Themed collection Recent Review Articles

Innovations in synthetic methodologies, such as fully automatic synthesis, high throughput screening, and machine learning, are opening new frontiers in the design, synthesis, and application of MOFs and COFs.

This paper presents the derivation of the general form of the diffusion flux-driving force equation and establishes a synthetic kinetic theory. Based on it, three important directions for future material manufacturing breakthroughs are proposed.

We present an in-depth study of Cu NC catalysts, encompassing design strategies, atomic-level tuning, and diverse catalytic applications.

This mini-review introduces drug loading strategies based on specific interactions. The interactions can be from drugs and their targets, such as tetrodotoxin with a sodium channel, and biomolecular recognition, such as ligand–receptor recognition.

Integrating 2D van der Waals materials generates new functionalities for nanophotonic structures, like integrated waveguides, microcavities, fibers, and metasurfaces, to prototype novel optoelectronic applications with challenges and perspectives.

The recent progress of MXene-based nanozymes is reviewed, including the synthetic methods, enzyme-like properties, and biomedical applications.

Bridging the gap between academia and industry in plastic recycling will accelerate innovation and deployment toward solving the global challenge of plastic waste management and establishing net zero carbon society.

This minireview focuses on potential catalytic recycling processes for the production of styrene and other valuable aromatics from polystyrene (PS) waste, and it aims to lay the ground for PS recyclability and long-term sustainable PS production.

This review highlights the research progress of noble metal nanodendrites in terms of growth mechanisms, synthesis approaches and applications.

A critical review of built-in electric fields for the applications in electrocatalytic reactions is organized by focusing on the fundamental concepts, modification strategies, and positive influences on the promotion of catalytic performance.

This minireview summarizes the recent cutting-edge works of 2D MXene-based flexible antennas, discusses the existing bottlenecks, and provides some guidelines for the future development of this promising field.

As a member of graphene analogs, metallenes are a class of two-dimensional materials with atomic thickness and well-controlled surface atomic arrangement made of metals or alloys.

In this focus article, we provide a scrutinizing analysis of transmission electron microscopy and dynamic light scattering as the two common methods to study the sizes of nanoparticles with focus on the application in pharmaceutics and drug delivery.

Generalized energy diagrams facilitate the understanding of the ionic and electronic charge carrier equilibrium in the bulk and at interfaces of devices based on mixed conductors, such as hybrid perovskite solar cells.

Graphene coatings hold transformative potential for brain interfaces. This review explores the physico-chemical aspects of chemical vapor deposited graphene coatings in neurological applications, highlighting the key properties of an ideal interface.

New evidence for piezoelectric nanomaterials across energy harvesting, piezocatalysis, and biomedicine fields, guiding and supporting future drug delivery system development.

We summarise progress in the fabrication and mechanics of nacre-like materials in recent years and explore pathways to translate nacre-like materials to real-life applications, while providing avenues for future work.

Corrosion behavior of conventionally produced and additively manufactured NABs are reviewed. The uniform and localized types of corrosion of NABs are discussed. The corrosion mechanisms for NAB alloys are discussed. Suggestions for future research on traditional and AMed NABs are offered.

This review highlights the progress, challenges and opportunities in MXene based flexible photodetectors.

This review offers a guideline for selecting the ML-based inverse design method, considering data characteristics and design space size. It categorizes challenges and underscores the proper methods, with a focus on composites and its manufacturing.

This article reviews the remarkable advances of quasi-2D DJ perovskites for solar cells and provides perspectives toward their future development.

This review provides an overview of the fundamentals of microfluidic reactors and summarizes their use for fabricating various nanomaterials and applications in the biomedical field.

A comprehensive review of modification research on medium-nickel-content ternary material NMC622 mainly on boundary-interfacial engineering, which aims to inspire thinking about breaking through the current limitations of NMC622.

Magnetic nanoparticles offer versatile opportunities for anti-cancer therapy, stemming from a single metal element, iron, naturally processed by the human body. Applications range from magnetic hyperthermia to the emerging fields of photothermal therapy and ferroptosis induction.

Superstructures of hydrophobic nanocrystals dispersed in water acting as heating nanoelements are internalized in cells creating photothermal damage.

A novel perspective is proposed to analyze designs of fine hierarchical structures, which are vital for fog collection. In this review, an overall overview of recent work is given from a bionic, and thus from a spatial dimensional perspective.

This is the first review discussing material design and manufacture from the perspective of biomimetic cell culture.

The advances in biomaterials for the construction of organs-on-chips are reviewed, including the design, fabrication, functions, applications, and future directions of these biomaterial-based platforms.

Both covalent organic frameworks (COFs) and polyoxometalates (POMs) show excellent properties and application potential in many fields, thus receiving widespread attention.

This review summarizes the current understanding of the origins of oxygen loss in LLMO cathodes and introduces advanced characterization techniques used to detect the phenomenon.

A cooperation tale of biomolecules and nanomaterials in nanoscale chiral sensing and separation.

A review and universal benchmark for assessing the artificial neuron and synapse device performance from an energy perspective, with the introduction of neuromorphics from biological to electronics and their prospects.

Structure of plant-derived vesicles and their bioactive applications. Created with BioRender.com

Inorganic nanomaterials show promising potential for radiotherapy enhancement. This article provides a concise summary of mechanisms involved, materials designs and future prospects of nanoparticle-based radioenhancement for precision medicine.

