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Silicone Phase Behavior Resolves the Softness–Surface Functionality Trade‐Off in Emerging Stretchable Electronics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Ultrasoft silicone elastomers often sacrifice surface functionality for mechanical compliance. In Mold Star, low‐molecular‐weight species form a dispersed phase that weakens the network and passivates the surface. Solvent extraction removes this phase, unexpectedly improving both extensibility and metallization performance, enabling conductive ...
Gloria M. D'Amaral, Rahaf Nafez Hussein, Tiago Carneiro Gomes, Jordan E. Nicholson, Lauren J. Renaud, Emily J. Addison, Simon Rondeau‐Gagné, Tricia Breen Carmichael   +7 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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Latest trends and future prospects for ultrathin flexible organic photovoltaics

Applied Physics Express
Ultrathin flexible organic photovoltaics (f-OPVs) are emerging as promising candidates for wearable devices and soft robotics, prized for their exceptional lightness, flexibility, and high power-per-weight ratios.
Kenjiro Fukuda, Jiangfeng Wang, Kazuma Nakajima   +2 more
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Sensing the future with graphene-based wearable sensors: A review

Results in Materials
In this current era, the demand for wearable sensors is increasing in full swing due to their multiphase applications, from the human body to soft robotics.
Md. Kamrul Hassan Chowdhury, Habibur Rahman Anik, Mahmuda Akter, Shah Md. Maruf Hasan, Shariful Islam Tushar, Shakil Mahmud, Nurun Nahar, Imana Shahrin Tania   +7 more
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Increasing Inter‐Micellar Connectivity Toughens and Imparts Cooling‐Induced Shape Memory in Micellar Hydrogels

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Oligomerizing Pluronic triblock copolymers provides a processing strategy for tuning the mechanical properties and stimuli‐responsive behaviors of micellar hydrogels. Varying oligomer fraction produces hydrogels spanning brittle to highly extensible responses; maintaining micellar architectures enables cooling‐induced reverse thermal shape memory and ...
Gourav Kumbhojkar, Eric Yang, Arman Moussavi, EunBi Oh, Haeji Kim, Wei Chen, Junsoo Kim, Sinan Keten, Ryan L. Truby   +8 more
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n‐Type Semiconductor Hydrogels for Tunable Organic Electrochemical Transistors Operation and Evaporation‐Driven Synergistic Energy Harvesting and Thermal Management

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study develops a tunable n‐OSC hydrogel (PBFDO‐PAAc) platform with a tunable porous network and thermoelectric properties. It demonstrates the first report of n‐OSC hydrogels for evaporation‐driven hydrovoltaic‐thermoelectric electricity generation as well as chemically dedoping‐mediated OECT working mode reconfiguration. This work expands n‐OSCs’
Zhenli Zhou, Cong Huang, Haohong Jiang, Yuhao Jiang, Yaoyao Zhu, Boyuan Li, Yi Wang, Enna Ha, Ni Zhao, Shu‐Jen Wang   +9 more
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A Lightweight Multi-Articular Passive Exoskeleton Using a Single Elastic Band to Improve Crouch Gait Pattern: A Pilot Study

IEEE Transactions on Neural Systems and Rehabilitation Engineering
Crouch gait, characterized by excessive flexion of the lower-limb joints, is a common gait disorder among children with cerebral palsy (CP) that compromises mobility and increases energy expenditure.
Jisang Kang, Jae-Ryeong Choi, Sukyung Kang, Juyeon Park, Moon Seok Park, Kyu-Jin Cho   +5 more
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Snap‐Through–Driven Liquid Crystal Elastomers for High‐Power Remote Microneedle Actuation Toward Smart Livestock Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A magnetically assisted snap‐through liquid crystal elastomer transforms photochemical deformation into a high‐power mechanical impulse, enabling remote microneedle actuation and highlighting its potential for future smart livestock intervention systems.
Chae Won Lee, Nankyung Kim, SeungHyun Park, Dae Seok Kim   +3 more
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An Electrowetting Pump

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A tubular electrowetting pump moves alternating droplets through a millimeter‐wide channel in discrete, reversible steps, functioning as a fluidic stepper motor. With no moving parts and electrodes insulated from the liquid, it delivers silent, accurate flow. Flexibility allows the pump to be woven directly into textiles for wearable, medical, and soft‐
Robert Hennig, Herbert Shea
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Intelligent Orthopedics: Machine Learning in Diagnosis of Bone Disease, Implants, and Bone Health Monitoring

Advanced Healthcare Materials, EarlyView.
Efficient recovery from traumatic or degenerative diseases is a great challenge, even after all the advancements in bone and cartilage regeneration. Machine learning (ML) algorithms have presented opportunities to enhance these aspects by accurately analyzing imaging data.
Maryam Kamaei, Hesam Mohammadi, Shamim Golafshan, Mojtaba Alehosseini, Mahsa Mohammadzadeh, Atefeh Golshirazi, Nasim Golafshan, Tatiane Eufrásio‐da‐Silva, Alireza Dolatshahi‐Pirouz, Gorka Orive   +9 more
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