Synthesis, properties, and applications of graphene oxide/reduced graphene oxide and their nanocomposites
March 2019
Thanks to their remarkable mechanical, electrical, thermal, and barrier properties, graphene-based nanocomposites have been a hot area of research in the past decade. Because of their simple top-down...
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The role of graphene in rechargeable lithium batteries: Synthesis, functionalisation, and perspectives
Available online 26 August 2022
In recent years, the demand for high-performance rechargeable lithium batteries has increased significantly, and many efforts have been made to boost the use of advanced electrode materials. Since graphene...
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Some basic aspects of polymer nanocomposites: A critical review
March 2019
Polymer nanocomposites have been investigated for about three decades. To get deep insights into the modifying effects of various nanofillers on mechanical and physical properties of polymer nanocomposites,...
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Recent advances in electrocatalysts for seawater splitting
March 2023
Water splitting is an effective strategy to produce renewable and sustainable hydrogen energy. Especially, seawater splitting, avoiding use of the limited freshwater resource, is more intriguing. Nowadays,...
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Development of solid-state electrolytes for sodium-ion battery–A short review
June 2019
All-solid-state sodium-ion battery is regarded as the next generation battery to replace the current commercial lithium-ion battery, with the advantages of abundant sodium resources, low price and high-level...
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Addressing cation mixing in layered structured cathodes for lithium-ion batteries: A critical review
December 2023
High-performance lithium-ion batteries (LIB) are important in powering emerging technologies. Cathodes are regarded as the bottleneck of increasing battery energy density, among which layered oxides...
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Recent advances in graphene and other 2D materials
March 2022
The isolation of the first two-dimensional material, graphene – a monolayer of carbon atoms arranged in a hexagonal lattice - opened new exciting opportunities in the field of condensed matter physics...
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Additive manufacturing of Ni-based superalloys: Residual stress, mechanisms of crack formation and strategies for crack inhibition
March 2023
The additive manufacturing (AM) of Ni-based superalloys has attracted extensive interest from both academia and industry due to its unique capabilities to fabricate complex and high-performance components...
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Electronic properties of 2D materials and their junctions
February 2024
With an extensive range of distinctive features at nano meter-scale thicknesses, two-dimensional (2D) materials drawn the attention of the scientific community. Despite tremendous advancements in exploratory...
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Recent advances in hard carbon anodes with high initial Coulombic efficiency for sodium-ion batteries
June 2023
Initial Coulombic efficiency (ICE) has been widely adopted in battery research as a quantifiable indicator for the lifespan, energy density and rate performance of batteries. Hard carbon materials have...
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SnO2 nanostructured materials used as gas sensors for the detection of hazardous and flammable gases: A review
December 2022
SnO2 has been extensively used in the detection of various gases. As a gas sensing material, SnO2 has excellent physical-chemical properties, high reliability, and short adsorption-desorption time....
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Quantitative kinetic analysis on oxygen reduction reaction: A perspective
September 2021
Oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) constitutes the core process of many energy storage and conversion devices including metal–air batteries and fuel cells. However, the kinetics of ORR is very sluggish...
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Recent progress in flexible capacitive sensors: Structures and properties
September 2023
The future intelligent era that will be brought about by 5G technology can be well predicted. For example, the connection between humans and smart wearable devices will become increasingly more intimate....
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Gas sensors based on TiO2 nanostructured materials for the detection of hazardous gases: A review
December 2021
Hazardous gases have been strongly associated with being a detriment to human life within the environment. The development of a reliable gas sensor with high response and selectivity is of great significance...
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Advanced strategies for marine antifouling based on nanomaterial-enhanced functional PDMS coatings
Available online 10 January 2024
Marine biofouling seriously affects human marine exploitation and transportation activities, to which marine antifouling (AF) coatings are considered to be the most cost-effective solution. Since the...
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Advancing the pressure sensing performance of conductive CNT/PDMS composite film by constructing a hierarchical-structured surface
December 2023
Flexible pressure sensors have attracted wide attention due to their applications to electronic skin, health monitoring, and human-machine interaction. However, the tradeoff between their high sensitivity...
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Nanomaterial-assisted wearable glucose biosensors for noninvasive real-time monitoring: Pioneering point-of-care and beyond
Available online 15 December 2023
This review explores glucose monitoring and management strategies, emphasizing the need for reliable and user-friendly wearable sensors that are the next generation of sensors for continuous glucose...
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Band structure engineering in metal halide perovskite nanostructures for optoelectronic applications
December 2019
Metal halide perovskite nanostructures have emerged as low-dimensional semiconductors of great significance in many fields such as photovoltaics, photonics, and optoelectronics. Extensive efforts on...
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An overview of recent progress in the development of flexible electrochromic devices
December 2023
Electrochromic materials are capable of reversibly switching their colors or optical properties through redox reactions under applied voltages, which have shown great potential applications including...
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Emerging rechargeable aqueous aluminum ion battery: Status, challenges, and outlooks
September 2020
Aluminum ion battery (AIB) technology is an exciting alternative for post-lithium energy storage. AIBs based on ionic liquids have enabled advances in both cathode material development and fundamental...
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Lignin-based materials for electrochemical energy storage devices
June 2023
Lignin is the most abundant aromatic polymer in nature, which is rich in a large number of benzene ring structures and active functional groups. The molecular structure of lignin has unique designability...
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Progress in doping and crystal deformation for polyanions cathode based lithium-ion batteries
Available online 12 February 2024
Polyanion-based materials are considered one of the most attractive and promising cathode materials for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) due to their good stability, safety, cost-effectiveness, suitable...
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Wearable and stretchable conductive polymer composites for strain sensors: How to design a superior one?
December 2023
Wearable and stretchable strain sensors have potential values in the fields of human motion and health monitoring, flexible electronics, and soft robotic skin. The wearable and stretchable strain sensors...
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Synthesis of hexagonal boron nitrides by chemical vapor deposition and their use as single photon emitters
September 2021
Two-dimensional (2D) hexagonal boron nitride (hBN), due to its extraordinary thermal, chemical, and optical properties, has arisen as an enticing material for the research community to explore for various...
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Graphene film for thermal management: A review
March 2021
Thermal conductivity and thermal dissipation are of great importance for modern electronics due to the increased transistor density and operation frequency of contemporary integrated circuits. Due to...
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