{"title":"Recent advances in polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) membranes: Delving into the intrinsic microstructure for carbon capture and arduous industrial applications","authors":"Hui Shen Lau , Angelica Eugenia , Ying Weng , Wai Fen Yong","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101297","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101297","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polymers of intrinsic microporosity (PIMs) are unique polymers known for their intrinsic micro-scale porosity contributed by bulky and rigid contortion sites in the polymer backbone. Inherent attributes of PIMs, such as structural diversity and good processability have made them valuable in various applications. Herein, we outlined a comprehensive overview on the latest progress of ladder PIMs on different industrial challenges. This review has systematically discussed the state-of-the-art ladder PIMs redesigned on intrinsic micro-structure through five different perspectives, including (i) architecting the polymer backbone, (ii) post-modification on polymer structure, (iii) polymer blends and copolymerization, (iv) mixed matrix membranes (MMMs), and (v) post-modification on membranes, aiming to address the carbon-related international treaties. A summary of their CO<sub>2</sub> capture performance on Robeson plots is portrayed and evaluated. In addition, the implementation of PIMs in energy-efficient membrane-based olefin/paraffin separation is highlighted. Subsequently, solution-processable ladder PIMs, in the form of powder, nanofibrous, films or membranes applied in the field of environmental application, catalysis, electrochemical energy storage and conversion, sensing, and 3D printing are emphasized. Along with the contemplation on outlook and future perspective, this review is anticipated to path a new avenue for the continuous development and optimization of PIMs materials in sustainable applications.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 101297"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140639114","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Zhijie Chen , Gao-Feng Han , Asif Mahmood , Jingwei Hou , Wei Wei , Ho Kyong Shon , Guoxiu Wang , T. David Waite , Jong-Beom Baek , Bing-Jie Ni
{"title":"Mechanosynthesized electroactive materials for sustainable energy and environmental applications: A critical review","authors":"Zhijie Chen , Gao-Feng Han , Asif Mahmood , Jingwei Hou , Wei Wei , Ho Kyong Shon , Guoxiu Wang , T. David Waite , Jong-Beom Baek , Bing-Jie Ni","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101299","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101299","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Electrochemistry-driven techniques for advanced energy storage/conversion and environmental protection play a crucial role in achieving sustainable development goals. As an indispensable component in diverse electrochemical systems, electroactive materials gain soaring interest in terms of rational design and sustainable synthesis. Notably, mechanochemistry-based green and powerful synthesis has been widely employed to fabricate diverse electroactive materials, given their scalability and tunability. Recently, mechanochemically synthesized electroactive materials have been widely applied in various environmental and energy fields, leading to significant progress. However, a systematic analysis of these advancements is still missing. Herein, we comprehensively discuss recent achievements in mechanosynthesized electroactive materials for sustainable energy and environmental applications. The development of mechanochemical synthesis is introduced, along with different types of mechanosynthesized electroactive materials. Subsequently, the review delves into the applications of these materials in advanced energy conversion/storage systems and environmental remediation. The rational design of electroactive materials and their structure-performance correlation are illustrated by discussing the effects of the mechanochemical process on the internal and external properties of materials and their electrochemical performance. Lastly, key perspectives in this field are discussed, including mechanochemical process monitoring, field-assisted mechanochemical synthesis, material performance optimization, practical applications, and mechanochemistry-driven fuels/chemicals synthesis. By illustrating current advances and perspectives related to the development of mechanosynthesized electroactive materials, this review aims to shed some light on upcoming research on green mechanochemical synthesis-driven energy and environmental sustainability.