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PMC9051554
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{ "abstract": "Fascinating and challenging, the development of repairable materials with long-lasting, sustainable and high-performance properties is a key-parameter to provide new advanced materials. To date, the concept of self-healing includes capsule-based healing systems, vascular healing systems, and intrinsic ...
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PMC6936270
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{ "abstract": "To effectively forage in natural environments, organisms must adapt to changes in the quality and yield of food sources across multiple timescales. Individuals foraging in groups act based on both their private observations and the opinions of their neighbours. How do these information sources interact...
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PMC11797559
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{ "abstract": "Biological neurons use diverse temporal expressions of spikes to achieve efficient communication and modulation of neural activities. Nonetheless, existing neuromorphic computing systems mainly use simplified neuron models with limited spiking behaviors due to high cost of emulating these biological sp...
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PMC8922893
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{ "abstract": "Background O-Acetyl-L-homoserine (OAH) is an important potential platform chemical. However, low levels of production of OAH are greatly limiting its industrial application. Furthermore, as a common and safe amino acid-producing strain, Corynebacterium glutamicum has not yet achieved efficient produc...
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PMC6008303
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{ "abstract": "Memristors with tunable resistance states are emerging building blocks of artificial neural networks. However, in situ learning on a large-scale multiple-layer memristor network has yet to be demonstrated because of challenges in device property engineering and circuit integration. Here we monolithical...
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial populations utilize a variety of signaling strategies to exchange information, including the secretion of quorum-sensing molecules and contact-dependent signaling cascades. Although quorum sensing has received the bulk of attention for many years, contact-dependent signaling is forging a nich...
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PMC3130561
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{ "abstract": "Single-cell quantification of the input–output relation of the quorum-sensing circuit reveals how Vibrio harveyi employs multiple feedback loops to simultaneously control quorum-sensing signal integration and to ensure signal transmission fidelity.", "conclusion": "Conclusion The integration of mul...
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PMC3896932
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{ "abstract": "Biologically produced methane (CH 4 ) from anaerobic digesters is a renewable alternative to fossil fuels, but digester failure can be a serious problem. Monitoring the microbial community within the digester could provide valuable information about process stability because this technology is dependen...
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PMC9207759
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{ "conclusion": "Conclusions In conclusion, many studies have provided evidence that G. sulfurreducens expresses e-pili comprised of the pilin monomer PilA. It remains a mystery as to why Gu et al. ( 2021 ) did not recover filaments comprised of PilA from their strain of ‘wild-type' G. sulfurreducens when so many...
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PMC8970472
pmc
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{ "abstract": "With this work we introduce a novel memristor in a lateral geometry whose resistive switching behaviour unifies the capabilities of bipolar switching with decelerated diffusive switching showing a biologically plausible short-term memory. A new fabrication route is presented for achieving lateral nano-...
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PMC6403400
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Depth from defocus is an important mechanism that enables vision systems to perceive depth. While machine vision has developed several algorithms to estimate depth from the amount of defocus present at the focal plane, existing techniques are slow, energy demanding and mainly relying on numerous acquis...
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{ "abstract": "Hydration is central to mitigating surface fouling by oil and microorganisms. Immobilization of hydrophilic polymers on surfaces promotes retention of water and a reduction of direct interactions with potential foulants. While conventional surface modification techniques are surface-specific, mussel-in...
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PMC9948195
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{ "abstract": "In this study, we used a simple and cost-effective method\nto fabricate\ntriboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) based on biowaste eggshell membranes\n(EMs). We prepared stretchable electrodes with various types of EMs\n(hen, duck, goose, and ostrich) and employed them as positive friction\nmaterials for ...
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24466132
PMC3899268
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Generation of renewable energy is one of the grand challenges facing our society. We present a new bio-electric technology driven by chemical gradients generated by photosynthesis and respiration. The system does not require pure cultures nor particular species as it works with the core metabolic princ...
