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Public comments sought on draft bye-laws of banner regulation norms




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Admission panel publishes provisional allotment list for professional courses




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NGT stays public hearings in Puducherry on revised coastal zone maps




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231 more fishermen eligible to get compensation for livelihood loss in Yanam




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Police arrest six persons, execute three non-bailable warrants during surprise raid in Puducherry

Security proceedings were initiated against 46 persons for likelihood of breach of public safety during operation Trishul, a special drive against anti-social elements in Puducherry




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Download 1,600+ Publications from the Metropolitan Museum of Art: Books, Guides, Magazines & More

Many of us in these past few generations first heard of the Metropolitan Museum of Art while reading E. L. Konigsburg’s novel From the Mixed-Up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler. More than a few of us also fantasized about running away to live in that vast cultural institution like the book’s young protagonists Claudia and […]




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Behold the Oldest Written Text in the World: The Kish Tablet, Circa 3500 BC

Image by José-Manuel Benito, via Wikimedia Commons Some refer to the written Chinese language as ideographic: that is, structured according to a system in which each symbol represents a particular idea or concept, whether abstract or concrete. That’s true of certain Chinese characters, but only a small minority. Most of them are actually logographs, each […]




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How Upside-Down Models Revolutionized Architecture, Making Possible St. Paul’s Cathedral, Sagrada Família & More

For 142 years now, Sagrada Família has been growing toward the sky. Or at least that’s what it seems to be doing, as its ongoing construction realizes ever more fully a host of forms that look and feel not quite of this earth. It makes a kind of sense to learn that, in designing the […]




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Lightweight flexible self-powered photo-supercapacitors with good stability through photoelectrochemical deposition of tellurium on PPy–V2O5 films as a new visible light active dual photoelectrode

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03090G, Paper
Mohamad Mohsen Momeni, Hossein Mohammadzadeh Aydisheh, Byeong-Kyu Lee, Ali Naderi
Lightweight flexible solid-state photosupercapacitors (FSSPC) with two identical Te@PPy–V2O5 photoelectrodes showed good performance and maintained functionality under different bending angles. They also demonstrated stability from −10 °C to 50 °C.
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An efficient and stable deep-blue oxygen-bridged triphenylborane-based fluorophore with hybridized local and charge-transfer states

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17475-17481
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03114H, Paper
Jichen Lv, Jie Li, Shengnan Wang, Haoran Shen, Lifen Xia, Yuchao Liu, Shanfeng Xue, Dongge Ma, Shian Ying, Shouke Yan
A multifunctional deep-blue HLCT fluorophore with remarkable performance was developed by incorporating a boron/oxygen-based multi-resonance skeleton.
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Efficient and easily repeatable organic solar cells in a high boiling point solvent by introducing a highly mixed tolerant guest acceptor

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17403-17410
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03192J, Paper
Open Access
Xiangyu Shen, Xiaoning Wang, Jianxiao Wang, Rulin Wang, Yonghai Li, Fuzhen Bi, Xichang Bao
Efficient and easily repeatable organic solar cells were fabricated based on a highly mixed tolerant acceptor in a high boiling point solvent.
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An advanced self-powered visible-light photodetector based on the asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 junction

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17395-17402
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03510K, Paper
Zairan Liu, Gang Cao, Zhaozhi Guan, Yan Tian, Jidong Liu, Jun Chen, Shaozhi Deng, Fei Liu
An asymmetric Au/CsPbBr3/SmB6 self-powered photodetector exhibits greatly enhanced visible-light photosensitive performances with the help of an interfacial built-in field.
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Visible light mediated efficient photoswitching of dimethyldihydropyrenes in thin films for all-photonic logic gate applications and dynamic encryption/decryption capabilities

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17511-17518
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03321C, Paper
Sariful Molla, Subhajit Bandyopadhyay
Dimethyldihydropyrene (DHP) photoswitches exhibit visible light-induced ring-opening photoisomerization, reversed by UV/visible light or heat in thin films.
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Design of lithium disilicate glass-ceramic based highly thermally stable LuAG:Ce PiG green converter for dynamic laser illumination

