Copper sulfide anchored MXene improving photo-responsive self-healing polyurethane with enhanced mechanical and antibacterial properties

W Wang, L Cao, Q Li, C Du, S Chen - Journal of Colloid and Interface …, 2023 - Elsevier
Diseases caused by bacterial infection are becoming a major threat to human health.
Therefore, developing efficient antibacterial materials is of great significance in improving …

Stabilizing High Density Cu Active Sites with ZrO2 Quantum Dots as Chemical Ligand in N‐doped Porous Carbon Nanofibers for Efficient ORR

Y Qiao, Y Zhang, S Xia, C Wei, Y Chen, S Chen, J Yan - Small, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The emerging transition metal‐nitrogen‐carbon (M N C) materials are considered as a
promising oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst system to substitute expensive Pt/C …

[HTML][HTML] Ultra-high strength, highly deformable and superhydrophobic polybenzoxazine@ cellulose nanofiber composite aerogel for thermal insulation

X Long, P Huang, X Wei, J Yu, S Wang… - Composites Part A: Applied …, 2023 - Elsevier
The poor mechanical properties of aerogels such as low strength and high brittleness are a
century problem that has not been solved so far, and the existing structural design, structural …

An Electron-Coupled Co-ZrO2 Nanodot Heterojunction Electrocatalyst with Lewis Acid–Base Site Pairs Enables High Redox Reaction Kinetics of Li–S Batteries

Y Ma, L Zhang, S Liu, S Chen, J Yu, B Ding, J Yan - ACS nano, 2024 - ACS Publications
Using electrocatalysts is effective in solving the slow reaction kinetics of polysulfides in Li–S
batteries, but designing stable electrocatalysts with an integrated adsorption-catalysis …

Functionalized nanofibers in gas sorption process: a critical review on the challenges and prospective research

R Nithya, A Thirunavukkarasu, RV Hemavathy… - Environmental …, 2023 - Springer
Air pollution has become the most important environmental and human health threat as it is
accounting for about 7 million deaths across the globe every year. Particulate matter (PM) …

The Contact Interface Electronic Coupling of Cobalt and Zirconia Enables Stable and Highly Efficient 4e Oxygen Reduction Reaction Catalysis

S Chen, Y Ma, L Zhang, Y Zhang, Y Chen, X Zhang… - Small, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Cobalt (Co) is an efficient oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) catalyst but suffers from issues of
easy deactivation and instability. Here, it shows that ZrO2 can stabilize Co through interface …

Pivotal role of water vapor mediated defect engineering on SrTiO3 nanofiber toward efficiency photocatalytic water splitting

L Chen, C Wang, Z Wang, G Li - Materials Today Energy, 2024 - Elsevier
The oxygen vacancies (OVs) have been considered played key roles as either charge
carrier traps for inhibiting recombination or directly as active sites for photocatalytic redox …

High-Modulus Homochiral Torsional Oxide Ceramic Artificial Muscles

J Yan, C Zhu, Y Guo, J Di, X Zhang, L Wei, X Tian, K Fu - 2023 - researchsquare.com
Artificial muscles are soft actuators used to mimic human muscle movements, but using
oxide ceramics to fabricate high-modulus artificial muscles is a challenge since they are …