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PMC9496194
pmc
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{ "abstract": "In this paper, a superhydrophobic biomimetic composite coating was fabricated on brass by electrochemical etching, brushing PDMS adhesive layer, and depositing carbon soot particles. Due to the microstructure and the optimized ratio of PDMS, the contact angle of the superhydrophobic coating is up to 16...
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PMC9668097
pmc
1,015
{ "abstract": "Global warming has accelerated in recent decades due to the continuous consumption of petroleum-based fuels. Cyanobacteria-derived biofuels are a promising carbon-neutral alternative to fossil fuels that may help achieve a cleaner environment. Here, we propose an effective strategy based on the large-s...
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{ "abstract": "This review examines the electrochemical techniques used to study extracellular electron transfer in the electrochemically active biofilms that are used in microbial fuel cells and other bioelectrochemical systems. Electrochemically active biofilms are defined as biofilms that exchange electrons with c...
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PMC5712837
pmc
1,018
{ "abstract": "This paper presents a power-generating sensor array in a flexible and stretchable form. The proposed device is composed of resistive strain sensors, capacitive tactile sensors, and a triboelectric energy harvester in a single platform. The device is implemented in a woven textile structure by using pro...
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PMC9067916
pmc
1,019
{ "abstract": "The healthy functioning of the plants’ vasculature depends on their ability to respond to environmental changes. In contrast, synthetic microfluidic systems have rarely demonstrated this environmental responsiveness. Plants respond to environmental stimuli through nastic movement, which inspires us to ...
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33619812
PMC8252710
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Anomalous heat waves are causing a major decline of hard corals around the world and threatening the persistence of coral reefs. There are, however, reefs that have been exposed to recurrent thermal stress over the years and whose corals appear to have been tolerant against heat. One of the me...
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PMC9400982
pmc
1,022
{ "abstract": "Abstract 2,5‐Furandicarboxylic acid (FDCA) is currently considered one of the most relevant bio‐sourced building blocks, representing a fully sustainable competitor for terephthalic acid as well as the main component in green polymers such as poly(ethylene 2,5‐furandicarboxylate) (PEF). The oxidation o...
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36634144
PMC9934204
pmc
1,024
{ "abstract": "Significance Bacteria evolve to evade antibiotic pressure, leading to adverse infection outcomes. Understanding the evolutionary dynamics which lead to different antibiotic responses has thus far focused on single-strain bacterial populations, with limited attention to multistrain communities which are...
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PMC11849182
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Introduction The plant restoration and ecological restoration of lead-zinc mines are very important. Methods In this study, we used three local plants to carry out ecological restoration of abandoned lead–zinc mining areas and detected the adaptive mechanisms of soil bacterial diversity and function du...
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36927612
PMC7616385
pmc
1,026
{ "abstract": "Maintaining cohesion between randomly moving agents in unbounded space is an essential functionality for many real-world applications requiring distributed multi-agent systems. We develop a bio-inspired collective movement model in 1D unbounded space to ensure such functionality. Using an internal agen...
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PMC12058968
pmc
1,027
{ "abstract": "Abstract Collective behavior is all around us, from flocks of birds to schools of fish. These systems are immensely complex, which makes it pertinent to study their behavior through minimal models. We introduce such a minimal model for cohesive and aligning self-propelled particles in which group cohes...
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25640575
PMC4313099
pmc
1,028
{ "abstract": "Understanding the architectural subtleties of ecological networks, believed to confer them enhanced stability and robustness, is a subject of outmost relevance. Mutualistic interactions have been profusely studied and their corresponding bipartite networks, such as plant-pollinator networks, have been ...
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PMC5903897
pmc
1,030
{ "abstract": "A hydrophilic directional slippery rough surface outperforms conventional liquid-repellent surfaces in water harvesting.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION Engineered surfaces with exceptional droplet nucleation and removal ( 1 – 5 ) are of great interest in various energy and water applications, includ...
