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Wavy fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) electret films with negative charges were prepared by a patterning method followed by a corona charging process. The thermal stability of these films was characterized by the surface potential decay with annealing time at elevated temperatures. The results show that thermally stable electret films can be made by corona charging followed by pre-aging treatment. Vibration energy harvesters having a very simple sandwich structure, consisting of a central wavy FEP electret film and two outside metal plates, were designed and their performance, including the resonance frequency, output power, half power bandwidth, and device stability, was investigated. These harvesters show a broad bandwidth as well as high output power. Their performance can be further improved by using a wavy-shaped counter electrode. For an energy harvester with an area of 4 cm2 and a seismic mass of 80 g, the output power referred to 1 g (g is the gravity of the earth), the resonance frequency, and the 3 dB bandwidth are 1.85 mW, 90 Hz, and 24 Hz, respectively. The output power is sufficient to power some electronic devices. Such devices may be embedded in shoe soles, carpets or seat cushions where the flexibility is required and large force is available.

Metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) are widely explored owing to their excellent nonlinear optical (NLO) properties. However, researchers have mainly focused on designing new structures of MOF crystals to adjust the NLO response while ignoring the influence of the number of metal–ligand coordination bonds on the NLO properties of MOFs. In this study, the influence of the coordination numbers of MOFs on their NLO properties is studied for the first time. Herein, MOFs with different coordination numbers, using trifluoroacetic acid as an auxiliary agent, are synthesized and their NLO properties are tested using the Z‐scan technique. The results reveal that the NLO absorption properties of MOFs with high coordination numbers can be effectively modulated from saturable absorption to reverse saturable absorption by increasing the excitation intensity. First‐principles calculations show that a change in the coordination numbers leads to a change in the charge transfer from metal to ligand, thereby resulting in different NLO responses. The MOFs with a high coordination number have potential applications in novel optical switches or logic gates. These results provide a reference for the precise adjustment of the NLO properties of MOFs.

Energy harvesting from vibrations provides power to low-energy-consuming electronics for standalone and wearable devices as well as for wireless and remote sensing. In this contribution, compact tubular ferroelectret energy harvesters utilizing a single-tube design are presented. Such single-tube harvesters can be fabricated from commercially available fluorinated ethylene propylene (FEP) tubes with wall thicknesses of 25 and 50 μm, respectively, by mechanical deformation at elevated temperature. It is demonstrated that the generated power is highly dependent on parameters such as wall thickness, load resistance, and seismic mass. Utilizing a seismic mass of 80 g at resonance frequencies around 80 Hz and an input acceleration of 1 Â g (9.81 m s À2 rms), output powers up to 300 μW can be reached for a transducer with 25 μm thick walls.

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The aim of this study was to construct PPT-LDH nanohybrids and compare their tumor inhibition effects with that of free PPT. Anticancer drug podophyllotoxin (PPT) was encapsulated in the galleries of Mg-Al layered double hydroxides (LDHs) by a two-step approach. Tyrosine (Tyr) was first incorporated into the interlayer space by co-precipitation with LDH, prop-opening the layers of Mg-Al/LDH and creating an interlayer environment inviting drug molecules. PPT was subsequently intercalated into the resulting material lamella by an ion exchange process. The intermediate and final products, which can be termed drug-inorganic nanocomposites, have been characterized by powder X-ray diffraction (XRD), UV-VIS spectrophotometer, transmission electron microscopy (TEM) and in cell culture. Our results demonstrate that the interlayer spacing distance of the PPT-LDH nanohybrids (34% w/w of drug/material) is 18.2 A. LDHs do not harm normal cells (293T) based on toxicity tests. Ex-vivo anticancer experiments reveal that the PPT-LDH nanohybrids have higher tumor suppression effects than intercalated PPT. We conclude that the higher tumor inhibition effects of PPT-LDH hybrids result from the inorganic drug delivery vehicle, LDHs.

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