Article
Polymer Science
Yuntao Tang, Peng Cao, Wangbo Li, Mengting He, Zhifeng Dai, Yubing Xiong
Summary: The study demonstrated that the sizes of PIL microgels could be well-tuned through the feeding ratio of IL monomers to the cross-linker; Fc-anchored PIL microgels were found to be electrochemically active and could respond reversibly to the redox stimulus; An enhanced peak current could be achieved when PIL microgel-supported Fc groups were complexed with 8-CD dimer.
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Marta Diaz-Caballero, Susanna Navarro, Miquel Nuez-Martinez, Francesca Peccati, Luis Rodriguez-Santiago, Mariona Sodupe, Francesc Teixidor, Salvador Ventura
Summary: Researchers have designed a new type of peptide nanomaterial consisting solely of histidine and tyrosine residues, which exhibit biocompatible amyloid-like fibrils and hydrogels with hydrolytic and electrocatalytic activities. These nanofibers show controllable mesoscopic properties at different pH levels, transitioning between active beta-sheet fibrils and inactive random coil species. The structural insights derived from molecular dynamic simulations offer understanding on how these amyloid-like fibrils achieve a combination of structural and catalytic properties.
Article
Polymer Science
Bin Xu, Xiaoliang Ma, Anqi Dai, Xiaofeng Pan, Xiangqiang Pan, Na Li, Jian Zhu
Summary: A visual responsive photonic crystal that responds to oxidation, light, and pH stimuli was created using the inverse opal photonic crystal method. The color of the photonic crystal varies with the blueshift of the band gap, allowing for simple and direct detection of oxidation and pH in the environment, as well as revealing the irradiation history of materials.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Saptarshi Chakraborty, Rajesh Khamrui, Suhrit Ghosh
Summary: Supramolecular assembly of biomolecules/major molecules aims to simulate complex biological structures and functions, with challenges in protein assembly due to their large molecular weight, structural complexity, and instability. This article presents redox-responsive supramolecular assembly of a protein, forming spherical nanoparticles or fibrous networks in water to enhance the protein's thermal stability.
Review
Polymer Science
Ruben Van Lommel, Wim M. De Borggraeve, Frank De Proft, Mercedes Alonso
Summary: Supramolecular gels, a class of soft materials explored heavily in the past 20 years, have potential value in computational techniques that has been less emphasized. This review provides an overview of studies using computational tools to better understand the self-assembly behavior of supramolecular gels and accelerate their development through prediction. Future challenges in the field are discussed, along with how computational methods could help overcome them.
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Liangchun Li, Rongqin Sun, Renlin Zheng, Yi Huang
Summary: This article discusses the design strategies, mechanisms, and future applications of anion-responsive supramolecular gels, emphasizing the need for more focus on in vivo applications in areas such as drug delivery and disease detection. Through analyzing the latest research summaries, the advantages and disadvantages of anion-responsive gels are explored.
MATERIALS & DESIGN
(2021)
Review
Green & Sustainable Science & Technology
Chunqiang Jiang, Guohe Xu, Jianping Gao
Summary: This paper systematically reviews the progress of macromolecular self-assembly, including its conception, processes and mechanisms, with a focus on stimuli-responsive macromolecular self-assembly. Based on different stimuli, macromolecular self-assembly can be classified into different types. The problems and future development of macromolecular self-assembly research are also discussed.
Article
Chemistry, Inorganic & Nuclear
Wei Xiong, Shaohua Shen, Lejia Wang, Liangjun Shen, Xufeng Luo, Xunwen Xiao
Summary: This study successfully prepared metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) with high photocurrent performance by tuning the size and topology of the MOFs. The structural adjustment of the auxiliary ligands plays an important role in determining the size and dimensions of the MOFs, with rod-shaped auxiliary ligands leading to better three-dimensional extension and fold-like auxiliary ligands enabling two-dimensional extension. Moreover, the study found that the fold-like auxiliary ligand can greatly enhance the photocurrent intensity of the MOFs, achieving nearly 10 times higher intensity than the traditional TTF unit.
