Understanding melt pool characteristics in laser powder bed fusion: An overview of single- and multi-track melt pools for process optimization
October 2023
Laser powder bed fusion (LPBF) has made significant progress in producing solid and porous metal parts with complex shapes and geometries. However, LPBF produced parts often have defects (e.g., porosity,...
Advancements in perovskites for solar cell commercialization: A review
April 2025
The efficiency of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has progressed rapidly, exceeding 26% for single-junction devices and surpassing 34% in perovskite-silicon tandem configurations, establishing PSCs as...
A comprehensive review on catalysts for seawater electrolysis
October 2024
Seawater electrolysis is a sustainable energy conversion technology that generates clean energy by splitting seawater into hydrogen and oxygen. However, the catalysts used in seawater electrolysis often...
Synthesis and modification strategies of g-C3N4 nanosheets for photocatalytic applications
February 2024
Graphitic carbon nitride nanosheets (CNNs) become the most promising member in the carbon nitride family benefitted from their two-dimensional structural features. Recently, great endeavors have been...
A review on additive/subtractive hybrid manufacturing of directed energy deposition (DED) process
October 2022
Additive manufacturing (AM) processes are reliable techniques to build highly complex metallic parts. Direct energy deposition (DED) is one of the most common technologies to 3D print metal alloys....
Machine learning-driven insights into the microstructure and properties of high-entropy alloys
October 2025
High entropy alloys (HEAs) have recently become a popular category of alloys, composed of five or more elements. These alloys are of particular interest in the field of materials due to their unique...
Machine learning application in thermal CO2 hydrogenation: Catalyst design, process optimization, and mechanism insights
December 2025
The growing demand for carbon neutrality has heightened the focus on CO2 hydrogenation as a viable strategy for transforming carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals and fuels. Advanced machine learning...
High-loading inducing Fe-dimer on carbon nitride promotes the generation of ·O2−
October 2025
The research on metal dimer clusters is of great importance, owing to the potential in modulating the adsorption behavior towards reaction intermediates. Here, we develop a loading heightening strategy...
Advancements in flexible Perovskite solar cells and their integration into self-powered wearable optoelectronic systems
August 2025
Driven by rapid advancements in smart wearable technologies and perovskite photovoltaics, flexible perovskite solar cells (FPSCs) have emerged as highly promising autonomous power sources, poised to...
Photo-assisted Li/Zn-air batteries and supercapacitors: material design, working mechanism and challenges
October 2025
In recent years, photo-powered energy storage devices have attracted considerable research attention due to their potential applications in smart electronics. In this review, we present a comprehensive...
Recent developments in synthesis, properties, and applications of 2D Janus MoSSe and MoSexS(1-x) alloys
August 2024
The Janus MoSSe and alloy MoSxSe(1-x), belonging to the family of two-dimensional (2D) transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs), have gained significant attention for their potential applications in...
Advances in powder nano-photocatalysts as pollutant removal and as emerging contaminants in water: Analysis of pros and cons on health and environment
December 2024
Photocatalysis is an advanced oxidation process where light exposure triggers a semiconducting nanomaterial (nano-photocatalyst) to generate electron-hole (e−/h+) pairs and free radicals. This phenomenon...
Single-atom catalysts supported on atomically thin materials for water splitting
October 2025
Single-atom catalysts (SACs) have demonstrated exceptional performance in electrocatalytic water splitting, owing to their maximized atomic utilization efficiency and superior reaction kinetics. The...
3D printing of flexible piezoelectric composite with integrated sensing and actuation applications
October 2024
3D printing of flexible piezoelectric composites (3D-FPCs) is increasingly attracting the attention due to its unique advantage for customized smart applications. However, current research mainly focuses...
High-entropy type Fe-Ni-P-O-C amorphous Nanospheres: Remarkable Fe-ion migration induced efficient surface reconstruction for oxygen evolution reaction
October 2025
Amorphous transition metal compounds (a-TMC) become one of the most promising pre-catalysts toward oxygen evolution reaction (OER) due to their high-entropy nature and flexible self-reconstruction to...
Accelerated sintering and microstructural regulation of tungsten powder compact by novel modulation of particle configuration
October 2025
Increasing the sintering rate of powder compact is a critical challenge of powder metallurgical materials, and adjusting component distribution in particles aggregate present significant effect on the...
Recent progress on high-precision construction of nanoarchitectured SERS substrates for ultrasensitive bio-medical sensors
August 2025
Surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) has evolved from a laboratory technique to a practical tool for ultra-sensitive detection, particularly in the biomedical field, where precise molecular identification...
Honeycomb-like single-atom catalysts with FeN3Cl sites for high-performance oxygen reduction
August 2025
The great interest of Fe-N/C based Zn-air batteries and fuel cells intrigues large numbers of studies on modulating the pore structure for fast mass transport and the electronic structure of atomic...
Machine learning assisted quality control in metal additive manufacturing: a review
December 2025
Additive manufacturing (AM) promotes the production of metallic parts with significant design flexibility, yet its use in critical applications is hindered by challenges in ensuring consistent quality...
Submonolayered Ru-modified Pd mesoporous nanosheets as multifunctional electrocatalyst for hydrogen evolution and alcohol oxidation reactions
October 2025
The structural modulation of metal-based heterostructure plays a vital role in achieving enhanced performances for highly efficient electrocatalysis. Here we design submonolayered Ru-modified Pd mesoporous...
Advances in electrocatalytic urea synthesis: From fundamentals to applications
December 2024
The electrocatalytic synthesis of urea (ESU) is a green and sustainable alternative to conventional production methods, and the related research is still in its infancy. Up to now, the field has been...
Additive manufacturing SiC-reinforced maraging steel: Parameter optimisation, microstructure and properties
January 2023
The unique deposition manner of additive manufacturing (AM) allows the near-net-shaping of components with multiple materials configurations and complex geometries, which sheds light on the process...
Phase selection-oriented mechanical properties tailoring for β-type TiNbZrTaSi alloy fabricated by laser powder bed fusion
July 2023
The morphology and distribution of silicides in α/α+β type titanium alloys impress on their properties. Nevertheless, the types of silicide precipitates and their formation mechanisms remain unclear...
Achieving ultra-high strength and ductility in Mg–9Al–1Zn–0.5Mn alloy via selective laser melting
April 2023
Fabrication of the Mg–9Al–1Zn–0.5Mn alloy with excellent mechanical performance using selective laser melting (SLM) technology is quite difficult owing to the poor weldability and low boiling point....
Ultrafast piezocatalytic organic pollutant degradation enabled by dynamic spin state regulation of cobalt in nano-ferroelectrics
August 2025
Ferroelectric materials are gaining increasing attention for the development of advanced catalytic technologies due to their field-responsive polarization states. However, achieving dynamic optimization...