Julia Bykova

TL;DR: These carbon nanotube yarn harvesters were used in the ocean to harvest wave energy, combined with thermally driven artificial muscles to convert temperature fluctuations to electrical energy, and used to power a light-emitting diode and to charge a storage capacitor.

TL;DR: The fabrication and characterization of highly flexible textiles that can harvest thermal energy from temperature gradients in the desirable through-thickness direction are reported.

TL;DR: A high-speed incandescent tension annealing process (ITAP) is used to increase the modulus and strength of twist-spun carbon nanotube yarns by up to 12-fold and 2.6-fold, respectively, to provide remarkable resistance to oxidation and powerful protonating acids, and freeze yarn untwist.

TL;DR: A new type of absorption-powered artificial muscle provides high performance without needing a temperature change, and theoretical energy efficiency conversion can be as high as 16%.

TL;DR: The ambient environment localized pulsed electrodeposition process for direct printing of three-dimensional (3D) freestanding nanotwinned-Copper (nt-Cu) nanostructures was demonstrated and revealed that the printed metal was fully dense, and was mostly devoid of impurities and microstructural defects.