This work reviews all-organic dielectric development for high-temperature capacitive energy storage, with a focus on multiscale-structural strategies in decoupling thermal stability from insulation.

This review systemically summarizes their studies on bioactive nanomaterials for cancer immunotherapy and highlights three complementary strategies: surface-adaptive nanomaterials to overcome physiological barriers, antigen-engineering nanoplatforms that enhance tumor immunogenicity, and nanomaterials that modulate tumor microenvironment to relieve immune suppression, collectively reinvigorating robust antitumor immune responses.

This review summarizes molecular/structural design strategies for intrinsically stretchable organic optoelectronics and discusses their integration and potential in human-machine interfaces, neuromorphic electronics, and wearable health monitoring.

The creative integration of soft crown ethers and rigid pillararenes into supramolecular polymer network effectively enhances the mechanical properties by combining rigidity and flexibility of different macrocyclic hosts. This provides a structural paradigm for the design and manipulation of supramolecular polymer network materials.

Acrylates with varied hydrophobic chains are copolymerized with acrylic acid to fabricate timed shape memory hydrogels, providing superior mechanical properties and an extremely long recovery onset period.

In dual-dynamic mechanically interlocked vitrimers (MIVs), slidable mechanically bonded cross-links enable topology-preserving chain sliding, which accelerates dynamic covalent bond (DCB) exchange, as evidenced by the lower activation energy for vinylogous urethane dissociation relative to analogous covalent adaptable networks with fixed cross-links. This synergy between the mechanical bonds and DCBs boosted the rapid stress relaxation in MIVs.

This feature surveys 2020−present Ni/Pd catalysts for ethylene copolymerization with fundamental polar monomers, linking [N,N], [N,O], and [P,O] ligand platforms to mechanisms, microstructure, and scale-up priorities.

This review establishes a tripartite framework for conjugated polymer mechanics, spanning multiscale characterization, molecular and morphological engineering, and architectural innovation toward tailored functionality and bio-integrated electronics.

Tumor microenvironment-responsive self-immolative polymers (SIPs) undergo cascade depolymerization triggered by pH, ROS, GSH, H₂S, and enzymes. This amplified response enables enhanced tumor imaging, controlled drug release, and integrated theranostics, providing precise spatiotemporally regulated platforms for cancer diagnosis and combination therapy.

This study presents a novel platform for designing aromatic polyesters with tunable optical properties. Benzaldehyde-derived cyclic carbonates were utilized to systematically control the polymer structure and optimize the optical performance through alternating copolymerization.

A B←N-based alcohol-soluble n-type polymer cathode interlayer (CIL) with deep HOMO energy level (−5.88 eV) enables enlarged hole-blocking barrier, achieving ultralow dark current (1.66×10⁻⁹ A·cm⁻²) and high detectivity (1.86×10¹² Jones) in near-infrared organic photodetectors.

This study reports a reversible addition-fragmentation chain transfer (RAFT) dispersion self-condensing vinyl polymerization platform using a chain-transfer monomer and macro-RAFT agent for the one-pot synthesis of monodisperse microspheres composed of well-defined branched (multi)block copolymers.

This study constructed polymeric micelles that released nitric oxide in response to biofilm microenvironment, effectively dispersing biofilms and significantly enhancing the bactericidal efficacy of antibiotic against methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus biofilm.

This work reports a new family of highly thermally stable unsymmetrical cationic α-diimine palladium complexes that combine both steric blockage and intra-ligand C―H···F non-covalent linkages affording polyethylenes with tunable molecular weights and adjustable branching densities.

Polyoxometalate (POM) doped chitosan quaternary ammonium/polyacrylamide hydrogel with chain entanglement has enhanced mechanical properties (low hysteresis and excellent resilience), improved lubrication performance, and multiple responsiveness to pH and salt ions.

This work reports a self-healable, high-toughness fluorinated polyurethane adhesive via synergistic disulfide and Zr⁴⁺ coordination. Zr⁴⁺ coordination boosts tensile strength by 18-fold and imparts excellent recyclability for sustainable adhesive applications.

