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A Bespoke Programmable Interpenetrating Elastomer Network Composite Laryngeal Stent for Expedited Paediatric Laryngotracheal Reconstruction

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A programmable interpenetrating double‐network architecture, created via 3D‐TIPS printing and resin infusion, synergistically combines thermoplastic and thermosetting elastomers to balance structural rigidity and surface softness—crucial for paediatric laryngeal stents.
Elizabeth F. Maughan, Lei Wu, Dong Zhang, Linxiao Wu, Graca Ferreira Vaz Pinto Mendes, Wanqiao J. Tu, Heping Ma, Toby J. Proctor, Colin R. Butler, Thomas Kjærgaard, Mark W. Lowdell, Martin A. Birchall, Robert E. Hynds, Richard Hewitt, Wenhui Song   +14 more
wiley   +1 more source

Inactivating SARS‐CoV‐2 Virus with MOF‐Composites as Smart Face Masks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In situ preparation and functionalization of MOF@Cotton fabrics as smart face masks for the immobilization of proteins and inactivation viruses, such as SARS‐CoV‐2. Abstract The significant impact of the SARS‐CoV‐2 (COVID‐19) pandemic outbreak on people's lives has highlighted the urgent need for effective personal protective equipment.
Romy Ettlinger, Aamod V. Desai, Hau Lam Jody Cheong, Louise L. Major, Terry K. Smith, Aaron B. Naden, Jane Hilton, Catherine S. Adamson, A. Robert Armstrong, Russell E. Morris   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Beyond Speculative Ethics in HRI? Ethical Considerations and the Relation to Empirical Data [PDF]

, 2011
We discuss the difference between understanding robot ethics as something that is grounded in philosophical ideas about a potential future design, and understanding robot ethics as something that is grounded in empirical data.
Ljungblad, Sara, Nylander, Stina, Nørgaard, Mie   +2 more
core   +1 more source

Unleashing the Power of Machine Learning in Nanomedicine Formulation Development

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A random forest machine learning model is able to make predictions on nanoparticle attributes of different nanomedicines (i.e. lipid nanoparticles, liposomes, or PLGA nanoparticles) based on microfluidic formulation parameters. Machine learning models are based on a database of nanoparticle formulations, and models are able to generate unique solutions
Thomas L. Moore, Cristiano Pesce, Antonietta Greco, Claudia Pisante, Greta Avancini, Valentina Di Francesco, Yosi Shamay, Paolo Decuzzi   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Reading Climate Fiction (and Nonfiction) through First Nations Cultural Genre Theory

Australian Journal of Environmental Education
For Indigenous peoples, all stories begin with Country. And as climate change reveals, all stories will end with Country too. This paper re-examines popular framings of the climate fiction (cli-fi) genre, and the ways ancient and contemporary First ...
Mykaela Saunders
doaj   +1 more source

New Empiricisms in the Anthropocene: Thinking With Speculative Fiction About Science and Social Inquiry

Qualitative Inquiry, 2020
Interest in new empiricisms and transdisciplinary methods has led many social inquirers to engage with 20th-century post-classical physical science.
Elizabeth de Freitas, S. Truman
semanticscholar   +1 more source

Complex Cryptographic and User‐Centric Physically Unclonable Functions Enabled by Strain‐Sensitive Nanocrystals via Selective Ligand Exchange

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study investigates electromechanical PUFs that improve on traditional electric PUFs. The electron transport materials are coated randomly through selective ligand exchange. It produces multiple keys and a key with motion dependent on percolation and strain, and approaches almost ideal inter‐ and intra‐hamming distances.
Seungshin Lim, Hanseok Seo, Taesung Park, Byung Ku Jung, Junhyeok Park, Young Kyun Choi, Dae Yang Oh, Soong Ju Oh   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Holding space for strangeness: in favor of critical utopianism in urban geography [PDF]

Geographica Helvetica
What could urban geographers continue to learn and unlearn from critical utopianism and emancipatory futurities? This contribution seeks to recover transformative academic practices and work towards didactics of speculative estrangement.
A. Schwarz, A. Schwarz
doaj   +1 more source

Electrically Tunable On‐Chip Topological Photonics with Integrated Carbon Nanotubes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work demonstrates electrically tunable on‐chip topological THz devices by integrating 2D carbon nanotube (CNT) sheets with valley‐Hall photonic crystals, enabling broadband transmission modulation (71% modulation depth) and tunable narrowband filtering (0.54 GHz shift) through electrically induced thermal tuning. This advancement paves the way for
Jifan Yin, Wenhao Wang, Thomas Caiwei Tan, Abhishek Kumar, Ridong Jia, Nikhil Navaratna, Ranjan Singh, Lijuan Xie   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

World-Building as Grand-Scale Speculation

Fafnir, 2023
Speculative fiction is commonly associated with highly involved artistic world-building. Indeed, speculation itself as an artistic practice often involves creation of detailed, grand-scale imaginary scenarios that come across as worlds the reader is ...
Elise Kraatila
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