Preeclampsia (PE) is a serious pregnancy complication characterized by hypertension and multi-organ dysfunction after 20 weeks of gestation, posing significant risks to both mothers and infants. Early identification of women at high risk enables timely preventive interventions, yet established screening protocols, such as the Fetal Medicine Foundation (FMF) clinical model, exhibit moderate sensitivity during the first trimester. Since routine laboratory tests reflect early metabolic and inflammatory changes associated with disease development, they may provide an accessible and cost-effective strategy for improving PE prediction.   

In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Prof. Jinyou Shao at Xi'an Jiaotong University and his co-workers have resolved the challenge of maintaining electrical reliability under repeated bending by bonding a sturdy copper base directly beneath a reservoir of liquid metal alloy. The pairing functions like an autonomous, self-repairing highway: as bending tears microscopic cracks into the solid copper floor, the liquid alloy overhead immediately flows into the fractures to preserve electrical flow, while the rigid copper foundation bears external pressure so the circuit never chokes under compression.

Researchers at University of Tsukuba have developed a model for estimating the internal current distribution of a fuel cell from magnetic field measurements. By optimizing the model against experimentally obtained current and magnetic field data, the researchers demonstrated the model's ability to reproduce characteristic current distribution patterns associated with fuel cell malfunctions. These findings highlight the potential of magnetic-field-based monitoring as a noninvasive approach for diagnosing fuel cell operating conditions and identifying early indications of failure.

Professor Kibum Kang from the Department of Materials Science and Engineering, in collaboration with UNIST (President Chong-Rae Park), Hanyang University (President Ki-jeong Lee), and TDS Innovation (Co-CEOs Kibum Kang and Sanghyun Mo), has developed a new growth technique that precisely controls the location of nucleation, the stage at which 2D semiconductor crystals first form, using chemical species released from an oxide barrier.

Researchers from the Shenyang Institute of Automation (SIA) of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed an electrohydraulically actuated soft robotic fish that can swim at high speeds and perform agile three-dimensional (3D) maneuvers. The soft robotic fish addresses a longstanding design challenge by combining a rigid–flexible coupled propulsion system with dynamic buoyancy regulation. This allows for fast propulsion without sacrificing maneuverability.

Researchers discovered that using liquid metal dealloying can help produce a special silicon carbide at a markedly lower temperature than conventional methods, while still allowing for control of its structure at the nanometer scale.

In the International Journal of Extreme Manufacturing, Prof. Yang Li at Zhejiang University and his co-workers developed a dual-sided stencil printing technique that packs high-capacity energy storage into electrode tracks just 80 μm wide by giving a tungsten stencil two distinct physical personalities—a dual-sided "Janus mask" named after the two-faced Roman god.