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Two-Dimensional Nanoradiosensitizer Enhances Radiotherapy and Delivers STING Agonists to Potentiate Cancer Immunotherapy Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Taokun Luo, Geoffrey T. Nash, Xiaomin Jiang, Xuanyu Feng, Jianming Mao, Jianqiao Liu, Aditya Juloori, Alexander T. Pearson, Wenbin Lin
Despite potent preclinical antitumor activity, activation of stimulator of interferon genes (STING) has shown modest therapeutic effects in clinical studies. Many STING agonists including 2’,3’-cyclic guanosine monophosphate–adenosine monophosphate (cGAMP) show poor pharmacokinetic properties for sustaining STING activation in tumors and achieving optimal antitumor efficacy. Improved delivery of STING
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3D Printing Flexible Sodium Ion Micro-batteries with Ultrahigh Areal Capacity and Robust Rate Capability Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Jiaxin Ma, Shuanghao Zheng, Liping Chi, Yu Liu, Ying Zhang, Kai Wang, Zhong-Shuai Wu
Rechargeable sodium ion micro-batteries (NIMBs) constructed using low-cost and abundant raw materials in planar configuration with both cathode and anode on the same substrate, hold promises for powering coplanar microelectronics, but are hindered by the low areal capacity owing to thin microelectrodes. Here, a prototype of planar and flexible 3D-printed NIMBs is demonstrated with three-dimensionally
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Revival of Ferroelectric Memories Based on Emerging Fluorite-Structured Ferroelectrics Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Ju Yong Park, Duk-Hyun Choe, Dong Hyun Lee, Geun Taek Yu, Kun Yang, Se Hyun Kim, Geun Hyeong Park, Seung-Geol Nam, Hyun Jae Lee, Sanghyun Jo, Bong Jin Kuh, Daewon Ha, Yongsung Kim, Jinseong Heo, Min Hyuk Park
Over the last few decades, the research on ferroelectric memories has been limited due to their dimensional scalability and incompatibility with complementary metal-oxide-semiconductor (CMOS) technology. The discovery of ferroelectricity in fluorite-structured oxides revived interest in the research on ferroelectric memories, with inducing nanoscale nonvolatility in state-of-the-art gate insulators
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Technological breakthroughs in chip fabrication, transfer, and color conversion for high performance micro-LED display Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Jung-El Ryu, Sohyeon Park, Yongjo Park, Sang-Wan Ryu, Kyungwook Hwang, Ho Won Jang
The implementation of high efficiency and high-resolution displays has been the focus of considerable research interest. Recently, micro-LEDs, which are inorganic light-emitting diodes of size less than 100 μm2, have emerged as a promising display technology owing to their superior features and advantages over other displays like liquid crystal displays and organic light-emitting diodes. Although many
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Recent Progress in Strain Engineering on Van der Waals 2D Materials: Tunable Electrical, Electrochemical, Magnetic and Optical Properties Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Yaping Qi, Mohammad A. Sadi, Dan Hu, Ming Zheng, Zhenping Wu, Yucheng Jiang, Yong P. Chen
Strain engineering is a promising way to tune the electrical, electrochemical, magnetic, and optical properties of two-dimensional (2D) materials, with the potential to achieve high-performance 2D-material-based devices ultimately. This review discusses the experimental and theoretical results from recent advances in the strain engineering of 2D materials. We summarize some novel methods to induce
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Antiferromagnetic-Ferromagnetic Heterostructure-based Field-Free Terahertz Emitters Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Xiaojun Wu, Hanchen Wang, Haijiang Liu, Yizhan Wang, Xinhou Chen, Peng Chen, Peiyan Li, Xiufeng Han, Jungang Miao, Haiming Yu, Caihua Wan, Jimin Zhao, Sai Chen
Recently, ferromagnetic heterostructure spintronic terahertz (THz) emitters have been recognized as one of the most promising candidates for the next-generation THz sources, owing to their peculiarities of high efficiency, high stability, low cost, ultrabroad bandwidth, controllable polarization, and high scalability. Despite the substantial efforts, they rely on external magnetic fields to initiate
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Balanced interfacial ion concentration and migration steric hindrance promoting high-efficiency deposition/dissolution battery chemistry Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Zhexuan Liu, Lanyan Li, Liping Qin, Shan Guo, Guozhao Fang, Zhigao Luo, Shuquan Liang
Solid-liquid transition reaction lays the foundation of many electrochemical energy storage systems with high capacity, but realizing high efficiency of this reaction remain a challenge. Herein, in terms of thermodynamics and dynamics, this work demonstrates the significant role of both interfacial H+ ion concentration and Mn2+ ion migration steric hindrance for the high-efficiency deposition/dissolution
