∼1800% and exhibit exceptional fatigue resistance. Their intrinsic fatigue strength—fatigue threshold normalized by modulus—surpasses that of highly entangled linear ...
Myoeum Kim, Baiqiang Huang, Shiwang Cheng, Li‐Heng Cai   +3 more
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Field‐Programmed Anisotropy in Magneto‐Piezoelectric Composites for Material‐Encoded Mechanoperception

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Field‐programmed anisotropy imparts material‐level intelligence to soft composites. Magnetic torque dynamics drive magneto‐piezoelectric nanowires from random dispersion into deterministic axial alignment. The resulting hierarchical percolation networks confine electromechanical coupling to specific axes and intrinsically decouple superposed force ...
Yubin Kim, Yumin Kwon, Dabin Kim, Minsun Oh, Jin Young Jung, Dongyeong Gim, Kootak Hong, Jun Yeon Hwang, Sang‐Woo Kim, Minjeong Ha   +9 more
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Design Principles for Fluid Molecular Ferroelectrics

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A major challenge for soft condensed matter is predicting whether a fluid molecular material will form ferroelectric phase with nematic or smectic order. Through systematic synthesis, and by analogy to solid molecular ferroelectrics, it is shown that subtle hydrogen–fluorine (H/F) substitution(s) allows for tuneable syn‐parallel pairing motifs ...
Calum J. Gibb, Jordan Hobbs, William C. Ogle, Richard. J. Mandle   +3 more
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Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
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Fluorinated Deep Eutectic Gel Electrolytes with Simultaneously Enhanced Mechanical Strength and Ionic Conductivity for Solid‐State Lithium Metal Batteries

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The synergistic integration of rigid polyacrylamide (PAM) and flexible poly(N,N‐dimethylacrylamide) (PDMA) phases offers exceptional toughness to suppress lithium dendrites, simultaneously enhancing mechanical strength and ionic conductivity. ABSTRACT Gel polymer electrolytes for lithium‐metal batteries face an inherent trade‐off between mechanical ...
Hao Long, Yuhao Liang, Ting He, Xueming Chen, Zimo Huang, Hao Chen, Shanqing Zhang   +6 more
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Improving Bond Performance of Near-Surface Mounted Steel Ribbed and Threated Rods in the Concrete

International Journal of Concrete Structures and Materials
In this study, the experimental findings of twenty pull-out tests on the bond efficiency of threaded/ribbed steel rods used in near-surface mounting (NSM) are presented.
Sabry Fayed, Emrah Madenci, Yasin Onuralp Özkiliç, Mohamed H. Zakaria   +3 more
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Magnetic DNA Origami Nanorotors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Magnetic actuation is a powerful and broadly applicable actuation mechanism due to its programmability and compatibility with biological entities. Here we demonstrate magnetic DNA origami nanorotors (MADONAs) by assembling magnetic nanocubes on DNA origami.
Lennart J. K. Weiß, Florian Rothfischer, Yihao Wang, Christoph Pauer, Xin Yin, Kevin Lang, Rabia Amin, Thomas Tsalos, Susanne Kempter, Jan Lipfert, Tim Liedl, Friedrich C. Simmel, Joe Tavacoli, Aidin Lak   +13 more
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