Seasoning Chinese cooking pans: The nanoscience behind the Kitchen God's blessing
March 2023
The Chinese iron pan can function as a nonstick pan even without a polytetrafluoroethylene (PTFE) coating after a “Kitchen God blessing” seasoning process. We simulate this process and disclose the...
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Towards the selectivity distinction of phenol hydrogenation on noble metal catalysts
March 2023
Selective hydrogenation of phenol to cyclohexanone is intriguing in chemical industry. Though a few catalysts with promising performances have been developed in recent years, the basic principle for...
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Adjusting the interfacial adhesion via surface modification to prepare high-performance fibers
March 2023
Ultra-high molecular weight polyethylene (UHMWPE) fiber is a new kind of high-performance fiber. Due to its excellent physical and chemical characteristics, it is widely used in various fields. However,...
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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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Improvement of the piezoelectricity of PVDF-HFP by CoFe2O4 nanoparticles
Available online 28 March 2023
High piezoelectric composite films composed of poly(vinylidene fluoride-co-hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF-HFP) and ferromagnetic cobalt ferrite (CoFe2O4) (0.00 wt% to 0.2 wt%) are prepared by a solution...
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Mechanical behavior of nanorubber reinforced epoxy over a wide strain rate loading
Available online 15 March 2023
Nanorubber/epoxy composites containing 0, 2, 6 and 10 wt% nanorubber are subjected to uniaxial compression over a wide range of strain rate from 8 × 10−4 s−1 to ∼2 × 104 s−1. Unexpectedly, their...
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Double enzyme mimetic activities of multifunctional Ag nanoparticle-decorated Co3V2O8 hollow hexagonal prismatic pencils for application in colorimetric sensors and disinfection
Available online 11 March 2023
Since the catalytic activity of most nanozymes is still far lower than the corresponding natural enzymes, there is urgent need to discover novel highly efficient enzyme-like materials. In this work,...
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Construction of all-organic low dielectric polyimide hybrids via synergistic effect between covalent organic framework and cross-linking structure
Available online 24 February 2023
Polyimide (PI) is a promising electronic packaging material, but it remains challenging to obtain an all-organic PI hybrid film with decreased dielectric constant and loss without modifying the monomer....
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Synergistic coupling of 0D–2D heterostructure from ZnO and Ti3C2Tx MXene-derived TiO2 for boosted NO2 detection at room temperature
Available online 24 February 2023
2D MXenes are highly attractive for fabricating high-precision gas sensors operated at room temperature (RT) due to their high surface-to-volume ratio. However, the limited selectivity and low sensitivity...
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A novel strategy of constructing 2D supramolecular organic framework sensor for the identification of toxic metal ions
Available online 3 February 2023
Two novel two-dimensional (2D) supramolecular organic frameworks were fabricated in water based on the encapsulation-enhanced donor-acceptor interaction between the methyl viologen (MV) units, methoxy...
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Application of artificial synapse based on all-inorganic perovskite memristor in neuromorphic computing
Available online 31 January 2023
Artificial synapse inspired by the biological brain has great potential in the field of neuromorphic computing and artificial intelligence. The memristor is an ideal artificial synaptic device with...
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Novel sandwich structured glass fiber Cloth/Poly(ethylene oxide)-MXene composite electrolyte
Available online 14 January 2023
Recently, poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO)-based solid polymer electrolytes have been attracting great attention, and efforts are currently underway to develop PEO-based composite electrolytes for next generation...
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Oxygen redox chemistry in lithium-rich cathode materials for Li-ion batteries: Understanding from atomic structure to nano-engineering
December 2022
Lithium-rich oxide compounds have been recognized as promising cathode materials for high performance Li-ion batteries, owing to their high specific capacity. However, it remains a great challenge to...
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Coupling of ultrasmall and small CoxP nanoparticles confined in porous SiO2 matrix for a robust oxygen evolution reaction
December 2022
Rational design of electrocatalysts is important for a sustainable oxygen evolution reaction (OER). It is still a huge challenge to engineer active sites in multi-sizes and multi-components simultaneously....
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Directly electrospinning submillimeter continuous fibers on tubes to fabricate H2S detectors with fast and high response
December 2022
The fast and high response detection of neurotoxic H2S is of great importance for the environment. In this paper, directly electrospinning technology on the ceramic tube is developed to improve the...
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3D printed aluminum matrix composites with well-defined ordered structures of shear-induced aligned carbon fibers
December 2022
Carbon fiber reinforced aluminum composites with ordered architectures of shear-induced aligned carbon fibers were fabricated by 3D printing. The microstructures of the printed and sintered samples...
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Mechanical behavior of single-layer graphdiyne via supersonic micro-projectile impact
December 2022
The mechanical behavior of single-layer graphdiyne (SLGDY) subjected to high-velocity micro-ballistic impacts is analyzed by molecular dynamics (MD) simulations. The ballistic limits of SLGDY is obtained...
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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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Engineering polymer nanoparticles using cell membrane coating technology and their application in cancer treatments: Opportunities and challenges
December 2022
Nanotechnology has revolutionized cancer drug delivery, and recent research continues to focus on the development of “one-size- fits-all,” i.e., “all-in-one” delivery nanovehicles. Although nanomedicines...
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Recent advances in the synthesis of nanoscale hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks
December 2022
Nanoscale hierarchically porous metal–organic frameworks (NHP-MOFs) have received unprecedented attention in many fields owing to their integration of the strengths of nanoscale size (<1 μm) and hierarchical...
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Unique heterostructures of ZnCdS nanoplates with Bi2S3−terminated edges for optimal CO2−to−CO photoconversion
Available online 22 December 2022
Photocatalytic conversion of chemical fuels has emerged as a most challenging subject in photocatalysis which is considered as one of the sustainable solutions for environmental issues related to the...
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The protective effect and its mechanism for electrolyte additives on the anode interface in aqueous zinc-based energy storage devices
Available online 18 November 2022
Aqueous-electrolyte-based zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs), which have significant advantages over other batteries, including low cost, high safety, high ionic conductivity, and a natural abundance of zinc,...
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Two-dimensional carbon-based heterostructures as bifunctional electrocatalysts for water splitting and metal–air batteries
Available online 29 October 2022
The continuous depletion of fossil fuels and the effects of climate change have encouraged prompt action to attain carbon neutrality. Technologies that transform and store renewable energy are crucial...
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