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Eliminating Micropore Confinement Effect of Carbonaceous Electrode for Promoting Zn-Ion Storage Capability Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Li Wang, Mengke Peng, Jierui Chen, Ting Hu, Kai Yuan, Yiwang Chen
Zinc-ion capacitors (ZICs) is promising technology for large-scale energy storage by integrating the attributes of supercapacitors and zinc-ion batteries. Unfortunately, the insufficient Zn2+ storage active sites of carbonaceous cathode materials and the mismatch of pore sizes with charge carriers led to unsatisfactory Zn2+ storage capability. Herein, we report new insights for boosting Zn2+ storage
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Mechanically Active Materials and Devices for Bio-Interfaced Pressure Sensors – A Review Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-11 Zhongyi Nie, Jean Won Kwak, Mengdi Han, John A. Rogers
Pressures generated by external forces or by internal body processes represent parameters of critical importance in diagnosing physiological health and in anticipating injuries. Examples span intracranial hypertension from traumatic brain injuries, high blood pressure from poor diet, pressure-induced skin ulcers from immobility, and edema from congestive heart failure. Pressures measured on the soft
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Potassium-Assisted Fabrication of Intrinsic Defects in Porous Carbons for Electrocatalytic CO2 Reduction Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Li-Li Ling, Long Jiao, Xiaoshuo Liu, Yun Dong, Weijie Yang, Hongjun Zhang, Bangjiao Ye, Jun Chen, Hai-Long Jiang
The fabrication of intrinsic carbon defects is usually tangled with doping effects, and the identification of their unique roles in catalysis remains a tough task. Herein, a K+-assisted synthetic strategy is developed to afford porous carbon (K-defect-C) with abundant intrinsic defects and complete elimination of heteroatom via direct pyrolysis of K+-confined metal-organic framework (MOF). The positron
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Dual-Scale Integration Design of Sn-ZnO Catalyst Towards Efficient and Stable CO2 Electroreduction Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Bohua Ren, Zhen Zhang, Guobin Wen, Xiaowen Zhang, Mi Xu, Yueying Weng, Yihang Nie, Haozhen Dou, Yi Jiang, Ya-ping Deng, Guiru Sun, Dan Luo, Lingling Shui, Xin Wang, Ming Feng, Aiping Yu, Zhongwei Chen
Electrochemical CO2 reduction to CO is a potential sustainable strategy for alleviating CO2 emissions and producing valuable fuels. In the quest to resolve its current problems of low energy efficiency and insufficient durability, we propose a dual-scale design strategy by implanting non-noble active Sn-ZnO heterointerface inside the nanopores of high-surface-area carbon nanospheres (Sn-ZnO@HC). The
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Filler-Integrated Composite Polymer Electrolyte for Solid-State Lithium Batteries Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Shuailei Liu, Wenyi Liu, Deliang Ba, Yongzhi Zhao, Yihua Ye, Yuanyuan Li, Jinping Liu
Composite polymer electrolytes (CPEs) utilizing fillers as the promoting component bridge the gap between solid polymer electrolytes and inorganic solid electrolytes. The integration of fillers into the polymer matrices has been demonstrated as a prevailing strategy to enhance Li-ion transport and assist in constructing Li+-conducting electrode-electrolyte interface layer, which addresses the two key
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Reversible phase transition for durable formamidinium-dominated perovskite photovoltaics Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Huifen Liu, Nengxu Li, Zehua Chen, Shuxia Tao, Chunlei Li, Lang Jiang, Xiuxiu Niu, Qi Chen, Feng Wang, Yu Zhang, Zijian Huang, Tinglu Song, Huanping Zhou
Phase instability (especially phase transition) is one of the major obstacles to the wide application of formamidinium (FA)-dominated perovskite solar cells (PSCs). An in-depth investigation on relevant phase transition kinetics is urgently needed to explore more effective phase stabilization strategies. Herein for the first time, we monitored the reversible phase transition process of FA1–xCsxPbI3
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A Personalized Electronic Tattoo for Healthcare Realized by On-the-Spot Assembly of an Intrinsically Conductive and Durable Liquid-Metal Composite (Adv. Mater. 32/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Gun-Hee Lee, Heejin Woo, Chanwoong Yoon, Congqi Yang, Jae-Young Bae, Wonsik Kim, Do Hoon Lee, Heemin Kang, Seungmin Han, Seung-Kyun Kang, Seongjun Park, Hyung-Ryong Kim, Jae-Woong Jeong, Steve Park
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MOF-Based Chemiresistive Gas Sensors: Toward New Functionalities Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-10 Young-Moo Jo, Yong Kun Jo, Jong-Heun Lee, Ho Won Jang, In-Sung Hwang, Do Joon Yoo
