Upcycling of Disposable Face Masks into Water‐Resistant and Flame Retardant Foams
Disposable mask waste is upcycled into lightweight polypropylene‐based foams with tunable porosity and composite architectures reinforced by ear‐loop fibers. The sustainable solvent‐based process enables upcycling rates of 91% and solvent recovery of >90%.
Jingjing Pan +3 more
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Scalable and Healable Gradient Textiles for Multi-Scenario Radiative Cooling via Bicomponent Blow Spinning. [PDF]
Ji B +8 more
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Pullulan, a biomass‐derived polysaccharide, is transformed into transparent optical fibers using a solvent‐free borax hydrogel‐spinning method. The fibers outperform PMMA with ≈200 MPa tensile strength and 200 °C stability, while uniquely guiding visible‐to‐NIR light and enabling additive‐free humidity sensing.
Yuya Fukata +4 more
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Emissivity Regulated Fabric: Achieving Self-Adaptive Radiative Cooling and Dynamic Body Radiation Manipulation. [PDF]
Hu X +11 more
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Switchable Thermal Mid‐IR Conducting Polymer Antenna Arrays
This study presents switchable mid‐infrared plasmonic resonances in PEDOT antenna arrays. Their optical extinction peaks can be reversibly switched ‘OFF’ and ‘ON’ by tuning the polaronic charge carrier concentration via the polymer's redox state, offering modulation of optical responses in the thermal mid‐infrared range including around 10 µm ...
Pravallika Bandaru +5 more
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Air-dried high-strength black MXene aerogel for spatiotemporal infrared information management. [PDF]
Wu C +7 more
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A self‐gelling PG@PAC (POD/Gel‐CDH@PA/CHX) powder is developed for infected burn care in austere settings. Upon contact with wound exudate, it instantly forms an adhesive hydrogel, providing simultaneous hemostasis, broad‐spectrum antibacterial activity, reactive oxygen species scavenging, and immunomodulation. In a murine model of S.
Liping Zhang +14 more
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Spectral decoupling regulation through targeted ion migration in electro-optical resonators. [PDF]
Li M +10 more
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High Entropy Wide‐Bandgap Borates with Broadband Luminescence and Large Nonlinear Optical properties
High‐entropy rare‐earth borates exhibit excellent nonlinear optical and broadband luminescence properties arising from multi‐component doping, chemical disorder, increased configurational entropy, and increased lattice and electronic anharmonicity. This formulation enabled us to obtain a large, environmentally stable single crystal with 3X higher laser‐
Saugata Sarker +14 more
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Optimizing thermal radiation control with ultra-broadband metamaterials for high passive radiative cooling efficiency. [PDF]
Feyisa T +8 more
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