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17533-17543
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03186E, Paper
Yusai Xu, Qianxiong Wen, Xidong Wang, Cong Zhao, Enrou Mei, Meilin Fu, Tengfei Tian, Xiaojuan Liang, Wenxia Gao, Weidong Xiang
In this study, a novel lithium disilicate glass-ceramic was developed as a glass matrix for a highly thermally stable LuAG:Ce PiG green converter, enabling efficient dynamic laser illumination.
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In situ preparation of highly luminescent Sb3+/Mn2+ co-doped Cs2KInCl6 lead-free double perovskites in a PVDF matrix and application to white light emitting diodes and anti-counterfeiting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17458-17468
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03527E, Paper
Yongrun Dong, Wen Li, Tao Huang, Shuaigang Ge, Linghang Kong, Chuang Ning, Zequan Li, Wei Gao, Bingsuo Zou
A strategy for in situ preparation of lead-free double perovskite-based polymer composite film with large area and high efficiency white light emission and its applications.
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Fabrication of effect pigments with full visible photonic crystal colors via the shear-induced assembly of multinary colloidal nanoparticles

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17695-17703
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02761B, Paper
Qilin Guo, Huateng Li, Xiuli Wang, Changchun Wang
An efficient shear-induced co-assembly strategy is provided for creating full-spectrum tunable structural color materials and complex photonic nanostructures by handily manipulating varied relative ratios of multinary colloidal nanoparticles.
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In situ construction of surface oxygen vacancies on N/TiO2 for promoting visible light photocatalytic H2 evolution

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17500-17510
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03098B, Paper
Yuandong Shen, Nan Yang, Ke Wang, Bin Xiao, Yijun He, Zhishi Qiu, Tong Zhou, Weijie Zhan, Rui Hu, Genlin Zhang, Jin Zhang, Zhongqi Zhu, Feng Liu, Hao Cui, Qingju Liu
A simple method of mixed sintering of thiourea and NH2-MIL-125(Ti) is adopted to obtain N-doped TiO2 with abundant surface OV, which significantly improves the photocatalytic performance of TiO2 under visible light.
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One-pot and large-scale production of uniform ytterbium-doped perovskite nanocrystals with controllable optical properties

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17647-17657
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03364G, Paper
Jing Chu, Linxuan Zhang, Quanjie Lv, Yijun Han, Kang Sun, Ke Tao
Monodispersed Yb3+:CsPbCl3 nanocrystals with tunable optical properties were synthesized via a scalable one-pot method. The mechanism of size evolution based on digestive ripening was proposed.
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Additive-induced intermolecular interaction enhancement enables highly efficient organic solar cells

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17668-17675
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03277B, Paper
Chen Chen, Dingqin Hu, Peihao Huang, Chun Hong Mak, Heng Liu, Hongliang Lei, Xue Jiang, Yulu Li, Fengyi Yu, Kaihuai Tu, Hsien-Yi Hsu, Xinhui Lu, Haiyan Chen, Zeyun Xiao
We developed a pyridine-based solvent additive targeting the acceptor moiety. This additive fine-tunes the aggregation, crystallinity, and stacking of the active layer through stronger non-covalent interactions with the acceptor.
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n-Type redox-tuneable conducting polymer optical nanoantennas

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17469-17474
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03038A, Paper
Open Access
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Suraya Kazi, Pravallika Bandaru, Haoran Tang, Yulong Duan, Shangzhi Chen, Fei Huang, Magnus P. Jonsson
We show that the n-type conducting polymer PBFDO can be optically metallic for wavelengths above around 695 nm after post-treatment, and that nanostructures of the material can act as optical nanoantennas that are dynamically switchable.
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New insight into π–π interactions: realization of full color emission from blue to red under hydrostatic pressure without exogenous intramolecular charge transfer

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, 12,17377-17385
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03810J, Communication
Aisen Li, Jiaqiang Wang, Changjiang Bi, Zirun Chen, Shuping Xu, Kai Wang, Jinfeng Wang, Zhen Li
A new strategy to disclose the relationship between π–π stacking without exogenous ICT and photophysical properties was propounded through the construction of smart piezochromic materials with a discrete π–π dimer and high-pressure technique.
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Hybrid nano-microstructured and bioinspired conductive hydrogels with tunable multifunctionality

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04064C, Paper
Manting Wang, Jiaqi Zhang, Yaoyi Guo, Xiaoyong Zhou, Jie-Xin Wang, Yuan Le
A conductive hydrogel with enhanced mechanical properties and excellent multifunctionality is fabricated by facile direct in situ polymerization. This hydrogel can serve as a wearable strain sensor precisely detecting relative resistance changes.
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Improving electromagnetic engineering of thermal conductive composites by establishing continuous thermal conductive networks with gradient impedance

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03974B, Paper
Dong An, Hongfeng Chen, Huitao Yu, Jiaqi Chen, Junru Yao, Chingping Wong, Wei Feng
Mechanism schematic of the EM wave absorption and thermal conduction of composites.
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Construction of oxygen-rich vacancy Bi3O4Br: Yb3+, Er3+ nanosheet for enhanced Photoreversible color switching and upconversion luminescence

