Small
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2021
·Vol. 18
·期 2
·2104440
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IF 13.281
Jincai Yin,Wenxin Fan,Zihan Xu,Jinghua Duan,Yanzhi Xia,Zhihong Nie,Kunyan Sui
The intellectualization and complication of existing self-shaping materials are limited by the inseparable monotonic relationship between their deformation rate and deformation degree (i.e., a higher deformation rate is accompanied by a high deformation degree). This causes that they can only deform from 2D to 3D states. Here, a simple yet versatile strategy to decouple the monotonic correlation between the deformation rate and deformation degree of self-shaping hydrogels is presented for achieving complex deformations from 2D to temporary 3D to 3D (2D-to-4D). It is demonstrated that when the gradient hydrogels prepared by photopolymerization possess dense polymer networks, the local regions with a high deformation rate can exhibit a low deformation degree. The resulting hydrogels can thus deform in a novel 2D-to-4D mode under external stimuli. During the deformation, they first transform into the temporary shapes induced by the local deformation rate difference, and then transform into the final shapes determined by the local deformation degree difference. Through controlling the ultraviolet irradiation direction and time to precisely program the local gradients of self-shaping hydrogels, they can be designed to produce various unprecedented yet controllable 2D-to-4D shape evolutions on demand, such as transformable origami, sequential gesture actions in finger-guessing games, mobile octopuses, time switch, etc.
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生物材料学
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高分子化学
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软体机器人
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组织工程
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智能材料
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仿生学
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MACROMOLECULAR RAPID COMMUNICATIONS
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2021
·Vol. 42
·期 22
·2100457
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IF 5.734
Xiaobin Li,Ending Zhang,Jun Shi,Xiaoyan Xiong,Jiaming Lin,Qiang Zhang,Xiaohua Cui,Liqin Tan,Kun Wu
In the past two decades, ionic conductive hydrogel has attracted tremendous research interests for their intrinsic characteristics in the field of flexible sensor. However, synchronous achievement of high mechanical strength, satisfied ionic conductivity, and broad adhesion to various substrates is still a challenge. Herein, a novel zwitterionic composite hydrogel that displayed excited strechability (up to 900%), satisfied strength (about 30 kPa), high ionic conductivity (1.2 mS cm −1 ), and adhesion to polar and nonpolar materials is fabricated though the combination of waterborne polyurethanes (PU) and poly(sulfobetaine zwitterion- co -acrylamide) (SAm). Especially, this facile strategy demonstrates that PU has a synergistic effect on enhancing mechanical strength and ionic conductivity for ionic conductive hydrogel. Moreover, the hydrogel-based strain/stress sensor shows high sensitivity, wide sensing range, great stability, and accuracy for human body movements detecting and voice recognition. This novel ionic conductive hydrogel has promoted the development of wearable devices.
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生物材料
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高分子科学
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柔性电子学
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生物医学工程
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传感器技术
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Small
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2022
·Vol. 18
·期 48
·2205163
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IF 15.153
Shuhao Tian,Juanjuan Huang,Hongcen Yang,Guo Liu,Qi Zeng,Di Wang,Xiao Sun,Kun Tao,Guohan Liu,Shanglong Peng
The low utilization rate of active materials, shuttle effect of lithium polysulfides (LiPSs), and slow reaction kinetics lead to the extremely low efficiency and poor high current cycle stability of lithium sulfur batteries (Li–S batteries). In this paper, a self-supporting multicomponent hierarchical network aerogel is proposed as the modified cathode (S/GO@MX@VS 4 ). It consists of graphene (GO) and MXene nanosheets (MX) loaded with VS 4 nanoparticles. The experimental results and first-principles calculations show that the GO@MX@VS 4 aerogel has strong adsorption and reversible conversion effects on LiPSs. It can not only inhibit the shuttle effect and improve the utilization rate of active substances by keeping the chain crystal structure of VS 4 , but also promote the reversibility and kinetics of the reaction by accelerating the liquid–solid transformation in the reduction process and the decomposition of insoluble Li 2 S in the oxidation process. The GO@MX@VS 4 aerogel modified cathode with a multicomponent synergy exhibits the capacity ratios (Q 1 /Q 2 ) at different discharge stages is close to the theoretical value (1:2.8), and the capacity decay per cycle is 0.019% in 1200 cycles at 5C. Also, a high areal capacity of 6.90 mAh cm −2 is provided even at high sulfur loading (7.39 mg cm −2 ) and low electrolyte/sulfur ratio (E/S, 8.0 µL mg −1 ).
