Themed collection Recent Review Articles

Cavitation-inducing materials convert ultrasound into a mechanobiological platform by controlling cavitation, enabling therapeutic activation, immune modulation, and real-time molecular imaging for precision oncology.

Electrochemical active chlorine synthesis enables sustainable wastewater treatment via on-site, reagent-free generation. This review surveys recent advances in chlorine evolution reaction catalyst design, system coupling, and reactor engineering.

The value-added utilization of photogenerated holes.

Multimodal imaging and mass spectrometry together provide quantitative, single-cell insight into nanoparticle uptake and intracellular fate.

This review covers how intrinsic defect-driven polarity in 2D transition metal dichalcogenides can be reconfigured through counter-doping strategies, providing a unified framework and enabling CMOS, optoelectronic, and neuromorphic platforms.

Hydrogen spillover has emerged as a pivotal mechanism enabling the directional transport of active hydrogen species (*H) in electrocatalytic systems, providing a fundamental design strategy for advanced catalyst engineering.

This minireview presents a mechanistic perspective linking molecular-level reaction pathways in MLD- and SIS-derived hybrid resists to lithographic performance, and offers design guidelines for next-generation EUV resists for high-NA lithography.

This review explores how copper-based nanomaterials target dysregulated copper metabolism in bladder cancer to trigger synergistic cell death, covering design, applications, and challenges for precision intravesical nanomedicine.

Ultratrace PFAS detectors employing organic, polymeric, and nanomaterials transduce molecular recognition into optical, electrochemical, or resistive signals.

Gas transformations can occur inside metal–organic cages, where confinement boosts reactivity and selectivity by concentrating molecules, optimizing spatial arrangements, co-encapsulating catalysts and substrates, and exploiting cage metal properties.

This Minireview highlights the recent advancements, challenges and future prospects in the field of the application of functionalized graphene-family materials in cement composites.

This review summarizes the progress in Cr³⁺-doped NIR CPs and proposes a multi-scale engineering strategy that enhances thermal and luminescence properties for high-performance NIR light sources.

This minireview outlines proton-based synaptic mechanisms by describing proton involvement and proton–electron coupling as two conceptual modes that elucidate how protons regulate synaptic behavior in bio-realistic devices.

Transition metal phosphides enable highly active and selective liquid formate production, offering added value without gaseous emissions or catalyst poisoning.

This review describes how ruthenium complexes can be transformed into smart diagnostic and therapeutic platforms responsive to the chronic wound microenvironment through ligand engineering.

This review underscores the advanced chemical alterations to merge the EC and PC HER efficacy of LDH-based catalysts. The mechanistic insights via DFT and operando/in-situ studies for providing an understanding of HER on LDH surface are highlighted.

Review synthesis and nanoscale characterization to elucidate composition, structure, and property links in HEOs. Summarize applications in thermal/electro/photocatalysis and energy storage, as well as challenges for materials design and scale-up.

Bioinspired multi-compartment mesoporous nanoreactors.

Atomically precise metal nanoclusters have emerged as efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reactions (HER). This review features the key strategies that can be employed to improve HER performance.

Surface instability drives structural degradation and interfacial side reactions in high-nickel layered cathodes, leading to rapid capacity fading. This review outlines the key challenges and surface engineering strategies to stabilize the cathodes.

Biomacromolecule-regulated MXene composites form hierarchical structures with stable transport pathways, enabling multifunctional systems for EMI shielding, actuation, biomedicine, energy storage, electronics, and water purification.

This review introduces a unified framework of sustainable ZnO nanoparticles bridging human health and environmental remediation for the first time.

MOF advances in water treatment: hybrids, membranes for pollutant removal/desalination, limitations, future directions.

This review comprehensively presents circularity engineered 2D material photocatalysts for degrading persistent contaminants, covering material advances, green synthesis from waste sources, scalability challenges, and commercialization pathways.

This review summarizes physicochemical surface-treatment strategies for enhancing triboelectric nanogenerator performance, triboelectric materials, physical and chemical surface modifications, and their applications.

This review is focused on non-traditional granular magnetoresistive (MR) sensors. It discusses the underlying physical mechanisms, material configurations, fabrication strategies, and MR device performance evolution over the past two decades.

This review systematically analyzes how carbon-based materials address key challenges in moisture-enabled electricity generation, providing a clear roadmap and outlook for their development path from material design to scalable applications.

Chemiresistive nanomaterials combined with machine-learning analytics enabling sub-ppm, humidity-resilient formaldehyde detection for real-world environmental and food-safety monitoring.

Multifunctional conductive MOFs with engineered charge-transport pathways enable broad utility from energy storage to catalysis and electronics.

This review offers a comprehensive discourse on prominent advances achieved in the development of high-valent nickel oxide cathodes and strategies to tune critical nanoscale phenomena to realise superior performance in primary alkaline batteries.

Vapor deposition bypasses solvent limits for precise perovskite growth. We connect stoichiometry with crystallization kinetics across high/low vacuum and vapor-assisted routes, clarifying phases, defects, and scalable process windows.

