This study reports a facile delignification and natural drying process for synthesizing cellulose films using the unique surface roughness, porosity, and lightness of the hollow stellate cellulose (HSC) united aerenchyma of the wetland weed Juncus effusus L. By controlling the grafted amino/fluorine‐bearing group content of various silane coupling agents, this work successfully manipulates the triboelectric polarities of HSC films after silanization. Subsequently, a layer of Ag nanowire electrodes is coated on one side of the silanized HSC friction layers, resulting in flexible, lightweight, semi‐transparent HSC‐based triboelectric nanogenerators (HSC‐TENGs) featuring both macro‐scale surface roughness and micro‐nano inner pores. These all‐in‐one HSC‐TENGs achieve the highest output voltage of 4.86 V, which is 28 times that of TENGs employing two pristine HSC films as triboelectric layers (PHSC‐TENG). Finally, the HSC‐TENG with the optimum output power is applied as a wearable self‐powered sensor for gait analysis, demonstrating stable and sustainable performances in distinguishing different body motions such as walking, running, jumping, and calf raising. This study not only proposes a new cellulose‐based TENG for future in‐depth body locomotion analysis but also paves the way for converting differently structured aerenchyma from abundant problematic aquatic or wetland weeds into promising structural templates in multifunctional cellulose‐based applications.
Halloysite nanotubes decorated with poly(N-isopropylacrylamide) brushes exhibit temperature-responsive drug release behavior and accumulate in the lysosomes of HeLa cells.
In organic solar cells, the interfaces between the photoactive layer and the transport layers are critical in determining not only the efficiency but also their stability. When solution‐processed metal oxides are employed as the electron transport layer, the presence of surface defects can downgrade the charge extraction, lowering the photovoltaic parameters. Thus, understanding the origin of these defects is essential to prevent their detrimental effects. Herein, it is shown that a widely reported and commercially available colloidal SnO2 dispersion leads to suboptimal interfaces with the organic layer, as evidenced by the s‐shaped J–V curves and poor stability. By investigating the SnO2 surface chemistry, the presence of potassium ions as stabilizing ligands is identified. By removing them with a simple washing with deionized water, the s‐shape is removed and the short‐circuit current is improved. It is tested for two prototypical blends, TPD‐3F:IT‐4F and PM6:L8:BO, and for both the power conversion efficiency is improved up to 12.82% and 16.26%, from 11.06% and 15.17% obtained with the pristine SnO2, respectively. More strikingly, the stability is strongly correlated with the surface ions concentration, and these improved devices maintain ≈87% and ≈85% of their initial efficiency after 100 h of illumination for TPD‐3F:IT‐4F and PM6:L8:BO, respectively.
Copper complexed polyhedral oligomeric silsesquioxane pillared smectite clay (Cu 2+ @POSS_SWy-2) exhibits excellent adsorption properties for chloridazon and its metabolites.
In this work, we report the green production of few-layer bio-Graphene (bG) through liquid exfoliation of graphite in the presence of bovine serum albumin. Microscopic characterization evaluated the quality of the produced nanomaterial, showing the presence of 3–4-layer graphene. Moreover, spectroscopic techniques also confirmed the quality of the resulted bG, as well as the presence of bovine serum albumin on the graphene sheets. Next, for the first time, bG was used as support for the simultaneous covalent co-immobilization of three enzymes, namely β-glucosidase, glucose oxidase, and horseradish peroxidase. The three enzymes were efficiently co-immobilized on bG, demonstrating high immobilization yields and activity recoveries (up to 98.5 and 90%, respectively). Co-immobilization on bG led to an increase of apparent KM values and a decrease of apparent Vmax values, while the stability of the nanobiocatalysts prevailed compared to the free forms of the enzymes. Co-immobilized enzymes exhibited high reusability, preserving a significant part of their activity (up to 72%) after four successive catalytic cycles at 30 °C. Finally, the tri-enzymatic nanobiocatalytic system was applied in three-step cascade reactions, involving, as the first step, the hydrolysis of p-Nitrophenyl-β-D-Glucopyranoside and cellobiose.