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This review focuses on top-down dry and wet etching of III-nitrides, SiC, Ga₂O₃, and diamond to create micro/nanostructured UV photodetectors, enabling enhanced light trapping and improved device performance.

The anode-free lithium metal battery is characterized by light weight, low cost, high-energy density, and high safety and shows great potential for the application of flexible devices.

Flexible optoelectronics have attracted much attention in recent years for their potential applications in healthcare and wearable devices.

Mg incorporation in CuS enhances transparency and conductivity for p-type TCMs. We investigate its optical, electrical, and chemical properties and demonstrate p–n junction diodes, highlighting its potential for semiconductor applications.

Epoxy resins are widely used as dielectric materials in electrical and electronic systems. This study demonstrates that small amounts of chemical modifiers can significantly enhance epoxy resin performance.

A polymer composite composed of Ecoflex elastomer and salt particles exhibits extremely large swelling in aqueous solution driven by osmosis and demonstrates its application as active components for various shape-morphing structures.

SQR29 organophotosensitizer was encapsulated into poly(lignin/PEG/PPG urethane) to form a hydrogel (LSQR29), providing excellent antibacterial photodynamic therapy (aPDT) property to combat antibiotic-resistant pathogenic bacteria in wound infection.

We demonstrate high cycling stability of eumelanin on TiO₂ and record-breaking melanin-DSSC efficiencies of 0.24% before/0.42% after UV-light exposure.

Build orientation in PBF-L manipulates microstructures, thus tuning the mechanical and corrosion properties of duplex stainless steel before and after heat treatment.

A facile, rapid Joule heating protocol for forming amorphous-structured transition metal phosphate electrocatalysts with low overpotentials, fast kinetics, and long-term stability for oxygen evolution reaction (OER).

Using laser radiation, high-entropy nanoparticles were rapidly fabricated on conductive carbon. The high-entropy nanomaterials with reversible spinel structures exhibit better cycling and rate performances in LIBs.

Noble metal-based high entropy alloy (NM-HEA) nanofilm with surface amorphization, synthesized by ALD-EJH method, demonstrates outstanding hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) performance. The experimental and calculational results reveal the mechanism.

ROS-responsive AuNPs are designed to form clicked assembly large nanoclusters in an ROS-rich environment, which leads to enhancement of photothermal conversion efficiency.

Near infrared (NIR) photodetectors (PDs) have attracted great attention for their applications in the field of optical telecommunication.

One-step magnetocuring and AC-magnetorheology of AMF susceptible materials.

A 4-chlorobenzene sulfonyl chloride (CBSC) passivated perovskite solar cell device shows a high-power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 20.02% with improved long-term stability.