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PMC4824173
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{ "abstract": "Reef-building corals depend on symbiotic mutualisms with photosynthetic dinoflagellates in the genus Symbiodinium . This large microalgal group comprises many highly divergent lineages (“Clades A–I”) and hundreds of undescribed species. Given their ecological importance, efforts have turned to genomic...
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PMC11488576
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{ "abstract": "Renewable alternatives for nonelectrifiable fossil-derived chemicals are needed and plant matter, the most abundant biomass on Earth, provide an ideal feedstock. However, the heterogeneous polymeric composition of lignocellulose makes conversion difficult. Lignin presents a formidable barrier to fermen...
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PMC10473687
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Achieving sustainable chemical synthesis and a circular economy will require process innovation to minimize or recover existing waste streams. Valorization of lignin biomass has the ability to advance this goal. While lignin has proved a recalcitrant feedstock for upgrading, biological approaches can l...
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PMC11735814
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{ "abstract": "Neural reuse can drive organisms to generalize knowledge across various tasks during learning. However, existing devices mostly focus on architectures rather than network functions, lacking the mimic capabilities of neural reuse. Here, we demonstrate a rational device designed based on ferroionic CuInP...
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PMC10092204
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Cable bacteria are long, filamentous, multicellular bacteria that grow in marine sediments and couple sulfide oxidation to oxygen reduction over centimetre‐scale distances via long‐distance electron transport. Cable bacteria can strongly modify biogeochemical cycling and may affect microbial c...
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36686915
PMC9811985
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Oil–water separation using porous superhydrophilic materials is a promising method to circumvent the issue of oil-polluted water by separating water from oil–water mixtures. However, fabricating metal-based porous superhydrophilic materials with stable superhydrophilicity that can recover their strong ...
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PMC8044998
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial biofilms are important medically, environmentally and industrially and there is a need to understand the processes that govern functional synergy and dynamics of species within biofilm communities. Here, we have used a model, mixed-species biofilm community comprised of Pseudomonas aeruginos...
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PMC11714237
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Inspired by the extensive signal processing capabilities of the human nervous system, neuromorphic artificial sensory systems have emerged as a pivotal technology in advancing brain‐like computing for applications in humanoid robotics, prosthetics, and wearable technologies. These systems mimi...
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PMC10668361
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{ "abstract": "Background The positive effects of exposing corals to microorganisms have been reported though how the benefits are conferred are poorly understood. Here, we isolated an actinobacterial strain (SCSIO 13291) from Pocillopora damicornis with capabilities to synthesize antioxidants, vitamins, and antiba...
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PMC9508249
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{ "abstract": "Get in-depth understanding of each part of visual pathway yields insights to conquer the challenges that classic computer vision is facing. Here, we first report the bioinspired striate cortex with binocular and orientation selective receptive field based on the crossbar array of self-powered memristor...
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PMC6889567
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Nitrogen is an essential element of life, and nitrogen availability often limits crop yields. Since the Green Revolution, massive amounts of synthetic nitrogen fertilizers have been produced from atmospheric nitrogen and natural gas, threatening the sustainability of global food production and degradin...
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PMC11287213
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{ "abstract": "Abstract   Growing environmental concerns and the need to adopt a circular economy have highlighted the importance of waste valorization for resource recovery. Microbial consortia-enabled biotechnologies have made significant developments in the biomanufacturing of valuable resources from waste biomass...
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PMC11287213
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{ "abstract": "Abstract   Growing environmental concerns and the need to adopt a circular economy have highlighted the importance of waste valorization for resource recovery. Microbial consortia-enabled biotechnologies have made significant developments in the biomanufacturing of valuable resources from waste biomass...
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PMC11287213
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{ "abstract": "Abstract   Growing environmental concerns and the need to adopt a circular economy have highlighted the importance of waste valorization for resource recovery. Microbial consortia-enabled biotechnologies have made significant developments in the biomanufacturing of valuable resources from waste biomass...
