Accounts of Materials Research材料研究述评
Accounts of Materials Research(英文缩写 ACCOUNTS MATER RES),ISSN 2643-6728,eISSN 2643-6728,中文译名:材料研究述评 是一本学术期刊。本页汇总该期刊的最新影响因子、分区信息以及最新收录于 PubMed 的文献,帮助您快速了解期刊全貌。
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1. Atomic Layer Deposition for Zinc-Ion Batteries: Nanoarchitectonics for Next-Generation Energy Solution.
PMID:日期:2026-08-28With the existing boom in the requirement for energy storage devices for a broad range of applications, ranging from portable to wearable devices, different types of batteries such as zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs), lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), sodium-ion batteries, aluminum-ion batteries, etc., have been currently explored. Among them, recently ZIBs have been extensively studied as an alternative to LIBs because of their inherent safety, high theoretical capacity, low cost, and sustainable approaches. Nevertheless, several limitations impede their practical applications, which include Zn dendrite growth and corrosion on the anode side, side reactions, cathode dissolution, etc. To address these concerns, enormous efforts have been under investigation, such as developing novel cathode materials with customized electrode design, integrating different nanoengineering techniques and composite materials, anticipated to achieve excellent ZIB electrochemical performance. In this context, atomic layer deposition (ALD) technique is garnering significant attention, offering several benefits like a meticulous, scalable, and sustainable approach, with great potential in generating protective nanoengineered layers on the surface of the anode and the cathode components of ZIBs with conformal film thickness and atomic-level precision, which is extremely difficult to achieve with other existing techniques, such as chemical vapor deposition and physical vapor deposition. In this Account, we highlight the evolution and progress of the ALD technique, where ALD-modified electrodes are employed for electrochemical energy conversion and storage applications. First, we provide a brief introduction of the ZIBs as a sustainable energy storage solution and ALD technology as an innovative technique to modify the anode and the cathode surface of electrodes. Furthermore, the fundamental electrochemistry of ZIB, including the challenges faced on the cathode and anode surface of electrodes, is discussed; in addition, the fundamental chemistry of the ALD technique and its mechanism are discussed. Next, the crucial role of the ALD technique to modify cathode and anode surfaces, to tackle several ZIBs' challenges including cathode dissolution, Zn anode corrosion, and dendrite growth, is briefly discussed. Finally, we attempt to conclude that ALD is a viable solution to resolve the challenges associated with ZIBs and provide a perspective on the future research direction of the ALD technology for ZIBs.
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2. Shaping a Circular Future with Bio-derived Resins in Additive Manufacturing.
PMID:日期:2026-08-28The integration of circular principles into chemical manufacturing is poised to significantly transform the production of plastics. This shift will have impacts across the value chain, including raw material sourcing, recyclability, and cost. In recent years, interest in photopolymer-based additive manufacturing (AM) has grown, driven by the increasing demand for multifunctional 3D printing. Photopolymer printing is widely applied in academia and industry as it provides high resolution and rapid print speeds and allows for the construction of plastic products with complex geometries. Therefore, in addition to the benefits of using energy from light, rather than higher energy thermal curing, to create the printed materials, AM offers the advantages of waste reduction through dematerialization. Among the photopolymer-based AM techniques, digital light processing (DLP) is commonly applied due to its high accuracy and resolution and low capital cost for equipment. While advances in equipment are making production-scale photopolymer printing a reality, resin design is largely embedded in the chemistry of the past. However, the nascent state of this industry presents an opportunity to embed sustainability within its material set as it grows, preventing many of the environmental and human health impacts that are linked with the current use of petrochemically derived plastics. While furthering functionality or performance of the materials produced remains an ongoing target for the field, to enhance its sustainability credentials research is focused on (i) switching from petrochemical to biomass-derived monomer feedstocks and (ii) enhancing material circularity such that resins can be printed, depolymerized, and re-printed in a closed-loop, circular manner. Achieving these milestones requires consideration of resin feedstock sourcing and the design of monomers with dynamic bonds to enable recyclability and reprocessability. To expand the portfolio of biomass-derived photopolymer resins, we, along with others, have explored the use of bio-derived