研究领域:
电化学储能
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材料科学
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纳米材料
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能源化学
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电池技术
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表面催化
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INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF HYDROGEN ENERGY
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2018
·Vol. 43
·期 7
·3741-3749
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IF 4.229
Xingcheng Hu,Ravi Muchakayala,Shenhua Song,Jingwei Wang,Jianjun Chen,Manlin Tan
Polymeric ionic liquid-based gel electrolyte films are a new generation of electrolyte materials for flexible energy storage device applications. In this work, Li-ion conducting gel electrolyte films are prepared with the polymeric ionic liquid poly(diallydimethylammonium) bis(trifluoromethane sulfonyl)imide (poly(DADMATFSI)) as the host polymer and the lithium bis(trifluoromethanesulfonyl)imide (LiTFSI) salt as the dopant . The crystalline nature, thermal stability, ionic conductivity and electrochemical stability window of the polymeric electrolyte films are analyzed by various characterization techniques. It is found that the polymeric electrolyte films exhibit high flexibility and excellent thermal stability. Their room-temperature electrical conductivity increases with increasing LiTFSI concentration and reaches a high value of 1.00 × 10 −3 S cm −1 at 20 wt% LiTFSI. The ionic transference numbers of the polymeric electrolyte films are in the range of 0.98–0.99, indicating that they are perfect ion conductors. Finally, the electrochemical stability window of the 20 wt% LiTFSI-doped polymeric electrolyte film is determined as approximately 6 V, which is a promising value for flexible energy storage device applications.
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材料科学
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电化学
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高分子化学
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能源存储
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功能材料
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JOURNAL OF RARE EARTHS
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2015
·Vol. 33
·期 9
·927-932
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IF 1.261
Hailong PENG,Qiangsheng GAO,Lili MENG,Lixia ZHANG,Qi PANG,Lifang LIANG
Ca 12 Al 14 O 32 F 2 :Eu 3+ red phosphors were prepared by the sol-gel method with CF 3 COOH as the fluorine source. X-ray diffraction, transmission electron microscopy, X-ray photoelectron spectra, and photoluminescence spectra, as well as thermogravimetric and differential thermal analysis were utilized to characterize the samples. All the samples were single phase with a cubic structure. The as-obtained Ca 12 Al 14 O 32 F 2 :Eu 3+ red phosphors consisted of nanoparticles with sizes of approximately 40–100 nm. Under the excitation of UV light, Ca 12 Al 14 O 32 F 2 :Eu 3+ exhibited the characteristic emissions of Eu 3+ , and the effect of annealing temperature, annealing time, and CF 3 COOH and Eu 3+ concentrations on the luminescence intensity were discussed in detail.
研究领域:
材料科学
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无机化学
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发光材料
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纳米材料
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固体化学
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JOURNAL OF NUCLEAR MATERIALS
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2017
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IF 2.048
Zhangyi Huang,Zhangkai Cao,Ke Shi,Jianqi Qi,Mao Zhou,Zhe Tang,Wei Han,Xinyue Diao,Jun Tang,Tiecheng Lu
For Gd 2 Zr 2 O 7 , nanograin ceramics with high relative densities (95%–97.4%) and small average grain sizes (61 nm - 82 nm) were successfully fabricated for the first time using field assisted sintering technique (FAST), also known as spark plasma sintering (SPS) method, in which nanopowders with an average crystallite size of 5.9 nm were synthesized via a non-aqueous gel-combustion method. Temperature was varied over a broad range to investigate its influence on the densification mechanism, microstructure evolution and hardness. The results revealed that both relative density and grain size increase with the increase of sintering temperature . The densification processes were divided to three stages. 1250 °C–1300 °C is the most suitable temperature range to fabricate dense Gd 2 Zr 2 O 7 nanograin ceramics with comparatively high hardness by FAST.
