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Multifunctional Material Systems: A state-of-the-art review
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An overview of the topic is presented in this article, including state-of-the-art review and future directions to increase innovation in developing both these materials and structures, as well as future directions for developing these materials.About:
This article is published in Composite Structures.The article was published on 2016-09-01. It has received 222 citations till now.read more
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Accelerating the discovery of materials for clean energy in the era of smart automation
Daniel P. Tabor,Loïc M. Roch,Semion K. Saikin,Christoph Kreisbeck,Dennis Sheberla,Joseph Montoya,Shyam Dwaraknath,Muratahan Aykol,Carlos Ortiz,Hermann Tribukait,Carlos Amador-Bedolla,Christoph J. Brabec,Benji Maruyama,Kristin A. Persson,Kristin A. Persson,Alán Aspuru-Guzik +15 more
TL;DR: It is envisioned that a closed-loop approach, which combines high-throughput computation, artificial intelligence and advanced robotics, will sizeably reduce the time to deployment and the costs associated with materials development.
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Cable-type supercapacitors of three-dimensional cotton thread based multi-grade nanostructures for wearable energy storage
Nishuang Liu,Wenzhen Ma,Jiayou Tao,Xianghui Zhang,Jun Su,Luying Li,Congxing Yang,Yihua Gao,Dmitri Golberg,Yoshio Bando +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, a cable-type flexible supercapacitor with excellent performance is fabricated using 3D polypyrrole(PPy)-MnO2 -CNT-cotton thread multi-grade nanostructure-based electrodes.
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Multifunctional application of carbon fiber reinforced polymer composites: Electrical properties of the reinforcing carbon fibers – A short review
Norbert Forintos,Tibor Czigány +1 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a review of carbon fiber reinforced composites (CFRP) application examples, focusing on utilization: which additional function and what physical layout can be used with CFRP.
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Fused deposition modeling-based additive manufacturing (3D printing): techniques for polymer material systems
Samuel Daminabo,Saurav Goel,Saurav Goel,Saurav Goel,Sotirios Grammatikos,Hamed Yazdani Nezhad,Vijay Kumar Thakur,Vijay Kumar Thakur +7 more
TL;DR: A good overview of existing additive manufacturing techniques can be found in this paper, with more focus on the extrusion-based technologies (fused deposition modeling and direct ink writing) due to their scalability, cost efficiency and wider range of material processability.
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Shape memory polymers for composites
TL;DR: Shape memory polymers (SMPs) are a class of active, deformable materials that can switch between a temporary shape, which can be freely designed, and their original shape.
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