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A Geometrically Transient Platform for Bioelectronic Implants

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Minimally invasive bioelectronic implants often compromise performance for smaller sizes. To resolve this optimization dilemma, a wireless bioelectronic implant with a transient geometry is introduced (MiFi). The origami‐inspired device miniaturizes up to sixfold for syringe insertion and autonomously unfolds post‐implantation.
Selin Olenik, John D. Goodwin, Atharv Naik, Philip Coatsworth, Ioi Chit Cheung, Farbod Amirghasemi, Anies Sohi, Ehsan Abedi, Tayeb Tadlaoui, Maral P. S. Mousavi, Andriy S. Kozlov, Victoria Salem, Andrew S. Cowburn, Firat Guder   +13 more
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From Fiber Bundles to Architected Membranes: Triply Periodic Minimal Surface Architectures for Biohybrid Artificial Lungs

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Additively manufactured triply periodic minimal surface (TPMS) membranes offer an architecture‐driven alternative to hollow fiber bundles in artificial lungs. Multiphysics simulations and endothelialized prototypes show that the 3D‐printable membrane architecture improves gas exchange, blood flow distribution, and hemocompatibility, enabling ...
Michael Pflaum, Kai P. Barbian, Florian Neuhaus, Gerrit Sitarz, Carolin Nölke, Sebastian V. Jansen, John Linkhorst, Lukas T. Hirschwald, Sebastian Brosch, Christian Certa, Ulrich Steinseifer, Matthias Wessling, Jutta Arens, Arjang Ruhparwar, Bettina Wiegmann   +14 more
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Passive house as temporary housing after disasters

RE&PQJ
Natural disasters, such as earthquake, devastate cities, communities, and families in seismic regions. People, who have endured these catastrophes, have often nowhere to go and they are often guested into shelters or substandard housing. These people leave in conditions that are often far from ideal and what is initially presented as a housing solution
F. Nocera, F. Castagneto, A. Gagliano
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Spatial Control of Light‐Responsive Proteins and Optogenetics Within Hydrogels via Volumetric Bioprinting

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Spatiotemporal control over cell behavior within bioprinted constructs remains a key challenge in biofabrication. Volumetric bioprinting using multi‐wavelength light sources permits to activate light‐sensitive intracellular proteins as well as optogenetic gene and protein expression circuits in bioprinted cells, in addition to enabling fast printing of
Davide Ribezzi, Pere Català, Gabriel Größbacher, Paulina Nuñez Bernal, Olaf Nijssen, Sammy Florczak, Wilco Nijenhuis, Nuria Crusellas‐Villorbina, Bram Nijhoff, Paul Delrot, Jos Malda, Andreas Hierholzer, Martin Fussenegger, Lukas C. Kapitein, Riccardo Levato   +14 more
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Collision‐Resilient Winged Drones Enabled by Tensegrity Structures

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Based on structures of birds such as the woodpeck, this article presents the collision‐resilient aerial robot, SWIFT. SWIFT leverages tensegrity structures in the fuselage and wings which allow it to undergo large deformations in a crash, without sustaining damage. Experiments show that SWIFT can reduce impact forces by 70% over conventional structures.
Omar Aloui, Raphael Zufferey, William Stewart, Mohammad Askari, Simon Jeger, Dario Floreano   +5 more
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The need to escape: Carceral entrapments and fugitive manoeuvres amidst London’s vicious housing circle

Radical Housing Journal
The contemporary housing system in England entraps temporary tenants in ongoing movement between different types of insecure, unaffordable, overcrowded and poorly maintained accommodations.
Toni Adscheid
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Multimodal Locomotion in Insect‐Inspired Microrobots: A Review of Strategies for Aerial, Surface, Aquatic, and Interfacial Motion

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review identifies key design considerations for insect‐inspired microrobots capable of multimodal locomotion. To draw inspiration, biological and robotic strategies for moving in air, on water surfaces, and underwater are examined, along with approaches for crossing the air–water interface.
Mija Jovchevska, Kaushik Jayaram, Nicole Xu   +2 more
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Maps of Temporary Housing Solutions

, 2022
In this book we will analyse the meaning of the word temporary in relation to the change between space and time, time and use, use and memory. Specifically, we will look at the value of the temporary nature of design as applied to the world, the city and its inhabitants, the temporary urban solutions (Fassi, 2012), and finally the key place designed to
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Degradable Magnetic Composites from Recycled NdFeB Magnets for Soft Actuation and Sensing

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This work presents a degradable soft magnetic composite made from recycled NdFeB particles embedded in a gelatin‐based organogel. The material is processed into magnetic sensors and soft robotic components, which can later be dissolved in a green solvent to recover NdFeB magnetic particles.
Muhammad Bilal Khan, Lin Guo, Kilian Schäfer, Eduardo Sergio Oliveros‐Mata, Xiaotao Wang, Florian Hofmann, Matthias Lutzi, Mark Suppelt, Proloy Taran Das, Jan Schmidtpeter, Imants Dirba, Stephan Rinderknecht, Mario Kupnik, Denys Makarov, Oliver Gutfleisch   +14 more
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Les politiques publiques de logement face à la catastrophe du 11 mars

Ebisu: Études Japonaises, 2012
The earthquake disaster of March 11, 2011, brought once again to the forefront the issue of how victims were to find emergency housing and the role of government in that process.
Cécile Asanuma-Brice
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