Showing papers in "Materials Today in 2017"

TL;DR: In this paper, the recent progress in 2D materials beyond graphene and includes mainly transition metal dichalcogenides (TMDs) (e.g., MoS2, WS2, MoSe2, and WSe2).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors presented the fundamental theory of the nanogenerators starting from the Maxwell equations, which indicated that the second term ∂ P ∂ t in the Maxwell's displacement current is directly related to the output electric current of the Nanogenerator.

TL;DR: Additive manufacturing (AM) is fundamentally different from traditional formative or subtractive manufacturing in that it is the closest to the bottom-up manufacturing where a structure can be built into its designed shape using a "layer-by-layer" approach rather than casting or forming by technologies such as forging or machining as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: This article reviews spintronics based memories, in particular, magnetic random access memory (MRAM) in a systematic manner and discusses some of the future technologies that might help the industry to move beyond the conventional MRAM technology.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review recent advances in overcoming this tradeoff, by purposely deploying heterogeneous nanostructures in an otherwise single-phase metal, and advocate this broad vision to help guide future innovations towards a synergy between high strength and high ductility.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the pre-existing dislocation network, which maintains its configuration during the entire plastic deformation, is an ideal modulator that is able to slow down but not entirely block the dislocation motion.

TL;DR: In the last 15 years, more than 50,000 papers with zinc oxide (ZnO) in the title are listed within ISI database as mentioned in this paper, and the outstanding popularity of ZnO has many reasons; the most important one appears to be its multi-functionality resulting in applications in physics, chemistry, electrical engineering, material science, energy, textile, rubber, additive manufacturing, cosmetics, and pharmaceutical or medicine, as well as the ease to grow all kinds of nano- and microstructures.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors review and comment on recent progress in metal-organic framework-based lithium-ion batteries, sodium-ion battery, lithium-air battery, and supercapacitors.

TL;DR: Recently, the discovery of a high critical temperature (T c ) iron-based superconductor (IBSC) was accepted with surprise in the condensed matter community and rekindled extensive study globally as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this article, a recent mini-review on transition metal nitrides (TMNs) as high-performance electrode materials for energy storage devices and water splitting is presented, where a judicious nanostructure design will lead to improving performance in lithium ion battery, supercapacitor and Li-ion capacitor, as well as in electrochemical water splitting.

TL;DR: Recent origami and kirigami techniques that can be used for this purpose are reviewed, their underlying mechanisms are discussed, and physical models to demonstrate and compare their feasibility are created.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors focus on the synthesis of MoS 2 with expanded interlayer spacing and their applications in energy storage, catalysis and environmental remediation, highlighting the importance of tuning inter-layer spacing on improving performance.

TL;DR: The criteria of 4D printing is established, followed by an extensive summary of state-of-the-art technological advances in the field, and the applications of4D printing in tissue and organ regeneration are explored, including developing synthetic tissues and implantable scaffolds.

TL;DR: A comprehensive review of the most recent advances on fullerenes in biomedical applications that have not been exhaustively and critically reviewed in the past few years can be found in this paper, where a broad interest to the biomedical engineering community is discussed.

TL;DR: This paper comprehensively reviews the fundamental understanding of functional polymer surfaces for controlling cell behaviors and finds surface chemistry, mechanical properties and topography of these functional polymers to be three major parameters for effective control of cell behaviors.

TL;DR: In this article, a short review on the organic materials used for the preparation of photoanodes (including metal element-free organic dye sensitizers), quasi/all-solid-state electrolytes, and metal element free electrocatalytic films in DSSCs with the cell efficiencies of >5%.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors summarize the research efforts to push forward the electrochemical performance of the organic SIBs and summarize the strategies for reducing the solubility of organic electrode materials in light of the importance of this issue.

TL;DR: Recent progress in decellularization/re cellularization and 3D bioprinting technologies are reviewed, aiming to fabricate autologous tissue grafts and organs with an impact in regenerative medicine.

TL;DR: In this article, a review of the field of synthetic approaches based on molecular building blocks such as ionic liquids, bio molecules, or organic precursor monomers enabling the design of advanced carbonaceous architectures such as porous carbons, porous carbon-rich polymers or graphene nanoribbons is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, an adaptive window system that can autonomously change the optical transparency in response to external multiple stimuli by the fabrication of polymer-stabilized MFG-containing liquid crystalline films with self-organized chiral superstructures is presented.

TL;DR: This work categorizes the different programming strategies that could be used for planning the shape-shifting of soft matter based on the type of stresses generated inside the flat material and presents an overview of the ways those mechanisms can be used to achieve the desired 3D shapes.

TL;DR: In this paper, the photophysical properties of hybrid perovskites, which relates with light-emission, such as broad tunability, nature of the recombination processes and quantum efficiency are examined.

TL;DR: In this article, a practical bionic-jellyfish triboelectric nanogenerator (bjTENG) with polymeric thin film as the material, which is shape-adaptive, with a hermetic package and a unique elastic resilience structure, similar to the behavior of a jellyfish was reported.

TL;DR: It is demonstrated that dynamic perfusion and a fine control of the microenvironment enable improved epidermal morphogenesis and differentiation, and enhanced barrier function, and it is shown that integrated 3D culturing and integrity/permeability testing can be conducted directly on the organ-on-chip device owing to the non-contracting properties of the fibrin-based dermal matrix.

TL;DR: It is expected that bone implant materials with neurovascularized networks can more accurately mimic native skeletal tissue and improve the regeneration of bone tissue.

TL;DR: In this article, a band engineering strategy was proposed to optimize the converging valence bands of Bi_2Te_3 and Sb_2TE_3 in the (Bi_(1−x)Sb_x)_2te_3 system when x = 0.75.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors highlight recent advances in computation-aided alloy design, nanostructural characterization, and unique properties of newly developed nanoscale co-precipitation-strengthened steels.

TL;DR: In this paper, the C-rate dependence of lithium metal plating during low-temperature charging at −20°C is investigated, and it is possible to quantify the amount of ‘dead lithium' and observe the chemical reintercalation of plated lithium metal.

TL;DR: Two-photon polymerization (2PP) leverages the TPA of near-infrared (NIR) radiation for additive manufacturing with sub-diffraction limit resolution within the bulk of a photosensitive material.

TL;DR: Preclinical research and clinical trials involving metallic nanoparticles (MNPs) for cancer immunotherapy applications are discussed and the potential for clinical translation of MNPs is discussed.