The rich structures and hierarchical organizations in nature provide many sources of
inspiration for advanced material designs. We wish to recapitulate properties such as high …

This paper reviews various functional materials used in desalination. Desalination of the
abundant seawater resource has emerged as a promising technology to meet the current …

Solid alkaline fuel cells with anion exchange membranes (AEMs) have drawn wide attention
and have become an important focus in the field of renewable energy cells in recent years …

Poly (aryl-co-aryl piperidinium)(c-PAP) has recently attracted wide attention in anion
exchange membrane (AEM) fuel cells (AEMFCs). Here, we report poly (aryl-co-terphenyl …

Anion-conducting polyelectrolytes (ACPs) are vital materials for alkaline energy devices
such as anion-exchange membrane (AEM) fuel cells and AEM water electrolyzers. These …

Cations are crucial components in emerging functional polyelectrolytes for a myriad of
applications. Rapid development in this area necessitates the exploration of new cations …

Bacterial infections and antibiotic resistance, particularly by Gram-negative pathogens, have
become a global healthcare crisis. We report the design of a class of cationic antimicrobial …

Stable interfaces between immiscible solvents are crucial for chemical synthesis and
assembly, but interfaces between miscible solvents have been less explored. Here the …

Stimuli-responsive hydrogels have lately attracted a lot of attention in the chemistry and
material fields because of the “smart” change of their properties under outside stimuli …

We report the preparation of tough double-network (DN) metallopolymer antibacterial
hydrogels through dual polymerization. DN hydrogels are composed of the first network of …