The sensing performances of gas sensors must be improved and diversified to enhance the quality of life by ensuring health, safety, and convenience. Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs), which exhibit an extremely high surface area, abundant porosity, and unique surface chemistry, provide a promising framework for facilitating gas sensor innovations. Enhanced understanding of conduction mechanisms of MOFs
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Massively Parallel Selection of NanoCluster Beacons Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Yu-An Kuo, Cheulhee Jung, Yu-An Chen, Hung-Che Kuo, Oliver S. Zhao, Trung D. Nguyen, James R. Rybarski, Soonwoo Hong, Yuan-I Chen, Dennis C. Wylie, John A. Hawkins, Jada N. Walker, Samuel W. Shields, Jennifer S. Brodbelt, Jeffrey T. Petty, Ilya J. Finkelstein, Hsin-Chih Yeh
NanoCluster Beacons (NCBs) are multicolor silver nanocluster probes whose fluorescence can be activated or tuned by a proximal DNA strand called the activator. While a single-nucleotide difference in a pair of activators can lead to drastically different activation outcomes, termed the polar opposite twins (POTs), it is difficult to discover new POT-NCBs using the conventional low-throughput characterization
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Microstructured BN composites with internally designed high thermal conductivity paths for 3D electronic packaging Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Hongying He, Weixiang Peng, Junbo Liu, Xin Ying Chan, Shike Liu, Li Lu, Hortense Le Ferrand
Miniaturized and high-power density 3D electronic devices pose new challenges on thermal management. Indeed, prompt heat dissipation in electrically insulating packaging is currently limited by the thermal conductivity achieved by thermal interface materials (TIMs) and by their capability to direct the heat towards heat sinks. Here, we create high thermal conductivity BN-based composites able to conduct
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Impact of Side Chain Hydrophilicity on Packing, Swelling and Ion Interactions in Oxy-bithiophene Semiconductors Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Nicholas Siemons, Drew Pearce, Camila Cendra, Hang Yu, Sachetan M. Tuladhar, Rawad K. Hallani, Rajendar Sheelamanthula, Garrett S. LeCroy, Lucas Siemons, Andrew J. P. White, Iain Mcculloch, Alberto Salleo, Jarvist M. Frost, Alexander Giovannitti, Jenny Nelson
Exchanging hydrophobic alkyl-based side chains to hydrophilic glycol-based side chains is a widely adopted method for improving mixed-transport device performance, despite the impact on solid state packing and polymer-electrolyte interactions being poorly understood. Presented here is a Molecular Dynamics (MD) force field for modelling alkoxylated and glycolated polythiophenes. The force field is validated
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Light-Based Printing of Leachable Salt Molds for Facile Shaping of Complex Structures (Adv. Mater. 32/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Nicole Kleger, Simona Fehlmann, Seunghun S. Lee, Cyril Dénéréaz, Martina Cihova, Nevena Paunović, Yinyin Bao, Jean-Christophe Leroux, Stephen J. Ferguson, Kunal Masania, André R. Studart
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Quantum Conductance in Memristive Devices: Fundamentals, Developments, and Applications (Adv. Mater. 32/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Gianluca Milano, Masakazu Aono, Luca Boarino, Umberto Celano, Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, Michael Kozicki, Sayani Majumdar, Mariela Menghini, Enrique Miranda, Carlo Ricciardi, Stefan Tappertzhofen, Kazuya Terabe, Ilia Valov
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Structure and Evolution of Quasi-Solid-State Hybrid Electrolytes Formed Inside Electrochemical Cells (Adv. Mater. 32/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Nyalaliska W. Utomo, Yue Deng, Qing Zhao, Xiaotun Liu, Lynden A. Archer
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Suppressing Charged Cation Antisites via Se Vapor Annealing Enables p-Type Dopability in AgBiSe2–SnSe Thermoelectrics Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Hanhwi Jang, Michael Y. Toriyama, Stanley Abbey, Brakowaa Frimpong, James P. Male, G. Jeffrey Snyder, Yeon Sik Jung, Min-Wook Oh
Cation disordering is commonly found in multinary cubic compounds, but its effect on electronic properties has been neglected because of difficulties in determining the ordered structure and defect energetics. An absence of rational understanding of the point defects present has led to poor reproducibility and uncontrolled conduction type. AgBiSe2 is a representative compound that suffers from poor
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Cooperative Coupling of H2O2 Production and Organic Synthesis Over Floatable Polystyrene Sphere-supported TiO2/Bi2O3 S-scheme Photocatalyst Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Bowen He, Zhongliao Wang, Peng Xiao, Tao Chen, Jiaguo Yu, Liuyang Zhang