and bio-derivable (i.e., those chemical feedstocks that have the potential to be bio-derived but at present are not) monomers that are easily derivatized and compatible with DLP systems. Typical approaches leverage the reactive functional groups in bio-derived monomer sources to create acrylates or epoxides that enable rapid crosslinking, to achieve high-quality 3D-printed polymers. Our approach has focused on leveraging double bonds that naturally occur in biomass-derived chemicals to reduce the number of reaction steps by promoting polymer formation through direct reaction of that double bond via thiyl radical addition chemistry. This step-growth addition method has enabled us to create materials that can be fully degraded to small molecules, but it has also provided opportunities to leverage double-bond stereochemistry to achieve photosets with tunable mechanical properties. Monomer bio-sourcing, however, only addresses half of the problemthe absence of dynamic chemistry inherently limits the recyclability of the resulting materials, thus leading to what is printed becoming waste. To achieve circular resins, leveraging dynamic covalent chemistry has been key to enabling the fabrication of materials that can be readily recycled and reprocessed. While many approaches require monomers to be added to depolymerized resins in an "open-loop" manner, our approach focuses on disulfide chemistry that can be fully returned to its initial state and then re-printed in a "closed-loop" manner. Ultimately, applying bio-derived monomers, circular resin systems, and eco-friendly manufacturing methods is essential to building a truly sustainable manufacturing ecosystem capable of scaling from the laboratory to production. This Account focuses on the innovations that enable sustainable, high-performance additive manufacturing.
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3. Understanding Adsorption and Reactions at Aqueous Oxide Interfaces with Neural Network Potential Molecular Dynamics.
3. 用神经网络势分子动力学理解水-氧化物界面上的吸附和反应PMID:日期:2026-07-24Chemical processes at metal oxide-water interfaces are of central importance in geochemistry, biology, and energy technologies. A better understanding of these processes would allow us to make a significant step toward optimizing and controlling them, which could in turn lead to broader impacts. Computational modeling is indispensable to accomplishing this task because complexity and disorder often make it difficult to extract atomistic information from experiments. Balancing computational cost and accuracy, simulation schemes based on efficient machine learning representations of the potential energy surface (PES) predicted by ab initio calculations have become increasingly popular over the past decade. In particular, several studies have demonstrated the ability of machine learning models to accurately reproduce the complex ab initio PESs of aqueous oxide interfaces, allowing simulations of systems and processes that are not accessible with ab initio methods. In this Account, we review our recent efforts to understand adsorption processes and reactions at aqueous oxide interfaces using deep potential molecular dynamics (DPMD), a simulation scheme employing deep neural networks (DNNs), which has proven to be quite successful in accurately describing many different systems in the condensed phase. After summarizing the DPMD methodology, we first review our work on the acid-base chemistry of oxide surfaces in contact with water, a fundamental characteristic that controls proton transfer and surface charge at the interface. We focus on the aqueous interface of rutile IrO, an oxide material thus far considered the best catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction (OER). We show that this interface is characterized by a large fraction of dissociated water and a strong Brønsted acidity of the surface sites, in good agreement with the experimentally measured value of the point of zero proton charge. In our second example, we investigate how the adsorption of organic species from ambient air or water affects the structure and wettability of the aqueous interfaces of TiO, a prototypical photocatalytic material. This is a question that is relevant to understanding the UV-induced hydrophilicity of TiO surfaces, a property at the basis of self-cleaning windows and related applications. Specifically focusing on formic and acetic acids, the two most common atmospheric organic acids, our simulations reveal that these acids control the wettability of TiO largely through acid-base chemistry at the interface rather than chemisorption on the oxide surface, a finding that could help improve the design of self-cleaning surfaces and photocatalytic devices. Finally, we review our recent study of methanol at TiO-water interfaces, a system whose interest is largely motivated by the role of methanol in enhancing photocatalytic hydrogen evolution on TiO. Our simulations provide mechanistic insights into the coupled roles of the organic adsorbate and water at the TiO interface, with implications for how methanol enhances the activity of H evolution.
