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Smart Electrospun Nanofibers for Controlled Oil‐Water Separation

Advanced Materials Interfaces, EarlyView.
Stimuli‐responsive electrospun nanofibers are reviewed as advanced platforms for controlled oil/water separation. The effects of surface wettability, porous structure, and external stimuli, including pH, temperature, gas, and light, on separation performance are discussed.
Aynaz Sedaghatnia, Milad Babazadeh‐Mamaqani, Hossein Roghani‐Mamaqani, Donya Razzaghi, Amin Babaie, Reza Lotfi‐Mayan, Mostafa Rezaei   +6 more
wiley   +1 more source

Sunlight-Driven Photothermal Effect of Composite Eggshell Membrane Coated with Graphene Oxide and Gold Nanoparticles

Applied Sciences, 2019
Eggshell membrane (ESM), which consists of unique interwoven shell membrane fibers, provides a unique supporting platform for functional nanoparticles in catalysis and sensing.
Ling Wang, Bin Tang, Ji Zhou, Hai Zhao, Wu Chen, Jinfeng Wang   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Upscaling Pulsed Laser Fragmentation in Liquids by Advanced Free‐Flow Setups

Advanced Materials Technologies, EarlyView.
Advanced flow setups providing thin colloid films are introduced to upscale pulsed laser fragmentation in liquids for sustainable nanoparticle synthesis. Their potential is demonstrated by yielding remarkably small ZnO nanoparticles of <7 nm. Numerical simulations complement the study, revealing that the superior performance can be attributed to ...
Jan Lino Kricke, Zongwen Fu, Sebastian Burgmann, Uwe Janoske, Carlos Doñate‐Buendía, Bilal Gökce   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Construction of a Cu@hollow TS‐1 nanoreactor based on a hierarchical full‐spectrum solar light utilization strategy for photothermal synergistic artificial photosynthesis

Carbon Energy
The artificial photosynthesis technology has been recognized as a promising solution for CO2 utilization. Photothermal catalysis has been proposed as a novel strategy to promote the efficiency of artificial photosynthesis by coupling both photochemistry ...
Sixian Zhu, Qiao Zhao, Hongxia Guo, Li Liu, Xiao Wang, Xiwei Qi, Xianguang Meng, Wenquan Cui   +7 more
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3D Printing of Soft Robotic Systems: Advances in Fabrication Strategies and Future Trends

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Collectively, this review systematically examines 3D‐printed soft robotics, encompassing material selections, function integration, and manufacturing methodologies. Meanwhile, fabrication strategies are analyzed in order of increasing complexity, highlighting persistent challenges with proposed solutions.
Changjiang Liu, Bin Cui, Xumin Huang, Xiaoyu (Rayne) Zheng, T. Thang Vo‐Doan, Ruirui Qiao   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Soft Actuators Integrated with Control and Power Units: Approaching Wireless Autonomous Soft Robots

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Soft robots exhibit significant development potential in various applications. However, there are still key technical challenges regarding material improvement, structure design and components integration. This review focuses on the development and challenge of soft actuators, power components, and control components in untethered intelligent soft ...
Renwu Shi, Feifei Pan, Xiaobin Ji
wiley   +1 more source

Recent progress on photothermal nanomaterials: Design, mechanism, and applications

Green Energy & Environment
Photothermal energy conversion represents a cornerstone process in the renewable energy technologies domain, enabling the capture of solar irradiance and its subsequent transformation into thermal energy.
Xiao Yu, Shilin Fan, Bin Zhu, Soliman I. El-Hout, Jian Zhang, Chunlin Chen   +5 more
doaj   +1 more source

Metal-Organic Frameworks: Defects, Spectroscopy and Catalysis [PDF]

, 2020
In this PhD thesis we have studied the chemistry of defects within Metal-Organic Frameworks (MOFs) as well as the properties of the related Defect-Engineered Metal-Organic Frameworks (DEMOFs).
Sub Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Rivera Torrente, Miguel   +2 more
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Intelligent Micro/Nanorobots for Targeted Interventional Therapy: From Bench to Clinic

Advanced Robotics Research, EarlyView.
Zirui Zhang et al. reviewed the application and challenges of mobile nanomachines in interventional therapy. By converting exogenous energy, including chemical, magnetic, optical, and ultrasonic sources, into mechanical forces, micro/nanorobots (MNRs) enable precise actuation at unprecedented scales. Evolving far beyond traditional drug delivery, these
Zirui Zhang, Yu Dong, Yongsheng Du, Rui Gao, Lin Zhang, Fei Tong   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Cobalt particle size effects in catalysis [PDF]

, 2010
Aim of the work described in this thesis was first to investigate cobalt particle size effects in heterogeneous catalysis. The main focus was to provide a deeper understanding of the origin of the cobalt particle size effects in Fischer-Tropsch (FT ...
Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, Sub Inorganic Chemistry and Catalysis, den Breejen, J.P.   +2 more
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