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Mycorrhizal Neural Networks: Engineering Fungal-Plant Symbiosis for Decentralized Environmental Remediation

Mycorrhizal Neural Networks: Engineering Fungal-Plant Symbiosis for Decentralized Environmental Remediation

The accelerating convergence of climate disruption, soil degradation, and environmental contamination presents an urgent imperative for radically reimagining ecosystem restoration strategies. Traditional remediation approaches—relying on centralized, energy-intensive technologies—often fail to address the spatial heterogeneity and ecological complexity inherent in contaminated landscapes. Yet beneath our feet exists a sophisticated
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Nanoscale Magneto-Mechanochromic Actuators Leveraging Photonic Quasicrystals for Adaptive Camouflage and Bio-Integrated Haptic Interfaces

Nanoscale Magneto-Mechanochromic Actuators Leveraging Photonic Quasicrystals for Adaptive Camouflage and Bio-Integrated Haptic Interfaces

The development of advanced materials capable of dynamically altering their physical properties in response to external stimuli represents a pivotal frontier in materials science and engineering. Nature provides profound inspiration, from the rapid color-changing skin of cephalopods for camouflage to the sensitive touch of a human fingertip. Replicating this level
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Optogenetic Synthesis of Self-Assembling Metamaterials: Structuring Light-Sensitive Proteins Through Spatiotemporal Control for Adaptive Wavefront Manipulation

Optogenetic Synthesis of Self-Assembling Metamaterials: Structuring Light-Sensitive Proteins Through Spatiotemporal Control for Adaptive Wavefront Manipulation

The ability to precisely manipulate light is the foundation of modern optics, from telecommunications to advanced microscopy. This control is typically achieved using metamaterials—engineered composites whose structure, rather than their composition, dictates their exotic optical properties. However, fabricating these materials is often a static, top-down process, resulting in devices
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Quantum-Enhanced Microbial Fuel Cells: Harnessing Quantum Coherence in Enzymatic Reactions for Ultra-Efficient Bioenergy Conversion

Quantum-Enhanced Microbial Fuel Cells: Harnessing Quantum Coherence in Enzymatic Reactions for Ultra-Efficient Bioenergy Conversion

Microbial fuel cells (MFCs) represent a transformative bio-electrochemical technology with the dual promise of generating electricity from organic waste and enabling self-powered biosensing. By harnessing the metabolic activity of exoelectrogenic microbes, which transfer electrons to an external circuit during respiration, MFCs offer a path to sustainable energy. However, their widespread
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Ferritin Spin Lattices: Engineering Magnetically Coherent Living Tissues as Spin-Wave Logic Substrates for Biohybrid Information Processing

Ferritin Spin Lattices: Engineering Magnetically Coherent Living Tissues as Spin-Wave Logic Substrates for Biohybrid Information Processing

Biological tissues can host dense, ordered protein assemblies, self-heal, and maintain ionic homeostasis—capabilities that rigid inorganic substrates for magnonics lack. Could we engineer living or living-derived materials to become substrates for spin-wave (magnon) logic? This article proposes ferritin-based spin lattices—protein nanocage arrays loaded with magnetic cores—and magnetosome-inspired
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Femptoampere Nanofluidic Hydroxide Ionics: Programming Two-Dimensional Electric Fields Inside Angstrom-Scale Graphene Nanocapillaries to Gate Sub-Nanometer Protonic Logic for On-Chip Water-Recycling Neural Prosthetics

Femptoampere Nanofluidic Hydroxide Ionics: Programming Two-Dimensional Electric Fields Inside Angstrom-Scale Graphene Nanocapillaries to Gate Sub-Nanometer Protonic Logic for On-Chip Water-Recycling Neural Prosthetics

The convergence of nanofluidics, two-dimensional (2D) materials, and bioelectronics is paving the way for revolutionary advancements in neural prosthetics. Angstrom-scale graphene nanocapillaries, with their atomically precise channels, enable unprecedented control over ion transport, particularly for protons and hydroxide ions, at currents as low as femtoamperes. This regime not only promises
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