Danil W. Boukhvalov, Mariana Stefan, Alexandra C. Joita, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin Shan Lue, Antonio Politano
{"title":"Charge Transfer-Driven Conversion of Molecular Oxygen to Doublet State on Vanadium Diselenide (VSe2) Surface at Room Temperature","authors":"Danil W. Boukhvalov, Mariana Stefan, Alexandra C. Joita, Chia-Nung Kuo, Chin Shan Lue, Antonio Politano","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400656","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400656","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Oxygen in the excited state is essential for organic synthesis and medical treatment. Herein, a novel phenomenon is reported in which the magnetic ground state of molecular oxygen undergoes a transition at room temperature from S = 1 to S = 1/2, corresponding to the transition of O<sub>2</sub> from a triplet to a doublet state after stable physical adsorption on the defect-free surface of bulk VSe<sub>2</sub>. This density functional theory (DFT) calculations demonstrate the stable physical adsorption of O<sub>2</sub> on both <i>1T-</i> and <i>2H-</i>VSe<sub>2</sub> surfaces without further decomposition. Electron spin resonance (ESR) measurements confirm the spin state transition. Theoretical simulations reveal the charge transfer from entangled V-3<i>d</i> and Se-4<i>p</i> bands to oxygen as the leading cause of the spin state transition. This mechanism has not been previously proposed and offers multiple potential applications, from organic synthesis to medicine. Moreover, this approach can be extended to reveal new aspects of known catalytic materials and to design novel catalysts.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-13","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400656","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646166","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Single-Crystal and Polycrystal SiC Bonding for Cost-effective Chip Fabrication","authors":"Szuyu Huang, Fachen Liu, Jiaxin Liu, Xiaoyue Gao, Zhenzhong Wang, Peng Gao","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400816","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400816","url":null,"abstract":"<p>High-quantity single-crystal silicon carbide (SiC) is widely used in power electronics due to its excellent breakdown electric field strength and high thermal conductivity. However, back grinding during the chip fabrication generally results in ≈70% of single-crystal SiC being wasted, leading to the high cost of SiC chips. In order to improve the utilization, single-crystal SiC on polycrystal SiC (SoP-SiC) is bonded. The challenge to achieve excellent bonding interfaces for such a system is the heterogeneous surface of polycrystals in which those grains with different orientations usually have different physical and chemical properties, making it difficult to achieve sufficiently smooth surfaces for bonding. Here, ion beam etching (IBE) is employed to activate the surface of polycrystal and single-crystal SiC and achieve high bonding strength (up to ≈20 MPa) after annealing in the atmosphere. Sub-nanometer-scale electron microscopy and energy spectroscopy analysis showing the IBE method can effectively inhibit the formation of silicon oxide at the bonding interface, which is expected to reduce the interface thermal resistance according to the phonon spectrum analysis. This study provides a novel method to fabricate single-polycrystal SiC junctions with high bonding strength and high thermal conductivity, which is valuable for the SiC industry.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400816","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143646162","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Samuel Thompson, Yanrong Zhang, Zijian Yang, Lisa Nichols, Polly M. Fordyce
{"title":"FACS-Sortable Triple Emulsion Picoreactors for Screening Reactions in Biphasic Environments","authors":"Samuel Thompson, Yanrong Zhang, Zijian Yang, Lisa Nichols, Polly M. Fordyce","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400403","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400403","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Biphasic environments can enable successful chemical reactions where any single solvent results in poor substrate solubility or poor catalyst reactivity. For screening biphasic reactions at high throughput, a platform based on microfluidic double emulsions can use widely available FACS (Fluorescence Activated Cell Sorting) machines to screen millions of picoliter reactors in a few hours. However, encapsulating biphasic reactions within double emulsions to form FACS-sortable droplet picoreactors requires optimized solvent phases and surfactants to produce triple emulsion droplets that are stable over multi-hour assays and compatible with desired reaction conditions. This work demonstrates such FACS-sortable triple emulsion picoreactors with a fluorocarbon shell and biphasic octanol-in-water core. First, surfactants are screened to stabilize octanol-in-water emulsions for the picoreactor core. With these optimized conditions, stable triple emulsion picoreactors (>70% of droplets survived to 24 hr), produced protein in the biphasic core via cell-free protein synthesis are generated, and sorted these triple emulsions based on fluorescence using a commercial FACS sorter at >100 Hz with 75–80% of droplets recovered. Finally, an in-droplet lipase assay with a fluorogenic resorufin substrate that partitions into octanol is demonstrated. These triple emulsion picoreactors have the potential for future screening bead-encoded catalyst libraries, including enzymes such as lipases for biofuel production.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 3","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400403","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143111853","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Ana-Marija Milisav, Lamborghini Sotelo, Cristina Cantallops-Vilà, Tommaso Fontanot, Ina Erceg, Krunoslav Bojanić, Tomislav Vuletić, Željka Fiket, Maja Ivanić, Silke Christiansen, Edwige Meurice, Maja Dutour Sikirić
