Wang, Wentao Wang, Fei Zhang, Cheng Wang, Zhongkai Tang, Jiaoning Zeng, Xierong Wan, Xuejuan
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Smart materials with multiple shape memory capacities have gradually attracted the interest of a lot of researchers due to their potential application in textiles, smart actuators, and aerospace engineering. However, the design and sustainable synthesis of multiple shape memory polymers (SMPs) simultaneously possessing robust mechanical strength, r...
Riley, Brian J Chong, Saehwa Olszta, Matthew J Peterson, Jacob A
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In this paper, sodium aluminosilicate aerogels and xerogels were evaluated as scaffolds for a variety of different getters including Ag+, Cs+, Cu2+, Fe3+, K+, Li+, Rb+, Sb3+, Sn2+, and Sn4+ for the capture of gaseous iodine coming from nuclear facilities. The exchange capacities varied widely from a near complete exchange in the case of Ag+ to much...
Zou, Zhenyu Xu, Hantao Zhang, Huanrui Tang, Yue Cui, Guanglei
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High voltage spinel manganese oxide LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 (LNMO) cathodes are promising for practical applications owing to several strengths including high working voltages, excellent operating safety, low costs and so on. However, LNMO-based lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) fades rapidly mainly owing to unqualified electrolytes, hence becoming a big obstacl...
Deng, Zheng Fang, Chao Ma, Xu Li, Xiang Zeng, Yu-Jia Peng, Xinsheng
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Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have been deemed as promising materials to deliver therapeutics to cure cancer owing to their intrinsic porous structure. However, in majority of cases, MOFs only act as a delivery cargo for anticancer drugs while little attention has been focused on the utilization of their intriguing physical and chemical propertie...
Wang, Jian Yi, Shengzhu Yang, Zhilun Chen, Yun Jiang, Lelun Wong, Ching-Ping
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Achieving effective dropwise capture and ultrafast water transport is essential for fog harvesting. In nature, Cactus uses the conical spine with micro-barbs to effectively capture fog while Sarracenia utilizes the trichome with hierarchical microchannels to quickly transport water. Herein, we combined their advantages to present a novel configurat...
Xu, Yongshan Zheng, Lingli Yang, Chen Zheng, Wei Liu, Xianghong Zhang, Jun
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Detection of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) at room temperature (RT) currently remains a challenge for metal oxide semiconductor (MOS) gas sensors. Herein, we for the first time report on the utilization of porous SnO2 thin films for RT detection of VOCs by defect engineering of oxygen vacancies. The oxygen vacancies in the three-dimensional ord...
Sami, Selim Alessandri, Riccardo Broer, Ria Havenith, Remco W A
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Incorporating ethylene glycols (EGs) into organic semiconductors has become the prominent strategy to increase their dielectric constant. However, EG's contribution to the dielectric constant is due to nuclear relaxations, and therefore, its relevance for various organic electronic applications depends on the time scale of these relaxations, which ...
Tian, Ke Sui, Guopeng Yang, Pei Deng, Hua Fu, Qiang
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Flexible pressure sensors with high sensitivity and wide pressure response range are attracting considerable research interest for their potential applications as e-skins. Nowadays, it seems a dilemma to realize high-performance, multifunctional pressure sensors with cost-effective, scalable strategy, which can simplify wearable sensing systems wit...
Guo, Hang Wan, Ji Wu, Hanxiang Wang, Haobin Miao, Liming Song, Yu Chen, Haotian Han, Mengdi Zhang, Haixia
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Self-powered electronic skin is a promising field for human-machine interfaces to the next generation of intelligent and interactive products due to its capability of including multiple physical parameters for sensing without additional energy supply. This paper reports a novel active multifunctional electronic skin capable of independently detecti...
Huang, Zhennan Kolbasov, Alexander Yuan, Yifei Cheng, Meng Xu, Yunjie Rojaee, Ramin Deivanayagam, Ramasubramonian Foroozan, Tara Liu, Yuzi Amine, Khalil
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Solid state electrolytes (SSEs) offer great potential to enable high-performance and safe lithium (Li) batteries. However, the scale-up synthesis and processing of SSEs is a major challenge. In this work, three-dimensional networks of lithium lanthanum titanite (LLTO) nanofibers are produced through a scale-up technique based on solution blowing. C...
