Jiewei Liu、Sandeep Pathak、Nobuya Sakai 等 7 位作者2016-08-05Advanced Materials Interfaces
Metal halide perovskites have emerged as one of the most promising materials for photovoltaics (PVs), with power conversion efficiency of over 22% already demonstrated. In order to compete with traditional crystalline silicon PV, cost and stability are equally important issues that need to be considered besides effici…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsOrganic Light-Emitting Diodes ResearchConducting polymers and applications
Craig L. Bull、Nicholas P. Funnell、Matthew G. Tucker 等 6 位作者2016-08-05High Pressure Research
The PEARL instrument at ISIS has been designed for, and dedicated to, in situ studies of materials at high pressure, using the Paris–Edinburgh press. In recent years, upgrades to the instrument have led to improvements in data quality and the range of achievable pressures and temperatures; currently 0.5–28 GPa and 80–…
High-pressure geophysics and materialsNuclear Physics and ApplicationsX-ray Diffraction in Crystallography
Marlene Lopes、Bárbara Abrahim-Vieira、Francisco Veiga 等 8 位作者2016-08-05Expert Opinion on Drug Delivery
INTRODUCTION: Alginate-based particles have emerged as one of the most extensively searched drug delivery platforms due to their inherent properties, including good biocompatibility and biodegradability. Moreover, the low price, easy availability, natural origin, versatility and sol-gel transition properties, make alg…
Hydrogels: synthesis, properties, applicationsSeaweed-derived Bioactive CompoundsSupramolecular Self-Assembly in Materials
Kullervo Hynynen、Ryan M. Jones2016-08-05Physics in Medicine and Biology
Focused ultrasound offers a non-invasive way of depositing acoustic energy deep into the body, which can be harnessed for a broad spectrum of therapeutic purposes, including tissue ablation, the targeting of therapeutic agents, and stem cell delivery. Phased array transducers enable electronic control over the beam ge…
Ultrasound Imaging and ElastographyUltrasound and Hyperthermia ApplicationsUltrasound and Cavitation Phenomena
Virginia Llopis-Hernández、Marco Cantini、Cristina González‐García 等 9 位作者2016-08-05Science Advances
Growth factors (GFs) are powerful signaling molecules with the potential to drive regenerative strategies, including bone repair and vascularization. However, GFs are typically delivered in soluble format at supraphysiological doses because of rapid clearance and limited therapeutic impact. These high doses have serio…
Cellular Mechanics and InteractionsCell Adhesion Molecules ResearchPolymer Surface Interaction Studies
Olaf Stenull、C. L. Kane、T. C. Lubensky2016-08-05Physical Review Letters
Topological mechanics and phononics have recently emerged as an exciting field of study. Here we introduce and study generalizations of the three-dimensional pyrochlore lattice that have topologically protected edge states and Weyl lines in their bulk phonon spectra, which lead to zero surface modes that flip from one…
Graphene research and applicationsTopological Materials and PhenomenaAdvanced Condensed Matter Physics
Qiao Kong、Dohyung Kim、Chong Liu 等 7 位作者2016-08-05Nano Letters
Reducing carbon dioxide with a multicomponent artificial photosynthetic system, closely mimicking nature, represents a promising approach for energy storage. Previous works have focused on exploiting light-harvesting semiconductor nanowires (NW) for photoelectrochemical water splitting. With the newly developed CO2 re…
Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesCO2 Reduction Techniques and CatalystsCopper-based nanomaterials and applications
Suresh Vellaiyan、K. S. Amirthagadeswaran2016-08-05Alexandria Engineering Journal
Air pollution caused by the diesel engines has shown much interest in the domain of eco-friendly diesel fuels since enhanced environmental and human health are of concern. In order to obtain the efficient energy development with less polluted environment with existing diesel engines, continuous efforts have gone into…
Advanced Combustion Engine TechnologiesCatalytic Processes in Materials ScienceBiodiesel Production and Applications
Mona Mittal、Atanu Jana、Sagar Sarkar 等 5 位作者2016-08-05The Journal of Physical Chemistry Letters
A few approaches have been employed to tune the band gap of colloidal organic-inorganic trihalide perovskites (OTPs) nanocrystals by changing the halide anion. However, to date, there is no report of electronic structure tuning of perovskite NCs upon changing the organic cation. We report here, for the first time, the…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsSolid-state spectroscopy and crystallography
Maria Quant、Anders Lennartson、Ambra Dreos 等 7 位作者2016-08-05Chemistry - A European Journal
Molecular solar-thermal energy storage systems are based on molecular switches that reversibly convert solar energy into chemical energy. Herein, we report the synthesis, characterization, and computational evaluation of a series of low molecular weight (193-260 g mol(-1) ) norbornadiene-quadricyclane systems. The mol…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryPhotochemistry and Electron Transfer Studies
