{"title":"Hierarchical Interconnected NiMoN with Large Specific Surface Area and High Mechanical Strength for Efficient and Stable Alkaline Water/Seawater Hydrogen Evolution","authors":"Minghui Ning, Yu Wang, Libo Wu, Lun Yang, Zhaoyang Chen, Shaowei Song, Yan Yao, Jiming Bao, Shuo Chen, Zhifeng Ren","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01129-y","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01129-y","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>A hierarchical interconnected NiMoN (HW-NiMoN-2h) was successfully prepared based on a rational combination of hydrothermal and water bath processes.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>HW-NiMoN-2h exhibited high hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) activity due to its large specific surface area and good stability due to its enhanced mechanical strength.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>In 1 M KOH seawater, HW-NiMoN-2h delivered current density of 1 A cm<sup>−2</sup> for HER at an overpotential of 130 mV and showed excellent stability over 70 h at 1 A cm<sup>−2</sup>.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01129-y.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4754671","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":"Synergistic Optimization of Buried Interface by Multifunctional Organic–Inorganic Complexes for Highly Efficient Planar Perovskite Solar Cells","authors":"Heng Liu, Zhengyu Lu, Weihai Zhang, Hongkang Zhou, Yu Xia, Yueqing Shi, Junwei Wang, Rui Chen, Haiping Xia, Hsing-Lin Wang","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01130-5","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01130-5","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Highly performed perovskite solar cells are achieved via introducing organic–inorganic CL–NH complex as multifunctional interfacial layer.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>CL–NH complex not only reduces oxygen vacancies on the surface of SnO<sub>2</sub> but also regulates film crystallization, resulting in a superior device efficiency of 23.69%.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The resulting device performs excellent stability with 91.5% initial power conversion efficiency retained after 500 h light illumination.\u0000</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01130-5.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4756720","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":"Heteroatom-Induced Accelerated Kinetics on Nickel Selenide for Highly Efficient Hydrazine-Assisted Water Splitting and Zn-Hydrazine Battery","authors":"Hao-Yu Wang, Lei Wang, Jin-Tao Ren, Wen-Wen Tian, Ming-Lei Sun, Zhong-Yong Yuan","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01128-z","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01128-z","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis is a promising energy conversion technology for highly efficient hydrogen production. Rational design of bifunctional electrocatalysts, which can simultaneously accelerate hydrogen evolution reaction (HER)/hydrazine oxidation reaction (HzOR) kinetics, is the key step. Herein, we demonstrate the development of ultrathin P/Fe co-doped NiSe<sub>2</sub> nanosheets supported on modified Ni foam (P/Fe-NiSe<sub>2</sub>) synthesized through a facile electrodeposition process and subsequent heat treatment. Based on electrochemical measurements, characterizations, and density functional theory calculations, a favorable “2 + 2” reaction mechanism with a two-step HER process and a two-step HzOR step was fully proved and the specific effect of P doping on HzOR kinetics was investigated. P/Fe-NiSe<sub>2</sub> thus yields an impressive electrocatalytic performance, delivering a high current density of 100 mA cm<sup>−2</sup> with potentials of − 168 and 200 mV for HER and HzOR, respectively. Additionally, P/Fe-NiSe<sub>2</sub> can work efficiently for hydrazine-assisted water electrolysis and Zn-Hydrazine (Zn-Hz) battery, making it promising for practical application.</p><figure><div><div><div><picture><source><img></source></picture></div></div></div></figure></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01128-z.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"5055125","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":"A Bilayer High-Temperature Dielectric Film with Superior Breakdown Strength and Energy Storage Density","authors":"Jiang-Bo Ping, Qi-Kun Feng, Yong-Xin Zhang, Xin-Jie Wang, Lei Huang, Shao-Long Zhong, Zhi-Min Dang","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01121-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01121-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>A bilayer dielectric film is prepared via coating boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) by solution casting on the surface of polyethylene terephthalate (PET) film.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The BNNS layer acts as the efficient barrier layer to suppress the charge injection, thereby making the surface-modified PET films exhibit excellent breakdown strength and electrostatic energy storage performance.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The surface coating methods are accessible and suitable for large-scale roll-to-roll process production of dielectric films.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01121-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4349669","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}
