Waveguide Photoactuators: Materials, Fabrication, and Applications
Waveguide photoactuators convert guided light into mechanical motion. Their tethered‐flexible design enables minimally invasive surgery and confined‐space robotics. This review aims to guide materials selection, device design, and system integration, accelerating the transition of waveguide photoactuators from laboratory prototypes to versatile ...
Minjie Xi +4 more
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Advances and Challenges in the Battery Thermal Management Systems of Electric Vehicles. [PDF]
Wen T, Zhou Z, Zhang Y, Xu X.
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From Lab to Landscape: Environmental Biohybrid Robotics for Ecological Futures
This Perspective explores environmental biohybrid robotics, integrating living tissues, microorganisms, and insects for operation in real‐world ecosystems. It traces the leap from laboratory experiments to forests, wetlands, and urban environments and discusses key challenges, development pathways, and opportunities for ecological monitoring and ...
Miriam Filippi
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Thermocycling: enhancing efficiency of anesthetic reflectors through cyclic heating and cooling-finding the optimal temperature in a bench study. [PDF]
Albrecht F +5 more
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This review highlights recent advances in material extrusion 3D printing of self‐healing polymers, focusing on the interplay between material chemistry, rheology, hardware customization, and process optimization. Filament‐ and ink‐based extrusion strategies, multimaterial architectures, and postprocessing approaches are discussed for applications in ...
Antonio Pavone +2 more
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A novel indirect calorimeter system for measuring gas exchange and determining digestibility, nutrient retention, and net energy in diets fed to group-housed pigs: technical note. [PDF]
Munoz Alfonso CJ, Stein HH, Lee SA.
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A magnetic donut‐like millirobot is developed for label‐free pick‐and‐place of a tumor spheroid wirelessly controlled by a magnetic trap. Spheroids are important 3D multicellular culture systems that recapitulate key structural and functional features of native tissues.
Yue Gao +8 more
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CFD-based numerical investigation of convective heat transfer in multi-channel micro-exchangers using MWCNT-water nanofluid. [PDF]
Anjaneya G +10 more
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Flexible surgical robots are advancing minimally invasive interventions for cardiovascular diseases and cancer by enabling precise navigation through complex, submillimeter anatomical pathways. This review highlights recent innovations in actuation, bio‐integrated sensing, AI‐assisted control, and friction‐reduction technologies, discusses current ...
Hermione Truong +14 more
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Quasi-continuous X-ray generation in LiTaO<sub>3</sub>-based pyroelectric accelerator driven by periodically varying temperature. [PDF]
Karataev P +6 more
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