2,569
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PMC11287213
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{ "abstract": "Abstract   Growing environmental concerns and the need to adopt a circular economy have highlighted the importance of waste valorization for resource recovery. Microbial consortia-enabled biotechnologies have made significant developments in the biomanufacturing of valuable resources from waste biomass...
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PMC5014196
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{ "abstract": "Summary Bacterial macrocolony biofilms grow into intricate three‐dimensional structures that depend on self‐produced extracellular polymers conferring protection, cohesion and elasticity to the biofilm. In E \n scherichia coli , synthesis of this matrix – consisting of amyloid curli fibres and cellulo...
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PMC8721230
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{ "abstract": "Understanding how microorganism-microorganism interactions shape microbial assemblages is a key to deciphering the evolution of dependencies and co-existence in complex microbiomes. Metabolic dependencies in cross-feeding exist in microbial communities and can at least partially determine microbial com...
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{ "abstract": "It is known that smooth, hydrophobic solid surfaces exhibit low ice adhesion values, which have been shown to approach a lower ice adhesion strength limit (∼150 kPa) defined by the water receding contact angle. To overcome this limit, we have designed self-lubricating icephobic coatings by blending pol...
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{ "abstract": "Quorum sensing (QS) enables bacteria to sense and respond to changes in their population density. It plays a critical role in controlling different biological functions, including bioluminescence and bacterial virulence. It has also been widely adapted to program robust dynamics in one or multiple cell...
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PMC3619133
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{ "abstract": "Compact and power-efficient plastic electronic synapses are of fundamental importance to overcoming the bottlenecks of developing a neuromorphic chip. Memristor is a strong contender among the various electronic synapses in existence today. However, the speeds of synaptic events are relatively slow in ...
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{ "abstract": "Background Biogas production is an economically attractive technology that has gained momentum worldwide over the past years. Biogas is produced by a biologically mediated process, widely known as “anaerobic digestion.” This process is performed by a specialized and complex microbial community, in whic...
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PMC8519689
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{ "abstract": "The deep Q-network (DQN) is one of the most successful reinforcement learning algorithms, but it has some drawbacks such as slow convergence and instability. In contrast, the traditional reinforcement learning algorithms with linear function approximation usually have faster convergence and better stab...
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PMC5607359
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{ "abstract": "On contemplating the adaptive capacity of reef organisms to a rapidly changing environment, the microbiome offers significant and greatly unrecognised potential. Microbial symbionts contribute to the physiology, development, immunity and behaviour of their hosts, and can respond very rapidly to changin...
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{ "abstract": "DNA sequencing uncovers the entire architecture of below-ground plant–fungus networks.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Ever since its introduction to ecology, network theory has repeatedly reorganized our understanding of the laws and processes that drive ecological community dynamics ( 1 – 3 ). The ...
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PMC10005145
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{ "abstract": "Memristors have been considered to be more efficient than traditional Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor (CMOS) devices in implementing artificial synapses, which are fundamental yet very critical components of neurons as well as neural networks. Compared with inorganic counterparts, organic memri...
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{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic surface simultaneously possessing exceptional stretchability, robustness, and non-fluorination is highly desirable in applications ranging from wearable devices to artificial skins. While conventional superhydrophobic surfaces typically feature stretchability, robustness, or non-fluori...
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PMC10608025
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{ "abstract": "The von Neumann architecture has faced challenges requiring high-fulfillment levels due to the performance gap between its processor and memory. Among the numerous resistive-switching random-access memories, the properties of hexagonal boron nitride (BN) have been extensively reported, but those of amo...
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PMC11326117
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Global warming is a key issue that causes coral bleaching mainly because of the thermosensitivity of zooxanthellae. Compared with the well-studied zooxanthellae Symbiodiniaceae in coral holobionts, we rarely know about other coral symbiotic algae, let alone their thermal tolerance. In this stu...
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PMC8019053
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{ "abstract": "Abstract \n Plants typically interact with multiple above‐ and below‐ground organisms simultaneously, with their symbiotic relationships spanning a continuum ranging from mutualism, such as with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi (AMF), to parasitism, including symbioses with plant‐parasitic nematodes (PPN)....
