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Autonomous Solar Metallurgy for High‐Purity Gold Recovery from Electronic Waste

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Inspired by microbial strategies for metal uptake and biomineralization, defect‐rich copper sulfide (Cu31S16) functions as a solar metallurgical platform that unifies Au(III) capture, reduction, and self‐separation. The bioinspired design enables ultrafast gold recovery from electronic‐waste leachates and the spontaneous formation of millimeter‐scale ...
Chaopeng Liu, Jiajun Li, Jialin Ruan, Wei Zhang, Wei Sun, Hongmei Li, Lei Xie, Min Liu   +7 more
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Cross‐scale Material‐Structure Synergy for 2D Metamaterials: Toward Customizable Intelligent Electromagnetic Manipulation in Multiphysics Fields

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Recent advances in metasurface‐enabled low‐observable technologies are reviewed from the perspective of cross‐scale material–structure synergy. Electromagnetic, thermal, optical, and acoustic stealth are highlighted together with dynamic tuning, programmable coding, data‐driven inverse design, artificial intelligence, multispectral compatibility, and ...
Shuhao Wang, Xing Yang, Liping Liu, Yang Peng, Yangyang Wang, Hualiang Lv   +5 more
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Vine‐Inspired Soft Robotics: Materials, Actuations, and Emerging Applications

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
Vine‐inspired robots grow from the tip, enabling navigation through confined spaces with minimal disturbance. This Review summarizes material and actuation strategies for vine‐inspired growth, key functions including steering, retraction, attachment, branching, and variable stiffness, and emerging applications spanning medical intervention, confined ...
Jiahao Wu, Xingyun Liu, Fangzhou Wang, Huili Ren, Chaojun Zhang, Ziyu Ren, Zunqi Liu, Jing Li   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Urban-Rural Living Lab: an experimental research framework for integrated territorial planning – insights from Nordhausen, Germany

Urban Transformations
Urban-rural linkages have gained prominence in both academic research and planning policy. Yet, coherent and integrated territorial planning approaches that can adequately address functional urban-rural linkages are still lacking.
Lukas Pappert, Atidh Jonas Langbein, Tino Imsirovic, Maria Frölich-Kulik   +3 more
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Multi‐Functional Smart Skin for High‐Efficiency Energy‐Saving Buildings

Advanced Science, EarlyView.
A scalable multifunctional smart skin (MSS) with broadband modulation, zero‐energy input controllable operation mode, and thermal insulation is designed by assembling thermal managing unit of high solar reflectance and low thermal conductivity and actuation unit of multi‐responsive shape‐memory effect.
Zongxu Na, Li Yu, Bo Lu, Jing Li, Xianyang Yue, Qian Wang   +5 more
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Hemp Cultivation and Crop Diversification: Implications for Ecosystem Services in Kentucky

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT This study examines the ecosystem benefits of expanding hemp cultivation by assessing its impact on crop diversity. Using scenario‐based simulations and fixed‐effect panel regressions with county‐level data in Kentucky, we find that increased hemp acreage tends to enhance crop diversity, improving water quality and bird diversity.
Yunsun Park, Seong D. Yun, Brandy E. Phipps, Tyler Mark, Craig Schluttenhofer   +4 more
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Rural Labor Supply and Economic Opportunities: Commuting, Migration, Tariffs, and Immigration

Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Some rural counties remain dependent on agricultural or manufacturing jobs, but an increasing proportion have diversified economics. Rural counties also differ in their abilities to commute to an urban market characterized by higher wages and labor productivity.
Peter F. Orazem, Mary C. Ahearn
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Rôle et limites des tiers-lieux dans la fabrique des villes contemporaines

Territoire en Mouvement, 2017
The notion of third place is mostly developed in an empirical way. It covers multiple realities such as projects of coworking spaces, living labs and fab labs.
Raphaël Besson
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Does Contract Farming Reduce Pesticide Use? Panel Data Evidence From Smallholder Farmers in China

Agribusiness, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT The inappropriate and excessive use of pesticides poses a major threat to human and ecosystem health in the agri‐food sector. While existing studies have examined the potential of contract farming to address this issue, most have focused on large‐scale farms and relied on small or transactional datasets, often leaving the role of crop‐specific
Zhihui Liang, Shan Jin, Matthew Gorton
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Autonomous X‐Ray Fluorescence Mapping for Nanoscale Chemical Speciation of Fine Particulate Matter

Advanced Intelligent Discovery, EarlyView.
We present X‐AutoMap, an autonomous X‐ray fluorescence mapping framework that integrates real‐time analysis with rule‐based computer vision to selectively target chemically relevant regions. By avoiding background‐dominated areas, the method reduces acquisition time by fourfold while enabling accurate particle‐level speciation.
Carlos Deleon, Dmitri Gavrilov, Peggy O’Day, Ajith Pattammattel   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source