Ionic liquids (ILs) have many attractive properties. For example, their physical and chemical
properties can be tuned by a judicious design of the cations and anions, making them ideal …

Over the past decades, transition metal complexes have been successfully used in
anticancer phototherapies. They have shown promising properties in many different areas …

Shape‐persistent, conductive ionogels where both mechanical strength and ionic
conductivity are enhanced are developed using multiphase materials composed of cellulose …

As an inflammatory skin disease of pilosebaceous follicles, Propionibacterium acnes (P.
acnes) can aggravate local inflammatory responses and forms acne lesions. However, due …

Flexible and mechanically robust gel-like electrolytes offer enhanced energy storage
capabilities, versatility, and safety in batteries and supercapacitors. However, the trade-off …

Membrane fouling and membrane deterioration are two major concerns since they greatly
worsen membrane performance in pressure retarded osmosis (PRO) and shorten the …

Poly (ionic liquid) s (PILs) are polymers containing ions in their side-chain or backbone, and
the designability and outstanding physicochemical properties of PILs have attracted …

Abstract Recently, hyperbranched polymers (HBPs), which differ significantly in structure
and properties from linear, cross-linked and branched analogs, have become increasingly …

Conventional anticancer chemotherapy is limited because of severe side effects as well as a
quickly evolving multidrug resistance of the tumor cells. To address this problem, we have …

Despite a potential drug with multiple pharmacological activities, curcumin has
disadvantages of the poor water solubility, rapid metabolism, low bioavailability, which …