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Structural Porosity and Low Mineral Density in Enamel Rods Drive Molar Incisor Hypomineralisation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study uses advanced imaging modalities on multiple length scales to show that molar‐incisor hypomineralization does not present as a locally homogeneous pathology. Instead, microstructural defects, characterized through non‐mineralized, protein‐rich sheaths and an altered mineral structure in between prism rods, resulting in local differences in ...
Katharina Jähn‐Rickert, Johannes Krug, Gudrun Lotze, Imke A.K. Fiedler, Diana Freund, Ezgi Deniz Türkoğlu, Christine Plumeyer, Felix N. von Brackel, Anton Davydok, Manfred Burghammer, Thomas Beikler, Thomas F. Keller, Katrin Bekes, Elizabeth A. Zimmermann, Björn Busse   +14 more
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Obstacle-Aware Navigation of Soft Growing Robots via Deep Reinforcement Learning

IEEE Access
Soft growing robots, are a type of robots that are designed to move and adapt to their environment in a similar way to how plants grow and move with potential applications where they could be used to navigate through tight spaces, dangerous terrain, and ...
Haitham El-Hussieny, Ibrahim A. Hameed
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Soft Robots in Surgery

, 2016
Minimally Invasive Surgery (MIS) represents the gold standard in the majority of abdominal operations, although some fundamental limitations are still present and are far to be really addressed despite emerging robotic solutions. Flexible endoscopes can exploit their high flexibility to reach the surgical target while being inserted remotely or by a ...
Cianchetti M., Menciassi A.
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Cardiac‐Derived ECM Microspheres for Enhanced hiPSC‐CMs Maturation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Cardiac extracellular matrix microspheres derived from decellularized porcine heart provide a biomimetic 3D microenvironment for human induced pluripotent stem cell–derived cardiomyocytes (hiPSC‐CMs). This platform supports short‐ and long‐term culture, enhances structural organization, and promotes electrophysiological and functional maturation of ...
Jiazhu Xu, Joel Aboagye, Marcella Edwards, Nick Rogozinski, Yufeng Wen, Angello Huerta Gomez, Zui Pan, Ge Zhang, Huaxiao Yang, Yi Hong   +9 more
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Recent Advances on Underwater Soft Robots

Advanced Intelligent Systems
The ocean environment has enormous uncertainty due to the influence of complex waves and undercurrents. The human beings are limited in their abilities to detect and utilize marine resources without powerful tools.
Juntian Qu, Yining Xu, Zhenkun Li, Zhenping Yu, Baijin Mao, Yunfei Wang, Ziqiang Wang, Qigao Fan, Xiang Qian, Min Zhang, Minyi Xu, Bin Liang, Houde Liu, Xueqian Wang, Xiaohao Wang, Tiefeng Li   +15 more
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Digital Actuation Control of Soft Robotic Origami With Self‐Folding Liquid Crystal Elastomer Hinges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐folding soft‐rigid hybrid robotic origami is enabled by liquid crystal elastomer actuators with embedded Joule heating and closed‐loop digital control. Digitally addressable hinges provide reversible and programmable transitions between distinct folded states while maintaining actuation performance at high cycle counts (over 1500).
David C. Bershadsky, Tuo Zhao, Glaucio H. Paulino, Emily C. Davidson   +3 more
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Counterion Dependent Side‐Chain Relaxation Stiffens a Chemically Doped Thienothiophene Copolymer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oxidation of a thienothiophene copolymer, p(g3TT‐T2), via different doping strategies and dopant molecules resulted in materials with similar oxidation levels and a high electrical conductivity of ≈100 S cm−1. However, mechanical properties varied significantly, with sub‐glass transition temperatures and elastic moduli spanning from –44°C to –3°C and ...
Mariavittoria Craighero, Meghna Jha, Elsa Veronica Flores‐Vela, Joost Kimpel, Andreas Schaefer, Jiali Guo, Jesika Asatryan, Alberto Peinador Veiga, Shuichi Haraguchi, Per‐Anders Carlsson, Jaime Martín, Mariano Campoy‐Quiles, Christian Müller   +12 more
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Meta‐Rod Mechanical Metamaterials With Programmable Reconfiguration

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Existing mechanical metamaterials achieve programmable large deformations in planar square or cubic configurations, restricted by required complex boundary conditions. This research proposes a 1D metamaterial, Meta‐rod, with linear, bending, twisting, area, and volume deformation modes.
Atharva Pande, Lyes Kadem, Hang Xu
wiley   +1 more source

Bio‐Inspired Molecular Events in Poly(Ionic Liquids)

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Originating from dipolar and polar inter‐ and intra‐chain interactions of the building blocks, the topologies and morphologies of poly(ionic liquids) (PIL) govern their nano‐ and micro‐processibility. Modulating the interactions of cation‐anion pairs with aliphatic dipolar components enables the tunability of properties, facilitated by “bottom‐up ...
Jiahui Liu, Marek W. Urban
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SOFT ROBOTS

Scholarly Notes of Komsomolsk-na-Amure State Technical University, 2021
Evgeny B. Shchelkunov, Sergey V. Vinogradov, Marina E. Shchelkunova, Vladimir A. Karpenko, Nikolai A. Krasikov   +4 more
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