Freeze casting: from low‐dimensional building blocks to aligned porous structures—a review of novel materials, methods, and applications

G Shao, DAH Hanaor, X Shen, A Gurlo - Advanced Materials, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Freeze casting, also known as ice templating, is a particularly versatile technique that has
been applied extensively for the fabrication of well‐controlled biomimetic porous materials …

[HTML][HTML] Tracing evolutions in electro-activated shape memory polymer composites with 4D printing strategies: a systematic review

X Huang, M Panahi-Sarmad, K Dong, R Li… - Composites Part A …, 2021 - Elsevier
Abstract Shape-memory-polymers (SMPs) have displayed many attractive features,
especially in some shape memory composites that are able to respond swiftly to one or …

Functional conductive hydrogels for bioelectronics

F Fu, J Wang, H Zeng, J Yu - ACS Materials Letters, 2020 - ACS Publications
Conductive hydrogels are widely used in various applications, such as artificial skin, flexible
and implantable bioelectronics, and tissue engineering. However, it is still a challenge to …

An elegant coupling: Freeze-casting and versatile polymer composites

J Yang, W Yang, W Chen, X Tao - Progress in Polymer Science, 2020 - Elsevier
The innovations of materials science and modern technologies are boosting the prosperity
of polymer composites in various emerging multi-disciplinary fields. Cooperating with the …

[HTML][HTML] Modulating electromagnetic interference shielding performance of ultra-lightweight composite foams through shape memory function

S Zhu, Q Zhou, M Wang, J Dale, Z Qiang, Y Fan… - Composites Part B …, 2021 - Elsevier
High-performance electromagnetic interference shielding (EMI) materials are desirable in
aerospace, military and mobile electronics applications. However, fabrication of smart and …

Reversibly thermo-responsive materials applied in lithium batteries

Z Wei, L Yu, S Lu, Y Zhao - Energy Storage Materials, 2023 - Elsevier
Thermo-responsive materials are smart materials that are capable of reacting to a local
temperature variation, with high stimuli-sensitivity and/or facile reversibility. In recent years …

[HTML][HTML] Solvent crystallization-induced porous polyurethane/graphene composite foams for pressure sensing

C Feng, Z Yi, X Jin, SM Seraji, Y Dong, L Kong… - Composites Part B …, 2020 - Elsevier
Fabrication of facile and scalable flexible graphene-based composite materials offer many
advantages and have promising applications as pressure sensors. However, fabricating …

Seeking advanced thermal management for stretchable electronics

B Sun, X Huang - npj Flexible Electronics, 2021 - nature.com
With the trend of integration, miniaturization, and increasing power density of stretchable
electronic devices, real-time thermal dissipation is becoming crucial. Seeking materials …

[HTML][HTML] Polyaspartic polyurea/graphene nanocomposites for multifunctionality: Self-healing, mechanical resilience, electrical and thermal conductivities, and …

Q Meng, P Wang, Y Yu, J Liu, X Su, HC Kuan… - Thin-Walled …, 2023 - Elsevier
Polyurea elastomers have attracted increasingly more attention due to excellent mechanical
performance, and their wide industrial applications are in need of multifunctionality such as …

[HTML][HTML] Recent progress in the three-dimensional structure of graphene-carbon nanotubes hybrid and their supercapacitor and high-performance battery applications

MR Zakaria, MF Omar, MSZ Abidin, HM Akil… - Composites Part A …, 2022 - Elsevier
There has been significant interest in the hybridization of two-dimensional (2D) graphene
and one-dimensional (1D) carbon nanotubes (CNTs) to form three-dimensional (3D) hybrid …