Halide‐perovskite‐based mechanical energy harvesters display excellent electrical output due to their unique ferroelectricity and dielectricity. However, their high toxicity and moisture sensitivity impede their practical applications. Herein, a stretchable, breathable, and stable nanofiber composite (LPPS‐NFC) is fabricated through electrospinning of lead‐free perovskite/poly(vinylidene fluoride‐co‐hexafluoropropylene) (PVDF‐HFP) and styrene–ethylene–butylene–styrene (SEBS). The Cs3Bi2Br9 perovskites serve as efficient electron acceptors and local nucleating agents for the crystallization of polymer chains, thereby enhancing the electron‐trapping capacity and polar crystalline phase in LPPS‐NFC. The excellent energy level matching between Cs3Bi2Br9 and PVDF‐HFP boosts the electron transfer efficiency and reduces the charge loss, thereby promoting the electron‐trapping process. Consequently, this LPPS‐NFC‐based energy harvester displays an excellent electrical output (400 V, 1.63 µA cm−2, and 2.34 W m−2), setting a record of the output voltage among halide‐perovskite‐based nanogenerators. The LPPS‐NFC also exhibits excellent stretchability, waterproofness, and breathability, enabling the fabrication of robust wearable devices that convert mechanical energy from different biomechanical motions into electrical power to drive common electronic devices. The LPPS‐NFC‐based energy harvesters also endure extreme mechanical deformations (washing, folding, and crumpling) without performance degradation, and maintain stable electrical output up to 5 months, demonstrating their promising potential for use as smart textiles and wearable power sources.
Together with the more intuitive and commonly recognized conductance mechanisms of charge‐hopping and tunneling, quantum‐interference (QI) phenomena have been identified as important factors affecting charge transport through molecules. Consequently, establishing simple and flexible molecular‐design strategies to understand, control, and exploit QI in molecular junctions poses an exciting challenge. Here we demonstrate that destructive quantum interference (DQI) in meta‐substituted phenylene ethylene‐type oligomers (m‐OPE) can be tuned by changing the position and conformation of methoxy (OMe) substituents at the central phenylene ring. These substituents play the role of molecular‐scale taps, which can be switched on or off to control the current flow through a molecule. Our experimental results conclusively verify recently postulated magic‐ratio and orbital‐product rules, and highlight a novel chemical design strategy for tuning and gating DQI features to create single‐molecule devices with desirable electronic functions.
Stoddart and colleagues present a unique strategy for constructing a two-channel intramolecular circuit from a charged cyclophane. An interchannel gating effect contributes to the effective conductance of each channel, and constructive quantum interference enhances the total conductance in parallel two-channel circuits, leading synergistically to a giant conductance that is more than 50-fold that of a control molecule with a single backbone. This principle heralds a proof-ofprinciple approach to charged intramolecular circuits that are desirable for quantum circuits and devices. tive conductance of each channel-and CQI boosts the total conductance of the two-channel circuit. The molecular design presented herein constitutes a proof-of-principle approach to charged intramolecular circuits that are desirable for quantum circuits and devices.
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