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View article: Rapid Conductometric Sensing of Chronic Kidney Disease Biomarkers: Specific and Precise Detection of Creatinine and Cystatin C in Artificial Saliva
Rapid Conductometric Sensing of Chronic Kidney Disease Biomarkers: Specific and Precise Detection of Creatinine and Cystatin C in Artificial Saliva Open
Chronic kidney disease (CKD) has asymptomatic early stages, whereby early detection is crucial to prevent its complications and progression. Creatinine and cystatin C (cysC) assays are known for assessing kidney function but there are limi…
View article: Buffered Oxide Etch: A Safer, More Effective Etchant for Additively Manufactured Ti-Alloys
Buffered Oxide Etch: A Safer, More Effective Etchant for Additively Manufactured Ti-Alloys Open
Kroll’s reagent is effective for the metallographic etching of traditional Ti-alloys but struggles with the intricate, refined microstructures of newer Ti-alloy compositions like Ti-Cu and Ti-Mo alloys, which are created through additive m…
View article: Surface Nanodroplet‐Confined Engineering of Gold (I) ‐Thiolate Nanostructures
Surface Nanodroplet‐Confined Engineering of Gold (I) ‐Thiolate Nanostructures Open
Gold(I)‐thiolate complexes have served as primary building blocks for diverse Au nanostructure synthesis strategies. A delicate approach to characterize and control Au(I)‐thiolate motif formation and assembly on the surface is needed as it…
View article: Emerging applications of metal-oxide thin films for flexible and stretchable electronic devices
Emerging applications of metal-oxide thin films for flexible and stretchable electronic devices Open
The increasing need for intimate contact between electronics and the human skin requires the development of devices that can conform and adapt to the skin. Compared to metallic/carbon/polymeric materials, metal-oxide devices show multi-sti…
View article: Soft Plasmene Helical Nanostructures
Soft Plasmene Helical Nanostructures Open
Plasmene is recently defined as 2D arrays of plasmonic nanoparticles, which could be fabricated by the bottom‐up self‐assembly approach and demonstrated a wide range of applications in sensing, energy harvesting, nanophotonics and encrypti…
View article: Black Phosphorus—Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymer Semiconductor Hybrid for Enhanced Charge Transfer and Photodetection
Black Phosphorus—Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymer Semiconductor Hybrid for Enhanced Charge Transfer and Photodetection Open
Black phosphorus (BP) has emerged as an exciting 2D material for optics, photonics, and electronics. However, there are few studies on BP in terms of modulation and enhancement of their electronic and optical properties and their concurren…
View article: Direct Imaging of Liquid–Nanoparticle Interfaces with Atom Probe Tomography
Direct Imaging of Liquid–Nanoparticle Interfaces with Atom Probe Tomography Open
Understanding the structure and chemical composition at the liquid-nanoparticle (NP) interface is crucial for a wide range of physical, chemical, and biological processes. In this study, direct imaging of the liquid-NP interface by atom pr…
View article: Dynamically functioning and highly stretchable epidermal supercapacitor based on vertically aligned gold nanowire skins
Dynamically functioning and highly stretchable epidermal supercapacitor based on vertically aligned gold nanowire skins Open
An ideal epidermal supercapacitor should be ultrathin, highly stretchable, and skin‐attachable yet able to function under dynamic deformation states. Past several years have witnessed encouraging progress in stretchable supercapacitors but…
View article: Real-Time and In-Situ Monitoring of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> Release from Living Cells by a Stretchable Electrochemical Biosensor Based on Vertically Aligned Gold Nanowires
Real-Time and In-Situ Monitoring of H<sub>2</sub>O<sub>2</sub> Release from Living Cells by a Stretchable Electrochemical Biosensor Based on Vertically Aligned Gold Nanowires Open
Traditional electrochemical biosensing electrodes (e.g., gold disk, glassy carbon electrode, etc.) can undergo sophisticated design to detect chemicals/biologicals from cells. However, such electrodes are typically rigid and nonstretchable…
View article: Cat‐Tail‐Like Mesostructured Silica Fibers Decorated with Gold Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application as Stretchable Sensors
Cat‐Tail‐Like Mesostructured Silica Fibers Decorated with Gold Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application as Stretchable Sensors Open
Invited for this month's cover are the collaborating groups of Prof. Xiaojun Han from Harbin Institute of Technology, China and Prof. Wenlong Cheng from Monash University, Australia. The cover picture shows how a stretchable sensor made fr…
View article: Front Cover: Cat‐Tail‐Like Mesostructured Silica Fibers Decorated with Gold Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application as Stretchable Sensors (ChemPlusChem 8/2019)
Front Cover: Cat‐Tail‐Like Mesostructured Silica Fibers Decorated with Gold Nanowires: Synthesis, Characterization, and Application as Stretchable Sensors (ChemPlusChem 8/2019) Open
The front cover shows how a stretchable sensor made from a 3D structure comprising mesostructured silica fibers decorated with gold nanowires exhibits reliable resistance signals for real-time response to radial artery blood pulses. This w…
