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Upcycling Keratin‐Based Textile Waste Into High‐Performance Hybrid Fibers Via Tuning the Interfacial Interactions

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Keratin recovered from animal‐hair textile waste is fractionated and blended with cellulose to produce continuously spun hybrid fibers. Selecting the high‐molecular‐weight keratin fraction enables 30 wt.% keratin incorporation while maintaining high strength in dry and wet states.
Mian Zhai, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Inge Schlapp‐Hackl, Teemu Välisalmi, Markus Linder, Michael Hummel, Wenwen Fang   +6 more
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Photo‐Switchable Molecular Module Programming PET Biodegradation in Aquatic Environments

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We address the plastic durability paradox by integrating an itaconic acid–derived pyrrolidone module into polymer backbones. Sunlight in water triggers Norrish Type I ring‐opening and hydrophilization, enabling rapid biodegradation into nontoxic minerals.
Mohammad Asif Ali, Jixin Zheng, Satoshi Wakai, Jie Liu, Hidetaka Nomaki, Misato Tsukatani, Noriyuki Isobe, Jingcheng Sang, Yuriko Aoki, Hideo Okamura, Daisuke Sasaki, Chiaki Ogino, Yuzo Yamazaki, Takashi Nishikaze, Kenji Takada, Maiko K. Okajima, Tatsuo Kaneko   +16 more
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Electron‐Deficient Linkers Enhance H2O2 Electrosynthesis in Covalent Organic Frameworks

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Linker π‐conjugation modulates the electronic state of the Ni–N4 centers and their interaction with the key *OOH intermediate while preserving the primary coordination motif. NiPc‐PTDA delivers an H2O2 selectivity of 92% and a production rate of 34.8 mol gcat−1 h−1, highlighting linker electronic properties as a molecular design parameter for NiPc ...
Houting Xie, Rui Guo, Zhen Liu, Yang Hu, Laichun Zhao, Omid Mazaheri, Bufeng Zhang, Shuaijun Pan   +7 more
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Desert Plant Inspired Hierarchical Nanofibrous Membranes for Integrated Solar Desalination and Heavy Metal Remediation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
An Alhagi maurorum inspired hierarchical composite membrane (NFCu) was developed by integrating heavy metal remediation and solar‐driven interfacial evaporation in a single platform. Beyond the photothermal effect, a localized photocatalytic process is realized on the CuO surface, deepening the mechanistic understanding of light–matter–water ...
Yuqiong He, Ronggang Luo, Shengbo Ge, Kaixin Jiang, Kirsten Dyer, Xiaojian Zhou, Ben Bin Xu, Xuehua Zhang, Guanben Du, Kaimeng Xu   +9 more
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Decoupling the Size and Loading Effects in Silver Nanoparticles for Efficient Paired Carbon Dioxide and Formaldehyde Electrolysis

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
We investigate size‐dependent CO selectivity on Ag nanoparticles, where optimized Ag loading achieves nearly 100% Faradaic Efficiency for CO at −100 mA·cm−2. In situ SERS and XPS reveal the crucial role of optimized loading in catalytic performance. The Ag/C catalyst further exhibits bifunctional activity, enabling efficient electrolysis of CO2 and ...
Venkata S. R. K. Tandava, Clara Große, Debabrata Bagchi, Zhenye Zhu, Suptish Ghosh, J. Niklas Hausmann, Carsten Walter, Rosario Suarez Anzorena, Catalina Elena Jimenez, Yasmin Lucero Cobos‐Becerra, Jack C. Q. Fletcher, Tobias Sontheimer, Michael Schwarze, Holger Dau, Matthias Driess, Marcus Bär, Prashanth W. Menezes   +16 more
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Self‐Assembled Crystalline Peptoid Nanomaterials as Metal‐Free Enzyme Mimics for Enhanced Carbon Dioxide Hydration and Precipitation

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Inspired by metal‐free carbonic anhydrases (CAs) that achieve efficient catalysis without metal cofactors, we herein report a sequence‐defined supramolecular peptoid platform that mimics metal‐free CAs and exhibits hydrolytic activity via a supramolecular assembly‐mediated proton‐transfer mechanism.
Progyateg Chakma, Ying Chen, Thi Kim Hoang Trinh, Anthony R. Perez, Jonathan Gil, Maria Casco Hidalgo, Botao Hao, Kyle Whitaker, Chun‐Long Chen   +8 more
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Covalent Functionalization of 2D Semiconductors: A Roadmap to Advanced Electronic Devices

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Review presents recent advances in the covalent functionalization strategies for two‐dimensional semiconductors and their implementation in modern technologies. Layered materials are modified through diverse molecular chemistries (e.g., thiols, diazonium salts, alkyl halides, and electron‐deficient species) to tailor their surface properties ...
Ramiro Quirós‐Ovies, Bin Han, Paolo Samorì   +2 more
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A Magneto‐Mechanically Activated Nerve Guidance Conduit Promotes Peripheral Nerve Regeneration via TIMP1‐Mediated Membrane Tension Transfer

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This study presents a magneto‐mechanical strategy that incorporates FP@MSCs into an aligned PCL/GelMA nerve guidance conduit. Magnetic stimulation increases membrane tension in FP@MSCs, triggering cytoskeletal remodeling, Schwann cell‐like differentiation, and TIMP1 secretion. TIMP1 activates ITGB1/CD63–FAK signaling in NE‐4C cells, increasing membrane
Xinyu Zhu, Yumin Wu, Xiang Gao, Tianlu Wang, Wanting Jia, Xueying Mei, Huanzhong Ji, Zongxi Wu, Yujie Liang, Xiang Li, Kan Li, Jingyuan Li, Guangsen Zheng, Guiqing Liao, Siyong Gao   +14 more
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Charge‐Polarized Ni─S4 Single‐Atom Sites Drive Selective Photoreforming of Poly(lactic acid) to Lactate and Hydrogen

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Atomically dispersed Ni–S4 sites on CdS nanorods induce interfacial charge polarization, directing photogenerated electrons to H2 evolution and holes to selective ester‐bond cleavage of poly(lactic acid). Without sacrificial reagents, this charge‐coupled system produces lactate while suppressing overoxidation, achieving an H2 evolution rate of 41.74 ...
Yu Yao, Panpan Zhang, Jinqiang Zhang, Xi‐lin Wu, Tara Pukala, Yifei Wang, Bernt Johannessen, Shaobin Wang, Xiaoguang Duan   +8 more
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Photoinduced Charge Separation in Single‐Component Squaraine Films: The Key Role of Electrostatic Disorder

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Neat films of organic dyes are an interesting technological platform for solar cells and photodetectors. Recently, the conventional biphasic bulk‐heterojunction paradigm for photoinduced charge separation was challenged by the observation that charge carriers can be photogenerated in single‐component materials. A comprehensive experimental and
Davide Giavazzi, João Pedro Ferreira Assunção, Michael Bauer, Matthias Diethelm, Wei‐Hsu Hu, Mohammad Jafarpour, Roland Widmer, Antonia Neels, Dimitrios Sapalidis, Bruno F. B. Silva, Roland Hany, Frank Nüesch, Anna Painelli   +12 more
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