2D boron nitride nanosheets for polymer composite materials

MG Rasul, A Kiziltas, B Arfaei… - npj 2D Materials and …, 2021 - nature.com
Hexagonal boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) are promising two-dimensional materials to
boost the mechanical, thermal, electrical, and optical properties of polymer nanocomposites …

Two-Dimensional Materials in Biosensing and Healthcare: From In Vitro Diagnostics to Optogenetics and Beyond

A Bolotsky, D Butler, C Dong, K Gerace, NR Glavin… - ACS …, 2019 - ACS Publications
Since the isolation of graphene in 2004, there has been an exponentially growing number of
reports on layered two-dimensional (2D) materials for applications ranging from protective …

Porifera‐Inspired Lightweight, Thin, Wrinkle‐Resistance, and Multifunctional MXene Foam

F Pan, Y Shi, Y Yang, H Guo, L Li, H Jiang… - Advanced …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Transition metal carbides/nitrides (MXenes) demonstrate a massive potential in constructing
lightweight, multifunctional wearable electromagnetic interference (EMI) shields for …

Super-tough MXene-functionalized graphene sheets

T Zhou, C Wu, Y Wang, AP Tomsia, M Li, E Saiz… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
Flexible reduced graphene oxide (rGO) sheets are being considered for applications in
portable electrical devices and flexible energy storage systems. However, the poor …

Dynamic nanoconfinement enabled highly stretchable and supratough polymeric materials with desirable healability and biocompatibility

L Liu, M Zhu, X Xu, X Li, Z Ma, Z Jiang… - Advanced …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Lightweight polymeric materials are highly attractive platforms for many potential industrial
applications in aerospace, soft robots, and biological engineering fields. For these real …

Natural-wood-inspired ultrastrong anisotropic hybrid hydrogels targeting artificial tendons or ligaments

L Wu, Y Kang, X Shi, B Yuezhen, M Qu, J Li, ZS Wu - ACS nano, 2023 - ACS Publications
Hydrogels are able to mimic the flexibility of biological tissues or skin, but they still cannot
achieve satisfactory strength and toughness, greatly limiting their scope of application …

Simultaneous production and functionalization of boron nitride nanosheets by sugar‐assisted mechanochemical exfoliation

S Chen, R Xu, J Liu, X Zou, L Qiu, F Kang… - Advanced …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Due to their extraordinary properties, boron nitride nanosheets (BNNSs) have great promise
for many applications. However, the difficulty of their efficient preparation and their poor …

Applications of π-π stacking interactions in the design of drug-delivery systems

WR Zhuang, Y Wang, PF Cui, L **ng, J Lee… - Journal of controlled …, 2019 - Elsevier
Noncovalent forces are of considerable importance in the formation of self-assembled drug-
delivery systems. In addition to non-destructively linking the delivery vehicle and guest drug …

Bioinspired structural materials

UGK Wegst, H Bai, E Saiz, AP Tomsia, RO Ritchie - Nature materials, 2015 - nature.com
Natural structural materials are built at ambient temperature from a fairly limited selection of
components. They usually comprise hard and soft phases arranged in complex hierarchical …

Flexible graphene nanocomposites with simultaneous highly anisotropic thermal and electrical conductivities prepared by engineered graphene with flat morphology

Y Zhuang, K Zheng, X Cao, Q Fan, G Ye, J Lu… - Acs Nano, 2020 - ACS Publications
Achieving nanocomposites with simultaneous highly anisotropic thermal and electrical
conductivities using carbon materials remains challenging as carbon material tends to form …