Rationally Designed Anti-Glare Panel Arrays as Highway Wind Energy Harvester

The anti-glare panels along highways can block the dazzling lights of opposing vehicles at night, playing an important role in the highway safety. Inspired by the highway anti-glare panels, wind energy harvesting triboelectric nanogenerator (AG-TENG) arrays to properly capture energy from highway moving vehicles is developed. A single AG-TENG installation module can achieve a high power density of 0.2 Wm⁻² at a wind speed of 3 m s⁻¹. This wind speed is too low to drive conventional wind energy harvesting equipment. The performance of the AG-TENG shows no degradation after 80 h of continuous operation (1 440 000 times). Thus, with the rational consideration and features, the system can generate enough power to drive internet of things (IoT) devices and environmental sensors, as well as offer wireless alarming and radio frequency identification vehicle monitoring. This study provides a promising strategy to properly harvest wind energy on highways using existing infrastructures under the condition of even no natural wind, showing broad application prospects in distributed environmental monitoring, intelligent highways, and the IoT.     

Comprehensively Strengthened Metal-Oxygen Bonds for Reversible Anionic Redox Reaction

Introducing anionic redox in layered oxides is an effective approach to breaking the capacity limit of conventional cationic redox. However, the anionic redox reaction generally suffers from excessive oxidation of lattice oxygen to O₂ and O₂ release, resulting in local structural deterioration and rapid capacity/voltage decay. Here, a Na_0.71Li_0.22Al_0.05Mn_0.73O₂ (NLAM) cathode material is developed by introducing Al³⁺ into the transition metal (TM) sites. Thanks to the strong Al–O bonding strength and small Al³⁺ radius, the TMO₂ skeleton and the holistic TM–O bonds in NLAM are comprehensively strengthened, which inhibits the excessive lattice oxygen oxidation. The obtained NLAM exhibits a high reversible capacity of 194.4 mAh g^-1 at 20 mA g^-1 and decent cyclability with 98.6% capacity retention over 200 cycles at 200 mA g⁻¹. In situ characterizations reveal that the NLAM experiences phase transitions with an intermediate OP4 phase during the charge–discharge. Theoretical calculations further confirm that the Al substitution strategy is beneficial for improving the overlap between Mn 3d and O 2p orbitals. This finding sheds light on the design of layered oxide cathodes with highly reversible anionic redox for sodium storage.     

Intrinsically Flexible and Aging Resistant Fluorene-Based Rod-Coil Copolymer for Bendable Deep-Blue PLEDs

In the field of flexible light-emitting display, goal-oriented intelligent molecular design is used to control various behaviors of molecules, which provides potential for the development of flexible light-emitting conjugated polymers (LCPs). The introduction of non-conjugated units into polymer molecules is a key prerequisite for realizing the intrinsic flexibility, but its easy interchain slip will also lead to the formation of interchain excited states, which is detrimental to the efficiency of light-emitting diodes. Herein, two kinds of fluorene-based rod-coil copolymer with stable deep blue emission characteristics is presented and with Commission Internationale de L'Eclairage (CIE) coordinates of (0.18, 0.14) and (0.15, 0.09), respectively. Surprisingly, the copolymer films show efficient blue emission even at 100% tension. Meanwhile, the rod-coil copolymer possesses better aging resistance compared to rigid π-conjugated counterparts. Finally, both rigid and flexible light-emitting diodes based on rod-coil copolymer exhibit stable deep blue emission, and the G2-based PLED with CIE coordinates of (0.16, 0.08), which approach National Television System Committee standard blue specification. These results confirm the validity of rod-coil copolymer design strategy in constructing inherently flexible polymers with deep blue emission, which have great application potential in flexible PLEDs.     

Direct Observation of Oxygen Ion Dynamics in a WO3-x based Second-Order Memristor with Dendritic Integration Functions

Direct observation of oxygen dynamics in an oxide-based second-order memristor can provide the valid evidence to clarify the memristive mechanism, however, which is still limited for now. In this study, the migration and diffusion of oxygen ions in the region of Pt/WO_3-x Schottky interface are observed in the WO_3-x second-order memristor by using the technique of in situ transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and the electron energy loss spectroscopy. Interestingly, the coexistence of memristive and memcapacitive switching can be implemented in this memristor. Combined with the analysis of depth-profile X-ray photoelectron spectroscopy (XPS), an interface-barrier-modulation second-order memristive model is proposed based on the above results. Notably, temporally correlative oxygen dynamics in the memristor offers the platform to integrate signals from multiple inputs, enabling the realization of the dendritic functions of synchronous and asynchronous integration for the application of logic operations with fault-tolerance capability and associative learning. These findings provide the experimental evidence to in-depth understanding of oxygen dynamics and switching mechanism in second-order memristor, which can support the optimization of memristive performance and the achievement of biorealistic synaptic functions.     

