Recent advances in soft functional materials: preparation, functions and applications

Nanoscale ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 1281-1306 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jun Li ◽  
Wai-Yeung Wong ◽  
Xiao-ming Tao
Keyword(s):  
Recent Progress ◽  
Functional Materials ◽  
Soft Materials ◽  
Flexible Sensors ◽  
Materials Properties ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Soft Actuators ◽  
And Storage ◽  
Materials Preparation

This review discusses the recent progress of three kinds of soft materials, namely gels, foams and elastomers, with emphasis on materials, properties and applications in flexible sensors, soft actuators, energy convention and storage.

Recent advances in solid-contact ion-selective electrodes: functional materials, transduction mechanisms, and development trends

2020 ◽  
Vol 49 (13) ◽  
pp. 4405-4465 ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuzhou Shao ◽  
Yibin Ying ◽  
Jianfeng Ping
Keyword(s):  
Recent Progress ◽  
Functional Materials ◽  
Ion Selective Electrodes ◽  
Solid Contact ◽  
Development Trends ◽  
Comprehensive Overview ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Transduction Mechanisms

This article presents a comprehensive overview of recent progress in the design and applications of solid-contact ion-selective electrodes (SC-ISEs).

scholarly journals Recent Progress in the Development of Soft Robots

2017 ◽  
Vol 16 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Feifei Chen ◽  
Hongying Zhang ◽  
Tao Wang ◽  
Michael Yu Wang
Keyword(s):  
Recent Progress ◽  
High Sensitivity ◽  
Soft Materials ◽  
Dielectric Elastomer ◽  
Great Promise ◽  
Soft Sensors ◽  
Soft Robots ◽  
Dielectric Elastomer Actuators ◽  
Soft Actuators ◽  
And Control

Soft robots, are mobile machines largely constructed from soft materials and have received much attention recently because they are opening new perspectives for robot design and control. This paper reports recent progress in the development of soft robots, more precisely, soft actuators and soft sensors. Soft actuators play an important role in functionalities of soft robots, and dielectric elastomers have shown great promise because of their considerable voltage-induced deformation. We developed soft inflated dielectric elastomer actuators and their networks, with the advantages to be highly deformable and continuously controllable. When it comes to control of soft robots, soft sensors are of great importance. We proposed a methodology to design, analyze, and fabricate a multi-axis soft sensor, made of dielectric elastomer, capable of detecting and decoupling compressive and shear loads with high sensitivity, linearity, and stability. 

Recent Advances of Individual BODIPY and BODIPY-Based Functional Materials in Medical Diagnostics and Treatment

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (25) ◽  
Author(s):  
Yuriy S. Marfin ◽  
Alexey V. Solomonov ◽  
Alexander S. Timin ◽  
Evgeniy V. Rumyantsev
Keyword(s):  
Functional Materials ◽  
Medical Diagnostics ◽  
Recent Advances

Recent advances in the rational design of 2D MXenes in energy conversion and storage systems

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Nayab Sheikh ◽  
Muhammad Bilal Tahir ◽  
Nisar Fatima ◽  
Muhammad Sagir ◽  
Muhammad Pervaiz ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Energy Conversion ◽  
Rational Design ◽  
Storage Systems ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Energy Conversion And Storage ◽  
And Storage

Recent progress of MXenes and MXene-based nanomaterials for the electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution reaction

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zhaoming Kang ◽  
Muhammad Arif Khan ◽  
Yanmei Gong ◽  
Rida Javed ◽  
Yuan Xu ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Hydrogen Evolution ◽  
Hydrogen Evolution Reaction ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Recent Advances ◽  
Functional Mechanisms

In this review, recent advances in MXenes and MXene-based nanomaterials applied in HER electrocatalysis are overviewed in terms of their synthesis, characterization, functional mechanisms, and HERperformance/optimization.

Porphyrin-based frameworks for oxygen electrocatalysis and catalytic reduction of carbon dioxide

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Zuozhong Liang ◽  
Hong-Yan Wang ◽  
Haoquan Zheng ◽  
Wei Zhang ◽  
Rui Cao
Keyword(s):  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Recent Progress ◽  
Catalytic Reduction ◽  
Storage Technologies ◽  
Conversion Technologies ◽  
And Storage

The recent progress made on porphyrin-based frameworks and their applications in energy-related conversion technologies (e.g., ORR, OER and CO2RR) and storage technologies (e.g., Zn–air batteries).

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