Heterointerface engineering in electromagnetic absorbers: new insights and opportunities

L Liang, W Gu, Y Wu, B Zhang, G Wang… - Advanced …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Electromagnetic (EM) absorbers play an increasingly essential role in the electronic
information age, even toward the coming “intelligent era”. The remarkable merits of …

Intermetallic nanocrystals for fuel-cells-based electrocatalysis

F Lin, M Li, L Zeng, M Luo, S Guo - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Electrocatalysis underpins the renewable electrochemical conversions for sustainability,
which further replies on metallic nanocrystals as vital electrocatalysts. Intermetallic …

Lanthanide-doped heterostructured nanocomposites toward advanced optical anti-counterfeiting and information storage

Y Xie, Y Song, G Sun, P Hu, A Bednarkiewicz… - Light: Science & …, 2022 - nature.com
The continuously growing importance of information storage, transmission, and
authentication impose many new demands and challenges for modern nano-photonic …

Recent advances of single‐atom‐alloy for energy electrocatalysis

T Shen, S Wang, T Zhao, Y Hu… - Advanced Energy …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Single‐atom‐alloys (SAAs), as an emerging kind of materials, combine the
advantages of alloy and single‐atom catalysts. The full atomic utilization of active sites and …

Boosting interfacial polarization through heterointerface engineering in MXene/graphene intercalated-based microspheres for electromagnetic wave absorption

G Wang, C Li, D Estevez, P Xu, M Peng, H Wei, F Qin - Nano-Micro Letters, 2023 - Springer
Multi-layer 2D material assemblies provide a great number of interfaces beneficial for
electromagnetic wave absorption. However, avoiding agglomeration and achieving layer-by …

Strain and surface engineering of multicomponent metallic nanomaterials with unconventional phases

Q Yao, Z Yu, L Li, X Huang - Chemical Reviews, 2023 - ACS Publications
Multicomponent metallic nanomaterials with unconventional phases show great prospects in
electrochemical energy storage and conversion, owing to unique crystal structures and …

Strain engineering in electrocatalysts: fundamentals, progress, and perspectives

X Yang, Y Wang, X Tong, N Yang - Advanced Energy Materials, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Strain engineering of nanomaterials, namely, designing, tuning, or controlling surface strains
of nanomaterials is an effective strategy to achieve outstanding performance in different …

Exclusive strain effect boosts overall water splitting in PdCu/Ir core/shell nanocrystals

M Li, Z Zhao, Z Xia, M Luo, Q Zhang, Y Qin… - Angewandte …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Core/shell nanocatalysts are a class of promising materials, which achieve the enhanced
catalytic activities through the synergy between ligand effect and strain effect. However, it …

High-security anti-counterfeiting through upconversion luminescence

H Suo, Q Zhu, X Zhang, B Chen, J Chen, F Wang - Materials Today Physics, 2021 - Elsevier
Upconversion luminescence is characterized by the conversion of near-infrared excitation
into ultraviolet and visible emissions through a special class of doped optical materials …

Precise synthetic control of exclusive ligand effect boosts oxygen reduction catalysis

L Tao, K Wang, F Lv, H Mi, F Lin, H Luo, H Guo… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Ligand effect, induced by charge transfer between catalytic surface and substrate in
core/shell structure, was widely proved to benefit Pt-catalyzed oxygen reduction reaction by …