• Device uses salty hydrogel to pull drinking water from the air
               There may not be much water on the ground in arid parts of the world, but there still is some water vapor that can be drawn from the air. While so-called "fog nets" provide ......
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  • Custom-made artificial mother-of-pearl
                    Natural mother-of-pearl, such as mussels, is one of the hardest, most stable and stiff ......
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  • Cholesteric liquid crystals in living matter
    Liquid crystals play an important role in biology because the combination of order and mobility is a basic requirement for self-organisation and structure formation in living systems. Cholesteric liquid crystals a......
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  • Combining pneumatics with a hydrogel to create a baromorph—for soft robotics
    In the never-ending quest to create robots that are ever more capable, roboticists have often been inspired by creatures that nature has designed. Attempting to mimic humans is a popular research area, as is copying ......
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  • Wrapping Nanocellulose Nets around Graphene Oxide Sheets
    Constructing advanced functional nanomaterials with pre‐designed organized morphologies from low‐dimension synthetic and biological components is challenging. Herein, we report an efficient and universal amphiphilicity‐driven assembly strate......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.11.30
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  • Stimuli-responsive hydroxyapatite liquid crystal with macroscopically controllable ordering and magneto-optical functions
    Liquid crystals are mostly formed by self-assembly of organic molecules. In contrast, inorganic materials available as liquid crystals are limited. Here we report the development of liquid-crystalline (LC) hydroxya......
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  • Hydrogel to generate voltage
    Progress towards the integration of technology into living organisms requires electrical power sources that are biocompatible, mechanically flexible, and able to harness the chemical energy available inside biological systems. Conventional batt......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.11.23
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  • Templated nanofiber synthesis via chemical vapor polymerization into liquid crystalline films
    Inspired by the extraordinary characteristics of polar bear fur, lotus leaves and gecko feet, engineering researchers have developed a new way to make arrays of nanofibers that can form coatings that are sticky, re......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.11.23
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  • Bionic mushrooms that can produce electricity
    Researchers at the Stevens Institute of Technology in New Jersey, USA, have produced electricity from mushrooms in a process involving bacteria and swirls of graphene nanoribbons. The ‘bionic’ mushrooms are actually......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.11.21
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  • Fluorinated coating is utterly repellent
    Transparent, self-healing film fends off more than 100 liquids, including concentrated acids and low-surface-tension solventsbyMark Peplow, special to C&ENOctober 16, 2018 | APPEARED INVOLUME 96, ISSUE 42......
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  • New tricks help find the strength in fibers
     (a) Schematic illustration of ultralong CNT bundles composed of continuous CNTs. (b) Scanning electron microscopy (SEM) image of horizontally aligned ultralong CNTs. Inset: high resolution transmission electron im......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.08
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  • Liquid metal discovery to make toxic water safe and drinkable
    An inexpensive new gadget makes contaminated water drinkable in minutes. (stock image) Credit: © Vasil......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.08
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  • Biomimetic engineering of spider silk fibres with graphene for electric devices with humidity and motion sensitivity X Li, L Zong, X Wu, J You, M Li, C Li Journal of Materials Chemistry C 2018, 6 (13), 3212-3219
    A fibrous and electronic spidroin sensor with humidity and human motion sensitivity was engineered by forming graphene sheaths with morphological ripples or overlapped cracks around spidroin f......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.07
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  • Liquid Metal Droplets Wrapped with Polysaccharide Microgel as Biocompatible Aqueous Ink for Flexible Conductive Devices  Advanced Functional Materials, 2018, 1804197
    Nanometerization of liquid metal in organic systems can facilitate deposition of liquid metals onto substrates and then recover its conductivity through sintering. Although having broader potential applicat......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.07
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  • Nacre-templated synthesis of highly dispersible carbon nanomeshes for layered membranes with high-flux filtration and sensing properties  ACS applied materials & interfaces 2018, 10 (3), 2850-2858
    Marine shells not only represent a rapidly accumulating type of fishery wastes but also offer a unique sort of hybrid nanomaterials produced greenly and massively in nature. The elaborate “brick and mortar” structures of nacre e......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.07
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  • Coordination induced supramolecular assembly of fluorescent C-Phycocyanin for biologic discrimination of metal ions X Han, L Lv, D Yu, X Wu, C Li Materials Letters 2018, 215, 238-241
    Living microbes can accumulate and exhibit distinct responses to different metal ions by strong coordination between bio-macromolecules and metal ions. Thus carefully selected bio-macromolecules could possibly ......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.07
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  • The effects of carbon materials with different dimensionalities on the flow instabilities of LLDPE (linear low density polyethylene) G Tian, J Liu, T Sun, X Wang, X Wang, H Hu, C Li, X Dong, D Wang Polymer 2018, 142, 144-154
    Melt flow instability of LLDPE (Linear Low Density Polyethylene) and its composites with three kinds of carbon fillers with different dimensionalities, including multi-wall carbon nanotubes (MWCNTs), thermally ......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.07
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  • Shapeable Fibrous Aerogels of Metal-Organic-Frameworks Templated with Nanocellulose for Rapid and Large-Capacity Adsorption,ACS nano
    Conventional metal–organic framework (MOF) powders have periodic micro/mesoporous crystalline architectures tuned by their three-dimensional coordination of metal nodes and organic linkers. To add practical macroscop......
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  • Endurable conductivity of nylon fibers by interfacial grafting and aniline polymerization C Xie, H Han, H Hu, J Zhao, Y Zhao, C Li Materials Letters 2018, 218, 213-216
    Interfacial grafting was combined with aniline polymerization to modify nylon fibers for high and endurable conductivity. A large amount of acrylic acid grafted to the surfaces of nylon66 fibers. The grafted polyacrylic acid fu......
    lchaoxu 写于2018.10.07
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  • Liquid exfoliated chitin nanofibrils for re-dispersibility and hybridization of two-dimensional nanomaterials J You, L Zhu, Z Wang, L Zong, M Li, X Wu, C Li Chemical Engineering Journal 2018, 344, 498-505
    With well-defined molecular architectures and geometries, natural fibrous nanostructures possess super physicochemical and biologic properties, allowing performing a variety of specific functions in l......
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