Self-assembly of nanowires: from dynamic monitoring to precision control

Z He, JL Wang, SM Chen, JW Liu… - Accounts of Chemical …, 2022 - ACS Publications
Conspectus Natural biomaterials often show ordered nanowire structures (ONWS) which
display unique structural color or superior mechanical performance. Meanwhile, plenty of …

Janus helical ribbon structure of ordered nanowire films for flexible solar thermoelectric devices

C Chen, B Zhao, R Wang, Z He, JL Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Solar thermoelectric devices play a significant role in addressing the problem of global
warming, owing to their unique features of converting both waste heat and solar energy …

Nanowires in flexible sensors: structure is becoming a key in controlling the sensing performance

J Zhang, T Sun, Y Chen, L Liu, H Zhao… - Advanced Materials …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Flexible sensors, as a kind of indispensable branch of flexible electronics, are garnering
substantial in medical and industrial applications. Ever‐evolving advances in nanowires in …

High synaptic plasticity enabled by controlled ion migration in organic heterojunction memristors

Y Qian, J Li, W Li, CH Hou, Z Feng, W Shi… - Journal of Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Organic memristors with uniform resistive switching behavior can mimic the functions of
biological synapses, making them promising candidates for brain-inspired neuromorphic …

Biological and bioinspired Bouligand structural materials: Recent advances and perspectives

SM Chen, SM Wen, SC Zhang, CX Wang, SH Yu - Matter, 2024 - cell.com
Bouligand structure lays the mechanical foundations for the survival of many organisms.
Decoding and transcribing the biological Bouligand structure into synthetic materials is …

Revealing Asymmetric Phase Transformation of the BiVO4 Anodes for Potassium-Ion Batteries by In Situ Transmission Electron Microscopy

Q An, W Zhang, Z Ma, S Guo, Y Wang… - … Applied Materials & …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Potassium-ion batteries (PIBs) have emerged as a promising alternative to lithium-ion
batteries (LIBs), thanks to the cost-effectiveness of potassium resources and a favorable …

Mechanically Driven, Continuous Synthesis of Chiroplasmonic Assemblies

X Guo, Z Tong, A Li, Y Zhou, Z Li, J Lin… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Chiral plasmonic nanomaterials─ with their significant applications in protein detection,
drug screening, and enantioselective sensing─ necessitate an industrialized fabrication …

Ordering silver nanowires for chiroptical activity

X Guo, D Wu, Y Li, Z He, JL Wang, C Zhang… - Science China …, 2022 - Springer
With the development of chiral materials, remarkable progress has been made in the
application fields of biology, chemistry, and physics in the past decades. Here we develop a …

Tailoring atomic diffusion for in situ fabrication of different heterostructures

H Zhang, T Xu, K Yu, W Wang, L He, L Sun - Nature Communications, 2021 - nature.com
Atomic diffusion has been recognized as a particularly powerful tool in the synthesis of
heterostructures. However, controlled atomic diffusion is very difficult to achieve in the …

Alloy/strain engineering of Pt-based nanowires with controllable electronic structures towards boosted water electrolysis catalysis

J Tian, S Lin, Z Tang, R Li, X Cheng, Z Fang… - Materials …, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Low-dimensional platinum-based catalysts have aroused tremendous interest in
electrocatalysis, benefiting from their high specific activity and novel electronic structures …