Surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization: state-of-the-art, opportunities, and challenges in surface and interface engineering with polymer brushes

JO Zoppe, NC Ataman, P Mocny, J Wang… - Chemical …, 2017 - ACS Publications
The generation of polymer brushes by surface-initiated controlled radical polymerization (SI-
CRP) techniques has become a powerful approach to tailor the chemical and physical …

Fiber bragg gratings for medical applications and future challenges: A review

DL Presti, C Massaroni, CSJ Leitao… - Ieee …, 2020 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
In the last decades, fiber Bragg gratings (FBGs) have become increasingly attractive to
medical applications due to their unique properties such as small size, biocompatibility …

Operando monitoring of thermal runaway in commercial lithium-ion cells via advanced lab-on-fiber technologies

W Mei, Z Liu, C Wang, C Wu, Y Liu, P Liu, X **a… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Operando monitoring of complex physical and chemical activities inside rechargeable
lithium-ion batteries during thermal runaway is critical to understanding thermal runaway …

Fiber Bragg grating sensors for monitoring of physical parameters: A comprehensive review

JK Sahota, N Gupta, D Dhawan - Optical Engineering, 2020 - spiedigitallibrary.org
Fiber Bragg grating has embraced the area of fiber optics since the early days of its
discovery, and most fiber optic sensor systems today make use of fiber Bragg grating …

Sensing as the key to battery lifetime and sustainability

J Huang, ST Boles, JM Tarascon - Nature Sustainability, 2022 - nature.com
Recent economic and productivity gains of rechargeable batteries have cemented their
dominance in energy-intensive societies. With demand soaring, enhancing battery …

Operando monitoring of ion activities in aqueous batteries with plasmonic fiber-optic sensors

R Wang, H Zhang, Q Liu, F Liu, X Han, X Liu… - Nature …, 2022 - nature.com
Understanding ion transport kinetics and electrolyte-electrode interactions at electrode
surfaces of batteries in operation is essential to determine their performance and state of …

Optical refractive index sensors with plasmonic and photonic structures: promising and inconvenient truth

Y Xu, P Bai, X Zhou, Y Akimov, CE Png… - Advanced Optical …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Optical sensors are widely used for refractive index measurement in chemical, biomedical,
and food processing industries. Due to specific field distribution of the resonances, optical …

Ultrasensitive detection of endocrine disruptors via superfine plasmonic spectral combs

L Liu, X Zhang, Q Zhu, K Li, Y Lu, X Zhou… - Light: Science & …, 2021 - nature.com
The apparent increase in hormone-induced cancers and disorders of the reproductive tract
has led to a growing demand for new technologies capable of detecting endocrine …

Review of plasmonic fiber optic biochemical sensors: improving the limit of detection

C Caucheteur, T Guo, J Albert - Analytical and bioanalytical chemistry, 2015 - Springer
This paper presents a brief overview of the technologies used to implement surface plasmon
resonance (SPR) effects into fiber-optic sensors for chemical and biochemical applications …

Detangling electrolyte chemical dynamics in lithium sulfur batteries by operando monitoring with optical resonance combs

F Liu, W Lu, J Huang, V Pimenta, S Boles… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Challenges in enabling next-generation rechargeable batteries with lower cost, higher
energy density, and longer cycling life stem not only from combining appropriate materials …