Weixing Song、Baoheng Gan、Tao Jiang 等 9 位作者2016-08-05ACS Nano
A flexible and low-cost triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) based on a patterned aluminum-plastic film and an entrapped cantilever spring leaf is developed as a self-powered sensitive triboelectric sensor for sleep-body movement monitoring. The working mechanism and the impact factors of electric output performance wer…
Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting MaterialsConducting polymers and applicationsTactile and Sensory Interactions
Xuan Yi、Lei Chen、Xiaoyan Zhong 等 10 位作者2016-08-05Nano Research
Local hypoxia in solid tumors often results in resistance to radiotherapy (RT), in which oxygen is an essential element for enhancing DNA damage caused by ionizing radiation. Herein, we developed gold@manganese dioxide (Au@MnO 2 ) core–shell nanoparticles with a polyethylene glycol (PEG) coating as a novel radiosensit…
Nanoparticle-Based Drug DeliveryNanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsRadiation Therapy and Dosimetry
Laura E. Dickinson、Sharon Gerecht2016-08-05Frontiers in Physiology
Skin regeneration requires the coordinated integration of concomitant biological and molecular events in the extracellular wound environment during overlapping phases of inflammation, proliferation, and matrix remodeling. This process is highly efficient during normal wound healing. However, chronic wounds fail to pro…
Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical ApplicationsWound Healing and TreatmentsSurgical Sutures and Adhesives
Hong Gao、Tengfei Zhou、Yang Zheng 等 7 位作者2016-08-05Advanced Energy Materials
3D hierarchical integrated carbon/red phosphorus/graphene aerogel composite is fabricated via an advanced vapor-redistribution technique. The red P nanoparticles (10–20 nm) in the composite uniformly distribute in the carbon covered graphene aerogel matrix (C@GA), which integrated into a 3D porous structure. The as-pr…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsAdvanced Battery Materials and TechnologiesMXene and MAX Phase Materials
Hongti Zhang、J. Tersoff、Shang Xu 等 11 位作者2016-08-05Science Advances
Achieving high elasticity for silicon (Si) nanowires, one of the most important and versatile building blocks in nanoelectronics, would enable their application in flexible electronics and bio-nano interfaces. We show that vapor-liquid-solid-grown single-crystalline Si nanowires with diameters of ~100 nm can be repeat…
Advancements in Semiconductor Devices and Circuit DesignNanowire Synthesis and ApplicationsGa2O3 and related materials
Ke Wei、Zhongjie Xu、Runze Chen 等 6 位作者2016-08-05Optics Letters
Recently, lead halide perovskite quantum dots have been reported with potential for photovoltaic and optoelectronic applications due to their excellent luminescent properties. Herein excitonic photoluminescence (PL) excited by two-photon absorption in perovskite CsPbBr3 quantum dots (QDs) has been studied at a broad t…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesStrong Light-Matter Interactions
Ye Wang、Dezhi Kong、Wenhui Shi 等 7 位作者2016-08-05Advanced Energy Materials
A hybrid nanoarchitecture aerogel composed of WS 2 nanosheets and carbon nanotube‐reduced graphene oxide (CNT‐rGO) with ordered microchannel three‐dimensional (3D) scaffold structure was synthesized by a simple solvothermal method followed by freeze‐drying and post annealing process. The 3D ordered microchannel struct…
Advancements in Battery MaterialsSupercapacitor Materials and FabricationAdvanced Battery Materials and Technologies
Adam H. Slavney、Rebecca W. Smaha、Ian C. P. Smith 等 6 位作者2016-08-05Inorganic Chemistry
The impressive rise in efficiencies of solar cells employing the three-dimensional (3D) lead–iodide perovskite absorbers APbI 3 (A = monovalent cation) has generated intense excitement. Although these perovskites have remarkable properties as solar-cell absorbers, their potential commercialization now requires a great…
Perovskite Materials and ApplicationsQuantum Dots Synthesis And PropertiesChalcogenide Semiconductor Thin Films
Jung Seung Nam、Myeong‐Gyun Kang、Juhye Kang 等 11 位作者2016-08-05Journal of the American Chemical Society
Protein inactivation by reactive oxygen species (ROS) such as singlet oxygen ((1)O2) and superoxide radical (O2(•-)) is considered to trigger cell death pathways associated with protein dysfunction; however, the detailed mechanisms and direct involvement in photodynamic therapy (PDT) have not been revealed. Herein, we…
Nanoplatforms for cancer theranosticsPorphyrin and Phthalocyanine ChemistryPhotodynamic Therapy Research Studies
Guigao Liu、Guixia Zhao、Wei Zhou 等 11 位作者2016-08-05Advanced Functional Materials
Graphitic carbon nitride (g‐C3N4) has recently emerged as an attractive photocatalyst for solar energy conversion. However, the photocatalytic activities of g‐C3N4 remain moderate because of the insufficient solar‐light absorption and the fast electron–hole recombination. Here, defect‐modified g‐C3N4 (DCN) photocataly…
Advanced Photocatalysis TechniquesZnO doping and propertiesGa2O3 and related materials