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Materials
Effects of Solvents on the Material Properties of Screen?Printed Electrodes and a Polydimethylsiloxane Dielectric for Dielectric Elastomer Transducers
17/04/2024 -
The article highlights the importance of selecting suitable solvents for electrode manufacturing of dielectric elastomer transducers. Different solvents not only interact differently with the...
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...
Room Temperature Polariton Condensation from Whispering Gallery Modes in CsPbBr3 Microplatelets
17/04/2024 -
Room temperature (RT) polariton condensate holds exceptional promise for revolutionizing various fields of science and technology, encompassing optoelectronics devices to quantum information...
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...
Robust Chemiresistive Behavior in Conductive Polymer/MOF Composites
17/04/2024 -
Metal?organic frameworks (MOFs) are promising materials for gas sensing but are often limited to single?use detection. We demonstrate a hybridization strategy synergistically deploying conductive...
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...
Ultra?uniform Plating of Lithium on 10?nm?scale Ordered Carbon Grids for Long Lifespan Lithium Metal Batteries
17/04/2024 -
Tailorable lithium (Li) nucleation and uniform early?stage plating is essential for long lifespan Li metal batteries. Among factors influencing the early plating of Li anode, the substrate is...
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...
Boosting External Quantum Efficiency of Blue Perovskite QLEDs Exceeding 23% by Trifluoroacetate Passivation and Mixed Hole Transportation Design
17/04/2024 -
Perovskite quantum dot?based light?emitting diodes (QLEDs) have been considered a promising display technology due to their wide color gamut for authentic color expression. Currently, the external...
Seeding Atomic Silver into Internal Lattice Sites of Transition Metal Oxide for Advanced Electrocatalysis
17/04/2024 -
Transition metal oxides (TMOs) are widely studied for loading of various catalysts due to their low cost and high structure flexibility. However, the prevailing close?packed nature of most TMOs...
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...
Aerosol?Synthesized Surfactant?Free Single?Walled Carbon Nanotube?Based NO2 Sensors: Unprecedentedly High Sensitivity and Fast Recovery
16/04/2024 -
NO2 chemical sensors using aerosol?synthesized single?walled carbon nanotubes demonstrate unprecedently high sensitivity, ultrafast response/recovery, and low limit of detection. This is owing to the...
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...
Mechanical Control of Quantum Transport in Graphene
16/04/2024 -
This article reports measurements of quantum transport in strained graphene transistors which agree quantitatively with models based on mechanically?induced gauge potentials. Mechanically generated...
Orally Ingested Self?Powered Stimulators for Targeted Gut–Brain Axis Electrostimulation to Treat Obesity and Metabolic Disorders
16/04/2024 -
After oral administration in mice, the piezoelectric BTO@Cap particles target and bind to the capsaicin?sensitive mucosal nerve endings on the gastric surface. In response to gastric movement, these...
Lignin Derived Ultra?Thin All?Solid Polymer Electrolytes with Three dimensional Single?ion Nanofiber Ionic Bridge Framework for High Performance Lithium Batteries
16/04/2024 -
Solid?state lithium batteries are promising candidates for the next generation high security and high performance batteries. Here, the lignin derived ultra?thin all?solid composite polymer...
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...
Rapid Selenoprotein Activation by Selenium Nanoparticles to Suppresses Osteoclastogenesis and Pathological Bone Loss
15/04/2024 -
Osteoclast hyperactivation stands as a significant pathological factor contributing to the emergence of bone disorders driven by heightened oxidative stress levels. The modulation of the redox...
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...
Eliminating the Burn?in Loss of Efficiency in Organic Solar Cells by Applying Dimer Acceptors as Supramolecular Stabilizers
15/04/2024 -
A reliable dimer supramolecular stabilizer strategy is developed to eliminate the burn?in loss of organic solar cells (OSCs). More mechanism studies reveal that the restricted molecular diffusion,...