JOURNAL OF SOLID STATE CHEMISTRY
(2022)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shankar P. Kharal, Martin F. Haase
Summary: This study introduces an unrecognized application of centrifugal forces in microfluidics, investigating the assembly of helical soft matter fibers in a rotating microcapillary. By analyzing this effect, the assembly of fibers can be controlled and converted into pH responsive hydrogels with potential applications.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Deepika Gupta, Varun Gupta, Debasish Nath, Chirag Miglani, Dipankar Mandal, Asish Pal
Summary: Supramolecular assemblies can mimic natural biomaterials and the introduction of redox-stimuli responsive ferrocene moiety can control peptide nanostructures and mechanical properties, as well as enable a piezoelectric response.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2022)
Article
Engineering, Biomedical
Yubei Zhang, Ganggang Yang, Uzma Hayat, Jingwen Yu, Chang Liu, Hua-Jie Wang, Jin-Ye Wang
Summary: This study explores the potential of 4D printing beyond shape transformation by using plant protein gel and specialized baths to achieve temporal changes in functions. The researchers found that the water concentration in the supporting bath affects the drug loading and release rate of the printed objects. The study demonstrates the feasibility of creating biomedical constructs with nerve conduit and drug delivery functions using this approach and validates their effectiveness in a porcine model.
BIOACTIVE MATERIALS
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Haili Qin, Ping Liu, Chuanrui Chen, Huai-Ping Cong, Shu-Hong Yu
Summary: The study presents a multi-responsive healable supercapacitor with high mechanical strength and fast optical and magnetic healing properties. The assembled supercapacitor demonstrates triply-responsive healing performance under optical, electrical, and magnetic stimuli, delivering a highest areal capacitance and restoring about 90% of initial capacitances over ten healing cycles.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Physical
Benedikt P. Nowak, Maximilian Niehues, Bart Jan Ravoo
Summary: The study reports a peptide-based gelator, Nap GFYE, that can form hydrogels and incorporate Fe3O4 superparamagnetic nanoparticles to create a hybrid gel that transitions from a gel to sol state upon application of a weak magnetic field. The magnetic nanoparticles act as crosslinkers for the self-assembled peptide nanostructures, enhancing the mechanical properties of the gel and enabling on-demand release of a fluorescent dye.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Chayanan Tangsombun, David K. Smith
Summary: This study demonstrates the use of acid-diffusion to assemble core-shell supramolecular gel beads, allowing for the dynamic fabrication of shaped and patterned gels with embedded metal nanoparticles. The gel beads show pH-responsiveness and temporal and spatial control, enabling the assembly of gel shells. This approach has potential applications in soft nanoelectronics and regenerative medicine.
JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CHEMICAL SOCIETY
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yiwei Gao, Jie Zhao, Zehuan Huang, Tanya K. Ronson, Fen Zhao, Yue Wang, Boyang Li, Chenlu Feng, You Yu, Yongliang Cheng, Dong Yang, Xiao-Juan Yang, Biao Wu
Summary: This study demonstrates the fabrication of functional gels through the self-assembly of anion-coordinated assemblies. The obtained gels exhibit excellent flexibility and selective wettability, making them suitable for conductive adhesion between different surfaces.
ANGEWANDTE CHEMIE-INTERNATIONAL EDITION
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Hongwei Li, Ziting Tan, Liqian Yuan, Jie Li, Xiaosong Chen, Deyang Ji, Kai Zhang, Wenping Hu, Liqiang Li
Summary: The study developed a highly sensitive and stretchable strain sensor inspired by the membrane-shell structure of poultry eggs, utilizing a combination of gold and polypyrrole films to achieve high sensitivity and stretchability, making significant progress in the field of strain sensors.
SCIENCE CHINA-MATERIALS
(2021)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yingshuang Zheng, Jie Li, Deyang Ji, Huanli Dong, Liqiang Li, Harald Fuchs, Wenping Hu
Summary: This review summarizes the synthesis methods for CuTCNQ micro/nanostructures, highlights strategies for controlling the morphology and size of these structures, and reviews devices based on them. Future research directions and challenges in this area are also discussed.