A redox-active hypercrosslinked polymer integrating tetraaniline and anthraquinone enables high-capacitance and long-life supercapacitors by constructing a hierarchical porous architecture with high-density redox-active sites.

Ultralong sodium alginate-based phosphorescent materials with room-/high-temperature phosphorescence, multicolor tunability, and flexibility were prepared by doping with 1,4-naphthalenedicarboxylic acid and Rhodamine B, demonstrating potential for flexible displays and information encryption.

Azobenzene-containing polymers exhibit photoswitchable glass-transition temperatures when modified with long alkyl tails. This tail-engineering approach fundamentally overcomes the spacer length limitations and establishes a generalizable design principle for reversible nanoimprint photoresists.

The polymeric fluorescent probe CSC (CSC: chitosan grafting coumarin-3-carboxylic acid) forms a stable dual-lock recognition cage via multidentate coordination, enabling ultrafast and highly selective Fe³⁺ detection, while retaining inherent green antibacterial activity for sustainable dual-function applications.

A green microcellular foaming strategy with activated carbon produces lightweight TPEE foams featuring refined cells, reduced shrinkage, high recovery, low thermal conductivity, enhanced strength, and hydrophobic surfaces.

High-performance self-healing electrorheological elastomers were fabricated using polyurethane with engineered soft segments as the matrix, which also exhibited capacitive sensing performance, demonstrating their multifunctional application potential.

A phosphorus-nitrogen flame retardant (FMPO) was synthesized, which endows poly(lactic acid) with high flame retardancy at a low loading, exhibiting synergistic gas-phase and condensed-phase flame-retardant effects.

Selective crystallization of poly(ethylene oxide) (PEO) or BP₄ blocks in hybrid copolymers enables precise control over the core structure of 2D nanosheets, achieving either folded-chain or 2D lattice crystal morphologies.

This study investigates how polymer chain rigidity affects grafting density. In "grafting-to," rigidity influences chain diffusion and grafting probability, while in "grafting-from," it controls active site accessibility.

Small-angle X-ray scattering (SAXS) is widely used to characterize periodic structures in semicrystalline polymers but relies on complex models. We propose a simple atomic force microscopy (AFM) image-analysis method to measure crystalline, amorphous sizes and long period. The method can also analyze fibrillar and shish-kebab structures accurately.

This work demonstrates that molecular weight distribution, quantified by the polydispersity index (PDI), governs structure-property relationships in conjugated polymers incorporating flexible spacers. Increasing PDI promotes a loop-to-bridge conformational transition, transforming lamellar phase to perforated lamellar phase at intermediate rigid-segment lengths, switching deformation from destructive fibrillation to reconstructive strengthening, and enhancing both yield strength and strain.

Deep eutectic solvent (DES) modulates vulcanization kinetics and crosslinking structure; when combined with MB and carbon black (CB)/black talc (BT), it facilitates the preparation of high-strength natural rubber (NR)/styrene-butadiene rubber (SBR) composites with reduced hysteresis and weakened Mullins effect.

Polymerization of Ionic liquid significantly increases the heterogeneous region in aqueous biphasic systems but decreases the extraction efficiency. Molecular dynamics simulations confirm the unfavorable behavior of the extraction medium.

The distinct pH sensitivities of adenine and thymine bases under acidic conditions result in non-overlapped translocation time distributions for the single-stranded DNA (ssDNA) chains polyadenine (poly(dA)) and polythymine (poly(dT)) at low pH values in their individual translocation and facilitate the separation of the chains during competitive translocation through a nanopore.

Hydrophobically modified hyaluronic acid self-assembles with sanshool into nanoparticles that scavenge ROS, inhibit apoptosis, modulate autophagy, restore cell cycle, and enable multi-target photoprotection.

An ordered dual-network PI/ZrO₂ aerogel was constructed via hydrogen and Zr―O bonds, significantly enhancing its thermal insulation, mechanical strength, and thermal stability.