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材料科学
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无机非金属材料
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陶瓷工程
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纳米材料
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固态化学
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烧结工艺
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RSC Advances
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2018
·Vol. 8
·期 65
·37417-37423
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IF 2.936
Jihui Li,Kang Sun,Changyu Leng,Jianchun Jiang
Reasonable structure design and component selection are crucial to electrochemical performance of supercapacitor electrode materials. Sodium alginate (SA), with a novel structure which can immobilize multivalent metal cations, was used to coordinate with Fe3+ to fabricate a carbon and Fe3O4 composite by an easy sol–gel method. Due to the chelation effect between SA and Fe3+, the carbon composite was constructed into a two-dimensional sheet-like structure, and the Fe3O4 particles were nanosize and homogenously distributed on the surface of the carbon nanosheet. As an electrode material for supercapacitors, the composite electrode showed a high specific capacitance of 550 F g−1 at 1 A g−1 in the potential range from −1.1 to 0 V, and excellent cycling stability of 89% retention after 2000 cycles. The enhanced electrochemical performance could be attributed to the abundant exposed active sites, producing high pseudocapacitance, to the two-dimensional nanosheet structure, facilitating electrolyte transport and to the strong attachment strength, improving cycle life. This environmentally-friendly design can provide an alternative to existing methods, resulting in the development of a two-dimensional carbon/metal oxide composite for energy storage devices.
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材料科学
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电化学
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纳米科技
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能源存储
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功能材料
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MACROMOLECULAR MATERIALS AND ENGINEERING
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2018
·Vol. 304
·期 1
·1800477
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IF 2.69
Ziqiang Xu,Wenlei Li,Zhi Chen,Dongxia Wang,Tingting Feng,Hanna Potapenko,Mengqiang Wu
A novel porous membrane of chemically modified polyvinyl butyral (mPVB), with improved thermal properties and chemical stability for lithium ion battery applications, is successfully synthesized by utilizing the chain extension reaction of the OH units from PVB. The porous mPVB membranes are obtained via the tape casting and phase inversion method. The corresponding gel polymer electrolyte (GPE) is achieved by immersing the as-prepared membranes in the liquid electrolyte. The electrochemical performances of the GPE show that the mPVB membranes have the features of good uniformity, high porosity ( ≈ 90%), great thermal stability, and high mechanical strength. Moreover, the GPE exhibits good chemical stability, a wide electrochemical window, as well as high ionic conductivity ( ≈ 1.21 × 10 −3 S cm −1 ). A test of a Li/GPE/LiFePO 4 battery cell shows a capacity of 147.7 mAh g −1 and excellent cycling stability, demonstrating the great potential of the mPVB-based GPE for lithium ion battery applications.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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高分子化学
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电池技术
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JOURNAL OF ALLOYS AND COMPOUNDS
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2016
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IF 3.014
Dong Zhang,Xuanxuan Ma,Qi Zhang,Yanru Xie,Qiang Shi,Qiangru Wang,Wenjun Wang
Zn x Al 2 O 4 :Cr 3+ (0.8 ≤ x ≤ 4) phosphors with spinel structure were prepared by using sol-gel method. The structure, morphology and photoluminescence properties were analyzed by using X-ray diffraction (XRD), scanning electron microscopy (SEM), transmission electron microscopy (TEM), electron paramagnetic resonance (EPR) and photoluminescence (PL). The spinel structure of ZnAl 2 O 4 was formed for all samples, and hexagonal structure of ZnO appeared in the powders with x ≥ 1.1. The results of XRD, SEM and TEM showed that the crystallinity of Zn x Al 2 O 4 :Cr 3+ phosphors was improved with increasing the value of x . The PL spectra showed a series of sharp emission peaks ranging from 650 nm to 730 nm assigned to spin-forbidden 2 E g → 4 A 2 g transition of Cr 3+ ions in spinel lattices. The most intense emission was observed in Zn 1.2 Al 2 O 4 :Cr 3+ powders, and the results of EPR showed that this enhancement resulted from the best dispersity of Cr 3+ ions in Zn x Al 2 O 4 lattices.