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 101299"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-16","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079642524000689/pdfft?md5=212bbeeaa606190ea821a38e8103f7c4&pid=1-s2.0-S0079642524000689-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140605243","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"Liquid metal extreme materials","authors":"Xuyang Sun , Xuelin Wang , Jing Liu","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101298","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101298","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The continuous advancement of materials and technologies has significantly propelled the progress of human civilization. However, the more humans achieved, the more bottlenecks we encounter which span from space exploration, cutting edge advanced cooling to the clinical therapy of a single malignant tumor. The revolution to break through such barriers lies in the identification of extreme materials that can easily tackle the existing challenges and fundamentally extend the technological boundary, thus potentially leading to the creation of entirely new devices and systems. The emergence of room-temperature liquid metals (LMs) with their unique characteristics and diverse unconventional capabilities distinguished from traditionally developed electrical, soft, and fluidic materials, is anticipated to revolutionize a broad range of interdisciplinary fields. This review is dedicated to extracting the extreme features of LMs and systematizing their distinct applied scenarios from pervasive electronic fabrication to thermal management, and healthcare systems until human-like transformable robotics. The prospects and challenges of LM extreme materials are outlined. It is expected that further investigations on the clarified scientific and technological categories lying behind will contribute well to the next generation human civilization in the coming time.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 101298"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140605244","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Mohammad Javad Sohrabi , Alireza Kalhor , Hamed Mirzadeh , Kinga Rodak , Hyoung Seop Kim
{"title":"Tailoring the strengthening mechanisms of high-entropy alloys toward excellent strength-ductility synergy by metalloid silicon alloying: A review","authors":"Mohammad Javad Sohrabi , Alireza Kalhor , Hamed Mirzadeh , Kinga Rodak , Hyoung Seop Kim","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101295","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101295","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Metalloids and transition/refractory elements typically differ significantly in the electronic structure and atomic size, allowing for stronger solid-solution hardening in high-entropy alloys (HEAs) as well as improved work-hardening capability, which leads to exceptional strength-ductility balance. In this regard, Si addition has opened up a new pathway for developing novel and high-performance Cantor-based, lightweight, and refractory HEAs, which has recently attracted considerable attention from the materials science community. Accordingly, the present review paper summarizes the recent progress in tailoring the mechanical properties and strengthening mechanisms of Si-added HEAs. After reviewing the general strengthening mechanisms of HEAs, the impact of Si addition is critically discussed, especially its effects on the (I) solid-solution hardening by local lattice distortion and chemical short-range order (SRO) hardening, (II) second-phase strengthening by promoting the formation of disordered solid-solution phases, silicides, σ-phase, and other intermetallics, (III) structural refinement and facilitating the development of heterostructures, and (IV) work-hardening behavior by altering the dislocation arrangements, boosting the twinning-induced plasticity (TWIP) effect as well as HCP and BCC transformation-induced plasticity (TRIP) effect by reduced and variable stacking fault energy (SFE). Finally, the research gaps and future prospects are introduced, including metastability engineering, superplasticity, application of severe plastic deformation (SPD) techniques for grain refinement, and additive manufacturing.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 101295"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140539701","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Panchanathan Manivasagan , Thavasyappan Thambi , Ara Joe , Hyo-Won Han , Sun-Hwa Seo , Yeong Jun Jeon , João Conde , Eue-Soon Jang
{"title":"Progress in nanomaterial-based synergistic photothermal-enhanced chemodynamic therapy in combating bacterial infections","authors":"Panchanathan Manivasagan , Thavasyappan Thambi , Ara Joe , Hyo-Won Han , Sun-Hwa Seo , Yeong Jun Jeon , João Conde , Eue-Soon Jang","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101292","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101292","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The prevalence of multidrug-resistant (MDR) bacterial infections has emerged as a serious threat to clinical treatment and global human health, and has become one of the most important challenges in clinical therapy. Hence, there is an urgent need to develop safe, effective, and new antibacterial strategies based on multifunctional nanomaterials for the accurate detection and treatment of MDR bacterial infections. Chemodynamic therapy (CDT) is an emerging antibacterial therapeutic strategy that uses Fenton/Fenton-like metal-based nanocatalysts to convert hydrogen peroxide (H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>) into hydroxyl radicals (OH) to destroy MDR bacterial infections. Despite the enormous potential of CDT, a single CDT has limitations such as low catalytic efficacy and insufficient production of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub>. In this regard, CDT can be combined with other antibacterial strategies, such as photothermal therapy (PTT), in which CDT efficacy can be effectively enhanced by the PTT heating effect. Thus, the rational combination of PTT and CDT into one nanoplatform has been demonstrated as a highly efficient antibacterial strategy for achieving a better therapeutic effect. This review summarizes and discusses the latest advances in photothermal-enhanced CDT (PT/CDT) based on multifunctional nanomaterials for bacterial infection theranostics as well as the advantages, challenges, and future research directions for clinical applications, which will inspire the development of new PT/CDT based on metal-based photothermal nanocatalysts for future bacterial infection theranostics.