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Recent advances in AI present opportunities to transform industries by meeting demands for efficiency and sustainability. Here, the authors propose a framework for AI-driven infrastructures in materials discovery and manufacturing, highlighting open-source tools and scalable architectures to democratize access, enhance collaboration, and align with global sustainability goals.
Silk fibroin’s exceptional biocompatibility and biodegradability make it a promising biomaterial for drug delivery systems. Here, the authors review silk fibroin nanoparticles’ extraction, fabrication, and applications, highlighting challenges in large-scale production and proposing strategies to bridge the gap between laboratory research and clinical development, potentially advancing biomedical applications.
This Review surveys progress in the development of carbon nanotubes as single-photon sources for emerging quantum technologies, with a focus on chemical synthesis and quantum defect engineering, computational studies of structure-property relationships, and experimental investigations of quantum optical properties.
Phase-shift engineering of triboelectric nanogenerators (TENGs) is a strategy for modulating the phase shifts of electrical output from multiple TENG units to achieve continuous constant voltage/current output. This Review summarizes the principles of phase shift engineered TENGs, and how it might further boost energy utilization efficiency and practicality.
This Review explores recent advances in MXene-based stimuli-responsive materials that respond to light, heat, mechanical deformation, chemical environment, magnetic fields, and biological cues. Opportunities for translating these intelligent materials into practical technologies by exploiting their multimodal responsiveness is also discussed
This Review explores the role of fundamental physical properties, such as size, charge, elasticity, curvature, fluidity, and asymmetry, on optimizing lipid-based drug delivery systems. Knowledge gaps and guidance for the future development of lipid-based nanocarriers are also discussed.
This review explores recent advances in carbon quantum dot-based fluorescent biosensors, emphasizing their potential in real-time pollutant detection, bioimaging, and green energy solutions.
Ion-selective membranes are essential for tackling water scarcity, environmental security, and energy challenges, yet conventional designs face a trade-off between permeability and selectivity. In this Review, the authors explore covalent organic frameworks as promising membrane materials, highlighting their structural advantages and proposing future research directions for enhanced ion separation and scalability.
