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Developing materials with tailorable properties has been the long-sought goal of humankind. Forming composite materials with superior properties by combining two or more materials has emerged as a competitive means in the search and design of new materials. However, it is still a grand challenge to use metallic materials as a binder for composites because of their lack of adhesion. In the present work, we proposed a facile and flexible route to synthesize composites using metallic glass as a glue to bond various materials, ranging from conductors to insulators, and metals to nonmetals, together. The mechanical, magnetic and electrical performances of the composites can be manually regulated by changing the addition ratios of the metallic glass glue and the corresponding admixture. In addition, porous structures were also obtained and tuned by dissolving the soluble admixture in water. In principle, our approach provides a new idea for the fabrication and optimization of composites using metallic materials as binders. The outcome of our current research opens up a window not only to synthesize composite materials with tailorable properties universally and flexibly, but also towards the discovery of potential multi-functional metal containing composites.2D intercorrelated ferroelectrics, exhibiting a coupled in-plane and out-of-plane ferroelectricity, is a fundamental phenomenon in the field of condensed-mater physics. The current research is based on the paradigm of bi-directional inversion asymmetry in single-layers, which restricts 2D intercorrelated ferroelectrics to extremely few systems. Herein, we propose a new scheme for achieving 2D intercorrelated ferroelectrics using van der Waals (vdW) interaction, and apply this scheme to a vast family of 2D vdW materials. Using first-principles, we demonstrate that 2D vdW multilayers, for example, BN, MoS2, InSe, CdS, PtSe2, TI2O, SnS2, Ti2CO2etc., can exhibit coupled in-plane and out-of-plane ferroelectricity, thus yielding 2D intercorrelated ferroelectric physics. We further predict that such intercorrelated ferroelectrics could demonstrate many distinct properties, for example, electrical full control of spin textures in trilayer PtSe2 and electrical permanent control of valley-contrasting physics in four-layer VS2. Our finding opens a new direction for 2D intercorrelated ferroelectric research.Gold (Au)-based nanomaterials, including nanoparticles (NPs) and nanoclusters (NCs), have shown great potential in many electrocatalytic reactions due to their excellent catalytic ability and selectivity. In recent years, Au-based nanostructured materials have been considered as one of the most promising non-platinum (Pt) electrocatalysts. The controlled synthesis of Au-based NPs and NCs and the delicate microstructure adjustment play a vital role in regulating their catalytic activity toward various reactions. This review focuses on the latest progress in the synthesis of efficient Au-based NP and NC electrocatalysts, highlighting the relationship between Au nanostructures and their catalytic activity. This review first discusses the parameters of Au-based nanomaterials that determine their electrocatalytic performance, including composition, particle size and architecture. Subsequently, the latest electrocatalytic applications of Au-based NPs and NCs in various reactions are provided. RO4987655 solubility dmso Finally, some challenges and opportunities are highlighted, which will guide the rational design of Au-based NPs and NCs as promising electrocatalysts.Flexible resistive heaters (FRHs) with high heating performance, large-area thermal homogeneity, and excellent thermal stability are very desirable in modern life, owing to their tremendous potential for portable and wearable thermal management applications, such as body thermotherapy, on-demand drug delivery, and artificial intelligence. Printed electronic (PE) technologies, as emerging methods combining conventional printing techniques with solution-processable functional ink have been proposed to be promising strategies for the cost-effective, large-scale, and high-throughput fabrication of printed FRHs. This review summarizes recent progress in the main components of FRHs, including conductive materials and flexible or stretchable substrates, focusing on the formulation of conductive ink systems for making printed FRHs by a variety of PE technologies including screen printing, inkjet printing, roll-to-roll (R2R) printing and three-dimensional (3D) printing. Various challenges facing the commercialization of printed FRHs and improved methods for portable and wearable thermal management applications have been discussed in detail to overcome these problems.Recently, the development of polydopamine (PDA) has demonstrated numerous excellent performances in free radical scavenging, UV shielding, photothermal conversion, and biocompatibility. These unique properties enable PDA to be widely used as efficient antibacterial materials for various applications. Accordingly, PDA antibacterial materials mainly include free-standing PDA materials and PDA-based composite materials. In this review, an overview of PDA antibacterial materials is provided to summarize these two types of antibacterial materials in detail, including the fabrication strategies and antibacterial mechanisms. The future development and challenges of PDA in this field are also presented. It is hoped that this review will provide an insight into the future development of antibacterial functional materials based on PDA.With the miniaturization of silicon-based electronic components, power consumption is becoming a fundamental issue for micro-nano electronic circuits. The main reason for this is that the scaling of the supply voltage in the ultra-large-scale integrated circuit cannot keep up with the shrinking of the characteristic size of conventional transistors due to the physical