C&EN

Programmable Humidity-Responsive Actuation of Polymer Films Enabled by Combining Shape Memory Property and Surface-Tunable Hygroscopicity

Key Laboratory of Syngas Conversion of Shaanxi Province, Key Laboratory of Applied Surface and Colloid Chemistry, Ministry of Education, School of Chemistry and Chemical Engineering, Shaanxi Normal ...
C&EN

Programmable Proton Conduction in Stretchable and Self-Healing Proteins

‡ Center for Neutron Research, National Institute of Standards and Technology, Gaithersburg, Maryland 20899, United States ¶ Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Maryland, ...
IEEE

Programmable Pressure Control in Pneumatic Soft Robots With 2-Way 2-State Solenoid Valves

Abstract: Pneumatic soft robotics is known for its high adaptability and strong load capacity, and the pneumatic control system is regarded as the neural system of pneumatic soft robots to transmit ...
IEEE

DSAGEN: Synthesizing Programmable Spatial Accelerators

Abstract: Domain-specific hardware accelerators can provide orders of magnitude speedup and energy efficiency over general purpose processors. However, they require extensive manual effort in hardware ...
CNN

Slow cookers do the hard work for you. I found 2 that make prepping hearty meals even easier

Many kitchen appliances can consume a lot of counter space, so it’s important to choose wisely when deciding what to buy, especially when it comes to tools that make meal prepping more efficient. The ...