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Flame‐retardant coatings are widely used in a variety of personnel or product protection, and many applications would benefit from film stretchability if suitable materials are available. It is challenging to develop flame‐retardant coatings that are stretchable, eco‐friendly, and capable of being integrated on mechanically dynamic devices. Here, a concept is reported that uses pretextured montmorillonite...
Hierarchical porous structures are highly desired for various applications. However, it is still challenging to obtain such materials with tunable architectures. Here, this paper reports hierarchical nanomaterials with oriented 2D pores by taking advantages of thermally instable bonds in vanadium‐based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs). High‐temperature calcination of these MOFs accompanied by the loss...
Semiconducting 2D materials, such as SnS2, hold immense potential for many applications ranging from electronics to catalysis. However, deposition of few‐layer SnS2 films has remained a great challenge. Herein, continuous wafer‐scale 2D SnS2 films with accurately controlled thickness (2 to 10 monolayers) are realized by combining a new atomic layer deposition process with low‐temperature (250 °C)...
Voltage‐driven manipulation of magnetism in electrodeposited 200 nm thick nanoporous single‐phase solid solution Cu20Ni80 (at%) alloy films (with sub 10 nm pore size) is accomplished by controlled reduction‐oxidation (i.e., redox) processes in a protic solvent, namely 1 m NaOH aqueous solution. Owing to the selectivity of the electrochemical processes, the oxidation of the CuNi film mainly occurs...
Sodium ion batteries (SIB) are considered promising alternative candidates for lithium ion batteries (LIB) because of the wide availability and low cost of sodium, therefore the development of alternative sodium storage materials with comparable performance to LIB is urgently desired. The sodium ions with larger sizes resist intercalation or alloying because of slow reaction kinetics. Most pseudocapacitive...
Developing in situ disinfection methods in vivo to avoid drug‐resistant bacteria and tissue toxicity is an urgent need. Here, the photodynamic and photothermal properties of the chitosan‐assisted MoS2 (CS@MoS2) hybrid coating are simultaneously inspired to endow metallic Ti implants with excellent surface self‐antibacterial capabilities. This coating, irradiated by only 660 nm visible light (VL) for...
Rapid advances in functional electronics bring tremendous demands on innovation toward effective designs of device structures. Yarn supercapacitors (SCs) show advantages of flexibility, knittability, and small size, and can be integrated into various electronic devices with low cost and high efficiency for energy storage. In this work, functionalized stainless steel yarns are developed to support...
The rapid development of electric vehicles and modern personal electronic devices is severely hindered by the limited energy and power density of the existing power sources. Here a novel hybrid Zn battery is reported which is composed of a nanostructured transition metal oxide‐based positive electrode (i.e., Co3O4 nanosheets grown on carbon cloth) and a Zn foil negative electrode in an aqueous alkaline...
Ionic fluids are essential to energy conversion, water desalination, drug delivery, and lab‐on‐a‐chip devices. Ionic transport in nanoscale confinements and complex physical fields still remain elusive. Here, a nanofluidic system is developed using nanochannels of heterogeneous surface properties to investigate transport properties of ions under different temperatures. Steady ionic currents are observed...
This work reports the template‐free fabrication of mesoporous Al2O3 nanospheres with greatly enhanced textural characteristics through a newly developed post‐synthesis “water‐ethanol” treatment of aluminium glycerate nanospheres followed by high temperature calcination. The proposed “water‐ethanol” treatment is highly advantageous as the resulting mesoporous Al2O3 nanospheres exhibit 2–4 times higher...
Emerging novel applications at the forefront of innovation horizon raise new requirements including good flexibility and unprecedented properties for the photoelectronic industry. On account of diversity in transport and photoelectric properties, 2D layered materials have proven as competent building blocks toward next‐generation photodetectors. Herein, an all‐2D Bi2Te3‐SnS‐Bi2Te3 photodetector is...
Free standing centimeter‐long 1D nanostructures are highly attractive for electronic and optoelectronic devices due to their unique photophysical and electrical properties. Here a simple, large‐scale synthesis of centimeter‐long 1D carbon nitride (CN) needles with tunable photophysical, electric, and catalytic properties is reported. Successful growth of ultralong needles is acquired by the utilization...
To further increase the energy and power densities of lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs), monoclinic Li3V2(PO4)3 attracts much attention. However, the intrinsic low electrical conductivity (2.4 × 10−7 S cm−1) and sluggish kinetics become major drawbacks that keep Li3V2(PO4)3 away from meeting its full potential in high rate performance. Recently, significant breakthroughs in electrochemical performance...
The insulator of the sulfur cathode and the easy dendrites growth of the lithium anode are the main barriers for lithium–sulfur cells in commercial application. Here, a 3D NPC@S/3D NPC@Li full cell is reported based on 3D hierarchical and continuously porous nickel photonic crystal (NPC) to solve the problems of sulfur cathode and lithium anode at the same time. In this case, the 3D NPC@S cathode...
A series of amorphous 3D Co‐based phosphate networks with hierarchical porosity, including the CoPi, the binary CoM1Pi and the trinary CoM1M2Pi (Mi = NiII, FeIII, CeIII) are produced via a novel bitemplate coprecipitation approach at room temperature. Interestingly, the integration of FeIII and CoII in the same network is found to significantly influence both the porosity and the electronic state...
Efficient magnetic reactive oxygen species (ROS) formation enhancing agents after X‐ray treatment are realized by functionalizing superparamagnetic magnetite (Fe3O4) and Co‐ferrite (CoFe2O4) nanoparticles with self‐assembled monolayers (SAMs). The Fe3O4 and CoFe2O4 nanoparticles are synthesized using Massart's coprecipitation technique. Successful surface modification with the SAM forming compounds...
Nanofibers/nanowires usually exhibit exceptionally low flexural rigidities and remarkable tolerance against mechanical bending, showing superior advantages in flexible electronics applications. Electrospinning is regarded as a powerful process for this 1D nanostructure; however, it can only be able to produce chaotic fibers that are incompatible with the well‐patterned microstructures in flexible...
O3‐type NaNi1/3Fe1/3Mn1/3O2 (NaNFM) is well investigated as a promising cathode material for sodium‐ion batteries (SIBs), but the cycling stability of NaNFM still needs to be improved by using novel electrolytes or optimizing their structure with the substitution of different elements sites. To enlarge the alkali‐layer distance inside the layer structure of NaNFM may benefit Na+ diffusion. Herein,...
Poor cycling stability and safety concerns regarding lithium (Li) metal anodes are two major issues preventing the commercialization of high‐energy density Li metal‐based batteries. Herein, a novel tri‐layer separator design that significantly enhances the cycling stability and safety of Li metal‐based batteries is presented. A thin, thermally stable, flexible, and hydrophilic cellulose nanofiber...
Membrane tubular structures are important communication pathways between cells and cellular compartments. Studying these structures in their native environment is challenging, due to the complexity of membranes and varying chemical conditions within and outside of the cells. This work demonstrates that a calcium ion gradient, applied to a synthetic lipid nanotube, triggers lipid flow directed toward...
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