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Polymorphism controls the degree of charge transfer in a molecularly doped semiconducting polymer

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,655-660
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00223A, Communication
Ian E. Jacobs, Camila Cendra, Thomas F. Harrelson, Zaira I. Bedolla Valdez, Roland Faller, Alberto Salleo, Adam J. Moule
Jacobs et al. present the first observation of both fractional and integer charge transfer phases in a single OSC:dopant system.
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Photonic structuring improves the colour purity of rare-earth nanophosphors

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,661-667
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00123E, Communication
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Dongling Geng, Elena Cabello-Olmo, Gabriel Lozano, Hernan Miguez
Nanophosphor integration in an optical cavity allows unprecedented control over both the chromaticity and the directionality of the emitted light, without modifying the chemical composition of the emitters or compromising their efficiency.
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Crystallographic snapshots of host-guest interactions in drugs@metal-organic frameworks: towards mimicking molecular recognition processes

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,683-690
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00302E, Communication
Marta Mon, Rosaria Bruno, Jesus Ferrando-Soria, Lucia Bartella, Leonardo Di Donna, Marianna Talia, Rosamaria Lappano, Marcello Maggiolini, Donatella Armentano, Emilio Pardo
We report a novel highly crystalline MOF, featuring hydroxyl-decorated channels, capable of distinctly organizing guest organic molecules within its pores.
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Surface confined titania redox couple for ultrafast energy storage

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,691-698
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00112J, Communication
Jian Zhi, Houlei Cui, Zhou Wang, Fuqiang Huang
A surface confined Ti3+/Ti4+ redox couple on black TiO2 enables fast ion diffusion kinetics and provides an unprecedented rate capability.
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Tin dioxide quantum dots coupled with graphene for high-performance bulk-silicon Schottky photodetector

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,727-737
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00500A, Communication
Zhaoqiang Zheng, Jiandong Yao, Lianfeng Zhu, Wei Jiang, Bing Wang, Guowei Yang, Jingbo Li
Commercial photodetectors have been dominated by bulk silicon (B-Si) due to the maturity of Si technology.
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Electron tunneling through grain boundaries in transparent conductive oxides and implications for electrical conductivity: the case of ZnO:Al thin films

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,715-726
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00402A, Communication
Viet Huong Nguyen, Ulrich Gottlieb, Anthony Valla, Delfina Munoz, Daniel Bellet, David Munoz-Rojas
A new model is presented to describe charge scattering at grain boundaries in degenerately doped polycrystalline semiconductors such as transparent conductive oxides.
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Hard-magnetic cell microscaffolds from electroless coated 3D printed architectures

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,699-707
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00206A, Communication
Roberto Bernasconi, Federico Cuneo, Elena Carrara, George Chatzipirpiridis, Marcus Hoop, Xiangzhong Chen, Bradley J. Nelson, Salvador Pane, Caterina Credi, Marinella Levi, Luca Magagnin
We report the application of 3D printing and wet metallization to the fabrication of magnetically driven microscaffolds for cell delivery.
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Fully 2D and 3D printed anisotropic mechanoluminescent objects and their application for energy harvesting in the dark

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, 5,708-714
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00296G, Communication
Dinesh K. Patel, Bat-El Cohen, Lioz Etgar, Shlomo Magdassi
We report on new material compositions enabling fully printed mechanoluminescent 3D devices by using a one-step direct write 3D printing technology.
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Chaotic printing: using chaos to fabricate densely packed micro- and nanostructures at high resolution and speed

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00344K, Communication
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Grissel Trujillo-de Santiago, Mario Moises Alvarez, Mohamadmahdi Samandari, Gyan Prakash, Gouri Chandrabhatla, Pamela Ines Rellstab-Sanchez, Batzaya Byambaa, Parisa Pour Shahid Saeed Abadi, Serena Mandla, Reginald K. Avery, Alejandro Vallejo-Arroyo, Amir Nasajpour, Nasim Annabi, Yu Shrike Zhang, Ali Khademhosseini
Chaotic flows are used to rapidly fabricate densely packed lamellar micro- and nanostructure that is then preserved by curing or photocrosslinking.
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Single-crystalline Integrated 4H-SiC Nanochannel Array Electrode: toward High-performance Capacitive Energy Storage for Robust Wide-temperature Operation

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00474A, Communication
Weijun Li, Qiao Liu, Shanliang Chen, Zhi Fang, Xu Liang, GuoDong Wei, Lin Wang, Weiyou Yang, Yuan Ji, Liqiang Mai
The exploration of energy conversion and storage devices for wide-temperature operation is a grand challenge currently. Herein, the single-crystalline integrated energy-storage units based on highly-oriented 4H-SiC nanochannel arrays (NCAs) are...
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Near Infrared to Visible Light Organic Up-conversion Devices with Photon-to-photon Conversion Efficiency Approaching 30%

