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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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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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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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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Non-noble-metal electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction toward seawater splitting: A review
July 2023
The direct electrolytic splitting of abundant seawater instead of scarce freshwater is an ideal strategy for producing clean and renewable hydrogen (H2) fuels. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is...
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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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Carbon materials for metal-ion batteries
October 2023
•Carbon materials are indispensable for metal ions batteries.•Discuss the recent development trend of advanced carbon-based materials.•Address the impact of structural properties on energy storage....
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Study of ZnO nanoparticle-supported clay minerals for electrochemical sensors, photocatalysis, and antioxidant applications
Available online 9 August 2023
In view of the current study's demonstration of the synthesis of Clay-doped ZnO composites, we present a low-cost method for producing Clay-metal oxide (Clay/ZnO). Utilizing the solution combustion...
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Covalent organic frameworks: Design, synthesis, characterization, and applications
Available online 17 September 2023
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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Printable electrode materials for supercapacitors
January 2022
•Application of printing technology in supercapacitor.•This paper introduces three main printing technologies of inkjet printing, screen printing and 3D printing, including the principle of each printing...
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Micro/nanomotor: A promising drug delivery system for cancer therapy
April 2023
Micro/nanomotors (MNMs) are small-scale devices that can effectively convert various forms of energy into mechanical motion. Their controllable motility and good permeability have attracted the interest...
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Transient self-assembly driven by chemical fuels
Available online 15 August 2023
Self-assembly has been extensively studied in chemistry, physics, biology, and materials engineering and has become an important “bottom-up” approach in creating intriguing structures for different...
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An overview of metal hydroxyfluoride–A novel semiconductor material
Available online 28 July 2023
Semiconductors have been widely used in many high-tech fields such as photo- and electro-catalysis, ion batteries, and solar cells. In addition to the earliest discovered elemental and compound semiconductors,...
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Advancements in materials for hydrogen production: A review of cutting-edge technologies
Available online 20 October 2023
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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Artificial light-harvesting systems and their applications in photocatalysis and cell labeling
October 2022
•The artificial light-harvesting systems based on non-covalent interactions are discussed.•The artificial light-harvesting systems with two-step sequential energy transfer are discussed.•The applications...
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Recent advances in autonomous synthesis of materials
April 2022
The synthesis of materials has been an important task throughout human history, and the ability to perform successful and efficient syntheses has been a factor in industrial revolutions and societal...
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Progress and perspectives on two-dimensional silicon anodes for lithium-ion batteries
January 2023
Silicon (Si) anodes with extremely high theoretical capacities are considered indispensable for next-generation high-energy lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). However, several intractable problems, including...
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Electromagnetic wave manipulation based on few-layer metasurfaces and polyatomic metasurfaces
January 2022
Metasurfaces, whose electromagnetic (EM) responses can be artificially designed, are two-dimensional arrays composed of subwavelength nanostructures. Accompanied by various fascinating developments...
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Atomic-scale characterization of two-dimensional magnets and their heterostructures
October 2023
The realization of long-range magnetic ordering in two-dimensional (2D) van der Waals systems significantly expands the scope of the 2D family as well as their possible spin-related phenomena and device...
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Intrinsic valley polarization and anomalous valley hall effect in single-layer 2H-FeCl2
January 2022
Valley, as a new degree of freedom for electrons, has drawn considerable attention due to its significant potential for encoding and storing information. Lifting the energy degeneracy to achieve valley...
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Phthalocyanine-supported single-atom catalysts as a promising bifunctional electrocatalyst for ORR/OER: A computational study
July 2022
•A new class of TM-Pc-based electrocatalysts was proposed.•These TM-Pc materials exhibit high stability and excellent properties.•Ir-Pc performs as an efficient ORR/OER bifunctional catalyst.•The high...
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Multiscale assembly of polyoxometalates: From clusters to materials
January 2023
Polyoxometalates (POMs) have drawn broad and intense interest due to their unique structure-dependent properties. The assembly of POM molecules into nanoarchitectures and superstructures can bridge...
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Theoretical studies of two-dimensional structure design and topological electronic properties of organic Dirac materials
Available online 19 July 2023
Owing to the significant development in graphene, an increasing number of studies have been conducted to identify novel two-dimensional (2D) organic materials with Dirac cones and topological properties....
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Bimetallic synergistic Pd-Pt icosahedra as highly active peroxidase-like mimics for colorimetric analysis
October 2023
Thanks to the synergistic effect, the bimetallic catalysts show better catalytic activity than the single metal catalysts and become a focus of research in heterogeneous catalysis. In this study, we...
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Large-scale preparation of black phosphorus by molten salt method for energy storage
January 2022
•Black phosphorus is prepared at large scale by reducing PCl5 with metallic Al in melt AlCl3 at 270 °C.•Through gradient centrifugation, gram-scale black phophorus quantum dots can be obtained.•The...
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