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Development of Multifunctional Hierarchically Restructured Antibacterial Neural Interfacing Electrodes via Plasma‐Enhanced Atomic Layer Deposition of Zinc Oxide Thin Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Next‐generation implantable neural‐interfacing devices are increasingly constrained by the coupled demands of electrode miniaturization, electrochemical performance, and implantation infection risk. Femtosecond laser–based hierarchical surface restructuring (HSR) technology has emerged as a scalable, manufacturing‐compatible platform for ...
Henna Khosla, Wesley Seche, Kriti Panchal, Steven J. May, Ekaterina Pomerantseva, Jacob Elmer, Tyler Cooper, Matthew J. Urban, Hailey Y. Maurer, Gregory A. Caputo, Jeffrey Hettinger, Shahram Amini, Gang Feng   +12 more
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Tannic Acid‐Modified Cellulose Nanofiber Reinforced Polymerizable Eutectogels for High‐Performance Stretchable Strain Sensors

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A polymerizable deep eutectic solvent is reinforced with tannic acid‐modified cellulose nanofibers to construct a hierarchical dynamic eutectogel network. Synergistic covalent and reversible interactions impart ultrahigh stretchability, high ionic conductivity, broad temperature tolerance, self‐healing, and strong adhesion, enabling robust wearable ...
Huang Wu, Yang Hu, Youmin Tuo, Weide Zhang, Nanzhu Bao, Haitao Wu, Zhuangzhuang Chu, Yunhua Chen, Tao Wang, Teng Yuan, Hongbo Zeng, Zhuohong Yang   +11 more
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Polymer Substrates for Flexible Sensors: Advances and Contributions to Smart Agriculture

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review comprehensively summarizes recent advances in polymer‐based flexible sensors for smart agriculture, focusing on polymer substrate design, interface engineering, and applications in soil, plant, animal, aquaculture, and post‐harvest monitoring.
Yihui Li, Zhangzheng Xiao, Zheng Yan, Adnan Raza Altaf, Qun Song, Dingding Yao, Afshan Sohail, Yixin Wang, Wenxiu Ma, Shanjun Li, Yaohui Chen, Peiwen Liu, Kai Zhang   +12 more
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Interaction‐Driven Assembly Pathways in Heterogeneous Active Microrobotic Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Peanut‐ and cube‐shaped light‐powered microrobots exhibit distinct magnetic and photocatalytic responses that determine their heterogeneous self‐assembly. In the dark, magnetic dipole interactions drive colloidal copolymerization with cubes acting as nucleation centers, whereas under light irradiation, phoretic interactions compete with magnetic ...
Domenico Calabrò, Roshan Velluvakandy, Martin Pumera, Francesco Priolo, Salvo Mirabella, Mario Urso   +5 more
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Molecular Rotors: From Newtonian Fluids to Functional Materials as Viscosity and Temperature Sensing Tools

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Molecular rotors are fluorescent molecules that are sensitive to viscosity and temperature variations in the environment. They exhibit a direct correlation between fluorescence and viscosity within Newtonian fluids. However, this correlation becomes less straightforward in complex systems.
Flavia Di Scala, Alice Briole, Valerii Myndrul, Thomas J. Cleij, Hanne Diliën, Bérengère Abou, Bart van Grinsven   +6 more
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A MEMS-based tactile sensor to study human digital touch: mechanical transduction of the tactile information and role of fingerprints

EPJ Web of Conferences, 2010
We present recent results showing that human epidermal ridges (fingerprints) could play a central role in fine texture discrimination tasks by spatially modulating the contact stress field between the fingertip and the substrate.
Scheibert J., Debregeas G., Prevost A.
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Sulfation‐Tunable Peptide‐Glycosaminoglycan Hydrogels for Hematopoietic Stem and Progenitor Cell Expansion

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Co‐assembly of rationally designed glycosaminoglycan‐binding peptides with sulfated glycosaminoglycans yields supramolecular hydrogels with tunable mechanics and matrix‐mediated cytokine retention. The glycosaminoglycans thereby act as cofactors, driving a coil‐to‐β‐sheet transition that triggers gelation.
Shirel Veretnik, Prannoy Seth, Maximilian Fusenig, Jens Friedrichs, Nicole Fertala, Passant Atallah, Uwe Freudenberg, Ayala Lampel, Carsten Werner   +8 more
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The Role of Silk in the Behaviour and Sociality of Spiders

Psyche: A Journal of Entomology, 2012
This article describes the links between the production of silk by spiders and their behaviour. Silk allows the spider to change its physical environment, which in turn leads to behavioural changes and impacts in the new environment. The feedback between
Bertrand Krafft, Laurie J. Cookson
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Hierarchical Collagen Nanofiber Gels Recapitulate a Physiologically Relevant Tumor Stromal Microenvironment

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
The collagen nanofiber (CNF) gel supports cancer cell culture, exhibiting cell morphology and cancer‐related protein expression similar to Matrigel. It offers a higher collagen concentration than commercial gels. Additionally, the CNF gel allows replication of the high elasticity of in vivo cancer tissue by controlling collagen fiber sizes, ranging ...
Naoko Sasaki, Tomoyuki Suezawa, Shiro Kitano, Ryohei Katayama, Michiya Matsusaki   +4 more
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Association between quantitative sensory testing and pain or disability in paediatric chronic pain: protocol for a systematic review and meta-analysis

BMJ Open, 2019
Introduction This protocol describes the objective and methods of a systematic review of the association between quantitative sensory testing (QST) measures and pain intensity or disability in paediatric chronic pain (PCP).
Daniel Eric Schoth, Markus Blankenburg, Julia Wager, Philippa Broadbent, Boris Zernikow   +4 more
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