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4. Particle-Nanofiber Superstructures.
4. 颗粒纳米纤维超结构PMID:日期:2026-05-22Superstructured particle assemblies are sought as efficient platforms for transferring properties from the nano- to macroscale while combining modularity and versatility with facile and scalable fabrication processes. Such assemblies are achieved by structuring primary particle using various assembly techniques, which enables the control and customization of morphological features across length scales. Ensuring high cohesion within these assemblies is crucial for practical applications, both to mitigate nanotoxicity and bioaccumulation and to prevent the loss of performance resulting from subunit detachment. In this Account, the integration of biobased nanofibers into particle constructs is discussed in terms of their ability to act as universal binders that offer several advantages over case-specific strategies to develop strength in superstructures. Cellulose nanofibers, among others, have a remarkable capacity to confer cohesion to virtually any particulate system, thereby improving strength and toughness and opening several opportunities to manipulate their nano- to macrostructures. At the nano- and microscale, nanofibers can disrupt particle lattices, thereby enhancing access to surface functionalities. At the macroscale, nanofibers enable control over the viscoelastic properties of particle suspensions and govern their consolidation into dried particle-nanofiber constructs. Cellulose nanofibers are the most widely used in supraparticle fabrication, but several other fibrillar nanomaterials from chitin, amyloid, and aramid show promise for a broad range of particle-nanofiber assemblies. This Account presents a detailed review of the ability of nanofibers to enhance cohesion and manipulate supraparticle structures. First, cellulose nanofibers are introduced, and aspects like extraction, surface chemistry, modification, and colloidal properties are discussed, as they play important roles in transferring cohesion from the nanofibrillar network onto the particle-nanofiber assembly. Then, nanofiber-particle interactions in dilute and concentrated regimes are discussed and related to the forces and phenomena that drive the consolidation of these robust constructs. Analyses of mesh size and crowding of associated nanofiber networks are put into perspective and discussed in terms of particle entrapment and particle-nanofiber interactions prior to consolidation. Methods currently employed to fabricate superstructured materials are presented, including casting on superhydrophobic surfaces, templates and hydrophilic substrates, foaming for particle-nanofiber networks at air-liquid interfaces, 3D printing, and spray drying. Finally, practical applications for particle-nanofiber superstructures are introduced and discussed in terms of the gains obtained by using well-defined nanostructured materials and supraparticles.
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5. Mitigating Interfacial Contamination for Scalable Integration of Graphene in Neuroelectronic Devices.
PMID:日期:2026-04-24In the past decade, graphene has gained increasing attention as a material for the next generation of neuroelectronic interfaces thanks to its unique combination of properties, including transparency, flexibility, biocompatibility, and electrical performance. When integrated into thin-film technology microfabrication processes, graphene enables highly conformable and low invasive arrays of solution-gated field-effect transistors (gSGFETs), which are micrometric transducers that combine higher spatial density with the capability to record DC-coupled wide-bandwidth neural signals. The same atomic scale nature of graphene that confers its exceptional sensitivity to surface charges also renders device performance strongly dependent on interfacial physicochemical phenomena at the substrate-graphene-medium boundary, which, in turn, are strongly dependent on the quality and pristine condition of the graphene layer. From a materials science perspective, maintaining the structural and electronic integrity of graphene throughout the entire microfabrication process represents a great challenge. Photolithographic processing often introduces polymeric residues, resulting in adsorbed charges and defect sites that induce residual doping, degrade mobility, and lead to time-dependent shifts in the transfer characteristics of gSGFETs. These changes induced by processing reduce sensor sensitivity and generate device-to-device variability, which currently limits reproducible benchmarking and scale-up of the technology. In this Account, we highlight the remarkable potential of gSGFETs in neurotechnology and review the implications that the uncontrolled graphene surface states have on device behavior. We then present process engineering efforts aimed at addressing this issue through graphene cleaning methods. However, these cleaning approaches are necessarily mild to avoid damaging graphene and have not yet demonstrated the ability to fully ensure the homogeneity and reproducibility required for reliable technology. Finally, we examine emerging strategies based on the development of sacrificial protective layers, which act as effective barriers against process-induced contamination. We propose Cu as a particularly promising candidate given that, as the most common substrate for graphene growth, its etching chemistry has already been widely explored. The integration of sacrificial layers in the standardized microfabrication workflows represents a significant opportunity to improve the graphene-based technology's reliability, enabling its advancement and translation toward industrial applications.
