Materials that transform shapes responding to external stimuli can bring unprecedented innovations to soft matter physics, soft robotics, wearable electronics, and architecture. As most conventional soft actuation technologies induce large deformatio...
Incorporation of cationic groups into polymers represents one of the most widely used strategies to prepare antibacterial materials. Sulfonium, as a typical cationic moiety, displays potent antibacterial efficacy in the form of small molecules, howev...
Conventional grippers fall behind their human counterparts as they do not have integrated sensing capabilities. Piezoresistive and capacitive sensors are popular choices because of their design and sensitivity, but they cannot measure pressure and sl...
Long-acting implants are typically formulated using carrier(s) with specific physical and chemical properties, along with the active pharmaceutical ingredient (API), to achieve the desired daily exposure for the target duration of action. In characte...
Predicting binary solution phase behavior of polymers has remained a challenge since the early theory of Flory-Huggins, hindering the processing, synthesis, and design of polymeric materials. Herein, we take a complementary data-driven approach by bu...
Equilibrium phase diagrams serve as blueprints for rational design of nanostructured materials of block copolymers, but their construction is time-consuming and requires profound expertise. Herein, by virtue of the knowledge of self-consistent field ...
Journal of chemical information and modeling
Apr 19, 2021
Despite the growing success of machine learning for predicting structure-property relationships in molecules and materials, such as predicting the dielectric properties of polymers, it is still in its infancy. We report on the effectiveness of solvin...
Novel photoactive and enzymatically active nanomotors were developed for efficient organic pollutant degradation. The developed preparation route is simple and scalable. Light-absorbing polypyrrole nanoparticles were equipped with a bi-enzyme [glucos...
Waste management & research : the journal of the International Solid Wastes and Public Cleansing Association, ISWA
Mar 21, 2021
In the increasingly pressing context of improving recycling, optical technologies present a broad potential to support the adequate sorting of plastics. Nevertheless, the commercially available solutions (for example, employing near-infrared spectros...
Rewritable information record materials usually demand not only reversibly stimuli-responsive ability, but also strong mechanical properties. To achieve one photochromic hydrogel with super-strong mechanical strength, hydrophobic molecule spiropyran ...