This review covers recent advances in spacer cations as molecular switches for perovskite solar cells, focusing on design strategies and how they tune 2D perovskite structures, properties, and performance for efficient, stable devices.

Organic nanoparticles can play an integral role in the biomedical field by optimizing the medication process in cancer treatment.

The unique properties of gold nanoparticles enhance nucleic acid-based detection by enabling photothermal heating, improving sensitivity and specificity, and offering a range of detection strategies.

Lattice strain engineering bridges atomic structure and electrocatalytic performance. This review explains how strain tunes electronic structure and optimizes adsorption, boosting activity and stability in key reactions.

Delafossite CuFeO₂ has an Earth-abundant composition with a 1.3–1.7 eV band gap that straddles the hydrogen-evolution potential, positioning it as a leading p-type photocathode.

Outlining programmable DNA-based biomaterials for precise immunomodulation within tumor and lymphoid tissues, activating antigen-presenting cells and T cells to drive synergistic antitumor immunity.

This review summarizes the construction strategies and key properties of DNA condensates, highlighting their emerging applications in artificial cells, biosensing and diagnostics, cellular regulation, and drug delivery.

Classification of different LIG precursors, along with a plot of speed vs. resolution highlighting the typical trade-off that exists in LIG microelectrode manufacturing and state-of-the-art printing technologies.

The factors influencing the thermal conductivity of polymer composites with graphene-based fillers.

This review systematically summarizes the research progress on perovskite-based materials for microwave absorption applications and presents critical perspectives on this kind of material.

Heteroatom doping with metallic and non-metallic elements changes the electronic structure, increasing active site density, conductivity and surface area for efficient hydrogen evolution reaction.

This article reviews the application progress of transparent electrode materials in F-PSCs, detailing their advantages, disadvantages, and commercialization prospects, aims to explore the potential application of F-PSCs in wearable devices and B-IPV.

Electrospun nanofiber wound dressings have broad clinical application prospects. By adjusting the function design of nanofiber, innovative functions, such as drug release, wound exudate removal, and smart response, can be achieved.

This review explores the application of FCOFs in hazardous gas sensing, focusing on their 2D and 3D frameworks, diverse bonding strategies, and synthesis methods, to advance their broader utilization in detection technologies.

Freezing of polymer solutions plays a central role in processes such as cryopreservation, porous material synthesis, and environmental remediation.

This review explores MXene-based sensing for gas, bio, pressure/strain, acoustic, and thermal applications, highlighting how their tunable properties enable revolutionary performance across these diverse modalities.

This review presents the main types of gas sensors and their sensing materials, summarizes exhaled breath biomarkers and physical indicators for health monitoring, and discusses integration of wearable respiratory sensors with emerging technologies.

This review summarizes the recent progress of piezoionic gels, highlighting strategies for enhancing their mechanoelectrical transduction capabilities, as well as their potential applications in energy harvesting and intelligent sensing.

Perovskites fabricated by fs-laser on multiple substrates for applications in display, anti-counterfeiting encryption, information storage, and nonlinear optics.

This review provides a detailed analysis of microstructural properties and applications of high entropy spinel ferrites.

Engineered molecular designs, nanocarriers, and formulation strategies collectively enhance mRNA vaccine stability, enabling improved thermostability, delivery efficiency, and broader global accessibility.

Carbolong metallaaromatics combine metal–carbon conjugation and Craig aromaticity, enabling efficient charge transport and photoresponsive functions in molecular electronics, photovoltaic devices, and photothermal materials.

This review outlines the overall research landscape of CeO₂-based chemical mechanical polishing materials, including material classification, factors influencing performance, polishing mechanism research, and recycling and utilization.

This review highlights the recent advances in etching-based plasmonic sensing mechanisms, emphasizing morphology-dependent performance of metallic nanostructures for sensitive food safety and environmental monitoring.

This review summarizes recent progress in light-based additive manufacturing of glass with nanoscale features, illustrating how processing, materials design, and optical control jointly support integrated micro- and nanophotonic devices.

CDs are widely used in polymers and can enhance various properties of the polymers.

Optimizing TE-QLEDs via several strategies: microcavity tailoring, dipole orientation control, RI engineering, and surface/interface design for superior emission extraction and directionality in advanced displays and photonic devices.

This review focuses on active site microenvironment engineering of metal–nitrogen–carbon single-atom nanozymes (M–N–C SANs), highlighting their high catalytic activity, selectivity, and stability from synergistic metal–carrier effects.

One of the most extensively studied research areas in cancer treatment is the rapid diagnosis of cancer, which is crucial for combating this deadly disease.

Multimetallic nanostructures enable advanced environmental remediation, sensitive biosensing, and targeted medical therapies through synergistic catalytic and optical properties—paving the way for sustainable technologies.

Classification of bulk, surface, and interface engineering strategies for improving BiVO₄ photoanode PEC water oxidation performance.

The review summarizes process advancements in the electrospinning preparation of crimped micro/nanofibers and applications of electrospun crimped micro/nanofibers in fields such as air filtration, biomedicine, sensors, energy, and thermal insulation.