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Multistage, Self‐Sensing Artificial Muscles With Coordination From Liquid Crystal Elastomer‐Graphene Composite Fibers

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by skeletal muscles’ precision and endurance, CoilLCE integrates a self‐sensing liquid crystal elastomer/graphene artificial muscle with an embedded Joule‐heating copper coil, enabling closed‐loop multistage actuation with programmable intermediate states (strain accuracy of 2%), and antagonistic coordination (32% total strain). These features
Ziyun Zhang, Xuelin Wu, Yinding Chi, Qingya Huang, Yaoye Hong, Antonio Proctor Martinez, Jingxian Wu, Bingzhi He, Cynthia Sung, Shu Yang   +9 more
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Melanin's Role in Balancing Mechanical Strength and Reproductive Output in Environmentally Stressed Fungal Spores

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Melanin content directly controls fungal spore mechanical properties, with pigmented spores achieving rupture forces two orders of magnitude higher than hyaline spores. Environmental stress drives this quantity‐quality tradeoff; stressed species invest energy in melanin‐reinforced, mechanically superior thick‐walled, super‐hydrophobic spores, while ...
Atul Agrawal, Steven E. Naleway
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Absorbance response of graphene oxide coated on tapered multimode optical fiber towards liquid ethanol [PDF]

Journal of the European Optical Society-Rapid Publications, 2015
The investigation of graphene oxide (GO) for sensing applications is attractive due to its nanoscale structure and its sensing properties has yet to be fully understood. In this paper, optical response of GO coated optical fiber sensor towards ethanol is
Girei S. H., Shabaneh A. A., Lim H. M., Huang N. M., Mahdi M. A., Yaacob M. H.   +5 more
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Characterization of optical fiber imaging bundles for swept-source optical coherence tomography [PDF]

, 2011
Fiber imaging bundles have been investigated for use in endoscopic optical coherence tomography (OCT) systems, to obviate the requirement for scanning components within the endoscope probe section.
Helen D. Ford, Ralph P. Tatam, Tatam, Ralph P., Ford, Helen D.   +3 more
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Advances in Solution‐Processed Textile Triboelectric Nanogenerators: Ink Formation, Processing Strategies, Applications, and Challenges

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Advanced ink systems for solution‐processed textile triboelectric nanogenerators are systematically summarized, spanning conductive, tribo‐negative, and tribo‐positive layers. By connecting ink chemistry, deposition methods, and device function, the present review reveals the key governing principles of solution development and highlights practical ...
Xinlong Sun, Stephen Beeby
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Tapered Optical Fiber-Based Surface-Enhanced Raman Scattering Probes for Chemical and Molecular Sensing: Principles, Hotspot Engineering, and Applications

Chemosensors
Tapered optical fiber-based surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) probes have emerged as promising miniaturized platforms for chemical and molecular sensing by integrating optical excitation, plasmonic enhancement, and Raman signal collection within a
Bo Tang, Huiling Zhao, Shan He, Lin Zeng, Bin Zhang   +4 more
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Designing Vanadium‐Based Oxide Electrocatalysts for Water Splitting: Experimental and Mechanistic Insights with Machine Learning

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review establishes structure‐property‐mechanism relationships across six modification strategies for V‐based oxide water‐splitting electrocatalysts: lattice engineering, heteroatom doping, interface engineering, carbon‐based hybridization, morphology engineering, and surface reconstruction and pre‐catalyst design, where dissolution is reframed as ...
Youness El Issmaeli, Amina Lahrichi, Hoje Chun, Rafael Gómez‐Bombarelli, Bruno G. Pollet   +4 more
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Dispersion controlled highly nonlinear fibers for all optical processing at telecoms wavelengths [PDF]

, 2010
We review our recent progress in the development of lead silicate glass fibers with high nonlinearity and tailored near-zero dispersion at telecommunication wavelengths, encompassing holey, all-solid microstructured and W-type fiber designs.
Shi, Jindan, Ponzo, Giorgio M., David J. Richardson, Horak, Peter, Richardson, David J., Xian Feng, Marco Petrovich, Francesca Parmigiani, Giorgio M. Ponzo, Camerlingo, Angela, Parmigiani, Francesca, Feng, Xian, Periklis Petropoulos, Angela Camerlingo, Jindan Shi, Petropoulos, Periklis, Peter Horak, Petrovich, Marco, Wei H. Loh, Poletti, Francesco, Loh, Wei H., Francesco Poletti   +21 more
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Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
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Octagonal toroid microcavity for mechanically robust optical coupling

AIP Advances, 2015
Light is usually coupled to a whispering gallery mode cavity using a tapered fiber. However, it is difficult to stabilize the optical coupling against mechanical vibration because it requires sub-μm control of the gap distance between the fiber and ...
Ryo Suzuki, Takumi Kato, Tomohiro Tetsumoto, Takasumi Tanabe   +3 more
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