Ion conducting membranes/electrolytes have been employed extensively in some important industrial and biological systems, especially in fuel cells, water electrolyzers, gas separation, sensors and biological selective ion transport, acting as one of the core components and sometimes directly determining the device performance. However, the traditional polymeric proton exchange membranes (PEMs)/...

Two-dimensional (2D) materials with atomic thickness and extraordinary physicochemical properties exhibit unique mass transport behaviors, enabling them as emerging nanobuilding blocks for separation membranes. Engineering 2D materials into membrane with subnanometer apertures for precise molecular sieving remains a great challenge. Here, we report rational-designing external forces to precisel...

Grating-coupled propagating surface plasmons associated with silver-nanoparticle 2D crystalline sheets exhibit sensitive plasmonic resonance tuning. Multilayered silver-nanoparticle 2D crystalline sheets are fabricated on gold or silver grating surfaces by the Langmuir- Blodgett method. We show that the deposition of Ag crystalline nanosheets on Au or Ag grating surfaces causes a drastic change...

2D layered GaTe materials have attracted a great deal of attention for optoelectronic applications due to their direct band structure, whether in bulk or as a single layer. In this paper, for the first time, we have synthesized high quality, single crystalline GaTe nanosheets by employing a facile CVD method. The size of the GaTe nanosheets reached several tens of micrometers, and some of them ...

The insufficient data on a structure of the boron-doped diamond (BDD) has frustrated efforts to fully understand the fascinating electronic properties of this material and how they evolve with doping. We have employed X-ray diffraction and Raman scattering for detailed study of the large-sized BDD single crystals. We demonstrate a formation of boron-carbon (B-C) nanosheets and bilayers in BDD w...

Mesoporous NiO nanosheets were directly grown on three-dimensional (3D) carbon cloth substrate, which can be used as binder-free anode for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). These mesoporous nanosheets were interconnected with each other and forming a network with interval voids, which give rise to large surface area and efficient buffering of the volume change. The integrated hierarchical electrode...

Diagram depicting the strategy for fabricating DNA-based hydrogels impregnated by ultrathin 2D tungsten disulfide nanosheets relevant biomedical applications.

2D MoS2 Nanosheets nanosheets accumulate Fe2+ in lysosomes by promoting NCOA4-dependent ferritinophagy. leaks from the damaged into cytoplasm, resulting ferroptosis. This has important implications for elucidating toxicity of nanoparticles and determining their medical applications. More details can be found article number 2208063 Wei Jiang co-workers.

Vacancies engineering based on semiconductors is an effective method to enhance photoelectrochemical activity. Herein, we used a facile one-step solvothermal prepare sulfur vacancies modified ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) ZnIn2S4 nanosheets. The photon-to-current efficiency of 2D nanosheets 1.82-fold than without and 2.04-fold multilayer ZnIn2S4. better performances can be attributed the intro...