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π‐Bridge Engineering of Nonfullerene Acceptors for Organic Photodiodes: Extension of the Near Infrared Response Beyond 1200 nm

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A π‐bridge engineering strategy enhances intramolecular charge transfer, enabling non‐fullerene acceptors to extend near‐infrared absorption beyond 1200 nm. The resulting organic photodiodes exhibit high detectivity and fast response. These high‐performance devices demonstrate practical potential in photoplethysmography and optical wireless ...
Meng Qiang Li, Minyoung Jeong, Byeongchan Park, Shabaz Alam, Jeongmin Lee, Hyunji Lee, Jaewon Lee, Kilwon Cho   +7 more
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Functional Materials for Environmental Energy Harvesting in Smart Agriculture via Triboelectric Nanogenerators

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review explores functional and responsive materials for triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) in sustainable smart agriculture. It examines how particulate contamination and dirt affect charge transfer and efficiency. Environmental challenges and strategies to enhance durability and responsiveness are outlined, including active functional layers ...
Rafael R. A. Silva, Giulio Fatti, Emanuel Carlos, Guilherme Ferreira, Sumita Goswami, Suman Nandy, Luiz H. C. Mattoso, Elvira Fortunato, Caio G. Otoni, Rodrigo Martins   +9 more
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Phase Change Material‐Driven Tunable Metasurface for Adaptive Terahertz Sensing and Communication in 6G Perceptive Networks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study explores the benefits of metasurfaces made from functional materials, highlighting their ability to be adapted and improved for various high‐frequency applications, including communications and sensing. It first demonstrates the potential of these functional material‐based metasurfaces to advance the field of sub‐THz perceptive networks ...
Yat‐Sing To, Jiachen Du, Cyril Decroze, Laure Huitema, Aurelian Crunteanu, Hang Wong   +5 more
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Ice Lithography: Recent Progress Opens a New Frontier of Opportunities

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This review focuses on recent advancements in ice lithography, including breakthroughs in compatible precursors and substrates, processes and applications, hardware, and digital methods. Moreover, it offers a roadmap to uncover innovation opportunities for ice lithography in fields such as biological, nanoengineering and microsystems, biophysics and ...
Bingdong Chang, Gwendoline A. E. Anand, Rubaiyet Haque, Dylan A. Chiaro, Mona Sharma, Andrew R. Williams, Frank Niklaus, Daryl W. Yee, Gavin M. King, Anpan Han   +9 more
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Strain‐Activated Photo‐Dehalogenation Unlocks Low‐Energy One and Two‐Photon 3D Microfabrication

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
5,14‐NMI‐Cz acts, conversely to its 7,10‐NMI‐Cz(7,10‐'dibromo‐2‐(2,6‐diisopropylphenyl)‐1H‐benzo[lmn]carbazolo[9,1‐bc][2,8]phenanthroline‐1,3(2H)‐dione) counterpart, as modular photoinitiator with panchromatic photoactivity, featuring a weak C–Br bond from geometric strain for efficient Type I & II initiation. These studies demonstrate applicability of
Kacper Piskorz, Katarzyna Starzak, Malgorzata Noworyta, Konrad Cyprych, Krzysztof Bartkowski, Zahra Badri, Sukhvinder Dhiman, Cina Foroutan‐Nejad, Jaroslaw Mysliwiec, Marcin Lindner, Joanna Ortyl   +10 more
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Magnetic Unclonable Functions Leveraging Remanence and Anhysteretic States

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A micrometric array of magnetic pillars provides a stable and unclonable hardware for generating cryptographic keys. From a single device, the ability is demonstrated to produce a 470‐bit key while also offering a reconfigurable mode of operation.
Alessandro Magni, Gabriele Barrera, Federica Celegato, Francesco Riboli, Diederik S. Wiersma, Sara Nocentini, Paola Tiberto   +6 more
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High‐Entropy Perovskite Nanofibers for Bifunctional Air Electrodes in Reversible Protonic Ceramic Electrochemical Cells

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High‐entropy perovskite nanofibers serve as robust and active bifunctional air electrodes in reversible protonic ceramic electrochemical cells. Their compositional complexity stabilizes the lattice, enriches oxygen vacancies, and accelerates surface exchange.
Hyeonggeun Kim, Incheol Jeong, Seeun Oh, Dongyeon Kim, Kang Taek Lee   +4 more
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Self‐Trapped Hole Migration and Defect‐Mediated Thermal Quenching of Luminescence in α‐ and β‐Ga2O3

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Temperature‐dependent photoluminescence and first‐principles calculations reveal self‐trapped hole migration as the microscopic origin of thermal quenching in α‐ and β‐Ga2O3. The low migration barrier in α‐Ga2O3 enables defect trapping and enhances blue luminescence, while the higher barrier in β‐Ga2O3 preserves ultraviolet emission at elevated ...
Nima Hajizadeh, Ymir K. Frodason, Clemens Petersen, Benjamin M. Janzen, Luca Sung‐Min Choi, Nils Bernhardt, Felix Nippert, Zbigniew Galazka, Joel B. Varley, Holger von Wenckstern, Lasse Vines, Markus R. Wagner   +11 more
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Multiple Twinning in Nacre and Aragonite

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Electron backscatter diffraction map of a cluster of geologic aragonite, exhibiting single, double, and triple twins. The whole cluster is approximately 2 cm wide. Colors indicate crystal orientations, so that pixels where the a‐, b‐, and c‐axis is perpendicular to the image plane are green, red, and blue, respectively.
Connor A. Schmidt, William O. Nachlas, Bil Schneider, Xiaoming Mao, Eric Tambutté, Alexander A. Venn, Sylvie Tambutté, Pupa U. P. A. Gilbert   +7 more
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Energy‐Efficient Bulk Photoalignment of Main‐Chain Liquid Crystalline Polymers Enabled by In Situ Monitoring

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In situ monitoring of bulk photoalignment reveals how molecular weight, azobenzene content, cooling rate, and thickness govern ordering in main‐chain liquid crystalline polymers. Optimized copolymers exceed conventional thickness limits, maintaining stable alignment up to 130 µm with high energy efficiency and reversible optical patterning.
Jaechul Ju, Joy Zhou, Connor J. O'Dea, Zachariah A. Page   +3 more
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