Themed collection Recent Review Articles

The advent of microfluidic and microfabrication technologies provides vast opportunities for the rational design of colloidal materials and interfaces.

This review summarizes and discusses the representative fabrication methods and related CDI performance metrics for fabricating freestanding/binder-free CDI electrodes. The remaining challenges and future outlooks are also discussed and emphasized.

This review showcases how 2D nanomaterial-based aerogels can be integrated with PCMs, marking a milestone in interdisciplinary research. It covers the latest breakthroughs in aerogel fabrication and their potential applications in composite PCMs.

Bioadhesives are highly biocompatible and biodegradable polymers, which are used to join two surfaces where at least one of them is a living tissue.

Multidimensional therapeutic applications of nanotechnology for combating of chronic diseases such as cancer, COVID-19, and HIV/AIDS.

Calcium ion batteries have been increasingly explored as an alternative energy storage system as industry begins to manoeuvre towards an age of ‘Beyond lithium’ research and development.

Nanotechnology based therapeutic approaches are a promising strategy to target biofilm-related infections caused by ESKAPE pathogens.

Graphene, being a two-dimensional all-aromatic sheet bonded with sp² carbon atoms, has attracted much attention due to its excellent physicochemical properties like a large surface area, good electrical conductivity, and high thermal and chemical stability.

Several strategies are presented to enhance the performance of graphene-based solar cells. These strategies include chemical doping, incorporation of an interlayer, and controlling the reflectivity with an antireflection layer.

A memristor is a promising synaptic device for neuromorphic computing. This review article encompasses various instrumental characterization methods which enhance a fundamental understanding of the switching and reliability mechanisms of memristors.

Schematic representation of the green synthesized silver nanoparticles, its types, mode of delivery and several biological applications.

The present review article sheds light on the fabrication of heterogeneous metal oxide-supported nanostructure-based catalysts for boosting industrially significant oxidation processes.

Recently, bubble-propelled micro/nanomotors have been considered as the cutting-edge micro/nano-sensing tools that use their unique features for fast detection of various hazardous environmental pollutants and biosensing.

Biofilm-mediated wastewater remediation has been developed as one of the most promising, inexpensive, and environmentally friendly technology as it breaks down contaminants via biotransformation, bioaccumulation, biomineralization, and biosorption.

Wearable strain sensors have drawn massive awareness in various studies and industrial fields.

Silicon quantum dots (SiQDs) are of great interest because they are believed to be harmless to living organisms, mainly due to their low toxicity.

The emergence of light-responsive metal–organic frameworks represents an opportunity for stimuli responsive platform design for environmental applications.

Compared to cellular immunotherapy, engineering macrophage-derived EVs which carry nanoparticles, drugs, proteins, nucleic acids etc. can target tumor cells to improve biosafety and treatment efficacy.

Graphical representation of phage natural replication, molecular modification applications including CRISPR/Cas9, and delivery applications including hydrogels and liposome encapsulation for treatment of bacterial infections.

There are four functions of heteroatom doping on TMHs: (1) form a multi-component TMHs to adjust metal valence ratio; (2) increase active metal sites; (3) tune electronic states; (4) increase the interlayer spacing.

A comprehensive review about the state-of-the-art polymer-based radiative coolers, and our insights are outlined to advance their commercial progress.

Homoconjugation occurs when two aromatic rings are separated by a single non-conjugated atom. This is demonstrated in triptycene by the through-space overlap of the π-clouds of the aryl fins and can be used to enhance optoelectronic properties.

This article reviews the synergistic effects of engineering binary solvents on the crystallization, morphology and charge transport of organic semiconductors.

This review covers recent advances in understanding, designing, and exploring the defect in carbon toward energy-related applications, with the aim of referencing and guiding the large-scale and diverse applications of defect-rich carbon materials.

The non-functional materials such as substrate materials and adhesive materials, and functional materials (piezoelectric composites, conductive composites and dielectric composites) used for flexible electronics are summarized in detail.

Nowadays, chalcogenide-based phase change materials (PCMs) are proving themselves superior in the category of memory devices due to a combination of their unique set of properties.

Recent advances enable new chemical strategies for covalent protein linking to single-walled carbon nanotubes.

Bio-based stimuli responsive materials have been widely studied as highly versatile materials in biomedical applications.

This review provides a focused discussion on the structures and ionic conduction mechanisms of inorganic solid-state proton and hydride anion conductors.

The present study represents the advancements achieved over the past ten years towards the development of electrochemical sensors based on nanomaterials.

Electrochemical fabrication integrating templating strategies have paved the way for creating mesoporous metal alloy films with distinctive pores and functionalities for electrocatalysis, fuel cells, and sensor (bio) development.

Green conventional TADF emitters show good device performance, but MR-TADF emitters reveal high colour purity while retaining better device properties. Substituting various donors, acceptors or both on boron central core bring an interesting strategy toward green emissions.

In this review, we mainly summarized the structure distortion, molecular engineering, electron–phonon coupling effect, external temperature and pressure, and metal ion doping that influence the self-trapped exciton emission of low-dimensional metal halides (LDMHs).

2D ZnO nanostructure-based biosensors: synthesis, classification, types and applications.