A case to be made: theoretical and empirical arguments for the need to consider fatigue in post-stroke motor rehabilitation

Motor rehabilitation after hemiparetic stroke is essential to soften physical disability（Furlan,2014）.Nevertheless,current interventions are mostly designed for well recovered individuals and often exclude stroke survivors with rather limited motor ability（Sterr and Conforto,2012）.Given that,and further advancing our research agenda in this arena（Sterr et al.,2002;Sterr and Freivogel,2003,2004;Sterr,2004;Sterr et al.,2006;Sterr and Saunders,2006）,

Recent advances in functional utilisation of environmentally friendly and recyclable high-performance green biocomposites: A review

Humans have relied on biomass for survival and development since the Stone Age. All aspects of human needs for materials are covered by tools, fuel, and buildings. Nowadays, metals and petroleum-based materials are widely used in highly developed industries. Unfortunately, environmental contamination and the loss of natural resources have led to the reemergence of biomass resources as efficient and sustainable energy sources. Notably, simple and direct applications can no longer meet the demand for functionalization, high performance of materials and construction materials. Therefore, it is imperative to modify biomass and combine its utilisation to produce functionalization and high performance materials. For example, construction materials with superior mechanical properties and water resistance can be produced by reinforcing fibres to facilitate crosslinking. Water-oil separation or adsorption effects of hydrogels and aerogels are determined by the porosity and lightness of biomass, biocomposite conductor is prepared by chimaeric conductive material. Here, we review the approaches that have been taken to devise an environmentally friendly yet fully recyclable and sustainable functionalised biocomposites from biomass and its potential directions for future research.

Advanced Functional Fiber and Smart Textile

The research and applications of fiber materials are directly related to the daily life of social populace and the development of relevant revolutionary manufacturing industry.However,the conventional fibers and fiber products can no longer meet the requirements of automation and intellectualization in modern society,as well as people’s consumption needs in pursuit of smart,avant-grade,fashion and distinctiveness.The advanced fiber-shaped electronics with most desired designability and integration features have been explored and developed intensively during the last few years.The advanced fiber-based products such as wearable electronics and smart clothing can be employed as the second skin to enhance information exchange between humans and the external environment.In this review,the significant progress on flexible fiber-shaped multifunctional devices,including fiber-based energy harvesting devices,energy storage devices,chromatic devices,and actuators are discussed.Particularly,the fabrication procedures and application characteristics of multifunctional fiber devices such as fiber-shaped solar cells,lithium-ion batteries,actuators and electrochromic fibers are introduced in detail.Finally,we provide our perspectives on the challenges and future development of functional fiber-shaped devices.

Ferroelectrets:Heterogenous polymer electrets with high piezoelectric sensitivity for transducers

Nowadays,the demand for advanced functional materials in transducer technology is growing rapidly.Piezoelectric materials transform mechanical variables(displacement or force)into electrical signals(charge or voltage)and vice versa.They are interesting from both fundamental and application points of view.Ferrooelectrets(also called piezoelectrets)are a relatively young group of piezo-,pyro-and ferroelectric materials.They exhibit ferroic behavior phenomenologically undistinguishable from that of traditional ferroelectrics,although the materials per se are essentially non-polar space-charge electrets with artificial macroscopic dipoles(i.e.,internally charged cavities).A lot of work has been done on ferroelectrets and their applications up to now.In this paper,we review and discuss mostly the work done at University of Potsdam on the research and development of ferroelectrets.We will,however,also mention important results from other teams,and prospect the challenges and future progress trend of the field of ferroelectret research.