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Elephant‐Skin‐Inspired Porous Cementitious Tiles with Programmable Crack Networks for Passive Cooling

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Elephant‐skin‐inspired crack networks are programmed in porous diatomaceous earth (DE)‐cement composites using substrate‐guided, stress‐concentration induced fracture. The resulting crack lattices act as capillary conduits that redistribute water, while the porous matrix stores moisture.
Qingya Huang, Kun‐Hao Yu, Ji Yoon Bae, Yunchan Lee, Dorit Aviv, Shu Yang   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

End-member modeling of the grain-size record of Sikouzi fine sediments in Ningxia (China) and implications for temperature control of Neogene evolution of East Asian winter monsoon.

PLoS ONE, 2017
The Late Cenozoic East Asian winter monsoon (EAWM) enhancement has been attributed to several factors, such as uplift of the Tibetan Plateau, retreat of the Paratethys Sea, and global cooling related to polar ice volume increment.
Hanchao Jiang, Shiming Wan, Xiaolin Ma, Ning Zhong, Debo Zhao   +4 more
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Lead Halide Perovskite Photoelectrocatalysis

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Lead halide perovskite semiconductors have emerged as highly promising materials for solar fuel and chemical synthesis. This perspective discusses advances made in the rational photoelectrode design to improve solar‐to‐chemical conversion, product scope, and scalability.
Virgil Andrei
wiley   +1 more source

Ratiometric Mycotoxin Detection in Living Plants With Dual‐Emissive Nanosensors

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A minimally invasive microneedle patch integrates carbon dot‐embedded metal–organic frameworks as nanosensors to detect a key fungal toxin in living plants. The nanosensor produces a ratiometric fluorescence signal that enables early, non‐destructive diagnosis of fungal infection before visible symptoms, offering a new biomaterials‐based strategy for ...
Yuliang Li, Di Shen, Ziyang Huang, Suppanat Puangpathumanond, Calvin Thenarianto, Yue Zhao, Jolly Madathiparambil Saju, Rajani Sarojam, Dongmei Zhou, Tedrick Thomas Salim Lew   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Efficient Osmotic Energy Conversion Enabled by Self‐Standing COF Membranes With Varied Sulfonic Acid Group Density

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Self‐standing, strong sulfonated covalent organic framework membranes with varied ionic‐group density are developed for osmotic energy conversion. Optimized charge‐governed nanochannels enable highly selective ion transport, delivering a power density of 24.53 W m−2 under seawater/freshwater salinity gradients.
Xi Ma, Xiaoxiao Cheng, Tamara Fischer, Jürgen Senker, Qi Sun, Seema Agarwal   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

A decade-long seamless-continuity daily L-band soil moisture product derived from SMOS observations since 2010

Scientific Data
Soil moisture (SM) is a fundamental state variable in the Earth system that governs water, energy, and carbon exchanges between land and atmosphere.
Yu Bai, Li Jia, Tianjie Zhao, Zhiqing Peng, Jingyao Zheng, Chaolei Zheng, Ping Tang, Jiancheng Shi   +7 more
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On‐Water Surface Synthesis of 2D Conjugated Metal–Organic Framework Films With Controllable Layer Orientation Enabling High‐Performance Chemiresistive Sensing

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Layer orientation dictates charge transport in 2D conjugated metal–organic frameworks, yet controllable methods remain scarce. We report surfactant monolayer‐assisted on‐water synthesis of cm2‐scale Ni‐HHTP films with programmable face‐on and edge‐on orientations.
Jianjun Zhang, Víctor García‐López, Yutong Wu, Shuai Fu, Yucong Chen, Arsh S. Hazrah, Petko Petkov, Mike Hambsch, Feng Ni, Alina Müller, Ye Yang, Leif Riemenschneider, Shirong Huang, Albertus Mattheüs Sandee, Yilv Guo, David Silva‐Brea, Jan‐Ole Joswig, Stefan C. B. Mannsfeld, Thomas Heine, Gianaurelio Cuniberti, Mischa Bonn, Zhiyong Wang, Xinliang Feng   +22 more
wiley   +1 more source

Bias‐Triggered Conductivity Relaxation (BCR): A Unique Tool to Simultaneously Investigate Thermodynamics, Kinetics, and Electrostatic Effects of Oxygen Reactions in MIEC Thin Films

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work develops bias‐triggered conductivity relaxation as a novel technique to study oxygen reactions in mixed ionic‐electronic conducting thin films by integrating electrochemical titration and electrical conductivity relaxation to achieve synchronous multi‐parameter characterization, providing simultaneous electronic, ionic, and extraordinarily ...
Alexander Stangl, Alexander Schmid, Adeel Riaz, Jürgen Fleig, Arnaud Badel   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

Photocatalytic Water Splitting on the Lunar Surface: Prospects for In Situ Resource Utilization

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Water has been found in craters on the moon nearby locations which are illuminated >80% of the time. Photocatalysis uses energy from sunlight to drive chemical reactions such as water splitting to produce oxygen and hydrogen. It is a scalable technology that requires lighter equipment and utilizes resources available on the moon. ABSTRACT The discovery
Ranjani Kalyan, Thomas D. Small, Gregory F. Metha, Mahmoud Adel Hamza, Thomas J. O'Dea, Yideng Shen, Cameron J. Shearer   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Publicly available soil moisture datasets: an overview and the UB-SMDC portal

Big Earth Data
Soil moisture is a fundamental environmental variable essential for applications in agriculture, drought assessment, hydrological modeling, and climate research.
Farzane Mohseni, Jan-Henrik Haunert
doaj   +1 more source