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Kinds of portable electrospinning devices for in situ personal wound care including hand-held spinneret, battery powered and generator powered ones were reviewed.

We report on the progress, challenges and future directions of blue perovskite light-emitting diodes to facilitate their further development.

Two-dimensional (2D) materials have a wide platform in technical studies and expanding nano- and atomic-level applications.

This review article summarizes the recent progress in the pore surface engineering of covalent organic frameworks (COFs) for various applications.

This review focuses on the silver nanowires (Ag NWs) based stretchable and flexible energy devices for self-sustainable devices.

High- and low-index faceted metal (Pt, Pd, Ru, Ir, Rh) nanoparticles designed for improved electrocatalytic activity and stability are reviewed.

This paper reviews nanostructural tungsten oxides and their nanocomposites to enhance the activity of photoelectrochemical water splitting.

Carbon quantum dots (CDs) are a relatively new class of carbon nanomaterials which have been studied very much in the last fifteen years to improve their already favorable properties.

Electrochemical exfoliation of graphene-like two-dimensional nanomaterials such as monoelemental Xenes, TMDs, MOFs, and MXene is introduced in detail.

Bacterial adhesion to nanostructured surfaces can be quantified by surface morphometry: the surface area that is accessible in a certain depth for tethering cell wall molecules equals the fraction of adhesion force as compared to a smooth surface.

This work reports a significant electrochemical performance enhancement (especially the rate performance and cycling stability) by adopting a freestanding V₂O₅/CNT composite paper (VCP) as the ZIB cathode.

We report the photocatalytic performance of composites prepared in a one-step process by liquid phase exfoliation of graphite and TiO₂ at atmospheric pressure and in water, without heat or surfactants, starting from low-cost commercial reagents.

WO₃ nanosheets rich in oxygen vacancies are efficient for electrocatalytic N₂-to-NH₃ fixation under ambient conditions with a NH₃ yield of 17.28 μg h⁻¹ mg_cat.⁻¹ and a faradaic efficiency of 7.0% in 0.1 M HCl.

Optimizing the graphene mass ratio in NiSe/GN counter electrodes enabled the fabrication of high performance dye-sensitized solar cells with excellent electrocatalytic activity and chemical stability.

Defective TiO₂ acts as an effective electrocatalyst for N₂-to-NH₃ fixation with a yield of 1.24 × 10⁻¹⁰ mol s⁻¹ cm⁻² and FE of 9.17% at −0.15 V.

Benefiting from the synergetic effect between NiO and NiCo₂O₄ and the heterostructure, urchin-like NiO–NiCo₂O₄ microspheres exhibited favorable electrocatalytic performance for Li–O₂ batteries.

Co/Co₄N@N-CNTs/rGO is designed and used as a bifunctional catalyst for bulk and flexible Zn–air batteries which display good electrochemical performance.

A one-pot synthesis of hollow nanoparticles (PDA@DOX) used for breast cancer treatment with an extremely high drug loading rate and dual stimuli-responsive drug delivery capacity. PDA@DOX demonstrated good photothermal performance and ultrasound imaging capability.

Using standing-waves in HAXPES technique, we reveal non-linear electrostatic potential profile across nanoscale ferroelectric (FE) HfZrO₄ layer in memory capacitors for both polarization directions, implying the drift of non-FE charges at interfaces.

Nanozyme-assisted amplification strategies for sandwich-type electrochemical sensor construction.

Co–Fe–P–Se nanoparticles supported on 2D nitrogen-doped carbon coupled with a 3D nanostructure are obtained under the assistance of MOF, which present excellent catalytic performances for OER, ORR and rechargeable Zn–air batteries.

We report a simple, rapid method to prepare robust superwetting Ti foam for efficient separation of oil-in-water emulsions.

A facile, low-cost and scalable method is developed to construct three-dimensional thermal transport channels like highways in polymer composites.

In this paper, we present a bimetallic nanoplasmonic tongue capable of distinguishing between a variety of commercial whiskies.

A water-based silver nanowire ink for the room temperature printing of highly conductive traces onto biological and nonplanar surfaces.

Two dimensional (2D) materials are a rapidly growing area of interest for wearable electronics, due to their flexible and unique electrical properties.

We discuss the dominant factors influencing the rate of oxidation of Ti₃C₂T_x MXene flakes, and present guidelines for their storage with the aim of maintaining the intrinsic properties of the as-prepared material.

The separation of photogenerated carriers and photocatalytic hydrogen production efficiency was greatly enhanced by the 2D/2D heterojunction of Ti₃C₂/g-C₃N₄.

Structural defects can greatly inhibit electron transfer in two-dimensional (2D) layered polymeric carbon nitride (CN), seriously lowering its utilization ratio of photogenerated charges during photocatalysis.

This study highlights the importance of a scalable blade coating technique and the ion exchange reaction in fabricating high-quality perovskite thin films.

Continuum elasticity model reproduces the equilibrium shape of Cu nanocrystals squeezed between graphene layers and predicts universal shape.

It is recognized that an effective strategy to promote the industrialization of supercapacitors is to enhance the ion and electronic conductivities of electrode materials.

Atomic layer tailoring (ALT) the layer thickness of Ti₃C₂T_x MXenes to induce the formation of a local conductive network, as an environmentally friendly material for high-performance EMI shielding.

W₂C nanodot-decorated CNT networks fabricated via a scalable spray-drying process exhibit outstanding HER performance in both acidic and alkaline media.

A core shell-structured IrO₂@Ir with considerably improved oxygen evolution activity is developed through the in situ engineering of IrO₂ by a pulsed laser.

Cabbage-like ZnCo₂O₄ with abundant flakes possess a maximum RL value of −36.33 dB and the effective bandwidth of 5.11 GHz.

Multilayer graphene can be used to detect volatile organic compounds, with enhanced selectivity and sensitivity through surface patterning.

The conformation of the fourth generation dendrimer-like DNA molecule immersed in an ionic solution is independent of the presence of salt.

Reversible Mg removal from MgCr₂O₄ (a high-voltage Mg-intercalation cathode material) was improved by nanosizing and introducing significant structural defects.

Monolayer Bi₂O₂Se is a promising post-silicon-era semiconductor candidate because of its simultaneous excellent device performance and high ambient stability.