Cooperative coupling of photocatalytic H2O2 production with organic synthesis has an expansive perspective in converting solar energy into storable chemical energy. However, traditional powder photocatalysts suffer from severe agglomeration, limited light absorption, poor gas reactant accessibility and reusable difficulty, which greatly hinders their large-scale application. Herein, floatable composite
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Functional MXene-Based Materials for Next-Generation Rechargeable Batteries Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-09 Chao Zheng, Yu Yao, Xianhong Rui, Yuezhan Feng, Dan Yang, Hongge Pan, Yan Yu
MXenes are seen as an exceptional candidate to reshape the future of energy with their viable surface chemistry, ultrathin 2D structure and excellent electronic conductivity. The extensive research efforts bring about rapid expansion of the MXene families with enriched functionalities, which significantly boost performance of the existing energy storage devices. In this review, we highlight the strategies
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Bottom-up Interfacial Design of Covalent Organic Frameworks for Highly Efficient and Selective Electrocatalysis of CO2 Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-07 Ting He, Chenhuai Yang, Yongzhi Chen, Ning Huang, Shuming Duan, Zhicheng Zhang, Wenping Hu, Donglin Jiang
Assembling molecular catalytic centers into crosslinked networks is widely used to fabricate heterogeneous catalysts but they often suffer loss in activity and selectivity accompanied by unclear causes. Here we report a strategy for the construction of heterogeneous catalysts to induce activity and selectivity by bottom-up introduction of segregated electron conduction and mass transport interfaces
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Piezoelectricity across Two-dimensional Phase Boundaries Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Anand B. Puthirath, Xiang Zhang, Aravind Krishnamoorthy, Rui Xu, Farnaz Safi Samghabadi, David C. Moore, Jiawei Lai, Tianyi Zhang, David E. Sanchez, Fu Zhang, Nicholas R. Glavin, Dmitri Litvinov, Robert Vajtai, Venkataraman Swaminathan, Mauricio Terrones, Hanyu Zhu, Priya Vashishta, Pulickel M. Ajayan
Piezoelectricity in low dimensional materials and metal-semiconductor junctions has attracted recent attention. We investigate a 2D in-plane metal-semiconductor junction made of multilayer 2H and 1T' phases of MoTe2 structure. Strong piezoelectric response is observed using piezoresponse force microscopy at the 2H-1T’ junction, despite that the multilayers of each individual phase are weakly piezoelectric
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Ultratough Hydrogen-Bond Bridged Phosphorene Films Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-05 Zhifang Liu, Huaipeng Wang, Huaqiang Cao, Dan Xie, Chun Li, Haijun Yang, Wenqing Yao, Anthony K. Cheetham
The rapid development of flexible electronic devices, especially based on two-dimensional(2D) materials, has triggered the demand for high-strength materials. Mono- or few-layer phosphorene with excellent electronic properties has attracted extensive attention. However, phosphorene is affected by its low Young's modulus when applied to flexible electronic devices. Here, we report a strategy via ion
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Rationally Structured Triboelectric Nanogenerator Arrays for Harvesting Water Current Energy and Self-powered Sensing Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Zichao Deng, Liang Xu, Huaifang Qin, Xianye Li, Jizhou Duan, Baorong Hou, Zhong Lin Wang
Water current energy is an enormous and widely distributed clean energy in nature, with different scales from large ocean flow to small local turbulence. However, few effective technologies have been proposed to make use of different forms of water currents as a power source. Here, high-performance paired triboelectric nanogenerators (P-TENGs) capable of integrating massively into a thin flexible layer
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Molecular-switch-embedded Solution-processed Semiconductors Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Seong Hoon Yu, Syed Zahid Hassan, Chan So, Mingyun Kang, Dae Sung Chung
Recent improvements in the performances of solution-processed semiconductor materials and optoelectronic devices have shifted research interest to the diversification/advancement of their functionality. Embedding a molecular switch capable of transition between two or more metastable isomers by light stimuli is one of the most straightforward and widely accepted methods to potentially realize the multifunctionality
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Suppressing the Loss of Polymer-based Dielectrics for High Power Energy Storage Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jia-Yao Pei, Li-Juan Yin, Shao-Long Zhong, Zhi-Min Dang
