Sustainable and cost‐effective energy generation has become crucial for fulfilling present
energy requirements. For this purpose, the development of cheap, scalable, efficient, and …

The creation and development of carbon nanomaterials promoted material science
significantly. Bottom-up synthesis has emerged as an efficient strategy to synthesize …

Aerogel films with a low density are ideal candidates to meet lightweight application and
have already been used in a myriad of fields; however, their structural design for …

Flexible and lightweight high-performance electromagnetic interference shielding materials
with minimal thickness, excellent mechanical properties, and outstanding reliability are …

Supercapacitors are important energy storage devices capable of delivering energy at a
very fast rate. With the increasing interest in portable and wearable electronic equipment …

Precious noble metals (such as Pt, Ir) and nonprecious transition metals (eg, Fe, Co),
including their compounds (eg, oxides, nitrides), have been widely investigated as efficient …

Low-density compressible materials enable various applications but are often hindered by
structure-derived fatigue failure, weak elasticity with slow recovery speed and large energy …

Carbon is one of the basic elements for life on Earth. It exists in diverse allotropic forms while
being different in chemical and physical properties. The best well-known natural allotropes …

Here, we demonstrate that wood can be directly converted into a highly compressible wood
carbon sponge (WCS) by lignin and hemicellulose removal followed by carbonization. The …

Anisotropic cellular materials with direction-dependent structure and durable mechanical
properties enable various applications (eg, nanofluidics, biomedical devices, tissue …