Polydopamine antibacterial materials
This review focuses on the recent progress in polydopamine antibacterial materials, including their structural and functional features, preparation strategies, antibacterial mechanisms, and their biomedical applications.
Biomimetic anti-freezing polymeric hydrogels: keeping soft-wet materials active in cold environments
The bio-inspired general synthesis strategies of anti-freezing hydrogels and their potential application fields.
Polyphenol scaffolds in tissue engineering
This review focuses on the recent advances in polyphenol-based scaffolds including their structural and functional features, fabrication strategies, and various applications in tissue engineering.
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van der Waals solid solution crystals for highly efficient in-air photon upconversion under subsolar irradiance
The concept of van der Waals solid solutions has been demonstrated to yield photon upconversion (UC) organic crystals with extraordinary performance, opening a domain of versatile dispersion-force-based systems in the quest for superior UC solids.
D–π*–A type planar chiral TADF materials for efficient circularly polarized electroluminescence
D–π*–A type planar chiral TADF emitters were synthesized and the enantiomer-based CP-OLEDs exhibited EQEmax of up to 20.1%.
Room-temperature synthesis of blue-emissive zero-dimensional cesium indium halide quantum dots for temperature-stable down-conversion white light-emitting diodes with a half-lifetime of 186 h
Zero-dimensional Cs3InX6 QDs with broadband blue emission were synthesized at room-temperature. A white LED was further fabricated by using Cs3InX6 QDs powder as down-conversion phosphor, demonstrating a remarkable working stability.
Design of ultra-stretchable, highly adhesive and self-healable hydrogels via tannic acid-enabled dynamic interactions
By leveraging tannic-acid-enabled dynamic interactions, we designed an ionic hydrogel with boosted bulk and interfacial properties such as ultra-stretchability, remarkable self-healing capability and robust adhesion.
An autonomously ultrafast self-healing, highly colourless, tear-resistant and compliant elastomer tailored for transparent electromagnetic interference shielding films integrated in flexible and optical electronics
We report herein an autonomously ultrafast self-healing, colorless elastomer as a substrate for embedding Ag NWs to fabricate transparent and stretchable EMI shielding materials capable of fully restoring EMI SE at the resting and stretching states.
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Charge trapping with α-Fe2O3 nanoparticles accompanied by human hair towards an enriched triboelectric series and a sustainable circular bioeconomy
The PDMS@α-Fe2O3 NP film and human hair-based high performance TENG harvests mechanical energy while expanding waste hair utilization, initiating a rising approach toward the circular bio economy that will play a key role in avoiding climate crisis.
Synergetic contribution of fluorinated azide for high EQE and operational stability of top-illuminated, semitransparent, photomultiplication-type organic photodiodes
A fluorinated azide can improve the EQE and long-term stability of photomultiplication-type organic photodiodes (PM-OPDs). The resulting top-illuminated, semitransparent, stable, and high-EQE PM-OPD is successfully applied to a fingerprint sensor.
Fluorescent, electrically responsive and ultratough self-healing hydrogels via bioinspired all-in-one hierarchical micelles
A bioinspired all-in-one strategy was proposed to construct fluorescent, electrically responsive and ultratough self-healing hydrogels via multifunctional and hierarchical polyelectrolyte–surfactant micelles.
Sublimation-doping with super bases for high-performance solution-processed heterojunction oxide thin film transistors
Various amidine base with different pKa values are deposited via sublimation, resulting in not only an exceptionally high electron mobility of 37.8 cm2 V−1 s−1 on average (46.6 cm2 V−1 s−1 maximum) but also a high level of bias-stress stability.
A fully hydrophobic ionogel enables highly efficient wearable underwater sensors and communicators
A fully hydrophobic ionogel sensor possesses excellent underwater sensing performance with high sensitivity, rapid responsiveness and superior durability, showing great potential in underwater communication and marine biological research.
Breaking through the “3.0 eV wall” of energy band gap in mid-infrared nonlinear optical rare earth chalcogenides by charge-transfer engineering
Increasing the energy band gap under the premise to maintain a large nonlinear optical (NLO) response is a challenging issue for the exploration and molecular design of mid-infrared nonlinear optical crystals.
Engineered ε-decalactone lipomers bypass the liver to selectively in vivo deliver mRNA to the lungs without targeting ligands
Engineered lipomers coming from sustainable sources can efficiently bypass the liver to deliver a genetic message to the lungs after systemic administration without targeting ligands.
Tunable solid-state thermal rectification by asymmetric nonlinear radiation
The tunable solid-state thermal rectification of a three-terminal device is presented by asymmetric nonlinear far-field radiation. The experimental findings are supplemented with finite element analysis, with a maximum rectification ratio of 93.1%.
Integrating molecular rigidity and chirality into thermally activated delayed fluorescence emitters for highly efficient sky-blue and orange circularly polarized electroluminescence
Two pairs of D*–A type blue and orange CP-TADF emitters based on a rigid point chiral donor reveal high molecular rigidity, excellent PLQYs, and intense luminescence dissymmetry factors, which jointly enable highly efficient CP-OLEDs.
Synergy between dynamic covalent boronic ester and boron–nitrogen coordination: strategy for self-healing polyurethane elastomers at room temperature with unprecedented mechanical properties
Boron–nitrogen coordination in polyurethane elastomers enhances the dynamics of the boronic ester while introduces inter- and intra-molecular interactions, leading to mechanical robustness and excellent self-healing efficiency simultaneously.
A self-reinforcing and self-healing elastomer with high strength, unprecedented toughness and room-temperature reparability
A mechano-responsive strategy, known as strain-induced crystallization, is proposed to tailor room-temperature self-healing, highly mechanically-strong and unprecedentedly tough polyurethane elastomers.
A regioregular donor–acceptor copolymer allowing a high gain–bandwidth product to be obtained in photomultiplication-type organic photodiodes
A newly synthesized regioregular donor polymer is used in photomultiplication-type organic photodiodes (PM-OPDs), and its regioregularity enables face-on orientation with a low trap density, leading to a high gain and fast response time in PM-OPDs.
About this collection
To mark the Lunar New Year, this web collection features the top 20 most popular articles published in Materials Horizons in 2021 by corresponding authors based in Asia.
Congratulations to all of the authors whose articles have been featured!