Long‐Acting Protective Ocular Surface by Instilling Adhesive Dual‐Antiviral Nanoparticles (Adv. Healthcare Mater. 14/2022)

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.

Instilling new habits: addressing implicit bias in healthcare professionals.

There appears to be a fundamental inconsistency between research which shows that some minority groups consistently receive lower quality healthcare and the literature indicating that healthcare workers appear to hold equality as a core personal value. Recent evidence using Implicit Association Tests suggests that these disparities in outcome may in part be due to social biases that are primari...

Hybrid Nanoparticles: Corrosion‐Protected Hybrid Nanoparticles (Adv. Sci. 12/2017)

Sugars: an exceptional protective coat for the ocular surface.

Effective surface interactions mediated by adhesive particles

In biomimetic and biological systems, interactions between surfaces are often mediated by adhesive molecules, nanoparticles, or colloids dispersed in the surrounding solution. We present here a general, statistical-mechanical model for two surfaces that interact via adhesive particles. The effective, particle-mediated interaction potential of the surfaces is obtained by integrating over the par...