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00572A, Communication
Dezhi Yang, Xiaokang Zhou, Dongge Ma, Agafonov Vadim, Tansir Ahamad, Saad M. Alshehri
Near infrared to visible light organic up-conversion devices have drawn more and more attention for their advantages of low cost, large area, flexible and easy processing. However, the photon-to-photon conversion...
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High-yield production of 2D crystals by wet-jet milling

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00487K, Communication
Antonio Esau Esau Del Rio Castillo, Vittorio Pellegrini, Alberto Ansaldo, Filiberto Ricciardella, Haiyan Sun, Luigi Marasco, Joka Buha, Zhiya Dang, Luca Gagliani, Emanuele Lago, Nicola Curreli, Silvia Gentiluomo, Francisco Palazon, Mirko Prato, Reinier Oropesa-Nunez, Peter Toth, Elisa Mantero, Manuel Crugliano, Andrea Gamucci, Andrea Tomadin, Marco Polini, Francesco Bonaccorso
Efficient and scalable production of two-dimensional (2D) materials is required to overcome technological hurdles towards the creation of a 2D¬-materials-based industry. Here, we present a novel approach developed for the...
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Hidden gapless states during thermal transformations of preorganized zinc alkoxides to zinc oxide nanocrystals

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00106E, Communication
Jakub Szlachetko, Adam Kubas, Anna Maria Cieślak, Kamil Sokołowski, Lukasz Makolski, Joanna Czapla-Masztafiak, Jacinto Sa, Janusz Lewinski
Zinc oxide (ZnO) is one of the most versatile semiconductor material with multifarious potential applications. Easily accessible alkylzinc alkoxides have been widely exploited as single-source precursors of ZnO-based nanomaterials but...
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Pyroelectric nanoplatform for NIR-ΙΙ triggered photothermal therapy with simultaneous pyroelectric dynamic therapy

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00627J, Communication
Zhongmin Tang , Peiran Zhao, Dalong Ni, Yanyan Liu, Meng Zhang, Han Wang, Hua Zhang, Hongbo Gao, Zhenwei Yao, Wenbo Bu
Photothermal therapy (PTT), has been fascinating much attention because of its high efficiency and well handleability. While the current PTT mainly has two deficiencies, one is the limited penetration depth...
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Bi2Se3-assisted membrane crystallization

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00612A, Communication
Annarosa Gugliuzza, Francesca Macedonio, Antonio Politano, Enrico Drioli
The identification of new practical routes through a rational design of membranes is mandatory to enhance the quality of minerals recovered from seawater and/or brine by using advanced technologies based...
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Hierarchically distributed microstructure design of haptic sensors for personalized fingertip mechanosensational manipulation

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00680F, Communication
Xinqin Liao, Wensong Wang, Maohua Lin, Minghua Li, Hualin Wu, Yuanjin Zheng
Strategies to help reconstruct and restore haptic perception are essential for control of prosthetic limbs, clinical rehabilitation evaluation, and robotic manipulation. Here, we propose hierarchically distributed microstructure based on electric...
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Fluorescein-Centered Polymer as Phosphor for Fabricating Pure White Light-Emitting Diodes

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00749G, Communication
Bin Liu, Han-Yi Duan, Yaling Wang, Binyang Du, Qing Yang, Junting Xu, Yongzhen Yang, Andreas Greiner, Xinghong Zhang
White light-emitting diodes (LEDs) are very important energy-saving lighting devices. It is still a big challenge to fabricate pure white LEDs using low-cost, easy-to-process and environment-friendly phosphors. Herein, we report...
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Recyclable and Repolymerizable Thiol-X Photopolymers

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00724A, Communication
Chen Wang, Trevor Goldman, Brady Thomas Worrell, Matthew McBride, Marvin Alim, Christopher N Bowman
We demonstrate a class of rapidly photopolymerizable step-growth cross-linked networks that incorporate thioesters into the backbone. The thioester functional groups enable complete degradation of the network into oligomers that can...
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A Class of Pb-free Double Perovskite Halide Semiconductors with Intrinsic Ferromagnetism, Large Spin Splitting and High Curie Temperature

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00590G, Communication
Haibo Zeng, Bo Cai, Xi Chen, Meiqiu Xie, Shengli Zhang, Xuhai Liu, Jinlong Yang, Wenhan Zhou, Shiying Guo
Room-temperature ferromagnetic (FM) semiconductors are of vital importance for realizing advanced spintronic devices. The recent discovery of diluted ferromagnetism in Mn-doped CH3NH3PbI3 suggests hopes for developing halide perovskite based spintronics....
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Pharmaceutical Research and Development Improved with AIE-based Nanostructures

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Mater. Horiz., 2018, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/C8MH00648B, Review Article
Yuxuan Zhang, Yufei Wang, Jinjin Wang, Xing-Jie Liang
Drug screening, formulation optimization and pharmacological research have been regarded as pivotal phases in pharmaceutical research and development. However, during these phases, the lack of direct and thorough observations between...
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