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{ "abstract": "The superhydrophobic lotus leaf has dual-scale surface structures, that is, nano-bumps on micro-mountains. Large hydrophilic particles, due to its high surface energy and weight, have high affility to substrates and tend to precipitate at the bottom of coating films. Small hydrophobic particles, due to...
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PMC7382037
pmc
1,033
{ "abstract": "Background Current understanding of the carbon cycle in methanogenic environments involves trophic interactions such as interspecies H 2 transfer between organotrophs and methanogens. However, many metabolic processes are thermodynamically sensitive to H 2 accumulation and can be inhibited by H 2 pr...
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PMC9170069
pmc
1,034
{ "abstract": "Significance A central problem in evolutionary biology is explaining variation in the organization of task allocation across collective systems. Why do human cells irreversibly adopt a task during development (e.g., kidney vs. liver cell), while sponge cells switch between different cell types? And why...
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PMC10135469
pmc
1,035
{ "abstract": "Simple Summary In order to counter the increased deposition of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which has resulted in significant climatic changes, the production of alternative fuels to replace conventional fossil fuels has become necessary due to the rapidly diminishing concentration of fossil fue...
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PMC10400695
pmc
1,036
{ "abstract": "Main conclusion Nicotiana attenuata’s capacity to interact with arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi influences its intraspecific competitive ability under field and glasshouse conditions, but not its overall community productivity. Abstract Arbuscular mycorrhizal (AM) fungi can alter the nutrient status and ...
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PMC6588552
pmc
1,037
{ "abstract": "Nitrogen availability often restricts primary productivity in terrestrial ecosystems. Arbuscular mycorrhizal fungi are ubiquitous symbionts of terrestrial plants and can improve plant nitrogen acquisition, but have a limited ability to access organic nitrogen. Although other soil biota mineralize organ...
1,187
35208911
PMC8878055
pmc
1,038
{ "abstract": "Turfgrass landscapes have expanded rapidly in recent decades and are a major vegetation type in urbanizing ecosystems. While turfgrass areas provide numerous ecosystem services in urban environments, ecological side effects from intensive management are raising concerns regarding their sustainability. ...
7,050
22509341
PMC3324498
pmc
1,039
{ "abstract": "As atmospheric levels of CO 2 increase, reef-building corals are under greater stress from both increased sea surface temperatures and declining sea water pH. To date, most studies have focused on either coral bleaching due to warming oceans or declining calcification due to decreasing oceanic carbona...
8,088
34124018
PMC8193722
pmc
1,040
{ "abstract": "Polyethylene terephthalate (PET) is globally the largest produced aromatic polyester with an annual production exceeding 50 million metric tons. PET can be mechanically and chemically recycled; however, the extra costs in chemical recycling are not justified when converting PET back to the original pol...
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PMC9982732
pmc
1,043
{ "abstract": "Heavy metals (HMs) contamination and vegetation destruction in the mining area caused by mining activities are severely increasing. It is urgent to restore vegetation and stabilize HMs. In this study, we compared the ability of HMs phytoextraction/phytostabilization of three dominant plants, including ...
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PMC10522574
pmc
1,044
{ "abstract": "All biology happens in space, and spatial structuring plays an important role in mediating biological processes at all scales from cells to ecosystems. However, the metabolomic structuring of the coral holobiont has yet to be fully explored. Here, we present a method to detect high-quality metabolomic ...
4,462
34815411
PMC8611031
pmc
1,045
{ "abstract": "Living cells have the capability to synthesize molecular components and precisely assemble them from the nanoscale to build macroscopic living functional architectures under ambient conditions. The emerging field of living materials has leveraged microbial engineering to produce materials for various a...