Polymer-based dielectrics have received intensive interest from academic community in the field of high-power energy storage owing to their superior flexibility and fast charge-discharge ability. Recently, how to suppress the loss of polymer-based dielectrics has been increasingly recognized as a critical point to attain a high charge-discharge efficiency in the film capacitors. Some achievements have
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Bionic Regulators Break the Ecological Niche of Pathogenic Bacteria for Modulating Dysregulated Microbiome in Colitis Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jiali Yang, Guizhen Zhang, Mengyun Peng, Shaochong Tan, Shengchan Ge, Xinyuan Yang, Yan Liang, Zhiyang Wen, Li Xie, Tonghai Zhou, Sixuan Wu, Jingyi An, Yifei Wang, Wei Liu, Kaixiang Zhang, Zhenzhong Zhang, Junjie Liu, Jinjin Shi
Therapeutic approaches that reprogram the gut microbiome are promising strategies to alleviate and cure inflammatory bowel disease (IBD). However, abnormal expansion of E. coli during inflammation can promote pathogenic bacteria occupying ecological niches to resist reprogramming of the microbiome. Herein, we develop a bionic regulator (CaWO4@YCW) to efficiently and precisely regulate the gut microbiome
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Organic Neuro-Electronics: From Neural Interface to Neuroprosthetics Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Gyeong-Tak Go, Yeongjun Lee, Dae-Gyo Seo, Tae-Woo Lee
This review outlines requirements and recent advances in research on organic neuro-electronics. Neuro-electronics such as neural interfaces and neuroprosthetics provide a promising approach to diagnose and treat neurological diseases. However, the current neural interfaces are rigid and not biocompatible, so they induce an immune response and deterioration of neural signal transmission. Organic materials
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Accurate wavelength tracking by exciton spin mixing Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Anton Kirch, Toni Bärschneider, Tim Achenbach, Felix Fries, Max Gmelch, Robert Werberger, Chris Guhrenz, Aušra Tomkevičienė, Johannes Benduhn, Alexander Eychmüller, Karl Leo, Sebastian Reineke
Wavelength discriminating systems typically consist of heavy benchtop-based instruments, comprising diffractive optics, moving parts, and adjacent detectors. For simple wavelength measurements, such as lab-on-chip light source calibration or laser wavelength tracking, which do not require polychromatic analysis and cannot handle bulky spectroscopy instruments, light-weight, easy-to-process, and flexible
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Experimental Realization of a Superdispersion-enabled Ultrabroadband Terahertz Cloak Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Tong Cai, Bin Zheng, Jing Lou, Lian Shen, Yihao Yang, Shiwei Tang, Erping Li, Chao Qian, Hongsheng Chen
Invisibility has been a topic of long-standing interest owning to the advent of metamaterials and transformation optics, but still faces open challenges after its tremendous development in recent decades. One of the big challenges is the narrow bandwidth, as the realization of an invisibility cloak is usually based on a metamaterial – an artificial composite material composed of subwavelength resonator
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Thermal Radiation Driven Ultrafast Crystallization of Perovskite Films Under Heavy Humidity for Efficient Inverted Solar Cells Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Guoliang Wang, Qing Lian, Deng Wang, Feng Jiang, Guojun Mi, Dongyang Li, Yulan Huang, Yun Wang, Xiyu Yao, Run Shi, Chwenhaw Liao, Jianghui Zheng, Anita Ho-Baillie, Abbas Amini, Baomin Xu, Chun Cheng
Fabricating perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in air is conducive to low-cost commercial production, nevertheless it is rather difficult to achieve comparable device performance as that in an inert atmosphere because of poor moisture toleration of perovskite materials. Here, the perovskite crystallization process was systematically studied using two-step sequential solution deposition in inert atmosphere
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Roll-to-roll Fabrication of Zero-Volume-Expansion Lithium Composite Anodes to Realize High-Energy-Density Flexible and Stable Lithium Metal Batteries Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Chao Luo, Hong Hu, Tian Zhang, Shujing Wen, Ruo Wang, Yanan An, Shang-Sen Chi, Jun Wang, Chaoyang Wang, Jian Chang, Zijian Zheng, Yonghong Deng
Lithium (Li) metal anode offers a promising solution for high-energy-density lithium metal batteries (LMBs). However, the significant volume expansion of Li metal during charge results in poor cycling stability as a result of the dendritic deposition and broken solid electrolyte interphase. Herein, we propose a facile one-step roll-to-roll fabrication of a zero-volume-expansion Li metal composite anode
