Developing switchable and multifunctional metasurfaces is essential for high-integration photonics. However, most previous studies encountered challenges such as limited degrees of freedom, simple tuning of predefined functionality, and complicated c...
Plenoptic cameras have received a wide range of research interest because it can record the 4D plenoptic function or radiance including the radiation power and ray direction. One of its important applications is digital refocusing, which can obtain 2...
CO2-switchable solvents (CSSs) show promise for oil-based drilling cuttings treatment and green extraction, yet their structure–efficiency relationships remain unclear. Here, 15 amine-based reference compounds were used to design 163 candidates...
The metasurfaces based on nanostructure film play an important role in many fields. Usually, the properties and functions of metasurfaces are limited by their structure. Once the metasurface samples are processed, their functions have already been re...
Based on the tunable conductivity of silicon as a function of incident pump power, a photoexcited switchable dual-function metamaterial absorber for sensing and wideband absorption at the THz band is designed in this paper. The absorber has an absorp...
This work presents a theoretical and numerical investigation of a switchable tri-functional terahertz metamaterial incorporating vanadium dioxide (VO2) and photosensitive silicon. The selective absorption, broadband linear-to-linear polarization conv...
N-fused pyrrolidinyl spirooxindole belongs to a class of privileged heterocyclic scaffolds and is prevalent in natural alkaloids and synthetic pharmaceutical molecules. To realize the switchable synthesis of divergent N-fused pyrrolidinyl spirooxindo...
Spin crossover complexes with ligands suitable for further functionalization could allow for an easy access to multifunctional switchable materials. Within this context, we recently characterized the Fe(II) SCO complexes of propargyl-1H-tetrazole. Al...
The second part of our review describing new achievements in the field of biofilm prevention and control, begins with a discussion of the active antibiofilm nanocoatings. We present the antibiofilm strategies based on antimicrobial agents that kill p...
Switchable polymeric materials, which can respond to triggering signals through changes in their properties, have become a major research focus for parenteral controlled delivery systems. They may enable externally induced drug release or delivery th...
We numerically demonstrated switchable metasurfaces using a phase change material, VO
We demonstrate a thermally controlled ultra-wideband wide incident angle metamaterial absorber with switchable transmission at the THz band in this paper. The underlying hybrid structure of FSS-VO2 thin films make them switchable between absorption m...
A switchable chiral metasurface based on a phase change material Ge2Sb2Te5, which can switch between a right-handed circularly polarized mirror and a left-handed circularly polarized mirror, is theoretically discussed. When the conductivity of Ge2Sb2...
With the advances in edge computing and artificial intelligence, the demands of multifunctional electronics with large area efficiency are increased. As the scaling down of the conventional transistor is restricted by physical limits, reconfigurable...
An optical nanoantenna consisting of a Au-dielectric core-shell nanocube dimer with switchable directionality was designed and described. Our theoretical model and numerical simulation showed that switching between forward and backward directions can...
This paper proposes a thermally controlled multifunctional metamaterial absorber with switchable wideband absorption and transmission at the THz band based on resistive film and vanadium dioxide (VO2). The function of the absorber can be adjusted by...
Angular momentums (AMs) of photons are crucial physical properties exploited in many fields such as optical communication, optical imaging, and quantum information processing. However, the active manipulation (generation, switching, and conversion) o...
This paper presents the use of ferroelectric behavior in scandium–aluminum nitride (ScxAl1−xN) to create dual-mode Lamb-wave resonators for the realization of intrinsically configurable radio-frequency front-end systems. An integrated arr...
Dielectric crystals with switchable electric polarizations represent the key functional materials utilized for a broad range of practical applications. They allow for academically intriguing platforms, where the use of a strong external electric fiel...
In this paper, a switchable and dual-tunable terahertz absorber based on patterned graphene and vanadium dioxide is proposed and analyzed. By controlling the Fermi level of graphene and the temperature of vanadium dioxide, the device’s function can b...
Light can be used to regulate protein interactions with a high degree of spatial and temporal precision. Photo-switchable systems therefore allow the development of controllable protein complexes that can influence various cellular and molecular proc...
This paper develops an optimal stopping rule by characterizing the take-profit level. The optimization problem is modeled by geometric Brownian motion with two switchable regimes and solved by stochastic calculation. A closed-form profitability funct...
Aptamer-based bioreceptors that can easily adopt their surroundings have captured the attention of scientists from a wide spectrum of domains in designing highly sensitive, selective and structure switchable sensing assays. Through elaborate design a...
Transparent wood has excellent optical and thermal properties and has great potential utilization value in energy-saving building materials, optoelectronic devices, and decorative materials. In this work, transparent wood with soft-/hard-switchable a...
Conventional chiral metasurfaces are constrained by predetermined functionalities and have limited versatility. To address these constraints, we propose a novel chirality-switchable terahertz (THz) metasurface with integrated heating control circuits...
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-expressing T-cells are without a doubt a breakthrough therapy for hematological malignancies. Despite their success, clinical experience has revealed several challenges, which include relapse after targeting single ant...
