Regulation of heterogeneous electron transfer reactivity by defect engineering through electrochemically induced brominating addition.

Enhancing the electrochemical activity of graphene holds great significance for expanding its applications in various electrochemistry fields. In this study, we have demonstrated a facile and quantitative approach for modulating the defect density of single-layer graphene (SLG) an electrochemically induced bromination process facilitated by cyclic voltammetry. This controlled defect engineering directly impacts the heterogeneous electron transfer (HET) rate of SLG.

Double hydrogen-bonding pH-sensitive hydrogels retaining high-strengths over a wide pH range.

Traditional pH-sensitive hydrogels inevitably suffer strength deterioration while the responsive weak acid or base groups are in the ionized state. In this study, we report on a facile approach to fabricate a novel pH-sensitive high-strength hydrogel from copolymerization of two hydrogen-bonding motif-containing monomers, 3-acrylamidophenylboronic acid and 2-vinyl-4,6-diamino-1,3,5-triazine with a crosslinker N,N-methylenebisacrylamide through hydrophilic optimization of the comonomer oligo(ethylene glycol) methacrylate. The double hydrogen bonding hydrogel exhibits both high tensile and compressive strengths over a broad pH range due to the unique ability to maintain at least one type of hydrogen-bonding crosslink over the whole course of pH change.