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Cross‐Scale Hierarchical Targeted Delivery System Based on Small‐Scale Magnetic Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
This article reviews a cross‐scale hierarchical targeted delivery system that integrates magnetic continuum robots and magnetic microrobots. By combining rapid long‐range navigation with precise microscale targeting, the system overcomes key limitations of single‐scale approaches.
Junjian Zhou, Zhiqiang Chen, Yuanbiao Ma, Zhiqiang Tang, Qianqian Wang   +4 more
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Functional Fibers in Soft Robotics: Advances in Material, Structural, and Systemic Tactics

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Fiber‐form robotic systems offer a scalable pathway toward embodied intelligence in soft robotics. This review surveys functional fibers as material, structural, and systemic elements, highlighting advances in responsive materials, architectural programing, and fabrication strategies.
Joonhee Won, Jaehyun Jang, Hyeonseo Kim, Inyoung Choi, Steve Park, Seongjun Park   +5 more
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Continuously Tunable Chirped Microwave Waveform Generation Using a Tilted Fiber Bragg Grating Written in an Erbium/Ytterbium Codoped Fiber

IEEE Photonics Journal, 2012
An optical approach to generating continuously tunable chirped microwave waveforms using a tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) written in an erbium/ytterbium (Er/Yb) codoped fiber is proposed. By pumping the TFBG, the magnitude and group delay responses of
Hiva Shahoei, Jianping Yao
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A Low‐Cost, Handheld Optical Stiffness Sensor for Minimally Invasive Surgery

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
A novel handheld stiffness sensor is presented for real‐time tissue stiffness characterization. By simultaneously sensing contact force and tissue deformation, the device enables accurate stiffness quantification without requiring precise manual control. This approach offers a promising solution for intraoperative tumor detection and minimally invasive
Qianyu Ma, Ruxiang Jiang, Kaspar Althoefer, Nicolas Herzig, Hareesh Godaba   +4 more
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Comparison of the sensing mechanisms and capabilities of three functional materials surface-modified TFBG sensors

AIP Advances, 2020
Three functional materials were coated on tilted fiber Bragg grating (TFBG) sensors, and through the analysis of the characteristics of TBFG sensors’ amplitudes in the core and cladding modes, their abilities to sense humidity were compared.
Hsin-Yi Wen, Wen-Yao Huang, Tzu-Sheng Huang, Ya-Chun Hsu, Chia-Chin Chiang   +4 more
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Intrinsic Mechanical Parameters and their Characterization in Solid‐State Lithium Batteries

Advanced Energy Materials, Volume 15, Issue 11, March 18, 2025.
This review focuses on the intrinsic mechanical parameters and their associated characterization in solid‐state batteries. The physical significance of mechanics parameters is introduced with exhaustive classifications by elastic, plastic deformations and fracture in bulk, adhesion, friction at interfaces, and mechanical fatigue in cells ...
Shuai Hao, Qianyi Zhang, Xiangkang Kong, Zhaoxiang Wang, Xue‐Ping Gao, Paul R. Shearing   +5 more
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Towards Advanced Intelligent and Perceptive Soft Grippers

Advanced Intelligent Systems, EarlyView.
Implementing soft yet strong and intelligent soft grippers request innovative and creative solutions in designing soft bodies and seamlessly integrating actuated systems with hierarchical sensing. This review systematically analyses soft grippers with a deep understanding of core components, from fundamental design principles to actuation and sensing ...
Haneul Kim, Hayeon Shin, Seik Park, Changbeom Shim, Seonggun Joe   +4 more
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Guiding and Manipulating Light Fields in Microstructured Liquid Crystals

Advanced Physics Research, EarlyView.
This review summarizes recent advances in guided‐wave optics enabled by microstructured liquid crystal (LC) devices, covering their fundamental material properties, key degree of freedom for dynamic light field manipulations. The advances of linear guided‐wave optics, nonlinear‐optics with spatial optical solitons, and microlasers in LC‐based devices ...
Shan‐shan Chang, Yong‐shuai Li, Jin‐hui Chen   +2 more
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Bio-Chemical Sensors Based on Excessively Tilted Fiber Grating

Photonic Sensors
Excessively tilted fiber gratings (ExTFGs) are a type of special optical fiber grating device different from traditional fiber Bragg gratings, long period fiber gratings, and tilted fiber Bragg gratings.
Fudan Chen, Hong Gu, Binbin Luo, Shenghui Shi   +3 more
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Germanium‐Based Mid‐Infrared Integrated Photonics

Laser &Photonics Reviews, EarlyView.
The mid‐infrared (mid‐IR) spectral range is a part of the electromagnetic spectrum in which most of the molecules have vibrational and rotational resonances. Photonics integration in this wavelength range have thus seen a burst of interest in the recent years, mainly driven by applications related with the detection of chemical and biological ...
Delphine Marris‐Morini, Goran Z. Mashanovich, Milos Nedeljkovic, Carlos Alonso‐Ramos, Laurent Vivien, Jacopo Frigerio, Giovanni Isella   +6 more
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