Ilkwon Oh

Electrochemical splitting of water is an attractive way to produce hydrogen fuel as a clean and renewable energy source. However, a major challenge is to accelerate the sluggish kinetics of the anodic half‐cell reaction where oxygen evolution reaction (OER) takes place. Here, a seamlessly conductive 3D architecture is reported with a carbon‐shelled Ni‐Co nanowire network as a highly efficient OER electrocatalyst. Highly porous and granular Ni‐Co nanowires are first grown on a carbon fiber woven

A silk nanofiber-networked bio-triboelectric generator (Silk Bio-TEG) is developed using an eco-friendly and sustainable silk biomaterial with strong hydrogen bonding between peptide blocks. The electrospun Silk Bio-TEG shows highly durable and reliable energy harvesting performances due to its notably high surface-to-volume ratio, mechanically super-strong silk fibers, and fracture tolerant behavior of nanofiber-networks. As a service to our authors and readers, this journal provides supporting

with poly(3,4 ethylenedioxythiophene)-poly(styrenesulfonate), showing ultrafast rise time of within 1 s in DC responses, extremely large bending strain up to 1.37% in very low input voltage regime (0.1 to 1 V), long-term cyclic stability of 97% up to 18,000 cycles, markedly reduced phase delay, and very broad frequency bandwidth up to 20 Hz with good structural reliability without delamination under continuous electrical stimuli. These artificial muscles were successfully applied to make an orig

Ionic polymer actuators driven by electrical stimuli have been widely investigated for use in practical applications such as bioinspired robots, sensors, and biomedical devices. However, conventional ionic polymer-metal composite actuators have a serious drawback of poor durability under long-term actuation in open air, mainly because of the leakage of the inner electrolyte and hydrated cations through cracks in the metallic electrodes. Here, we developed a highly durable and water-floatable ion

We report a highly versatile and one-pot microwave route to the mass production of three-dimensional graphene-carbon nanotube-iron oxide nanostructures for the efficient removal of arsenic from contaminated water. The unique three-dimensional nanostructure shows that carbon nanotubes are vertically standing on graphene sheets and iron oxide nanoparticles are decorated on both the graphene and the carbon nanotubes. The material with iron oxide nanoparticles shows excellent absorption for arsenic

Abstract MXenes, a member of 2D inorganic compounds that contain few‐atom‐thick layers of transition metal carbides, nitrides, and polar surface functional groups, are extraordinary materials for many applications including stimuli‐responsive actuators. Here, an extensive review on MXene‐based actuators in comparison with other 2D materials‐based actuators is reported, highlighting the main differences in view of chemical structure, mechanical properties, and electrical functionalities. First, s

PSS electrodes, and 96% of initial strain after demonstration over 18 000 cycles), provide remarkable electro-chemo-mech anical properties: specific capacitance, electrical conductivity, and large surface area with mesoporosity.

In this study, we report a novel route via microwave irradiation to synthesize a bio-inspired hierarchical graphene--nanotube--iron three-dimensional nanostructure as an anode material in lithium-ion batteries. The nanostructure comprises vertically aligned carbon nanotubes grown directly on graphene sheets along with shorter branches of carbon nanotubes stemming out from both the graphene sheets and the vertically aligned carbon nanotubes. This bio-inspired hierarchical structure provides a thr