A5075765411- Electrospun Nanofibers in Biomedical Applications
- Advanced Sensor and Energy Harvesting Materials
- Supercapacitor Materials and Fabrication
- Solar-Powered Water Purification Methods
- Solar Thermal and Photovoltaic Systems
- Covalent Organic Framework Applications
- Advanced Photocatalysis Techniques
- Membrane Separation Technologies
- Advanced Cellulose Research Studies
- Metal-Organic Frameworks: Synthesis and Applications
- Surface Modification and Superhydrophobicity
- Graphene research and applications
- Adsorption and biosorption for pollutant removal
- Advanced Battery Materials and Technologies
- Graphene and Nanomaterials Applications
- Conducting polymers and applications
- Advancements in Battery Materials
- Phase Change Materials Research
- Aerosol Filtration and Electrostatic Precipitation
- Nanomaterials for catalytic reactions
- 3D Printing in Biomedical Research
- Dielectric materials and actuators
- MicroRNA in disease regulation
- Hydrocarbon exploration and reservoir analysis
- Advanced battery technologies research
Shanghai Institute of Organic Chemistry
2020-2025
Donghua University
2021-2025
Fudan University
2019-2025
Fuzhou University
2023-2025
Materials Modification (United States)
2025
Materials Science & Engineering
2025
Wuhan University of Science and Technology
2024
Chinese Academy of Sciences
2020-2024
Shandong University
2009-2024
Zhongshan Hospital
2024
Solar steam generation with subsequent recondensation has been regarded as one of the most promising techniques to utilize abundant solar energy and sea water or other unpurified through purification, desalination, distillation. Although tremendous efforts have dedicated developing high-efficiency devices, challenges remain in terms relatively low efficiency, complicated fabrications, high cost, inability scale up. Here, inspired by transpiration behavior trees, use carbon nanotube...
Using solar energy to generate steam is a clean and sustainable approach addressing the issue of water shortage. The current challenge for generation develop easy‐to‐manufacture scalable methods which can convert irradiation into exploitable thermal with high efficiency. Although various material structure designs have been reported, efficiency in usually be achieved only at concentrated illumination. For first time, 3D printing construct an all‐in‐one evaporator concave high‐efficiency...
A bimodal porous evaporator is developed for efficient, stable, and salt-rejecting desalination of seawater high-concentration brines.
The solar steam process, akin to the natural water cycle, is considered be an attractive approach address scarcity issues globally. However, extraction from groundwater, for example, has not been demonstrated using these existing technologies. Additionally, there are major unaddressed challenges in extracting potable seawater including salt accumulation and long-term evaporation stability, which warrant further investigation. Herein, a high-performance device composed entirely of wood...
Abstract Biological tissues generally exhibit excellent anisotropic mechanical properties owing to their well‐developed microstructures. Inspired by the aligned structure in muscles, a highly anisotropic, strong, and conductive wood hydrogel is developed fully utilizing high–tensile strength of natural wood, flexibility high‐water content hydrogels. The exhibits 36 MPa along longitudinal direction due strong bonding cross‐linking between cellulose nanofibers (CNFs) polyacrylamide (PAM)...
Abstract Solar steam generation is regarded as one of the most sustainable techniques for desalination and wastewater treatment. However, there has been a lack scalable material systems with high efficiency under 1 Sun. A solar device designed utilizing crossplane water transport in wood via nanoscale channels preferred thermal direction decoupled to reduce conductive heat loss. 80% Sun 89% 10 Suns achieved. Surprisingly, crossplanes perpendicular mesoporous can provide rapid pits spirals....
There has been a growing interest in thermal management materials due to the prevailing energy challenges and unfulfilled needs for insulation applications. We demonstrate exceptional capabilities of large-scale, hierarchal alignment cellulose nanofibrils directly fabricated from wood, hereafter referred as nanowood. Nanowood exhibits anisotropic properties with an extremely low conductivity 0.03 W/m·K transverse direction (perpendicular nanofibrils) approximately two times higher 0.06 axial...
The global fresh water shortage has driven enormous endeavors in seawater desalination and wastewater purification; among these, solar steam generation is effective extracting by efficient utilization of naturally abundant energy. For generation, the primary focus to design new materials that are biodegradable, sustainable, low cost, have high efficiency. Here, we designed a bilayer aerogel structure employing cellulose nanofibrils (CNFs) as basic building blocks achieve sustainability...
