A structural locking strategy via non-covalent interactions enables a copper iodide cluster scintillator with near-unity photoluminescence yield and exceptional water stability. Integrating this scintillator into a flexible matrix allows seamless conformal adaptation to complex three-dimensional surfaces. This water-driven adaptive platform eliminates interfacial air gaps, enabling high-fidelity X-ray imaging of intricate objects.
{"title":"Structural Locking Strategy in Copper(I) Iodide Cluster-Based Scintillator for High-Fidelity Conformal X-Ray Imaging","authors":"Xinyu Gao,Yongkang Zhu,Lifan Zeng,Tao Jiang,Ning Ding,Shujuan Liu,Qiang Zhao","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79117","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79117","url":null,"abstract":"A structural locking strategy via non-covalent interactions enables a copper iodide cluster scintillator with near-unity photoluminescence yield and exceptional water stability. Integrating this scintillator into a flexible matrix allows seamless conformal adaptation to complex three-dimensional surfaces. This water-driven adaptive platform eliminates interfacial air gaps, enabling high-fidelity X-ray imaging of intricate objects.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225966","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This work compares TiO2 nanosheets and nanoparticles as extreme-pressure additives in low-viscosity lubricants. Under normal load, nanosheets align directionally and compact into a hard, dense, continuous tribofilm, whereas nanoparticles yield a loose, discontinuous one. Enriched, highly active Fe within the nanosheet tribofilm drives tribochemical reactions, boosting hardness and load-bearing capacity.
{"title":"Morphology-Dictated Interfacial Stacking of TiO2 Nanosheets Delivers Robust Tribofilms under Extreme Pressure","authors":"Xinyan Wang,Feng Wei,Xue Xiao,Yijing Liang,Junping Jiao,Bin Li,Kangkang Wang,Xinhu Wu,Guichen Song,Xuzhi Hu,Rongsheng Cai","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79166","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79166","url":null,"abstract":"This work compares TiO2 nanosheets and nanoparticles as extreme-pressure additives in low-viscosity lubricants. Under normal load, nanosheets align directionally and compact into a hard, dense, continuous tribofilm, whereas nanoparticles yield a loose, discontinuous one. Enriched, highly active Fe within the nanosheet tribofilm drives tribochemical reactions, boosting hardness and load-bearing capacity.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"16 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225975","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A d-p orbital hybridization strategy is proposed to customize advanced interlayers, establishing a unique electronic-physical dual-shield for ultra-stable Zn anodes. By regulating orbital coupling to induce profound charge polarization and Zn2+ affinity while synergizing with intrinsic hydrophobicity, this customized UiO-66-F4 interphase empowers Zn anodes with an exceptional 3600 h lifespan and 560 h endurance under stringent 90% DOD.
{"title":"Customizing Electronic-Physical Dual-Shield Interlayers via d-p Orbital Hybridization for Ultra-Stable Zinc Metal Anodes","authors":"Xiaoxiao Deng,Huanyu Zhao,Ke Han,Hongxing Li,Jiaxin Li,Mong-Feng Chiou,Liangliang Zhang,Tianhua Zhou,Yi Zhao","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79159","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79159","url":null,"abstract":"A d-p orbital hybridization strategy is proposed to customize advanced interlayers, establishing a unique electronic-physical dual-shield for ultra-stable Zn anodes. By regulating orbital coupling to induce profound charge polarization and Zn2+ affinity while synergizing with intrinsic hydrophobicity, this customized UiO-66-F4 interphase empowers Zn anodes with an exceptional 3600 h lifespan and 560 h endurance under stringent 90% DOD.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"37 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225980","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
LiCl deficiency enhances lithium-ion transport and creates In-on-Li antisites that trap electrons in fluorinated chloride solid electrolytes. Electron localization suppresses indium reduction and the formation of conductive metal pathways, promoting a self-passivating interface with lithium metal. Coordinated control of ionic and electronic transport enables stable lithium plating and stripping for 2400 h at 1.0 mA cm−2.
{"title":"Electron Localization at In-on-Li Antisites Enables High-Current-Density Compatibility of Chloride Solid Electrolytes with Lithium Metal","authors":"Yaguang Zhang,Jieyun Zheng,Jianhong Zhang,Shiqi Yi,Qian He,Kang Li,Xuening Zhang,Zilong Wang,Hongyu Leng,Haijiao Xie,Jingjing Tang,Juan Yang,Xiangyang Zhou","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79174","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79174","url":null,"abstract":"LiCl deficiency enhances lithium-ion transport and creates In-on-Li antisites that trap electrons in fluorinated chloride solid electrolytes. Electron localization suppresses indium reduction and the formation of conductive metal pathways, promoting a self-passivating interface with lithium metal. Coordinated control of ionic and electronic transport enables stable lithium plating and stripping for 2400 h at 1.0 mA cm−2.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"2 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225983","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Folkert Isaäc Bernhard Straus,Herman Schreuders,Lars Johannes Bannenberg
Nanoconfined Ta-alloy thin films enable fast, reversible hydrogen sensing by suppressing unwanted phase transitions. A sensing layer delivers hysteresis-free detection from ppb to 100% at room temperature. Alloying and multilayer engineering provide high sensitivity, sub-second response, and long-term stability for next-generation hydrogen sensors.
