Sustainable one-step strategy to highly graphitized capacitive carbons with hierarchical micro-meso-macro porosity

Large micropore surface area, superior electrical conductivity and suitable pore size are simultaneously desired characteristics for high-performance capacitive carbons. However, these desired features tend to be mutually competing, and are...

Synergy between iron oxide sites and nitrogen-doped carbon xerogel/diamond matrix for boosting the oxygen reduction reaction

The innovative design and facile synthesis of efficient and stable electrocatalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) are crucial in the field of fuel cells.

Controllable Synthesis of Variable-sized Magnetic Nanocrystals Self-assembled into Porous Nanostructures for Enhanced Cancer Chemo-ferroptosis Therapy and MR Imaging

Magnetic-based nanomaterials are promising for cancer diagnosis and treatment. Herein, we develop a self-assembled approach for preparation of a porous magnetic nanosystem, DOX/Mn(0.25)-Fe3O4-III NPs, which can simultaneously achieve chemotherapy, ferroptosis...

Correction: Addressing challenges in the removal of unbound dye from passively labelled extracellular vesicles

Correction for ‘Addressing challenges in the removal of unbound dye from passively labelled extracellular vesicles’ by Kaisa Rautaniemi et al., Nanoscale Adv., 2022, DOI: 10.1039/d1na00755f.

Antibiotic-functionalized Gold Nanoparticles for the Detection of Active β-lactamases

Antimicrobial resistance (AMR) continues to threaten the effective treatment and prevention of bacterial infections. The spread of resistant infections is accelerated by the lack of fast and cost-effective tests for...

Nanoconfined anti-oxidizing RAFT nitroxide radical polymer for reduction of Low-Density Lipoprotein oxidation

therosclerosis is a leading cause of death worldwide. Antioxidant therapy has been considered a promising treatment modality for atherosclerosis, since reactive oxygen species (ROS) play a major role in the...

Interface Engineering of Heterogeneous Transition Metal Chalcogenides for Electrocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution

MoS2 and MoSe2 are recognized as the promising electrocatalysts for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER), but the active sites are mainly located on the edge, limiting their electrochemical efficiency. Here we...

FeSi2: a two-dimensional ferromagnet containing planar hexacoordinate Fe atoms

As an unconventional bonding pattern different from conventional chemistry, the concept of planar hypercoordinate atom was first proposed in the molecular system, and it has been recently extended to 2D...

Targeted Therapy for Glioma with Multifunctional Orange Emissive Carbon Dots

As a nano-material, carbon dots have been studied extensively and applied in many ways. Herein, an iron-doped orange emissive ICDs was easily synthesized by hydrothermal method, coupled Trf and GOD...

Strong and weak polarization-dependent interactions in connected and disconnected plasmonic nanostructures

We explore numerically and experimentally the formation of hybridized modes between a bright mode displayed by a gold nanodisc and either dark or bright modes of a nanorod - both...