1,260
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PMC9730456
pmc
1,046
{ "abstract": "The emergence of ionotronic materials has been recently\nexploited\nfor interfacing electronics and biological tissues, improving sensing\nwith the surrounding environment. In this paper, we investigated the\nsynergistic effect of regenerated silk fibroin (RS) with a plant-derived\npolyphenol ( i.e. , ...
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PMC5821488
pmc
1,047
{ "abstract": "A bioinorganic hybrid system based on bacterial surface display and biomimetic silicification for hydrogen production.", "introduction": "INTRODUCTION The immoderate consumption of fossil fuels has caused many serious environmental problems, such as the greenhouse effect, global climate change, acid ...
1,317
36748607
PMC9837558
pmc
1,048
{ "abstract": "Comparing obligate endosymbionts with their free-living relatives is a powerful approach to investigate the evolution of symbioses, and it has led to the identification of several genomic traits consistently associated with the establishment of symbiosis. ‘ Candidatus Nebulobacter yamunensis’ is an ob...
4,571
20526435
PMC2880544
pmc
1,049
{ "abstract": "A critical need for enhancing usability and capabilities of microfluidic technologies is the development of standardized, scalable, and versatile control systems 1 , 2 . Electronically controlled valves and pumps typically used for dynamic flow regulation, although useful, can limit convenience, scalab...
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PMC3503607
pmc
1,050
{ "abstract": "Background The inherent recalcitrance of lignocellulosic biomass is one of the major economic hurdles for the production of fuels and chemicals from biomass. Additionally, lignin is recognized as having a negative impact on enzymatic hydrolysis of biomass, and as a result much interest has been placed ...
2,552
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PMC10288593
pmc
1,051
{ "abstract": "Significance The brain is a recurrent network of neuronal cells, which are modeled by, but different from, simplified mathematical representations used in typical artificial neural networks. How does the characteristic connectivity in the recurrent network, such as the modular organization, interact wi...
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36212815
PMC9539880
pmc
1,052
{ "abstract": "In seafloor sediments, the anaerobic oxidation of methane (AOM) consumes most of the methane formed in anoxic layers, preventing this greenhouse gas from reaching the water column and finally the atmosphere. AOM is performed by syntrophic consortia of specific anaerobic methane-oxidizing archaea (ANME)...
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{ "abstract": "Fe is a critical nutrient to the marine biological pump, which is the process that exports photosynthetically fixed carbon in the upper ocean to the deep ocean. Fe limitation controls photosynthetic activity in major regions of the oceans, and the subsequent degradation of exported photosynthetic mater...
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PMC12056181
pmc
1,056
{ "abstract": "Flexible thermoelectric devices enable direct energy conversion between heat and electrical energy, making them ideal for wearable electronics and personal thermal management. Yet, current devices lack functional module expansion, which limits the customization for diverse energy-harvesting heat source...
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{ "abstract": "Engineered living materials (ELMs) combine living cells with polymeric matrices to yield unique materials with programmable functions. While the cellular platform and the polymer network determine the material properties and applications, there are still gaps in our ability to seamlessly integrate the ...
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PMC10604192
pmc
1,058
{ "abstract": "Bio-inspired (biomimetic) materials, which are inspired by living organisms, offer exciting opportunities for the development of advanced functionalities. Among them, bio-inspired superhydrophobic surfaces have attracted considerable interest due to their potential applications in self-cleaning surface...
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PMC11388927
pmc
1,059
{ "abstract": "Abstract   Chain elongating bacteria are a unique guild of strictly anaerobic bacteria that have garnered interest for sustainable chemical manufacturing from carbon-rich wet and gaseous waste streams. They produce C 6 –C 8 medium-chain fatty acids, which are valuable platform chemicals that can be us...
10,557
39090985
PMC11388927
pmc
1,059
{ "abstract": "Abstract   Chain elongating bacteria are a unique guild of strictly anaerobic bacteria that have garnered interest for sustainable chemical manufacturing from carbon-rich wet and gaseous waste streams. They produce C 6 –C 8 medium-chain fatty acids, which are valuable platform chemicals that can be us...