Self-healing hydrogels based on various dynamic interactions are comprehensively summarized and their biomedical applications are also thoroughly elaborated.

Porous organic polymers show great potential for addressing environmental pollution challenges, including chemical sensing, wastewater treatment, toxic gas sorption, heterogeneous catalysis, and further promoting sustainable remediation strategies.

Classification of H-bonding-based SHPs and their electronic applications.

Applications of various defective molybdenum sulfides in diverse catalytic reactions are reviewed, including design, methods, mechanisms, active sites, and performance.

Stimulus-responsive nonclosely packed photonic crystals are reviewed on the aspects of fundamentals, fabrications, properties, and applications.

In this paper, the structure types, optimization mechanism of mechanical properties and common application scenarios of bionic ordered structure hydrogels are reviewed.

With the current developmental advancements in nanotechnology, nanofibrous scaffolds are being widely used.

Based on the degree of integration, four levels of in-sensor computing in the field of artificial olfactory are summarized.

Based on the overall thermodynamic formation criterion of high entropy materials, this paper explores the synthesis dynamics and the influence of different kinetic rates on the final products, filling the gap in the thermodynamic criteria limitations.

This review reveals the principles and relationships between the structures and properties of in situ self-assembled nanomaterials, explores the assembly driving forces, and provides guidance for development of in situ targeted drug delivery systems.

A huge variety of nanostructures are promising for biomedical applications, but only a few have been practically applied.

This review provides a brief overview of the recent developments in hydrogel systems that respond dynamically to various stimuli, including some of the interesting fabrication strategies, and their application in cardiac, bone, and neural tissue regeneration.

This work highlights the animal tissue-derived biomaterials in the wound treatment field based on an evaluation of their critical properties, advanced design strategies and latest applications.

Reticular chemistry allows for the rational design and synthesis of stable metal–organic frameworks with targeted nets and programmable pores for diverse applications ranging from water capture and catalysis to gas storage and separation.

Homogeneous ion transport during Li⁺ plating/stripping plays a significant role in the stability of Li metal anodes (LMAs) and the electrochemical performance of Li metal batteries (LMBs).

Summary schematic of this review regarding transistor-based synapses including materials, device structures, functional simulation and system application.

This review briefly describes the fate of nanoparticles in vivo and expounds the mechanism of organ targeting of nanoparticles.

An overview of the recent progress of Ir-based catalysts constructed with different dimensions was provided to make a comprehensive understanding of their structural and catalysis performance.

Highlight physical mechanism and recent advances in spin injection, organic property-induced spin polarization, covering various spin injection methods, organic magnetic materials, chiral-induced spin selectivity effect, and spinterface effect.

TM/N,B-CNMs hybrids are emerging water splitting electrocatalysts due to the high catalytic site density, enhanced structural integrity, charge density modulation on carbon, and synergistic effects among N, B, CNMs and TMs.

This review provides a comprehensive summary of humidity-responsive liquid crystalline systems, ranging from the humidity-responsive mechanism and preparation of humidity-responsive systems to the application of the emerging materials.

Hydrogel sensors have received massive attentions for wearable devices, recent advances in the fabrication and network structure of conductive polymer hydrogels are summarized, and their application in the field of wearable sensors is also discussed.

Bioinks are employed in the fabrication of 3D scaffolds containing cells and macromolecules that can be applied in regenerative medicine.

When plasmonic metal nanoparticles become smaller and smaller, a new class of nanomaterials—metal nanoclusters of atomic precision—comes to light, and recently shape control at the atomic level for new functionality has become an attractive topic.

The construction methods and image sensing applications of perovskite photodetector arrays in the development trends of the flexible, large-scale, narrow-band, and bionic photodetection are summarized and presented.

CHMs-derived materials with different nanostructures for various diseases (created with Biorender.com).

Layout structure of this review. Highlighting the fabrication, design principles and applications of microreactors for the synthesis of inorganic, organic and composite micro/nanomaterials.

The application and prospect of Fe/Co/Ni-based catalysts modified by interface engineering, and biomass electrooxidation reaction (BEOR) coupled with hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) in water splitting are summarized.

The correlation between geometrical parameters of various novel electrode structures and the corresponding mechanical properties are assessed in this review, which provides inspiration for their applications in future flexible energy storage devices.

This minireview highlights the superiority of machine learning interatomic potentials over the conventional empirical interatomic potentials and density functional theory calculations for the analysis of mechanical and failure responses.

Herein, we combined the reported work and related experiments to identify the metal dissolution/deposition mechanism. Additionally, we try to give the judgment of electrode reactions and material selection for better electrode modification.

This review classifies the development of all inorganic perovskite NC materials and related display devices, which provides beneficial inspiration for their applications in future display solutions.

The spin polarized transport properties of chiral organic biomolecules, hybrid organic–inorganic materials and inorganic materials are reviewed, where the theoretical mechanisms and experimental techniques of chiral induced spin selectivity are summarized.

The recent progress on vanadium fluorophosphate cathodes for sodium (potassium) ion batteries is systematically summarized, including their crystal structure, Na⁺/K⁺ storage mechanism, modification strategy, and electrochemical performance.

This paper reviews the research progress in memristor-based neural networks and puts forward future development trends.

Various in situ/operando characterization techniques provide a comprehensive understanding of LLZO-based solid-state lithium batteries.