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 101292"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-06","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0079642524000616/pdfft?md5=c152c720410eeab5ea99bed809ec98c9&pid=1-s2.0-S0079642524000616-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140539702","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"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":"How biomimetic nanofibers advance the realm of cutaneous wound management: The state-of-the-art and future prospects","authors":"Niloofar Eslahi , Foad Soleimani , Roya Lotfi , Fatemeh Mohandes , Abdolreza Simchi , Mehdi Razavi","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101293","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101293","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Skin acts as a protective barrier for the underlying organs against external events such as irradiation of ultraviolet rays, incursion of harmful pathogens, and water evaporation. As the skin is constantly liable to damage, the wound-healing process is vital to the survival of all organisms. Materials design and development for enhanced wound healing and skin tissue regeneration have been found highly valuable in recent years. A wide range of materials and structures, including dressings and tissue-engineered substitutes composed of synthetic and/or natural biopolymers and their composites have been developed and examined. Although some have clinically been proven and are available in the market, mimicking the architecture of native extracellular matrix is still an open challenge with fundamental limitations in reproducing skin appendages, sufficient vascularization, adherence to the wound bed, and scarless wound management. Biomimetic nanofibers with tunable morphological, biological, and physicochemical features are promising candidates to overcome these drawbacks. Combined with advanced biomanufacturing and cell culturing techniques, enabling the incorporation of growth factors and stem cells within morphologically-controlled nanostructures, the fibrous structures allow the regeneration of functional skin. This paper overviews the advances in state-of-the-art strategies for designing biomimetic nanofibrous materials with a high potential for wound healing and skin regeneration. An emphasis is given to multifunctional nanocomposites with mechanobiological properties matching those of natural skin. Opportunities, challenges, and commercial status of these materials for skin repair are outlined, and their future perspective is demonstrated. The advances in smart wound management are also discussed, particularly by highlighting the potential of stimuli-responsive materials and integrated sensors in the progress of next-generation dressings for simultaneous monitoring and on-demand treatment of wounds.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 101293"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140555586","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Shaoxiong Li , Sheng Zhao , Feng Hu , Linlin Li , Jianwei Ren , Lifang Jiao , Seeram Ramakrishna , Shengjie Peng
{"title":"Exploring the potential Ru-based catalysts for commercial-scale polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis: A systematic review","authors":"Shaoxiong Li , Sheng Zhao , Feng Hu , Linlin Li , Jianwei Ren , Lifang Jiao , Seeram Ramakrishna , Shengjie Peng","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101294","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101294","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Proton-conducting polymer electrolyte membrane water electrolysis (PEMWE) is a vital clean hydrogen generation technology that can ease the energy crisis resulting from global warming and dependence on fossil fuels. However, the long-term catalytic activity and stability of the extensively studied benchmark RuO<sub>2</sub> catalysts in an acidic environment is insufficient for large-scale renewable energy conversion devices. Thus, significant recent efforts have focused on identifying and exploring acid-stable Ru-based electrocatalysts with low overpotential and high stability for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). This review offers a comprehensive analysis of recent advances in Ru-based acidic OER catalysts, starting with a detailed understanding of design principles for Ru-based catalysts, encompassing the reaction mechanisms, degradation mechanism, and activity-stability relationships. Subsequently, advanced Ru-based catalysts regulating strategy are into four categories, within each category, a critical assessment of catalyst design and synthesis, electrocatalytic performance, along with typical examples and existing challenges. Representative examples in practical PEMWE are also provided to illustrate these advancements. Finally, the challenges and prospects for future studies on the development of Ru-based acidic OER catalysts towards the ultimate application of PEMWE are also examined.