Zhen Pan, Yong Qian, Yang Li, Xiaoning Xie, Ning Lin, Yitai Qian
{"title":"Novel Bilayer-Shelled N, O-Doped Hollow Porous Carbon Microspheres as High Performance Anode for Potassium-Ion Hybrid Capacitors","authors":"Zhen Pan, Yong Qian, Yang Li, Xiaoning Xie, Ning Lin, Yitai Qian","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01113-6","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01113-6","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Proposing a one-step pyrolysis strategy to fabricate a novel bilayer-shelled N, O-doped hollow porous carbon microspheres (NOHPC) anode.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The optimized NOHPC anode displays a high K-storage capacity of 325.9 mAh g<sup>−1</sup> at 0.1 A g<sup>−1</sup> and excellent rate performance (201.1 mAh g<sup>−1</sup> at 5 A g<sup>−1</sup> after 6000 cycles).</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The assembled NOHPC//hollow porous activated carbon microspheres (HPAC) potassium ion hybrid capacitors deliver a high energy density of 90.1 Wh kg<sup>−1</sup> at a power density of 939.6 W kg<sup>−1</sup> even over 6000 cycles.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01113-6.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4310273","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}
Shida Han, Yuan Ji, Qi Zhang, Hong Wu, Shaoyun Guo, Jianhui Qiu, Fengshun Zhang
{"title":"Tetris-Style Stacking Process to Tailor the Orientation of Carbon Fiber Scaffolds for Efficient Heat Dissipation","authors":"Shida Han, Yuan Ji, Qi Zhang, Hong Wu, Shaoyun Guo, Jianhui Qiu, Fengshun Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01119-0","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01119-0","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Carbon fiber (CF) scaffolds with horizontally aligned, diagonally aligned and vertically aligned structure were fabricated via magnetic field-assisted Tetris-style stacking and carbonization process.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The obtained CF scaffolds/ polydimethylsiloxane composites showed ultrahigh thermal conductivity (above 40 W m<sup>−1</sup> K<sup>−1</sup>) in the fiber alignment direction.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Fibers with different alignment direction can be combined by multiple stacking and carbonization process, allowing for the efficient heat transfer along customized paths.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01119-0.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4308881","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":"Tailoring Food Biopolymers into Biogels for Regenerative Wound Healing and Versatile Skin Bioelectronics","authors":"Qiankun Zeng, Qiwen Peng, Fangbing Wang, Guoyue Shi, Hossam Haick, Min Zhang","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01099-1","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01099-1","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>This food biopolymer-based biogel unites the challenging needs of elastic yet injectable wound dressing and skin bioelectronics in a single platform.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>This is the first demonstration of a hydrogel dressing that satisfies both deep and superficial wounds, and for the accelerated healing of diabetic wounds.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Biogel-based flexible skin bioelectronic can serve as a “fever indicator” and monitoring human activities and tiny electrophysiological signals, providing important clinical information for the rehabilitation training of the wounded.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01099-1.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4627797","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":"Boosting Interfacial Polarization Through Heterointerface Engineering in MXene/Graphene Intercalated-Based Microspheres for Electromagnetic Wave Absorption","authors":"Ge Wang, Changfeng Li, Diana Estevez, Peng Xu, Mengyue Peng, Huijie Wei, Faxiang Qin","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01123-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01123-4","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Multi-layer 2D material assemblies provide a great number of interfaces beneficial for electromagnetic wave absorption. However, avoiding agglomeration and achieving layer-by-layer ordered intercalation remain challenging. Here, 3D reduced graphene oxide (rGO)/MXene/TiO<sub>2</sub>/Fe<sub>2</sub>C lightweight porous microspheres with periodical intercalated structures and pronounced interfacial effects were constructed by spray-freeze-drying and microwave irradiation