A ternary-blend strategy is presented to surmount the shortcomings of both fullerene derivatives and nonfullerene small molecules as acceptors for the first time. The optimal ternary device shows a high power conversion efficiency (PCE) of 10.4%. Moreover, a significant enhancement in PCE (≈35%) relative to both of the binary reference devices, which has never been achieved before in high-efficiency ternary devices, is demonstrated.

In living systems, ion conduction plays a major role in numerous cellular processes and can be controlled by biological ion channels in response to specific environmental stimuli. This article describes biomimetic ionic gates for ion conduction based on sodium and potassium activated nanochannels. The Na(+) activated ionic gate and K(+) activated ionic gate were developed by immobilizing the alkali metal cation-responsive functional molecules, 4'-aminobenzo-15-crown-5 and 4'-aminobenzo-18-crown-6, respectively, onto the conical polyimide nanochannels. When the ionic gate was in the presence of the specific alkali metal cation, positively charged complexes formed between the crown ether and the alkali metal cation. On the basis of the resulting changes in surface charge, wettability and effective pore size, the nanochannel can achieve reversible switching. The switching behaviors of the two complexes differed due to the differences in binding strength between the two complexes. The Na(+) activated ionic gate is able to open and close to control the ion conduction through the nanochannel, and the K(+) activated ionic gate enables selective cation and anion conduction through the nanochannel. The Na(+) and K(+) activated ionic gates show great promise for use in clinical medicine, biosensors and drug delivery based on their high sensitivity and selectivity of being activated, and good stability.

The original Supporting Information for article adma.201503668 contains an inexact fluorescence image in Figure S5b. Originally, the fluorescence experiments detailed were performed at a series of pH values, and the images at pH 3.0 and 4.3 both exhibited red fluorescence because the block copolymer membrane was always positively charged with a pH value below 5.2. The image taken at pH of 4.3 was used in Figure S5b instead of that at pH of 3.0 in error. Although the two images are very similar, there are still some differences. At pH 3.0, the red color is darker and the dye layer is thicker because the membrane at pH 3.0 possesses more surface charges and can adsorb more dye molecules. These minor differences will significantly influence the resulting current-voltage curves. This error, however, has no effect on the discussions or conclusions of the paper. The corrected image in Figure S5b is shown below:

The enhanced stability and controllability of an ionic diode system based on funnel-shaped nanochannels with a much longer critical region is reported. The polarity of ion transport switching from anion/cation-selective to ambipolar can be controlled by tuning the length and charge of the critical region. This nanofluidic structure anticipates potential applications in single-molecule biosensing, water resource monitoring, and healthcare.

Fluorine is one of the human body's required trace elements. Imbalanced fluoride levels severely affect the normal functioning of living organisms. In this article, an anion-regulated synthetic nanochannel is described. A fluoride-driven ionic gate was developed by immobilizing a fluoride-responsive functional molecule, 4-aminophenylboronic acid, onto a single conical polyimide nanochannel. When the ionic gate was in the presence of fluoride, the boron bound F-, and the hybridization of the boron center changed from sp2 to sp3. Thus, negatively charged monofluoride adduct (RB(OH)2F-), difluoride adduct (RB(OH)F2-), and trifluoride adduct (RBF3-) modified surfaces with different wettability would be formed successively by increasing the concentration of F-. On the basis of the variation of surface charge and wettability, the nanochannel can actualize reversible switching between the "off" state and the "on" state in the absence and presence of F-, respectively. As an anion-regulated synthetic nanochannel, this fluoride-driven ionic gate was characterized by measuring ionic current, which possesses high sensitivity, fine selectivity, and strong stability. Thus, this gate may show great promise for use in biosensors, water quality monitoring, and drug delivery.

A highly efficient and perfectly reversible ionic gate that can be activated by pH or UV light is demonstrated. Switching between the OFF state and the ON state is mainly dependent on the surface charge transition brought about by a malachite green derivative attached to the interior surface of an ion track-etched conical nanochannel, which makes it suitable for confined spaces. Applications in electronics, actuators, and biosensors can be foreseen.

A novel biomimetic voltage-gated chloride nanochannel is described. This artificial nanochannel can realize reversible switching between the "on" and "off" states upon addition and removal of Cl(-) and can realize the selective and directional transport of Cl(-) driven by voltage. Moreover, it also has high sensitivity, good selectivity, responsive switchability, and good stability.

We present two efficient schemes for the deterministic generation and the complete nondestructive analysis of hyperentangled Bell states in both the polarization and spatial-mode degrees of freedom (DOFs) of two-photon systems, assisted by the nitrogen-vacancy (NV) centers in diamonds coupled to microtoroidal resonators as a result of cavity quantum electrodynamics (QED). With the input-output process of photons, two-photon polarization-spatial hyperentangled Bell states can be generated in a deterministic way and their complete nondestructive analysis can be achieved. These schemes can be generalized to generate and analyze hyperentangled Greenberger-Horne-Zeilinger states of multi-photon systems as well. Compared with previous works, these two schemes relax the difficulty of their implementation in experiment as it is not difficult to obtain the π phase shift in single-sided NV-cavity systems. Moreover, our schemes do not require that the transmission for the uncoupled cavity is balanceable with the reflectance for the coupled cavity. Our calculations show that these schemes can reach a high fidelity and efficiency with current technology, which may be a benefit to long-distance high-capacity quantum communication with two DOFs of photon systems.