Multifunctional Shape Memory Composites for Joule Heating,Self-Healing,and Highly Efficient Microwave Absorption

Traditional microwaves absorption materials (MAMs) are applied in the form of coatings, generally inflexible, with high production costs and poor adaptability to applications in different locations. The diversification of application scenarios requires materials with multifunctionalities, but it is extremely challenging to integrate multifunctionalities within single material at present. Herein, a multifunctional CoNC@GN/PCL/TPU MAMs is synthesized. The CoNC@GN nano-micro absorber has high-efficiency microwave absorption ability. The electromagnetic microwave absorption performance is ultra-light (4 wt.%), ultra-thin (2.3 mm), and broadband (6.21 GHz), which is better than similar MAMs. Additionally, the samples have highly efficient electro-thermal conversion properties, enabling controlled electrical heating performance and excellent self-healing properties. More remarkably, the sample has an electrically driven shape memory effect that allows the material to target the absorption of multi-angle incident electromagnetic waves. Therefore, CoNC@GN/PCL/TPU absorbers are the key to truly opening up opportunities for flexible, shape memory, and multifunctional absorbers in frontier applications such as wearables, deformable robots, and chip protection.     

A Biodegradable Antigen Nanocapsule Promotes Anti-Tumor Immunity via the cGAS-STING Pathway

Materials-based antigen delivery systems can augment the immune response by improving antigen uptake in antigen-presenting cells, targeting lymph nodes, prolonging antigen exposure, enhancing cross-presentation, etc. Recent research revealed that some antigen carriers activate the innate immune pathways without additional adjuvant. Here, a vaccine delivery platform (antigen nanocapsules) constructed by a one-step in situ polymerization is reported, weaving a biodegradable polymer network around the antigen surface. This simple technology allowed us to study the immunomodulatory effect of various antigen carriers. An antigen nanocapsule (NC7) capable of inducing dendritic cell activation and cross-presentation is identified. Further mechanistic studies revealed that NC7 activated the cGAS-STING pathway in a cGAS-dependent manner. Moreover, the subcutaneously injected NC7 accumulated in the lymph nodes and elicited strong cytotoxic T cell immunity and T cell memory against established cancer. Collectively, the often-neglected immunomodulatory effect of various cationic antigen carriers, enabling potential application in cancer vaccines, is uncovered.     

Ferroptosis-Mediated Synergistic Therapy of Hypertrophic Scarring Based on Metal–Organic Framework Microneedle Patch

Hypertrophic scarring, an abnormal fibroproliferative wound-healing disease, has brought tremendous burden for global healthcare systems. To date, no satisfactory treatment of hypertrophic scarring is available yet. Ferroptosis, an iron-dependent form of cell death, has attracted much attention recently for the therapy of diseases featuring iron addiction. Intriguingly, myofibroblasts derived from hypertrophic scarring are found to exhibit a high iron state which appears to be sensitive to trigger ferroptosis for scarring treatment. Accordingly, in this study, a pH responsive self-assembly nanoplatform is designed by encapsulating silver nanoclusters (AgNCs) and Chinese herbal medicine trigonelline (TRG) into zeolitic imidazolate framework-8 (ZIF-8) for synergistic ferroptosis therapy against hypertrophic scarring. The fabricated AgNC/TRG/ZIF-8 composites exhibit good biocompatibility and pH responsive-degradation inside myofibroblasts. The ZIF-8 precursors can increase the generation of lipid reactive oxygen species and deplete intracellular glutathione (GSH). Also, AgNCs have the capability to consume GSH, while TRG can inhibit the activity of glutathione peroxidase. Consequently, the synergistic ferroptosis anti-scarring therapy can be effectively achieved. Furthermore, AgNC/TRG/ZIF-8-loaded microneedle patches made of gelatin methacrylate show remarkable therapeutic effect against hypertrophic scarring on a rabbit ear model. This study suggests the great potential of ferroptosis-mediated strategy for treating fibrotic skin diseases in future clinical application.     

