Extensive efforts have been devoted to construct a fiber-shaped energystorage device to fulfill the increasing demand for power consumption of textile-based wearable electronics. Despite the myriad of available material selections and device architectures, it is still fundamentally challenging to develop eco-friendly fiber-shaped aqueous rechargeable batteries (FARBs) on a single-fiber architecture with high energy density and long-term stability. Here, we demonstrate flexible and high-voltage coaxialfiber aqueous rechargeable zinc-ion batteries (CARZIBs). By utilizing a novel spherical zinc hexacyanoferrate with prominent electrochemical performance as cathode material, the assembled CARZIB offers a large capacity of 100.2 mAh cm −3 and a high energy density of 195.39 mWh cm −3 , outperforming the state-of-the-art FARBs. Moreover, the resulting CARZIB delivers outstanding flexibility with the capacity retention of 93.2% after bending 3000 times. Last, high operating voltage and output current are achieved by the serial and parallel connection of CARZIBs woven into the flexible textile to power high-energy-consuming devices. Thus, this work provides proof-of-concept design for next-generation wearable energy-storage devices.

Flexible transparent electrodes are critically important for the emerging flexible and stretchable electronic and optoelectronic devices. To this end, transparent polymer films coated with silver nanowires (AgNWs) have been intensively studied in the past decade. However, it remains a grand challenge to achieve both high conductivity and transmittance in large‐area films, mainly due to the poor alignment of AgNWs and their high junction resistance. Here, the successful attempt to realize large‐area AgNW patterns on various substrates by a 2D ice‐templating approach is reported. With a relatively low dosage of AgNWs (4 µg·cm−2), the resulted flexible electrode simultaneously achieves high optical transmittance (≈91%) and low sheet resistance (20 Ω·sq−1). In addition, the electrode exhibits excellent durability during cyclic bending (≈10 000 times) and stretching (50% strain). The potential applications of the flexible transparent electrode in both touch screen and electronic skin sensor, which can monitor the sliding pressure and direction in real‐time, are demonstrated. More importantly, it is believed that the study represents a facile and low‐cost approach to assemble various nanomaterials into large‐area functional patterns for advanced flexible devices.

Cobalt-chiral diphoshine catalytic systems promote intramolecular hydroacylation reactions of 2-acylbenzaldehydes and 2-alkenylbenzaldehydes to afford phthalide and indanone derivatives, respectively, in moderate to good yields with high enantioselectivities. The ketone hydroacylation did not exhibit a significant H/D kinetic isotope effect (KIE) with respect to the aldehyde C-H bond, indicating that C-H activation would not be involved in the rate-limiting step.

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