10,557
39090985
PMC11388927
pmc
1,060
{ "abstract": "Abstract   Chain elongating bacteria are a unique guild of strictly anaerobic bacteria that have garnered interest for sustainable chemical manufacturing from carbon-rich wet and gaseous waste streams. They produce C 6 –C 8 medium-chain fatty acids, which are valuable platform chemicals that can be us...
10,557
39090985
PMC11388927
pmc
1,060
{ "abstract": "Abstract   Chain elongating bacteria are a unique guild of strictly anaerobic bacteria that have garnered interest for sustainable chemical manufacturing from carbon-rich wet and gaseous waste streams. They produce C 6 –C 8 medium-chain fatty acids, which are valuable platform chemicals that can be us...
10,557
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PMC5947824
pmc
1,063
{ "abstract": "Abstract Harnessing the metabolic potential of uncultured microbial communities is a compelling opportunity for the biotechnology industry, an approach that would vastly expand the portfolio of usable feedstocks. Methane is particularly promising because it is abundant and energy‐rich, yet the most eff...
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PMC5216391
pmc
1,064
{ "abstract": "A benthic microbial electrochemical systems (BMES) of 195 L (120 cm long, 25 cm wide and 65 cm height) was constructed for sediment organic removal. Sediment from a natural river (Ashi River) was used as test sediments in the present research. Three-dimensional anode (Tri-DSA) with honeycomb structure ...
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PMC8313253
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{ "abstract": "Summary Environmental and host‐associated microbial communities are complex ecosystems, of which many members are still unknown. Hence, it is challenging to study community dynamics and important to create model systems of reduced complexity that mimic major community functions. Therefore, we developed...
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PMC9231504
pmc
1,066
{ "abstract": "Significance Canonical quorum sensing is characterized as a cell–cell communication process that bacteria use to coordinate group behaviors. Diffusible signal molecules induce gene expression in response to cell density. Here, we describe a mechanism in the acyl-homoserine lactone signaling pathway of ...
2,358
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PMC5625728
pmc
1,067
{ "abstract": "Microbial polyhydroxyalkanoates (PHA) have been produced as bioplastics for various purposes. Under the support of China National Basic Research 973 Project, we developed synthetic biology methods to diversify the PHA structures into homo-, random, block polymers with improved properties to better meet...
1,146
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PMC11318656
pmc
1,070
{ "abstract": "Corals are imminently threatened by climate change–amplified marine heatwaves. However, how to conserve coral reefs remains unclear, since those without local anthropogenic disturbances often seem equally or more susceptible to thermal stress as impacted ones. We disentangle this apparent paradox, reve...
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PMC11957125
pmc
1,071
{ "abstract": "Efforts towards microbial conversion of lignin to value-added products face many challenges because lignin’s methoxylated aromatic monomers release toxic C 1 byproducts such as formaldehyde. The ability to grow on methoxylated aromatic acids (e.g., vanillic acid) has recently been identified in certai...
5,362
30837333
PMC6401477
pmc
1,072
{ "abstract": "Specific recognition of cognate signals is considered fundamental to cell signaling circuits as it creates fidelity in the communication system. In bacterial quorum sensing (QS), receptor specificity ensures that bacteria cooperate only with kin. There are examples, however, of QS receptors that respon...
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PMC10973203
pmc
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{ "abstract": "Summary Building machines that can augment or replace human efforts to accomplish complex tasks is one of central topics for humanity. Especially, nanomachines made of discrete numbers of molecular components can perform intended mechanical movements in a predetermined manner. Utilizing free energies o...
2,401
33195040
PMC7596381
pmc
1,074
{ "abstract": "Bioinspired superhydrophobic surfaces are an artificial functional surface that mainly extracts morphological designs from natural organisms. In both laboratory research and industry, there is a need to develop ways of giving large-area surfaces water repellence. Currently, surface modification methods...
