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  • Article
  • Open Access
85 Citations
16,238 Views
18 Pages

The Role of Soundscape in Nature-Based Rehabilitation: A Patient Perspective

  • Gunnar Cerwén,
  • Eja Pedersen and
  • Anna-María Pálsdóttir

Nature-based rehabilitation (NBR) has convincing support in research, yet the underlying mechanisms are not fully understood. The present study sought to increase understanding of the role of soundscapes in NBR, an aspect paid little attention thus f...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Landscapes and Human Health)
  • Review
  • Open Access
83 Citations
17,199 Views
24 Pages

Novel Trends in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

  • Ingo Dierking and
  • Antônio Martins Figueiredo Neto

12 July 2020

We introduce and shortly summarize a variety of more recent aspects of lyotropic liquid crystals (LLCs), which have drawn the attention of the liquid crystal and soft matter community and have recently led to an increasing number of groups studying t...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue New Trends in Lyotropic Liquid Crystals)
  • Review
  • Open Access
50 Citations
7,134 Views
22 Pages

12 February 2019

A supramolecular gel is a fascinating combination of flexibility and orderliness. While the supramolecular nature of crosslinking contributes towards the adaptivity and the reversibility of the system, orderliness at the molecular level amplifies the...

(This article belongs to the Section Materials Science)
  • Feature Paper
  • Review
  • Open Access
63 Citations
17,800 Views
29 Pages

27 December 2016

Stretchable electronics represent a new generation of electronics that utilize soft, deformable elastomers as the substrate or matrix instead of the traditional rigid printed circuit boards. As the most essential component of stretchable electronics,...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Flexible and Stretchable Electronics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
15 Citations
5,618 Views
16 Pages

Seahorse-Tail-Inspired Soft Pneumatic Actuator: Development and Experimental Characterization

  • Michele Gabrio Antonelli,
  • Pierluigi Beomonte Zobel,
  • Muhammad Aziz Sarwar and
  • Nicola Stampone

The study of bio-inspired structures and their reproduction has always fascinated humans. The advent of soft robotics, thanks to soft materials, has enabled considerable progress in this field. Over the years, polyps, worms, cockroaches, jellyfish, a...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Bioinspired Structures for Soft Actuators)
  • Article
  • Open Access
13 Citations
3,729 Views
15 Pages

Stable and Oriented Liquid Crystal Droplets Stabilized by Imidazolium Ionic Liquids

  • Efthymia Ramou,
  • Guilherme Rebordão,
  • Susana I. C. J. Palma and
  • Ana C. A. Roque

5 October 2021

Liquid crystals represent a fascinating intermediate state of matter, with dynamic yet organized molecular features and untapped opportunities in sensing. Several works report the use of liquid crystal droplets formed by microfluidics and stabilized...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Green Chemistry in Portugal)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2,696 Views
16 Pages

Analysis of the Lipid Component and the Sterol Ester Fraction for the Detection of Soft Wheat in Durum Wheat Flour and Pasta

  • Daniele Naviglio,
  • Angela Perrone,
  • Francesca Varchetta,
  • Paolo Trucillo,
  • Domenico Montesano and
  • Monica Gallo

Food adulteration consists of changing the original structure of a food, and so, by its definition, it is a process not admitted by law. Adulterations can not only have commercial consequences, but also hygienic and nutritional ones, and in some case...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Spectroscopic, Chromatographic, and Chemometric Techniques Applied in Food Products Characterization)
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
17 Citations
8,880 Views
12 Pages

In the quest to develop large-area soft sensors, we can look to nature for many examples. Spiderwebs show many fascinating properties that we can seek to understand and replicate in order to develop large-area, soft, and deformable sensing structures...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biorobotics)
  • Review
  • Open Access
5 Citations
4,071 Views
29 Pages

26 July 2024

Liquid crystals, which have both liquid and solid properties, inevitably exhibit fluctuations. Some frustrated liquid-crystalline phases with a hierarchical structure, such as cybotactic nematic, modulated smectic, and bicontinuous cubic phases, are...

