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Strain‐Programmable Luminescent Adhesive Patch With Tartrazine‐Mediated Optical Skin Clearing for Photochemical Tissue Bonding

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We propose a suture‐complementary approach that integrates optical skin clearing with a strain‐programmable luminescent adhesive patch. Hyaluronic acid promotes transdermal delivery of tartrazine to improve optical clearing and stabilizes its interaction with a photosensitizer. Optical clearing increases the penetration depth of visible light into skin,
Seong‐Jong Kim, Kyungjoo Jo, Kwanghyeon Park, Jun Hee Kim, Jong Hyeong Cho, Inhoo Choi, Sei Kwang Hahn   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

An All‐Textile, Mechano‐Capacitive Subtle Movement Sensor

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A robust all‐textile capacitive sensor is introduced for measuring subtle body movements without long‐term degradation. By separating mechanical deformation from electrical sensing elements, accuracy, responsiveness, and durability are improved. Simple fabrication methods are presented, electrode effects are analyzed, and performance is validated ...
Easa AliAbbasi, Rachel Freire, Valentin Martinez‐Missir, Vineetha Rallabandi, Paul Strohmeier   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Polynomial-Time Algorithms for Sliding Tokens on Cactus Graphs and Block Graphs.

CoRR, 2017
Given two independent sets $I, J$ of a graph $G$, and imagine that a token (coin) is placed at each vertex of $I$. The Sliding Token problem asks if one could transform $I$ to $J$ via a sequence of elementary steps, where each step requires sliding a token from one vertex to one of its neighbors so that the resulting set of vertices where tokens are ...
Hoang, Duc A., Uehara, Ryuhei
openaire   +3 more sources

Versatile Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators Enabled by Fiber‐Polymer Composite Fabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This work reports composite Pneumatic Twisted Coiled Actuators with embedded Kevlar fibers that convert pneumatic or hydraulic pressure into powerful linear motion. A novel precise manufacturing technique is used to systematically explore how design variables influence actuator mechanics and dynamics.
William J. Townsend, Jeongmin Kim, Samuel Tsai, Yichao Shi, Sameh Tawfick, James H. Pikul   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

POM‐Based Water Splitting Catalyst Under Acid Conditions Driven by Its Assembly on Carbon Nanotubes

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A newly‐engineered POM‐based electrocatalyst incorporating non‐innocent counter cations exhibits fast kinetics for either the OER or HER under strongly acidic conditions (1 m H2SO4), depending on whether it is assembled on carbon nanotubes (1@CNT) or physically mixed with them (1/CNT). In water‐splitting tests using a two‐electrode setup, these systems
Eugenia P. Quirós‐Díez, Melanie Guillén‐Soler, Carlos Herreros‐Lucas, Alejandro López‐Moreno, José Manuel Vila‐Fungueiriño, Antonio Luis Llamas‐Saiz, Karol Strutyński, Manuel Melle‐Franco, María del Carmen Giménez‐López   +8 more
wiley   +1 more source

Lipid Nanoparticle Co‐Delivery of mRNA and a Small Molecule Drug for Oral Cancer Chemoimmunotherapy

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Co‐encapsulation of p53 mRNA and the small molecule ciclopirox within a lipid nanoparticle yields an all‐in‐one chemoimmunotherapy for oral squamous cell carcinoma. The platform engages caspase‐driven apoptosis in cancer cells while repolarizing tumor‐associated macrophages, achieving tumor reduction in both p53‐susceptible and p53‐resistant models and
Marshall S. Padilla, Jacqueline J. Li, Qunzhou Zhang, Korey Patwari, Shihong Shi, Hannah M. Yamagata, Ryann A. Joseph, Briyanna N. Hymms, Sridatta V. Teerdhala, Emily Fitzgerald, Ori Z. Chalom, Kushol Gupta, Mohamad‐Gabriel Alameh, Drew Weissman, Anh D. Le, Michael J. Mitchell   +15 more
wiley   +1 more source

E. coli Extracellular Matrix: A Tunable Composite With Hierarchical Structure

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The complex composite‐like mechanical behavior of E. coli biofilm matrix is the result of a synergic contribution of the rigid curli and swelling pEtN‐cellulose, and emerges from specific ratio and assembly conditions. The interactions between the two fibers govern biofilm hydration and characteristic wrinkling patterns, providing crucial insights for ...
Macarena Siri, Agustín Mangiarotti, Anne Seewald, Nikolai Rosenthal, Shahrouz Amini, Emeline Raguin, Peter Fratzl, Cécile M. Bidan   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Highly Entangled Bottlebrush Polymer Networks

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Bottlebrush polymers are difficult to entangle, enabling ultrasoft yet brittle networks. We report highly entangled bottlebrush elastomers that remain ultrasoft (∼1 kPa) yet stretch to ∼1800% and exhibit exceptional fatigue resistance. Their intrinsic fatigue strength—fatigue threshold normalized by modulus—surpasses that of highly entangled linear ...
Myoeum Kim, Baiqiang Huang, Shiwang Cheng, Li‐Heng Cai   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Can Elastomers Combine Stiffness, Toughness and Fatigue Resistance?

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review studies how the molecular and macroscopic architecture of elastomers influence their mechanical properties including: stiffness, stretchability, toughness, fatigue resistance, and damping behavior. By linking the structure to performance, it proposes design principles for advanced elastomeric systems that combine mechanical properties ...
Eva Baur, Esther Amstad
wiley   +1 more source

Token sliding independent set reconfiguration on block graphs

CoRR
Let $S$ be an independent set of a simple undirected graph $G$. Suppose that each vertex of $S$ has a token placed on it. The tokens are allowed to be moved, one at a time, by sliding along the edges of $G$, so that after each move, the vertices having tokens always form an independent set of $G$.
Francis, Mathew C., Prabhakaran, Veena
openaire   +3 more sources