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35516104
PMC9059740
pmc
1,075
{ "abstract": "Biological fouling, where marine microorganisms attach densely to various submerged surfaces, has been a serious economic problem worldwide. Different from most antifouling approaches based on stiff and solid materials or coatings, a soft and wet coating composed of zwitterionic polymer was prepared in...
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PMC3933906
pmc
1,076
{ "abstract": "Recent empirical and theoretical works on collective behaviors based on a topological interaction are beginning to offer some explanations as for the physical reasons behind the selection of a particular number of nearest neighbors locally affecting each individual's dynamics. Recently, flocking starli...
2,080
39974892
PMC11838272
pmc
1,077
{ "abstract": "Microbial communities experience environmental fluctuations across timescales from rapid changes in moisture, temperature, or light levels to long-term seasonal or climactic variations. Understanding how microbial populations respond to these changes is critical for predicting the impact of perturbatio...
3,205
39974892
PMC11838272
pmc
1,077
{ "abstract": "Microbial communities experience environmental fluctuations across timescales from rapid changes in moisture, temperature, or light levels to long-term seasonal or climactic variations. Understanding how microbial populations respond to these changes is critical for predicting the impact of perturbatio...
3,205
39974892
PMC11838272
pmc
1,078
{ "abstract": "Microbial communities experience environmental fluctuations across timescales from rapid changes in moisture, temperature, or light levels to long-term seasonal or climactic variations. Understanding how microbial populations respond to these changes is critical for predicting the impact of perturbatio...
3,205
39974892
PMC11838272
pmc
1,078
{ "abstract": "Microbial communities experience environmental fluctuations across timescales from rapid changes in moisture, temperature, or light levels to long-term seasonal or climactic variations. Understanding how microbial populations respond to these changes is critical for predicting the impact of perturbatio...
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{ "abstract": "The mutualistic symbiosis between forest trees and ectomycorrhizal fungi (EMF) is among the most ubiquitous and successful interactions in terrestrial ecosystems. Specific species of EMF are known to colonize specific tree species, benefitting from their carbon source, and in turn, improving their acce...
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36559798
PMC9788077
pmc
1,080
{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic materials have recently attracted great interest from both academia and industry due to their promising applications in self-cleaning, oil–water separation, etc. Here, we developed a facile method to prepare hybrid PDMS/TiO 2 fiber for superhydrophobic coatings. TiO 2 could be unifor...
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PMC11332185
pmc
1,081
{ "abstract": "Self-healing polymers are extensively researched for the sustainability of materials. The introduction of dynamic networks instead of traditional cross-linkers for an autonomous healing mechanism in elastomers is a promising strategy for improving rubber properties. However, exchangeable covalent bonds...
7,856
26953605
PMC4989324
pmc
1,083
{ "abstract": "Microbes are well-recognized members of the coral holobiont. However, little is known about the short-term dynamics of mucus-associated microbial communities under natural conditions and after disturbances, and how these dynamics relate to the host's health. Here we examined the natural variability of ...
4,365
27554786
PMC5009624
pmc
1,084
{ "abstract": "Leaf vascular patterns are the mechanisms and mechanical support for the transportation of fluidics for photosynthesis and leaf development properties. Vascular hierarchical networks in leaves have far-reaching functions in optimal transport efficiency of functional fluidics. Embedding leaf morphogenes...
8,367
31156601
PMC6533897
pmc
1,087
{ "abstract": "The process of anaerobic digestion in which waste biomass is transformed to methane by complex microbial communities has been modeled for more than 16 years by parametric gray box approaches that simplify process biology and do not resolve intracellular microbial activity. Information on such activity,...
4,842
33690896
PMC8244046
pmc
1,089
{ "abstract": "Abstract Variation among functionally similar species in their response to environmental stress buffers ecosystems from changing states. Functionally similar species may often be cryptic species representing evolutionarily distinct genetic lineages that are morphologically indistinguishable. However, t...