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Unraveling Device Physics of Dilute-Donor Narrow-Bandgap Organic Solar Cells with Highly Transparent Active Layers (Adv. Mater. 31/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Nora Schopp, Gulnur Akhtanova, Patchareepond Panoy, Alexandr Arbuz, Sangmin Chae, Ahra Yi, Hyo Jung Kim, Vinich Promarak, Thuc-Quyen Nguyen, Viktor V. Brus
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A Skin-Inspired Design Integrating Mechano–Chemical–Thermal Robustness into Superhydrophobic Coatings (Adv. Mater. 31/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Hailong Zhang, Xinyu Bu, Wanbo Li, Miaomiao Cui, Xingxiang Ji, Furong Tao, Ligang Gai, Haihui Jiang, Libin Liu, Zuankai Wang
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Material Design and Device Fabrication Strategies for Stretchable Organic Solar Cells (Adv. Mater. 31/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Jin Su Park, Geon-U Kim, Seungjin Lee, Jin-Woo Lee, Sheng Li, Jung-Yong Lee, Bumjoon J. Kim
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Graphene-Based Intrinsically Stretchable 2D-Contact Electrodes for Highly Efficient Organic Light-Emitting Diodes (Adv. Mater. 31/2022) Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-04 Huanyu Zhou, Shin Jung Han, Amit Kumar Harit, Dong Hyun Kim, Dae Yoon Kim, Yong Seok Choi, Hyeokjun Kwon, Kwan-Nyeong Kim, Gyeong-Tak Go, Hyung Joong Yun, Byung Hee Hong, Min Chul Suh, Seung Yoon Ryu, Han Young Woo, Tae-Woo Lee
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Energy Interplay in Materials: Unlocking Next-Generation Synchronous Multisource Energy Conversion with Layered 2D Crystals Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Alexander Corletto, Amanda V. Ellis, Nick A. Shepelin, Marco Fronzi, David A. Winkler, Joseph G. Shapter, Peter C. Sherrell
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Advances in Colloidal Building Blocks: Toward Patchy Colloidal Clusters Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 You-Jin Kim, Jeong-Bin Moon, Hyerim Hwang, Youn Soo Kim, Gi-Ra Yi
A scalable synthetic route to colloidal atoms has significantly advanced over the past two decades. Recently, colloidal clusters with DNA-coated cores called “patchy colloidal clusters” have been developed, providing a directional bonding with specific angle of rotation due to the shape complementarity between colloidal clusters. Through a DNA-mediated interlocking process, they were directly assembled
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Stability of Perovskite Light-Emitting Diodes: Existing Issues and Mitigation Strategies Related to both Material and Device Aspects Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-03 Lingmei Kong, Xiaoyu Zhang, Chengxi Zhang, Lin Wang, Sheng Wang, Fan Cao, Dewei Zhao, Andrey L. Rogach, Xuyong Yang
Metal halide perovskites combine excellent electronic and optical properties such as defect tolerance and high photoluminescence efficiency with the benefits of low-cost, large area, solution-based processing. Composition- and dimension-tunable properties of perovskites have already been utilized in bright and efficient light-emitting diodes (LEDs). At the same time, there are still great challenges
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Optothermally Programmable Liquids with Spatiotemporal Precision and Functional Complexity Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Xixi Chen, Tianli Wu, Danmin Huang, Jiajia Zhou, Fengxiang Zhou, Mei Tu, Yao Zhang, Baojun Li, Yuchao Li, Lingxiang Jiang
Due to the intrinsic lack of spatial order and self-supported shape, liquids are often incompatible with precision manufacturing/processing and are potentially limited for advanced functionality. Herein, we develop an optothermal strategy to fully command phase-separated liquids with unprecedent spatiotemporal addressability. Specifically, we focus a laser onto an Au film to create a hot spot that
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Manipulating Offense and Defense Signaling to Fight Cold Tumors with Carrier-Free Nanoassembly of Fluorinated Prodrug and siRNA Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Pengkai Wu, Haitian Zhang, Meiling Sun, Shuai Mao, Qifeng He, Yuze Shi, Yexuan Deng, Zhongjun Dong, Qingxiang Xu, Chen Zhao, Wenjie Zhang, Beicheng Sun
Chemoimmunotherapy has shown great potential to activate immune response, but immunosuppressive microenvironment associated T cell exhaustion remains a challenge in cancer therapy. The proper immune-modulatory strategy to provoke a robust immune response is to simultaneously regulate T-cell exhaustion and infiltration. Here, a new kind of carrier-free nanoparticle (NP) was developed to simultaneously
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A Soft Magnetoelastic Generator for Wind Energy Harvesting Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Xun Zhao, Ardo Nashalian, Il Woo Ock, Steven Popoli, Jing Xu, Junyi Yin, Trinny Tat, Alberto Libanori, Guorui Chen, Yihao Zhou, Jun Chen
