Themed collection Celebrating materials science in the United States of America

A review article regarding ultrasound-triggered drug delivery, highlighting exciting clinical trials and new applications for this modality.

This review discusses the fabrication, deployment, challenges, and future directions of metal–organic framework thin film sensing platforms, which are of particular interest due to their tunable porosity, chemical functionalities, optical and electrical properties.

Self-healing methods.

The present review describes electrochemical methods for the recovery of chemical feedstocks from waste materials.

Organic reactions coupled with H₂ evolution via semiconductor-based photocatalytic systems under visible light irradiation have gained increasing attention, utilizing both excited electrons and holes to produce organics and H₂ simultaneously.

A composite was prepared from biomass and waste sulfur from fossil fuel refining.

Effective photodynamic inactivation of MDR bacteria by CDots.

Nitrogen-rich heterocycles are essential for designing novel energetic green materials with the combination of high explosive performance and acceptable mechanical sensitivities.

Carbon nanocomposites with Ru-doped Fe₂O₃ nanoparticles are derived from a Fe–Ru–Fe trinuclear complex and zeolitic imidazolate framework 8 and exhibit excellent electrocatalytic activity towards oxygen reduction reaction, comparable to that of Pt/C.

Presented is an experimental study to formulate a delivery system for platinum nanoparticles (PtNPs) for cancer treatment.

The development of macroscopic aerogels from 1D systems, such as nanofibers, has resulted in a novel pathway to obtain porous and lightweight architectures.

2D particle surfactants are attractive for the formation of highly stable emulsions and use as templates to prepare composite structures with performance properties dependent on the composition.

Hexacoordinate silicon pincer complexes offer promising charge transport and electroluminescent layers for high performance molecular electronic devices. Tuning the structure of the ligands affords good control of the silicon pincer's properties.

The effects of charge state on water uptake and mechanical properties of thermoset protein-based copolymers were investigated. Superneutralization was shown to reduce the material's mechanical property variation with humidity.

Nonenzymatic glucose biosensors based on electrospun porous La–Sr–Co–Ni–O nanofibers used for clinical, industrial, and environmental applications.

We present a versatile synthesis method capable of creating triphenylene discotic liquids with enhanced control of the number and type of tails. The compounds obtained from this method include a discotic liquid crystal with unusually short methoxy tails.

The effect of metal-cluster redox identity on the thermal decarboxylation of a series of isostructural metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) with tetracarboxylate-based ligands and trinuclear μ₃-oxo clusters was investigated.

Atomic substitution in sidechains of an organic semiconductor show these solubilizing groups are not simple spectators. Silicon is the most electron withdrawing group 14 element, increasing photostability and offering desirable crystal packing.

Nanoporous materials could be used to store xenon propellant onboard spacecraft.

X-ray crystal structures of a phenothiazine posolyte and viologen negolyte and cyclic voltammograms of a solution containing both compounds.

Composites based on ε-caprolactone-D,L-lactide-based elastomer with cellulose nanocrystals (CNC) are investigated to understand how matching cells with appropriate mechanical environments can provide important insights into fundamental cell behaviors.

Using calorimetry and ab initio simulations, we uncover atomic-level details of the loading/separation process of C₂ hydrocarbons in UiO-66.

Utilizing cation tuning and implementing divalent cation hollowing and passivation to achieve efficient and stable pure Sn-based perovskite solar cells.

A linear, methacrylamide polymer affinity agent was explored to capture two mycotoxins, deoxynivalenol (DON) and ochratoxin A (OTA), for multiplex surface-enhanced Raman scattering (SERS) detection.

Here, we report an aspect ratio-controlled synthesis of tellurium (Te) nanowires (NWs) utilizing a hot injection colloidal method and demonstrate their use as a back buffer layer in cadmium telluride (CdTe) photovoltaics.