based on the Maxwell–Wagner effect. Such approach reinforced interfacial effects via defects introduction, porous skeleton, multi-layer assembly and multi-component system, leading to synergistic loss mechanisms. The abundant 2D/2D/0D/0D intercalated heterojunctions in the microspheres provide a high density of polarization charges while generating abundant polarization sites, resulting in boosted interfacial polarization, which is verified by CST Microwave Studio simulations. By precisely tuning the 2D nanosheets intercalation in the heterostructures, both the polarization loss and impedance matching improve significantly. At a low filler loading of 5 wt%, the polarization loss rate exceeds 70%, and a minimum reflection loss (<i>RL</i><sub>min</sub>) of −67.4 dB can be achieved. Moreover, radar cross-section simulations further confirm the attenuation ability of the optimized porous microspheres. These results not only provide novel insights into understanding and enhancing interfacial effects, but also constitute an attractive platform for implementing heterointerface engineering based on customized 2D hierarchical architectures.</p>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01123-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4308894","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":"Fundamental Perspectives on the Electrochemical Water Applications of Metal–Organic Frameworks","authors":"Xiang He","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01124-3","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01124-3","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs), a family of highly porous materials possessing huge surface areas and feasible chemical tunability, are emerging as critical functional materials to solve the growing challenges associated with energy–water systems, such as water scarcity issues. In this contribution, the roles of MOFs are highlighted in electrochemical-based water applications (i.e., reactions, sensing, and separations), where MOF-based functional materials exhibit outstanding performances in detecting/removing pollutants, recovering resources, and harvesting energies from different water sources. Compared with the pristine MOFs, the efficiency and/or selectivity can be further enhanced via rational structural modulation of MOFs (e.g., partial metal substitution) or integration of MOFs with other functional materials (e.g., metal clusters and reduced graphene oxide). Several key factors/properties that affect the performances of MOF-based materials are also reviewed, including electronic structures, nanoconfined effects, stability, conductivity, and atomic structures. The advancement in the fundamental understanding of these key factors is expected to shed light on the functioning mechanisms of MOFs (e.g., charge transfer pathways and guest–host interactions), which will subsequently accelerate the integration of precisely designed MOFs into electrochemical architectures to achieve highly effective water remediation with optimized selectivity and long-term stability.</p>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01124-3.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4309174","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}
Xiyu Chen, Lingwei Kong, Jaafar Abdul-Aziz Mehrez, Chao Fan, Wenjing Quan, Yongwei Zhang, Min Zeng, Jianhua Yang, Nantao Hu, Yanjie Su, Hao Wei, Zhi Yang
{"title":"Outstanding Humidity Chemiresistors Based on Imine-Linked Covalent Organic Framework Films for Human Respiration Monitoring","authors":"Xiyu Chen, Lingwei Kong, Jaafar Abdul-Aziz Mehrez, Chao Fan, Wenjing Quan, Yongwei Zhang, Min Zeng, Jianhua Yang, Nantao Hu, Yanjie Su, Hao Wei, Zhi Yang","doi":"10.1007/s40820-023-01107-4","DOIUrl":"10.1007/s40820-023-01107-4","url":null,"abstract":"<div><h2>Highlights</h2><div>\u0000 \u0000 \u0000 <ul>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Imine groups in covalent organic framework (COF) films act as dual-active sites for humidity sensing, inducing an intrinsic enhanced mechanism of reversible protonated tautomerism via water molecule-induced hydrogen bonding.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>The<i> cis</i>-ketoimine reciprocal isomerization induces a stretching vibration effect for the ordered conjugated conductive frame of COF films, realizing fast response, wide range, and high sensitivity characteristics for humidity detection.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 <li>\u0000 <p>Resistance changes of COF film-based sensors keep a strong linear relationship with low-range relative humidity, reflecting the quantitative sensing mechanism at the molecular level.</p>\u0000 </li>\u0000 </ul>\u0000 \u0000 </div></div>","PeriodicalId":48779,"journal":{"name":"Nano-Micro Letters","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":26.6,"publicationDate":"2023-06-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://link.springer.com/content/pdf/10.1007/s40820-023-01107-4.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"4305027","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}