Organic Diamine-Regulated Vanadium Oxides as Cathode Materials for High-Performance Sodium Ion Batteries

Pre-intercalating ions between V O layers is considered to be an effective strategy to modulate the interlayer spacing of 2D vanadium oxides. However, the rigid pre-intercalated ions hardly keep stable during repeated charging/discharging process and their sizes limit the extent of interlayer spacing expansion, which inevitably lead to poor rate capability and cycle stability. In this work, aliphatic diamines are adopted as pre-intercalated guests to elastically modulate the interlayer spacing of V O layers by tuning the chain length of the organic diamine molecules. Benefiting from the strong interaction between the terminal doubly protonated amine and the polar negative oxygen bridge of the V O layers, the aliphatic diamine molecules can act as a structural stabilizer between the layers and boost fast Na ion diffusion (10⁻⁸ to 10⁻¹⁰ cm² s⁻¹). The sodium ion battery based on the first synthesized 1,6-hexanediamine pre-intercalated vanadium oxide supported on nickel foam hybrid cathode achieves a large specific capacity of 597 mAh g⁻¹ at 0.09 A g⁻¹, as well as superior rate performance and cycling stability. This work provides a strategy to elastically modulate 2D layered materials with tunable interlayer spacing for batteries based on large-size-ions.     

Fatigue-Resistant Conducting Polymer Hydrogels as Strain Sensor for Underwater Robotics

Conducting polymer hydrogels are widely used as strain sensors in light of their distinct skin-like softness, strain sensitivity, and environmental adaptiveness in the fields of wearable devices, soft robots, and human-machine interface. However, the mechanical and electrical properties of existing conducting polymer hydrogels, especially fatigue-resistance and sensing robustness during long-term application, are unsatisfactory, which severely hamper their practical utilities. Herein, a strategy to fabricate conducting polymer hydrogels with anisotropic structures and mechanics is presented through a combined freeze-casting and salting-out process. The as-fabricated conducting polymer hydrogels exhibit high fatigue threshold (>300 J m⁻²), low Young's modulus (≈100 kPa), as well as long-term strain sensing robustness (over 10 000 cycles). Such superior performance enables their application as strain sensors to monitor the real-time movement of underwater robotics. The design and fabrication strategy for conducting polymer hydrogels reported in this study may open up an enticing avenue for functional soft materials in soft electronics and robotics.     

Real-time distortion correction of fish-eye lens based on Bayer image signal

The imaging system based on a fish-eye lens generally has to correct the distortion of fish-eye images. The distortion correction based on the Bayer image signal is valuable, such as reducing the computation burden of image signal processing chips and providing a new imaging system structure of fish-eye lens. In this paper, a distortion correction method of fish-eye lens based on the Bayer image signal is proposed. Firstly, a distortion correction method that focuses on vertical straight lines and processing delay is proposed. Secondly, according to the correlation among color channels of the Bayer image, a novel Hermite interpolation method appropriate for Bayer image signal is proposed. Finally, a prototype system of fish-eye-lens-based imaging is established and the real-time field-programmable gate array (FPGA) implementation of the proposed method is demonstrated. The experiment demonstrates that the proposed distortion correction is not only characteristic of real-time processing and the smaller computation amount, but also applicable to embedded hardware.     

用于高功率微波器件的永磁体的设计和测试

报道了用于高功率相对论返波管振荡器的永磁体的设计和试制。以Halbach阵列结构为基础, 通过选择高性能的永磁材料, 调整磁钢的充磁方向、排列方式和尺寸, 优化设计了可用于某相对论返波管振荡器的永磁体结构, 其均匀区磁场强度0.98 T。采用粒子模拟方法, 进行了永磁体与返波管振荡器的一体化设计, 设计结果表明：器件输出功率超过1 GW, 设计的永磁体能够满足器件对磁场强度和位形的要求。对永磁体进行了试制和测试, 测试结果为：均匀区磁场0.88 T, 均匀区长110 mm, 磁体重量约306 kg。     

半导体泵浦铯蒸气实现激光输出

采用线宽0.26 nm的Littrow外腔巴条半导体激光器泵浦增益长度8 mm缓冲气体为80 kPa甲烷的铯（Cs）蒸气室,在Cs蒸气室温度120 ℃时,我们获得了394 mW的894.6 nm线偏振Cs蒸气激光,光光效率7.4%,斜率效率11.2%,阈值功率为1.72 W。     

Energetics of a strongly correlated Fermi gas

The energy of the two-component Fermi gas with the s-wave contact interaction is a simple linear functional of its momentum distribution:

     

Entanglement dynamics of a moving multi-photon Jaynes-Cummings model in mixed states

Using the algebraic dynamical method,the entanglement dynamics of an atom-field bipartite system in a mixed state is investigated.The atomic center-of-mass motion and the field-mode structure are also included in this system.We find that the values of the detuning and the average photon number are larger,the amplitude of the entanglement is smaller,but its period does not increase accordingly.Moreover,with the increase of the field-mode structure parameter and the transition photon number,the amplitude of the entanglement varies slightly while the oscillation becomes more and more fast.Interestingly,a damping evolution of the entanglement appears when both the detuning and the atomic motion are considered simultaneously.