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Photon Avalanching Nanoparticles: The Next Generation of Upconverting Nanomaterials?

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
This Perspective outlines the mechanistic foundations that enable photon‐avalanche (PA) behavior in lanthanide nanomaterials and contrasts them with emerging application spaces and forward‐looking design strategies. By bridging threshold engineering, energy‐transfer dynamics, and materials engineering, we provide a coherent roadmap for advancing the ...
Kimoon Lee, Yunseo Kim, Hyeong‐ku Jo, Dongjoon Yoon, Byeonghyeok Im, WonJeong Yu, Eui‐Rim On, Changhwan Lee   +7 more
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Meniscus Pixel Printing for Contact‐Lens Vision Sensing and Robotic Control

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
A visual‐sensing contact lens is enabled by meniscus pixel printing (MPP), which rapidly patterns a 200 µm perovskite photodetector pixel in 1 s without masks, vacuum processing, or bulky equipment. A deep‐learning‐based super‐resolution reconstructs sparse on‐lens signals into 80 × 80 high‐resolution visual information, while AI‐driven eye‐tracking ...
Byung‐Hoon Gong, Dohyean Kim, Jiyun Jeong, Taekyeong Kim, Soon‐sung Kwon, Junyoung Seo, Il Jeon, Im Doo Jung   +7 more
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Dispensing Volumetric Additive Manufacturing

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Dispensing volumetric additive manufacturing (DVAM) prints 3D structures inside a photocurable resin droplet suspended from the tip of a glass pipette, enabling sequential printing without resin vats or manual part removal. Real‐time droplet profiling and ray‐tracing‐based correction compensate for optical distortion at the curved resin‐air interface ...
Hongryung Jeon, Yunsoo Lee, Seobin Park, Kyung‐Hwan Kim, Junyoung Seo, Im Doo Jung   +5 more
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Halide‐Dependent Photoluminescence and Heavy‐Atom Effects in Low‐Melting Organic–Inorganic Manganese Halides

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Two pyridinium‐based ionic liquid templated hybrid manganese halides, (C4Py)2[MnCl4] and (C4Py)2[MnBr4], display similar bulk structures but show significantly different photoluminescence behaviors due to the bromine heavy‐atom effect. Their stable local Mn environments remain intact even in the molten state, allowing applications such as luminescence ...
Biswajit Bhattacharyya, Christian Balischewski, Jiyong Kim, Tiago Duarte, Lianshe Fu, Rute A.S. Ferreira, Alkit Beqiraj, Iuliia Mikulska, Diego Gianolio, Eric Sperlich, Felix Stete, Wouter Koopman, Christina Günter, Katlen Brennenstuhl, Daniel Van Opdenbosch, Cordt Zollfrank, Armin Wedel, Beth J. Murray, Małgorzata Swadźba‐Kwaśny, Tillmann Klamroth, Michael U. Kumke, Verónica de Zea Bermudez, Andreas Taubert   +22 more
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Speckle‐Engineered Upconversion Amplification in Nanoemulsion‐Templated Hydrogel Microdomes

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Nanoemulsion‐confined PEGDA microdomes generate speckle‐like excitation fields that strongly amplify upconversion luminescence upon dehydration, enabling filter‐free visible readout with reversible on–off switching. DMD‐based lithography yields scalable, shape‐programmable arrays for moisture‐responsive displays and optical encryption.
Chaeyeong Ryu, Byungcheon Yoo, Seunghun Lee, Hyungyo Jeong, Sanggyun Jeong, Heesu Cho, Jongwon Oh, Dahye Baek, Jongkyu Kim, Yubin Lee, Eunsu Gu, Dong‐Hwan Kim, Jung‐Hoon Park, Jiseok Lee   +13 more
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Establishing a Model Precursor System: Over a Decade of Research on Carbon Dots from the Citric Acid‐Urea System

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
The citric acid/urea (CA‐Urea) precursor system offers a versatile, scalable route to carbon dots with tunable luminescence and multifunctionality. Mechanistic insights into precursor chemistry and reaction parameters have enabled doping, surface modification, and hybridization strategies, yielding CDs for luminescent devices, sensing, catalysis ...
Yupeng Liu, Zhiqi Cai, Xiangxin Sun, Hanyi Zhang, Yiming Hao, Jun Wu, Zekun Yan, Xue Wu, Yiqi Liang, Liming Wang, Songnan Qu   +10 more
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Robust Polymer Hydrogels Improve Electric‐Fish‐Inspired Batteries

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Electric‐fish‐inspired hydrogel batteries based on ion‐concentration gradients offer an attractive route to soft power sources; however, the poor mechanical properties of existing hydrogels limit device assembly and performance. Here, we report poly(ethylene glycol) methyl ether acrylate hydrogels that enable ion‐gradient batteries composed of
Nick Zahnd, Satyajit Das, John Marc C. Puguan, Carolina Pierucci, Michael Mayer, Christoph Weder   +5 more
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Algorithmic Design of Disordered Networks With Arbitrary Coordination: Application to Biophotonics

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Predictive Design of Disordered Networks: Disordered network‐like morphologies are abundant in nature, from cytoskeletal networks to bone structures and chalcogenide glasses. These structures are naturally hard to characterize. A new algorithmic tool extends the established Wooten–Weaire–Winer (WWW) algorithm to valencies above 4.
Florin Hemmann, Vincent Glauser, Ullrich Steiner, Matthias Saba   +3 more
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Multi‐Scale Interface Engineering of MXenes for Multifunctional Sensory Systems

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
MXenes, as two‐dimensional transition metal carbides and nitrides, demonstrate remarkable capabilities for multifunctional sensing applications. This review systematically examines multi‐scale interface engineering approaches that enhance sensing performance, enable diverse detection functionalities, and improve system‐level compatibility in MXene ...
Jiaying Liao, Sin‐Yi Pang, Jianhua Hao
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Metachromatic Butterfly Bile Pigments for Multi‐Level Optical Security Films

Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.
Bio‐derived optical security materials are manufactured by embedding butterfly‐based pigments in polymer films. Tunable color and fluorescence responses arise from concentration‐controlled metachromasy, enabling spatially encoded patterns with distinct visible, UV‐active, and spectral signatures.
Limin Wang, Bodo D. Wilts
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