Porous hydrogels: Present challenges and future opportunities

R Foudazi, R Zowada, I Manas-Zloczower, DL Feke - Langmuir, 2023 - ACS Publications
In this feature article, we critically review the physical properties of porous hydrogels and
their production methods. Our main focus is nondense hydrogels that have physical pores …

Liquid crystal-templated chiral nanomaterials: from chiral plasmonics to circularly polarized luminescence

X Zhang, Y Xu, C Valenzuela, X Zhang… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
Chiral nanomaterials with intrinsic chirality or spatial asymmetry at the nanoscale are
currently in the limelight of both fundamental research and diverse important technological …

[HTML][HTML] Lyotropic liquid crystals for parenteral drug delivery

VP Chavda, S Dawre, A Pandya, LK Vora… - Journal of Controlled …, 2022 - Elsevier
The necessity for long-term treatments of chronic diseases has encouraged the
development of novel long-acting parenteral formulations intending to improve drug …

Unravelling the structure-activity relationship of porous binary metal-based electrocatalysts for green hydrogen evolution reaction

K Eid, KI Ozoemena, RS Varma - Coordination Chemistry Reviews, 2025 - Elsevier
Green hydrogen (H 2) production through hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) via water
splitting is deemed an efficient and sustainable fuel or energy carrier without environmental …

Dielectric‐Based Metamaterials for Near‐Perfect Light Absorption

BX Wang, X Qin, G Duan, G Yang… - Advanced Functional …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The emergence of metamaterials and their continued prosperity have built a powerful
working platform for accurately manipulating the behavior of electromagnetic waves …

Light-Driven Hexagonal-to-Cubic Phase Switching in Arylazopyrazole Lyotropic Liquid Crystals

BE Jones, JL Greenfield, N Cowieson… - Journal of the …, 2024 - ACS Publications
Photoinduced manipulation of the nanoscale molecular structure and organization of soft
materials can drive changes in the macroscale properties. Here we demonstrate the first …

Thermoresponsive antifouling ultrafiltration membranes from mesophase templating

Y Saadat, SM Tabatabaei, K Kim, R Foudazi - Journal of Membrane …, 2023 - Elsevier
Nanostructured polymers synthesized by lyotropic liquid crystal (LLC) templates with normal
hexagonal (H 1) structure exhibit a 3D-continuous transport path, which makes them ideal …

Recent developments in porous metal chalcogenides for environmental remediation and sustainable energy

TDC Ha, H Lee, I Vamvasakis, GS Armatas, Y Oh… - …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Porous metal chalcogenides have emerged as promising materials for environmental
remediation and sustainable energy generation. Their tunable optical band gap (from …

Effects of shear-induced crystallization on the complex viscosity of lamellar-structured concentrated surfactant solutions

PU Kelkar, M Kaboolian, RD Corder, M Caggioni… - Soft Matter, 2024 - pubs.rsc.org
Material relationships at low temperatures were determined for concentrated surfactant
solutions using a combination of rheological experiments, cross-polarized microscopy …

Nanoemulsion polymerization and templating: Potentials and perspectives

Z Abbasian Chaleshtari, M Zhou… - Journal of Applied Physics, 2022 - pubs.aip.org
The current study aims to provide an outlook on the nanoemulsions templating method by
discussing their potentials to produce different polymers and evaluating challenges that …