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Inflatable shape changing colonies assembling versatile smart space structures [PDF]

, 2013
Various plants have the ability to follow the sun with their flowers or leaves during the course of a day via a mechanism known as Heliotropism. This mechanism is characterized by the introduction of pressure gradients between neighbouring motor cells in
Sinn, Thomas, Vasile, Massimiliano, Hilbich, Daniel   +2 more
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Sensor-less parameter estimation of electromagnetic actuator for shunt damping

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2015
Electromagnetic shunt damping is a sensor-less passive damping technique using an electromagnetic actuator. The accurate values of the parameters of the system are essentially required for designing a controller in the damping technique.
Toru IKEGAME, Kentaro TAKAGI, Tsuyoshi INOUE, Ichiro JIKUYA   +3 more
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Invisible Polymer Walls Enhance Reorientational Optical Nonlinearity in Oligothiophene‐Doped Liquid Crystals

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The polymer wall stabilized dye‐doped liquid crystals (PWLCs) enhance the sensitivity of photoinduced molecular reorientation in dye‐doped LC systems. The PWLC with an invisible polymer wall successfully reduces the threshold intensity and functions as an optical limiter under the incidence of low intensity light laser source.
Junki Yokota, Yuya Nakata, Erika Katayama, Miho Aizawa, Kyohei Hisano, Shoichi Kubo, Atsushi Shishido   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

A constraint satisfaction model of collective sensemaking: insights into the effect of coalition communication environments on the dynamics of collective cognition

, 2012
The socially-distributed nature of cognitive processing in military coalitions means that various features of the coalition communication environment (e.g., communication network topology) have the potential to influence collective cognitive outcomes. At
Sycara, Katia, Smart, Paul R., Klapiscak, Tom   +2 more
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Apollonian structure in the Abelian sandpile [PDF]

, 2016
The Abelian sandpile process evolves configurations of chips on the integer lattice by toppling any vertex with at least 4 chips, distributing one of its chips to each of its 4 neighbors.
Levine, Lionel, Smart, Charles, Pegden, Wesley   +2 more
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Modeling solar desalination with reverse osmosis (RO) powered by concentrating solar power (CSP) plan

International Journal of Energetica, 2020
This article deals with the desalination of seawater and brackish water, which can deal with the problem of water scarcity that threatens certain countries in the world; it is now possible to meet the demand for drinking water.
Ahmed Remlaoui, Soumia Hammou, Nafissa Bent Abdelkadeق, Nehari Driss   +3 more
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Adaptive piezoelectric shunt damping by self-tuning negative capacitor

Nihon Kikai Gakkai ronbunshu, 2014
A self-tuning negative capacitor is proposed for a piezoelectric shunt damping system; unknown capacitance of the piezoelectric element is estimated by an online estimator without introducing additional sensors and the negative capacitor is tuned based ...
Masafumi OGAWA, Kentaro TAKAGI, Ichiro JIKUYA, Tsuyoshi INOUE   +3 more
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Multimodal Perception and Machine Learning‐Empowered Human Machine Interfaces With Double‐Network Hydrogel Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work develops polyacrylamide‐alginate (PAM‐Alg) double‐network hydrogel fibers for multimodal perception and intelligent human‐machine interfaces. The covalent‐ionic network provides high strength, toughness, and stable conductivity. Easily woven into wearables and integrated with soft robots, the fibers enable object and temperature recognitions ...
Yujue Yang, Minyu Qiu, Di Tan, Xinlong Liu, Junze Zhang, Ziyu He, Jing Han, Yuanyuan Gao, Zihua Li, Hong Fu, Bingang Xu   +10 more
wiley   +1 more source

Kaolinite flocculation structure

, 2008
Effective flocculation and dewatering of mineral processing streams containing colloidal clays has become increasingly urgent. Release of water from slurries in tailings streams and dam beds for recycle water consumption, is usually slow and incomplete ...
Morris, Gayle E, Morris, Gayle, Smart, Roger, Zbik, M, Zbik, Marek, Smart, R   +5 more
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Elastic circular organic microcrystals prepared by photoinduced delamination

Nature Communications
Circular organic crystals are essential as optically transducive components in flexible organic optoelectronics, yet this crystal habit is not easily obtained through traditional crystallization approaches.
Chengde Ding, Baolei Tang, Liang Li, Panče Naumov, Hongyu Zhang   +4 more
doaj   +1 more source