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03981E, Paper
Xueting Zhao, Junhao Ma, Jindan Zha, Kuisui Huang, Chenghui Chai, Zhaoyi Yin, Zhiguo Song, Jianbei Qiu, Yongjin Li
Traditional inorganic photoreversible color-switching materials (PCSMs) usually exhibit slow color switching and single color switching characteristics, which severely restrict their use in information storage, anti-counterfeiting, and other applications. Herein, we...
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Pressure-Induced Tunable Emission Colors and Irreversible Bandgap Narrowing in Organic–Inorganic Manganese Bromide Hybrid

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03814B, Paper
Ruijing Fu, Junpeng Gao, Pinsen Zhang, Lingrui Wang, Bo Wang, Guangxia Wang, Xiaoshuang Li, youchao Kong, Qingguang Zeng, Guanjun Xiao
Manganese (Mn)-based organic-inorganic metal halides (OIMHs) are extensively employed in various optical applications due to their non-toxicity, superior optical properties, and tunable emission advantages. Developing effective strategies to enhance the...
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Wearable self-powered intelligent textile with optical–electrical dual-mode functionality for pressure distribution detection and remote intelligent control

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03728F, Paper
Junhuan Li, Zhen Tian, Li Su, Yilong Yang, Chang Ding, Chen Wang, Ming Sun, Yong Zhao
A novel WSIT based on TIEL and single-electrode TENG is developed with self-powered optical–electrical dual-mode sensing functionality, which may be widely applicable in fields like intelligent robots, augmented reality, and smart homes.
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Has the perovskite LED stability problem been solved?

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02975E, Perspective
Muhammad Umair Ali, Atta Ur Rehman, Aleksandra B. Djurišić
T 50 lifetimes of green PeLEDs reported in the literature vary widely even for very efficient devices. Standardization of stability testing and prolonged testing time instead of T50 estimates from accelerated testing is needed for consistent progress.
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Silver-incorporated NiCo metal–organic frameworks with controlled morphology for enhanced cycling in flexible supercapacitor applications

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC02970D, Paper
Chu Chu, Wenjing Zhang, Xuehua Yan, Yingnan Yan, Jianmei Pan, Zohreh Shahnavaz, Jamile Mohammadi Moradian
The specific capacitance of NCA15-MOF/NF was 1317 F g−1, which was significantly higher compared to the NCA0-MOF/NF. After 15 000 charge–discharge cycles, the NCA15-MOF/NF retained 89% of its initial specific capacitance.
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An E/Z isomer strategy of photosensitizers with tunable generation processes of reactive oxygen species

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03028A, Paper
Xiaochun Liu, Hairong Li, Hui Tang, Ning Ma, Shiyu Wu, Wenbo Dai, Yahui Zhang, Xiaoqi Yu
An E/Z isomer strategy was designed to precisely regulate the type of ROS and enable tumor imaging and PDT.
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Fast synthesis of nickel phosphide nanosheets for ultra-stable hydrogen evolution in seawater splitting

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03004D, Paper
Weiwu Chen, Feng Lin, Chong Wang, Zhiming M. Wang, Zhaojun Qin
The short synthesis time, great catalytic activity, and ultra-long-term stability make Co–Ni5P4-5m a suitable candidate in actual applications of seawater splitting for hydrogen.
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A metal–organic framework enhanced single network organohydrogel with superior low-temperature adaptability and UV-blocking capability towards human-motion sensing

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03148B, Paper
Ying Li, Zhongquan Yu, Jialuo Zhang, Enke Feng, Xiaoqin Li, Linan Cao, Zhiming Yang, Zhiqiang Wu
A UiO-66-NH2 nanoparticle reinforced organohydrogel with anti-freezing and UV-blocking properties was synthesized for sensing complex human movements and transmitting different messages even at subzero temperature.
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Modifying the liquid crystalline chessboard tiling - Soft reticular self-assembly of side-chain fluorinated polyphiles

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04076G, Paper
Open Access
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Christian Anders, Virginia-Marie Fischer, Tianyi Tan, Mohamed Alaasar, Rebecca Waldecker, Yubin Ke, Yu Cao, Feng Liu, Carsten Tschierske
Development of new functional materials requires the understanding of the fundamental rules of complex superstructure formation in self-assembling systems. Here we report new liquid crystalline honeycombs based on reticular self-assembly...
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Solidifying the role of hydrogen bonds in conjugated polymers for wearable electronics

