Advanced materials
Advanced materials
Engineering Quantum Light Sources with Flat Optics
17/04/2024 -
This review explores latest development of leveraging flat?optics to generate ultra?compact quantum light sources with improved efficiency and added functionalities. It highlights photon?pair sources...
Scalable Fabrication of Ionic?Conductive Covalent Organic Framework Fibers for Capturing of Sustainable Osmotic Energy
17/04/2024 -
High?performance covalent organic framework (COF) fibers are demanded for an efficient capturing of blue osmotic power because of their excellent durability, simple integration, and large...
Hierarchically Ordered Pore Engineering of Metal?Organic Framework?based Materials for Electrocatalysis
17/04/2024 -
Ordered pore engineering that embeds uniform pores with periodic alignment in electrocatalysts opens up a new avenue for achieving further performance promotion. Hierarchically ordered porous...
Self?Assembly for Creating Vertically?Aligned Graphene Micro Helices with Monolayer Graphene as Chiral Metamaterials
17/04/2024 -
Graphene's emergence enables creating chiral metamaterials in helical shapes for terahertz applications, overcoming material limitations. However, practical implementation remains theoretical due to...
Handedness?Inverted and Stimuli?Responsive Circularly Polarized Luminescent Nano/Micro?Materials through Pathway?Dependent Chiral Supramolecular Polymorphism
16/04/2024 -
The precise manipulation of supramolecular polymorphs has been widely applied to control the morphologies and functions of self?assemblies, but is rarely utilized for the fabrication of circularly...
Stretchable Electrodes with Interfacial Percolation Network
16/04/2024 -
An interfacial percolation network is proposed for fabricating conductive and stretchable electrodes. The 2D surface and 3D bulk conducting channels are electrically connected by a protruding AgNWs...
Crystal?Phase?Engineered High?Entropy Alloy Aerogels for Enhanced Ethylamine Electrosynthesis from Acetonitrile
16/04/2024 -
Crystal?phase engineering that promoting the rearrangement of active atoms to form new structural frameworks has achieved excellent result in the field of electrocatalysis and optimized the...
Vacuum Thermoforming of Optically Switchable Liquid Crystalline Elastomer Spherical Actuators
16/04/2024 -
Liquid crystal elastomer (LCE) actuators are generally limited in shape, size, and quantity by the need for aligning via stretching and fixing via photopolymerizing. We present a thermoplastic LCE...
Particle?based Photoelectrodes for PEC Water Splitting: Concepts and Perspectives
15/04/2024 -
This comprehensive review delves into the intricacies of the photoelectrochemical (PEC) water splitting process, specifically focusing on the design, fabrication, and optimization of particle?based...
Efficient production of l?glutathione by whole?cell catalysis with ATP regeneration from adenosine
17/04/2024 -
l?glutathione (GSH) is an important tripeptide compound with extensive applications in medicine, food additives, and cosmetics industries. In this work, an innovative whole?cell catalytic strategy...
Strategies to improve CHO cell culture performance: Targeted deletion of amino acid catabolism and apoptosis genes paired with growth inhibitor supplementation
17/04/2024 -
Chinese hamster ovary (CHO) cells are the predominant host of choice for recombinant monoclonal antibody (mAb) expression. Recent advancements in gene editing technology have enabled engineering new...
A System for the Combined Carbon Capture and Utilization to Produce Renewable Methanol from Biogas
16/04/2024 -
A flexible reactor that operates both the CO2 conversion to methanol and the CO2 separation is conceptualized. The flexible process shows high economic potential to advance the penetration of...
Bimodal Glycosyl Donors as an Emerging Approach Towards a General Glycosylation Strategy
17/04/2024 -
The stereoselective construction of the anomeric bond has constituted one of the greatest challenges in modern organic chemistry. In recent years, examples of “bimodal” glycosyl donors have...
New Pyridine Dicarbene Ligands with Ring Expanded NHCs and their Nickel and Chromium Complexes
15/04/2024 -
The pincer complexes [NiIIBr(CNC)]Br (4), [CrIIIBr3(CNC)] (5a) and [CrIIIBr2.3Cl0.7(CNC)] (5b), where CNC = 3,3'?(pyridine?2,6?diyl)bis(1?mesityl?3,4,5,6?tetrahydropyrimidin?2?ylidene), were obtained...
Uranium Oxide Hydrate Frameworks with Dy(III) or Lu(III) Ions: Insights into the Framework Structures with Lanthanide Ions
17/04/2024 -
Two uranium oxide hydrate frameworks (UOHFs) with either Dy3+ or Lu3+ ions, Dy1.36(H2O)6[(UO2)10UO13(OH)4] (UOHF?Dy) or Lu2(H2O)8[(UO2)10UO14(OH)3] (UOHF?Lu), were synthesized hydrothermally and...
Nucleophilic Selenocyclization Reaction of Benzodiynes Promoted by Sodium Selenide: Synthesis of Isoselenochromenes
17/04/2024 -
This study presents a synthesis method for isoselenochromenes through nucleophilic selenocyclization of benzodiynes with sodium selenide. The isoselenochromenes were easily transformed into three new...
Metal?Organic Frameworks?Derived Nanocarbon Materials and Nanometal Oxides for Photocatalytic Applications
17/04/2024 -
This review categorizes MOFs?derived nanomaterials, including nanocarbons and nanometal oxides. Subsequently, the recent research progress on MOFs?derived nanomaterials in photocatalytic water...
Square?planar Tetranuclear Cluster?based Alkaline Earth Metal?organic Frameworks with Enhanced Proton Conductivity
17/04/2024 -
Alkaline earth (AE) metal complexes have garnered significant interest in various functional fields due to their nontoxicity, low density, and low cost. However, there is a lack of systematic...
Resource recovery from soiled sanitary napkin waste—a state-of-the-art review
17/04/2024 -
With ever-improving social and medical awareness about menstrual hygiene in India, the demand for sanitary napkins has increased significantly. The utilization of high-quality and...
Core to concept: synthesis, structure, and reactivity of nanoscale zero-valent iron (NZVI) for wastewater remediation
17/04/2024 -
Numerous technological advancements have been developed to tackle the issue of wastewater remediation effectively. However, the practical application of these technologies on a large scale has...
Life cycle exposure to titanium dioxide nanoparticles (TiO2-NPs) induces filial toxicity and population decline in the nematode Caenorhabditis elegans
18/04/2024 -
Titanium dioxide nanoparticle (TiO2-NP) exposure has raised significant concern due to their potential toxicity and adverse ecological impacts. Despite their ubiquitous presence in various...