(This article belongs to the Section Liquid Crystals)
  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,075 Views
27 Pages

Democratizing Urban Well-Being: A Virtual Reality and Eye-Tracking Analysis of Biophilic Interventions Across Socioeconomic Contexts

  • Cleiton Ferreira,
  • Marina Guil-Jiménez,
  • Paula Latorre,
  • Aurora Molina-Muñoz,
  • Sergio Castaño-Castaño and
  • Francisco Nieto-Escamez

In this pilot study, we investigate the psychological and attentional impact of biophilic urban interventions using an immersive virtual reality (VR) framework integrated with real-time eye-tracking. Specifically, it examines whether bio-esthetic enh...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Extended or Mixed Reality (AR + VR): Technology and Applications (2nd Edition))
  • Feature Paper
  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,785 Views
11 Pages

26 June 2023

Ion current rectification (ICR) is the ratio of ion current by forward bias to backward bias and is a critical indicator of diode performance. In previous studies, there have been many attempts to improve the performance of this ICR, but there is the...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Micro/Nanostructures in Sensors and Actuators)
  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,077 Views
16 Pages

11 October 2024

The geometric shape, symmetry, and topology of colloidal particles often allow for controlling colloidal phase behavior and physical properties of these soft matter systems. In liquid crystalline dispersions, colloidal particles with low symmetry and...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Liquid Crystal Research and Novel Applications in the 21st Century)
  • Review
  • Open Access
66 Citations
9,943 Views
28 Pages

Classification, Toxicity and Bioactivity of Natural Diterpenoid Alkaloids

  • Amin Mahmood Thawabteh,
  • Alà Thawabteh,
  • Filomena Lelario,
  • Sabino Aurelio Bufo and
  • Laura Scrano

Diterpenoid alkaloids are natural compounds having complex structural features with many stereo-centres originating from the amination of natural tetracyclic diterpenes and produced primarily from plants in the Aconitum, Delphinium, Consolida genera....

(This article belongs to the Section Natural Products Chemistry)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,600 Views
19 Pages

15 September 2022

Controlled, reversible attachment is widely spread throughout the animal kingdom: from ticks to tree frogs, whose weights span from 2 mg to 200 g, and from geckos to mosquitoes, who stick under vastly different situations, such as quickly climbing tr...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biological Attachment Systems and Biomimetics)
  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,779 Views
13 Pages

1 February 2024

Peptide-based biomimetic underwater adhesives are emerging candidates for understanding the adhesion mechanism of natural proteins secreted by sessile organisms. However, there is a grand challenge in the functional recapitulation of the on-site inte...

(This article belongs to the Section Macromolecular Chemistry)
  • Communication
  • Open Access
15 Citations
10,172 Views
10 Pages

First Insights into Human Fingertip Regeneration by Echo-Doppler Imaging and Wound Microenvironment Assessment

  • Paris Jafari,
  • Camillo Muller,
  • Anthony Grognuz,
  • Lee Ann Applegate,
  • Wassim Raffoul,
  • Pietro G. Di Summa and
  • Sébastien Durand

Fingertip response to trauma represents a fascinating example of tissue regeneration. Regeneration derives from proliferative mesenchymal cells (blastema) that subsequently differentiate into soft and skeletal tissues. Clinically, conservative treatm...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Wound Repair and Regeneration)
  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
5,428 Views
59 Pages

The main focus of this review is to introduce readers to the fascinating class of lipid molecules known as norsteroids, exploring their distribution across various biotopes and their biological activities. The review provides an in-depth analysis of...

(This article belongs to the Section Drug Discovery, Development and Delivery)
  • Review
  • Open Access
110 Citations
14,847 Views
22 Pages

MXene-Carbon Nanotube Composites: Properties and Applications

  • Fatemeh Mohajer,
  • Ghodsi Mohammadi Ziarani,
  • Alireza Badiei,
  • Siavash Iravani and
  • Rajender S. Varma

14 January 2023

Today, MXenes and their composites have shown attractive capabilities in numerous fields of electronics, co-catalysis/photocatalysis, sensing/imaging, batteries/supercapacitors, electromagnetic interference (EMI) shielding, tissue engineering/regener...

(This article belongs to the Special Issue Editorial Board Members’ Collection Series: New Trends in Inorganic Nanoparticles and Composites from Preparation to Applications)
  • Article
  • Open Access
1,273 Views
20 Pages

Tensile Modeling PVC Gels for Electrohydraulic Actuators

  • John Albert Faccinto,
  • Jongcheol Lee and
  • Kwang J. Kim

30 September 2025

Polyvinyl chloride (PVC)-dibutyl adipate (DBA) gels are a fascinating dielectric elastomer actuator showing promise in soft robotics. When actuated with high voltages, the gel deforms towards the anode. A recent application of PVC gels in electrohydr...

(This article belongs to the Section Polymer Applications)