Materials
Materials
Light‐Activated Transient Unilateral Adhesive Recombinant Collagen‐Based Hydrogel for Reversible Fibrosis Induction and Full‐Cycle Management of Pancreatic Fistula
11/07/2025 -
A light‐activated, injectable recombinant collagen‐based hydrogel plug with targeted drug delivery is developed for full‐cycle management of pancreatic fistula. Featuring enzyme resistance,...
Highly Responsive Self‐Healing and Degradable Piezoelectric Soft Machines
14/07/2025 -
Here, a self‐healing and stretchable material is used to develop a damage resistant energy harvester capable of powering electric bulbs, and a sensing system to intelligently classify biomechanical...
Tri‐System Interlocking Top‐Encased Structures Enabled Highly Stable Tin‐Lead Perovskite Photodetection Arrays
11/07/2025 -
A unique tri‐system interlocking top‐encased structure is formed for tin‐lead perovskites by the introduction of novel CGA additive. The fabricated tin‐lead perovskite NIR photodetector shows...
Turning Waste into Treasure: Pretreatment Strategy for Promoting Secondary Grain Growth by Reusing Excess Lead Iodide in Perovskite Solar Cells
11/07/2025 -
The pretreatment strategy of spin‐coated quantum dots during the perovskite annealing process can use PbI2 as a raw material to promote the secondary growth of perovskite. Compared with the...
Nanoarchitectonics of Metal–Organic Framework and Nanocellulose Composites for Multifunctional Environmental Remediation
11/07/2025 -
Nanoscale metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) and nanocellulose composites have significant potential for the multi‐functional remediation of the environment. This review focused on the synthesis...
Friction Behavior and Microscopic Mechanism of Hydrogels in an Open‐Air Environment (Adv. Mater. 27/2025)
10/07/2025 -
Friction Behavior of HydrogelsIn article number 2417177, Kai Zhang, Jiuling Wang, and co‐workers reveal that water evaporation from hydrogel surfaces in open‐air conditions reduces the...
A Sprayable Hydrogel Based on Biomimetic Polypeptide‐Modified Lipid Nanoparticles for Treating Non‐Compressible Hemorrhaging (Adv. Mater. 27/2025)
10/07/2025 -
Sprayable HydrogelThis study designs a sprayable hydrogel based on polypeptide‐modified lipid nanoparticles (PLNs) to treat non‐compressible hemorrhage. Functionalized with GFOGER and GGQQLK...
A Novel Peptide Derived from Casein Hydrolysates as a Growth Factor for Lactobacillus delbrueckii subsp. bulgaricus sp1.1
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Milk proteins are traditionally recognized as nitrogen sources that support lactic acid bacteria (LAB) proliferation. Notably, oligopeptides may serve as the primary nitrogen source, and have the...
Engineered Coenzyme A Biosynthesis and Butyrate Transporter Drives High‐Efficient Butyrate Synthesis in Escherichia coli
10/07/2025 -
ABSTRACTButyric acid is a four‐carbon fatty acid with a range of applications in chemical, food and pharmaceutical industries. In this study, a heterologous butyrate biosynthetic pathway was...
Cellular Automata Coupled with Two‐Phase Lattice Boltzmann Model for Modeling of Kinetics of Formation and Structure of Silica‐Based Sol–Gel Materials
08/07/2025 -
The numerical model, which is a combination of the model based on cellular automata, and specifically the diffusion/reaction limited aggregation with the two‐phase lattice Boltzmann method,...
Direct Laser Writing of Polymer Nanocomposites for Tunable Structural Color
09/07/2025 -
Herein, direct laser writing is used to polymerize self‐assembled nanocomposite materials. Using fabrication parameters, the interparticle spacing is finely tuned beyond the thermodynamically...
Nanoporous Hydrogels with Tunable Pore Size for Efficient Hydrovoltaic Electricity Generation
09/07/2025 -
Nanoporous hydrogels with tunable pore sizes ranging from 78 to 161 nm are developed using a hydrogen‐bonding crosslinking strategy. The structural integrity of the hydrogel nanochannels under...
Gel‐Gel Interface Engineering for the Synthesis of Anisotropic Hydrogels with Designable Polymer Orientations
09/07/2025 -
This study reports that when a gel‐gel interface is intentionally introduced into a hydrogel via two‐step polymerization, the polymer networks near the interface spontaneously align perpendicular...
3D Printing–In Situ Curing of Soft Organogels Using Frontal Polymerizable Inks
07/07/2025 -
A frontal polymerization–3D printing–in situ‐curing strategy is developed to construct soft organogel materials with various architectures. The printed patterns are produced with high fidelity...
Towards Differentiation in Untethered Microactuators: A Soft Fabrication Strategy
07/07/2025 -
This article introduces a fabrication strategy for developing soft microactuators with orthogonally programmed shape, texture, and molecular anisotropy. Using microfluidics to generate liquid crystal...
Microwave-assisted synthesis of hyper-crosslinked polymer composite alginate hydrogel sorbent for dispersive solid-phase extraction of phthalate esters leached from PET and LDPE
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A hyper-crosslinked polymer composite alginate hydrogel was developed as a sorbent for dispersive solid-phase extraction of phthalate esters. The hyper-crosslinked polymer was synthesized via...
Galactose Oxidase and Horseradish Peroxidase Hybrid Nanoflowers for Biosynthesis of 1-Tetralone
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Organicâinorganic hybrid nanoflowers as novel enzyme immobilization scaffolds have garnered increasing attention due to their high specific surface area and facile preparation conditions....
Au Nanoparticles, Green Synthesized by Plants of Bignoniaceae Family: Antioxidant Powerhouses with DNA Damage Mitigation Activity
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The synthesis of nanoparticles using plant extracts has become a green approach for developing modern drugs. This study focuses on synthesizing gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) using methanolic leaf...
Ag Cluster‐Modified K0.5Na0.5NbO3 Piezocatalyst for Enhanced Electrochemical Dinitrogen Reduction Reaction
04/07/2025 -
Ag cluster‐modified K0.5Na0.5NbO3 acts as an efficient piezocatalyst for electrochemical N2 reduction, enhanced by built‐in electric fields under mechanical actuation. Comparative studies between...
Spatiotemporal Evolution in Hard Carbon Synthesis via Electrothermal Coupling Strategy for High‐Performance Sodium‐Ion Batteries
06/07/2025 -
Conventional hard carbon synthesis suffers from structural degradation like amorphous‐to‐graphitic transitions and pore collapse due to prolonged sintering, impairing sodium storage. Researchers...
Signal Transducer Nanoparticles Enable Siglec‐10/G Blockade Immunotherapy for Breast Cancer Treatment
06/07/2025 -
A novel antibody‐free approach to block the “don't eat me” CD24‐Siglec‐10/G signaling is achieved through using the CD24 signal transducer peptide‐anchored nanoparticles (STNPs). These...