limit termed "Boltzmann Tyranny", in which a gate voltage of at least 60 mV is required to modulate the drain current by one order of magnitude. Accordingly, to solve this problem, several new transistor architectures have been designed to reduce the subthreshold swing (SS) to lower than the fundamental limitation, thus lowering the supply voltage and reducing the power consumption. In this review, we first analytically formulate the SS, summarize the methods for reducing the SS, and propose four new transistor concepts, including tunnelling field-effect transistor, negative capacitance field-effect transistor, impact ionization field-effect transistor, and cold source field-effect transistor. Then, we review their physical mechanisms and optimization methods and consider the potential and drawbacks of these four new transistors. Finally, we discuss the challenges encountered in the investigation of these steep-slope transistors and present the future outlook.Self-assembled supramolecular architectures are ubiquitous in nature. A synchronized combination of dynamic noncovalent interactions is the major driving force in forming unique structures with high-precision control over the self-assembly of supramolecular materials. Herein, we have achieved programmable nanostructures by introducing single/multiple H-bonding units in a supramolecular building block. A diverse range of nanostructures can be generated in aqueous medium by subtly tuning the structure of π-amphiphiles. 1D-cylindrical micelles, 2D-nanoribbons and hollow nanotubes are produced by systematically varying the number of H-bonding units (0-2) in structurally near identical π-amphiphiles. Spectroscopic measurements revealed the decisive role of H-bonding units for different modes of molecular packing. We have demonstrated that a competitive self-assembled state (a kinetically controlled aggregation state and a thermodynamically controlled aggregation state) can be generated by fine tuning the number of noncovalent forces present in the supramolecular building blocks. The luminescence properties of conjugated dithiomaleimide (DTM) provided insight into the relative hydrophobicity of the core in these nanostructures. In addition, fluorescence turn-off in the presence of thiophenol enabled us to probe the accessibility of the hydrophobic core in these assembled systems toward guest molecules. Therefore the DTM group provides an efficient tool to determine the relative hydrophobicity and accessibility of the core of various nanostructures which is very rarely studied in supramolecular assemblies.Low ion migration rate and irreversible change in the valence state in transition-metal oxides limit their application as anode materials in Li-ion batteries (LIBs). Interfacial optimization by loading metal particles on semiconductor can change the band structure and thus tune the inherent electrical nature of transition-metal oxide anode materials for energy applications. In this work, Au nanoparticles are epitaxially grown on MnO2 nanoroads (MnO2-Au). Interestingly, the MnO2-Au anode shows excellent electrochemical activity. It delivers high reversible capacity (about 2-3 fold compared to MnO2) and high rate capability (740 mA h g-1 at 1 A g-1). The electron holography and density functional theory (DFT) results demonstrate that the Au particles on the surface of MnO2 can form a negative charge accumulation area, which not only improves the Li ion migration rate but also catalyzes the transition of MnOx to Mn0. This study provides a direction to heterointerface fabrication for transition-metal oxide anode materials with desired properties for high-performance LIBs and future energy applications.Rheumatoid arthritis (RA) is an autoimmune inflammatory disorder that has seriously affected human health worldwide and its current management requires more successful therapeutic approaches. The combination of nanomedicines and pathophysiology into one system may provide an alternative strategy for precise RA treatment. In this work, a practical ROS-mediated liposome, abbreviated as Dex@FA-ROS-Lips that comprised synthetic dimeric thioether lipids (di-S-PC) and a surface functionalized with folic acid (FA), was proposed for dexamethasone (Dex) delivery. Incorporation with thioether lipids and a FA segment significantly improved the triggered release and improved the triggered release of cytotoxic Dex as well as the active targeting of RA, altering its overall pharmacokinetics and safety profiles in vivo. As proof, the designed Dex@FA-ROS-Lips demonstrated effective internalization by LPS-activated Raw264.7 macrophages with FA receptor overexpression and released Dex at the inflammatory site due to the ROS-trned the mechanism of Dex@FA-ROS-Lips in anti-RA, which suggested a molecular target for RA therapy and other inflammatory diseases.Linear light-absorbing nanomaterials are ideal for film-based solar harvesting applications as they form porous structures that can maximize the absorption and minimize the reflection of the solar light. Conventional 1D nanochains of plasmonic nanoparticle assemblies can achieve significantly broadened optical absorption through surface plasmon coupling, but their optical bands are still not broad enough to absorb through the solar spectrum and thus are not efficient solar absorbers. Here we discovered first by simulation that 3D structured nanochains of plasmonic nanoparticles presented a remarkably increased optical broadening effect and much longer redshift of the optical peaks due to the enhanced inter-particle coupling effect. Then we fabricated 3D nanochains by assembling gold nanoparticles (AuNPs) around 14 nm ultrathin bionanofibers, the bacterial flagella. The ultrathin biotemplates enabled the 3D arrangement of 50 nm AuNPs along the nanofiber with a very small inter-particle gap, allowing the strong coupling of surface plasmons in a 3D manner.
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