The current energy crises and imminent danger of global warming severely limits our ability to scale societal development sustainably. As such, there is a pressing need for utilizing renewable, green energy sources such as wind energy which is ubiquitously available on Earth. In this work, we report a fundamentally new wind energy harvesting technology based on the giant magnetoelastic effect in a
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Visible Light Degradable 3D Microstructures in Aqueous Environments Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Marvin Gernhardt, Vinh X. Truong, Christopher Barner-Kowollik
The additive manufacturing technique direct laser writing (DLW), also known as two-photon laser lithography, is becoming increasingly established as a technique capable of fabricating functional three-dimensional microstructures. Recently, there has been an increasing effort to impart microstructures fabricated using DLW with advanced functionalities by introducing responsive chemical entities into
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Polishing Lead-Poor Surface for Efficient Inverted CsPbI3 Perovskite Solar Cells Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Sheng Fu, Jiabo Le, Xueming Guo, Nannan Sun, Wenxiao Zhang, Weijie Song, Junfeng Fang
Triiodide cesium lead perovskite (CsPbI3) has promising prospects in the development of efficient and stable photovoltaics in both single-junction and tandem structure. However, achieving inverted devices which provide good stability and are compatible to tandem devices, remains a challenge and the deep insights are still unintelligible. In this study, we found that the surface components of CsPbI3
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Building a Self-Adaptive Protective Layer on Ni-Rich Layered Cathodes to Enhance the Cycle Stability of Lithium-Ion Batteries Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Hua Yang, Rui-Min Gao, Xu-Dong Zhang, Jia-Yan Liang, Xin-Hai Meng, Zhuo-Ya Lu, Fei-Fei Cao, Huan Ye
Layered Ni-rich lithium transition metal oxides are promising battery cathodes due to their high specific capacity, but their poor cycling stability due to intergranular cracks in secondary particles restricts their practical applications. Surface engineering is an effective strategy for improving a cathode's cycling stability, but most reported surface coatings cannot adapt to the dynamic volume changes
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Computational Biomaterials: Computational Simulations for Biomedicine Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Xinyue Dai, Yu Chen
With the flourishing development of material simulation methods (quantum chemistry methods, molecular dynamics, Monte Carlo, phase field, etc.), extensive adoption of computing technologies (high-throughput, artificial intelligence, machine learning, etc.), and the invention of high-performance computing equipment, computational simulation tools have sparked the fundamental mechanism-level explorations
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Challenging Bendable Organic Single Crystal and Transistor Arrays with High Mobility and Durability towards Flexible Electronics Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Beibei Fu, Fangxu Yang, Lingjie Sun, Qiang Zhao, Deyang Ji, Yajing Sun, Xiaotao Zhang, Wenping Hu
Bendable organic single crystals are promising candidates for flexible electronics owing to their superior charge transport properties. However, large-area high-quality organic single crystals are rarely available on polymer substrates generally used in flexible electronics. Here, a surface-assisted assembly strategy based on a polymer modification, poly (amic acid) (PAA), is developed to grow large-area
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Determination of Crystallographic Orientation and Exposed Facets of Titanium Oxide Nanocrystals Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Jiangshan Qu, Yueshuai Wang, Xulin Mu, Jingcong Hu, Bin Zeng, Yue Lu, Manling Sui, Rengui Li, Can Li
Titanium dioxide (TiO2) nanocrystals have attracted great attention in heterogeneous photocatalysis and photoelectricity fields for decades. However, contradictious conclusions on the reporting of crystallographic orientation and exposed facets of TiO2 nanocrystals frequently appeared in the literature. Herein, using anatase TiO2 nanocrystals with highly exposed {001} facets as a model, we clarified
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One-phototransistor-one-memristor Array with High-linearity Light-tunable Weight for Optic Neuromorphic Computing Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 By Bingjie Dang, Keqin Liu, Xulei Wu, Zhen Yang, Liying Xu, Yuchao Yang, Ru Huang
The recent advances in optic neuromorphic devices have led to a subsequent rise in use for construction of energy-efficient artificial vision systems. The widespread use can be attributed to their ability to capture, store, and process visual information from the environment. The primary limitations of existing optic neuromorphic devices include nonlinear weight updates, cross-talk issues, and silicon
