A wearable self-charging power system integrating micro-supercapacitors and triboelectric nanogenerators with MXene-coated fabric as conductive layer
December 2025
Self-charging power systems are required for wearable electronic devices to provide energy supply. However, low charging efficiency, complex preparation process and poor wearability limit its application....
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...
Dual built-in electric field engineering in heterostructure nickel-cobalt bimetallic composites for boosted electromagnetic energy dissipation
December 2025
Built-in electric fields (BIEF), engineered via space charge manipulation, represent an effective strategy for enhance electromagnetic loss. However, single BIEF fail to reconcile the impedance matching...
Harvesting Energy from Friction: The Revolutionary Decade of Triboelectric Nanogenerators
Available online 25 November 2025
Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) have rapidly developed into a transformative energy harvesting technology, enabling self-powered, sustainable electronic systems. This review offers the first comprehensive,...
Nitrogen-Triggered Plasmonic Bifunctionality in Ruthenium/Titanium Oxynitride Schottky Catalyst for Energized Hydrazine-Seawater Hydrogen Production
Available online 21 November 2025
Plasmon-coupled hydrazine-seawater electrolysis emerges as an advanced hydrogen generation approach characterized by enhanced product efficiency and renewable utilization. Though the integration of...
Zinc-Compound Iodine Battery Chemistry with Dual Functional Oxalate-Based Electrolyte
Available online 21 November 2025
Aqueous Iodine-based batteries represent great promising for safe and low-cost energy storage system. However, traditional zinc metal iodine batteries suffer from self-discharge (polyiodide shuttle...
Networked γ′ in Additively Manufactured Cobalt-Based Superalloy through Dislocation Cell-templated Precipitation
Available online 15 November 2025
The cobalt-based γ′-strengthened superalloy shows great promise across various sectors, including power generation and aerospace. Laser Powder Bed Fusion (LPBF) technology is well-suited to meet the...
Advances in Nano-phases Reinforced Titanium Matrix Composites: Interfacial Engineering and Configuration Strategy
Available online 7 November 2025
Advances in aerospace technology have fueled a substantial demand for titanium matrix composites (TMCs), as promising candidates for structural load-bearing components. Traditional TMCs, however, encounter...
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...
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...
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...
Second-phase composite engineering endows Gd3TaO7-based ceramic with broadband infrared radiation
October 2025
High-temperature infrared (IR) radiation materials with broadband high emissivity, low thermal conductivity, and high fracture toughness are urgently needed for radiative heat management. Here, we report...
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...
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...
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...
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...
In-situ alloying interface inducing Zn(002) texture towards stable high-utilization zinc anodes
October 2025
Aqueous zinc ion batteries (AZIBs) have emerged as a promising energy storage technology due to their high safety and low cost. However, the practical application of AZIBs is severely hindered by unstable...
Interfacial electric field effects enhance the kinetics and stability of magnesium metal anodes for rechargeable magnesium batteries
October 2025
Rechargeable magnesium batteries (RMBs) are considered promising candidates for next–generation energy storage systems due to their high theoretical capacity. However, the non–uniform deposition/stripping...
Interfacial engineering of CeO2/Bi19Br3S27heterojunction for efficient photoreduction of CO2 to CO with nearly 100% selectivity
Available online 30 October 2025
Artificial photosynthesis, harnessing solar energy to convert CO2 into hydrocarbons, holds great promise as a solution to climate change and energy scarcity. However, highly efficient CO2reduction reactions...
Single bond regulated 1O2 and ‧O2− selective generation of heptazine-based conjugated polymers for high-selectivity photocatalysis
August 2025
In conjugated polymers (CPs) photocatalytic system, the generation of reactive oxygen species (ROS) is regulated by cross-scale factors involving active site, excitonic behavior, and O2 activation process...
Integrating luminescence with triboelectricity: Meticulously designed hybrid nanogenerator for multipurpose applications
August 2025
A seamless combination of mechanical energy-harvesting triboelectric nanogenerators with other technologies is the key to widening their applicability. Combining luminescent and triboelectric materials...
Enhancing dipole polarization loss in conjugated metal-organic frameworks via coordination symmetry breaking under electromagnetic field
August 2025
Modulating the dipole polarization loss in the single-atom region and establishing its direct relationship with the electromagnetic wave absorption (EWA) performance remain an unmet challenge. Here,...
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...
Rare earth-rich sublayer tuned Pd-skin for methanol and CO tolerance oxygen reduction and hydrogen oxidation reaction
August 2025
Storing hydrogen in green methanol is a well-known and cost-effective way for long-term energy storage. However, using green methanol in fuel cell technologies requires electrocatalysts with superior...
Tailored fluoroborate-based electrolyte with fast interphase formation kinetics toward stable Ah-level zinc batteries
August 2025
Solid electrolyte interphase (SEI) plays a critical role in stabilizing zinc batteries, yet insufficient attention has been given to its in-situ growth kinetics and the post-stripping morphology of...