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Yinan Huang, Xue Gong, Yancheng Meng, Zhongwu Wang, Xiaosong Chen, Jie Li, Deyang Ji, Zhongming Wei, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: The study introduces a strategy to modulate the temperature-dependent charge transport in organic semiconductors through adjusting the effective potential barrier height of the grain boundary. By controlling the grain size, the effective potential barrier height is optimized to enhance the thermo-stability of devices, while achieving high thermo-sensitivity in charge transport.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2021)
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Shuguang Wang, Zhongwu Wang, Yinan Huang, Yongxu Hu, Liqian Yuan, Shujing Guo, Lei Zheng, Mingxi Chen, Chenhuai Yang, Yingshuang Zheng, Jiannan Qi, Li Yu, Hongwei Li, Wenchong Wang, Deyang Ji, Xiaosong Chen, Jie Li, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: The in situ polymerization strategy is developed to pattern conductive polymer electrodes on organic semiconductor surfaces, achieving low contact resistance. The devices fabricated using this method show ideal electrical characteristics, such as almost hysteresis-free, low threshold voltage, and good stability under long-term test. The facile patterning method and high device performance indicate potential applications in all-organic, transparent, and flexible electronics.
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2021)
Article
Engineering, Manufacturing
Ziting Tan, Hongwei Li, Yinan Huang, Xue Gong, Jiannan Qi, Jie Li, Xiaosong Chen, Deyang Ji, Weibang Lv, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: By optimizing the surface topography of PEDOT:PSS/PDMS bimorph pressure sensors with the BEAT strategy, fast response time, high sensitivity, excellent repeatability, and stability can be achieved. Transferring other conductive polymers or metal nanowires onto PDMS with robust adhesion further improves stability and expands the applications of flexible electronics.
COMPOSITES PART A-APPLIED SCIENCE AND MANUFACTURING
(2021)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Yingshuang Zheng, Li Yu, Zhongwu Wang, Xiaosong Chen, Jie Li, Ye Zou, Deyang Ji, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: This study investigates the use of hydroxyl groups produced on polymer surfaces through oxygen plasma treatment as anchoring sites, as well as the assembly conditions of self-assembly monolayers on low-k polyimide surfaces. Additionally, the charge transport mechanism of organic semiconductors on PI surfaces is studied, and various organic logic circuits are manufactured using modified PI as insulating layers.
ADVANCED MATERIALS INTERFACES
(2021)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Zhongwu Wang, Hongzhen Lin, Xi Zhang, Jie Li, Xiaosong Chen, Shuguang Wang, Wenbin Gong, Hui Yan, Qiang Zhao, Weibang Lv, Xue Gong, Qingbo Xiao, Fujin Li, Deyang Ji, Xiaotao Zhang, Huanli Dong, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: The study reveals a previously unknown molecular conformation-induced stress at the organic embedded interface using SFG spectroscopy technique. This stress, greater than 10 kcal/mol per nm(2), can cause molecular disorder in the organic semiconductor layer and ultimately lead to instability of the organic transistor. The research not only discloses interface stress in organic devices but also connects the instability of organic devices with interface stress for the first time, providing an effective solution for improving device stability.
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Zheng Chen, Shuming Duan, Xiaotao Zhang, Bowen Geng, Yanling Xiao, Jiansheng Jie, Huanli Dong, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: 2D organic semiconductor crystals (2DOSCs) have exceptional charge transport capability, adjustable photoelectric properties, and superior flexibility, making them ideal for next-generation electronic and optoelectronic applications. This study presents a two-step strategy to produce high-resolution layer-controlled 2DOSC arrays, achieving excellent electrical performance and uniformity in organic field-effect transistors (OFETs) based on 2DOSC arrays. The method can be applied to various organic semiconductors and pattern arrays, providing more opportunities for integrated optoelectronic devices.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2022)
Review
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Jie Li, Yongxu Hu, Li Yu, Lin Li, Deyang Ji, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu, Harald Fuchs
Summary: Nanosphere lithography (NSL) is an economical technique using highly monodispersed nanospheres to generate patterns with nanoscale features, benefiting organic electronic devices with unique capabilities and enhanced performance. Despite facing challenges, NSL has a wide range of applications in organic electronics and holds great potential for future development.
