Understanding, Quantifying, and Controlling the Molecular Ordering of Semiconducting Polymers: From Novices to Experts and Amorphous to Perfect Crystals

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D0MH00837K, Review ArticleZhengxing Peng, Long Ye, Harald AdeMolecular packing and texture of semiconducting polymers are often critical to the performance of devices using these materials. Although frameworks exist to quantify the ordering, interpretations are often just qualitative,...The content...

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Organic building blocks at inorganic nanomaterial interfaces

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01294K, Focus Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Yunping Huang, Theodore A. Cohen, Breena M. Sperry, Helen Larson, Hao A. Nguyen, Micaela K. Homer, Florence Y. Dou, Laura M. Jacoby, Brandi M. Cossairt, Daniel R. Gamelin, Christine...

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Integration of efficient microwave absorption and shielding in a multistage composite foam with progressive conductivity modular design

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01346G, CommunicationYadong Xu, Zhiqiang Lin, Yaqi Yang, Hongji Duan, Guizhe Zhao, Yaqing Liu, Yougen Hu, Rong Sun, Ching-Ping WongThe effective microwave absorber and highly efficient EMI shield can be integrated in one multistage composite foam through a progressive conductive modular design which...

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Colloidal Oxide Nanoparticle Inks for Micrometer-Resolution Additive Manufacturing of Three-Dimensional Gas Sensors

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01021B, CommunicationHehao Chen, Xinjie Min, Yue Hui, Weiwei Qin, Boyu Zhang, Yuan Yao, Wang Xing, Wei Zhang, Nanjia ZhouMicrometer-resolution 3D printing of functional oxides is of growing importance for the fabrication of micro-electromechanical systems (MEMS) with customized 3D geometries....

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Engineering of flat bands and Dirac bands in two-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (COFs): Relationships among molecular orbital symmetry, lattice symmetry, and electronic-structure characteristics

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1MH00935D, FocusXiaojuan Ni, Hong Li, Feng Liu, Jean-Luc BredasTwo-dimensional covalent organic frameworks (2D-COFs), also referred to as 2D polymer networks, display unusual electronic-structure characteristics, which can significantly enrich and broaden the fields of electronics and spintronics....

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Rationalizing Energy Level Alignment by Characterizing Lewis Acid/Base and Ionic Interactions at Printable Semiconductor/Ionic Liquid Interfaces

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01306H, CommunicationLinze Du Hill, Michel De Keersmaecker, Adam E Colbert, Joshua W Hill, Diogenes Placencia, Janice E Boercker, Neal R Armstrong, Erin L RatcliffCharge transfer and energy conversion processes at semiconductor/electrolyte interfaces are controlled by local electric field distributions,...

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Extended π-backbone for highly efficient near-infrared thermally activated delayed fluorescence with enhanced horizontal molecular orientation

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01651B, CommunicationJian-Li He, Yukun Tang, Kai Zhang, Yue Zhao, Yu-Ching Lin, Chih-Kai Hsu, Chia-Hsun Chen, Tien-Lung Chiu, JIUN-HAW LEE, Chuankui Wang, Chung-Chih Wu, Jian FanThe near-infrared thermally activated delayed fluorescence (NIR-TADF) materials with emission over 700 nm were insufficiently...

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Self-glucose feeding hydrogels by enzyme empowered degradation for 3D cell culture

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Advance ArticleDOI: 10.1039/D0MH01982H, CommunicationMehrzad Zargarzadeh, A. Sofia Silva, Cláudia Nunes, Manuel A. Coimbra, Catarina A. Custódio, João F. ManoSelf-feeding hydrogels were fabricated to obtain structural platforms for 3D cell culture but also achieving an autonomous release of glucose over time to prolong cell’s survival...

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Computational Design of Thermoelectric Alloys Through Optimization of Transport and Dopability

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01539G, CommunicationJiaxing Qu, Adam Balvanz, Sviatoslav Baranets, Svilen Bobev, Prashun GoraiAlloying is a common technique to optimize the functional properties of materials for thermoelectrics, photovoltaics, energy storage etc. Designing thermoelectric (TE) alloys is especially challenging...

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Vesicle-based artificial cells: Materials, construction methods and applications

Mater. Horiz., 2022, Accepted ManuscriptDOI: 10.1039/D1MH01431E, Review Article Open Access   This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported Licence.Yao Lu, Giulia Allegri, Jurriaan HuskensThe construction of artificial cells with specific cell-mimicking functions helps to explore complex biological processes...

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