supported by the Hong Kong Jockey Club Charities Trust;New Cornerstone Science Foundation through the XPLORER Prize;the Hong Kong Research Grants Council through Grant No.C5051-22GF。
While modern refrigerators can easily produce ice at any time,Ancient Persians were known to harvest ice from shallow pools without such means.The ice would form on clear nights even when the ambient temperature remai...
the National Postdoctoral Science Foundation of China(2022M722357)to Y.W.for financial support。
Constructing C–S bonds is important in pharmaceuticals,agriculture,biology,optoelectronic materials and battery technologies[1–3].At present,several strategies have been established in organic synthetic chemistry,su...
Aprotic Li-air batteries(ALABs)have captured notable attention as a prospective solution for advanced energy storage systems of tomorrow due to their high theoretical specific energy,cost-effectiveness,and environment...
jointly supported by the National Key Research and Development Program of China(2021YFA1400700,2020YFA0406104,and 2017YFA0205700);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(52002168,12022403,11874211,61735008,62134009,and 62121005);Science Foundation of Jiangsu(BK20190311);Key Science and Technology Innovation Programme of Shandong Province(2019JZZY020704);Excellent Research Programme of Nanjing University(ZYJH005);the Fundamental Research Funds for the Central Universities(021314380214,021314380190,021314380140,and 021314380150);support from the XPLORER PRIZE。
Daytime radiative cooling with high solar refection and mid-infrared emission offers a sustainable way for cooling without energy consumption.However,so far sub-ambient daytime radiative coolers typically possess whit...
Fast radio bursts(FRBs)are millisecond-duration flashes of Giga-Hertz radio emission.Since Lorimer and his collaborators[1]claimed their discovery in 2007,FRBs have remained one of the hottest fields in astronomy.In t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China(61875015,31571006,81601629,and21801019);the Beijing Natural Science Foundation,China(2182091);China National Postdoctoral Program for Innovative Talent(BX20190026);Beijing Council of Science and Technology,China(Z181100004418004);the National Youth Talent Support Program,China
Sustainable operation of implanted medical devices is essential for clinic applications.However,limited battery capacity is a key challenge for most implantable medical electronics[1].Higher-capacity battery is not an...
supported by the National Key Research & Development Program (2016YFA0201901);the National Natural Science Foundation of China (61621061, 61427901, 61274015 and 61888102)
Recently, two-dimensional (2D) layered semiconducting materials have been considered as promising channel materials to construct aggressively-scaled transistors owing to their excellent electrostatics and remained hig...
supported by the National Basic Research Program of China(2014CB845601);the National Natural Science Foundation of China(21721001,51572231,and 21390390)
Gaseous compounds are usually on-line detectable on sensors. The limitations of conventional sensors are suffering from incapability for exactly identifying multiple components as well as incompatibility to possible t...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (50832005 and 51202215)
Ba(Fe1/2Nb1/2)O3 thin films were grown on Pt/TiO2/SiO2/Si substrates with pulsed laser deposition (PLD) at temperatures ranging from 823 to 923 K with the varied ambient oxygen pressure. X-ray diffraction (XRD) data c...
supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (60678005);the Basic Research Project of Shaanxi Provincal Natural Science Foundation (2006F39)
A copper-doped silica composite aerogel with high specific surface area was prepared using a sol-gel method at ambient pressure. A drying control chemical additive (DCCA) N,N-dimethylformamide (DMF) was introduced to ...