Engineers are often inspired by the behavioral flexibility and robustness seen in nature. Recent advances in tissue engineering now allow the use of organic components in robotic applications. By integrating organic and synthetic components, researchers are moving toward the development of engineered organisms whose structural framework, actuation, sensing, and control are partially or complete...

Combining multiple inorganic components is an effective approach to improve the mechanical properties of inorganic–organic hybrid materials. The can form interactions with organic polymer matrix, and there thus a need understand reinforcement mechanism under optimal combination particles. In this work, we prepared series dual particle–based titania/silica–poly(tetrahydrofuran)–poly( ? -caprolac...

The fate of trace elements in soils, sediments, and surface waters is largely determined by their binding to reactive components, of which organic matter, metal oxides, and clays are considered most important. Assemblage models, combining separate mechanistic complexation models for each of the reactive components, can be used to predict the solid-solution partitioning and speciation of trace e...