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Liquid Metal Sensors for Soft Robots

open access: yesAdvanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This review thoroughly reviews liquid metal sensors in soft robots. Their unique material properties like high conductivity and good biocompatibility are analyzed. Working principles are classified, and applications in environmental perception, motion detection, and human—robot interaction are introduced.
Qi Zhang   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

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

Highlighting Recent Progress in Fiber Energy Harvesters: From Working Principles to Future Perspectives

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Fiber energy harvesters offer unprecedented flexibility and a unique capacity for integration into commercial textiles, overcoming the limitations of bulky and rigid conventional devices. This review summarizes recent advances in fiber‐based energy harvesting and provides strategic outlooks to accelerate technological progress in the field. ABSTRACT As
Hanhwi Jang   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

AI‐Optimized Vanadium Oxide Multilayers for More Than 20‐fold Enhancement in Bolometric Performance

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
Machine‐learning‐optimized WxV1‐xOy multilayer thin films with graded doping achieve a high TCR (7.3 % K−1), reduced hysteresis, and low noise under CMOS‐compatible growth conditions. This approach overcomes the long‐standing trade‐off in microbolometers between linear response and performance, offering a universal bolometric parameter greatly enhanced
Jin‐Hyun Choi   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Suppressed Lone Pair Electrons Explain Unconventional Rise of Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Defective Crystalline Solids

open access: yesAdvanced Science
Manipulating thermal properties of materials can be interpreted as the control of how vibrations of atoms (known as phonons) scatter in a crystal lattice.
Hanhwi Jang   +6 more
doaj   +1 more source

Machine Learning Discovery of Record‐Low Lattice Thermal Conductivity in Double Perovskites

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
 A deep learning interatomic potential is introduced to predict forces for computing phonon properties and thermal transport behavior in double perovskites. Screening 9,709 compounds identifies 1,597 stable materials, and Boltzmann transport calculations including both three and four‐phonon scattering suggests a record‐low lattice thermal conductivity ...
Md Zaibul Anam   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

The MatHub‐3d first‐principles repository and the applications on thermoelectrics

open access: yesMaterials Genome Engineering Advances
Following the Materials Genome Initiative project, materials research has embarked a new research paradigm centered around material repositories, significantly accelerating the discovery of novel materials, such as thermoelectrics.
Lu Liu   +15 more
doaj   +1 more source

Borophene: Crucial Challenges and the Way Forward

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This review explores the challenges and progress in borophene research, focusing on synthesis strategies, structural properties, and potential applications. It highlights key experimental breakthroughs, discusses theoretical insights into borophene's unique features, and addresses pathways for overcoming stability and scalability issues.
Zhixuan Li   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Boosting Photo‐Pyroelectric Effect via Tunable Polarization and Interfacial Defect Engineering

open access: yesAdvanced Science, EarlyView.
This study reports Ba(Ti0.85Zr0.15)O3 nanocatalysts with enhanced polarization and oxygen‐vacancy‐rich interfaces for efficient NIR‐II photo‐pyroelectric therapy. Zr doping boosts the pyroelectric coefficient and accelerates polarization switching, while oxygen vacancies improve photothermal conversion and surface reactivity.
Yanli Huang   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

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