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Review of Thermally Activated Twisted Coiled Polymer Actuators: A Materials Science Perspective

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Thermally activated twisted and coiled polymer actuators (TCPAs) combine lightweight design, large deformation, and scalable fabrication for soft robotic and wearable applications. This review connects polymer structure, processing history, helix geometry, and thermomechanical characterization to actuator performance, highlighting current challenges in
Nadja Schenk, Lukas Benecke, Chokri Cherif, Johannes Mersch   +3 more
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Light-Based IoT-Enabled Battery-Free Active Product Monitoring for Sustainable Smart Packaging Applications

IEEE Access
Conventional active product monitoring systems typically rely on battery and Radio Frequency (RF) communication designs, which pose challenges to sustainability and scalability, limiting their effectiveness.
Amila Perera, Marcos Katz
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Submicron Metasurface Reconfigured Multiband Smart Windows

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work presents a submicron metasurface reconfigured multiband thermochromic smart window. By integrating subwavelength nanostructures into a Fabry−Perot resonator configuration, it mitigates conventional trade‐offs to simultaneously deliver high luminous transmittance and robust solar heating and radiative cooling modulation capabilities ...
Guanya Wang, Shancheng Wang, Bin Li, Xinyi Tian, Rong Liu, Jian Chen, Zhendong Dai, Shouqin Tian, Yi Long   +8 more
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Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) in Tendon Regeneration: A Comprehensive Review

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Decellularized Extracellular Matrix (dECM) offers a promising solution by replicating the native tendon microenvironment and promoting regeneration. This review highlights advances in the decellularization methods, as well as their integration with emerging technologies and translational progress in tendon tissue engineering.
Kumaresan Sakthiabirami, Yeonwoo Park, Seong Kyeong Jo, Min Hee Kim, Jae Hwang Song   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and Synthesis of Peptide‐Polyester Conjugates for Cell‐Mediated Scaffold Degradation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
This work describes polycaprolactone (PCL)‐based biomaterials engineered to degrade in response to cell‐secreted proteases. A fast‐degrading peptide (Fast) sequence is integrated into a PCL conjugate backbone to produce a biomaterial that is selectively degraded by multiple cell types compared to its scrambled control (ScrFast).
Korina Vida G. Sinad, Natasha K. Hunt, Srujan Singh, Kelly B. Seims, Yingjie Wu, E. Thomas Pashuck, Warren L. Grayson, Lesley W. Chow   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Packaging operations within the Greek logistic industry. Evaluating and redesigning paper packaging in compliance with environmental regulations.

Packaging occupies an indispensable part of everyday life. Even though packaging is meant to ensure that products arrive in excellent condition, so as to satisfy required needs, more often than not, consumers, as well as industrial users are more ...
Georgakoudis, Elias D
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An analysis of conventional and modern packaging approaches for cut flowers: a review article

Frontiers in Plant Science
Fresh-cut flowers are considered to be one of the most delicate and challenging commercial crops. It is important to take into consideration how to minimize loss during storage and transportation when preserving cut flowers.
Nahed M. Rashed, Nahed M. Rashed, Saba Ambreen Memon, Saleh M. Al Turki, Tarek A. Shalaby, Tarek A. Shalaby, Mohamed M. El-Mogy, Mohamed M. El-Mogy   +7 more
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Atomic Layer Deposition Processes: Versatile Platforms for Engineering ZnO‐Chitosan Biointerfaces

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Vapour phase metalation (VPM), multiplied pulsed vapour phase infiltration (MPI), and O2 plasma‑enhanced atomic layer deposition (PEALD) tailor Zn–chitosan (Zn‑CS) films. PEALD improves wettability and biocompatibility. MPI enhances semiconductor behavior. Antiseptic selectivity: VPM → E. coli; MPI → H. pylori.
Mabel Moreno, Anjana Devi, David Zanders, Miryam Arredondo, Davide Mariotti, Ruairi McGlynn, Sindy Devis, Simón Guerrero, Eglantina Benavente, Matias Alegría, Yusser Olguin, Lorena Lobos‐Gonzalez, Kevin Guzmán, Elizabeth Rivas‐Yañez, Paula Solar, Valentin Cepus, Michael Krause, Luis Velásquez   +17 more
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Smart packaging and its impact on key performance indicators of a supply chain : literature review and development of a new framework

, 2020
LAUREA MAGISTRALESmart packaging solutions have the potential to greatly enhance the effectiveness and efficiency of supply chains. It is a combination of “Active” and “Intelligent” elements which means that it can sense, monitor and inform about the ...
Zia, Muhammad Waleed
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Immunoinflammatory Mechanisms and Biocompatibility of Bioactive Dental Biomaterials: From Fundamental Insights to Clinical Translation

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Surface‐host dialogue at the implant interface governs biological fate and osseointegration. Surface physicochemical properties of titanium (Ti) dental implants, including microgrooves, nanopatterns, nanotopography, roughness, and wettability, modulate the initial adsorption of proteins and the formation of a dynamic biointerface.
Daniela Moreira Cunha, Amanda Paino Santana, Marta Maria Alves Pereira, Mariana Martins Guerreiro, Jose Mauro Granjeiro, Jamil Awad Shibli, Jeroen J. J. P. van den Beucken, Anton Sculean, Rafael Scaf de Molon, Erica Dorigatti de Avila   +9 more
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