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Photoactive Tweezers

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
A photoactive tweezers system based on photoactive colloids is developed and systematically investigated in this study. Through experimental and theoretical methods, we demonstrate that the photoredox reaction catalyzed by a dye‐sensitized TiO2 particle generates a strong positive phototaxis, enabling self‐entrapment in the beam center.
Jingyuan Chen, Qingxin Guo, Shiwei Zhang, Donghao Cui, Changjin Wu, Pei Xu, Wei Wang, Kai Lou, Binglin Zeng, Jinyao Tang   +9 more
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Escaping the Scaling Relationships in Oxygen Reduction Catalysis: Implications for PEM Fuel Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Escaping the scaling relationships of the oxygen reduction reaction is vital for hydrogen fuel cells. This outlook examines how interfacial heterogeneity, spanning the subsurface lattice, chemisorption layer, and near‐interface solvation volume, mechanistically decouples intermediate binding energetics.
Muhammad Bilal Wazir, Lourdes F. Vega, Maryam Khaleel   +2 more
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Bioinspired Adaptive Surfaces for Intelligent Liquid Manipulation: Progressing From Passive and Active to Hybrid Strategies

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This review examines passive, active, and hybrid liquid manipulation strategies, highlighting hybrid approaches as an emerging route to reconcile energy efficiency with adaptive control. By actively reconstructing passive surfaces to store programmable interfacial energy, hybrid systems enable flexible yet low‐power liquid transport, with perspectives ...
Jiaqi Miao, Yiyuan Zhang, Liqiu Wang, Alan C. H. Tsang   +3 more
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Silica nanofluid flooding for enhanced oil recovery in sandstone rocks

Egyptian Journal of Petroleum, 2018
Enhanced oil recovery is proposed as a solution for declining oil production. One of the advanced trends in the petroleum industry is the application of nanotechnology for enhanced oil recovery.
Magda I. Youssif, Rehab M. El-Maghraby, Sayed M. Saleh, Ahmed Elgibaly   +3 more
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Programmable Functional Silicification of DNA Origami Nanostructures

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
This work introduces additional functionality into silica‐coated DNA origami nanostructures using non‐standard silica precursors. A fluorescent precursor enables enhanced intracellular tracking, while a disulfide‐containing reagent yields redox‐responsive, degradable silica coatings.
Anna V. Baptist, Lasse Guericke, Philipp Mauker, Oliver Thorn‐Seshold, Amelie Heuer‐Jungemann   +4 more
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Adsorption‐Engineered Hydrocarbon Ionomers for Durable Proton‐Exchange Membrane Fuel Cells

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Hydrocarbon ionomers suffer from oxidation‐driven interfacial degradation in PEM fuel cell cathodes, leading to catalyst instability. Here, adsorption‐engineered poly(fluorene) ionomers decouple interfacial anchoring from oxidative degradation, enabling strong catalyst–ionomer interactions while resisting electrochemical oxidation.
Heemin Park, Kate Chen, Su Min Ahn, Hengquan Guo, Cy Fujimoto, Jong‐Ho Choi, Lynda Amichi, Danah Kim, Seung Geol Lee, Xiaojing Wang, Jacob S. Spendelow, Sun Young Kang, Panagiotis Bexis, Eun Joo S. Park, Yu Seung Kim   +14 more
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S‐Nitrosothiols as Thiol‐Protecting Groups for Controlled Thiol‐Maleimide Crosslinking of Homogeneous Soft Hydrogels

Advanced Materials, EarlyView.
Rapid thiol‐maleimide addition frequently outpaces mixing, resulting in heterogeneous hydrogels. S‐nitrosothiols act as thiol‐protecting groups, allowing uniform mixing with maleimide‐functionalized polymers before gelation. Sodium thiosulfate or sodium ascorbate then regenerates thiols on demand, triggering controlled thiol‐maleimide crosslinking ...
Julian A. Serna, Michelle J. Iwohn, Maximilian Seifermann, Stefan Heißler, Maike Schliephake, Franziska Dopp, Claudia Muhle‐Goll, Pavel A. Levkin   +7 more
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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
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In vitro cytotoxicity and induction of apoptosis by silica nanoparticles in human HepG2 hepatoma cells

International Journal of Nanomedicine, 2011
Xun Lu2,3, Jiangchao Qian1, Huanjun Zhou2,3, Qi Gan2,3, Wei Tang1, Jingxiong Lu3, Yuan Yuan1,2, Changsheng Liu1–31State Key Laboratory of Bioreactor Engineering, 2Key Laboratory for Ultrafine Materials of Ministry of Education, 3Engineering ...
Lu X, Qian J, Zhou H, Gan Q, Tang W, Lu J, Yuan Y, Liu C   +7 more
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The Synthesis and Reactivity of Mesoporous and Surface-Rough Vinyl-Containing ORMOSIL Nanoparticles

Colloids and Interfaces
Silica nanoparticles synthesized solely from organosilanes naturally possess a greater number of organic functionalities than silica nanoparticles surface-modified with organosilanes.
Nathan I. Walton, Eric M. Brozek, Courtney C. Gwinn, Ilya Zharov   +3 more
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