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Advances in Smart Materials and Applications [PDF]

, 2014
This is one of a series of special issues published in Advances in Materials Science and Engineering, focusing on the latest advances of smart materials and their applications.
Feng, Zhao, Karimov, Khasan S., Kean, Aw, Kuan, Yew Cheong, Mohammad, Mahroof Tahir, Rupert, Schreiner   +5 more
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Tannin-Based Hybrid Materials and Their Applications: A Review

Molecules, 2020
Tannins are eco-friendly, bio-sourced, natural, and highly reactive polyphenols. In the past decades, the understanding of their versatile properties has grown substantially alongside a continuously broadening of the tannins’ application scope.
Ann-Kathrin Koopmann, Christian Schuster, Jorge Torres-Rodríguez, Stefan Kain, Heidi Pertl-Obermeyer, Alexander Petutschnigg, Nicola Hüsing   +6 more
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Automating the application of smart materials for protein crystallization [PDF]

, 2015
The fabrication and validation of the first semi-liquid nonprotein nucleating agent to be administered automatically to crystallization trials is reported. This research builds upon prior demonstration of the suitability of molecularly imprinted polymers
Asanithi, Asherie, Caffrey, Chayen, Curcio, D'Arcy, D'Arcy, EL-Sharif, Frenkel, Georgiev, Gorrec, Hazim F. EL-Sharif, Kertis, Khurshid, Lata Govada, Liao, McPherson, Naomi E. Chayen, Newman, Nollert, Page, Rong, Sahir Khurshid, Saridakis, Saridakis, Shaw Stewart, Shim, Subrayal M. Reddy, Sugahara, Thakur, Zheng   +30 more
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Bioengineered Textiles and Nonwovens – the convergence of bio-miniaturisation and electroactive conductive polymers for assistive healthcare, portable power and design-led wearable technology [PDF]

, 2009
Today, there is an opportunity to bring together creative design activities to exploit the responsive and adaptive ‘smart’ materials that are a result of rapid development in electro, photo active polymers or OFEDs (organic thin film electronic devices),
Oliver, Raymond, Tillotson, Jennifer, Toomey, Anne   +2 more
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Hydroxycinnamic Acids and Derivatives Formulations for Skin Damages and Disorders: A Review

Pharmaceutics, 2021
Alterations of skin homeostasis are widely diffused in our everyday life both due to accidental injuries, such as wounds and burns, and physiological conditions, such as late-stage diabetes, dermatitis, or psoriasis.
Marco Contardi, Martina Lenzuni, Fabrizio Fiorentini, Maria Summa, Rosalia Bertorelli, Giulia Suarato, Athanassia Athanassiou   +6 more
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ICS Materials. Towards a re-Interpretation of material qualities through interactive, connected, and smart materials. [PDF]

, 2018
The domain of materials for design is changing under the influence of an increased technological advancement, miniaturization and democratization. Materials are becoming connected, augmented, computational, interactive, active, responsive, and dynamic.
Parisi, Stefano, Petrelli, Daniela, Rognoli, Valentina, Spallazzo, Davide   +3 more
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An Improved Smart Meta-Superconductor MgB₂

Nanomaterials, 2022
Increasing and improving the critical transition temperature (TC), current density (JC) and the Meissner effect (HC) of conventional superconductors are the most important problems in superconductivity research, but progress has been slow for many years.
Xiaopeng Zhao, Qingyu Hai, Miao Shi, Honggang Chen, Yongbo Li, Yao Qi   +5 more
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Safe and Stable Lithium Metal Batteries Enabled by an Amide-Based Electrolyte

Nano-Micro Letters, 2022
Highlights A novel amide-based nonflammable electrolyte is proposed. The formation mechanism and solvation chemistry are investigated by molecular dynamics simulations and density functional theory.
Wanbao Wu, Yiyang Bo, Deping Li, Yihong Liang, Jichuan Zhang, Miaomiao Cao, Ruitian Guo, Zhenye Zhu, Lijie Ci, Mingyu Li, Jiaheng Zhang   +10 more
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Mid-infrared supercontinuum generation by tellurite oval-core optical fiber [PDF]

EPJ Web of Conferences
For generating polarization-maintained mid-infrared supercontinuum light, we have simulated, and fabricated tellurite oval-core optical fiber. Polarization-maintained supercontinuum light from 1660 to 2570 nm has been generated from the fabricated ...
Takahata Keita, Nakatani Asuka, de Clermont-Gallerande Jonathan, Suzuki Takenobu, Ohishi Yasutake   +4 more
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Innovative antibacterial electrospun nanofibers mats depending on piezoelectric generation

Scientific Reports, 2022
This paper introduces a new approach of testing piezoelectric nanofibers as antibacterial mat. In this work, both Polyvinylidene fluoride (PVDF) and PVDF embedded with thermoplastic polyurethane nanofibers are synthesized as nanofibers mat via ...
Alaa M. Khalil, Ahmed H. Hassanin, Mai. I. El-kaliuoby, Nada Omran, Mohammed Gamal, Ahmed. M. El-Khatib, Ishac Kandas, Nader Shehata   +7 more
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