5,110
38029083
PMC10658910
pmc
1,090
{ "abstract": "Production of methane by methanogenic archaea, or methanogens, in the rumen of ruminants is a thermodynamic necessity for microbial conversion of feed to volatile fatty acids, which are essential nutrients for the animals. On the other hand, methane is a greenhouse gas and its production causes energy ...
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25505375
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1,091
{ "abstract": "The need for dynamic, elastomeric polymeric biomaterials remains high, with few options with tunable control of mechanical properties, and environmental responses. Yet the diversity of these types of protein polymers pursued for biomaterials-related needs remains limited. Robust high-throughput synthes...
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{ "abstract": "Algae are ubiquitous in the marine environment, and the ways in which they interact with bacteria are of particular interest in marine ecology field. The interactions between primary producers and bacteria impact the physiology of both partners, alter the chemistry of their environment, and shape micro...
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{ "abstract": "Supramolecular hydrogels have the advantages of stimuli responsiveness and self-healing compared to covalently crosslinked hydrogels. However, the existing supramolecular hydrogels are usually poor in mechanical properties especially in extensibility. In addition, these supramolecular hydrogels need a ...
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PMC9160091
pmc
1,095
{ "abstract": "Carbon-negative synthesis of biochemical products has the potential to mitigate global CO 2 emissions. An attractive route to do this is the reverse β-oxidation (r-BOX) pathway coupled to the Wood-Ljungdahl pathway. Here, we optimize and implement r-BOX for the synthesis of C4-C6 acids and alcohols. W...
2,848
25709609
PMC4285865
pmc
1,096
{ "abstract": "Hyperaccumulators are plants that can extract heavy metal ions from the soil and translocate those ions to the shoots, where they are sequestered and detoxified. Hyperaccumulation depends not only on the availability of mobilized metal ions in the soil, but also on the enhanced activity of metal transp...
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PMC11615781
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{ "abstract": "Abstract Neuromorphic computing, a promising solution to the von Neumann bottleneck, is paving the way for the development of next‐generation computing and sensing systems. Axon‐multisynapse systems enable the execution of sophisticated tasks, making them not only desirable but essential for future app...
8,406
37638314
PMC10448768
pmc
1,098
{ "abstract": "Recent developments in artificial neural networks and their learning algorithms have enabled new research directions in computer vision, language modeling, and neuroscience. Among various neural network algorithms, spiking neural networks (SNNs) are well-suited for understanding the behavior of biologi...
2,852
38793178
PMC11123252
pmc
1,099
{ "abstract": "Resistive random access memory (RRAM) holds great promise for in-memory computing, which is considered the most promising strategy for solving the von Neumann bottleneck. However, there are still significant problems in its application due to the non-uniform performance of RRAM devices. In this work, a...
4,842
39832126
PMC11745301
pmc
1,101
{ "abstract": "Hardware neural networks could perform certain computational tasks orders of magnitude more energy-efficiently than conventional computers. Artificial neurons are a key component of these networks and are currently implemented with electronic circuits based on capacitors and transistors. However, artif...
5,892
25887753
PMC4381663
pmc
1,103
{ "abstract": "Background The symbiosis between corals and the dinoflagellate alga Symbiodinium is essential for the development and survival of coral reefs. Yet this fragile association is highly vulnerable to environmental disturbance. A coral’s ability to tolerate temperature stress depends on the fitness of its...
3,334
36425175
PMC9670684
pmc
1,104
{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic surfaces can be derived from roughening hydrophobic materials. However, the superhydrophobic surfaces with various micro/nano morphologies present variations of chemical and mechanical durability, which limits their practical applications. Very little actually is known about comparing ...
