The use of 1H-indole-3-carbohydrazide in perovskite solar cells has successfully alleviated the major obstacle of defect-induced nonradiative recombination, leading to improved stability and power conversion efficiency. This additive achieves a critical balance between high performance and long-term durability.
Researchers successfully fabricated W,Cr co-doped 0.3Na0.5Bi2.5Nb2O9-0.7Bi3TiNbO9 ceramics, elevating piezoelectric constant to 20.3 pC/N and resistivity to 7.3×10^7 Ω·cm. This is attributed to the incorporation of W/Cr ions disrupting the crystal lattice and generating stable domain structures.
A novel FeNi-MOF-derived catalyst resists dissolution under extreme conditions, achieving record-breaking performance in oxygen evolution reaction. The catalyst's stability is attributed to the ligand effect of BPDC, which enriches electron density around Fe atoms and strengthens metal-oxygen bonds.
Researchers developed a VIV-TENG that utilizes vortex-induced vibration to generate electricity from airflow, achieving stable output under multidirectional airflow and maintaining performance in humid environments. The device can harness low-speed wind energy and power small electronic devices.
A new thermal barrier coating system features a dense eutectic core-shell structure that enhances CMAS resistance via dynamic sealing and self-removal. The coating combines a mechanically robust, deformable Zr-Ta-O top layer with a traditional YSZ underlayer.
Researchers developed a novel ultra-high-temperature, highly insulating, and corrosion-resistant TBC material using first-principles calculations. The material exhibits excellent mechanical and thermophysical properties, including low thermal conductivity, high coefficient of thermal expansion, and excellent toughness.
The 2026 Carbon Future Young Investigator Award honors 10 recipients for their exceptional research potential and innovative capabilities in carbon-related science and technology fields. The award also acknowledges 30 Honorable Mention Award recipients, who have demonstrated significant contributions to their respective research areas.
Researchers have synthesized a heptanary medium-entropy alloy via chemical vapor deposition for high-performance infrared photodetectors. The material has shown remarkable enhancements in both electrical and optoelectronic performance, outperforming previously reported devices.
Researchers developed a novel composite material, Co@CNTs-800, to overcome limitations of existing catalysts. The system efficiently degrades high-concentration Rhodamine B in four minutes, maintaining performance across broad pH ranges and interfering substances.
Researchers developed a novel Ti-xCr1-xN solid-solution catalyst that efficiently traps and rapidly converts polysulfides, addressing key barriers to Li-S battery technology. The material delivers high specific capacity and maintains 93% of its capacity after 600 cycles.
Researchers propose a multicomponent B-site strategy to induce lattice distortion and promote ferroelectric domain growth. This leads to the concurrent enhancement of multiple key parameters, including piezoelectric coefficient (d33), Curie temperature (Tc), electromechanical coupling coefficient (kp) and dielectric loss (tan δ).
A new ceramic material is designed to overcome the performance limitations of pure Mg2Al4Si5O18 ceramics through phonon engineering and bandgap engineering. The optimized sample achieves high emissivity in atmospheric transparent windows, resulting in a maximum temperature reduction of 16.5 °C.
Researchers have developed methods to control negative thermal expansion in 2D materials, enabling the creation of ultra-stable nanoelectronic devices and precision instruments. By tuning the thermal expansion coefficient, engineers can create materials with near-zero thermal expansion, solving thermal mismatch problems.
Researchers developed strongly polarizable nanodomains in lead-free Bi0.5Na0.5TiO3-based ceramics, achieving a record-high energy storage density of 6.11 J/cm³ and an impressive efficiency of 86% at moderate electric fields. The optimized composition uniquely achieves both high energy storage performance and efficiency.
Researchers developed a new approach to multi-ion co-doping, introducing A-site and B-site doping strategies to create a synergistic effect. The material achieved high energy storage density and low breakdown strength, making it promising for pulse power applications.
A team of materials scientists developed novel microstructures to enhance the properties of silicon nitride ceramics. The study reveals that a twisted intergrowth mechanism promotes high strength and toughness by reducing grain coarsening and improving phase transformation.
