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Microstructure, Thermal Transport, and Dry‐Sliding Tribology of Powder‐Metallurgy Al7075 Composites Reinforced With Sol–Gel‐Derived ZnO–rGO Hybrid Nanoparticles

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
Sol–gel‐derived ZnO–rGO hybrid nanoparticles enable Al7075 powder‐metallurgy composites to achieve concurrent gains in hardness and thermal conductivity while markedly lowering friction and wear. The hybrid architecture couples ZnO‐based load support with rGO‐assisted lamellar sliding and heat spreading, revealing a promising route toward lightweight ...
Bunyamin Aksakal, Cevher Kursat Macit, Merve Ayık, Hakan Tutumlu   +3 more
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Design and Analysis of Compression–Torsion Coupling Metamaterials Using the Golden Section Method

Advanced Engineering Materials, EarlyView.
A novel compression–torsion metamaterial is engineered using inclined rods and symmetry breaking. To optimize its torsional performance, the golden section method is employed. The mechanical response of the metamaterial is validated through both numerical analysis and experimental validation.
Amirhossein Hassani, Sara Bagherifard
wiley   +1 more source

Electro-Adhesive Tubular Clutch for Variable-Stiffness Robots

Electro-adhesive clutches have become effective tools for variable stiffness functions in many robotic systems due to their light weight, high speed and strong brake force.
Phan, Hoang Vu, Digumarti, Krishna Manaswi, Aloui, Omar, Floreano, Dario, Sun, Yi   +4 more
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Laser‐Induced Graphene from Waste Almond Shells

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Almond shells, an abundant agricultural by‐product, are repurposed to create a fully bioderived almond shell/chitosan composite (ASC) degradable in soil. ASC is converted into laser‐induced graphene (LIG) by laser scribing and proposed as a substrate for transient electronics.
Yulia Steksova, Anna Chiara Bressi, Marina Galliani, Attilio Marino, Gianni Ciofani, Eduardo Machado‐Charry, Hilda Gomez Bernal, Alessandra Francini, Luca Sebastiani, Francesco Greco   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Control of Polarization and Polar Helicity in BiFeO3 by Epitaxial Strain and Interfacial Chemistry

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
In BiFeO3 thin films, the interplay of interfacial chemistry, electrostatics, and epitaxial strain is engineered to stabilize homohelicity in polarization textures at the domain scale. The synergistic use of a Bi2O2‐terminated Aurivillius buffer layer and a highly anisotropic compressive epitaxial strain offers new routes to control the polar‐texture ...
Elzbieta Gradauskaite, Lilia Huynh, Natascha Gray, Quintin N. Meier, Marta D. Rossell, Morgan Trassin   +5 more
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Counterion Dependent Side‐Chain Relaxation Stiffens a Chemically Doped Thienothiophene Copolymer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oxidation of a thienothiophene copolymer, p(g3TT‐T2), via different doping strategies and dopant molecules resulted in materials with similar oxidation levels and a high electrical conductivity of ≈100 S cm−1. However, mechanical properties varied significantly, with sub‐glass transition temperatures and elastic moduli spanning from –44°C to –3°C and ...
Mariavittoria Craighero, Meghna Jha, Elsa Veronica Flores‐Vela, Joost Kimpel, Andreas Schaefer, Jiali Guo, Jesika Asatryan, Alberto Peinador Veiga, Shuichi Haraguchi, Per‐Anders Carlsson, Jaime Martín, Mariano Campoy‐Quiles, Christian Müller   +12 more
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Mechanical Behavior and Fracture Mechanisms of MXene/PVDF Nanocomponsites: In Situ Characterization and Multiscale Analysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Multiscale experiments and modeling reveal how Ti3C2Tx MXene nanosheets reinforce PVDF nanocomposites. An optimal MXene loading (∼1 wt.%) nearly doubles tensile strength through efficient stress transfer, flake alignment, and crack‐deflection mechanisms, transforming ductile polymer behavior into a controlled multi‐stage fracture pathway which aligns ...
Bita Soltan Mohammadlou, James FitzPatrick, Li Meng, Kateryna Shevchuk, Ahmad Najafi, Yury Gogotsi   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Design and development of variable stiffness devices

, 2014
In robotics, a manipulator is often referred to a device, which is used to control without any direct contact. Variable stiffness manipulators are able to change the stiffness in order to complete different objectives under different conditions.
Ng, Hong Ming
core  

Design and test verification of variable stiffness joint based on composite gear train

Jixie chuandong
ObjectiveAiming at the problems of poor human-machine interaction and limited stiffness adjustment range of traditional joints, a new type of variable stiffness joint based on composite gear train was designed.
FAN Zhi, ZOU Guangming, ZHANG Jufang, CHENG Yao, DING Zhe   +4 more
doaj  

Structural Optimization and Finite Element Analysis of Variable-Stiffness Biodegradable Vascular Stents. [PDF]

J Funct Biomater
Zhang H, Chen S, Du T, Zhang Y, Wu L, Qiao A.   +5 more
europepmc   +1 more source