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03666B, Perspective
Open Access
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Megan M. Westwood, Bob C. Schroeder
The functionalisation of conjugated polymers with hydrogen bonding motifs, to impart self-healing or stretchability for wearable electronic applications. Through refinement of characterization techniques in recent years, the effect of these...
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A novel deep-blue fluorescent emitter employed as an identical exciplex acceptor for solution-processed multi-color OLEDs

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04073B, Paper
Jie Pan, Shiyue Zhang, Zhongxin Zhou, Yongtao Zhao, Shujing Jin, Yanju Luo, Weiguo Zhu, Yu Liu
Currently, exciplex-type thermally activated delayed fluorescence (TADF) materials are emerging as a promising strategy for optimizing organic light-emitting devices (OLEDs). However, achieving highly efficient multi-color OLEDs based on exciplexes remains...
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Modification of mixed-halide quasi-2D perovskites by aminophylline towards efficient and spectrally stable blue light-emitting diodes with low efficiency roll-off

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04214J, Paper
Xingxing Duan, Bufan Yu, Guangrong Jin, Dengliang Zhang, Jiangshan Chen, Dongge Ma
Aminophylline modification enables mixed-halide blue quasi-2D perovskite LEDs to achieve low efficiency roll-off and excellent spectral stability.
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Role of Br–Cl distribution uniformity on the spectral stability of blue emitting mixed-halide perovskites

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC03780D, Paper
Dan Chen, Yu Mao, Xianglan Huang, Jichen Zhao, Zhiyuan Zhang, Jian Wang, Junbiao Peng
Our findings show that the spectral stability of the quasi-2D perovskite system is mainly affected by the uniformity of the Br–Cl distribution, rather than defects.
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Highly efficient, ultra-stable multi-interlayer luminescent solar concentrators based on green and red-emitting perovskite nanocrystal composites

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Accepted Manuscript
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04167D, Paper
Changwen Li, Yuxin Gao, Zhiqiang Ren, Shoujun Xiong, Changwei Li, Jun Wu, Jinhua Li, Xianbao Wang, Jianying Wang
Perovskite nanocrystals (NCs) based LSCs suffer from complex preparation processes, relatively low efficiency, and limited stability. To address this issue, using silica aerogels (AGs) as template materials, green-emitting Zn2+-doped Zn-CsPbBr3@SiO2...
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High-performance solar-blind imaging photodetectors based on micrometer-thick β-Ga2O3 films grown by thermal oxidation of gallium

J. Mater. Chem. C, 2024, Advance Article
DOI: 10.1039/D4TC04116J, Paper
Haitao Zhou, Hongbin Wang, Jiangang Ma, Bingsheng Li, Haiyang Xu, Yichun Liu
A preparation method for micrometer-sized β-Ga2O3 films was developed. The MSM device has a responsivity greater than 1.7 A W−1 and has good solar-blind ultraviolet imaging performance.
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Crisil forecasts bleak revival prospects for 21 GW stressed assets in power sector

‘Consolidation to be slow despite remedial measures'




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Heartbleed exploit tl;dr

OpenSSL had a bug for several years which allowed attackers to untraceably read all your SSL traffic and some server memory. If you’re like me and have better things to do than reinvent the fix-wheel and you’re all like “WTFBBQ TL;DR” here’s the absolute minimum what anyone who runs a web server with SSL must […]




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Affordable swine flu vaccine that never made it




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Visible change in health indicators, says Nadda



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Ebola transmission from dead patients possible



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40 new drug stores granted licence to sell Tamiflu tablets in Delhi




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Malaria: people with blood group A more vulnerable to severe disease




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HC issues notice to Delhi government on chewable tobacco ban

Court says no action against sellers till the next date of hearing on May 20, 2015.




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The Lancet turns spotlight on ending preventable stillbirths

India continues to be at the top of the table in the rank for number of stillbirths in 2015, recording 5,92,100, followed by Nigeria, Pakistan, China and Ethiopia.



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Blood pressure fluctuations may cause brain function decline: study



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Personal and public choices eroding health

The surge in NCDs in India stems as much from today’s hectic lifestyle as from unplanned urban development.




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PEDOT-based stretchable optoelectronic materials and devices for bioelectronic interfaces

Chem. Soc. Rev., 2024, 53,10575-10603
DOI: 10.1039/D4CS00541D, Review Article
Weizhen Li, Yiming Li, Ziyu Song, Yi-Xuan Wang, Wenping Hu
This review summarized the strategies and mechanisms for improving the conductivity, mechanical properties and stability of PEDOT:PSS, as well as the reliable micropatterning technologies and optoelectronic devices applied at bio-interfaces.
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