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PMC3755279
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{ "abstract": "Despite extensive progress, current icephobic materials are limited by the breakdown of their icephobicity in the condensation frosting environment. In particular, the frost formation over the entire surface is inevitable as a result of undesired inter-droplet freezing wave propagation initiated by the...
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36332017
PMC9635822
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{ "abstract": "Engineered living materials (ELMs) are gaining traction among synthetic biologists, as their emergent properties and nonequilibrium thermodynamics make them markedly different from traditional materials. However, the aspiration to directly use living cells as building blocks to create higher-order stru...
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PMC10516961
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{ "abstract": "Deep convolutional neural networks (CNNs) have achieved promising performance in the field of deep learning, but the manual design turns out to be very difficult due to the increasingly complex topologies of CNNs. Recently, neural architecture search (NAS) methods have been proposed to automatically de...
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PMC8466037
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{ "abstract": "With advances in internet of things technology and fossil fuel depletion, energy harvesting has emerged rapidly as a means of supplying small electronics with electricity. As a method of enhancing the electrical output of the triboelectric nanogenerator, specialized for harvesting mechanical energy, st...
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PMC5443480
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Given the numerous threats against Earth’s coral reefs, there is an urgent need to develop means of assessing reef coral health on a proactive timescale. Molecular biomarkers may prove useful in this endeavor because their expression should theoretically undergo changes prior to visible signs ...
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{ "abstract": "Discovered in the 1920's, polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) are a naturally occurring class of biopolyesters that have long been touted as a renewable, biodegradable plastic alternative. Demand for sustainable products and over a half century of research have led to moderate commercial success of PHA. Yet, t...
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PMC3881690
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{ "abstract": "Application of microbial fuel cells (MFCs) to wastewater treatment for direct recovery of electric energy appears to provide a potentially attractive alternative to traditional treatment processes, in an optic of costs reduction, and tapping of sustainable energy sources that characterizes current tren...
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PMC4598564
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{ "abstract": "Triboelectric nanogenerators have been invented as a highly efficient, cost-effective and easy scalable energy-harvesting technology for converting ambient mechanical energy into electricity. Four basic working modes have been demonstrated, each of which has different designs to accommodate the corresp...
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PMC5241762
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT The synthesis of renewable bioproducts using photosynthetic microorganisms holds great promise. Sustainable industrial applications, however, are still scarce and the true limits of phototrophic production remain unknown. One of the limitations of further progress is our insufficient understan...
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PMC10579436
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Methanogenesis allows methanogenic archaea to generate cellular energy for their growth while producing methane. Thermophilic hydrogenotrophic species of the genus Methanothermobacter have been recognized as robust biocatalysts for a circular carbon economy and are already applied in power-to...
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PMC6186167
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{ "abstract": "The widely observed positive relationship between plant diversity and ecosystem functioning is thought to be substantially driven by complementary resource use of plant species. Recent work suggests that biotic interactions among plants and between plants and soil organisms drive key aspects of resourc...
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PMC6839939
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{ "abstract": "Skin-inspired semiconductor that is intrinsically stretchable, self-healable, and strain-sensitive for advanced sensory devices.", "conclusion": "CONCLUSION We present here an approach to enable strain-sensitive, stretchable, and self-healable semiconductor film for fabrication of skin-like active-ma...
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PMC8062479
pmc
428
{ "abstract": "Environmental composition is a major, though poorly understood, determinant of microbiome dynamics. Here we ask whether general principles govern how microbial community growth yield and diversity scale with an increasing number of environmental molecules. By assembling hundreds of synthetic consortia ...
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PMC10175680
pmc
429
{ "abstract": "Flexible electronic devices play a key role in the fields of flexible batteries, electronic skins, and flexible displays, which have attracted more and more attention in the past few years. Among them, the application areas of electronic skin in new energy, artificial intelligence, and other high-tech ...