{"title":"Poly(Amino Acid) LbL Multilayers With Embedded Silver and Copper Oxide Nanoparticles as Biocompatible Antibacterial Coatings","authors":"Ana-Marija Milisav, Lamborghini Sotelo, Cristina Cantallops-Vilà, Tommaso Fontanot, Ina Erceg, Krunoslav Bojanić, Tomislav Vuletić, Željka Fiket, Maja Ivanić, Silke Christiansen, Edwige Meurice, Maja Dutour Sikirić","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400631","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400631","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The growing concern over implant-associated infections motivates the development of novel antibacterial coatings for medical devices as an effective strategy in reducing the occurrence of IAI. Polyelectrolyte multilayers (PEMs) incorporating metal/metal oxide nanoparticles (NPs) as antimicrobial components receive special attention for their ability to coat diverse surface types and low potential to induce antimicrobial resistance. This study investigates the potential of poly(amino acid) multilayers consisting of poly-L-lysine and poly-L-glutamic acid with embedded silver (PEMAg) or copper oxide (PEMCuO) deposited on titanium surfaces for the coating of medical surfaces. The results of the quartz crystal microbalance with dissipation, scanning electron microscopy, and electron dispersive spectroscopy show that both types of NPs are successfully incorporated in the PEM and deposited over the entire coated surface. The incorporation of NPs in PEM prevents the burst release. The viability of MG-63 cells is higher than 70% on all investigated PEMs, confirming their biocompatibility. PEMCuO shows better biofilm prevention compared to PEMAg, entirely preventing <i>Pseudomonas aeruginosa</i> biofilm and allowing the formation of only weak <i>Staphylococcus aureus</i> biofilm. The results obtained confirm the high potential of poly(amino acids) multilayers with embedded metal/metal oxide NPs as biocompatible antimicrobial coatings for medical devices.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 5","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400631","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143497084","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Enhancing Photoswitchable Wetting Properties of Hydrophobic Porous Spiropyran Copolymer Surfaces Through Surface Roughness Engineering (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 34/2024)","authors":"Niloofar Nekoonam, Franziska Dreher, Fadoua Mayoussi, Pang Zhu, Ralf Thomann, Ramin Montazeri, Sagar Bhagwat, Leonhard Hambitzer, Dorothea Helmer","doi":"10.1002/admi.202470084","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202470084","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Photoswitchable Wettability</b></p><p>The spiropyran-containing porous surfaces with a certain roughness range demonstrate a photoswitchable wetting properties upon UV exposure due to the ring-opening reaction of spiropyran resulting in a higher dipole moment. Condensate droplets on UV-switched regions coalesce faster, lower number of droplets as well as larger merged droplets form on the surface as the surface is less hydrophobic. More details can be found in article 2400396 by Dorothea Helmer and co-workers.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"11 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202470084","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762174","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanan Li, Nian Li, Constantin Harder, Shanshan Yin, Yusuf Bulut, Apostolos Vagias, Peter M. Schneider, Wei Chen, Stephan V. Roth, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Peter Müller-Buschbaum
{"title":"Factors Shaping the Morphology in Sol-Gel Derived Mesoporous Zinc Titanate Films: Unveiling the Role of Precursor Competition and Concentration (Adv. Mater. Interfaces 34/2024)","authors":"Yanan Li, Nian Li, Constantin Harder, Shanshan Yin, Yusuf Bulut, Apostolos Vagias, Peter M. Schneider, Wei Chen, Stephan V. Roth, Aliaksandr S. Bandarenka, Peter Müller-Buschbaum","doi":"10.1002/admi.202470082","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202470082","url":null,"abstract":"<p><b>Mesoporous Metal Oxide Films</b></p><p>In article 2400215, Peter Möller-Buschbaum and co-workers show the systematical development of mesoporous metal oxide films with tailored structures, offering strong potential for high-performance industrial applications such as photovoltaics and photocatalysis. Key factors such as material mass, acid concentration, precursor ratio, and calcination are highlighted to emphasize their impact on film morphology.\u0000\u0000 <figure>\u0000 <div><picture>\u0000 <source></source></picture><p></p>\u0000 </div>\u0000 </figure></p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"11 34","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-02","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202470082","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142762081","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Thuvarakhan Gnanasampanthan, Florian Koschitzki, Onur Özcan, Anne Höppner, Robin Wanka, John A. Finlay, Anthony S. Clare, Axel Rosenhahn
