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Biofunctional chitosan–biopolymer composites for biomedical applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-28 Yabin Guo, Dongling Qiao, Siming Zhao, Peng Liu, Fengwei Xie, Binjia Zhang
In light of escalating biomedical demands across diverse diseases, there arises a pressing need for the development of sophisticated biocompatible materials exhibiting augmented biological functionality. Chitosan, a cationic polyelectrolyte copolymer of natural origin, distinguishes itself through its extraordinary biological properties, positioning it as a promising starting material to develop versatile
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The art of controlled nanoscale lattices: A review on the self-assembly of colloidal metal–organic framework particles and their multifaceted architectures Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-22 Abdelkarim Chaouiki, Maryam Chafiq, Young Gun Ko
Nanoscale lattices formed through the art of controlled self-assembly hold a promise for the creation of advanced materials with diverse applications. These versatile particles, boasting exceptional attributes such as colloidal stability, tunable sizes, and an array of sophisticated shapes, allow access to a vast multifunctionality. In this context, the controlled self-assembly of colloidal metal-organic
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Smart materials for light absorptive rewritable paper: Chromic mechanisms and structural design Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-17 Guan Xi, Lan Sheng, Sean Xiao-An Zhang
Rewritable paper (RP) which takes advantages of stimuli-responsive color-changing materials/smart materials and can be used multiple times has been demonstrated to hold potential to reduce human waste of paper and alleviate the increasingly severe environmental issues. To make the RP closer to the way that people are accustomed to reading and more practical for daily life, interest and effort toward
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Recent advances in inoculation treatment for powder-based additive manufacturing of aluminium alloys Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2024-02-06 Qiyang Tan, Mingxing Zhang
Powder-based additive manufacturing (AM) is revolutionizing the fabrication of advanced engineering metallic materials, including aluminium (Al) alloys, which are the workhorse materials in automobile and aerospace industries. However, challenges remain in the wider applications of AM to produce Al components due to the high tendency to form coarse, textured columnar grains, which causes hot-cracking
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Developing new-generation covalent organic frameworks as sustainable catalysts: Synthesis, properties, types and solar energy production Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-30 Asif Hayat, Saleem Raza, Mohammed A. Amin, Zeeshan Ajmal, Majed M. Alghamdi, Adel A. El-Zahhar, Hamid Ali, Djamel Ghernaout, Yas Al-Hadeethi, Muhammad Sohail, Yasin Orooji
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Extracting charge carrier mobility in organic solar cells through space-charge-limited current measurements Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2024-01-16 Dongcheng Jiang, Jiangkai Sun, Ruijie Ma, Vox Kalai Wong, Jianyu Yuan, Kun Gao, Feng Chen, Shu Kong So, Xiaotao Hao, Gang Li, Hang Yin
Mobility is a critical parameter influencing the overall performance of organic solar cells (OSCs). Herein, we innovatively elucidated the intricate interrelation between the photovoltaic molecular structures and the methodologies employed for the extraction of charge carrier mobility in OSCs. We proposed a simple yet effective principle to accurately extract charge carrier mobility values using the
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Review of flexible energy harvesting for bioengineering in alignment with SDG Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-09 Bankole I. Oladapo
To cater to the extensive body movements and deformations necessitated by biomedical equipment flexible piezoelectrics emerge as a promising solution for energy harvesting. This review research delves into the potential of Flexible Piezoelectric Materials (FPM) as a sustainable solution for clean and affordable energy, aligning with the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). By systematically
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Liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) in synthetic biosystems Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-12-02 Wei Kang, Xiao Ma, Chunxue Liu, Suwan Wang, Yuecheng Zhou, Chuang Xue, Yuci Xu, Bo Li
In living systems, there is emerging evidence that nature uses liquid-liquid phase separation (LLPS) to organize diverse cellular processes such as signal transduction, translation regulation, and gene expression among chemical chaos. Inspired by the naturally occurring LLPS, there is increasing interest in the deployment of LLPS in synthetic biosystems towards a wide range of applications. Although
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Interaction chemistry of functional groups for natural biopolymer-based hydrogel design Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-07 Mozammel Hoque, Masruck Alam, Sungrok Wang, Jahid Uz Zaman, Md. Saifur Rahman, MAH Johir, Limei Tian, Jun-Gyu Choi, Mohammad Boshir Ahmed, Myung-Han Yoon
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Applications and multidisciplinary perspective on 3D printing techniques: Recent developments and future trends Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-11-03 Amir A. Elhadad, Ana Rosa-Sainz, Raquel Cañete, Estela Peralta, Belén Begines, Mario Balbuena, Ana Alcudia, Y. Torres
