Materials Engineering

Bottom-Up Silicon Metasurfaces Exhibiting High-Quality Optical Magnetism

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Significance  Reference Parker MA, Barbosa R, Cibaka-Ndaya C, Castro-Grijalba A, De Marco ML, Korgel BA, Montero D, Lacomme S, Azéma A, Kravets VG, Grigorenko AN, Ponsinet V, Barois P, Roach L, Drisko GL. Self-Assembled Silicon@Silica Metasurfaces with High-Quality Resonances in the Infrared. Small Sci. 2025;5(7):2500119. doi: 10.1002/smsc.202500119.

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Ultrasonic Desorption for Ultra-Low-Energy Atmospheric Water Harvesting

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Significance Figure: A schematic of the structure of a PAM-LiCl hydrogel with solvated lithium (Li⁺) and chloride (Cl⁻) ions diffused into a polymer network. Image credit: Nature Communications, 2025; 16 (1) DOI: 10.1038/s41467-025-65586-2 REFERENCE Ikra Iftekhar Shuvo, Carlos D. Díaz-Marín, Marvin Christen, Michael Lherbette, Christopher Liem, Svetlana V. Boriskina. High-efficiency atmospheric water harvesting enabled by ultrasonic extraction. Nature Communications, 2025; …

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Nanosilver-Coated Organic Porous Films: Integrating Photothermal Evaporation and Hydrogen Generation through the Breath Figure Method

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Significance REFERENCE Cai, Ruiyun & Jiang, Jian & Jiao, Rui & Sun, Hanxue & Zhu, Zhaoqi & Li, Jiyan & Li, An. (2025). Nanosilver-Coated Organic Porous Films Prepared by the Breath Figure Method for Efficient Solar-Driven Interfacial Evaporation and Hydrogen Production. Industrial & Engineering Chemistry Research. 64. 10.1021/acs.iecr.5c01701.

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