Electro‐Microfluidics: Biomimetic Meta‐Structured Electro‐Microfluidics (Adv. Funct. Mater. 51/2019)

Materials and Wireless Microfluidic Systems for Electronics Capable of Chemical Dissolution on Demand (Adv. Funct. Mater. 92015)

Metamaterials: Snapping Mechanical Metamaterials under Tension (Adv. Mater. 39/2015).

By exploiting snap-through instabilities, D. Pasini and co-workers design a damage-tolerant mechanical metamaterial that snaps sequentially under tension, thereby accommodating a very large deformation up to 150%. On page 5931, they describe how the nonlinear mechanical response of the metamaterial can be robustly programmed by tuning the architecture of its unit cell.

Integral of a rational funct

Most calculus textbooks present this topic as the method of partial fractions. They usually contain a bunch of apparently unrelated examples (sometimes not exhaustive) and do not focus on the purpose of this method. For this reason I have decided to write a few notes about “partial fractions” and I want to focus on what the method is good for and not on examples. Everything that follows is devo...

Corrigendum: A simple method for the quantification of molecular decorations on silica particles (2014 Sci. Technol. Adv. Mater. 15 015002)

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Acoustic Switches: Harnessing Deformation to Switch On and Off the Propagation of Sound (Adv. Mater. 8/2016).

Isosurfaces of sound waves traveling through an architected material proposed by K. Bertoldi and co-workers on page 1631 are depicted. The material comprises a square array of elastomeric helices in background air and acts as an on/off acoustic switch. It is characterized by frequency ranges of strong wave attenuation (bandgaps) in the undeformed configuration. Upon deformation, the initial ban...