4,317
40128235
PMC11933384
pmc
1,108
{ "abstract": "Systems metabolic engineering is facilitating the development of high-performing microbial cell factories for producing chemicals and materials. However, constructing an efficient microbial cell factory still requires exploring and selecting various host strains, as well as identifying the best-suited ...
3,303
37754180
PMC10526311
pmc
1,109
{ "abstract": "With the continuous integration of material science and bionic technology, as well as increasing requirements for the operation of robots in complex environments, researchers continue to develop bionic intelligent microrobots, the development of which will cause a great revolution in daily life and pro...
1,418
34683592
PMC8537208
pmc
1,110
{ "abstract": "The construction of superhydrophobic surfaces necessitates the rational design of topographic surface structure and the reduction of surface energy. To date, the reported strategies are usually complex with multi-steps and costly. Thus, the simultaneous achievement of the two indispensable factors is h...
1,591
32807967
PMC7502555
pmc
1,111
{ "abstract": "Multifunctional living materials are attractive due to their powerful ability to self-repair and replicate. However, most natural materials lack electronic functionality. Here we show that an electric field, applied to electricity-producing Geobacter sulfurreducens biofilms, stimulates production of ...
1,255
34075730
PMC8336620
pmc
1,112
{ "abstract": "Abstract For the practical applications of wearable electronic skin (e‐skin), the multifunctional, self‐powered, biodegradable, biocompatible, and breathable materials are needed to be assessed and tailored simultaneously. Integration of these features in flexible e‐skin is highly desirable; however, i...
2,765
38313553
PMC10832036
pmc
1,113
{ "abstract": "The operation of aerospace equipment is often affected\nby icing\nand frosting. In order to reduce the loss caused by icing in the industrial\nfield, it is an effective method to prepare superhydrophobic coatings\nby modifying nanoparticles with low surface energy materials. In order\nto explore a meth...
5,424
31492882
PMC6731289
pmc
1,114
{ "abstract": "Anaerobic degradation (AD) of heterogeneous agricultural substrates is a complex process involving a diverse microbial community. While microbial community composition of a variety of biogas plants (BPs) is well described, little is known about metabolic processes and microbial interaction patterns. He...
3,931
36133247
PMC9419703
pmc
1,115
{ "abstract": "The triboelectric effect is one of the most trending effects in energy harvesting technologies, which use one of the most common effects in daily life. Herein, an impervious silicone elastomer-based triboelectric nanogenerator (SE-TENG) is reported with a micro roughness-created silicone elastomer film...
6,140
37234610
PMC10205513
pmc
1,116
{ "abstract": "Microbial consortia under anaerobic conditions are involved in oxidizing organic matter in the sludge to produce methane gas. However, in developing countries like Kenya, these microbes have not been fully identified to target them for the efficient harnessing of biofuel. This study collected wet sludg...
4,974
29844349
PMC5974012
pmc
1,117
{ "abstract": "Coral reefs face many stressors associated with global climate change, including increasing sea surface temperature and ocean acidification. Excavating sponges, such as Cliona spp., are expected to break down reef substrata more quickly as seawater becomes more acidic. However, increased bioerosion r...
3,867
37109870
PMC10144407
pmc
1,118
{ "abstract": "The development and utilization of new energy sources is an effective means of addressing the limits of traditional fossil energy resources and the problem of environmental pollution. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENG) show great potential for applications in harvesting low-frequency mechanical energy...
5,960
30002369
PMC6043547
pmc
1,119
{ "abstract": "In contrast to AI hardware, neuromorphic hardware is based on neuroscience, wherein constructing both spiking neurons and their dense and complex networks is essential to obtain intelligent abilities. However, the integration density of present neuromorphic devices is much less than that of human brain...
1,404
26584513
PMC4673831
pmc
1,120
{ "abstract": "Geckos have the extraordinary ability to prevent their sticky feet from fouling while running on dusty walls and ceilings. Understanding gecko adhesion and self-cleaning mechanisms is essential for elucidating animal behaviours and rationally designing gecko-inspired devices. Here we report a unique se...