{"title":"Tantalum–Palladium Ultrathin Resistance Hydrogen Sensor","authors":"Folkert Isaäc Bernhard Straus,Herman Schreuders,Lars Johannes Bannenberg","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79061","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79061","url":null,"abstract":"Nanoconfined Ta-alloy thin films enable fast, reversible hydrogen sensing by suppressing unwanted phase transitions. A sensing layer delivers hysteresis-free detection from ppb to 100% at room temperature. Alloying and multilayer engineering provide high sensitivity, sub-second response, and long-term stability for next-generation hydrogen sensors.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"12 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Huikun Liu,Zhixiao Yin,Shuai Wang,Yangzhou Ma,Hailiang Deng,Cuie Wen,Guangsheng Song
Silicon anodes in sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries undergo coupled interfacial reactions, interphase growth, transport heterogeneity, stress evolution, and contact loss. These processes collectively govern degradation under practical operating conditions. Understanding their chemo-mechanical coupling provides a basis for designing stable interfaces, preserving solid–solid contact, and enabling high-capacity, low-pressure operation.
{"title":"Interfacial Evolution, Failure Mechanisms, and Multiscale Stabilization Strategies for Silicon Anodes in Sulfide-Based All-Solid-State Batteries","authors":"Huikun Liu,Zhixiao Yin,Shuai Wang,Yangzhou Ma,Hailiang Deng,Cuie Wen,Guangsheng Song","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79164","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79164","url":null,"abstract":"Silicon anodes in sulfide-based all-solid-state batteries undergo coupled interfacial reactions, interphase growth, transport heterogeneity, stress evolution, and contact loss. These processes collectively govern degradation under practical operating conditions. Understanding their chemo-mechanical coupling provides a basis for designing stable interfaces, preserving solid–solid contact, and enabling high-capacity, low-pressure operation.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"15 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225968","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A novel double-perovskite-structured Cr-rich Cs2RbCrF6 with large interionic separation and non-concentration-quenching was firstly discovered, which enables a favorable balance between broadband Cr3+ NIR-I emission and multiple RE3+ characteristic NIR-II emissions (i.e., Yb3+, Nd3+, Er3+), thereby realizing genuinely wide-coverage NIR luminescence spanning 650-1600 nm.
{"title":"Balanced Cr3+ and RE3+ Luminescence in a Novel Non-Concentration-Quenching Cs2RbCrF6: High-Efficiency Wide-Coverage NIR Phosphors Toward Solvent Extraction Monitoring","authors":"Xixiang Pan,Songbin Liu,Shuyang Liu,Wanfang Zou,Yu Liao,Shuifu Liu,Fengli Yang,Chunpei Yan,Junjun Tan,Jiaqing Peng,Zhihua Xiong,Xinyu Ye","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79129","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79129","url":null,"abstract":"A novel double-perovskite-structured Cr-rich Cs2RbCrF6 with large interionic separation and non-concentration-quenching was firstly discovered, which enables a favorable balance between broadband Cr3+ NIR-I emission and multiple RE3+ characteristic NIR-II emissions (i.e., Yb3+, Nd3+, Er3+), thereby realizing genuinely wide-coverage NIR luminescence spanning 650-1600 nm.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"75 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225965","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Unlike conventional intermolecular donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks (COFs) assembled from independent donor and acceptor monomers, pre-embedded intramolecular donor–acceptor engineering covalently locks donor and acceptor units within a single building block. The resulting framework facilitates exciton conversion, utilization of photogenerated charge, and electron transfer to the platium (Pt) cocatalyst, enabling a 150-fold enhancement in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.
{"title":"Pre‑Embedded Intramolecular Donor–Acceptor Engineering in Isoreticular Covalent Organic Frameworks for Efficient Photocatalytic Hydrogen Evolution","authors":"Xiang-Hao Han,Shun-Feng Li,Ya Lu,Mengyao Su,Jun Lin,Meimei Zhang,Kian Ping Loh,Yubin Fu,Kai Leng","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79158","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79158","url":null,"abstract":"Unlike conventional intermolecular donor–acceptor covalent organic frameworks (COFs) assembled from independent donor and acceptor monomers, pre-embedded intramolecular donor–acceptor engineering covalently locks donor and acceptor units within a single building block. The resulting framework facilitates exciton conversion, utilization of photogenerated charge, and electron transfer to the platium (Pt) cocatalyst, enabling a 150-fold enhancement in photocatalytic hydrogen evolution.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"8 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225985","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Single-crystalline LaOCl and GdOCl form atomically abrupt, Cl-terminated interfaces with MoS2, enabling near-ideal switching and suppressed flicker noise. Carrier-number-fluctuation analysis yields effective noise-derived interface trap densities of 1.15–1.94 × 1010 cm−2 eV−1, approaching hexagonal boron nitride levels with high-κ coupling. Circuit sensitivity analysis indicates reduced oscillator and phase-locked-loop jitter and up to a 1.45-bit improvement in analog-to-digital converter effective resolution.
{"title":"Low-Flicker-Noise MoS2 Transistors Enabled by High-κ Rare-Earth Oxychlorides for Mixed-Signal Electronics","authors":"Chanho Lee,Changwoo Pyo,Seungchan Lee,Juho Son,Yoongi Cho,Jiho Shin,Sungmoon Park,Sungjin Kim,Changmin An,Heein Yoon,Myungsoo Kim","doi":"10.1002/adfm.79151","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1002/adfm.79151","url":null,"abstract":"Single-crystalline LaOCl and GdOCl form atomically abrupt, Cl-terminated interfaces with MoS2, enabling near-ideal switching and suppressed flicker noise. Carrier-number-fluctuation analysis yields effective noise-derived interface trap densities of 1.15–1.94 × 1010 cm−2 eV−1, approaching hexagonal boron nitride levels with high-κ coupling. Circuit sensitivity analysis indicates reduced oscillator and phase-locked-loop jitter and up to a 1.45-bit improvement in analog-to-digital converter effective resolution.","PeriodicalId":112,"journal":{"name":"Advanced Functional Materials","volume":"43 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":19.0,"publicationDate":"2026-10-21","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"149225977","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"材料科学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}