ACS Materials LettersPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0142510.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01425
Min Su Kim, Jeong Hui Kim, Hye-young Yoo, Dal-Seong Yoon, Dong Hyun Park, Chae Yoon Lee, Su Jung Kim, Seung-Bok Choi*, Kihyon Hong* and Keun Hyung Lee*,
{"title":"Ultrastretchable, Tough, and Highly Conductive Ionogels for Multipurpose Motion Monitoring","authors":"Min Su Kim, Jeong Hui Kim, Hye-young Yoo, Dal-Seong Yoon, Dong Hyun Park, Chae Yoon Lee, Su Jung Kim, Seung-Bok Choi*, Kihyon Hong* and Keun Hyung Lee*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0142510.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01425https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01425","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Stretchable strain sensors have attracted considerable interest for electronic and electrochemical applications, but improving their sensitivity, stretchability, toughness, conductivity, and stability remains a challenge. While ionic conductor-based sensors offer high stretchability (>100%), achieving both robustness and high conductivity is difficult. In this study, ultrastretchable, tough, and highly conductive nonvolatile polymer electrolytes, referred to as ionogels, were devised using a solvent-exchange method. Compared to other gel-type materials, such as organogels and hydrogels, the ionogels exhibit outstanding elasticity (>1000% strain at break), toughness (∼100 MJ m<sup>–3</sup>), and ionic conductivity of (∼20.5 mS cm<sup>–1</sup>). These ionogels were successfully applied to sensing devices, and the resulting sensors exhibited excellent linearity, sensitivity, repeatability, and operational durability. Furthermore, the sensors accurately detected the movements of various vehicle parts, including the suspension damper, door hinge, and seat coil, indicating the potential of mechanically tough ionogels for multipurpose sensing systems.</p>","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142408548","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Min Su Kim, Jeong Hui Kim, Hye-young Yoo, Dal-Seong Yoon, Dong Hyun Park, Chae Yoon Lee, Su Jung Kim, Seung-Bok Choi, Kihyon Hong, Keun Hyung Lee
{"title":"Ultrastretchable, Tough, and Highly Conductive Ionogels for Multipurpose Motion Monitoring","authors":"Min Su Kim, Jeong Hui Kim, Hye-young Yoo, Dal-Seong Yoon, Dong Hyun Park, Chae Yoon Lee, Su Jung Kim, Seung-Bok Choi, Kihyon Hong, Keun Hyung Lee","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01425","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01425","url":null,"abstract":"Stretchable strain sensors have attracted considerable interest for electronic and electrochemical applications, but improving their sensitivity, stretchability, toughness, conductivity, and stability remains a challenge. While ionic conductor-based sensors offer high stretchability (>100%), achieving both robustness and high conductivity is difficult. In this study, ultrastretchable, tough, and highly conductive nonvolatile polymer electrolytes, referred to as ionogels, were devised using a solvent-exchange method. Compared to other gel-type materials, such as organogels and hydrogels, the ionogels exhibit outstanding elasticity (>1000% strain at break), toughness (∼100 MJ m<sup>–3</sup>), and ionic conductivity of (∼20.5 mS cm<sup>–1</sup>). These ionogels were successfully applied to sensing devices, and the resulting sensors exhibited excellent linearity, sensitivity, repeatability, and operational durability. Furthermore, the sensors accurately detected the movements of various vehicle parts, including the suspension damper, door hinge, and seat coil, indicating the potential of mechanically tough ionogels for multipurpose sensing systems.","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208520","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanli Wu, Xinyu Chen, Ling Liu, Suang Jiang, Ling Xia, Dan Li, Guangrun Wu, Zhongqi Sun, Zhe Zhang, Yang Li
{"title":"Low-Temperature Substrate: Detection of Viruses on Cold Chain Food Packaging Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy","authors":"Yanli Wu, Xinyu Chen, Ling Liu, Suang Jiang, Ling Xia, Dan Li, Guangrun Wu, Zhongqi Sun, Zhe Zhang, Yang Li","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00948","url":null,"abstract":"Viruses are mostly resistant to low temperatures and can survive for a long time and maintain their infectivity at temperatures below 0 °C. Therefore, realizing virus detection at low temperatures is a great challenge. Subzero temperatures change the state of the water-soluble substrate, increasing the difficulty of detection. In this work, we designed a novel enhancement substrate to obtain SERS signals of biomolecules stably at low temperatures. For the first time, methanol solvent was introduced into the aqueous system of silver nanoparticles modified with iodide ions. The introduction of methanol solvent not only serves as an anticoagulant to keep the system stable at low temperatures, but it can also improve nanoparticles and form a “hot spot”, which is more suitable for virus detection. This low-toxicity, rapid, and highly sensitive in situ detection technique lays the foundation for the development of SERS technology in the field of food and life sciences.","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208519","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Materials LettersPub Date : 2024-09-09DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0094810.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00948
Yanli Wu, Xinyu Chen, Ling Liu, Suang Jiang, Ling Xia, Dan Li, Guangrun Wu, Zhongqi Sun, Zhe Zhang and Yang Li*,
