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Infections induced by Gram‐positive bacteria pose a great threat to public health. Antibiotic therapy, as the first chosen strategy against Gram‐positive bacteria, is inevitably associated with antibiotic resistance selection. Novel therapeutic strategies for the discrimination and inactivation of Gram‐positive bacteria are thus needed. Here, a specific type of aggregation‐induced emission luminogen...
Modern microelectronics and emerging technologies such as wearable electronics and soft robotics require elastomers to integrate high damping with low thermal resistance to avoid damage caused by vibrations and heat accumulation. However, the strong coupling between storage modulus and loss factor makes it generally challenging to simultaneously increase both thermal conductance and damping. Here,...
Vanadium oxides have aroused attention as cathode materials in aqueous zinc‐ion batteries (AZIBs) due to their low cost and high safety. However, low ion diffusion and vanadium dissolution often lead to capacity decay and deteriorating stability during cycling. Herein, vanadium dioxides (VO2) nanobelts are coated with a single‐atom cobalt dispersed N‐doped carbon (Co–N–C) layer via a facile calcination...
Developing a highly active, durable, and low‐platinum‐based electrocatalyst for the cathodic oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) is for breaking the bottleneck of large‐scale applications of proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs). Herein, ultrafine PtZn intermetallic nanoparticles with low Pt‐loading and trace germanium (Ge) involvement confined in the nitrogen‐doped porous carbon (Ge‐L10‐PtZn@N‐C)...
Low‐dimensional materials serving as photocatalysts favor providing abundant unsaturated active sites and shortening the charge transport distance, but the high surface energy readily causes the aggregation that limits their application. Herein, it is demonstrated that 2D covalent organic framework (COF) TpBD nanosheets are effective in the dispersion and stabilization of 0D Ni(OH)2. The COF precursor...
Lithium‐sulfur battery has attracted significant attention by virtues of their high theoretical energy density, natural abundance, and environmental friendliness. However, the notorious shuttle effect of polysulfides intermediates severely hinders its practical application. Herein, a novel 2D mesoporous N‐doped carbon nanosheet with confined bimetallic CoNi nanoparticles sandwiched graphene (mNC‐CoNi@rGO)...
Optical anisotropy, which is quantified by birefringence (Δn) and linear dichroism (Δk), can significantly modulate the angle‐resolved polarized Raman spectroscopy (ARPRS) response of anisotropic layered materials (ALMs) by external interference. This work studies the separate modulation of birefringence on the ARPRS response and the intrinsic response by selecting transparent birefringent crystal...
The design of highly active and durable catalysts for the sluggish anodic oxygen evolution reaction (OER) in acid remains an urgent yet challenging goal in water electrolysis. Herein, a core‐shell nanostructured Ru@Ir–O catalyst with tensile strains and incorporated oxygens is introduced in the Ir shell that holds an extremely low OER overpotential of 238 mV at 10 mA cm−2 in acid. The material also...
The host–guest interaction acts as an essential part of supramolecular chemistry, which can be applied in confined reaction. However, it is challenging to obtain the dynamic process during confined reactions below micromolar concentrations. In this work, a new method is provided to characterize the dimerization process of the guest 1,2‐bis(4‐pyridinyl) ethylene in host cucurbit[8]curil using scanning...
With the rapid development of artificial intelligence and neural network computing, the requirement for information storage in computing is gradually increasing. Floating gate memories based on 2D materials has outstanding characteristics such as non‐volatility, optical writing, and optical storage, suitable for application in photonic in‐memory computing chips. Notably, the optoelectronic memory...
The exploitation of ingenious strategies to improve the activity and stability of ruthenium (Ru) is crucial for the advancement of Ru‐based electrocatalysts. Vacancy engineering is a typical strategy for modulating the catalytic activity of electrocatalysts. However, creating vacancies directly into pure metallic Ru is difficult because of the extremely stringent conditions required and will result...
Infection with live‐attenuated vaccines always inevitably induces side effects that reduce their safety. This study suggests a concept of magnetic virus produced by genetically modifying viral surfaces with Fe3O4 nanoparticles (NPs) to control their tropisms. An iron‐affinity peptide is designed to be displayed on the viral surface protein (VP1) of human enterovirus type 71 (EV71), a typical nonenveloped...
Organometallic mixed halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have emerged as a promising photovoltaic technology with increasingly improved device efficiency exceeding 24%. Charge transport layers, especially electron transport layers (ETLs), are verified to play a vital role in device performance and stability. Recently, metal oxides (MOs) have been widely studied as ETLs for high‐performance PSCs due...
Cell membrane coating has recently emerged as a promising biomimetic approach to engineering nanoparticles (NPs) for targeted drug delivery. However, simple cell membrane coating may not meet the need for efficient drug delivery to the brain. Here, a novel molecular engineering strategy to modify the surface of NPs with a cell membrane coating for enhanced brain penetration is reported. By using poly(lactic‐...
It is highly desirable to employ n‐type polymers as electron transporting layers (ETLs) in inverted perovskite solar cells (PSCs) due to their good electron mobility, high hydrophobicity, and simplicity of film forming. In this research, the capability of three n‐type donor–acceptor1–donor–acceptor2 (D–A1–D–A2) conjugated polymers (pBTT, pBTTz, and pSNT) is first explored as ETLs because these polymers...
Using the MoS2‐WTe2 heterostructure as a model system combined with electrochemical microreactors and density function theory calculations, it is shown that heterostructured contacts enhance the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity of monolayer MoS2. Two possible mechanisms are suggested to explain this enhancement: efficient charge injection through large‐area heterojunctions between MoS2 and...
In this study, a facile and effective approach to synthesize high‐quality perovskite‐quantum dots (QDs) hybrid film is demonstrated, which dramatically improves the photovoltaic performance of a perovskite solar cell (PSC). Adding PbS QDs into CH3NH3PbI3 (MAPbI3) precursor to form a QD‐in‐perovskite structure is found to be beneficial for the crystallization of perovskite, revealed by enlarged grain...
The combination of perovskite solar cells and quantum dot solar cells has significant potential due to the complementary nature of the two constituent materials. In this study, solar cells (SCs) with a hybrid CH3NH3PbI3/SnS quantum dots (QDs) absorber layer are fabricated by a facile and universal in situ crystallization method, enabling easy embedding of the QDs in perovskite layer. Compared with...
Beam pen lithography (BPL) in the liquid phase is evaluated. The effect of tip‐substrate gap and aperture size on patterning performance is systematically investigated. As a proof‐of‐concept experiment, nanoarrays of nucleotides are synthesized using BPL in an organic medium, pointing toward the potential of using liquid phase BPL to perform localized photochemical reactions that require a liquid...
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