PurposeThis paper aims to improve understanding of the reasons why people trust the information about product recommendations on social shopping networks of websites, a new e‐commerce method which combines social networking and shopping, and to investigate the impact of the trust on the consumers' intention to purchase products from the online shop of a website.Design/methodology/approachAn online survey instrument was developed to gather data, and 1,219 questionnaires were used to test the relationships in the proposed model.FindingsThe results indicated that perceived ability, perceived benevolence/integrity, perceived critical mass, and trust in a website were four important antecedents of trust in product recommendation in a social networking site. In addition trust in product recommendations can influence the consumers' intention to purchase from the website through increasing their intention to purchase the products.Research limitations/implicationsThe research model demonstrated the importance of trust in product recommendations to online consumers' transaction intention.Practical implicationsThe results of the study showed that trust in product recommendations will influence consumers' purchase intentions. Therefore a social shopping website or the websites transforming into social shopping websites should put more emphasis on ways to establish the virtual communities or social networks which can provide the information about product recommendations that consumers trust.Originality/valueThe study provides a comprehensive framework of the antecedents and effects of consumers' trust in recommendations in the context of social shopping.
Bioinspired unidirectional porous materials have emerged as au nique class of scaffolds for the fabrication of macroscopic nanomaterial assemblies.H owever,t hese scaffolds usually serve simply as mechanical carriers to support various building blocks.Here,wereport that the unidirectional silk fibroin scaffold can not only act as acarrier,but also serve as ac ontrollable multiscale reactor to achieve the in situ synthesis of aAg 3 PO 4 nanowire network anchored to ordered channels.B oth the silk fibroin matrix and the interface play important roles in the nucleation and growth of the Ag 3 PO 4 nanowires.This unidirectional composite scaffold can be used for efficient water disinfection. Furthermore,t he facile chemical transformation of Ag 3 PO 4 in the composite scaffold into Ag 2 Sp rovided an analogous unidirectional composite silk scaffold that displays both efficient solar water evaporation effect and antibacterial activity.Itisexpected that this method can be extended to fabricate as eries of silk-based unidirectional composite scaffolds with varying functionalities.
The silk fibroin matrix obtained from silkworm cocoons was used to fabricate silk fibroin–silver compound nanowire composite scaffolds with a bioinspired unidirectional structure. As S.‐H. Yu, C. He, Y. Lu, et al. report in their Communication on page 14152, both the silk fibroin matrix and the interface of ordered channels play important roles in the nucleation and growth of Ag3PO4 nanowires. An analogue containing Ag2S nanowires displays an efficient solar water evaporation effect and antibacterial activity.
Die Seidenfibroinmatrix aus Seidenraupenkokons wurde zur Herstellung von Kompositgerüsten aus Seidenfibroin und Nanodrähten aus Silberverbindungen mit bioinspirierter, unidirektionaler Struktur verwendet. S.‐H. Yu, C. He, Y. Lu et al. berichten in ihrer Zuschrift auf S. 14290 ff., dass die Seidenfibroinmatrix wie auch die Grenzfläche geordneter Kanäle wichtige Rollen bei Keimbildung und Wachstum von Ag3PO4‐Nanodrähten spielen. Ein Analogon mit Ag2S‐Nanodrähten zeigt einen effizienten solargetriebenen Wasserverdampfungseffekt und antibakterielle Aktivität.
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