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{ "abstract": "From biosynthesis to bioremediation, microbes have been engineered to address a variety of biotechnological applications. A promising direction in these endeavors is harnessing the power of designer microbial consortia that consist of multiple populations with well-defined interactions. Consortia can a...
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PMC4139316
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{ "abstract": "Waggle dancing bees provide nestmates with spatial information about high quality resources. Surprisingly, attempts to quantify the benefits of this encoded spatial information have failed to find positive effects on colony foraging success under many ecological circumstances. Experimental designs have...
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PMC10439622
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{ "abstract": "Background Reef-building corals are acutely threatened by ocean warming, calling for active interventions to reduce coral bleaching and mortality. Corals associate with a wide diversity of bacteria which can influence coral health, but knowledge of specific functions that may be beneficial for corals u...
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PMC5739288
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{ "abstract": "Bacterial cell-cell signaling, or quorum sensing, is characterized by the secretion and group-wide detection of small diffusible signal molecules called autoinducers. This mechanism allows cells to coordinate their behavior in a density-dependent manner. A quorum-sensing cell may directly respond to th...
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PMC11705803
pmc
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Understanding the extracellular electron transfer mechanisms of electroactive bacteria could help determine their potential in microbial fuel cells (MFCs) and their microbial syntrophy with redox-active minerals in natural environments. However, the mechanisms of extracellular electron transfe...
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PMC7558274
pmc
437
{ "abstract": "Memristive systems can provide a novel strategy to conquer the von Neumann bottleneck by evaluating information where data are located in situ. To meet the rising of artificial neural network (ANN) demand, the implementation of memristor arrays capable of performing matrix multiplication requires highl...
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PMC6588946
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background Coral reefs are facing unprecedented pressure on local and global scales. Sensitive and rapid markers for ecosystem stress are urgently needed to underpin effective management and restoration strategies. Although the fundamental contribution of microbes to the stability and functioning of co...
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{ "abstract": "We report an approach to the fabrication of superhydrophobic thin films that is based on the 'reactive' layer-by-layer assembly of azlactone-containing polymer multilayers. We demonstrate that films fabricated from alternating layers of the azlactone functionalized polymer poly(2-vinyl-4,4-dimethylazla...
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PMC9964548
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Cyanobacteria are photosynthetic microorganisms capable of using solar energy to convert CO 2 and H 2 O into O 2 and energy-rich organic compounds, thus enabling sustainable production of a wide range of bio-products. More and more strains of cyanobacteria are identified that show great promise as ce...
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37566650
PMC10421036
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Climate change–amplified marine heatwaves can drive extensive mortality in foundation species. However, a paucity of longitudinal genomic datasets has impeded understanding of how these rapid selection events alter cryptic genetic structure. Heatwave impacts may be exacerbated in species that engage in...
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PMC6262932
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{ "abstract": "Abstract For animals that harbor photosynthetic symbionts within their tissues, such as corals, the different relative contributions of autotrophy versus heterotrophy to organismal energetic requirements have direct impacts on fitness. This is especially true for facultatively symbiotic corals, where t...
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PMC10254461
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In this paper, we have fabricated non-volatile memory resistive switching (RS) devices and analyzed analog memristive characteristics using lateral electrodes with mesoporous silica–titania (meso-ST) and mesoporous titania (meso-T) layers. For the planar-type device having two parallel electrodes, curr...
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PMC10892219
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{ "abstract": "Organizations managing high-performance computing systems face a multitude of challenges, including overarching concerns such as overall energy consumption, microprocessor clock frequency limitations, and the escalating costs associated with chip production. Evidently, processor speeds have plateaued o...
4,695
35505991
PMC9043302
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Common mycorrhizal networks (CMNs) that connect individual plants of the same or different species together play important roles in nutrient and signal transportation, and plant community organization. However, about 10% of land plants are non-mycorrhizal species with roots that do not form any well-re...
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PMC4573693
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{ "abstract": "Background Currently, hydrogen fuel is derived mainly from fossil fuels, but there is an increasing interest in clean and sustainable technologies for hydrogen production. In this context, the ability of some photosynthetic microorganisms, particularly cyanobacteria and microalgae, to produce hydrogen ...