Researchers proposed a dynamically expandable learning framework for interactive trajectory prediction to enable models to adapt to evolving traffic environments. The approach effectively mitigates catastrophic forgetting and maintains stable predictions for critical interaction scenarios across multiple learning stages.
Researchers developed a novel approach to personalize travel behavior analysis without centralizing sensitive user data. The IPC-FM framework achieves high accuracy and adapts quickly to new users, offering a customizable solution for individual mobility needs.
A new study developed a multi-scale dynamic driving environment to assess the impact of daily driving behavior on electric vehicle battery health. The framework uses deep reinforcement learning to optimize battery health and energy efficiency, and its results show that stable driving behavior can extend battery lifetime by approximatel...
Researchers propose a novel latency-aware trajectory prediction framework, LatenAux, empowered by a consolidated auxiliary learning paradigm. The framework transforms latency from a hindrance into an opportunity for improved performance. Extensive experiments validate its effectiveness and superiority.
KEPT, an AI system, combines video understanding with a memory of similar past scenes to help self-driving cars predict their own short-term path more safely. The system uses a fast and lightweight retrieval module to reduce prediction errors and potential collisions.
A new artificial intelligence framework called SS-MA-PPO treats mandatory lane-change control as a coordinated multi-agent problem, enabling CAVs to effectively coordinate with surrounding vehicles. The framework consistently delivered the best performance in terms of delay, waiting time, fuel consumption, and stop-and-go frequency.
A new deep learning framework has been developed to improve the accuracy of vehicle re-identification in large-scale drone-based traffic monitoring. By integrating visual and temporal information, the approach delivers significant improvements over traditional vision-only methods.
Researchers propose TrafficPerceiver, a unified multimodal framework that supports coarse-grained scene understanding tasks and fine-grained target-oriented segmentation tasks. The method achieves superior performance on the CTSU dataset, demonstrating its potential for building robust traffic perception systems.
Researchers developed a modular, edge-intelligent framework called mOS to address limitations of existing V2X-based systems. The study demonstrates the feasibility of MR-integrated infrastructure intelligence and offers a scalable pathway for deploying AV coordination systems.
The study found that regulated facilities in Saitama reduced heavy oil use, but increased electricity consumption. Despite concerns over negative impacts on employment, the research discovered a statistically significant positive effect of 5.67% employee growth in the second compliance period.
Researchers studied black ghost knifefish's anal fin morphology and kinematics to develop a more efficient and maneuverable underwater robot propulsion system. The study found that the fish achieves exceptional agility using undulations of its anal fin, generating traveling waves to produce thrust without body bending.
Researchers developed a high-performance catalyst using abundant materials, exhibiting superior oxygen evolution activity and remarkable stability. The novel design paradigm, achieved through heterojunction-doping synergy, positions it as a viable alternative to iridium-based catalysts.
Researchers used theoretical modelling to explore graphene's interaction with TiO2, finding that defects lead to strong covalent bonds and hybridised electronic states. This enables efficient charge transfer and reduces electron-hole recombination, boosting photocatalytic performance.
Researchers have developed chloride-modified bismuth nanosheets that accelerate the reduction of carbon dioxide to formate with near 100% efficiency. The modified nanosheets exhibit high formate Faradaic Efficiency and long-term stability, making them a promising catalyst for CO2 reduction.
Researchers have developed AlN-YAG:Ce composite phosphor ceramics that achieve a synergistic optimization of thermal conductivity and luminescent properties. The 10 vol.% AlN-YAG:Ce CPCs showed a high luminous efficiency of 200.1 lm·W−1 and a favorable correlated color temperature under blue LD excitation, demonstrating the practical f...
A new review provides a decision-making framework for carbon capture and utilization (CCU) deployment in power plants. The framework respects operational, regulatory, and cultural boundaries while unlocking economic potential of CO2 conversion.
Researchers at Zhejiang Normal University developed a new Eu2+-doped glass with excellent X-ray excited luminescence (XEL) and efficient blue-cyan photoluminescence. The glass achieves record-breaking XEL intensity, high transmittance, and excellent radiation stability, making it suitable for X-ray imaging and white LED applications.
