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Liquid Crystalline Elastomers in Soft Robotics: Assessing Promise and Limitations

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Liquid crystalline elastomers (LCEs) are programmable soft materials that undergo large, anisotropic deformation in response to external stimuli. Their molecular alignment encodes directional actuation in a monolithic structure, making them long‐standing candidates for soft robotic systems.
Justin M. Speregen, Timothy J. White
wiley   +1 more source

The journey of tin chalcogenides towards high-performance thermoelectrics and topological materials

open access: yes, 2018
Sn-Chalcogenides are recognized as high performance thermoelectrics and topological insulators due to their unique crystal and electronic structures and lattice dynamics.
Banik, Ananya   +5 more
core   +1 more source

3D Printing of Self‐Healing Polymers by Material Extrusion: A Process‐Centric Review of Setups, Parameters, and Applications

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review highlights recent advances in material extrusion 3D printing of self‐healing polymers, focusing on the interplay between material chemistry, rheology, hardware customization, and process optimization. Filament‐ and ink‐based extrusion strategies, multimaterial architectures, and postprocessing approaches are discussed for applications in ...
Antonio Pavone   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

Flexible Sensors for Robotics Tactile Perception: A Review

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Flexible tactile sensing for robotics is reviewed through four interconnected dimensions. Physical mechanisms include piezoresistive, capacitive, piezoelectric, triboelectric, iontronic, and optical sensing. Structural design includes bioinspired, defect‐based, and MEMS‐based tactile systems.
Yu Song, Ying Chen, Yihao Chen, Xue Feng
wiley   +1 more source

Semiclassical Electron and Phonon Transport from First Principles: Application to Layered Thermoelectrics

open access: yes, 2023
Thermoelectrics are a promising class of materials for renewable energy owing to their capability to generate electricity from waste heat, with their performance being governed by a competition between charge and thermal transport.
Chaves, Anderson S.   +4 more
core  

Impact of Various Dopants on Thermoelectric Transport Properties of Polycrystalline GeSb2Te4

open access: yesAdvanced Energy & Sustainability Research
GeSb2Te4 (GST124), one of the well‐known phase‐change materials for nonvolatile memory and rewritable optical storage, has been recently found to be promising thermoelectric materials with low lattice thermal conductivity and high electrical conductivity.
Yihan Jiang   +7 more
doaj   +1 more source

A Review on Catalytic Nanostructured Electrodes for Wearable and Implantable Abiotic Glucose Fuel Cells

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review identifies current and future directions in abiotic nanostructured catalysts to develop reliable and sustainable glucose fuel cells to power the next generation of bioelectronic devices. ABSTRACT The global rise in incidence of chronic diseases has led to the demand for innovative solutions that help patients manage their conditions with ...
Asghar Niyazi   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

From concept to device: The Thermoelectrics Journey

open access: yes, 2023
"Due to recent developments in material sciences and computational capabilities, the field of thermoelectrics, the study of the relationship between heat and charge transport in solid materials, has been undergoing a renaissance with a renewal in the ...
Brito, Francisco P.   +7 more
core  

Segregated Network Polymer-Carbon Nanotubes Composites For Thermoelectrics [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
Polymers are intrinsically poor thermal conductors, which are ideal for thermoelectrics, but low electrical conductivity and thermopower have excluded them as feasible candidates as thermoelectric materials in the past.
Kim, Dasaroyong
core   +1 more source

Longitudinal Morphomolecular Monitoring of Head and Neck Carcinogenesis

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
A miniaturized endoscopic probe that integrates Raman spectroscopy and optical coherence tomography, enabling simultaneous molecular and structural imaging of living tissue, was developed. Applied longitudinally in a mouse model of head and neck cancer, the system tracks disease progression from precancerous lesions to invasive cancer.
Jianrong Qiu   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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