Seawater electrolysis holds great promise for hydrogen production in the future,while the development of anodic catalysts has been severely hampered by the side-reaction,chloride evolution reaction.In this work,nano-f...Seawater electrolysis holds great promise for hydrogen production in the future,while the development of anodic catalysts has been severely hampered by the side-reaction,chloride evolution reaction.In this work,nano-flower-cluster structured Coo@FeSe_(2)/CF catalysts are synthesized via a scalable electrodeposition technique,and the performance is systematically studied.The oxygen evolution reaction(OER)overpotential of Co0@FeSe_(2)/CF is 267 mV at 100 mA.cm^(-2),which is significantly lower than that of the IrO_(2) catalyst(435 mV).Additionally,the catalyst shows high selectivity for OER(97.9%)and almost no loss of activity after a durability test for 1100 h.The impressive performance is attributed to the dense rod-like structure with abundant active centers after electrochemical activation and the in-situ generated CoOOH and FeOOH that improve the catalytic activity of the catalyst.The synergistic effect induced bythenon-uniform structureendows the catalyst with excellent stability.展开更多
Highly stretchable and robust strain sensors are rapidly emerging as promising candidates for a diverse of wearable electronics.The main challenge for the practical application of wearable electronics is the energy co...Highly stretchable and robust strain sensors are rapidly emerging as promising candidates for a diverse of wearable electronics.The main challenge for the practical application of wearable electronics is the energy consumption and device aging.Energy consumption mainly depends on the conductivity of the sensor,and it is a key factor in determining device aging.Here,we design a liq-uid metal(LM)-embedded hydrogel as a sensing material to overcome the bar-rier of energy consumption and device aging of wearable electronics.The sensing material simultaneously exhibits high conductivity(up to 22 S m�1),low elastic modulus(23 kPa),and ultrahigh stretchability(1500%)with excel-lent robustness(consistent performance against 12000 mechanical cycling).A motion monitoring system is composed of intrinsically soft LM-embedded hydrogel as sensing material,a microcontroller,signal-processing circuits,Bluetooth transceiver,and self-organizing map developed software for the visu-alization of multi-dimensional data.This system integrating multiple functions including signal conditioning,processing,and wireless transmission achieves monitor hand gesture as well as sign-to-verbal translation.This approach provides an ideal strategy for deaf-mute communicating with normal people and broadens the application of wearable electronics.展开更多
Liquid metal represents a highly conductive and inherently deformable conductor for the development of stretchable electronics.The widespread implementations of liquid metal towards functional sensors and circuits are...Liquid metal represents a highly conductive and inherently deformable conductor for the development of stretchable electronics.The widespread implementations of liquid metal towards functional sensors and circuits are currently hindered by the lack of a facile and scalable patterning approach.In this study,we report a fully solution-based process to generate patterned features of the liquid metal conductor.The entire process is carried out under ambient conditions and is generally compatible with various elastomeric substrates.The as-prepared liquid metal feature exhibits high resolution(100μm),excellent electrical conductivity(4.15×10^(4)S cm^(−1)),ultrahigh stretchability(1000%tensile strain),and mechanical durability.The practical suitability is demonstrated by the heterogeneous integration of light-emitting diode(LED)chips with liquid metal interconnects for a stretchable and wearable LED array.The solution-based technique reported here is the enabler for the facile patterning of liquid metal features at low cost,which may find a broad range of applications in emerging fields of epidermal sensors,wearable heaters,advanced prosthetics,and soft robotics.展开更多
基金supported by the Hainan Provincial Natural Science Foundation(222RC548,222RC554)the National Natural Science Foundation of China(22109034,22109035,52164028,62105083)+1 种基金the specific research fund of the Innovation Platform for Academicians of Hainan Province,the Start-up Research Foundation of Hainan University(KYQD(ZR)-20008,20082,20083,20084,21065,21124,21125)the Innovative Research Projects for Graduate Students of Hainan Province(Qhyb2022-86).
文摘Seawater electrolysis holds great promise for hydrogen production in the future,while the development of anodic catalysts has been severely hampered by the side-reaction,chloride evolution reaction.In this work,nano-flower-cluster structured Coo@FeSe_(2)/CF catalysts are synthesized via a scalable electrodeposition technique,and the performance is systematically studied.The oxygen evolution reaction(OER)overpotential of Co0@FeSe_(2)/CF is 267 mV at 100 mA.cm^(-2),which is significantly lower than that of the IrO_(2) catalyst(435 mV).Additionally,the catalyst shows high selectivity for OER(97.9%)and almost no loss of activity after a durability test for 1100 h.The impressive performance is attributed to the dense rod-like structure with abundant active centers after electrochemical activation and the in-situ generated CoOOH and FeOOH that improve the catalytic activity of the catalyst.The synergistic effect induced bythenon-uniform structureendows the catalyst with excellent stability.
基金National Natural Science Foundation of China,Grant/Award Numbers:22176221,51763010,51963011Central Public-interest Scientific Institution Basal Research Fund(CAFS),Grant/Award Number:2020TD75+2 种基金Jiangxi Provincial Double Thousand Talents Plan-Youth Program,Grant/Award Number:JXSQ2019201108Jiangxi Key Laboratory of Flexible Electronics,Grant/Award Number:20212BCD42004National。
文摘Highly stretchable and robust strain sensors are rapidly emerging as promising candidates for a diverse of wearable electronics.The main challenge for the practical application of wearable electronics is the energy consumption and device aging.Energy consumption mainly depends on the conductivity of the sensor,and it is a key factor in determining device aging.Here,we design a liq-uid metal(LM)-embedded hydrogel as a sensing material to overcome the bar-rier of energy consumption and device aging of wearable electronics.The sensing material simultaneously exhibits high conductivity(up to 22 S m�1),low elastic modulus(23 kPa),and ultrahigh stretchability(1500%)with excel-lent robustness(consistent performance against 12000 mechanical cycling).A motion monitoring system is composed of intrinsically soft LM-embedded hydrogel as sensing material,a microcontroller,signal-processing circuits,Bluetooth transceiver,and self-organizing map developed software for the visu-alization of multi-dimensional data.This system integrating multiple functions including signal conditioning,processing,and wireless transmission achieves monitor hand gesture as well as sign-to-verbal translation.This approach provides an ideal strategy for deaf-mute communicating with normal people and broadens the application of wearable electronics.
基金supported by the Key Research and Development Program of Jiangsu Provincial Department of Science and Technology of China(Grant No.BE2019002)the High-Level Entrepreneurial and Innovative Talents Program of Jiangsu Province.
文摘Liquid metal represents a highly conductive and inherently deformable conductor for the development of stretchable electronics.The widespread implementations of liquid metal towards functional sensors and circuits are currently hindered by the lack of a facile and scalable patterning approach.In this study,we report a fully solution-based process to generate patterned features of the liquid metal conductor.The entire process is carried out under ambient conditions and is generally compatible with various elastomeric substrates.The as-prepared liquid metal feature exhibits high resolution(100μm),excellent electrical conductivity(4.15×10^(4)S cm^(−1)),ultrahigh stretchability(1000%tensile strain),and mechanical durability.The practical suitability is demonstrated by the heterogeneous integration of light-emitting diode(LED)chips with liquid metal interconnects for a stretchable and wearable LED array.The solution-based technique reported here is the enabler for the facile patterning of liquid metal features at low cost,which may find a broad range of applications in emerging fields of epidermal sensors,wearable heaters,advanced prosthetics,and soft robotics.
