Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Jan 10, 2023
In the field of soft robotics, knowledge of material science is becoming more and more important. However, many researchers have a background in only one of both domains. To aid the understanding of the other domain, this tutorial describes the compl...
Scientific reports
Dec 14, 2022
Soft and compliant ionic electromechanically active polymer actuators (IEAPs) are a promising class of smart materials for biomedical and soft robotics applications. These materials change their shape in response to external stimuli like the electric...
Angewandte Chemie (International ed. in English)
Dec 13, 2022
Bioelectronic sensors that report charge changes of a biomolecule upon target binding enable direct and sensitive analyte detection but remain a major challenge for potentiometric measurement, mainly due to Debye Length limitations and the need for m...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Dec 2, 2022
Three-dimensional printing, often known as additive manufacturing (AM), is a groundbreaking technique that enables rapid prototyping. Monitoring AM delivers benefits, as monitoring print quality can prevent waste and excess material costs. Machine le...
STAR protocols
Nov 22, 2022
Structure-property relationships are extremely valuable when predicting the properties of polymers. This protocol demonstrates a step-by-step approach, based on multiple machine learning (ML) architectures, which is capable of processing copolymer ty...
Nanoscale
Nov 17, 2022
Designing nano-engineered particles capable of the delivery of therapeutic and diagnostic agents to a specific target remains a significant challenge. Understanding how interactions between particles and cells are impacted by the physicochemical prop...
Advanced science (Weinheim, Baden-Wurttemberg, Germany)
Oct 31, 2022
The continuous deterioration of the environment due to extensive industrialization and urbanization has raised the requirement to devise high-performance environmental remediation technologies. Membrane technologies, primarily based on conventional p...
Sensors (Basel, Switzerland)
Oct 22, 2022
Three-dimensional (3D) printing, also known as additive manufacturing (AM), has already shown its potential in the fourth technological revolution (Industry 4.0), demonstrating remarkable applications in manufacturing, including of medical devices. T...
Chemistry (Weinheim an der Bergstrasse, Germany)
Oct 13, 2022
The marriage of liquid crystal elastomers with dynamic covalent chemistry can be a new paradigm for the development of dynamic and intelligent polymers with versatile functionalities, which is of paramount significance for many emerging applications ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Oct 10, 2022
In recent years, there has been a rapid growth in the use of machine learning in material science. Conventionally, a trained predictive model describes a scalar output variable, such as thermodynamic, electronic, or mechanical properties, as a functi...