Cutting-Edge Applications of Cellulose-Based Membranes in Drug and Organic Contaminant Removal: Recent Advances and Innovations.

The increasing environmental challenges caused by pharmaceutical waste, especially antibiotics and contaminants, necessitate sustainable solutions. Cellulose-based membranes are considered advanced tools and show great potential as effective materials for the removal of drugs and organic contaminants. This review introduces an environmentally friendly composite membrane for the elimination of antibiotics and dye contaminants from water and food, without the use of toxic additives.

Exploring the electrochemical performance of layered BiSe hexagonal platelets as the anode material for lithium-ion batteries.

The escalating need for lithium-ion batteries (LIBs), driven by their expanding range of applications in our daily lives, has led to a surge in interest in metal selenides as potential anode materials. Among them, BiSe stands out as a promising anode material for LIBs due to its unique layered structure. Herein, we explored hexagonally structured layered BiSe platelets synthesized using the solvothermal method.

Recent Development in Novel Lithium-Sulfur Nanofiber Separators: A Review of the Latest Fabrication and Performance Optimizations.

Lithium-Sulfur batteries (LSBs) are one of the most promising next-generation batteries to replace Li-ion batteries that power everything from small portable devices to large electric vehicles. LSBs boast a nearly five times higher theoretical capacity than Li-ion batteries due to sulfur's high theoretical capacity, and LSBs use abundant sulfur instead of rare metals as their cathodes. In order to make LSBs commercially viable, an LSB's separator must permit fast Li-ion diffusion while suppressing the migration of soluble lithium polysulfides (LiPSs).

Thickness-Insensitive Properties of α-MoO Nanosheets by Weak Interlayer Coupling.

van der Waals (vdW) materials have shown unique electrical and optical properties depending on the thickness due to strong interlayer interaction and symmetry breaking at the monolayer level. In contrast, the study of electrical and tribological properties and their thickness-insensitivity of van der Waals oxides are lacking due to difficulties in the fabrication of high quality two-dimensional oxides and the investigation of nanoscale properties. Here we investigated various tribological and electrical properties, such as, friction, adhesion, work function, tunnel current, and dielectric constant, of the single-crystal α-MoO nanosheets epitaxially grown on graphite by using atomic force microscopy.