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{ "abstract": "For microbiome biology to become a more predictive science, we must identify which descriptive features of microbial communities are reproducible and predictable, which are not, and why. We address this question by experimentally studying parallelism and convergence in microbial community assembly in r...
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PMC11659276
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{ "abstract": "Coral thermotolerance research has focused on the ability of coral holobionts to maximize withstanding thermal stress exposure. Yet, it’s unclear whether thermal thresholds adjust across seasons or remain constant for a given species and location. Here, we assessed the thermal tolerance thresholds over...
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PMC4063449
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{ "abstract": "Many natural biological systems - such as biofilms, shells and skeletal\ntissues - are able to assemble multifunctional and environmentally responsive\nmultiscale assemblies of living and non-living components. Here, by using\ninducible genetic circuits and cellular communication circuits to regulate\n...
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PMC9500351
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{ "abstract": "Biotreatment of acidic rare earth mining wastewater via acidophilic living organisms is a promising approach owing to their high tolerance to high concentrations of rare earth elements (REEs); however, simultaneous removal of both REEs and ammonium is generally hindered since most acidophilic organisms...
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PMC5649168
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{ "abstract": "Aerobic methanotrophic bacteria have evolved a specialist lifestyle dependent on consumption of methane and other short-chain carbon compounds. However, their apparent substrate specialism runs contrary to the high relative abundance of these microorganisms in dynamic environments, where the availabili...
7,817
34542731
PMC8452823
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Highlights \n An up-to-date review of hybrid triboelectric-electromagnetic nanogenerators is provided. Rotational, pendulum, linear, sliding, cantilever, flexible blade, multidimensional, and magnetoelectric hybrid technologies are thoroughly analyzed. Promising results highlight the potential of these...
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PMC10983830
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Genetically engineered silkworms have been widely used to obtain silk with modified characteristics especially by introducing spider silk genes. However, these attempts are still challenging due to limitations in transformation strategies and difficulties in integration of the large DNA fragme...
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PMC3669319
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{ "abstract": "A central focus in studies of microbial communities is the elucidation of the relationships between genotype, phenotype, and dynamic community structure. Here, we present a new computational method called community flux balance analysis (cFBA) to study the metabolic behavior of microbial communities. c...
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PMC8132064
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Spin‐torque memristors are proposed in 2009, and can provide fast, low‐power, and infinite memristive behavior for neuromorphic computing and large‐density non‐volatile memory. However, the strict requirements of combining high magnetoresistance, stable domain wall pinning and current‐induced ...
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PMC5500281
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{ "abstract": "Shallow marine ecosystems naturally experience fluctuating physicochemical conditions across spatial and temporal scales. Widespread coral-bleaching events, induced by prolonged heat stress, highlight the importance of how the duration and frequency of thermal stress influence the adaptive physiology o...
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PMC8226191
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{ "abstract": "Lay summary High flow speeds can mediate damaging impacts of sub-lethal thermal stress on a branching coral species, showing increased levels of endosymbiont photosystem health compared to corals under low flow conditions. However, eventual declines in physiology and no difference in bleaching under hi...
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PMC5054820
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{ "abstract": "Modern society is fueled by fossil energy produced millions of years ago by photosynthetic organisms. Cultivating contemporary photosynthetic producers to generate energy and capture carbon from the atmosphere is one potential approach to sustaining society without disrupting the climate. Algae, photos...
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PMC3871314
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{ "abstract": "Ecosystems have a limited buffering capacity of multiple ecosystem functions against biodiversity loss (i.e. low multifunctional redundancy). We developed a novel theoretical approach to evaluate multifunctional redundancy in a microbial community using the microbial genome database (MBGD) for comparat...
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36186561
PMC9516702
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Smart surfaces with superhydrophobic/superhydrophilic\ncharacteristics\ncan be controlled by external stimuli, such as temperature. These\ntransitions are attributed to the molecular-level conformation of\nthe grafted polymer chains due to the varied interactions at the interface.\nHere, tunable surfac...
