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Coordinated Architectural and Chemical Reinforcement in the Crushing Mandible of a Soldier Termite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The crushing mandible of a soldier termite withstands substantial biting loads despite lacking mineral. Its cuticle is partitioned: convex teeth pair hardness and zinc enrichment with aligned chitin fibers for contact durability, while stiffer concave regions between teeth carry bending loads.
Andrew Tran Nguyen, Patryk Wąsik, Juan Fernando Cucuyame Morales, Marie Kate Palau, Adrian Francisco Duran Ornelas, Phani Saketh Dasika, Jin Hee Kim, Radhika Laxminarayana, Eric Hintsala, Greta Chang, Junzhi Liao, Lizhi Sun, Nathan Lord, Atsushi Arakaki, Paul Bardunias, Pablo Zavattieri, David Kisailus   +16 more
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Enhanced Piezoelectricity for PNT-PZT Ceramics by Texture Engineering

Materials Open
Texture engineering is proved to be an effective strategy to enhance the piezoelectricity of piezoelectric ceramics in recent years. In this paper, a low-temperature sintered 0.24Pb(Ni[Formula: see text]Ta[Formula: see text]O[Formula: see text]PbZrO ...
Shuai He, Qian Wang, Lang Bian, Nan Wang, Yuan Sun, Bin Yang   +5 more
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Structural and piezoelectric properties of < 001 > textured PZT-PZNN piezoelectric ceramics

, 2017
Rhombohedral 0.69Pb(Zr0.47Ti0.53)-0.31Pb(Zn0.6Ni0.4)NbO3 (PZT-PZNN) ceramics were textured using 10.0 vol. % BaTiO3 (BT) platelets along the <001> direction at 950 degrees C with a high Lotgering factor of 95.3%. BT platelets did not react with the
Su-jin Park, Lee, Tae-Gon, Kim, Dae-hyeon, Sahn Nahm, Dae-hyeon Kim, Chong-Yun Kang, Kang, Chong-Yun, Tae-Gon Lee, Lee, Tae-Ho, Hong, Chang-Hyo, Xu, HaiBo, Nahm, Sahn, HaiBo Xu, Ho-Jun Lee, Lee, Ho-Jun, Tae-Ho Lee, Park, Su-jin, Chang-Hyo Hong   +17 more
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Bio‐Inspired Artificial Ionic Mechanoreceptor

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A skin‐inspired artificial mechanoreceptor based on ionic interactions is presented for biomimetic tactile sensing. Pressure‐driven ionic redistribution within microfluidic channels generates a self‐powered electrical signal without external bias. The generated waveform exhibits mechanoreceptor‐like temporal features, including overshoot and undershoot,
Mohammad Akbari, Jeppe Don, Lasse A. N. Pedersen, John Noee, Rassoul Tabassian   +4 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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Prediction and fabrication of textured Si3N4 ceramics via grain rotation model

Materials & Design
The grain preferential orientation has a significant influence on the mechanical properties of silicon nitride (Si3N4) ceramics. Based on the Jeffery’s theory, a grain rotation model under uniaxial compression is created to predict the texture evolution ...
Yunwei Shi, Jinghan Wang, Yichao Ren, Aiyang Wang, Qianglong He, Yanbo He, Hao Wang, Weimin Wang, Zhengyi Fu   +8 more
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Sacrificial‐Layer‐Assisted Heat‐Affected‐Zone Suppression in Laser Patterning of PET for High‐Performance Flexible Devices

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A removable sacrificial polymer layer engineers the thermal boundary condition during nanosecond laser ablation of PET, suppressing heat‐affected‐zone formation without relying on costly ultrafast lasers. This strategy enables deep, high‐aspect‐ratio trenches with no detectable heat‐affected zone, templating silver‐filled mesh electrodes with record ...
Mehdi Zarei, Mirza Sahaluddin, Mostafa Bedewy, Paul W. Leu   +3 more
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Overcoming the performance ceiling of textured piezoelectric ceramics

Textured piezoelectric ceramics could deliver the ultrahigh piezoelectricity of single crystals while retaining the mechanical robustness and cost-effectiveness of conventional ceramics, but after decades of effort, their ...
Fei Li, Xianghong Zhou, Shuai Yang, Ruixuan Liu, Chenbo Zhang, Jinjing Zhang, John Daniels, Mingwen Wang, Haijun Wu, Zidong Wang, Jianglei Chang, Yunfei Chang, Xianjie Wang, Shujun Zhang, Yuan-Jinsheng Liu, Xiaoqing Chen, Yang Zhang, Shi Liu, Xinya Feng, Chunchun Li, Nan Zhang, Jinglei Li   +21 more
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Reactive Templated Grain Growth and Thermoelectric Power Factor Enhancement of Textured CuFeO₂ Ceramics

, 2020
The delafossite-type CuFeO2 (CFO) is a promising p-type thermoelectric oxide reported to show a large Seebeck coefficient, but the lack of a texturing method for CFO ceramics limits their thermoelectric performance.
Shinobu Fujihara (1575967), Manabu Hagiwara (1575958), Masahiko Tato (8361825), Rina Shimonishi (8361828)   +3 more
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Polyphenol‐Inspired Materials for Agricultural Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review outlines the use of polyphenol‐inspired materials for sustainable agriculture, highlighting their molecular design, interfacial assembly, structure–property relationships, and prospects toward precision agriculture, climate resilience, ecosystem protection, and circular bioeconomy strategies.
Haofu Liu, Omid Mazaheri, Zhixing Lin, Tianzheng Wang, Jingqu Chen, Yuang Gu, Xia Liang, Deli Chen, Frank Caruso   +8 more
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