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Meniscus Pixel Printing for Contact‐Lens Vision Sensing and Robotic Control

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A visual‐sensing contact lens is enabled by meniscus pixel printing (MPP), which rapidly patterns a 200 µm perovskite photodetector pixel in 1 s without masks, vacuum processing, or bulky equipment. A deep‐learning‐based super‐resolution reconstructs sparse on‐lens signals into 80 × 80 high‐resolution visual information, while AI‐driven eye‐tracking ...
Byung‐Hoon Gong, Dohyean Kim, Jiyun Jeong, Taekyeong Kim, Soon‐sung Kwon, Junyoung Seo, Il Jeon, Im Doo Jung   +7 more
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Ultrastructural aspects of the intercellular bridges between female bee germ cells

Brazilian Journal of Biology
The germline cells in the ovary of the female bee are interconnected by intercellular bridges kept open by cytoskeletal reinforcements in the plasmic membrane.
K. Patrício, C. Cruz-Landim
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Amyloidogenic Peptide Fragments Designed From Bacterial Collagen‐like Proteins Form Hydrogel

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study identified amyloidogenic sequence motifs in bacterial collagen‐like proteins and exploited these to design peptides that self‐assemble into β‐sheet fibers and form hydrogels. One hydrogel supported healthy fibroblast growth, showing promise for biocompatible materials. Our work demonstrates that bacterial sequences can be harnessed to create
Vamika Sagar, Xuen J Ng, Lukas Lechel, Ashish Chand Rajwar, Hendrik Bargel, Abhishek A. Jalan   +5 more
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Structure Formation in Butterfly Scales: Interplay of Genetic Control, Mechanical Instabilities, and Dynamic Material Properties

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Butterfly wing scales are intricate cuticular functional nanosctructures. This perspective suggests that spatially varying material properties, cytoskeletal constraints, and growth‐driven mechanical instabilities shape the resulting nanoscale architectures created from single cells.
Anupama Prakash, Victoria Lloyd, Yi Yang, Anna‐Lee Jessop, Anthony McDougal, Primož Pirih, Guillaume Duclos, Andrew Parnell, Mathias Kolle, Nicola J. Nadeau, Bodo D. Wilts   +10 more
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Thick filament activation is different in fast- and slow-twitch skeletal muscle. [PDF]

J Physiol, 2022
Gong HM, Ma W, Regnier M, Irving TC.
europepmc   +1 more source

Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd, Satyajit Das, John Marc C. Puguan, Carolina Pierucci, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder   +5 more
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Multi‐Scale Interface Engineering of MXenes for Multifunctional Sensory Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MXenes, as two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, demonstrate remarkable capabilities for multifunctional sensing applications. This review systematically examines multi‐scale interface engineering approaches that enhance sensing performance, enable diverse detection functionalities, and improve system‐level compatibility in MXene ...
Jiaying Liao, Sin‐Yi Pang, Jianhua Hao
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Structure of the Flight Muscle Thick Filament from the Bumble Bee, Bombus ignitus, at 6 Å Resolution. [PDF]

Int J Mol Sci, 2022
Li J, Rahmani H, Abbasi Yeganeh F, Rastegarpouyani H, Taylor DW, Wood NB, Previs MJ, Iwamoto H, Taylor KA.   +8 more
europepmc   +1 more source

Complex architecture of cardiac muscle thick filaments revealed

Trends in Pharmacological Sciences
Muscle contraction is orchestrated by the well-understood thin filaments and the markedly complex thick filaments. Studies by Dutta et al. and Tamborrini et al., discussed here, have unravelled the structure of the mammalian heart thick filament in exquisite near-atomic detail and pave the way for understanding physiological modulation pathways and ...
Pradeep K. Luther, Steve B. Marston
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Optoelectronic Control of Redox Dynamics in POM Memristors for Noise‐Resilient Speech and Hardware‐Level Motion Recognition

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Optoelectronic control of redox‐active polyoxometalate clusters in polymer matrices yields hybrid memristors with switchable volatile and non‐volatile modes, enabling reservoir‐type in‐sensor optical preprocessing and stable multilevel synapses for multimodal neuromorphic computing, including noise‐tolerant audiovisual keyword recognition and hardware ...
Xiangyu Ma, Ziyu Lv, Guohua Zhang, Zhongyue Xu, Yongbiao Zhai, Haiming Huang, Qiyan Zhang, Xiaojin Zhao, Yan Wang, Ye Zhou, Ziyu Xiong, Guanglong Ding, Wentao Xu, Su‐Ting Han   +13 more
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