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"145 ","pages":"Article 101294"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-05","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140558214","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Biological optics, photonics and bioinspired radiative cooling","authors":"Zhen Yan, Huatian Zhai, Desong Fan, Qiang Li","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101291","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101291","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Radiative cooling with eco-friendly and zero-energy advantages is considered one of the most viable solutions to address the conflict between traditional energy-intensive cooling systems and global decarbonization. Despite significant advances, the development of radiative cooling still faces many challenges, such as fine-engineering of materials and structures to enhance solar reflection and mid-infrared emission, solar absorption caused by coloring for colorful radiative cooling, and spectral modulation for environmental-adaptative dynamic radiative cooling. Over millions of years of natural selection, utilizing a limited set of biomaterial palettes, optimized strategies, and micro-nano structural design, natural organisms have demonstrated fine control over light-matter interactions at different wavelength scales. Including broadband reflection of the sunlight to prevent solar heating, narrowband reflection of visible light to display brilliant colors, strong emission of mid-infrared wave to complete its cooling, and environmental-adaptative spectral modulation to achieve camouflage or thermal regulation. These biological structures and strategies provide extremely valuable inspiration for the development of advanced radiative cooling techniques. In this review, we systematically summarized the research progress of bioinspired radiative cooling technologies. Emphatically introducing the mechanism of key biological structures to achieve several optical functions, and discussing the various bioinspired radiative coolers and their application potential in different fields. Finally, we present the remaining challenges and outlook on the possible research directions in the future. It is hoped that this review will contribute to further research on bioinspired radiative cooling technology and make exciting progress.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 101291"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-04-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140546296","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Xiaopeng Niu , Chao He , Shun-Peng Zhu , Pietro Foti , Filippo Berto , Lanyi Wang , Ding Liao , Qingyuan Wang
{"title":"Defect sensitivity and fatigue design: Deterministic and probabilistic aspects in additively manufactured metallic materials","authors":"Xiaopeng Niu , Chao He , Shun-Peng Zhu , Pietro Foti , Filippo Berto , Lanyi Wang , Ding Liao , Qingyuan Wang","doi":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101290","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.pmatsci.2024.101290","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Fatigue performance in both traditional and additively manufactured materials is severely affected by the presence of defects, which deserve special attention to ensure the in-service reliability and the structural integrity of complex engineering components. The traditional empirical or semi-probabilistic approaches, provided in standards and codes, only account for defects statistically; such design methodologies cannot fully exploit the material mechanical properties. Design strategies aim to explicitly account for defects features constitute a promising solution to achieve both required safety performance and material mechanical property exploitation. With the development of non-destructive techniques, such design methodologies have become applicable. However, there is still a tardiness in adopting new design strategies especially when it comes to industrial applications, e.g. emerging additive manufacturing (AM). In this review, a systematic overview is provided on the recent developments regarding fatigue behavior and failure mechanisms affected by defects, together with the methodologies for defects features characterization and probabilistic assessment. Moreover, the defects criticality and design approaches of AM parts are introduced and compared with traditional counterparts. Finally, the status of AM standardization is presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":411,"journal":{"name":"Progress in Materials Science","volume":"144 ","pages":"Article 101290"},"PeriodicalIF":37.4,"publicationDate":"2024-03-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"140398504","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}