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Open AccessDesign, modeling, and manufacturing of high strain composites for space deployable structures
The demand for larger and lighter mechanisms for next-generation space missions necessitates using deployable structures. High-strain fiber polymer composites show considerable promise for such applications du...
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Open AccessNanobiolubricant grinding: a comprehensive review
Minimum quantity lubrication (MQL), which considers the cost, sustainability, flexibility, and quality, has been actively explored by scholars. Nanoadditive phases have been widely investigated as atomizing me...
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Open AccessUnderwater Directional Acoustic Source Based on Pentamode Material
An underwater directional acoustic emitter is conceived with a highly anisotropic lattice material, whose acoustic characteristics manifest strong dependence on the orientation of the lattice material’s princi...
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Open AccessMirrorless MEMS imaging: a nonlinear vibrational approach utilizing aerosol-jetted PZT-actuated fiber MEMS scanner for microscale illumination
This study introduces a novel image capture and lighting techniques using a cutting-edge hybrid MEMS scanner system designed for compact microscopic imaging. The scanner comprises a tapered optical fiber waveg...
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Open AccessAdvances in high-performance MEMS pressure sensors: design, fabrication, and packaging
Pressure sensors play a vital role in aerospace, automotive, medical, and consumer electronics. Although microelectromechanical system (MEMS)-based pressure sensors have been widely used for decades, new trend...
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Open AccessBeamforming: a spatial de-noising approach for civil structural health monitoring
In the civil structural health monitoring fields, monitored data suffer from noise and sensor faults. In practice, redundant sensors are usually deployed to monitor structural condition to obtain more accurate...
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Open AccessOn-chip optical sources of 3D photonic integration based on active fluorescent polymer waveguide microdisks for light display application
In this work, on-chip three-dimensional (3D) photonic integrated optical sources based on active fluorescent polymer waveguide microdisks are proposed for light display application. Fluorescent green and red o...
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Open AccessSystematic Review on Wearable Lower Extremity Robotic Exoskeletons for Assisted Locomotion
Lower extremity robotic exoskeletons (LEEX) can not only improve the ability of the human body but also provide healing treatment for people with lower extremity dysfunction. There are a wide range of applicat...
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On methodology and application of smoothed particle hydrodynamics in fluid, solid and biomechanics
Smoothed particle hydrodynamics (SPH), as one of the earliest meshfree methods, has broad prospects in modeling a wide range of problems in engineering and science, including extremely large deformation proble...
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Effects of magnesium and copper additions on tensile properties of Al-Si-Cr die casting alloy under as-cast and T5 conditions
Aluminum high pressure die casting (HPDC) technology has evolved in the past decades, enabling stronger and larger one-piece casting with significant part consolidation. It also offers a higher design freedom ...
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Soft Pneumatic Robotic Architectural System: Prefabricated Inflatable Module-Based Cybernetic Adaptive Space Model Manipulated Through Human-System Interaction
In this paper, a cybernetic adaptive space model based on prefabricated inflatable modules and physical interaction manipulation is introduced. The research aimed to redefine an intelligent and organic trend o...
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Open AccessApproximating the linear response of physical chaos
Parametric derivatives of statistics are highly desired quantities in prediction, design optimization and uncertainty quantification. In the presence of chaos, the rigorous computation of these quantities is c...
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Open AccessMultidiscipline Applications of Triboelectric Nanogenerators for the Intelligent Era of Internet of Things
Multidiscipline application of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) for intelligent Internet of Things (IoTs) are summarized from the aspects of agriculture, industry, city, em...
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Open AccessAdvanced functional nanofibers: strategies to improve performance and expand functions
Nanofibers have a wide range of applications in many fields such as energy generation and storage, environmental sensing and treatment, biomedical and health, thanks to their large specific surface area, excel...
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Microstructure and mechanical properties of a low activation cast WTaHfTiZr refractory high-entropy alloy
In the face of the requirement that nuclear fusion reactor materials exhibit more excellent thermal, mechanical and physical properties, a novel refractory high-entropy alloy, WTaHfTiZr was proposed. The const...
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FewJoint: few-shot learning for joint dialogue understanding
Few-shot learning (FSL) is one of the key future steps in machine learning and raises a lot of attention. In this paper, we focus on the FSL problem of dialogue understanding, which contains two closely relate...
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Open AccessA review of advances in tribology in 2020–2021
Around 1,000 peer-reviewed papers were selected from 3,450 articles published during 2020–2021, and reviewed as the representative advances in tribology research worldwide. The survey highlights the developmen...
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A review of the design of load-carrying exoskeletons
The increasing necessity of load-carrying activities has led to greater human musculoskeletal damage and an increased metabolic cost. With the rise of exoskeleton technology, researchers have begun exploring d...
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Open AccessEffects of Flexible Conjugation-Break Spacers of Non-Conjugated Polymer Acceptors on Photovoltaic and Mechanical Properties of All-Polymer Solar Cells
A series of non-conjugated acceptor polymers with flexible conjugation-break spacers (FCBSs) of different lengths were synthesized.
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