Themed collection Recent Review Articles

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

Lost in translation: no targeted nanoparticle has reached the clinic due to poor targeting efficacy, and overcoming this will require rethinking pharmacokinetics, optimizing dosing regimens, and addressing issues like antigen depletion.

Na_2/3[Ni_1/3Mn_2/3]O₂ (NNMO) Na-ion battery cathodes cycle well between 2 and 4 V (a) but suffer from severe decay when cycled above 4 V (b) due to P2–O2 transition. Doping strategies used to overcome this issue are discussed in this article.

Many materials exhibit static and functional properties.

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.

Aqueous zinc (Zn) batteries (AZBs) are becoming promising candidates for grid-scale energy storage because of their inherent safety, cost-effectiveness, and high theoretical capacity.

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.

Conceptual overview of 2D materials-based flash memory: architectures, materials, and applications.

Recent advances in clay-based proton exchange membranes are reviewed, focusing on microstructural design and regulation of proton transport channels.

Advances in chronic wearable biosignal acquisition are reviewed, emphasizing biointerfaces, wireless power, multimodal sensing, analytics, and challenges in epidermal turnover, accuracy, power and clinical translation.

A pioneering review of process intensification strategies in nanomaterial synthesis, detailing mechanisms and applications to accelerate advances in the field.

MOFs, as cathodes, photocathodes, and solid-state electrolytes, greatly boost Li–O₂ battery performance by enhancing catalytic efficiency, safety, and energy density—paving the way for advanced, practical energy storage solutions.

This review categorizes PC-based structural color switches into four distinct approaches, establishing a mechanistic framework to analyze their stimulus-responsive behaviors and applications in sensors, anticounterfeiting, and display.

This review gives an overview of RCA/RCT-based nanocarriers for nucleic acid drug delivery, systematically summarizing their nanoization strategies, drug loading approaches, targeting modalities, and controlled release mechanisms.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

This review explores the recent advances in agricultural nanozymes for sustainable agriculture, emphasizing their physicochemical properties, enzyme-like activities, and applications in alleviating biotic and abiotic stresses.

This review highlights recent advancements in soft wearable bioelectronics for neurological disorders, focusing on device design strategies and their clinical applications.

Porous materials are a class of materials with abundant micro-nano pore structures, low density, light weight, and large specific surface area, and they have been widely used in various fields.

The performance of n-type thermoelectrics has increased significantly over the years, with side chain engineering playing a pivotal role in advancing this field.

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.

Bound states in the continuum (BICs) are localized waves within radiating backgrounds, offering ultra-high quality factors. BICs have been applied in developing ultra-sensitive sensors. This review summarizes recent advances in this emerging field.

The electrochemical performance of LDH-based hybrid supercapacitors (SCs) with improved energy density (ED), enhanced stability, high porosity, and a large accessible surface area has attracted attention as a promising energy storage device.

Polyelectrolyte complex (PEC) based materials could provide a sustainable alternative to conventional materials, especially for separation applications.

This review elucidates the potential of GDY heterostructures for advancing energy storage technologies by examining doping methods, investigating doping mechanisms via calculations, and showcasing the superior applications in metal ion batteries.

Surface engineering strategies, including surface modifications and surface composites, were classified and illustrated to promote photocatalytic H₂O₂ production.

This review provides a comprehensive overview of the latest breakthrough in 2D material-decorated devices in soft robotics: working principles, manufacturing approaches, challenges and opportunities.

Cutting-edge computational strategies that bridge theoretical principles and experimental insights to enable the rational design and dynamic understanding of electrocatalysts.

Selective-damping materials in skin-interfaced bioelectronics can absorb and dissipate vibrations, reducing motion artifacts and enhancing stability. This review highlights biosensing and shock-absorption applications and current challenges.

This review provides a comprehensive analysis of silicon-based negative electrodes for next-generation lithium-ion batteries.

Synergy of carbon-based photo-bio-electrocatalysts and photocatalysis in fuels of the future, MFCs and MECs, is vital for sustainable living. This merging will revolutionize energy systems, paving the way for cleaner and efficient power generation.

Additive manufacturing enables advanced, patient-specific medical products and surgical tools for improved healthcare outcomes.

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

TCPP MOFs, characterized by diverse nanostructured morphologies, can be integrated into various membranes, performing advanced separation applications.

Cooperation of OSDAs could lead to a certain topology, reduce the synthesis cost, fasten the synthesis, or alter the Al distribution/siting, while the competition of OSDAs may cause phase selectivity issues or intergrowth of different structures.

This review presents conductive composites, fabrication processes, integration strategies, and therapeutic applications in the nervous system of fiber-based neural interfaces.

This review focuses on Kagome magnets, highlighting their lattice, rich electronic states and emergent quantum effects. It explores the synergy of topology, magnetism and correlations, and outlines future research directions in solid-state chemistry.

Overview of photo-crosslinkable organic components—insulators, semiconductors, and conductors—and their integration into flexible and stretchable electronics such as physical sensors, OFETs, and OSCs via photo-crosslinking method.

Types of antibiotics for treating bone infections and preparation methods of different drug-loaded scaffolds.

AI and ML accelerate nanozyme design, optimizing its catalytic performance for biomedical, industrial, and environmental uses. Overcoming data and interpretability challenges, this data-driven approach enhances design efficiency and precision.

Lead-free halide double perovskites feature low toxicity and structural tunability, making them promising candidates for sustainable optoelectronic and scintillation applications.

The performance of organic solar cells remains limited by significant voltage losses. To effectively suppress these losses, a fundamental understanding of charge carrier recombination mechanisms in the active layer is essential.

Inkjet printing offers a precise, scalable method for integrating perovskite quantum dots (PQDs) into LEDs. This review covers advances in PQD ink formulation, printing factors, film stability, and future prospects for industrial applications.

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.

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.

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.

The integration of gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) with lipid bilayers, gives rise to powerful synergistic effects arising from nanoscale interactions.

This review explores the application of nanoarchitectonic to confined nanostructures, with a particular focus on advanced in situ characterization and tracking techniques that reveal the dynamic processes of chemical reactions within nano-reactors.

This review highlights the pivotal role of diverse small molecules in engineering hydrogel network structures and enhancing mechanical toughness. Emerging applications of small-molecule-toughened hydrogels across advanced fields are also explored.

This review not only overviews recent advances in nanosheet zeolite synthesis strategies and catalytic applications, but also analyzes their physicochemical properties and effectiveness in diverse catalytic reactions.

Human–machine interfaces have received significant attention for their potential in VR/AR. This review summarizes recent progress in simulating physical and chemical sensations for enhancing eating experiences by utilizing wearable electroncis.

Electromagnetic interference has promoted the development of hydrogel shielding materials. This review explores their shielding mechanisms, research progress, challenges and future directions.