Electrocatalysts play a pivotal role in reducing the reaction barriers for key reactions such as
the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), oxygen evolution reaction (OER), and hydrogen …

Thanks to the unique properties of graphite oxides and graphene oxide (GO), this material
has become one of the most promising materials that are widely studied. Graphene oxide is …

Polyimide (PI) possesses excellent thermal stability, mechanical, chemical stability, and
electrical insulation properties. Thus, PI has become the most important polymer as …

Fluorinated graphene (FG), as an emerging member of the graphene derivatives family, has
attracted wide attention on account of its excellent performances and underlying …

Molecular imprinting technology (MIT) aims to prepare polymers with tailor-made binding
sites for the templates in shape, size and functional groups. However, many disadvantages …

Since the first successful synthesis of graphene just over a decade ago, a variety of two-
dimensional (2D) materials (eg, transition metal-dichalcogenides, hexagonal boron-nitride …

Fluorinated carbon (CFx) is considered as a promising cathode material for lithium/sodium/
potassium primary batteries with superior theoretical energy density. However, achieving …

The ability to change material properties through phase engineering has long been sought,
with the goal of ad hoc tunability of the physical and chemical properties of the transformed …

Core–shell nanoparticles (CSNs) are a class of nanostructured materials that have recently
received increased attention owing to their interesting properties and broad range of …

Our recent experience of the COVID-19 pandemic has highlighted the importance of easy-to-
use, quick, cheap, sensitive and selective detection of virus pathogens for the efficient …