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Digitally Printed Eco‐Friendly Electronic Devices

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Fabrication of electronics using eco‐friendly materials through digital printing routes is a promising strategy for improving life cycle sustainability and reducing the environmental impacts of conventional manufacturing. This review highlights state‐of‐the‐art eco‐friendly materials, green ink formulations, various resource‐efficient digital printing ...
Nitheesh M. Nair, Mikel Rincón‐Iglesias, Cristian Mendes‐Felipe, Fatemeh Etehadi, Senentxu Lanceros‐Méndez, Gerardo Hernandez‐Sosa   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Trade-off between pollinator-wildflower diversity & grassland yields

npj Biodiversity
This is a critical moment for land use policy globally, with many countries (e.g. the UK and the European Union) currently undertaking significant green reforms of their agricultural policies. Despite their importance for maintaining agricultural outputs
Nicholas J. Balfour, Ciaran Harris, Jonathan Storkey, Francis L. W. Ratnieks   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Social Insects of the Atlantic Forest

, 2021
Despite the outstanding diversity and ecological relevance of social insects in most terrestrial ecosystems, current knowledge of these insects in the Atlantic Forest is still somewhat dispersed in literature. In this chapter, we offer an overview covering the origin, evolution, diversity, functional composition, and distribution of all the eusocial ...
Feitosa, Rodrigo Machado, de Castro Morini, Maria Santina, Martins, Aline Cristina, de Andrade Ribeiro, Taís Mattoso, Noll, Fernando Barbosa, dos Santos, Eduardo Fernando, Cancello, Eliana Marques, Constantini, Joice Paulo   +7 more
openaire   +2 more sources

Hydrogel‐Based Method for High‐Resolution Measurements of Contact Mechanics in Rapid Biological Adhesives: A Case Study in Cuttlefish Tentacle Strikes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cuttlefish and squid can catch their prey within milliseconds using specialized tentacles and suckers. The physics of how the suckers can attach so quickly has remained a mystery given the technical challenges of studying them in vivo. In this publication, we develop a hydrogel that retains imprints of the suckers in order to estimate the forces they ...
Alexander Koehnsen, Mila F Krikke, Thomas E Kodger, Florian T Muijres, Guillermo J Amador   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Biodegradable Conductors for Implantable and Wearable Transient Bioelectronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Biodegradable conductors are essential building blocks for transient bioelectronics, enabling temporary sensing, stimulation, and energy transfer while eliminating the need for device retrieval. This review summarizes biodegradable metals, conducting polymers, ionic conductors, and conductive composites, highlighting degradation mechanisms, material ...
Yicheng Zhu, Yijun Liu, Naoji Matsuhisa
wiley   +1 more source

What are Social Insects?

, 1987
The phrase Social Insects commonly brings to our mind the honey bee or ants, but sociality in one form or the other can be seen in many other insects also.
Gadagkar, Raghavendra
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Acknowledgement to Reviewers of Insects in 2017

, 2018
Peer review is an essential part in the publication process, ensuring that Insects maintains high quality standards for its published papers [...
Insects Editorial Office, null null
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Ionic Gating of Liquid‐Crystal‐Like Pteridine Assemblies Enables Tunable Light Scattering

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Tunable optical properties emerge through developmentally regulated ionic gating, which transforms disordered, ultraviolet (UV)‐absorbing organelles into concentrically ordered, liquid‐crystal‐like light scatterers. By integrating analyses of pteridine composition, potassium‐dependent assembly, hierarchical ultrastructure, and optical behavior, the ...
Sourabh Bera, Zohar Eyal, Yael Noy, Yuval Barzilay, Siddharth Sahoo, Srikant Moharana, Avi Baram, Tali Lerer‐Goldshtein, Neta Varsano, Bar Bader, Lothar Houben, Uwe Heinig, Iddo Pinkas, Moshe Goldsmith, Tamar Unger, Shira Albeck, Andrea Sorrentino, Maxim Itkin, Sergey Malitsky, Ziv Porat, Ido Hadar, Venkata Jayasurya Yallapragada, Dvir Gur   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Anniversary of a beekeeper’s discovery of thelytoky in Cape honey bees

South African Journal of Science, 2022
Fiona N. Mumoki, Christian W.W. Pirk, Abdullahi A. Yusuf, Robin M. Crewe   +3 more
doaj   +1 more source

Trichome Removal by Hitchhikers in Two Leaf-cutting Ant Species (Hymenoptera: Formicidae)

Sociobiology, 2014
Despite the known evidence that hitchhiker ants protect workers against attack by phorid parasitoids, several alternative hypotheses are suggested for the occurrence of hitchhikers on leaf-cutting ants. One hypothesis suggests that hitchhikers clean leaf
Leandro Sousa-Souto
doaj   +1 more source