1,022
35746877
PMC9629503
pmc
1,122
{ "abstract": "Abstract Tropical coral reefs are hotspots of marine productivity, owing to the association of reef-building corals with endosymbiotic algae and metabolically diverse bacterial communities. However, the functional importance of fungi, well-known for their contribution to shaping terrestrial ecosystems ...
26,884
37992173
PMC10664982
pmc
1,124
{ "abstract": "Cross-linked elastomers are stretchable materials that typically are not recyclable or biodegradable. Medium-chain-length polyhydroxyalkanoates (mcl-PHAs) are soft and ductile, making these bio-based polymers good candidates for biodegradable elastomers. Elasticity is commonly imparted by a cross-linke...
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PMC7042694
pmc
1,125
{ "abstract": "The initial pivotal phase of bacterial biofilm formation known as reversible attachment, where cells undergo a period of transient surface attachment, is at once universal and poorly understood. What is more, although we know that reversible attachment culminates ultimately in irreversible attachment, ...
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22227949
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1,126
{ "abstract": "We study a range of neural dynamics under variations in biophysical parameters underlying extended Morris-Lecar and Hodgkin-Huxley models in three gating variables. The extended models are implemented in NeuroDyn, a four neuron, twelve synapse continuous-time analog VLSI programmable neural emulation p...
301
28569746
PMC5461491
pmc
1,127
{ "abstract": "Communication provides the basis for social life. In ant colonies, the prevalence of local, often chemically mediated, interactions introduces strong links between communication networks and the spatial distribution of ants. It is, however, unknown how ants identify and maintain nest chambers with dist...
858
35889733
PMC9322026
pmc
1,129
{ "abstract": "Superhydrophobic materials have been widely applied in rapid removal and collection of oils from oil/water mixtures for increasing damage to environment and human beings caused by oil-contaminated wastewater and oil spills. Herein, superhydrophobic materials were fabricated by a novel polypyrrole (PPy)...
4,870
36432230
PMC9697845
pmc
1,130
{ "abstract": "The development of novel materials with coexisting volatile threshold and non-volatile memristive switching is crucial for neuromorphic applications. Hence, the aim of this work was to investigate the memristive properties of oxides in a Hf–Nb thin-film combinatorial system deposited by sputtering on S...
1,920
35529743
PMC9073238
pmc
1,131
{ "abstract": "In the recovery of rare earth elements (REE) microbial biosorption has shown its theoretical ability as an extremely economically and environmentally friendly production method in the last few years. To evaluate the ability of two cyanobacterial strains, namely Anabaena spec. and Anabaena cylindrica...
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23332119
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1,133
{ "abstract": "Many bacterial and archaeal lineages have a history of extensive and ongoing horizontal gene transfer and loss, as evidenced by the large differences in genome content even among otherwise closely related isolates. How ecologically cohesive populations might evolve and be maintained under such conditio...
263
36636576
PMC9831110
pmc
1,135
{ "abstract": "Event-based dynamic vision sensors provide very sparse output in the form of spikes, which makes them suitable for low-power applications. Convolutional spiking neural networks model such event-based data and develop their full energy-saving potential when deployed on asynchronous neuromorphic hardware...
2,612
36730197
PMC9963355
pmc
1,136
{ "abstract": "Significance Bacteria live in multispecies, spatially structured communities ubiquitously in the natural world. These communities, or biofilms, have a strong impact on microbial ecology, but we often do not know how cellular scale interactions determine overall biofilm structure and community dynamics....
2,019
32825332
PMC7569806
pmc
1,137
{ "abstract": "A molecular robot is a microorganism-imitating micro robot that is designed from the molecular level and constructed by bottom-up approaches. As with conventional robots, molecular robots consist of three essential robotics elements: control of intelligent systems, sensors, and actuators, all integrate...
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