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Tailoring the Thickness-Dependent Optical Properties of Conducting Nitrides and Oxides for Epsilon-Near-Zero-Enhanced Photonic Applications Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Soham Saha, Mustafa Goksu Ozlu, Sarah N. Chowdhury, Benjamin T. Diroll, Richard D. Schaller, Alexander Kildishev, Alexandra Boltasseva, Vladimir M. Shalaev
The unique properties of the emerging photonic materials, conducting nitrides and oxides, especially their tailorability, large damage thresholds, and, importantly, the so-called epsilon-near-zero (ENZ) behavior, have enabled novel photonic phenomena spanning optical circuitry, tunable metasurfaces, and nonlinear optical devices. This work explores direct control of the optical properties of polycrystalline
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Design Strategies for Hydroxyapatite-based Materials to Enhance Their Catalytic Performance and Applicability Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Hyunwoo Yook, Jinwoo Hwang, Woonsuk Yeo, Jungup Bang, Jaeyoung Kim, Tae Yong Kim, Jae-Soon Choi, Jeong Woo Han
Hydroxyapatite (HAP) is a green catalyst which has a wide range of applications in the catalysis due to its high flexibility and multi-functionality. These properties allow HAP to accommodate a large number of catalyst modifications that can selectively improve the catalytic performance in target reactions. To date, many studies have been conducted to elucidate the effect of HAP modification on the
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Strain-driven Mixed-phase Domain Architectures and Topological Transitions in Pb1-xSrxTiO3 Thin Films Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-08-02 Pravin Kavle, Jacob A. Zorn, Arvind Dasgupta, Bo Wang, Maya Ramesh, Long-Qing Chen, Lane W. Martin
The potential for creating hierarchical domain structures, or mixtures of energetically degenerate phases with distinct patterns that can be modified continually, in ferroelectric thin films offers a pathway to control their mesoscale structure beyond lattice-mismatch strain with a substrate. Here, it is demonstrated that varying the strontium content provides deterministic strain-driven control of
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Mass Transfer Printing of Metal-Halide Perovskite Films and Nanostructures Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Zhijian Li, Shenglong Chu, Yihan Zhang, Wenjing Chen, Jia Chen, Yongbo Yuan, Shangfeng Yang, Hongmin Zhou, Tao Chen, Zhengguo Xiao
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Tungsten-based Nanomaterials in the Biomedical Field: A Bibliometric Analysis of Research Progress and Prospects Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Chenglu Gu, Zhiqiang Wang, Yawen Pan, Shuang Zhu, Zhanjun Gu
Tungsten-based nanomaterials (TNMs) with diverse nanostructures and unique physicochemical properties have been widely applied in the biomedical field. Although various reviews have described the application of TNMs in specific biomedical fields, there are still no comprehensive studies that summarize and analyze research trends of the field as a whole. To identify and further promote the development
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Controlled covalent self-assembly of a homopolymer for multi-scale materials engineering Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Xiangyang Bai, Qingxue Sun, Hao Cui, Luis P. B. Guerzoni, Stefan Wuttke, Fabian Kiessling, Laura De Laporte, Twan Lammers, Yang Shi
Polymer self-assembly is a crucial process in materials engineering. Currently, almost all polymer self-assembly is limited to non-covalent bonding methods, even though these methods have drawbacks as they require complicated synthesis techniques and produce relatively unstable structures. Here, a novel mechanism of covalent polymer assembly is discovered and employed to address drawbacks of non-covalent
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Chemical vapor deposition of high optical quality large area monolayer Janus transition metal dichalcogenides Adv. Mater. (IF 32.086) Pub Date : 2022-07-30 Ziyang Gan, Ioannis Paradisanos, Ana Estrada-Real, Julian Picker, Emad Najafidehaghani, Francis Davies, Christof Neumann, Cedric Robert, Peter Wiecha, Kenji Watanabe, Takashi Taniguchi, Xavier Marie, Johannes Biskupek, Manuel Mundszinger, Robert Leiter, Ute Kaiser, Arkady V. Krasheninnikov, Bernhard Urbaszek, Antony George, Andrey Turchanin
We report one pot chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of large area Janus SeMoS monolayers, with the asymmetric top (Se) and bottom (S) chalcogen atomic planes with respect to the central transition metal (Mo) atoms. The formation of these two-dimensional semiconductor monolayers takes place upon the thermodynamic equilibrium driven exchange of the bottom Se atoms of the initially grown MoSe2 single