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As a main cause of serious cardiovascular diseases, atherosclerosis is characterized by deposited lipid and cholesterol crystals (CCs), which is considered as a great challenge to the current treatments. In this study, a dual‐track reverse cholesterol transport strategy is used to overcome the cumulative CCs in the atherosclerotic lesions via a targeting nanoplatform named as LPLCH. Endowed with the...
Nanocontainers that can sense and respond to environmental stimuli like cells are desirable for next‐generation delivery systems. However, it is still a grand challenge for synthetic nanocontainers to mimic or even surpass the shape adaption of cells, which may produce novel compartments for cargo loading. Here, this work reports the engineering of compartment network with a single polymer vesicle...
The ethanol oxidation reaction (EOR) is an attractive alternative to the sluggish oxygen evolution reaction in electrochemical hydrogen evolution cells. However, the development of high‐performance bifunctional electrocatalysts for both EOR and hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a major challenge. Herein, the synthesis of Pd3Pb@Pt core–shell nanocubes with controlled shell thickness by Pt‐seeded...
Over the past decade, solid‐state cholesteric liquid crystals (CLCsolid) have emerged as a promising photonic material, heralding new opportunities for the advancement of optical photonic biosensors and actuators. The periodic helical structure of CLCsolids gives rise to their distinctive capability of selectively reflecting incident radiation, rendering them highly promising contenders for a wide...
Current practices for delivering agrochemicals are inefficient, with only a fraction reaching the intended targets in plants. The surfaces of nanocarriers are functionalized with sucrose, enabling rapid and efficient foliar delivery into the plant phloem, a vascular tissue that transports sugars, signaling molecules, and agrochemicals through the whole plant. The chemical affinity of sucrose molecules...
Mechanotyping
In article number 2303962, Nan Xiang and co‐workers developed an inertial multi‐force deformability cytometry for high‐throughput, high‐accuracy, and high‐applicability tumor cell mechanotyping. Three different deformations, including shear deformations and stretch deformations under different forces, are integrated in the deformability cytometry, which enables the precise multi‐parameter...
Highly porous carbon materials with a rationally designed pore structure can be utilized as reservoirs for metal or nonmetal components. The use of small‐sized metal or metal compound nanoparticles, completely encapsulated by carbon materials, has attracted significant attention as an effective approach to enhancing sodium ion storage properties. These materials have the ability to mitigate structural...
Atomically precise metal nanoclusters (NCs) have garnered tremendous attention as light‐harvesting antennas in heterogeneous photocatalysis due to unique atomic stacking mode, quantum confinement effect, and enriched active sites. However, metal NCs as photosensitizers suffer from extremely short carrier lifetime, poor photostability, and difficulty in carrier migration, which hinder the wide‐spread...
The structure of graphene grown in chemical vapor deposition (CVD) is sensitive to the growth condition, particularly the substrate. The conventional growth of high‐quality graphene via the Cu‐catalyzed cracking of hydrocarbon species has been extensively studied; however, the direct growth on noncatalytic substrates, for practical applications of graphene such as current Si technologies, remains...
Nanodrug delivery systems have demonstrated a great potential for tumor therapy with the development of nanotechnology. Nonetheless, traditional drug delivery systems are faced with issues such as complex synthetic procedures, low reproducibility, nonspecific distribution, impenetrability of biological barrier, systemic toxicity, etc. In recent years, phage‐based nanoplatforms have attracted increasing...
The free radical generation efficiency of nanozymes in cancer therapy is crucial, but current methods fall short. Alloy nanoparticles (ANs) hold promise for improving catalytic performance due to their inherent electronic effect, but there are limited ways to modulate this effect. Here, a self‐driven electric field (E) system utilizing triboelectric nanogenerator (TENG) and AuPd ANs with glucose oxidase...
The proton‐coupled electron transfer(PCET) reaction plays a crucial role in the chemical transformation process andhas become one of the most concerned elementary reactions. However, the complex kinetics of PCET reaction, which requires the simultaneous transfer of protons and electrons, leads to the dilemma that thermodynamics and kinetics cannot bebalanced and restricts its further development....
Biohybrid Microrobots
In article number 2305526, Yan Zhang, Xia Dong, Feng Lv. and co‐workers constructed macrophages‐based microrobots by fusion of macrophages and metal–organic frameworks to exert tumor targeting, fluorescent navigation, and photothermal conversion. Photothermal‐enhanced pyroptosis induces adaptive immune response, achieving photothermal immunotherapy for breast tumor proliferation...
N‐doped carbon (NC)‐encapsulated transition metal (TM) nanocomposites are considered as alternatives to Pt‐based hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) electrocatalysts; however, their poor electron transfer and mass diffusion capability at high current densities hinder their practical application. Herein, an oriented coupling strategy for the in situ grafting of ultrafine Co nanoparticle‐embedded hollow...
Borophene, a promising material with potential applications in electronics, energy storage, and sensors, is successfully grown as a monolayer on Ag(111), Cu(111), and Au(111) surfaces using molecular beam epitaxy. The growth of two‐dimensional borophene on Ag(111) and Au(111) is proposed to occur via surface adsorption and boron segregation, respectively. However, the growth mode of borophene on Cu(111)...
With the rapid development of performance and long‐term stability, bismuth vanadate (BiVO4) has emerged as the preferred photoanode in photoelectrochemical tandem devices. Although state‐of‐the‐art BiVO4 photoanodes realize a saturated photocurrent density approaching the theoretical maximum, the fill factor (FF) is still inferior, pulling down the half‐cell applied bias photon‐to‐current efficiency...
Lead‐free antiferroelectrics with excellent energy storage performance can become the core components of the next‐generation advanced pulse power capacitors. However, the low energy storage efficiency caused by the hysteresis of antiferroelectric‐ferroelectric transition largely limits their development toward miniaturization, lightweight, and integration. In this work, an ultrahigh recoverable energy...
The nanodelivery system provides a novel direction for disease diagnosis and treatment; however, its delivery effectiveness is restricted by the short biological half‐life and inadequate tumor targeting. The immune evasion properties and homologous targeting capabilities of natural cell membranes, particularly those of cancer cell membranes (CCM), have gained significant interest. The integration...
Future renewable energy supply and green, sustainable environmental development rely on various types of catalytic reactions. Copper single‐atom catalysts (Cu SACs) are attractive due to their distinctive electronic structure (3d orbitals are not filled with valence electrons), high atomic utilization, and excellent catalytic performance and selectivity. Despite numerous optimization studies are conducted...
Lead‐free dielectric capacitors have attracted significant research interest for high‐power applications due to their environmental benefits and ability to meet the demanding performance requirements of electronic devices. However, the development of lead‐free ceramic dielectrics with outstanding energy storage performance remains a challenge. In this study, environmentally friendly ceramic dielectrics...
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