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Water Permeates and Plasticizes Amorphous Carbon Dots: Unraveling the Inner Accessibility of the Nanoparticles by Glass Transition Studies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The water permeability of amorphous carbon dots (CDs) is demonstrated by investigating their plasticization. Novel polyamide‐based and amorphous nanoparticles are synthesized by controlling their inner packing density. Water plasticization is evidenced by the decrease of the CDs glass transition temperature with increasing the hydration degree.
Elisa Sturabotti, Valerio Di Lisio, Lucia Cardo, Alessandro Camilli, Estela Moretón Alfonsín, Daniele Cangialosi, Amaia Iturrospe Ibarra, Arantxa Arbe, Maurizio Prato   +8 more
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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
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Improving the phase transition characteristic and latent heat storage efficiency by forming polymer-based shape-stabilized PCM for active latent storage system

Case Studies in Thermal Engineering, 2022
In this work, form-stabilized PCM (SSPCM) is evaluated for an active latent heat storage (ALHS) system. High-density polyethylene (HDPE) and styrene-butadiene-styrene (SBS) are used as supporting materials. Four different composites are prepared based on
Dwi Rahmalina, Reza Abdu Rahman, Ismail
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Liquid Metal Nanotransformers for Drug‐Resistant Pan‐Cancer Therapy in Patient‐Derived Organoids

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Pan‐cancer therapies are severely limited in drug‐resistance patients due to genetic mutations and other factors, resulting in poor therapeutic outcomes and constrained clinical benefit. Liquid metal nanotransformers, a new class of shape‐transformable nanomaterials capable of dramatic morphological changes, offer a promising physical strategy to ...
Xiaojie Yuan, Xuelin Wang, Zhongyao Chen, Shuo Wang, Weining Gao, Ziyi Chen, Runyang Li, Cheng Hao, Lei Zhang, Qiongqiong Zhang, Ke Zhang, Mei Yu, Qian Liu, Jingxuan Wang, Huiping Li, Simpkins Fiona, Jing Liu, Qiang Liu, Peng Liu, Yawei Hu   +19 more
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Polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP)-enabled significant suppression of supercooling of erythritol for medium-temperature thermal energy storage

, 2022
The supercooling effect is deemed to be a crucial issue for thermal energy storage using phase change materials (PCMs). The exploration of promising additives plays a decisive role in effective suppression efforts for suppressing the supercooling effect ...
Xue-Feng Shao, Teng, Haoran,, Shao, Xue-Feng,, Sheng Yang, Fan, Li-Wu,, Jia-Cheng Lin, Justin NingWei Chiu, Chiu, Justin NingWei,, Viktoria Martin, Lin, Jiacheng,, Yan-Ping Yuan, Hao-Ran Teng, Li-Wu Fan, Martin, Viktoria,, Yang, Sheng,, Yuan, Yan-Ping,   +15 more
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Quantum Photothermal Self‐Monitoring Fiber Probes for In Vivo Photothermal Therapy

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A miniaturized quantum photothermal fiber probe based on a metal/polymer/glass composite optoelectronic fiber that simultaneously guides lightwave and microwave was developed for the first time. The probe achieves enhanced photothermal conversion (13°C/mW, 25°C–120°C range) while providing real‐time self‐monitoring with 0.2°C thermal resolution at the ...
Wanjun Li, Ruixiao Hu, Jie Mao, Jin Wo, Yunsong Zhang, Liang Chen, Ying Liu, Zhibo Li, Yongxin Lin, Minghui Du, Yaofei Chen, Libing Zhou, Tuan Guo   +12 more
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Freezing Water and Supercooling: Anchor Ice and Frazil Ice

, 1949
The supercooling of water in nature occurs more frequently than is generallyknown. It always takes place when still water is in process of being covered with thefirst ice needles. It is of even greater importance when ice formation takes place in running
Olaf Devik
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Asymmetrically Fluorinated Phenyl 4‐biphenylcarboxylate Motifs as a Design Principle for Enantiotropic Ferroelectric Liquid Crystals

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
The effect of the structural arrangement of DIO and its analogs on ferroelectric phases is explored. Consequently, it is found that an asymmetrically fluorinated phenyl 4‐biphenylcaroboxylate skeleton is one of the favorable structural motifs for the emergence of enantiotropic ferroelectric liquid crystal phases.
Hiroyuki Matsukizono, Koichiro Hayashi, Keiko Kojima, Yasushi Okumura, Hirotsugu Kikuchi   +4 more
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Entropy Decoding the Fundamental Law of Phase Competition in Glass Formation

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
We validate the integration of intermetallic and eutectic phases as initial phases for composition design. The phase competition mechanism in glass formation is quantitatively clarified based on the melting entropy of competing phases. Glass‐forming ability is modulated by tuning phase competition via the melting entropy of initial phases.
Benke Huo, Zhengqing Cai, Bingtao Wang, Zhenqiang Song, Shi‐Dong Feng, Zijing Li, Xingjun Liu, Li‐Min Wang   +7 more
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Supercooling points of diapausing forest tent caterpillar (Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) eggs

, 2023
Forest tent caterpillar (Malacosoma disstria Hübner; Lepidoptera: Lasiocampidae) is a widely distributed defoliator that undergoes intermittent outbreaks.
Uelmen, JA, Raffa, KF, Schwartzberg, EG, Duman, JG, Lindroth, RL   +4 more
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