Researchers have developed field-assisted sintering technologies to overcome traditional sintering challenges. These methods achieve full densification with high-quality microstructures, resulting in record-breaking flexural strength and exceptional properties.
Carbonsphere is an open-access, peer-reviewed journal dedicated to carbon science, technology, and policy. The journal aims to foster evidence, tools, and solutions for a just and sustainable net-zero future by linking natural sciences, social sciences, and humanities.
A new composite powder design strategy enables the 3D printing of lithium disilicate glass-ceramics with improved precision, strength, and antibacterial properties. The material achieves a three-point flexural strength of 297.28 MPa and superior mechanical properties.
Health Engineering combines engineering principles with life sciences to address pressing global health challenges, focusing on prevention, precision intervention, and long-term health maintenance. The journal publishes interdisciplinary research across various fields, including biomaterials, synthetic biology, and precision medicine.
Research team develops novel 3D-porous piezoceramic material with high d33 and reduced dielectric constant, achieving 14-fold enhancement in g33. The material exhibits outstanding sensing capability, including high output voltages and sensitivity.
Researchers have identified BCMA as a key switch maintaining harmful IgA-producing plasma cells in IgA nephropathy. A proof-of-concept study using BCMA-targeted therapy showed a deep reduction in serum IgA levels in cynomolgus monkeys, providing a robust scientific rationale for repurposing BCMA-directed treatments for IgAN.
The latest English volumes in the Handbook of Construction Machinery series have been launched, featuring Chinese expertise in port, piling, concrete, and environmental sanitation machinery. The series, spanning 21 volumes and 20 million Chinese characters, provides a comprehensive overview of China's construction machinery sector.
Researchers developed novel tantalate high-entropy ceramics coatings that surpassed 1500 °C thermal barrier performance. The coatings showed excellent structural integrity and stable fluorite crystal structure under rigorous thermal measurements.
A research team developed a machine learning accelerated design strategy to screen optimal BaTiO3-based high-entropy ceramic compositions, achieving ultrahigh energy storage performance and high efficiency. The designed ceramic exhibits excellent environmental stability and pulsed charge-discharge performance, paving the way for practi...
Researchers developed lead-free relaxor ferroelectric ceramics with enhanced energy storage and ultrafast discharge capabilities. The high-entropy approach and bandgap engineering enabled grain refinement, increased resistivity, and a broader bandgap, contributing to a significantly enhanced breakdown electric field.
Researchers developed an undercoordinated chromium single-atom catalyst that enhances sulfur electrocatalytic activity and lithium-sulfur battery performance. The unique design regulates electronic states, increasing sulfur electrocatalytic activity and achieving outstanding cycling stability and rate capability.
Researchers propose Mo6+ doping to stabilize LNO cathodes under deep delithiation conditions through grain boundary strengthening. The strategy addresses mechanical degradation and enhances electrochemical stability.
A Ru-based porphyrin covalent organic framework catalyst enhances the epoxidation of inert olefins by air, producing high-value epoxides. The catalyst activates benzylic C-H bonds to generate peroxy species, regulating oxygen transfer for selective epoxidation.
Researchers at Tsinghua University Press have developed a novel nanodrop therapy to treat corneal neovascularization, a condition where new blood vessels grow on the cornea. The therapy, which is non-invasive and can be administered via eyedrops, has shown promising results in animal models and could pave the way for clinical translation.
Mn-doped MoS2-based nano-cored-yarn electrodes exhibit high capacitance and conductivity, leading to improved energy storage performance. The electrodes achieve a maximum energy density of 13.84 mWh/cm² and maximum power density of 5866.85 mW/cm².
A thermally-responsive lubricant infused surface (TLIS) was developed to resist mineral scaling under temperature change and water flushing conditions. The TLIS achieved descaling efficiencies of 91.4% in the first cycle, even after multi-cycles, making it a durable solution for thermal and fluid systems.
Researchers developed a novel doping strategy using Sb and Ni to optimize GeTe's electronic band structure and thermal conductivity. This approach yielded exceptional thermoelectric performance by enhancing power factor and suppressing thermal conductivity, achieving a peak ZT of 2.15 at 773 K.