In industries as diverse as automotive, aerospace, medical, energy, construction, electronics, and food, the engineering technology known as 3D printing or additive manufacturing facilitates the fabrication of rapid prototypes and the delivery of customized parts. This article explores recent advancements and emerging trends in 3D printing from a novel multidisciplinary perspective. It also provides
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Biodegradable polymers from lignocellulosic biomass and synthetic plastic waste: An emerging alternative for biomedical applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-31 Krishanu Ghosal, Santanu Ghosh
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Recent progress on performance-enhancing strategies in flexible photodetectors: From structural engineering to flexible integration Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-27 Pu Wang, Yingying Lan, Changmeng Huan, Jilong Luo, Wenchen Cai, Juntian Fan, Xinjun He, Zhanfeng Huang, Lu Zhu, Qingqing Ke, Guangyu Zhang, Shenghuang Lin
As an important component of future electronic devices, photodetectors require mechanical flexibility, and stretchability to meet the demands of conformal, portable, and lightweight applications. As expected, flexible photodetectors (FPDs) were born timely and have obtained rapid development driven by the considerable progress of the optoelectronic industry. Especially, FPDs appear to serve as a bridge
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Electrical tracking, erosion and flammability resistance of high voltage outdoor composite insulation: Research, innovation and future outlook Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-14 M. Tariq Nazir, Arslan Khalid, Shakeel Akram, Palash Mishra, Imrana I. Kabir, Guan H. Yeoh, B. Toan Phung, Khoi Loon Wong
Ensuring the fire safety of high voltage (HV) outdoor insulators is key to maintain the reliable operation of the electrical grid. This requires the careful selection of suitable polymeric composite materials with excellent electrical tracking, erosion, and fire resistance characteristics. To improve their performance against electrical tracking and potential combustion issues, inorganic additives
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Rational designs of mechanical metamaterials: Formulations, architectures, tessellations and prospects Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-07 Jie Gao, Xiaofei Cao, Mi Xiao, Zhiqiang Yang, Xiaoqiang Zhou, Ying Li, Liang Gao, Wentao Yan, Timon Rabczuk, Yiu-Wing Mai
Mechanical Metamaterials (MMs) are artificially designed structures with extraordinary properties that are dependent on micro architectures and spatial tessellations of unit cells, rather than constitutive compositions. They have demonstrated promising and attractive application potentials in practical engineering. Recently, how to rationally design novel MMs and discover their multifunctional behaviors
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Lead-free perovskites and derivatives enable direct and scintillation-type X-ray detection Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-10-05 Chao Zhou, Mingyue Han, Yingrui Xiao, Wenyan Tan, Xi Jin, Xiaoxue Wu, Yuxuan Yang, Siyuan Zhu, Haobo Lin, Shenghuang Lin, Qi Chen, Qijie Liang, Jinsong Hu, Wei Zhang, Yan Jiang
Lead halide perovskites with excellent optoelectronic properties have attracted extensive attention and made amazing progress for X-ray detectors and imaging. However, lead is highly toxic to humans, animals and ecosystems, posing a great safety concern to its commercial application. It has become an urgent need to develop stable and environment-friendly lead-free alternatives. In this review, we summarize
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3D printed electrochemical devices for bio-chemical sensing: A review Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-09-15 Abhinav Sharma, Hendrik Faber, Ajit Khosla, Thomas D. Anthopoulos
Portable, affordable, and miniaturized electrochemical sensors for point-of-care diagnostic devices represent a step towards achieving the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 3: Good Health and Well-Being. Over the last 10 years, rapid advancements in three-dimensional (3D) printing technology (additive manufacturing) have enabled the production of low-cost, miniature 3D printed (3DP) devices
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Recent progress in vanadium dioxide: The multi-stimuli responsive material and its applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-07-04 Saranya Bhupathi, Shancheng Wang, Yujie Ke, Yi Long
The reversible phase transition in vanadium dioxide (VO2) with light, heat, electric, magnetic, and mechanical stimuli is the enabling concept to function as a smart material. It is the basis for the development of numerous varieties of VO2-based optical, electrochemical, electrical, mechanical, and energy storage devices in micron- to nano-meter scale dimensions on rigid and flexible platforms. Due
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Programmable multi-physical mechanics of mechanical metamaterials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-26 P. Sinha, T. Mukhopadhyay
Mechanical metamaterials are engineered materials with unconventional mechanical behavior that originates from artificially programmed microstructures along with intrinsic material properties. With tremendous advancement in computational and manufacturing capabilities to realize complex microstructures over the last decade, the field of mechanical metamaterials has been attracting wide attention due
