Applied research and recent advances in the development of flexible sensing hydrogels from cellulose: A review.

Flexible wearable smart sensing materials have gained immense momentum, and biomass-based hydrogel sensors for renewable and biologically safe wearable sensors have attracted significant attention in order to meet the growing demand for sustainability and ecological friendliness. Cellulose has been widely used in the field of biomass-based hydrogel sensing materials, being the most abundant biomass material in nature. This review mainly focuses on the types of cellulose hydrogels, the preparation methods and their applications in smart flexible sensing materials.

Metal organic complexes as an artificial solid-electrolyte interface with Zn-ion transfer promotion for long-life zinc metal batteries.

Metal organic complexes as an artificial solid-electrolyte interface (MOC-SEI) have been generated coordinative polymerization between Zn and organic ligand molecules. Compared to conventional anodes, the MOC-SEI coated anode significantly prolongs the lifespan from 100 h to 1450 h for the Zn||Zn symmetrical cells and increases the reversible capacity up to 160 mA h g after 1100 cycles for the Zn||VO full-cells.

From dendritic mesoporous silica microspheres to waxberry-like hierarchical hollow carbon spheres: rational design of carbon host for lithium sulfur batteries.

Fabricating sulfur host for the cathode with strong confinement effect and high dispersion of sulfur is vitally important to the development of high-performance lithium sulfur batteries. Benefiting from their unique and tunable structure, good conductivity and chemical inertness, hollow porous carbon materials has been considered as a promising candidate. Herein, precisely designed waxberry-like hierarchical hollow carbon spheres (h-CNS) have been synthesized as the sulfur micro-containers for lithium sulfur batteries.