Ionic conductors (ICs) find widespread applications across different fields, such as smart
electronic, ionotronic, sensor, biomedical, and energy harvesting/storage devices, and …

Transparent wood-based materials (TWMs), made by either bottom-up or top-down
strategies, have attracted great attention owing to their transparency, sustainability and …

Structural design of high-performing catalysts for boosting refractory organic pollutants
degradation remains a great challenge. Herein, a natural wood-derived catalyst comprising …

Hydrogels are able to mimic the flexibility of biological tissues or skin, but they still cannot
achieve satisfactory strength and toughness, greatly limiting their scope of application …

The utilization of lignin, the most abundant aromatic biomass component, is at the forefront
of sustainable engineering, energy, and environment research, where its abundance and …

Oily sewage discharged from indiscriminate industrial and frequent oil spills have become a
serious global problem. There is an urgent need to separate stable oil/water emulsions by …

Reverse electrodialysis (RED) is an emerging renewable energy technology that generates
electricity by combining concentrated and diluted streams with varying salinities. Ion …

Inspired by the highly aligned, well-ordered microstructure, and anisotropic mechanical
properties of biological soft tissues, artificial electronic skins (e-skins) have been widely …

Membrane distillation (MD) is considered to be rather promising for high-salinity wastewater
reclamation. However, its practical viability is seriously challenged by membrane wetting …

Wood-based hydrogel with a unique anisotropic structure is an attractive soft material, but
the presence of rigid crystalline cellulose in natural wood makes the hydrogel less flexible …