Article
Nanoscience & Nanotechnology
Zhongwei Liu, Ting Jiang, Yanru Li, Yunpeng Lou, Chan Zhang, Jie Li, Yajing Sun, Xing Chen, Liqiang Li, Hongkun Tian, Deyang Ji, Zhuping Fei
Summary: Several thiophene terminated thienoacenes with different alkylation positions on the terminal thiophene rings were synthesized and characterized. The molecular stacking and physicochemical properties were found to be effectively tuned by the alkylation. The OTFTs based on 2,8-dioctyl-naphtho[2,3-b:6,7-b '] bithieno [2,3-d] thiophene (2,8-C8NBTT) exhibited the highest mobility of 3.58 cm2 V-1 s-1 and a remarkably high current on/off ratio. Furthermore, the organic phototransistors based on 2,8-C8NBTT demonstrated higher photosensitivity, photoresponsivity, and detectivity compared to the other derivatives NBTT and 3,9-dioctyl-naphtho[2,3b:6,7-b '] bithieno [2,3-d] thiophene (3,9-C8NBTT).
ACS APPLIED MATERIALS & INTERFACES
(2023)
Article
Multidisciplinary Sciences
Ting Jiang, Yiru Wang, Yingshuang Zheng, Le Wang, Xiang He, Liqiang Li, Yunfeng Deng, Huanli Dong, Hongkun Tian, Yanhou Geng, Linghai Xie, Yong Lei, Haifeng Ling, Deyang Ji, Wenping Hu
Summary: This study presents a UV-ultrasensitive neuromorphic vision sensor (NeuVS) that can detect and perceive ultraviolet light using organic phototransistors (OPTs). The NeuVS exhibits good image sensing and memorization capability, and its wavelength-selective response and multi-level optical memory properties are utilized to construct an artificial neural network for extracting and identifying invisible UV information.
NATURE COMMUNICATIONS
(2023)
Article
Chemistry, Multidisciplinary
Shougang Sun, Jie Zhu, Zhongwu Wang, Yinan Huang, Yongxu Hu, Xiaosong Chen, Yajing Sun, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: The oxygen-induced lattice strain (OILS) strategy is developed to achieve organic semiconductors (OSCs) with high mobility and high stability by introducing oxygen (O2) into the OSC crystals, generating lattice compressive strain and increasing the orbital overlap between molecules.
ADVANCED MATERIALS
(2023)
Review
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Dongyang Zhu, Deyang Ji, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: Infrared (IR) photodetectors (PDs) have rapidly developed due to their potential applications in remote sensing, infrared imaging, and biomedical testing. Polymer materials, with their designable molecular structure, solution processability, large-area preparation, and intrinsic flexibility, have the potential to be used as a new generation of IR PDs. Through different molecular design strategies and innovative device architectures, the performance of PDs is optimized, and its application scenarios are expanded, which further promotes the rapid development of IR PDs.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2022)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Hong Wang, Florian Fontein, Yandong Wang, Zhifang Wang, Harald Fuchs, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu, Lifeng Chi, Wenchong Wang
Summary: This study presents an in situ observation of organic single crystal formation via solvent vapor annealing on both bare and Au patterned SiO2 surfaces, revealing that micro-sized organic islands absorb solvent to form droplets which then nucleate to form single crystals. The technique allows for positional control of single crystal array fabrication and improved light absorption and detectability in organic single crystal device arrays, such as photon-detectors, through area selective growth on Au electrodes.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
Article
Materials Science, Multidisciplinary
Ziting Tan, Hongwei Li, Zhikai Niu, Xiaosong Chen, Hui Yang, Weibang Lv, Deyang Ji, Jie Li, Liqiang Li, Wenping Hu
Summary: This study developed a novel micro-foldable structure inspired by armadillos, effectively addressing the issue of conductivity changes in stretchable metal electrodes under large stretchability. The structure exhibited high metallic conductivity, stable resistance changes, fully covered conductive area, and strong interface adhesion strength in both released and stretched states.
JOURNAL OF MATERIALS CHEMISTRY C
(2021)
