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Smart Materials and Smart Structures: Transforming Engineering and Infrastructure
Abstract: This research explores the transformative role of smart materials in engineering, focusing on their integration into smart structures to enhance infrastructure resilience, sustainability, and efficiency. Unlike traditional materials, smart materials respond to environmental stimuli—such as temperature, pressure, or electric fields—enabling ...
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Increasing Integration of Wind Power in Medium Voltage Grid by Voltage Support of Smart Transformer [PDF]
, 2016 The voltage rise during wind energy penetration represents a limit of the wind power integration in the distribution grid. The Smart Transformer (ST), a power electronics-based transformer, can provide additional services to the distribution grids, for ...
de Carne, Giovanni +3 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.A thermally adaptive plasmonic metasurface, functionalized with poly(N‐isopropylacrylamide) (PNIPAM) and anti‐CD63 antibodies, enables precise, on‐demand capture and release of extracellular vesicles (EVs). Delivering high recovery, improved purity, and intact vesicle structure, the platform offers a versatile, label‐free solution for real‐time EV ...
Beyza Nur Kucuk +7 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 +4 more
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Scientific ReportsAccurate forecasting plays a vital role in enhancing the efficiency of power systems, ensuring better resource management, and supporting strategic decision-making.
Asmaa Mohamed El-saieed, Nada A. Dief
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The perspective presents an integrated view of neuromorphic technologies, from device physics to real‐time applicability, while highlighting the necessity of full‐stack co‐optimization. By outlining practical hardware‐level strategies to exploit device behavior and mitigate non‐idealities, it shows pathways for building efficient, scalable, and ...
Kapil Bhardwaj +8 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.The energetic offset between the donor and the acceptor components in organic photoactive layers is central to the tradeoff between photovoltage and photocurrent losses. This Perspective covers the most important issues surrounding this topic in non‐fullerene acceptor blends, from the difficulty of accurately determining state energies and driving ...
Dieter Neher, Manasi Pranav
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A CNN-Transformer Hybrid Framework for Multi-Label Predator–Prey Detection in Agricultural Fields
Accurate identification of predator–pest relationships is essential for implementing effective and sustainable biological control in agriculture. However, existing image-based methods struggle to recognize insect co-occurrence under complex field ...
Feiyu Lu +7 more
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AI–Guided 4D Printing of Carnivorous Plants–Inspired Microneedles for Accelerated Wound Healing
Advanced Materials, EarlyView.This work presents an artificial intelligence (AI)‐guided 4D‐printed microneedle platform inspired by carnivorous plants for wound healing. A thermo‐responsive shape memory polymer enables body temperature–triggered self‐coiling for autonomous wound closure.
Hyun Lee +21 more
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Advanced Materials, EarlyView.We address the inherently weak particle adhesion of conventional air filters by coating a dynamically crosslinked adhesive layer that delivers capillarity‐driven strong adhesion and particle absorption mediated by dynamic bond exchange. The resulting enhancement in particle adhesion enables efficient ultrafast (up to 20 m s−1) and omnidirectional ...
Junyong Park +11 more
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