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Recent applications of machine learning in alloy design: A review Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-06-17 Mingwei Hu, Qiyang Tan, Ruth Knibbe, Miao Xu, Bin Jiang, Sen Wang, Xue Li, Ming-Xing Zhang
The history of machine learning (ML) can be traced back to the 1950 s, and its application in alloy design has recently begun to flourish and expand rapidly. The driving force behind this is partially due to the inefficiency of traditional methods in designing better-performing alloys, partially due to the success of ML in other areas and alloy data becoming more accessible. ML methods can quickly
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Alignment engineering in thermal materials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-22 Bin Xie, Weixian Zhao, Xiaobing Luo, Run Hu
Thermal management has become increasingly critical in a broad range of applications, including cooling electronic devices, regulating body temperature, harvesting solar energy, and so on. To achieve effective thermal management, thermal materials are essential platform that enables various thermal functions such as conduction, insulation, radiation, and absorption. However, it remains challenging
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Capacitive contribution matters in facilitating high power battery materials toward fast-charging alkali metal ion batteries Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-16 Tianqi He, Xiaoya Kang, Fujuan Wang, Junlei Zhang, Tianyun Zhang, Fen Ran
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Fabrication of biomass-based functional carbon materials for energy conversion and storage Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-15 Xiaomin Yang, Huihui He, Ting Lv, Jieshan Qiu
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3D printing of polymer composites to fabricate wearable sensors: A comprehensive review Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-13 Amr Osman, Jian Lu
The application of wearable sensors in domains related to healthcare systems, human motion detection, robotics, and human–machine interactions has attracted significant attention. Because these applications require stretchable, flexible, and non-invasive materials, polymer composites are now at the forefront of research aimed at preparing innovative wearable sensors. Three-dimensional (3D) printing
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Aerogel-based solar-powered water production from atmosphere and ocean: A review Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-05-09 Jiaming Sun, Tingting Wu, Hui Wu, Wei Li, Lei Li, Shouxin Liu, Jing Wang, Wim J. Malfait, Shanyu Zhao
By imitating natural water circulation, artificial water generation processes can produce clean water by utilizing readily available and inexhaustible solar energy. Such a process can address the current global crises related to both energy and water shortages, and expand currently available water resources from rivers, ground water and ice to seawater, brackish water and atmospheric humidity. Among
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Two-dimensional materials for boosting the performance of perovskite solar cells: Fundamentals, materials and devices Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-22 Jiupeng Cao, Peng You, Guanqi Tang, Feng Yan
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Organic microelectrode arrays for bioelectronic applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-16 Zixuan Lu, Aimie Pavia, Achilleas Savva, Loig Kergoat, Róisín M. Owens
Microelectrode arrays (MEAs) are devices that gather multiple microscopic electrodes in a small area and are used to electrically record and/or stimulate the biological activity of cells. Recently, MEAs that use organic mixed ionic and electronic conductors (OMIECs) as active materials, have gained significant attention due to the profound advantages over traditional metal-based MEAs. OMIECs, usually
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Viruses as biomaterials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-03-02 Tao Yang, Yingfan Chen, Yajing Xu, Xiangyu Liu, Mingying Yang, Chuanbin Mao
Viruses lacking the capacity to infect mammals exhibit minimal toxicity, good biocompatibility, and well-defined structures. As self-organized biomolecular assemblies, they can be produced from standard biological techniques on a large scale at a low cost. Genetic, chemical, self-assembly, and mineralization techniques have been applied to allow them to display functional peptides or proteins, encapsulate
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Perspectives for multiphase mechanical metamaterials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2023-02-21 Yuan Chen, Yiu-Wing Mai, Lin Ye
Mechanical metamaterials have been attracting increasing attention for a wide range of industrial applications, such as energy storage, biomedical, sensors, robotics, etc., owing to their artificially-controllable unique mechanical properties beyond those of naturally existing materials. Recently, multimaterial additive manufacturing (AM) techniques, coupled with significant progress made in design
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Insights into the application of carbon materials in heterojunction solar cells Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-26 Youtian Mo, Xi Deng, Peixin Liu, Jiansen Guo, Wenliang Wang, Guoqiang Li
