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Self-powered soft robot in the Mariana Trench

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Ultrarobust, tough and highly stretchable self-healing materials based on cartilage-inspired noncovalent assembly nanostructure

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A critical review on microplastics, interaction with organic and inorganic pollutants, impacts and effectiveness of advanced oxidation processes applied for their removal from aqueous matrices

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Acute riverine microplastic contamination due to avoidable releases of untreated wastewater

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Multistage Responsive Materials for Real‐time, Reversible, and Sustainable Light‐Writing

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A positively charged loose nanofiltration membrane fabricated through complexing of alginate and polyethyleneimine with metal ions on the polyamideimide support for dye desalination

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Engineered technologies for the separation and degradation of microplastics in water: A review

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Strong, Ultrafast, Reprogrammable Hydrogel Actuators with Muscle-Mimetic Aligned Fibrous Structures

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Dynamic Liquid Crystalline Networks for Twisted Fiber and Spring Actuators Capable of Fast Light-Driven Movement with Enhanced Environment Adaptability

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Removal characteristics and mechanism of microplastics and tetracycline composite pollutants by coagulation process

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A critical review of extraction and identification methods of microplastics in wastewater and drinking water

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An engineered PET depolymerase to break down and recycle plastic bottles

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The global odyssey of plastic pollution

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Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

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Filtration of microplastic spheres by biochar: removal efficiency and immobilisation mechanisms

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Experimental and theoretical study on the coordination properties of quercetin towards aluminum(III), iron(III) and copper(II) in aqueous solution

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Microplastics and suspended particles in a strongly impacted coastal environment: Composition, abundance, surface texture, and interaction with metal ions

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Arbitrarily 3D Configurable Hygroscopic Robots with a Covalent–Noncovalent Interpenetrating Network and Self‐Healing Ability

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Electrical and Mechanical Self-Healing in High-Performance Dielectric Elastomer Actuator Materials

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Lipase-Powered Mesoporous Silica Nanomotors for Triglyceride Degradation

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Multi-functional soft-bodied jellyfish-like swimming

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Photocatalytic TiO2 Micromotors for Removal of Microplastics and Suspended Matter

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Soft phototactic swimmer based on self-sustained hydrogel oscillator

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Hierarchically Structured Self‐Healing Actuators with Superfast Light‐ and Magnetic‐Response

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Water Purification and Microplastics Removal using Magnetic Polyoxometalate-Supported Ionic Liquid Phases (magPOM-SILPs)

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Hierarchical Cross-Linked Poly(caprolactone-co-urethane) toward Connective Tissue-like Properties and Multifunctional Integration

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Artificial phototropism for omnidirectional tracking and harvesting of light

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Cellulose-Based Sensor Containing Phenanthroline for the Highly Selective and Rapid Detection of Fe2+ Ions with Naked Eye and Fluorescent Dual Modes

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Hierarchically Structured Self-Healing Sensors with Tunable Positive/Negative Piezoresistivity

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A novel loose-NF membrane based on the phosphorylation and cross-linking of polyethyleneimine layer on porous PAN UF membranes

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Bioinspired microrobots

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Small-scale soft-bodied robot with multimodal locomotion

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Metallic molybdenum disulfide nanosheet-based electrochemical actuators

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Fast-moving soft electronic fish

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Reusable and Long-Lasting Active Microcleaners for Heterogeneous Water Remediation

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Microplastic in Aquatic Ecosystems

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Programmable Volume Phase Transition of Hydrogels Achieved by Large Thermal Hysteresis for Static-Motion Bilayer Actuators

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Environmentally relevant concentrations of microplastic particles influence larval fish ecology

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Density Functional Theory Study on the Cross-Linking of Mussel Adhesive Proteins

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Mussel-Inspired One-Pot Synthesis of a Fluorescent and Water-Soluble Polydopamine-Polyethyleneimine Copolymer

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Self-polymerization of dopamine and polyethyleneimine: novel fluorescent organic nanoprobes for biological imaging applications

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Iron(iii) selective molecular and supramolecular fluorescent probes

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