{"title":"Low-Temperature Substrate: Detection of Viruses on Cold Chain Food Packaging Based on Surface-Enhanced Raman Spectroscopy","authors":"Yanli Wu, Xinyu Chen, Ling Liu, Suang Jiang, Ling Xia, Dan Li, Guangrun Wu, Zhongqi Sun, Zhe Zhang and Yang Li*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0094810.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00948","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00948https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c00948","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Viruses are mostly resistant to low temperatures and can survive for a long time and maintain their infectivity at temperatures below 0 °C. Therefore, realizing virus detection at low temperatures is a great challenge. Subzero temperatures change the state of the water-soluble substrate, increasing the difficulty of detection. In this work, we designed a novel enhancement substrate to obtain SERS signals of biomolecules stably at low temperatures. For the first time, methanol solvent was introduced into the aqueous system of silver nanoparticles modified with iodide ions. The introduction of methanol solvent not only serves as an anticoagulant to keep the system stable at low temperatures, but it can also improve nanoparticles and form a “hot spot”, which is more suitable for virus detection. This low-toxicity, rapid, and highly sensitive in situ detection technique lays the foundation for the development of SERS technology in the field of food and life sciences.</p>","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-09","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404063","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing the Microenvironment of Pores in an MOF for Boosting Ethylene Purification from a Ternary-Component Mixture","authors":"Peng-Dan Zhang, Xue-Qian Wu, Qi Shuai, Jiamei Yu, Xin Zhang, Jian-Rong Li","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01406","url":null,"abstract":"Designing an adsorbent that can simultaneously trap acetylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>) and ethane (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>) impurities for the one-step purification of ethylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>) remains a challenge. Herein, we constructed a novel Cu-based metal–organic framework (MOF), BUT-321, which exhibits the selective adsorption of C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub> over C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>. It was found that the high density of oxygen binding sites within the pore channels of BUT-321 can build an optimal environment for stronger interactions with C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>, compared to the isostructural MOF BUT-320. Column breakthrough experiments confirm the exceptional C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> separation performance of BUT-321 from both binary (1:1 for C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> or C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>) and ternary (1:1:1 for C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>) gas mixtures in a single step. In addition, BUT-321 exhibits good chemical stability in water and an alkaline solution, combined with its synthesis scalability, economic viability, and recyclability, thus facilitating the application for the one-step C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> purification.","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142208522","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Materials LettersPub Date : 2024-09-06DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0149510.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01495
Guigui Ye, Yujie Yang, Wentao Yuan, Juqing Gu, Shuhui Li, Qianqian Li* and Zhen Li*,
{"title":"Multistimuli-Responsive Room-Temperature Phosphorescence: Adjustable Electrostatic Interactions and the Corresponding Accurate Molecular Packing","authors":"Guigui Ye, Yujie Yang, Wentao Yuan, Juqing Gu, Shuhui Li, Qianqian Li* and Zhen Li*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0149510.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01495https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01495","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Multistimuli-responsive room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials have attracted significant attention for their broad application prospects, especially in the fields of anticounterfeiting, sensors, data storage, etc. However, there is still a lack of detailed information on structural changes under various stimuli, hindering a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationship between molecular/aggregated structure and RTP property. Herein, taking temperature and acid as external stimuli, variations in the RTP characteristics can be observed in terms of the lifetime and color scales. Moreover, the detailed variations can be controlled by the dynamic regulation of electrostatic interactions between RTP units and the pyridine core, which can be further detected by the corresponding crystal structures under any conditions. The dynamic one-to-one correspondence between molecular/aggregated structure and RTP property has been established, which can prompt the development of multistimuli-responsive materials by deep understanding of the internal mechanism of dynamic RTP property.</p>","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142404128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Optimizing the Microenvironment of Pores in an MOF for Boosting Ethylene Purification from a Ternary-Component Mixture","authors":"Peng-Dan Zhang, Xue-Qian Wu, Qi Shuai, Jiamei Yu*, Xin Zhang and Jian-Rong Li*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0140610.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01406","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01406https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01406","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Designing an adsorbent that can simultaneously trap acetylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>) and ethane (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>) impurities for the one-step purification of ethylene (C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>) remains a challenge. Herein, we constructed a novel Cu-based metal–organic framework (MOF), BUT-321, which exhibits the selective adsorption of C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub> and C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub> over C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>. It was found that the high density of oxygen binding sites within the pore channels of BUT-321 can build an optimal environment for stronger interactions with C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>, compared to the isostructural MOF BUT-320. Column breakthrough experiments confirm the exceptional C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> separation performance of BUT-321 from both binary (1:1 for C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> or C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>) and ternary (1:1:1 for C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>2</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub>/C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>6</sub>) gas mixtures in a single step. In addition, BUT-321 exhibits good chemical stability in water and an alkaline solution, combined with its synthesis scalability, economic viability, and recyclability, thus facilitating the application for the one-step C<sub>2</sub>H<sub>4</sub> purification.