Open access review article from Marcos and co-authors now available in Soft Science.
This review comprehensively examines topics on the interface of soft robotics and chemistry including the utilisation of chemical power sources, oscillating systems, and chemically driven pneumatic actuation.
The first publication of 2024 from the Faul Research Group, primary authored by Ulzhalgas, is an open access review covering studies demonstrating how desirable properties possessed by conjugated microporous polymers (CMPs) offer a route to sustainable and green long-term solutions.
Find a link to the manuscript here.
Inside front cover in Materials Chemistry Frontiers, 07 October 2023, Issue 19. Credit to Dr. Villeda Hernandez and his artistic skills.
New accepted manuscript from Basi, Ulzhalgas, Jerry Mintah & Dr Marcos Villeda Hernandez in Mater. Chem. Front. entitled “Bifunctional Metal-Free Porous Polyimide Networks for CO₂ Capture and Conversion“.
Congratulations to Marcos Villeda-Hernandez, Ben Baker and Christian Romero for their work covering the potential of chemical reactions as both positive and negative pressure sources for use in soft robotic pneumatic actuators.
New review detailing significant advances in decarbonising methanol production with direct electrochemical techniques entitled “Can We Decarbonise Methanol Production by Direct Electrochemical CO2 Reduction?” from collaborator Alice Sheppard, currently undertaking her PhD in the Fermin Group at Bristol. Contributions from ex-Faul Group member Veronica Del Angel Hernandez.
Back cover of Advanced Functional Materials, Volume 33, Issue 13 illustrating concepts from Xu et al. In the image, the amorphous gel is seen altering and shifting within the non-uniform electric field generated by the point electrode. The electric field lines, depicted by coloured lines, converge at the point electrode.
Excited to announce Basiram and Dr. Baker‘s latest openly accessible article in Adv. Mater. entitled “Selective CO2 electroreduction from tuneable naphthalene-based porous polyimide networks” detailing exciting new metal-free materials for CO2 capture & reduction.
New paper authored by Ciqun Xu in collaboration with J. Rossiter and the Soft Robotics Research Group in Advanced Functional Materials demonstrating multiple applications of novel electric field-driven dielectrophoretic elastomer actuators.
Charl has contributed to a paper with collaborators from the College of Chemistry, Jilin University (Changchun) and the Department of Macromolecular Science, Fudan University (Shanghai) exploring the liquid-crystalline behaviour of dumbbell-shaped colloidal particles. If you are interested in the formation of chiral blue phases from such achiral structures, then please read the paper for more details!
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