Swollen hydrogel nanotechnology: Advanced applications of the rudimentary swelling properties of hydrogels
October 2024
Hydrogels, which are three-dimensional networks of crosslinked hydrophilic polymers, have become crucial for various advanced applications owing to their exceptional water absorption and swelling properties....
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Structures, properties, and applications of zwitterionic polymers
October 2022
Zwitterionic polymers have attracted research attention in recent years owing to their unique molecular structures. In the same repeat unit, positive and negative charges are simultaneously located...
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Covalent organic frameworks: Design, synthesis, characterization, and applications
January 2024
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as an interesting class of crystalline porous materials with desirable properties (such as highly ordered porosity, structural versatility, high chemical...
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Advances in lithium-ion battery recycling: Strategies, pathways, and technologies
January 2025
•Typical battery recycling processes are summarized, including pretreatment, pyrometallurgy, and hydrometallurgy.•The characteristics of the various parallel processes are meticulously analyzed.•Innovative...
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Two-dimensional Dirac materials: Tight-binding lattice models and material candidates
January 2023
The discovery of graphene has led to the devotion of intensive efforts, theoretical and experimental, to produce two-dimensional (2D) materials that can be used for developing functional materials and...
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Recent progress of electromagnetic wave absorbers: A systematic review and bibliometric approach
July 2023
The electromagnetic wave absorption capabilities of an absorber depend on its dielectric and magnetic components, which determine its interfacial polarization, conductivity loss, magnetic loss, and...
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Phase engineering of H/T-Nb2O5 homojunction for enhanced lithium-ion storage
January 2025
•The H/T-Nb2O5 homojunction has been constructed via crystallographic engineering.•The charge redistribution at the hetero-phase interface induces built-in electric field, facilitating electron transfer.•The...
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Au–Ag bimetallic nanoparticles: Synthesis, structure, and application in sensing
Available online 16 March 2025
Biosensors are crucial for detecting various analytes relevant to bioanalytical applications. To enhance the specificity and sensitivity of biosensors, bimetallic nanoparticles (BNPs) have been utilized,...
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Advancements in materials for hydrogen production: A review of cutting-edge technologies
January 2024
Hydrogen, a clean and versatile energy carrier, has gained significant attention as a potential solution for addressing the challenges of climate change and energy sustainability. Efficient hydrogen...
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Liquid embolic agents for interventional embolization
January 2022
•Established and emerging liquid embolic agents were summarized in this review.•The embolization mechanism and usage of liquid embolic agents were discussed.•Prospective and rational design guidelines...
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Rapid Joule-heating synthesis of metal/carbon-based electrocatalysts for efficient carbon dioxide reduction
January 2025
Carbon-loaded metal nanoparticles (NPs) are widely employed as functional materials for electrocatalysis. In this study, a rapid thermal shock method was developed to load various metal nanoparticles...
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A flexible self-powered humidity sensor with graphdiyne oxide
April 2025
Humidity sensors are widely used in various fields of research. However, continuous power supplementation remains a significant challenge for further development. Harvesting energy directly from the...
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MXene-derived TiO2 nanosheets/rGO heterostructures for superior sodium-ion storage
January 2025
Transition metal oxides hold promise as electrode materials for energy-storage devices such as batteries and supercapacitors. However, achieving ideal electrode materials with high capacity, long-term...
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Selective growth of graphdiyne-based vanadium–iridium oxide interfaces for efficient alkaline oxygen evolution reaction
April 2025
Electrocatalytic water splitting is a green and sustainable solution for hydrogen production, but its overall performance is still limited by the sluggish and inefficient oxygen evolution reaction (OER)....
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Self-supported cuprous oxide/graphdiyne nanosheets array for efficient ammonia synthesis
April 2025
Electrocatalytic reduction of nitrates plays a crucial role in ammonia (NH3) production. In this study, a novel cuprous oxide/graphdiyne (Cu2O/GDY) electrocatalyst was synthesized by growing Cu2O/GDY...
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Graphdiyne-supported nickel nanoparticles for enhanced electrocatalytic water oxidation performance
April 2025
•A facile one-step synthesis method enables in-situ loading of Ni NPs onto GDY.•The SMSI effect of Ni NPs/GDY can modulate the electronic structure of the catalyst.•Ni NPs/GDY shows low overpotential...
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Synthesis of copper-containing metal–polymer nanocomposites and their use as a humidity sensor
April 2025
Recently, the synthesis of new gas-sensitive materials for use in resistive humidity sensors has attracted considerable interest. In the study, copper-containing metal–polymer nanocomposites were obtained...
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Introducing Ce ions and oxygen vacancies into VO2 nanostructures with high specific surface area for efficient aqueous Zn-ion storage
January 2025
Positive electrodes play a decisive role in exploring the Zn2+ storage mechanism and improving the electrochemical performance of aqueous Zn-ion batteries (AZIBs). Feasible design and preparation of...
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Mechanism of interaction between TTR tetramer and Aβ42 oligomers: Dependence on the Aβ42 oligomeric size and morphology
April 2025
β-amyloid (Aβ) deposits are the leading cause of Alzheimer's disease. Many studies have confirmed that transthyretin (TTR) inhibits the cytotoxicity of Aβ oligomers (AβOs) with various species (oligomers...
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Fullerene nanosheets for surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy
January 2025
Most surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) substrates are based on noble metals or transition metal semiconductors. Developing nonmetallic SERS substrates is of great significance for expanding the...
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One-step solvothermal preparation of Fe-doped Ni0.85Se/NF: An efficient catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
January 2025
•The Fe-doped Ni0.85Se/NF nanoparticles are designed and successfully synthesized via a facile hydrothermal method.•The Fe-Ni0.85Se/NF nanoparticles show much lower overpotential of 276 mV at 100 mA...
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Correlations between synthetic conditions and catalytic activity of LaMO3 perovskite-like oxide materials (M: Fe, Co, Ni): The key role of glycine
April 2025
Herein N2O decomposition over LaMO3 (M: Fe, Co, Ni) mixed oxides with perovskite structures has been optimized. The influence of the organic additive and the additive to (La3+ + Co2+) molar ratio on...
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Oxygen doping induced intramolecular electron acceptor system in red g-C3N4 nanosheets with remarkably enhanced photocatalytic performance
April 2025
The enhancement of the photocatalytic activity of graphitic carbon nitride (g-C3N4) depends on the rational design of its visible-light harvesting and charge separation/migration properties. Herein,...
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Epitaxial growth of Pd clusters on N-doped Ag nanowires for oxygen reduction reaction
January 2025
Efficient and stable Pt-free electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are indispensable for future fuel cells. Herein, we describe a heterostructure of Pd nanocrystals (PdNCs) on N-doped...
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Shape transformation of gold nanoparticles in aqueous CTAB/CTAC solution to generate high-index facets for electrocatalysis and SERS activity
April 2023
Gold nanoparticles (Au NPs) have demonstrated great potential in chemical and biological sensing, catalysis, biomedicine, X-ray computed tomography, and other applications, owing to their unique properties....
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