Advanced materials
Advanced materials
Biomimetic Structural Hydrogels Reinforced by Gradient Twisted Plywood Architectures
01/11/2024 -
Inspired by the structural design of natural structural hydrogels in crustacean exoskeletons, this work presents a synergistic approach for constructing hierarchical structural hydrogels with...
2D Photonic Colloidal Liquid Crystals Composed of Self?Assembled Rod?Shaped Particles
19/09/2024 -
2D photonic colloidal liquid crystals comprised of biomineral/polymer nanorod hybrids dispersed in water are presented. These colloidal liquid crystals display vibrant structural colors with...
Novel Self?Assembling Supramolecular Phenanthro[9,10?a]phenazine Discotic Liquid Crystals: Synthesis, Characterization and Charge Transport Studies
16/08/2024 -
The self?assembling behavior of novel supramolecular phenanthro[9,10?a] phenazine discotic liquid crystals has been compared with previously existing literature and their optoelectronic properties...
Cholesteric Liquid Crystals with Thermally Stable Reflection Color from Mixtures of Completely Etherified Ethyl Cellulose Derivative and Methacrylic Acid
31/01/2024 -
Cellulose derivatives have attracted attention as environmentally friendly materials that can exhibit a cholesteric liquid crystal (CLC) phase with visible light reflection. Previous reports have...
Active Materials for Functional Origami
30/04/2023 -
In recent decades, origami has been explored to aid in the design of engineering structures. These structures span multiple scales and have been demonstrated to be used towards various areas such as...
Flame retardant research on innovative lightweight wood?plastic composites
19/04/2023 -
Cylindrical liquid crystal elastomers were fabricated by Michael addition, and the synthesized CLCE prepolymers were then uniaxially stretched with a twisted angle and fixed with UV polymerization....
Circularly Polarized Light Responsive Materials: Design Strategies and Applications
18/03/2023 -
Circularly polarized light (CPL) with the end of optical vector traveling along circumferential trajectory, shows left? and right?handedness, which transmits chiral information to materials via...
Synthesis of Furan-Based Diamine and Its Application in the Preparation of Bio-Based Polyimide
22/02/2023 -
Furan-based compounds are a new class of compounds characteristic of wide abundance, feasible availability, and environmental friendliness. Presently, polyimide (PI) is the best membrane insulation...
Covalent nanoarchitectonics: Polymer synthesis with designer structures and sequences
20/01/2023 -
As a post nanotechnology concept, nanoarchitectonics integrates nanotechnology with the other research fields to create new functional materials from nanounits, where polymer chemistry plays...
Solid?State and Solution Self?assembly Properties of Mono? and Bis?acetylide RuII Complexes Bearing Hydrogen?Bonding Amide Functions
07/11/2022 -
In the present article, we report the liquid crystal and self?assembly abilities of new RuII acetylide complexes and their organic counterparts. The four compounds show mesogenic properties....
Indium Recovery by Adsorption on MgFe2O4 Adsorbents
11/10/2022 -
Indium and its compounds have many industrial applications and are widely used in the manufacture of liquid crystal displays, semiconductors, low temperature soldering, and infrared photodetectors....
Facile Synthesis of Liquid Crystal Dimers Bridged with a Phosphonic Group
22/09/2022 -
Liquid crystal (LC) dimers with well?defined composition and structure arouse broad attentions for their exhibiting LC properties beyond conventional low molar mass mesogens and serving as...
Stabilizing liquid crystal droplets with hydrogel films and its application in monitoring adenosine triphosphate
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Liquid crystal droplets have shown unique response performance due to their exclusive optical properties and dispersion. However, the stability of LC droplets during storage and application needs...
Ferrocenyl-Containing Oligosiloxanes and Polysiloxanes: Synthesis, Properties, and Application
31/08/2022 -
Abstract This review addresses the systematization and analysis of methods for the synthesis of ferrocenyl-containing oligo- and (co)polysiloxanes and the potential application...
Highly porous double network hydrogel having fast responding time and high mechanical strength via emulsion template polymerization
26/08/2022 -
In this work, flexible epoxy?dispersed liquid crystal membranes with intrinsic thermal conductivity and high tensile strength as well as elongation at break were successfully prepared, mainly due to...
Chiral photonic materials self-assembled by cellulose nanocrystals
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Cellulose nanocrystals are natural nanomaterials with a high aspect ratio, high specific area, excellent stability, and favorable optical performances. Cellulose nanocrystals can form cholesteric...
Modularizable Liquid?Crystal?Based Open Surfaces Enable Programmable Chemical Transport and Feeding using Liquid Droplets
17/04/2022 -
A liquid crystal (LC)?infused porous surface is created as an open surface platform for droplet reactors, where the LC phase transition triggers the chemical reaction by releasing reactants from the...
Research Progress of Photo-/Electro-Driven Thermochromic Smart Windows
08/12/2021 -
Thermochromic smart windows can automatically control solar radiation according to the ambient temperature. Compared with photochromic and electrochromic smart windows, they have a stronger...
Conjugated Polymer Films Having a Uniaxial Molecular Orientation and Network Structure Prepared by Electrochemical Polymerization in Liquid Crystals
23/07/2021 -
A new method for fabricating conjugated polymer films was developed using electrochemical polymerization in liquid crystals and magnetic orientation. A uniaxial main chain orientation and a...
A New Approach to Micromachining: High-Precision and Innovative Additive Manufacturing Solutions Based on Photopolymerization Technology
01/07/2020 -
The following article introduces technologies that build three dimensional (3D) objects by adding layer-upon-layer of material, also called additive manufacturing technologies. Furthermore, most...