Abstract Solar steam generation, combining the most abundant resources of solar energy and unpurified water, has been regarded as one promising techniques for water purification. Here, an artificial tree with a reverse‐tree design is demonstrated cost‐effective, scalable yet highly efficient steam‐generation device. The implies that wood placed on tree‐growth direction parallel to surface; accordingly, transported in perpendicular what occurs natural tree. fabricated by cutting along...
Abstract Advanced ceramic sponge materials with temperature-invariant high compressibility are urgently needed as thermal insulators, energy absorbers, catalyst carriers, and temperature air filters. However, the application of is severely limited due to their complex preparation process. Here, we present a facile method for large-scale fabrication highly compressible, resistant SiO 2 -Al O 3 composite sponges by blow spinning subsequent calcination. We successfully produce anisotropic...
Transparent films or substrates are ubiquitously used in photonics and optoelectronics, with glass plastics as traditional choice of materials. made cellulose nanofibers reported recently. However, all these isotropic nature. This work, for the first time, reports a remarkably facile effective approach to fabricating anisotropic transparent directly from wood. The resulting exhibit an array exceptional optical mechanical properties. well‐aligned natural wood maintained during...
The advancement of nanofluidic applications will require the identification materials with high-conductivity nanoscale channels that can be readily obtained at massive scale. Inspired by transpiration in mesostructured trees, we report a membrane consisting densely packed cellulose nanofibers directly derived from wood. Numerous nanochannels are produced among an expansive array one-dimensional nanofibers. abundant functional groups enable facile tuning surface charge density via chemical...
Developing advanced building materials with both excellent thermal insulating and optical properties to replace common glass (thermal conductivity of ∼1 W m–1 K–1) is highly desirable for energy-efficient applications. The recent development transparent wood suggests a promising material many advantages, including high transmittance, tunable haze, insulation. However, previous generally have haze (typically greater than 40%), which major obstacle their practical application in the...
Brain-computer interfaces (BCIs) enable direct and near-instant communication between the brain electronic devices. One of biggest remaining challenges is to develop an effective noninvasive BCI that allows recording electrodes avoid hair on human skin without inconveniences complications using a conductive gel. In this study, we developed cost-effective, easily manufacturable, flexible, robust, gel-free silver nanowire/polyvinyl butyral (PVB)/melamine sponge (AgPMS) electroencephalogram...
Effective scaling and a flexible task interface enable large language models to excel at many tasks. We present PaLI (Pathways Language Image model), model that extends this approach the joint modeling of vision. generates text based on visual textual inputs, with performs vision, language, multimodal tasks, in languages. To train PaLI, we make use pre-trained encoder-decoder Vision Transformers (ViTs). This allows us capitalize their existing capabilities leverage substantial cost training...
Abstract High value utilization of renewable biomass materials is great significance to the sustainable development human beings. For example, because contains large amounts carbon, they are ideal candidates for preparation carbon nanotube fibers. However, continuous such fibers using as source remains a huge challenge due complex chemical structure precursors. Here, we realize high-performance from lignin by solvent dispersion, high-temperature pyrolysis, catalytic synthesis, and assembly....
Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) have emerged as a new class of cathode materials for energy storage in recent years. However, they are limited to two-dimensional (2D) or three-dimensional (3D) framework structures. Herein, this work reports designed synthesis redox-active one-dimensional (1D) COF and its composites with 1D carbon nanotubes (CNTs) via situ growth. Used Li-ion batteries, the COF@CNT unique dendritic core-shell structure can provide abundant easily accessible sites, which...
Advanced portable healthcare devices with high efficiencies, small pressure drops, and high-temperature resistance are urgently desired in harsh environments temperatures, humidities, levels of atmospheric pollution. Triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs), which serve as energy converters a revolutionary self-powered sensor device, present sustainable solution for meeting these requirements. In this work, we developed porous negative triboelectric material by synthesizing ZIF-8 on the surface...
Advanced textiles made of macroscopic fibers are usually prepared from synthetic fibers, which have changed lives over the past century. The shortage petrochemical resources, however, greatly limits development textile industry. Here, a facile top-down approach for fabricating wood applications (wood-textile fibers) comprising aligned cellulose nanofibers directly natural via delignification and subsequent twisting is demonstrated. Inherently well retained, while microchannels in delignified...