Themed collection Recent Review Articles

This review highlights how MXenes and their composites enhance exosome detection, enabling faster and more accurate disease diagnosis through advanced biosensors.

This review highlights current and emerging tire recycling technologies, compares their environmental and economic impacts, and identifies future directions for integrating sustainable methods within a circular economy framework.

This review outlines the latest advances of amphiphilic copolymers in antimicrobial materials, including design strategies and current applications. Challenges and future directions of research in amphiphilic antimicrobial polymers are discussed.

This review discusses solution-phase synthesis of graphene nanoribbons via various polymerization methods, emphasizing Scholl-type cyclodehydrogenation and new approaches for edge-engineered nanographenes with tunable electronic properties.

Encapsulins—naturally occurring cargo-loaded protein nanocompartments widely found across prokaryotes—represent a promising and programmable nanocarrier platform for targeted drug delivery.

TMO-decorated hydrogels enable targeted delivery of anti-inflammatory drugs to bone defects, easing diabetic pain while promoting conductivity for bone regeneration and foot ulcer healing.

This review highlights the emerging role of MXenes and their composites in the management of ovarian cancer, focusing on their potential in biomarker detection and targeted treatment strategies.

Rheology of the processing window for 3D printing of hydrogels with biological implication.

WtE reduces landfill, pollution, and CH₄ emission while creating jobs. Biochemical methods suit food waste, gasification favors hydrogen, and recycling is best for plastics. Policies and incentives can enhance adoption for a circular economy.

The integration of photocatalysis and membrane filtration has emerged as a promising technology for water treatment, offering the dual advantages of physical separation and degradation of organic pollutants.

This review highlights dyes and their toxicity, focusing on their removal from wastewater using carbon dot/metal oxide hybrid materials for environmental applications.

This review presents the important analysis of butene- and isobutylene-based polymers, emphasizing sustainable production, recyclability, and their role in advancing circular material flows.

The complex nature of ion migration at the nanoscale and the associated redox reaction in resistive switching requires a thorough understanding through transmission electron microscopy (TEM).

Core–shell metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are an advanced class of hybrid materials, and their synthesis methods are crucial for determining their functionality in biomedical applications.

Once largely overlooked, selective photocatalysis has recently seen rapid development and now includes several new applications. The production of valuable aldehydes is one of the most relevant areas.

Neurodegenerative diseases (NDs) are mainly characterized by progressive neuronal loss, and pose a significant healthcare burden due to limited treatment options and the inefficacy of drugs at the target site within the brain.

Pharmaceutical residues in water cause ecotoxicity and health issues. Hybrid AOPs are recommended for their complete mineralization, crucial for effective wastewater treatment.

Plasma is a cutting-edge technology that can revolutionize synthesis methods and uniquely develop next-generation materials compared to conventional methods.

Recent advances in multifunctional energy materials, driven by machine learning and bio-inspired design, are transforming photovoltaics, energy storage, and thermoelectrics, accelerating progress toward sustainable energy solutions.

This review presents recent advances in understanding mercury toxicity, its chemical forms, and the synthesis of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), introducing COFs for the first time as a method for mercury removal.

Nanozymes have been developed as engineered nanomaterials that mimic the catalytic functions of natural enzymes.

Schematic of microplastic (MP) pollution, removal, and degradation. MPs originate from plastic waste, accumulate in ecosystems, and are removed via magnetic separation or degraded by biodegradation, AOPs, and electrochemical processes for recycling.

Advancing perovskite solar cells with a focus on environmental and health safety.

Croconic acid-based compounds: synthesis, structure, chemico-physical properties and applications of an intriguing class of functional organic materials.

Textile finishing is on the cusp of transformative change with the integration of the nanoencapsulation technique.

This review explores the potential of copper-based metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), particularly HKUST-1 (Hong Kong University of Science and Technology-1), as an innovative solution for advanced wound healing.

This review deals with synthesis and modifications of novel three-dimensional ZnO tetrapods as well as tailoring of their properties for potential photocatalytic applications in the field of energy and environment.

This review shows that flexible polyurethane foam is a promising material for triboelectric devices across a wide range of applications due to several advantages, such as its high porosity, deformability, light weight, and recyclability.

Therapeutic systems based on natural gut microbiota modulators for IBD treatment (EVs: extracellular vesicles; metabolites: gut microbiota metabolites).

Cancer is a major health challenge that is accountable for a large percentage of disease-related deaths worldwide.

Suckerin biomaterials offer elasticity, biocompatibility, and β-sheet self-assembly. Superior to other proteins, they excel in adaptability. Nanotechnology and succinylation boost drug delivery, tissue repair, and wound healing.

The pursuit of effective drug delivery systems is critical in advancing cancer therapies, particularly in the realms of chemotherapy, radiotherapy and immunotherapy.

In geometrically frustrated (GF) magnets, conventional long-range order is suppressed due to the presence of primitive triangular structural units, and the nature of the ensuing ground state remains elusive.

The expanding potential of 2D MXenes opens up promising avenues for flexible biomedical applications.

This review presents the design and experimental analysis of metamaterials with tunable properties for biomedical applications.

The escalating environmental challenges posed by different waste sources, including agricultural residues and industrial byproducts, necessitate innovative solutions for waste utilization.

The picture illustrates most of the haloperoxidases that have been reported.

Skin cancer is one of the most common cancer types affecting a major portion of the world's population, particularly in fair-skinned populations.

Modification strategies of impurity ion introduction, defect engineering, heterojunctions, morphological construction, and facet-oriented engineering have been reported to promote the photocatalytic activities of bismuth-based materials.

The graphical abstract illustrates the use of LDH/CNT: a low cost, flexible and sustainable rapid energy storage and release supercapacitor.

Solid oxide electrolyser (SOE) technology emerges as a promising alternative, typified by high-efficiency water-splitting capability and lower cost for large-scale hydrogen production. Electrolytes are the critical part of SOECs and SOFCs, which affect the performance and operation temperatures.

Recent advancements in nanotechnology and biomedicine have promoted the utilization of nanomaterials for various medical applications, particularly in the detection of Helicobacter pylori infections.

Excitons and polarons are formed in organic–inorganic lead halide perovskites upon photoexcitation, accounting for most of their photovoltaic properties.