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Emerging applications of metal-organic frameworks and derivatives in solar cells: Recent advances and challenges Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-22 Binling Chen, Zhuxian Yang, Quanli Jia, Richard J. Ball, Yanqiu Zhu, Yongde Xia
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Materials design and preparation for high energy density and high power density electrochemical supercapacitors Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-21 Wujie Dong, Miao Xie, Siwei Zhao, Qiuliang Qin, Fuqiang Huang
Electrochemical supercapacitors process ultra–high power density and long lifetime, but the relatively low energy density hinder the wide application. Therefore, supercapacitors with high energy density and high power density (“dual high”) have attracted great attentions. New active materials with high pseudocapacitance beyond electronic double layer capacitance and novel devices with high working
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Antimicrobial micro/nanorobotic materials design: From passive combat to active therapy Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-19 Jinhua Li, Hao Shen, Huaijuan Zhou, Rui Shi, Chengtie Wu, Paul K. Chu
The rise of multidrug-resistant bacteria has emerged as one of the major threats to global public health. Moreover, many pathogenic bacteria can form stubborn biofilms to prevent antibiotic penetration and to protect them from environmental stress. Worse still, it is in dire need of developing novel antibiotics. Such circumstances call urgently for breakthrough strategies beyond traditional antibacterial
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Vitamin needed: Lanthanides in optoelectronic applications of metal halide perovskites Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-12-01 Zicheng Li, Bolong Zhang, Zhihao Zhang, Jean-Claude Bünzli, Abd. Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff, Yong-Young Noh, Peng Gao
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Advances in shape memory polymers: Remote actuation, multi-stimuli control, 4D printing and prospective applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-11-04 Xiaofei Wang, Yang He, Yanju Liu, Jinsong Leng
Shape memory polymer (SMP) is an excellent smart material, which can sense and perform active shape change as preprogrammed. So far, there are a wide variety of stimulus-responsive SMPs being developed, including thermal-, electro-, magnetic-, photo-, microwave-, ultrasound-responsive SMPs and so on. Heating and electricity are traditional stimuli for contact actuating SMPs. In recent decades, the
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Low temperature interfacial reaction in 3D IC nanoscale materials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-09-30 Yingxia Liu, Yang Lu, K.N. Tu
In this review, we cover copper-to-copper (Cu-to-Cu) direct bonding, point contact reaction between silicon (Si) nanowire and metal nanowire, and cold welding of gold (Au) and silver (Ag) nanowires. All of them occur under nanoscale interfaces at low temperatures. For a broader consideration, because Cu is known to exhibit significant anti-pathogen and anti-viral properties, the interfacial reaction
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Thermoelectric coolers for on-chip thermal management: Materials, design, and optimization Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-17 Wen-Yi Chen, Xiao-Lei Shi, Jin Zou, Zhi-Gang Chen
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Synthesis, properties, and applications of carbyne nanocrystals Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Guowei Yang
Since the first observation of fullerene nearly three decades ago, allotropes of carbon, including carbon nanotube and graphene, have been the focus of considerable research because of their remarkable physical and chemical properties that suggest the potential for a wide variety of practical applications. Well known, in terms of carbon-atom hybridization, well-established forms of carbon are diamond
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Heterostructured stainless steel: Properties, current trends, and future perspectives Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-18 L. Romero-Resendiz, M. El-Tahawy, T. Zhang, M.C. Rossi, D.M. Marulanda-Cardona, T. Yang, V. Amigó-Borrás, Y. Huang, H. Mirzadeh, I.J. Beyerlein, J.C. Huang, T.G. Langdon, Y.T. Zhu
The study of heterostructured materials (HSMs) answered one of the most pressing questions in the metallurgical field: “is it possible to greatly increase both the strength and the strain hardening, to avoid the “inevitable” loss of ductility?”. From the synergy between the deformation modes of zones with greatly different flow stress, low stacking fault energy (SFE) alloys can reduce their typical
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Smart fire-warning materials and sensors: Design principle, performances, and applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-07-12 Ling-Yu Lv, Cheng-Fei Cao, Yong-Xiang Qu, Guo-Dong Zhang, Li Zhao, Kun Cao, Pingan Song, Long-Cheng Tang
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Exciplexes in OLEDs: Principles and promises Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-06-16 Monima Sarma, Li-Ming Chen, Yi-Sheng Chen, Ken-Tsung Wong
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A comprehensive review of template-assisted porous carbons: Modern preparation methods and advanced applications Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-18 V. Pavlenko, S. Khosravi H, S. Żółtowska, A.B. Haruna, M. Zahid, Z. Mansurov, Z. Supiyeva, A. Galal, K.I. Ozoemena, Q. Abbas, T. Jesionowski
