In many cases, the hybridization of two or more excitation modes in solids has led to new and useful dispersion relations of waves. Well-studied examples are phonon polaritons, plasmon polaritons, particle-plasmon polaritons, cavity polaritons, and magnetic resonances at optical frequencies. In all of these cases, the lowest propagating mode couples to a finite-frequency localized resonance. Herein

Realization of interactive human-machine interfaces (iHMI) has been improved with development of soft tissue-like strain sensors beyond hard robotic exosuits, potentially allowing cognitive behavior therapy and physical rehabilitation for patients with brain disorders. Here, we report on a strain-sensitive granular adhesive inspired by the core-shell architectures of natural basil seeds for iHMI as

Layered oxides represent a prominent class of cathode materials extensively employed in lithium-ion batteries. The structural degradation of layered cathodes causes the capacity decay during battery cycling, which is generally induced by anisotropic lattice strain in the bulk of the cathode particle and undesirable oxygen release at the surface. However, particularly in lithium-rich layered oxides

While the complementary metal-oxide semiconductor (CMOS) technology is the mainstream for the hardware implementation of neural networks, we explore an alternative route based on a new class of spiking oscillators we call “thermal neuristors”, which operate and interact solely via thermal processes. Utilizing the insulator-to-metal transition in vanadium dioxide, we demonstrate a wide variety of reconfigurable

The limited selection of wide bandgap polymer donors for all-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs) is a bottleneck problem restricting their further development and remains poorly studied. Herein, a new wide bandgap polymer, namely PBBTz-Cl, was designed and synthesized by bridging the benzobisthiazole acceptor block and chlorinated benzodithiophene donor block with thiophene units for application as an electron

Polarimetric photodetector can acquire higher resolution and more surface information of imaging targets in complex environments due to the identification of light polarization. To date, the existing technologies yet sustain the poor polarization sensitivity (<10), far from market application requirement. Here, the photovoltaic detectors with polarization- and gate-tunable optoelectronic reverse phenomenon

Tumor cell-derived microparticles (MPs) can function as anticancer drug delivery carriers. However, short blood circulation time, large size-induced insufficient tumor accumulation and penetration into tumor parenchyma as well as limited cellular internalization by tumor cells and cancer stem cells (CSCs), and difficult intracellular drug release restrict the anticancer activity of tumor cell-derived

Semiconducting polymer chains constitute the building blocks for a wide range of electronic materials and devices. However, most of their electrical characteristics at single-molecule level have received little attention. Elucidating these properties could help understanding performance limits and enable new applications. Here we exploit coupled ionic-electronic charge transport to measure the quasi-one-dimensional