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材料科学
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无机化学
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固体物理
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发光材料
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纳米材料
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CHEMICAL ENGINEERING JOURNAL
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2023
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IF 15.1
Nan Sun,Hongjin Sun,Dongchen Tan,Qinglei Guo,Zhe Zhang,Zhiyuan Tao,Chengcheng Fang,Jingyuan Bu,Jijie Huang,Chengming Jiang
Transparent and flexible electronics research is a lively and promising domain that holds immense potential for a plethora of innovative applications in consumer electronics, healthcare, and renewable energy sectors. It would be extremely beneficial to develop internal energy sources that are transparent and do not alter the visual appearance would. In this study, we introduce the design of a transparent and flexible zinc-ion solid-state battery (TFZSB), all of whose component elements, such as the electrode, electrolyte/diaphragm, and packaging, are made of transparent and soft materials. The electrodes have been constructed with a framework of nanotube (NT) networks, while the electrolyte is built from a polyacrylamide (PAM) hydrogel material. The suggested electrode design effectively leverages the outstanding optical properties and flexibility of the NT network, while the construction assimilates the PAM hydrogel for providing electrical protection and fabricate the electrolyte, culminating in a resilient interface, which confers exceptional electrochemical stability under varying mechanical strains. With a strong visible-light spectrum transmittance of >80 % and a retention Coulombic efficiency of >92 % under large-scale strains, the TFZSB demonstrates a mass specific capacity of 122.6mAh/g. This TFZSB constitutes a breakthrough in the realm of wearable and smart electronics, and holds the potential to unlock a multitude of opportunities in the future by bridging the domains of energy storage and flexibility/transparency.
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材料科学
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电化学
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能源存储
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柔性电子学
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纳米科技
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高分子材料
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生物医学工程
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CERAMICS INTERNATIONAL
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2021
·Vol. 48
·期 6
·8579-8588
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IF 4.527
Sunyi Shen,Shaolei Song,Jinming Wang,Rong Li,Xingchao Li,Qiang Zhen
Microstructure control and multiple compounding methods in the synthesis stage can enhance microwave absorption performance of microwave absorbents. In this work, we successfully synthesized binary TiB 2 –SiC (TsBC) powders with hexagonal sheet (TiB 2 ) and particle (SiC) interlocking structures by sol-gel carbothermal reduction method. We investigated the effect of raw material ratio and synthesis temperature on the synthesized powders and evaluated the microwave absorption properties of the synthesized TsBC powders. It was found that the TsBC absorber exhibited excellent microwave adsorption properties with the minimum Reflection Loss ( R L ) reached −21.8 dB at 17.4 GHz corresponding to the thickness of 4 mm. This excellent performance was attributed to the interfacial polarization between TiB 2 –SiC interfaces and the multiple reflections between the sheet-particle interlocking structures.
研究领域:
材料科学
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功能材料
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复合材料
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电磁学
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无机非金属材料
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MATERIALS RESEARCH BULLETIN
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2017
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IF 2.446
Tengchao Guo,Guoyue Xu,Shujuan Tan,Ning Liu,Jianchao Zhang,Xiangxiong Zeng,Juan Liang
The electronic properties and infrared emissivity of Zn 1-x Mg x O (x = 0, 0.0625, 0.125) were systematically investigated by using the first-principle calculation s based on density functional theory (DFT). The Zn 1-x Mg x O (x = 0, 0.0625, 0.125) powders were prepared by sol-gel method and their infrared emissivity in the wavelength of 8–14 μm was characterized. The results indicate that the infrared emissivity increases with the increase in Mg concentration, which is attributed to the reduction in conductivity and in the real part of dielectric function. Furthermore, the variation in conductivity and dielectric function has been well studied, and a reasonable method to calculate infrared emissivity of semiconductors has been established. It is expected that this method can be used for designing materials with different infrared emissivity and also applied for effectively guiding the experimental investigation.
研究领域:
材料科学
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凝聚态物理
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计算材料学
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功能材料
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半导体物理
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