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The marriage of biochemistry and nanotechnology for non-invasive real-time health monitoring Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-05-13 Dongxiao Ji, Xinyue Guo, Wanlin Fu, Zhaoxuan Ding, Ci Wang, Qiangqiang Zhang, Seeram Ramakrishna, Xiaohong Qin
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Amorphization by mechanical deformation Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-04-12 B.Y. Li, A.C. Li, S. Zhao, M.A. Meyers
Amorphization of crystalline structures is a ubiquitous phenomenon in metals, ceramics, and intermetallic compounds. Although the amorphous phase generally has a higher Gibbs free energy than its crystalline counterpart, there are many methods by which amorphization can be generated. The requirement to create an amorphous phase from a solid crystalline one is to increase its free energy above a critical
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Rational design of high-performance wearable tactile sensors utilizing bioinspired structures/functions, natural biopolymers, and biomimetic strategies Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-22 Songfang Zhao, Jong-Hyun Ahn
Nature has created high-performance materials and structures over millions of years of evolution. Inspired by the concepts and design principles evident in natural materials and structures, high-performance tactile sensors, based on bioinspired structures/functions, natural biopolymers, and biomimetic strategies, have been developed. However, the primary challenge is to develop novel sensing mechanisms
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Roadmap for flexible solid-state aqueous batteries: From materials engineering and architectures design to mechanical characterizations Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-03-01 Chaowei Li,Lei Li,Bing He,Ying Ling,Jun Pu,Lei Wei,Litao Sun,Qichong Zhang,Yagang Yao
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Machine-learning and high-throughput studies for high-entropy materials Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2022-01-15 E-Wen Huang, Wen-Jay Lee, Sudhanshu Shekhar Singh, Poresh Kumar, Chih-Yu Lee, Tu-Ngoc Lam, Hsu-Hsuan Chin, Bi-Hsuan Lin, Peter K. Liaw
The combination of multiple-principal element materials, known as high-entropy materials (HEMs), expands the multi-dimensional compositional space to gigantic stoichiometry. It is impossible to afford a holistic approach to explore each possibility. With the advance of the materials genome initiative and characterization technology, a high-throughput (HT) approach is more reasonable, especially to
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Multi-component ZnO alloys: Bandgap engineering, hetero-structures, and optoelectronic devices Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2021-12-04 Teng Zhang, Mingkai Li, Jian Chen, Yang Wang, Liangshuang Miao, Yinmei Lu, Yunbin He
The desire for developing ultraviolet optoelectronic devices has prompted extensive studies toward wide-bandgap semiconductor ZnO and its related alloys. Bandgap engineering as well as p-type doping is the key toward practical applications of ZnO. As yet, stable and reproducible p-type doping of ZnO remains a formidable challenge. To circumvent p-type conductivity, ZnO-based optoelectronic devices
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Toward color-selective printed organic photodetectors for high-resolution image sensors: From fundamentals to potential commercialization Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-25 Seung-Hoon Lee, Abd Rashid bin Mohd Yusoff, Changjin Lee, Sung Cheol Yoon, Yong-Young Noh
The technology to record image information at high resolution is of great importance in the optical areas of applied physics and biochemical imaging, as well as in commercial imaging applications such as cameras and machine vision. Organic semiconductors are drawing interest as photodetecting materials for next-generation high-resolution image sensors (IS) owing to their excellent properties such as
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AIEgen for cancer discrimination Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2021-11-02 Ruoyao Zhang, Xiaolin Huang, Chao Chen, Ryan T.K. Kwok, Jacky W.Y. Lam, Ben Zhong Tang
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Nature inspired emerging sensing technology: Recent progress and perspectives Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Ashis Tripathy, Md Julker Nine, Dusan Losic, Filipe Samuel Silva
Biological systems include several well-known patterns with different forms and dimensions (nano to macro) such as cracks, whiskers, hierarchical, interlocked, porous, and bristle-like structures, as well as hetero-layered brick-and-mortar structures. These structures and surfaces typically have several functions based on their structure and surface chemistry which include static coloration, self-cleaning
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Additive manufacturing of metallic lattice structures: Unconstrained design, accurate fabrication, fascinated performances, and challenges Mater. Sci. Eng. R Rep. (IF 31.0) Pub Date : 2021-10-28 Liang-Yu Chen, Shun-Xing Liang, Yujing Liu, Lai-Chang Zhang
Lattice structures, which are also known as architected cellular structures, have been applied in various industrial sectors, owing to their fascinated performances, such as low elastic modulus, high stiffness-to-weight ratio, low thermal expansion coefficient, and large specific surface area. The lattice structures fabricated by conventional manufacturing technologies always involve complicated process