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Composite polymer electrolytes (CPEs) are very promising for high-energy lithium-metal batteries as they combine the advantages of polymeric and ceramic electrolytes. The dimensions and morphologies of active ceramic fillers play critical roles in determining the electrochemical and mechanical performances of CPEs. Herein, a coral-like LLZO (Li6.4La3Zr2Al0.2O12) is designed and used as a 3D active nanofiller in a poly(vinylidene difluoride) polymer matrix. Building 3D interconnected frameworks endows the as-made CPE membranes with an enhanced ionic conductivity (1.51 × 10-4 S cm-1) at room temperature and an enlarged tensile strength up to 5.9 MPa. As a consequence, the flexible 3D-architectured CPE enables a steady lithium plating/stripping cycling over 200 h without a short circuit. Moreover, the assembled solid-state Li|LiFePO4 cells using the electrolyte exhibit decent cycling performance (95.2% capacity retention after 200 cycles at 1 C) and excellent rate capability (120 mA h g-1 at 3 C). These results demonstrate the superiority of 3D interconnected garnet frameworks in developing CPEs with excellent electrochemical and mechanical properties.The improvement of antimony selenide solar cells by short-term air exposure is explained using complementary cell and material studies. We demonstrate that exposure to air yields a relative efficiency improvement of n-type Sb2Se3 solar cells of ca. 10% by oxidation of the back surface and a reduction in the back contact barrier height (measured by J-V-T) from 320 to 280 meV. X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS) measurements of the back surface reveal that during 5 days in air, Sb2O3 content at the sample surface increased by 27%, leaving a more Se-rich Sb2Se3 film along with a 4% increase in elemental Se. Conversely, exposure to 5 days of vacuum resulted in a loss of Se from the Sb2Se3 film, which increased the back contact barrier height to 370 meV. Inclusion of a thermally evaporated thin film of Sb2O3 and Se at the back of the Sb2Se3 absorber achieved a peak solar cell efficiency of 5.87%. These results demonstrate the importance of a Se-rich back surface for high-efficiency devices and the positive effects of an ultrathin antimony oxide layer. selleck products This study reveals a possible role of back contact etching in exposing a beneficial back surface and provides a route to increasing device efficiency.Constructing a nanocomposite to introduce a coherent interface is an effective way to improve the property of thermoelectric material. Here, a series composites of Bi0.48Sb1.52Te3-x wt % Sb2Te3 (x = 0, 0.3, 0.5, 0.8, and 1.0) were synthesized, where the hydrothermally prepared Sb2Te3 nanosheets were intimately wrapped in the solid-state-reacted Bi0.48Sb1.52Te3 matrix. The formation of a coherent interface was observed and confirmed by the scanning electron microscopy characterization. As the Sb2Te3 content was over 0.5 wt %, the carrier mobility could increase by 26%, while the carrier concentration decreased by 9% compared to those of the pure matrix at 300 K, enhancing the power factor to 40.1 μW/cm K2. Moreover, the Bi0.48Sb1.52Te3-0.5 wt % Sb2Te3 sample exhibited a reduced lattice thermal conductivity of 0.83 W/m K at room temperature, resulting from the strengthened phonon scattering by interfaces. Combined with the manipulations of both the electronic and thermal transport by constructing a coherent interface, a maximum ZT of 1.05 was obtained in the x = 0.5 composite at 300 K, and it was improved by 20% compared with the result of the Bi0.48Sb1.52Te3 matrix.Substituted 2,1,3-benzothiadiazole (BTD) is a widely used electron acceptor unit for functional organic semiconductors. Difluorination or annulation on the 5,6-position of the benzene ring is among the most adapted chemical modifications to tune the electronic properties, though each sees its own limitations in regulating the frontier orbital levels. Herein, a hitherto unreported 5,6-annulated BTD acceptor, denoted as ssBTD, is designed and synthesized by incorporating an electron-withdrawing 2-(1,3-dithiol-2-ylidene)malononitrile moiety via aromatic nucleophilic substitution of the 5,6-difluoroBTD (ffBTD) precursor. Unlike the other reported BTD annulation strategies, this modification leads to the simultaneous decrease in both frontier orbital energies, a welcoming feature for photovoltaic applications. Incorporation of ssBTD into conjugated polymers results in materials boasting broad light absorption, dramatic solvatochromic and thermochromic responses (>100 nm shift and a band gap difference of ∼0.28 eV), and improved crystallinity in the solid state. Such physical properties are in accordance with the combined electron-withdrawing effect and significantly increased polarity associated with the ssBTD unit, as revealed by detailed theoretical studies. Furthermore, the thiolated ssBTD imbues the polymer with ambipolar charge transport property, in contrast to the ffBTD-based polymer, which transports holes only. While the low mobilities (10-4 to 10-5 cm2 V-1 s-1) could be further optimized, detailed studies validate that the thioannulated BTD is a versatile electron-accepting unit for the design of functional stimuli-responsive optoelectronic materials.Wearable devices with integrated alarm functions play a vital role in daily life and can help people prevent potential hazards. Although many wearable sensors have been extensively studied and proposed to monitor various physiological signals, most of them are needed to integrate with the external alarm elements to realize warning, such as light-emitting diodes and buzzers, resulting in the system complexity and poor flexibility. In this paper, an integrated sensing and warning multifunctional device based on the