A review on piezo-and pyroelectric responses of flexible nano-and micropatterned polymer surfaces for biomedical sensing and energy harvesting applications

RA Surmenev, RV Chernozem, IO Pariy… - Nano Energy, 2021 - Elsevier
This review summarises the most recent advances in the application of anodic aluminium
oxide (AAO) membranes as templates to prepare poly (vinylidenefluoride)-(PVDF) or poly …

Recent progress in the self-assembly of block copolymers confined in emulsion droplets

N Yan, Y Zhu, W Jiang - Chemical Communications, 2018 - pubs.rsc.org
When the self-assembly of block copolymers (BCPs) occurs within a deformable emulsion
droplet, BCPs can aggregate into a variety of nanoscaled particles with unique …

A review on the progress of polymer nanostructures with modulated morphologies and properties, using nanoporous AAO templates

C Mijangos, R Hernández, J Martin - Progress in Polymer Science, 2016 - Elsevier
Polymers with the same chemical composition can provide different properties by reducing
the dimension or simply by altering their nanostructure. The recent literature reports …

Piezoelectric nylon‐11 nanowire arrays grown by template wetting for vibrational energy harvesting applications

A Datta, YS Choi, E Chalmers, C Ou… - Advanced Functional …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Piezoelectric polymers, capable of converting mechanical vibrations into electrical energy,
are attractive for use in vibrational energy harvesting due to their flexibility, robustness, ease …

Flexible self-cleaning broadband antireflective film inspired by the transparent cicada wings

Z Han, Z Wang, B Li, X Feng, Z Jiao… - … applied materials & …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Cicada wings, covered with arranged nanostructures, were widely studied owing to their
high transparency and low reflection. However, limited by technologies, their exquisite …

Microfluidic and nanofluidic resistive pulse sensing: a review

Y Song, J Zhang, D Li - Micromachines, 2017 - mdpi.com
The resistive pulse sensing (RPS) method based on the Coulter principle is a powerful
method for particle counting and sizing in electrolyte solutions. With the advancement of …

Engineering the Morphologies of Block Copolymer Particles from the Confined Self‐assembly within Emulsion Droplets

D Hu, X Chang, Y Zhu - Chinese Journal of Chemistry, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Comprehensive Summary Block copolymers (BCPs) can automatically assemble into
various regulated nanoparticles when they are confined within the emulsion droplet …

Photoelectrochemical water splitting by a novel design of photo-anode: inverse opal-like UiO-66 sensitized by Pd and decorated with S, N graphene QDs

M Zargazi, MH Entezari - Electrochimica Acta, 2021 - Elsevier
UiO-66 film has been interested for photoelectrodes in water splitting, but it has major
problems such as inappropriate band gap and resistant behavior under bias potential. An …

Structural transformation of diblock copolymer/homopolymer assemblies by tuning cylindrical confinement and interfacial interactions

J Xu, K Wang, R Liang, Y Yang, H Zhou, X Xie, J Zhu - Langmuir, 2015 - ACS Publications
In this study, we report the controllable structural transformation of block copolymer/
homopolymer binary blends in cylindrical nanopores. Polystyrene-b-poly (4-vinylpyridine) …

Fabrication of chemically tunable, hierarchically branched polymeric nanostructures by multi-branched anodic aluminum oxide templates

H Jo, N Haberkorn, JA Pan, M Vakili, K Nielsch… - Langmuir, 2016 - ACS Publications
In this paper, a template-assisted replication method is demonstrated for the fabrication of
hierarchically branched polymeric nanostructures composed of post-modifiable poly …