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Open AccessProgress of carbon-based electrocatalysts for flexible zinc-air batteries in the past 5 years: recent strategies for design, synthesis and performance optimization
The increasing popularity of wearable electronic devices has led to the rapid development of flexible energy conversion systems. Flexible rechargeable zinc-air batteries (ZABs) with high theoretical energy den...
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Open AccessGint4.T-Modified DNA Tetrahedrons Loaded with Doxorubicin Inhibits Glioma Cell Proliferation by Targeting PDGFRβ
Glioma is one of the deadliest intrinsic brain tumours due to its invasive growth. The effect of glioma treatment is poor because of the presence of the blood-brain barrier and blood tumour barrier and insuffi...
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Open AccessNanochannel-Controlled Synthesis of Ultrahigh Nitrogen-Do** Efficiency on Mesoporous Fe/N/C Catalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
Designing appropriate methods to effectively enhance nitrogen-do** efficiency and active-site density is essential to boost the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) activity of non-platinum Fe/N/C-type electrocat...
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Open AccessA Tunable Dual-Band and Polarization-Insensitive Coherent Perfect Absorber Based on Double-Layers Graphene Hybrid Waveguide
A suspended monolayer graphene has only about 2.3% absorption rate in visible and infrared band, which limits its optoelectronic applications. To significantly increase graphene’s absorption efficiency, a tuna...
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Open AccessHigh-Performance Cathode Material of FeF3·0.33H2O Modified with Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Lithium-Ion Batteries
The FeF3·0.33H2O cathode material can exhibit a high capacity and high energy density through transfer of multiple electrons in the conversion reaction and has attracted great attention from researchers. However,...
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Open AccessA Highly Nanoporous Nitrogen-Doped Carbon Microfiber Derived from Bioresource as a New Kind of ORR Electrocatalyst
Synthesis of metal-free carbon-based electrocatalysts for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) to replace the conventional platinum-based catalysts has currently become a hot topic of research. This work proposes a...
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Open AccessMulti-functional Device with Switchable Functions of Absorption and Polarization Conversion at Terahertz Range
Terahertz electromagnetic (EM) wave components usually have a single function, such as they can only convert the polarization state of an incident wave or absorb the incident energy, which would be a limitatio...
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Open AccessUltra-wideband and Polarization-Insensitive Perfect Absorber Using Multilayer Metamaterials, Lumped Resistors, and Strong Coupling Effects
We theoretically and experimentally proposed a new structure of ultra-wideband and thin perfect metamaterial absorber loaded with lumped resistances. The thin absorber was composed of four dielectric layers, t...
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Open AccessAtomic Force Microscopy-Based Nanoscopy of Chondrogenically Differentiating Human Adipose-Derived Stem Cells: Nanostructure and Integrin β1 Expression
Integrin β1 is known to be involved in differentiation, migration, proliferation, wound repair, tissue development, and organogenesis. In order to analyze the binding probability between integrin β1 ligand and...
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Open AccessFabrication of Efficient Organic-Inorganic Perovskite Solar Cells in Ambient Air
Although many groups have been trying to prepare perovskite solar cells (PSCs) in ambient air, the power conversion efficiency (PCE) is still low. Besides, the effect of moisture on the formation of perovskite...
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Open AccessEnhancement of the electrochemical performance of the spinel structure LiNi0.5-xGaxMn1.5O4 cathode material by Ga do**
A sol-gel method was adopted to obtain LiNi0.5-xGaxMn1.5O4 (x = 0, 0.04, 0.06, 0.08, 0.1) samples. The effect of Ga do** on LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 and its optimum content were investigated, and the electrochemical prop...
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Open AccessHorseradish Peroxidase-Encapsulated Hollow Silica Nanospheres for Intracellular Sensing of Reactive Oxygen Species
Reactive oxygen species (ROS) have crucial roles in cell signaling and homeostasis. Overproduction of ROS can induce oxidative damage to various biomolecules and cellular structures. Therefore, develo** an a...
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Open AccessMagnetic Gold Nanoparticle-Labeled Heparanase Monoclonal Antibody and its Subsequent Application for Tumor Magnetic Resonance Imaging
Heparanase (HPA) is ubiquitously expressed in various metastatic malignant tumors; previous studies have demonstrated that HPA was a potential tumor-associated antigen (TAA) for tumor immunotherapy. We sought ...
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Open AccessUltra-Sensitive Strain Sensor Based on Flexible Poly(vinylidene fluoride) Piezoelectric Film
A flexible 4 × 4 sensor array with 16 micro-scale capacitive units has been demonstrated based on flexible piezoelectric poly(vinylidene fluoride) (PVDF) film. The piezoelectricity and surface morphology of th...
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Open AccessLasing and Transport Properties of Poly[(9,9-dioctyl-2,7-divinylenefluorenylene)-alt-co-(2-methoxy-5-(2-ethylhexyloxy)-1,4-phenylene)] (POFP) for the Application of Diode-Pumped Organic Solid Lasers
This paper demonstrates the lasing and transport properties of a green conjugated polymer, namely POFP. High photoluminescence yields and excellent electron transport of POFP film make it promising for gain me...
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Open AccessSynthesis of Spherical Silver-coated Li4Ti5O12 Anode Material by a Sol-Gel-assisted Hydrothermal Method
Ag-coated spherical Li4Ti5O12 composite was successfully synthesized via a sol-gel-assisted hydrothermal method using an ethylene glycol and silver nitrate mixture as the precursor, and the influence of the Ag co...
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Open AccessSynthesis and Electrochemical Properties of LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 Cathode Materials with Cr3+ and F− Composite Do** for Lithium-Ion Batteries
A Cr3+ and F− composite-doped LiNi0.5Mn1.5O4 cathode material was synthesized by the solid-state method, and the influence of the do** amount on the material’s physical and electrochemical properties was invest...
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Open AccessPromotion on Acetone Sensing of Single SnO2 Nanobelt by Eu Do**
SnO2 nanobelts (NBs) have unique structural and functional properties which attract great attention in gas detecting. In this work, Eu do** is adopted to improve the gas sensitivity of pure SnO2, especially to ...
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Open AccessDramatically Enhanced Visible Light Response of Monolayer ZrS2 via Non-covalent Modification by Double-Ring Tubular B20 Cluster
The ability to strongly absorb light is central to solar energy conversion. We demonstrate here that the hybrid of monolayer ZrS2 and double-ring tubular B20 cluster exhibits dramatically enhanced light absorptio...
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Open AccessOverview of Probe-based Storage Technologies
The current world is in the age of big data where the total amount of global digital data is growing up at an incredible rate. This indeed necessitates a drastic enhancement on the capacity of conventional dat...