mechanical and thermal effect of porous graphene is proposed on a bilayer asymmetrical pattern of laser-induced graphene (LIG). Compared with the strain sensor with nonpatterned LIG, the mechanical performance is greatly improved with the highest gauge factor value of up to 950 for the strain sensor with mesh-patterned LIG. On the contrary, the heating performance of the heater with nonpatterned LIG is better than that with mesh-patterned LIG. Combining the performance differences of different LIG patterns, the integrated wearable device with a bilayer asymmetrical LIG pattern is demonstrated. It can generate enough heating energy to warn the person when the detected signal meets the threshold condition measured in real time by the ultrasensitive strain sensor. This work will provide a new way to construct an integrated wearable device for realizing multifunctional applications. This integrated multifunctional device shows great potential toward the applications in healthcare monitoring and timely warning.The inorganic CsPbI2Br perovskite faces serious challenges of low phase stability and high moisture sensitivity. The moisture controllable process of a hole-transporting layer (HTL) is crucial for the development of stable and efficient inorganic perovskite solar cells (IPSCs). In this work, we proposed an oxidization-free spiro-OMeTAD hole-transport layer (HTL) with a preoxidized spiro-OMeTAD solution to prevent moisture and completely avoid the phase transition of CsPbI2Br from the α-phase to β-phase. The oxidization-free HTL exhibited improved surface hydrophobic properties, smoother morphology, and optimized energy-level alignment compared with a traditional HTL. As a result, the CsPbI2Br-based IPSCs achieved an efficiency of up to 14.2 and 86.6% of the initial power conversion efficiency (PCE) with 2000 h storage. Meanwhile, this oxidization-free HTL was applied in CH3NH3PbI3-based PSCs and obtained 13.8% PCE enhancement, which proved the universality of the solution preoxidization tactic. We believe that the oxidization-free HTL could be an efficient strategy to replace traditional HTLs and can be widely used in perovskite solar cells, especially in moisture-sensitive PSCs.Methaqualone (2-methyl-3-(o-tolyl)-quinazolin-4(3H)-one, MTQ) is a moderately potent positive allosteric modulator (PAM) of GABAA receptors (GABAARs). In a previous structure-activity relationship (SAR) study probing the importance of 2- and 3-substituents in the quinazolin-4(3H)-one scaffold, several potent GABAAR PAMs were identified, including 2,3-diphenylquinazolin-4(3H)-one (PPQ) and 3-(2-chlorophenyl)-2-phenylquinazolin-4(3H)-one (Cl-PPQ). Here, PPQ was applied as lead in a SAR study of 6-, 7-, and 8-substituents in the quinazolin-4(3H)-one by synthesis and functional characterization of 36 PPQ analogs at various GABAAR subtypes. While none of the new analogs were significantly more potent than PPQ or displayed pronounced subtype selectivity across the GABAARs tested, several interesting SAR observations were extracted from the study. In an in silico study, the putative binding modes of MTQ, PPQ, and Cl-PPQ in the transmembrane β2(+)/α1(-) interface of the α1β2γ2S GABAAR were predicted. Several plausible binding modes were identified for the three PAMs, and rationalization of the molecular basis for their different modulatory potencies was attempted.In recent years, flow photolithography (FL) has emerged as a powerful synthetic tool for the creation of barcoded microparticles with complex morphologies and chemical compositions which have been shown to be useful in a range of multiplexed bioassay applications. More specifically, FL has been highly successful in producing micron-sized, encoded particles of bespoke shape, size, and color. That said, to date, FL has been restricted to generating barcoded microparticles and has lacked the ability to produce hybrid fibers which are structurally and spectrally encoded. To this end, we herein present a method that combines a continuous flow microfluidic system with two-photon polymerization (2PP) to fabricate microscale-encoded fibers and Janus strips in a high-throughput manner. Specifically, two co-flow liquid streams containing a monomer and initiator are introduced through a Y-shape channel to form a stable interface in the center of a microfluidic channel. The flow containing the (fluorescently labeled) monomer is then patterned by scanning the voxel of the 2PP laser across the interface to selectively polymerize different regions of the forming fiber/particle. Such a process allows for rapid spectral encoding at the single fiber level, with the resulting structurally coded fibers having obvious application in the fields of security identification and anticounterfeiting.Based on the signal amplification elements of planar VS2/AuNPs nanocomposites and CoFe2O4 nanozyme, we herein developed an electrochemical biosensor for sensitive kanamycin (Kana) quantification. A ratiometric sensing platform was presented by incorporating VS2/AuNPs nanocomposites as a support material with excellent conductivity and high specific surface area, as well as hairpin DNA (hDNA) with complementary hybridization of biotinylated Kana-aptamer. In addition, streptavidin-functionalized CoFe2O4 nanozyme with superior peroxidase-like catalytic activity were immobilized onto the aptasensor, hence the peroxidase-like catalytic reaction could yield amplified electrochemical signals. With the presence of Kana, the aptamer-biorecognition resulted in a quantitative decrease of nanozyme accumulation and an increase of methylene blue response. Under optimal conditions, the electrochemical signal ratio of the aptasensor revealed a linear relation along with the logarithmic concentration of Kana from 1 pM to 1 μM, with the limit of detection reaching to 0.