</p>","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142408606","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Guigui Ye, Yujie Yang, Wentao Yuan, Juqing Gu, Shuhui Li, Qianqian Li, Zhen Li
{"title":"Multistimuli-Responsive Room-Temperature Phosphorescence: Adjustable Electrostatic Interactions and the Corresponding Accurate Molecular Packing","authors":"Guigui Ye, Yujie Yang, Wentao Yuan, Juqing Gu, Shuhui Li, Qianqian Li, Zhen Li","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01495","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01495","url":null,"abstract":"Multistimuli-responsive room-temperature phosphorescence (RTP) materials have attracted significant attention for their broad application prospects, especially in the fields of anticounterfeiting, sensors, data storage, etc. However, there is still a lack of detailed information on structural changes under various stimuli, hindering a comprehensive understanding of the dynamic relationship between molecular/aggregated structure and RTP property. Herein, taking temperature and acid as external stimuli, variations in the RTP characteristics can be observed in terms of the lifetime and color scales. Moreover, the detailed variations can be controlled by the dynamic regulation of electrostatic interactions between RTP units and the pyridine core, which can be further detected by the corresponding crystal structures under any conditions. The dynamic one-to-one correspondence between molecular/aggregated structure and RTP property has been established, which can prompt the development of multistimuli-responsive materials by deep understanding of the internal mechanism of dynamic RTP property.","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142226528","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yoon Young Choi, Kai Zhou, Ho Kun Woo, Diya Patel, Md Salauddin, Lili Cai
{"title":"Radiative Cooling Smart Textiles with Integrated Sensing for Adaptive Thermoregulation","authors":"Yoon Young Choi, Kai Zhou, Ho Kun Woo, Diya Patel, Md Salauddin, Lili Cai","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01624","url":null,"abstract":"Efficient and adaptive thermoregulation of smart wearable technologies could revolutionize the mitigation of health- and energy-related challenges posed by climate change. We developed a woven, thermally adaptive smart textile (TAST) with high solar reflectance and selective infrared emittance and transmittance using a scalable coaxial extrusion method to continuously manufacture core–sheath fibers. TAST enables passive outdoor radiative cooling by 6–10 °C compared to normal fabrics while preserving good mechanical strength, breathability, and washability. Due to the integration of capacitive sensing, radiative cooling, and Joule heating into the woven fibers, TAST can detect the physiological signals of the human body and adapt its thermoregulation function in response to changes in the ambient temperature and perspiration level. The superior intelligence and multifunctional performance of TAST represent a paradigm shift beyond current personal thermal management technologies for enhancing human health, wellness, and performance.","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":11.4,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142226530","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
ACS Materials LettersPub Date : 2024-09-05DOI: 10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0162410.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01624
Yoon Young Choi, Kai Zhou, Ho Kun Woo, Diya Patel, Md Salauddin and Lili Cai*,
{"title":"Radiative Cooling Smart Textiles with Integrated Sensing for Adaptive Thermoregulation","authors":"Yoon Young Choi, Kai Zhou, Ho Kun Woo, Diya Patel, Md Salauddin and Lili Cai*, ","doi":"10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c0162410.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01624","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01624https://doi.org/10.1021/acsmaterialslett.4c01624","url":null,"abstract":"<p >Efficient and adaptive thermoregulation of smart wearable technologies could revolutionize the mitigation of health- and energy-related challenges posed by climate change. We developed a woven, thermally adaptive smart textile (TAST) with high solar reflectance and selective infrared emittance and transmittance using a scalable coaxial extrusion method to continuously manufacture core–sheath fibers. TAST enables passive outdoor radiative cooling by 6–10 °C compared to normal fabrics while preserving good mechanical strength, breathability, and washability. Due to the integration of capacitive sensing, radiative cooling, and Joule heating into the woven fibers, TAST can detect the physiological signals of the human body and adapt its thermoregulation function in response to changes in the ambient temperature and perspiration level. The superior intelligence and multifunctional performance of TAST represent a paradigm shift beyond current personal thermal management technologies for enhancing human health, wellness, and performance.</p>","PeriodicalId":19,"journal":{"name":"ACS Materials Letters","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":9.6,"publicationDate":"2024-09-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"142408601","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"化学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}