Aeronáutica y espacio

A Multi-Agent Framework for Automated Coarse-Grained Molecular Dynamics of Polymers

- Coarse-grained (CG) molecular dynamics extends polymer simulation beyond the scales accessible to all-atom (AA) methods, but bottom-up CG modeling is laborious. The CG resolution is a design choice,...

Integral Hilbert spaces and the dynamics of loop quantum cosmos

- Polymer quantization program applied in Loop Quantum Gravity/Cosmology leads to nonseparable Hilbert spaces. Commonly, one sidesteps this problem by singling out and working with a separable...

A Synthetically-accessible Universe of Chemically Recyclable Polymers

- Polymers synthesized via ring-opening polymerization (ROP) of cyclic monomers represent an important class of materials due to their chemical recyclability and possible insertion in several critical...

PolymerGPT: Multi-property Optimization with a Decoder-Based GPT Model for Generative Polymer Design

- Polymer property prediction and inverse generative design targeting desired properties are two crucial tasks in machine learning-assisted polymer design. While the former has received considerable...

Morphological Detection and Classification of Microplastics and Nanoplastics Emerged from Consumer Products by Deep Learning

- Plastic pollution presents an escalating global issue, impacting health and environmental systems, with micro- and nanoplastics found across mediums from potable water to air. Traditional methods for...

n-Type polymer layers enable efficient, scalable, and thermally stable perovskite solar modules

30/07/2026

Photocatalytic water splitting by 2D polymer with out-of-plane carrier flow

29/07/2026

A Monolithic Hand with Asymmetric Origami Bending and Dual-chamber Actuators

- The passive adaptability inherent in soft robotic hands affords them advantages in applications that require safe and compliant interaction. However, existing soft robotic hands often struggle to...

Writhe-Based Polymer Link Classification Using Machine Learning

- Unique and rapid classification of knots and links is an open mathematical problem that is relevant to a range of (bio)physical systems, including polymer melts, DNA, and proteins. In this paper, we...

Direction of ESCRT-III-dependent membrane bending emerges from bilayer asymmetry

24/07/2026 - In cells, ESCRT-III is unique in mediating fission of membrane necks from inside, a process called reverse-topology fission. Yet, in vitro, the complex primarily assembles outside membrane necks and...

Nuclear Quantum Effects as a Denoising Problem

- Nuclear quantum effects are rigorously captured by imaginary-time path integrals, which map the quantum Boltzmann distribution onto a ring polymer of classical replicas. Yet the nuclear masses, the...

Scalable Open-Source Visuotactile Sensor for 6-Axis Contact Wrench Estimation in Tensegrity Robots

- This paper presents a scalable, open-source visuotactile sensing system for tensegrity robots that enables six-axis wrench estimation and contact detection. The proposed endcap sensor integrates an...

Power from Potential: A Survey of Electrostatic Actuators for Haptics

- As haptic interfaces integrate more seamlessly into wearables and everyday environments, they increasingly require actuators that are soft, thin, silent, and energy efficient. However, conventional...

Towards Knitted Textile Electromechanical Systems

- E-textiles and wearable sensing technologies enable flexible, customizable interfaces for human-computer interaction, with capacitive sensing offering precise touch and pressure detection. While...

Gradient-Enhanced NSGA-II Algorithm Complex Permittivity Extraction of Polymer Materials Using

- This paper presents gradient-enhanced non-dominated sorting genetic algorithm II (G-NSGA-II) to address the challenges of local optima and solution non-uniqueness in the complex permittivity...

Machine Learning-Based Battery State-of-health Prediction for Unmanned Aerial Vehicles Predictive Maintenance

- Battery state-of-health (SoH) prediction aims to estimate the remaining capacity by modeling battery degradation through its life cycle. Machine learning (ML)-based SoH models can accurately predict...

Counting and Sampling Anti-Ferromagnetic Potts Models on Random Regular Bipartite Graphs in the Non-uniqueness Regime

- The anti-ferromagnetic multi-state Potts model, a generalization of the Ising model, is one of the most fundamental models in statistical physics. It was conjectured by Kotecký (Phys.~Rev.~B, 1985)...

Ultrathin polymer membranes with locked intrinsic microporosity for hydrocarbon fractionation

18/06/2026

Shape Sensing of Continuum Robots using Direct Laser Writing

- Continuum robots offer a promising approach for minimally invasive and natural-orifice surgical procedures due to their inherent compliance and dexterity. However, this flexibility also makes...

Automatic ply-specific analyses of CFRP micrographs using shortest-path-based ply distinction

- We present an automated approach to distinguish between ply instances in semantic segmentation masks of high-resolution carbon-fiber reinforced polymer micrographs. Interpreting the segmentation mask...

A Multi-Level Architecture for Reusable Materials Ontologies -- The OntoCrafter Ceramics Ontology (OCO) as Reference Implementation

- The Materials Science and Engineering ontology landscape is fragmented along multiple axes simultaneously. Horizontally: a recent survey identified 94 ontologies of which over 40 are structurally...