{"title":"Testing of Marine Fouling-Inhibiting Enzymes in a Water-Based Methacrylate Polymer Matrix","authors":"Thuvarakhan Gnanasampanthan, Florian Koschitzki, Onur Özcan, Anne Höppner, Robin Wanka, John A. Finlay, Anthony S. Clare, Axel Rosenhahn","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400647","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400647","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Commonly used antifouling coatings rely on the continuous release of biocidal ingredients and are becoming increasingly restricted by legislation. The resulting demand for nonbiocidal technologies involves the search for alternative ingredients and in particular enzymes have received increasing attention. While screening of the antifouling activity of active compounds in solution is well established, the analysis of their activity and in particular anti-biofouling activity when embedded into a coating and even more so in an activated leachate layer is very demanding. Among the challenges is the even distribution throughout the coating and retention of the enzymatic activity. Here a water-based HEMA-methacrylate polymer matrix is presented that aims to mimic the leachate layer and to incorporate active compounds. This technology is used to incorporate several hydrolytically active enzymes-cellulase, protease, and lipase-in a grafting-through approach. After immersion, the enzymes are released in a controlled way during several days. The enzyme-loaded polymer films reduced the attachment of fouling organisms through a combination of their hydrophilic nature and activity of the enzymes. The active contribution of the enzymes became visible in a significant suppression of the accumulation of diatoms and green algal spores compared to the enzyme-free and heat-denatured control coatings.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400647","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645577","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Lingfeng Zhao, Yizhou Shen, Jie Tao, Weilan Liu, Ting Wang, Senyun Liu
{"title":"Review on Icephobicity of Materials Surface Enhanced by Interface Action Force","authors":"Lingfeng Zhao, Yizhou Shen, Jie Tao, Weilan Liu, Ting Wang, Senyun Liu","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400665","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400665","url":null,"abstract":"<p>In response to the hazards of icing in the energy, transportation, and aerospace sectors, extensive research has been conducted on anti-icing materials based on the solid-liquid/ice interface theory, as well as reliable chemical and electro-thermal de-icing systems. However, there is an urgent need for modernizing anti-icing systems to address diverse application scenarios. Gaining insights into the influence of interface action forces on water droplet behavior can proactively prevent detrimental icing occurrences. Nevertheless, under severe conditions where ice formation is inevitable, leveraging interface action forces to induce cracking and expansion of ice facilitates its rapid detachment despite potential challenges associated with complete removal. A comprehensive review elucidating the mechanisms through which interface action forces impact water/ice formations encompasses various approaches toward designing mechanically-driven de-icing systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 6","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-12-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400665","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143645578","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Max Franck, Jarek Dabrowski, Markus Andreas Schubert, Dominique Vignaud, Mohamed Achehboune, Jean-François Colomer, Luc Henrard, Christian Wenger, Mindaugas Lukosius
{"title":"Investigating Impacts of Local Pressure and Temperature on CVD Growth of Hexagonal Boron Nitride on Ge(001)/Si","authors":"Max Franck, Jarek Dabrowski, Markus Andreas Schubert, Dominique Vignaud, Mohamed Achehboune, Jean-François Colomer, Luc Henrard, Christian Wenger, Mindaugas Lukosius","doi":"10.1002/admi.202400467","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/admi.202400467","url":null,"abstract":"<p>The chemical vapor deposition (CVD) growth of hexagonal boron nitride (hBN) on Ge substrates is a promising pathway to high-quality hBN thin films without metal contaminations for microelectronic applications, but the effect of CVD process parameters on the hBN properties is not well understood yet. The influence of local changes in pressure and temperature due to different reactor configurations on the structure and quality of hBN films grown on Ge(001)/Si is studied. Injection of the borazine precursor close to the sample surface results in an inhomogeneous film thickness, attributed to an inhomogeneous pressure distribution at the surface, as shown by computational fluid dynamics simulations. The additional formation of nanocrystalline islands is attributed to unfavorable gas phase reactions due to the radiative heating of the injector. Both issues are mitigated by increasing the injector-sample distance, leading to an 86% reduction in pressure variability on the sample surface and a 200 °C reduction in precursor temperature. The resulting hBN films exhibit no nanocrystalline islands, improved thickness homogeneity, and high crystalline quality (Raman FWHM = 23 cm<sup>−1</sup>). This is competitive with hBN films grown on other non-metal substrates but achieved at lower temperature and with a low thickness of only a few nanometers.</p>","PeriodicalId":115,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Materials Interfaces","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":4.3,"publicationDate":"2024-11-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1002/admi.202400467","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143120308","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}