A cascade 6-endo-dig cyclization reaction was developed for the switchable synthesis of halogen and non-halogen-functionalized pyrazolo[3,4-b]pyridines from 5-aminopyrazoles and alkynyl aldehydes via C≡C bond activation with silver, iodine, or...
Gold nanosystems have been investigated extensively for a variety of applications, from specific cancer cell targeting to tissue regeneration. Specifically, a recent and exciting focus has been the gold nanosystems’ interface with neuronal biol...
On the basis of the temperature-controlled phase change properties of vanadium dioxide (VO2), a dual-functional terahertz metamaterial device is proposed. The device can be switched between an absorber and a polarization converter. Simulation results...
Switchable β-barrel-type fluorescent proteins are essential genetically encoded probes for super-resolution imaging. The space required for chromophore cis–trans isomerisation can also provide an opportunity to introduce bulkier chemistry...
Crosslinked-polymer brushes give rise to new opportunities for functionalizing, protecting, and structuring both organic and inorganic materials. In this study, pH- and temperature-switchable crosslinked-polymer brushes were easily prepared by combin...
Slippery lubricant-infused surfaces (SLIPS) suffer from rapid lubricant depletion, severely limiting their durability in practical applications. To overcome this, we propose a laser-engineered hierarchical architecture that physically locks a solid p...
In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in stimuli-responsive host–guest materials due to the high potential for their application in switchable devices. Light is the most convenient stimulus for operating these materials; a ligh...
Achieving tunable physical properties is currently one of the most exciting research topics. In order to realize this goal, a medium that is responsive to external stimuli and can undergo a change in its physical property is required. Liquid crystal...
Regioselective benzanilide bromination that generates either regioisomer from the same starting material is desirable. Herein, we develop switchable site-selective C(sp2)-H bromination by promoter regulation. This protocol leads to regiodivergent bro...
A Cu-promoted highly chemoselective dimerization of 5-aminopyrazoles to produce pyrazole-fused pyridazines and pyrazines is reported. The protocol generates switchable products via the direct coupling of C-H/N-H, C-H/C-H and N-H/N-H bonds, with the m...
We propose a bandpass/bandstop-switchable frequency-selective metasurface (FSM) designed for high-speed vehicles that generate high temperatures during flight, based on a high-temperature-resistant dielectric substrate and liquid metal (LM). We fabri...
A switchable ultra-wideband THz absorber based on vanadium dioxide was proposed, which consists of a lowermost gold layer, a PMI dielectric layer, and an insulating and surface vanadium dioxide layer. Based on the phase transition properties of vanad...
An azo-functionalized porous organic framework (denoted as JJU-1) was synthesized via FeCl3-promoted oxidative coupling polymerization. By virtue of a porous skeleton and a light/heat responsive azo functional group, this task-specific JJU-1 displays...
Metamaterials are the major type of artificially engineered materials which exhibit naturally unobtainable properties according to how their microarchitectures are engineered. Owing to their unique and controllable effective properties, including ele...
In this paper, recent developments in the chemical design of functional microgels are summarized. A wide range of available synthetic methods allows the incorporation of various reactive groups, charges, or biological markers inside the microgel netw...
Recent progress in the field of photosensitive materials has prompted a need to develop efficient methods to synthesize materials with basic intermolecular architectural designs and novel properties. Accordingly, in this work we design and study a ph...
Switchable luminescent bioprobes whose emission can be turned on as a function of specific enzymatic activity are emerging as important tools in chemical biology. We report a promising platform for the development of label-free and continuous enzymat...
Emerging applications requiring light beam manipulation, such as high-efficiency sunlight concentrators for solar cells, switchable micro-lens arrays for autostereoscopic displays, tunable lenses for augmented reality goggles, auto-focusing spectacle...
Metasurfaces have emerged as a powerful platform for subwavelength light manipulation, attracting widespread interest for their potential to replace bulky optical components. However, most metasurfaces are statically designed with fixed functionaliti...
A series of new bis(pyrazol-3-yl)pyridines (LR) N,N′-disubstituted by 4-functionalized 2,6-dibromophenyl groups have been synthesized to study the effect of a distal substituent on the spin-crossover (SCO) behaviour of the iron(II) complexes [Fe(LR)2...
Based on additive manufacturing via photopolymerization, this study combines polymer-dispersed liquid crystal (PDLC) technology with 3D printing technology to produce tunable micro-optical components with switchable diffraction or focusing characteri...
Modern biomedical technologies predict the application of materials and devices that not only can comply effectively with specific requirements, but also enable remote control of their functions. One of the most prospective materials for these advanc...
Molecular switches based on functionalized graphene nanoribbons (GNRs) are of great interest in the development of nanoelectronics. In experiment, it was found that a significant difference in the conductance of an anthraquinone derivative can be ach...
We leverage the crucial hyperelastic properties of a multifunctional structured surface to optimize the reconfigurability of the electromagnetic transmission under large nonlinear mechanical deformations. This multiphysics, multifunctional, hyperelas...
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