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PMC9163127
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{ "abstract": "Biophotovoltaics (BPV) generates electricity from reducing equivalent(s) produced by photosynthetic organisms by exploiting a phenomenon called extracellular electron transfer (EET), where reducing equivalent(s) is transferred to external electron acceptors. Although cyanobacteria have been extensively...
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30368244
PMC6204281
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Background The expansion of renewable energy produced by windmills and photovoltaic panels has generated a considerable electricity surplus, which can be utilized in water electrolysis systems for hydrogen production. The resulting hydrogen can then be funneled to anaerobic digesters for biogas upgradi...
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PMC9417421
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Harvesting energy from the surrounding environment, particularly from human body motions, is an effective way to provide sustainable electricity for low-power mobile and portable electronics. To get adapted to the human body and its motions, we report a new fiber-based triboelectric nanogenerator (FTNG...
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{ "abstract": "Cathodic reactions in biofilms employed in sediment microbial fuel cells is generally studied in the bulk phase. However, the cathodic biofilms affected by these reactions exist in microscale conditions in the biofilm and near the electrode surface that differ from the bulk phase. Understanding these m...
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{ "abstract": "Self-healing polymers crosslinked by solely reversible bonds are intrinsically weaker than common covalently crosslinked networks. Introducing covalent crosslinks into a reversible network would improve mechanical strength. It is challenging, however, to apply this concept to \"dry\" elastomers, largel...
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PMC10776380
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{ "abstract": "Excessive mining and utilization fossil fuels has led to drastic environmental consequences, which will contribute to global warming and cause further climate change with severe consequences for the human population. The magnitude of these challenges requires several approaches to develop sustainable a...
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{ "abstract": "Demand for sustainable materials motivates the development of microorganisms capable of synthesizing products from renewable substrates. A challenge to commercial production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), microbially derived polyesters, is engineering metabolic pathways to produce a polymer with the d...
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{ "abstract": "Demand for sustainable materials motivates the development of microorganisms capable of synthesizing products from renewable substrates. A challenge to commercial production of polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA), microbially derived polyesters, is engineering metabolic pathways to produce a polymer with the d...
307
28152002
PMC5289496
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{ "abstract": "Global climate change not only leads to elevated seawater temperatures but also to episodic anomalously high or low temperatures lasting for several hours to days. Scleractinian corals are detrimentally affected by thermal fluctuations, which often lead to an uncoupling of their mutualism with Symbiod...
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PMC6774398
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{ "abstract": "ABSTRACT Since 2012, a triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) has provided new possibilities to\nconvert tiny and effective mechanical energies into electrical energies by the physical\ncontact of two objects. Over the past few years, with the advancement of materials’\nsynthesis and device technologies, t...
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PMC7731204
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{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted intensive attention in the antifouling field because of their excellent anti-bioadhesive performance and environmental friendliness. However, promising surfaces have met great challenges of poor mechanical robustness under harsh serving conditions. Herein, an or...
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PMC11761944
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{ "abstract": "This study evaluates the potential of biorefinery and dairy wastewater as substrates for electricity generation in double chamber Microbial Fuel Cells (DCMFC), focusing on their microbial taxonomy and electrochemical viability. Taxonomic analysis using 16S/18S rDNA-targeted DGGE and high-throughput seq...
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{ "abstract": "Numerous bacterial behaviors are regulated by a cell-density dependent mechanism known as Quorum Sensing (QS). QS relies on communication between bacterial cells using diffusible signaling molecules known as autoinducers. QS regulates physiological processes such as metabolism, virulence, and biofilm f...
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{ "abstract": "Numerous bacterial behaviors are regulated by a cell-density dependent mechanism known as Quorum Sensing (QS). QS relies on communication between bacterial cells using diffusible signaling molecules known as autoinducers. QS regulates physiological processes such as metabolism, virulence, and biofilm f...
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