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6. Harnessing Metal-Halide Layered Perovskite Structures for Next-Generation Lighting Sources.
PMID:日期:2026-04-24Advances in nanoscale semiconductor materials are enabling next-generation optoelectronic technologies with unprecedented efficiency, spectral control, and device miniaturization. Achieving this potential, however, requires the development of so-called materials, that is, systems that are environmentally friendly, economically inexpensive, and energetically efficient. Meeting these three criteria simultaneously remains a significant challenge. Metal-halide perovskites have emerged as remarkable semiconductors due to their strong optical absorption, high carrier mobility, long diffusion lengths, defect tolerance, and widely tunable bandgaps. Despite these outstanding properties, their limited ambient and operational stability continues to constrain their large-scale preparation and integration into robust devices. Our research has focused on metal-halide layered perovskites, including Pb-free Sn-based analogues, as promising platforms to address these limitations. In these materials, alternating organic and inorganic layers form natural quantum wells that provide intrinsic electronic and dielectric confinement. This well-defined layered architecture enables tunable, broadband light emission from a single material component, without the need for multiple emissive layers. By avoiding complex multilayer architectures, device fabrication is simplified while interfacial defects, self-absorption effects, and differential degradation pathways are reduced. Moreover, the incorporation of bulky organic cations further enhances environmental stability by increasing hydrophobicity and protecting the inorganic framework from moisture. Beyond structural protection, organic cations play an active role in defining the optoelectronic response. Their size, functionality, and conformation influence octahedral distortions, interlayer spacing, and exciton binding energies. Importantly, we have also shown that interactions between organic cations and solvents during synthesis can influence molecular conformation and octahedral connectivity, thereby directly modulating emission properties and charge transport. This solvent-cation interplay represents a largely unexplored avenue for structural and photophysical tuning. In this Account, we expand upon these advances with a focus on Ruddlesden-Popper organic-inorganic layered perovskites and related structures as efficient and reconfigurable light emitters. We summarize synthetic and design strategies that exploit organic cation engineering and metal substitution to tailor emission across the visible spectrum while addressing toxicity concerns through partial or complete replacement of Pb. The inherent structural versatility of layered perovskites also allows their integration into flexible substrates, reversibly modulating their emission through postsynthetic treatments or mechanical stimuli, broadening their functional scope toward strain-controlled emission. Looking forward, the convergence of artificial intelligence (AI), automated synthesis, and high-throughput characterization offers a transformative route to navigate the vast compositional and structural chemical space of organic-inorganic layered perovskites. By coupling data-driven discovery with mechanistic insight, it becomes possible to accelerate the identification of advanced, stable, efficient, and application-specific structures. Such an integrated approach will be essential to translating layered perovskites from promising laboratory materials to technologically viable platforms that fulfill the paradigm and enable the next generation of sustainable optoelectronic devices.
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7. Innovative Applications Enabled by the Versatile Structural Color of Cholesteric Liquid Crystals.