一种面向序列密码的混合粒度并行运算单元

针对可重构密码处理器对于不同域上的序列密码算法兼容性差、实现性能低的问题,该文分析了序列密码算法的多级并行性并提出了一种反馈移位寄存器(FSR)的预抽取更新模型。进而基于该模型设计了面向密码阵列架构的可重构反馈移位寄存器运算单元(RFAU),兼容不同有限域上序列密码算法的同时,采取并行抽取和流水处理策略开发了序列密码算法的反馈移位寄存器级并行性,从而有效提升了粗粒度可重构阵列(CGRA)平台上序列密码算法的处理性能。实验结果表明与其他可重构处理器相比,对于有限域(GF)(2)上的序列密码算法,RFAU带来的性能提升为23%～186%;对于GF(2u)域上的序列密码算法,性能提升达约66%～79%,且面积效率提升约64%～91%。     

考虑可平移负荷的综合能源系统动态优化调度策略

综合能源系统因多能互补、协调优化等特性受到了广泛关注,但该系统的热电机组在运行时的调峰能力具有一定局限性。为降低综合能源系统的用能成本,提升系统的用能效率,改善其调峰能力,文中提出了一种考虑可平移负荷的综合能源系统动态优化调度策略。该策略以系统的整体运维成本最小化为目标,结合可平移负荷和相关算例构建仿真模型,并采用自适应混沌粒子群算法进行求解。结果表明在引入可平移负荷时,多能源微网能够较好地达到削峰填谷目的,并降低系统综合运行成本,实现节能减排效果。同时,文中将传统粒子群算法与自适应混沌粒子群算法作比较,证明了自适应混沌粒子群算法在精度与效率上都优于传统的粒子群算法。     

基于三维凹包学习算法的海面小目标检测方法

对于特征类的海面小目标检测方法,现有3特征检测器通常采用凸包分类算法完成检测。在实际应用时发现,该分类算法生成的判决区域在某些情况下不能很好地反映海杂波样本集合在特征空间中的分布情况,进而对检测器性能造成一定程度的损失。相比之下,使用凹包算法生成的判决区域是由凸包内剖得到的,它能更加贴合海杂波样本的分布,因此该文将判决区域的形式由凸包转化为凹包,并在此基础之上提出一种基于3维凹包学习算法的海面小目标检测方法。同时,针对现有3维凹包算法存在的内剖效率低、无法实现恒虚警检测的缺点,该文通过优化内剖点选择方法、增加“外补”环节的方式对算法进行改进。最后,经实测CSIR数据及X波段试验雷达数据共同验证,在其他参数均相同时,该文方法的检测性能要优于已有的多特征检测方法,并且通过对凹包算法的复杂度分析证明了所提方法的应用潜力。     

Lithiation-Induced Defect Engineering to Promote Oxygen Evolution Reaction

Exploring efficient electrocatalysts for oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is an urgent need to advance the development of sustainable energy conversion. Though defect engineering is considered an effective strategy to regulate catalyst activity for enhanced OER performance, the controllable synthesis of defective oxides electrocatalysts remains challenging. Here, oxygen defects are introduced into NiCo₂O₄ nanorods by an electrochemical lithiation strategy. By tuning in situ lithiation potentials, the concentration of oxygen defects and the corresponding catalytic activity can be feasibly regulated. In addition, the relationship between the changes in the defect density and electronic structure and the lithiation cut-off voltages is revealed. The results show that NiCo₂O₄ nanorods undertook intercalation and two-step conversion reaction, in which the lithiation-induced conversion reaction gives rise to a CoO@NiO-based structure with higher defect density and lower oxidation states. As a result, the defective CoO@NiO-based catalyst exhibits exceptional OER activity with an overpotential of 270 mV at 10 mA cm⁻², which is about 74 mV below the pristine nanomaterials. This research proposes a novel strategy to explore high-performance catalysts with structural stability and defect control.     

Direct Freeform Laser Fabrication of 3D Conformable Electronics

3D conformable electronic devices on freeform surfaces show superior performance to the conventional, planar ones. They represent a trend of future electronics and have witnessed exponential growth in various applications. However, their potential is largely limited by a lack of sophisticated fabrication techniques. To tackle this challenge, a new direct freeform laser (DFL) fabrication method enabled by a 5-axis laser processing platform for directly fabricating 3D conformable electronics on targeted arbitrary surfaces is reported. Accordingly, representative laser-induced graphene (LIG), metals, and metal oxides are successfully fabricated as high-performance sensing and electrode materials from different material precursors on various types of substrates for applications in temperature/light/gas sensing, energy storage, and printed circuit board for circuit. Last but not the least, to demonstrate an application in smart homes, LIG-based conformable strain sensors are fabricated and distributed in designated locations of an artificial tree. The distributed sensors have the capability of monitoring the wind speed and direction with the assistance of well-trained machine-learning models. This novel process will pave a new and general route to fabricating 3D conformable electronic devices, thus creating new opportunities in robotics, biomedical sensing, structural health, environmental monitoring, and Internet of Things applications.     

Vapor Phase Growth of Centimeter-Sized Band Gap Engineered Cesium Lead Halide Perovskite Single-Crystal Thin Films with Color-tunable Stimulated Emission

Single crystal metal halide perovskites thin films are considered to be a promising optical, optoelectronic materials with extraordinary performance due to their low defect densities. However, it is still difficult to achieve large-scale perovskite single-crystal thin films (SCTFs) with tunable bandgap by vapor-phase deposition method. Herein, the synthesis of CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs with centimeter size (1 cm × 1 cm) via vapor-phase deposition is reported. The Br composition of CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs can be gradually tuned from x = 0 to x = 1, leading the corresponding bandgap to change from 2.29 to 2.91 eV. Additionally, an low-threshold (≈23.9 µJ cm⁻²) amplified spontaneous emission is achieved based on CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs at room temperature, and the wavelength is tuned from 432 to 547 nm by varying the Cl/Br ratio. Importantly, the high-quality CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs are ideal optical gain medium with high gain up to 1369.8 ± 101.2 cm⁻¹. This study not only provides a versatile method to fabricate high quality CsPbCl_3(1–x)Br_3x SCTFs with different Cl/Br ratio, but also paves the way for further research of color-tunable perovskite lasing.