View article: Covalent-Cross-Linked Plasmene Nanosheets
Covalent-Cross-Linked Plasmene Nanosheets Open
Thiol-polystyrene (SH-PS)-capped plasmonic nanoparticles can be fabricated into free-standing, one-nanoparticle-thick superlattice sheets (termed plasmene) based on physical entanglement between ligands, which, however, suffer from irrever…
View article: 2D Freestanding Janus Gold Nanocrystal Superlattices
2D Freestanding Janus Gold Nanocrystal Superlattices Open
2D freestanding nanocrystal superlattices represent a new class of advanced metamaterials in that they can integrate mechanical flexibility with novel optical, electrical, plasmonic, and magnetic properties into one multifunctional system.…
View article: Highly Stretchable and Strain-Insensitive Fiber-Based Wearable Electrochemical Biosensor to Monitor Glucose in the Sweat
Highly Stretchable and Strain-Insensitive Fiber-Based Wearable Electrochemical Biosensor to Monitor Glucose in the Sweat Open
Development of high-performance fiber-shaped wearable sensors is of great significance for next-generation smart textiles for real-time and out-of-clinic health monitoring. The previous focus has been mainly on monitoring physical paramete…
View article: A General Approach to Free-Standing Nanoassemblies <i>via</i> Acoustic Levitation Self-Assembly
A General Approach to Free-Standing Nanoassemblies <i>via</i> Acoustic Levitation Self-Assembly Open
Droplets suspended by acoustic levitation provide genuine substrate-free environments for understanding unconventional fluid dynamics, evaporation kinetics, and chemical reactions by circumventing solid surface and boundary effects. Using …
View article: Two-dimensional Plasmonic Nanoparticle Superlattices: Synthesis, Fabrication & Application
Two-dimensional Plasmonic Nanoparticle Superlattices: Synthesis, Fabrication & Application Open
Two-dimensional free-standing plasmonic superlattice (Plasmene) shows the superior ability to engineer properties by altering the particle size, shape, composition and interspacing. Despite the current success, there are still unsolved pro…
View article: Site-specific Ag coating on concave Au nanoarrows by controlling the surfactant concentration
Site-specific Ag coating on concave Au nanoarrows by controlling the surfactant concentration Open
Three distinct site-specific Ag-coated Au nanoarrows are achieved by simply controlling the CTAC concentration of growth solution and analyzed with electron microscopy as well as elemental mapping. The CTAC concentration-dependent, facet-s…
View article: Highly Stretchable Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitors Based on Ultrathin Gold Nanowires with Double-Helix Winding Design
Highly Stretchable Fiber-Shaped Supercapacitors Based on Ultrathin Gold Nanowires with Double-Helix Winding Design Open
The ability of developing highly durable fiber-shaped electronic devices is crucial for next-generation smart textile electronics. Past several years have witnessed encouraging progress made in stretchable fiber-shaped supercapacitors usin…
View article: A Moss‐Inspired Electroless Gold‐Coating Strategy Toward Stretchable Fiber Conductors by Dry Spinning
A Moss‐Inspired Electroless Gold‐Coating Strategy Toward Stretchable Fiber Conductors by Dry Spinning Open
Stretchable fiber conductors are appealing in the field of soft electronics due to their potential to be woven into fabrics leading to smart textile electronics. Coating highly conductive metal films onto elastic polymer fibers can be a po…
View article: Correction to Standing Enokitake-like Nanowire Films for Highly Stretchable Elastronics
Correction to Standing Enokitake-like Nanowire Films for Highly Stretchable Elastronics Open
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View article: Standing Enokitake-like Nanowire Films for Highly Stretchable Elastronics
Standing Enokitake-like Nanowire Films for Highly Stretchable Elastronics Open
Stretchable electronics may enable electronic components to be part of our organs-ideal for future wearable/implantable biodiagnostic systems. One of key challenges is failure of the soft/rigid material interface due to mismatching Young's…
View article: Ultrathin Fresnel lens based on plasmene nanosheets
Ultrathin Fresnel lens based on plasmene nanosheets Open
View article: Shape Transformation of Constituent Building Blocks within Self-Assembled Nanosheets and Nano-origami
Shape Transformation of Constituent Building Blocks within Self-Assembled Nanosheets and Nano-origami Open
Self-assembly of nanoparticles represents a simple yet efficient route to synthesize designer materials with unusual properties. However, the previous assembled structures whether by surfactants, polymer, or DNA ligands are "static" or "fr…
View article: A location- and sharpness-specific tactile electronic skin based on staircase-like nanowire patches
A location- and sharpness-specific tactile electronic skin based on staircase-like nanowire patches Open
A new stretchable tactile electronic skin sensor that could sense touch, location and sharpness is presented.
View article: Self-Assembled Plasmonic Pyramids from Anisotropic Nanoparticles for High-Efficient SERS
Self-Assembled Plasmonic Pyramids from Anisotropic Nanoparticles for High-Efficient SERS Open