Themed collection Recent Review Articles

Many materials exhibit static and functional properties.

Debonding-on-demand adhesives enable the disassembly of multilayer electronic devices under external stimuli, facilitating efficient recycling and reuse of valuable components.

Garnet-type cubic Li₇La₃Zr₂O₁₂ (c-LLZO) is a single-ion conductor, but the electrochemically generated charged vacancies make it a binary ionic electrolyte, which explains the current- and thickness-dependent lithium dendrite initiation dynamics.

This article highlights recent advances in the rational design of uniform afterglow SiO₂ microparticles, facilitated by pseudomorphic transformation-assisted doping, identifies key challenges, and explores opportunities in this field.

This mini review summarizes the recent progress of Zn–V static battery and Zn–V redox flow battery. Mechanisms, classification and structures, problems and modification strategies are discussed for future developments of these batteries.

An overview of MeSNs for photo-enhanced chemodynamic theranostics of tumors is provided in this review, offering insights into their potential for next-generation cancer treatments.

2D van der Waals heterostructures offer great promise for memristors and neuromorphic computing. This review covers their preparation methods, band structures, switching mechanisms in memristors, and neuromorphic computing applications.

Types and applications of perovskite photodetectors.

The chiral geometries of nucleic acids and emerging biomedical applications of nucleic acid-based chiral nanostructures are summarized in this review.

This review article discusses membrane technology for wastewater reclamation using electrically conductive nanomaterials (ECNMs) and emphasizes “green synthesis” for nanomaterial manufacturing.

In this review, we present a comprehensive analysis of crystalline porous materials (MOFs, COFs, and HOFs) as membrane devices for carbon-neutral technologies.

This review provides an overview of recent progress in tattoo electrodes, emphasizing fabrication techniques and material selection, and explores their broad range of applications in wearable bioelectronic systems.

This review focuses on self-powered wearable sensing devices that utilize human energy, introducing their power supply mechanism and efficiency improvement methods.

Gel materials are ideal electrode candidates for energy applications, featuring unique 3D networks, tunable properties, and remarkable stability.

This review covers wet chemically synthesized nanomaterials for soft wearable biosensors, covering materials, inks, fabrication and sensing applications, and concludes with challenges and opportunities in personalized healthcare.

Nanoparticles upon interaction with proteins form a protein corona, altering their characteristics. This corona influences nanoparticles' biodistribution, pharmacokinetics, and therapeutic efficacy.

This paper reviews graphene nanostructures as promising materials for wearable biosensors, detailing their synthesis, tunability, and biocompatibility, and outlining their role in next-generation wearable diagnostics for real-time health monitoring.

This article explores the electroreduction capabilities of metal nanoclusters, highlighting the structure–property correlation and its impact on product selectivity–ultimately guiding the design of efficient electrocatalysts for CO₂ reduction.

This review explores the evolution of indoor perovskite solar cells driven by recent advances in material optimization and machine learning, fostering sustainable indoor energy solutions for interconnected smart technologies.

This review explores recent advances in mimicking biological sensory systems—receptors, neurons, and synapses—using memristors. It also outlines methods to attain the necessary device traits and implement systems effectively.

This review explores mechanisms of endosomal escape in polymeric nanoparticles and highlights emerging quantification methods. A critical discussion on current challenges and future strategies for optimizing intracellular delivery is provided.

Exploring the potential of polyimide–carbon nanocomposites with enhanced mechanical strength, self-healing ability, dust repellence, fire resistance and protection against atomic oxygen for next-generation spacesuits.

The principles, enhancement strategies, progress of different semiconductor types, challenges/perspectives, and guidance for commercial applications are systematic reviewed for the semiconductor radiosensitizers.

Bimetallic nanoparticles have attracted increasing scientific and technological interest as modules for creating nanoscale materials with unique magnetic, electronic, and chemical properties.

This review highlights recent advances in bacterial cellulose-derived functional yarns, covering applications in reinforcement materials, wearable technology, energy storage, and discolored textiles, with existing challenges and future perspectives.

This review outlines key machine learning algorithms for biosignal analysis and offers guidance on model selection. Applications in neural, cardiovascular, and biochemical signal monitoring for health tracking and disease prediction are discussed.

This review classifies light-responsive carbon dots into photoluminescent and photochromic categories, examines their synthesis strategies and optical mechanisms, and discusses the applications of these materials in various fields.

This TOC signifies the mp-g-CN photocatalyst enriched with a finely tuned functional porous surface and enhanced optoelectronic features, which suitably enables solar fuel production by using renewable stuffs to maintain the circular energy cycle.

This review presents a comprehensive overview of bioinspired rational design of nanozymes, guided by the catalytic mechanisms and structural characteristics of natural enzymes, and enhanced by emerging trend of machine learning assisted strategies.

This review explores the latest progress of various polymorphic phases of 2D In₂Se₃, emphasizing their unique properties, characterization methods, phase modulation strategies, and practical applications.