PMID:日期:2026-04-24Cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCs) are famous for their ability to self-assemble into Bragg reflectors of visible light, yielding intense structural color with a single circular polarization, despite flowing like a liquid. This review focuses on a selection of entirely new opportunities to apply CLCs to solve problems with high societal and industrial relevance, as demonstrated in proof-of-concept experiments with a transition to commercial application underway, in contexts quite far from the more traditional applied role of CLCs as thermometers. We now see a renaissance of applied CLC research resulting in exciting new functional materials taking advantage of CLC photonics, often displaying unique types of responsiveness. This development has been enabled, first, by recent advances in formulating CLC mixtures with reactive mesogens such that they can be processed as a liquid but used as a hard glass or rubber after polymerization and cross-linking, keeping the photonic performance generated by CLC self-assembly intact. Second, the rapid development of advanced liquid processing methods like microfluidic production of multiple emulsions, 3D printing and composite fiber spinning have allowed the CLCs to be processed into unconventional form factors prior to cross-linking. The review focuses, first, on CLC-templated hard spheres exhibiting omnidirectional circularly polarized Bragg reflection, so-called Cholesteric Spherical Reflectors, or CSRs. They can be used to make artificial "fingerprints" for physical objects that act as Physical Unclonable Functions, of great interest in secure authentication, or to print QR-codes or similar machine-readable patterns in a way that they remain invisible to humans while appearing to the intended machines with exceptional contrast. Since each CSR is effectively a pixel of structural color, we can also use them as a versatile solution for coloring without absorption or scattering, also enabling nonspectral colors like shades of gray that are normally not obtainable with structural color. A related application discussed is the camouflage of solar panels using polymerized CLC films to replace their visually obtrusive black appearance with color generated by CLCs, with almost no loss of energy conversion efficiency thanks to its origin in Bragg reflection. We then move to soft rubbery CLC elastomer (CLCE) films and fibers which change their color in response to strain. We highlight a new application opportunity in structural health monitoring, demonstrated by coating CLCE films onto surfaces where we wish to detect crack formation, e.g., in reinforced concrete constructions: the localized strain in the CLCE where a crack appears leads to a strong color change that allows immediate detection of the crack, whereas the crack in the uncoated surface remains invisible until it has grown to much greater width. The colorimetric strain monitoring is also possible with CLCE fibers, where the 1D form factor lends itself to applications in, e.g., fashion, medicine and sports. We end by discussing the key remaining challenges, in particular related to scale-up of production.
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8. A Transformation-First Roadmap for Safe and Sustainable Emerging Advanced Materials.
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9. Framing Function: Metallophthalocyanine-Based Metal-Organic Frameworks as Multifunctional Materials for Electrified Devices.
PMID:日期:2026-02-27Metallophthalocyanine-based metal-organic frameworks (MPc-based MOFs) have recently emerged as a class of two-dimensional (2D) materials with unique tunability for control over both structural properties and growing applications. MPc-based MOFs possess a unique set of structural characteristics due to the combination of a two-dimensional, sheet-like, porous structure and a modular, bimetallic molecularly precise chemical composition that result in emergent properties, such as electrical conductivity, modular surface chemistry, and tunable stacking properties. This combination of physical, chemical, and structural modularity has led to the promising demonstrations of MPc-based MOFs within a wide range of applications, including chemical sensing, catalysis, energy storage, and magnetoresistivity. While recent research regarding structure-property relationships of these materials has significantly advanced this field, the exploration of this class of 2D conductive MOFs has been limited by factors including the synthetic accessibility of both the functionalized MPc monomer and the crystalline framework materials, as well as the lack of structural clarity due to limitations in producing sufficiently large ordered crystals suitable for single crystal X-ray diffraction. Systematic investigation of structure-property relationships, enabled by careful control over synthetic parameters and device integration techniques, are essential for advancing the fundamental understanding and capitalizing on the applied potential of this class of materials. This Account summarizes the development of MPc-based MOFs as a privileged class within the realm of conductive 2D framework materials. Furthermore, this Account highlights key contributions from our group, with a particular focus on how chemical modulation within MPc building blocks dictates the resulting MOF structures and their functional performance. Capitalizing on the beneficial properties of the MPc building blocks, the structural modularity of these materials provides unique access to systematic investigations of structure-property relationships. Structure-property related insights make it possible to elucidate the role of the metal within the MPc core, the bridging metal, and the heteroatomic linker on the functional performance of these materials in the context of electronically transduced chemical sensing and electrocatalysis. The multifaceted utility of this class of materials is also highlighted in both energy storage applications and magnetoresistive devices. Through a combination of iterative synthetic efforts, characterization studies, and systematic investigations into electrical devices incorporating MPc-based MOFs, this Account demonstrates that these materials are prime candidates for use in electronically transduced devices where molecular-level control can be leveraged to maximize device performance metrics. Taken together, these achievements establish MPc-based MOFs as a promising class of materials with high potential within the field of functional nanoscience.
