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New‐Era Polymer Thermoelectrics: Material Innovations, Doping Frontiers, Decoupling Strategies, and Unconventional Applications

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
The field of polymer thermoelectrics is entering a new era, featuring breakthroughs in addressing the conventional performance disparity between p‐type and n‐type polymers, pioneering doping frontiers, and sophisticated decoupling strategies. This review explores innovations in molecular design and superior stabilities, bridging the gap from ...
Suhao Wang
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Experimental demonstration of the supersonic-subsonic bifurcation in the circular jump: A hydrodynamic white hole

, 2011
We provide an experimental demonstration that the circular hydraulic jump represents a hydrodynamic white hole or gravitational fountain (the time-reverse of a black hole) by measuring the angle of the Mach cone created by an object in the "supersonic ...
C. Barceló, C. Mathis, G. Jannes, G. Rousseaux, L. D. Landau, M. Haragus, M. Visser, P. Maïssa, R. Piquet   +8 more
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Advanced Separators for Liquid and Quasi‐Solid Lithium Rechargeable Batteries: Design and Development

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review traces the evolution of lithium‐ion battery separators from passive barriers to multifunctional components central to cell safety and performance. Polymer‐ceramic hybrids, nanofiber architectures, and bio‐derived membranes deliver ionic conductivities above 3 mS cm−1, thermal stability beyond 200 °C, and effective suppression of lithium ...
Karthik Vishweswariah, Ningaraju Gejjiganahalli Ningappa, Anil Kumar M. R., Jeremy I. G. Dawkins, Thiago M. G. Selva, Karim Zaghib   +5 more
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Light‐Programmable Interfaces: From Molecular Photoswitching to Adaptive Membrane Separations

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
This review advances an interface‐centered framework for light‐responsive membranes, linking molecular photoswitches (azobenzene (AZO), spiropyran (SP), diarylethene (DAE), donor–acceptor Stenhouse adducts (DASA), photoacid) to integration strategies in polymeric, porous, self‐assembled, and mixed‐matrix systems.
Liangliang Zhang, Senlin Gu, Jianyang Zhao, Xiaojuan Hao, Lu Hua Li, Jihua Li, Lingxue Kong   +6 more
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Shear induced normal stress differences in aqueous foams

, 2006
A finite simple shear deformation of an elastic solid induces unequal normal stresses. This nonlinear phenomenon, known as the Poynting effect, is governed by a universal relation between shear strain and first normal stresses difference, valid for non ...
Cohen-Addad, Sylvie, Hohler, Reinhard, Labiausse, Vincent   +2 more
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Magnetically Actuated Drops‐on‐Stilts Microrobots for Transport and Delivery of Hydrophobic Cargo

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Iron oxide nanoparticles and oil droplets in external magnetic fields form “drops‐on‐stilts” microrobots that transport hydrophobic cargo. Tunable nanoparticle–droplet interactions generate stilt‐like structures. Field rotation enables walking, obstacle navigation, and collective motion.
Oluwafemi Ligan, Hrishabh Singh, Sahil Kulkarni, Hong Huy Tran, James M. Kikkawa, Daeyeon Lee, Ravi Radhakrishnan, Edward Steager, Hyun Koo, Kathleen Stebe   +9 more
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Anti‐Slip Material‐Based Strategies and Approaches

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
This review highlights the principle mechanisms of slipping at the microscale, linking contact mechanics with a friction behavior model for surface interfaces. Main strategies to develop anti‐slip properties to the surfaces are discussed alongside standardized testing approaches.
Sogand Abbaspoor‐Zanjani, Carlo Antonini, Teresa Gatti, Mengjiao Wang   +3 more
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Quantum levitation of nanoparticles seen with ultracold neutrons

, 2012
Analyzing new experiments with ultracold neutrons (UCNs) we show that physical adsorption of nanoparticles/nano-droplets, levitating in high-excited states in a deep and broad potential well formed by van der Waals/Casimir-Polder (vdW/CP) forces results ...
Lambrecht, A., Lychagin, E. V., Muzychka, A. Yu., Nesvizhevsky, V. V., Reynaud, S., Strelkov, A. V., Voronin, A. Yu.   +6 more
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Transducers Across Scales and Frequencies: A System‐Level Framework for Multiphysics Integration and Co‐Design

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Transducers convert physical signals into electrical and optical representations, yet each mechanism is bounded by intrinsic trade‐offs across bandwidth, sensitivity, speed, and energy. This review maps transduction mechanisms across physical scale and frequency, showing how heterogeneous integration and multiphysics co‐design transform isolated ...
Aolei Xu, Mengyao Xiao, Zhouli Sui, Yinpeng Wang, Daoye Zheng, Yuxin Liu, Luwei Wang, Huajun Liu, Chengkuo Lee   +8 more
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Magnetic Droplet Manipulation on Open Surfaces

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Recent advances in the manipulation of magnetic droplets demonstrate various manipulations on open surfaces, including transport, splitting, merging, and force‐controlled motion, enabled by magnetic particles and external fields. ABSTRACT Manipulation of liquids on a smaller scale enables applications in various fields, particularly diagnostics and ...
Robab Jahangir, Vahid Nasirimarekani
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