Aqueous rechargeable batteries are cost-effective,easy to fabricate,and safe,deliver high energy output,and employ stable water-based electrolytes compared to organicbased lithium-ion batteries(LIBs).Aqueous Zn electr...
funding from the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research and innovation program(ERC StG,SIMPHONICS,Project No.101041486);X.Y.acknowledges funding from the Chinese Scholarship Council(Scholarship No.202108270002).All authors acknowledge K.Watanabe and T.Taniguchi from the National Institute of Materials Science(NIMS)for the bulk hBN crystals.
Reading biomolecular signatures and understanding their role in health and disease is one of the greatest scientific challenges in modern biology.Decoding this information is not only foundational for biology but also...
supported by National Natural Science Foundation of China(grant nos.21835001 and 52073116);JLU Science and Technology Innovative Research Team(grant no.2021TD-03).
CONSPECTUS:Molecular photoswitches with drastically switchable luminescent properties have attracted increasing attention due to their unique advantages in nondestructive and high-contrast read-out systems,which featu...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(51873110);the Sichuan Science and Technology Program(2021JDJQ0018);the State Key Laboratory of Polymer Materials Engineering。
Self-healing ability is one of the most attractive features of biological tissues,as it helps living creatures to recover physiological functions and prolongs their lifespans after unexpected injuries.Inspired by this...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52073295);the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2022YFC2805204 and 2022YFC2805202);the Sino-German Mobility Program(M0424);Open Research Projects of Zhejiang Laboratory(no.2022MG0AB01);the Key Research Program of Frontier Sciences,Chinese Academy of Sciences(QYZDBSSWSLH036);the Bureau of International Cooperation,Chinese Academy of Sciences(174433KYSB20170061);the K.C.Wong Education Foundation(GJTD-2019-13).
Janus films have attracted widespread interest due to their asymmetric structure and unique physical and/or chemical properties,demonstrating broad and blooming potentials in mechanical sensing,soft actuation,energy m...
support from the Research Grants Council of Hong Kong(GRF project no.11301721);ITC via the Hong Kong Branch of the National Precious Metals Material Engineering Research Center(NPMM),a start-up grant(project no.9380100);grants(project nos.7020054,9678272,and 1886921)from the City University of Hong Kong。
As an important parameter of crystalline materials,the crystal phase describes the periodic atomic arrangement in their structures.For some monoelemental materials,e.g.,carbon and phosphorus,they can exist in more tha...
supported by the National Key R&D Program of MOST(2021YFA1501301);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21525313,92145302,U1930203);the Chinese Academy of Sciences,the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(20720220007,20720220008);the Changjiang Scholars Program of Ministry of Education of China.
CONSPECTUS:Solid catalysts play a key role in the chemical industry,energy,and the environment.Fundamental understanding of heterogeneous catalysis exerted by solid surfaces is useful for structural designs of efficie...
BEYOND STRETCHABLE:SOFT CONJUGATED POLYMERS Our interactions with electronics are rapidly being reimagined:contact lenses can be functionalized to report blood glucose levels via tear analytes,drug therapeutics can be...
Y.Zhou and Y.Zhang acknowledge the Early Career Scheme(No.22300221);General Research Fund(No.12302822);from the Hong Kong Research Grant Council(RGC),and the Excellent Young Scientists Funds(No.52222318);from National Natural Science Foundation of China.Y.Zhou and Y.Zhang also acknowledge the start-up grants,the Initiation Grant-Faculty Niche Research Areas(IG-FNRA)2020/21 and the Interdisciplinary Research Matching Scheme(IRMS)2020/21 of HKBU.
Metal halide perovskites(MHPs)are a new class of materials with general chemical formula of ABX3,where A is CH_(3)NH_(3)+(MA+),HC(NH_(2))_(2)+FA+),or Cs+;B is Pb^(2+)or Sn^(2+);X is a halide anion(I^(−),Br^(−),or Cl^(...