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10. Supramolecules for Pathogen Inhibition: From Polymers to Self-Assembled Nanosystems.
10. 抑制病原体的超分子：从聚合物到自组装纳米系统PMID:日期:2026-02-27Vaccines and antivirals have been developed to combat virus infection, but they face the challenges of rapid and unpredictable virus mutations, which have been widely observed during COVID-19. An alternative approach is, therefore, highly needed as an additional tool to prevent virus infection. As the infection of a virus usually starts by binding to its receptor, preventing virus interaction with host cells has been considered as a promising method and has been explored by various multivalent polymeric structures. However, like small-molecule pharmaceuticals, these carefully engineered polymeric structures rarely sustain broad-spectrum efficacy, because viral proteins are morphologically diverse and evolve rapidly, enabling resistance to polymeric inhibitors through mutations in receptor-binding domains (RBDs). To address these challenges, our group developed and investigated a new class of virus inhibitors based on self-assembled supramolecules. These nanosystems are built by noncovalent conjugation of small molecules or oligomers through hydrophobic interactions, π-π stacking, hydrogen bonding, electrostatic interactions, and so on. By carefully balancing the molecular geometry and directional forces, nanostructures of different dimensions (nanofiber, nanodisk, nanosheet, nanomicelle, etc.) are obtained and functionalized with binding groups to virus spike proteins inspired by mucins, which are natural polymers forming the mucus hydrogel to prevent virus infection. By using different functional building blocks, it is possible to build heteromutlivalent nanostructures through noncovalent synthesis targeting multiple binding domains simultaneously. Distinct from covalent polymeric structures, the dynamic nature of self-assembled nanosystems allows functional groups to automatically locate complementary binding pockets on viral spike protein, thereby adapting to mutation-driven RBD changes through the adaptive presentation of binding moieties. Besides binding to virus spike protein, these nanosystems also provide steric shielding of virus particles to prevent virus interaction with host cells. These supramolecular nanosystems exhibit low toxicity and broad-spectrum antiviral activity against viruses that use distinct binding receptors, including herpes simplex virus (HSV; sulfate binding), SARS-CoV-2 (sulfate binding), and influenza A virus (IAV; sialic acid binding). To forward the application of these nanosystems, their stability should be carefully evaluated, as diverse factors in physiological conditions could affect the self-assembly of the supramolecules. Although they have been proven to be stable in cell culture conditions, a deep investigation into biological systems is still necessary. One approach to improved stability might be introducing additional reversible bonds. Besides, translating these systems will require comprehensive biosafety and bioactivity evaluation and continued chemical innovation. Collectively, these findings demonstrate the feasibility of broad-spectrum antiviral inhibitors based on supramolecular assemblies and may open new routes to design broad-spectrum virus inhibitors to assist the combat with pathogens.