Gas sensors are essential tools for safeguarding public health and safety because they allow the detection of hazardous gases.

This review discusses the challenges associated with the emerging all-organic perovskite materials while outlining opportunities for their further development and applications in the future.

In this review, we systematically analyze the interfacial challenges between garnet-type electrolytes/composite electrolytes and electrodes, mainly focusing on the interfacial failure mechanism of garnet-type based SSLMBs.

Working principles, representative deformation modes, manufacturing methodologies, diverse applications, as well as challenges and opportunities of shape-morphing bioelectronic devices.

This review evaluates molecular aggregation structures across scales, elucidates mechanisms for enhancing tensile properties and summarizes methods to regulate structures, which provides critical insights for designing efficient and flexible OPVs.

An innovative biosensing smart mask for the future of respiratory monitoring.

Significant advancements have been made in biochemical sensing, particularly in the design, development, and utilization of metallic nanoclusters and metal–organic frameworks as separate functional materials.

This paper reviews droplet manipulation on bioinspired slippery surfaces. It also classifies methods into active and passive based on external stimuli like heat and light and emphasizes their significance for applications in multiple fields.

This review provides insight into the development of advanced metal single-atom catalysts for ammonia electrosynthesis.

Solid polymer electrolytes have been considered one of the most promising candidates for solid-state batteries, while the Li coordination structure, interfaces and interphases and related cycling performance still remain challenge.

Photocatalysis has emerged as a crucial technology for utilizing solar energy to combat global warming and energy shortages.

This review explores the potential of self-assembled monolayers (SAMs) as a solution to mitigate the voltage deficits in tin perovskite solar cells (TPSCs).

The latest developments in thiolate-protected metal nanoclusters in important electrocatalytic applications, such as hydrogen evolution, oxygen reduction and CO₂ reduction reactions, are briefly reviewed in this work.

Adsorption is widely recognized as an effective and practical approach for mitigating the environmental hazards associated with pharmaceutical waste, owing to its operational simplicity, economic feasibility, and consistent performance.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the latest key advancements in materials engineering strategies for carbon-based electrocatalysts for H₂O₂ production.

With the advances and ongoing research efforts discussed in this review, a continuous breakthrough in high-performance thermogalvanic hydrogels for efficient low-grade heat harvesting and wearable electronics for health monitoring is foreseeable.

ALD of superconducting films for various high performance applications.

Research on circularly polarized luminescent (CPL) materials has evolved into a hot research topic because of their potential application prospects in the optoelectronics and chiroptical fields.

Photoacoustic (PA) imaging is a burgeoning imaging modality that has a broad range of applications in the early diagnosis of cancer, detection of various diseases, and relevant scientific research.

Various aptasensors offer rapid, accurate and reliable detection tools for diagnosis of infectious disease pathogens.

This review summarizes recent progress in two-dimensional material-based RF switches, focusing on performance optimization, fabrication methods, and challenges, and potential applications in future high-frequency communication systems.

Photo- and electro-active poly(3-hexylthiophene) (P3HT)-based materials serve as efficient and highly biocompatible phototransducers for cutting-edge bioelectronic applications.

This review emphasizes memory-based intelligence, enabling artificial muscles to execute a range of pre-programmed movements and refresh stored actuation states in response to changing conditions, as well as sensory-based intelligence.

This review highlights the potential of solar-driven interfacial evaporation (SIE) technology to simultaneously produce clean water and extract valuable ions from water, addressing both water scarcity and resource recovery challenges.

This review summarized lignin/lignocellulose materials for various 3D printing techniques and their related applications, where lignin is used in an isolated state, as part of lignocellulose biomass or chemically modified to better bind with a matrix.

The applications and performance enhancement strategies of Ni_xP_y with different crystal phases in the field of electrocatalysis are discussed.

This review provides a systematic review and perspective of the challenges and opportunities in scaling memristive hardware for spiking neural networks (SNNs), focusing on device innovations, system integration, and algorithm-hardware co-design.

This review presents the latest advancements in the mechanisms and fabrication techniques of Ti₃C₂T_x-based MSCs, emphasizes their applications across various components of MSCs, and provides a summary of integrated examples of MSC-powered systems.

This research proposes performance-boosting strategies for silicon anodes in solid-state batteries by leveraging nanostructuring, doping and compositing. Moreover, it surveys the field's perspective and charts future research directions.

Mechanistic design of COF membranes enables high-selectivity ion transport for lithium extraction via diffusion and electrodialysis.

This review summarizes recent advances in the modification strategies of 2D materials for photocatalytic H₂O₂ production and its in situ applications. Additionally, the existing challenges in this field and potential solutions are discussed.

Hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis exhibits various advantages compared with conventional water electrolysis and other hybrid water electrolysis systems in terms of reaction, electrocatalyst design and application expansion.