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Acoustic Coding Metasurfaces
In article number 2308349, Hao‐Wen Dong and co‐workers employ topology optimization techniques to design a 3‐bit broadband acoustic coding metasurface. With the 3‐bit coding units, a broadband acoustic vortex metasurface is established. Within the target frequency domain, it can modulate reflected acoustic waves into vortex waves. Combined with convolution methods, we...
The acoustic coding metasurfaces (ACMs) have the ability to manipulate complex acoustic behavior by reconstructing the coding sequence. In particular, the design of broadband coding enhances the versatility of ACMs. ACMs offer significant advantages over traditional metasurfaces, including a limited number of units and flexible wave control performance. The unit quantity is determined by 2n, with...
Hole‐transporting layers (HTLs) play a crucial role in the performance of inverted, p‐i‐n perovskite solar cells (PSCs). Chlorophylls (Chls) are naturally abundant organic photoconductors on earth, with good charge carrier mobility and appropriate Fermi energy levels that make them promising candidates for use in photovoltaic devices. However, Chls films prepared using the solution method exhibit...
Multifunctional electrocatalysts are crucial to cost‐effective electrochemical energy conversion and storage systems requiring mutual enhancement of disparate reactions. Embedding noble metal nanoparticles in 2D metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are proposed as an effective strategy, however, the hybrids usually suffer from poor electrochemical performance and electrical conductivity in operating conditions...
Gossypol is a chemotherapeutic drug that can inhibit the anti‐apoptotic protein Bcl‐2, but the existing gossypol‐related nanocarriers cannot well solve the problem of chemotherapy resistance. Based on the observation that gossypol becomes black upon Fe3+ coordination, it is hypothesized that encasing gossypol in glyceryl monooleate (GMO) and making it coordinate cobalt ferrite will not only improve...
Effectively interfering energy metabolism in tumor cells and simultaneously activating the in vivo immune system to perform immune attacks are meaningful for tumor treatment. However, precisely targeted therapy is still a huge challenge. Herein, a mitochondrial‐targeting phototheranostic system, FE‐T nanoparticles (FE‐T NPs) are developed to damage mitochondria in tumor cells and change the tumor...
Surface‐enhanced Raman spectroscopy (SERS) is a promising technology for wearable sensors due to its fingerprint spectrum and high detection sensitivity. However, since SERS‐activity is sensitive to both the distribution of “hotspots” and excitation angle, it is profoundly challenging to develop a wearable SERS sensor with high stability under various deformations during movements. Herein, inspired...
Transparent glass with metal mesh is considered a promising strategy for high performance transparent glass heaters (TGHs). However, the realization of simple, low‐cost manufacture of high performance TGHs still faces great challenges. Here, a technique for the fabrication of high performance TGHs is proposed using liquid sacrificial substrate electric‐field‐driven (LS‐EFD) microscale 3D printing...
Transparent Glass Heaters
In article number 2107811, Xiaoyang Zhu, Xiaofeng Xu, Hongbo Lan, and co‐workers develop a fabrication method of silver mesh for transparent glass heaters (TGHs) via liquid sacrificial substrate electric‐field‐driven microscale 3D printing thick film silver paste. The fabricated TGHs exhibit excellent comprehensive performance. Furthermore, an interface evaporator is demonstrated...
NiCo2O4 nanowire array on carbon cloth (NiCo2O4/CC) is proposed as a highly active electrocatalyst for ambient nitrate (NO3−) reduction to ammonia (NH3). In 0.1 m NaOH solution with 0.1 m NaNO3, such NiCo2O4/CC achieves a high Faradic efficiency of 99.0% and a large NH3 yield up to 973.2 µmol h−1 cm−2. The superior catalytic activity of NiCo2O4 comes from its half‐metal feature and optimized adsorption...
Heterogeneous atoms substitution is an efficient method for promoting Li+ storage of transition metal oxides. Herein, a series of Fe‐substituted MnO solid solutions with different Fe contents are synthesized by a feasible solid‐phase method. The synergistic effects between heterogeneous atoms and rich vacancies are synchronously obtained, which hold distinctive electronic structures and substantial...
Native extracellular matrix (ECM) exhibits dynamic change in the ligand position. Herein, the ECM‐emulating control and real‐time monitoring of stem cell differentiation are demonstrated by ligand nanoassembly. The density of gold nanoassembly presenting cell‐adhesive Arg‐Gly‐Asp (RGD) ligand on Fe3O4 (magnetite) nanoparticle in nanostructures flexibly grafted to material is changed while keeping...
Integrating biological detection and treatment into one system is a smart therapeutic maneuver for efficient cancer treatment. Herein, a target‐activated core–satellite nanostructure (CS nanostructure) assembly built on gold nanobipyramids motor (AuNBPs motor)/gold nanoparticle probe (AuNP probe) exhibiting simultaneous dual signal‐on imaging, quantification of intracellular microRNA‐21 (miR‐21),...
In article number 2004276, Rong Yang, Guangyu Zhang, and co‐workers develop an in situ oxygen substitutional doping in MoS2 monolayers by one step chemical vapor deposition process and lateral heterostructures with controlled doping concentrations are reliably fabricated. The bandgap tunability (from 2.25 to 1.75 eV) and n‐doping electronic properties are realized. This nondestructive oxygen doping...
In 2D semiconductors, doping offers an effective approach to modulate their optical and electronic properties. Here, an in situ doping of oxygen atoms in monolayer molybdenum disulfide (MoS2) is reported during the chemical vapor deposition process. Oxygen concentrations up to 20–25% can be reliable achieved in these doped monolayers, MoS2‐xOx. These oxygen dopants are in a form of substitution of...
Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) can be fine‐tuned to boost sorbent‐sorbate interactions in order to improve gas sorption and separation performance, but the design of MOFs with ideal structural features for gas separation applications remains a challenge. Herein it is reported that unsaturated alkali metal sites can be immobilized in MOFs through a tetrazole based motif and that gas affinity can thereby...
In article number 1900426, Ze Chang, Xian‐He Bu, and co‐workers demonstrate a new strategy for the immobilization of alkali metal cations (K+) in metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) toward gas affinity boosting. The immobilized K+ cations could be desolvated and serve as traps for CO2 capture, which effectively enhances the CO2 sorption performances of the MOFs.
The dynamic optical switch of plasmonic nanostructures is highly desirable due to its promising applications in many smart optical devices. To address the challenges in the reversibility and transmittance contrast of the plasmonic electrochromic devices, here, a strategy is reported to fabricate color switchable electrochromic films through electro‐responsive dissolution and deposition of Ag on predefined...
Durability is still one of the key obstacles for the further development of photocatalytic energy‐conversion systems, especially low‐dimensional ones. Encouragingly, recent studies show that nanoinsulators such as SiO2 and MgO exhibit substantially enhanced photocatalytic durability than the typical semiconductor p25 TiO2. Extending this knowledge, MgO–Au plasmonic defect nanosystems are developed...
Artificial muscles are reported in which reduced graphene oxide (rGO) is trapped in the helical corridors of a carbon nanotube (CNT) yarn. When electrochemically driven in aqueous electrolytes, these coiled CNT/rGO yarn muscles can contract by 8.1%, which is over six times that of the previous results for CNT yarn muscles driven in an inorganic electrolyte (1.3%). They can contract to provide a final...
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