Transparent wood (TW)‐based materials have increasingly become the focus of researchers
worldwide owing to their superior physico‐chemical‐optical properties, sustainable nature, …

Starch is successively modified by acetic anhydride and phthalic anhydride, and then starch-based
nanospheres are fabricated by a simple nanoprecipitation procedure. These pH-…

The P2X7 receptor (P2X7R) is a ligand-gated receptor belonging to the P2 receptor family.
It is distributed in various tissues of the human body and is involved in regulating the …

As one of the promising alternatives of lithium-ion batteries, zinc-ion batteries (ZIBs) have
received growing interest from researchers due to their good safety, eco-friendliness, and low …

Emulsions stabilized solely by edible particles have attracted great interest very recently
because of their potential application in the food and pharmaceutical fields. In this work, starch-…

Polysaccharide-based hydrogels are remarkable materials for the biomedical fields because
of its excellent biodegradation and biocompatibility. In this work, a novel polysaccharide-…

Poor mechanical properties and freezing at low temperatures of traditional photochromic
hydrogels limit their applications. Here, a novel type of photochromic nanocomposite …

Superhydrophobic fabrics with high oil–water separation efficiencies have recently attracted
considerable attention because of the frequent oil pollution created by industry. However, …

Adriamycin-based combination chemotherapy is the standard first-line treatment for
osteosarcoma, but tumor recurrence and metastasis occurs in most cases. Recent evidence …

A superhydrophobic fibrous membrane (FM), which consists of elastic polyurethane (PU)
and chromatic polydiacetylenes (PDA), is fabricated using an electrospinning technique, …