Death from acute hemorrhage is a major problem in military conflicts, traffic accidents, and surgical procedures, et al. Achieving rapid effective hemostasis for pre-hospital care is essential to save lives in massive bleeding. An ideal hemostasis material should have those features such as safe, efficient, convenient, economical, which remains challenging and most of them cannot be achieved at the same time. In this work, we report a rapid effective nanoclay-based hemostatic membranes with nanoclay particles incorporate into polyvinylpyrrolidone (PVP) electrospun fibers. The nanoclay electrospun membrane (NEM) with 60 wt% kaolinite (KEM1.5) shows better and faster hemostatic performance in vitro and in vivo with good biocompatibility compared with most other NEMs and clay-based hemostats, benefiting from its enriched hemostatic functional sites, robust fluffy framework, and hydrophilic surface. The robust hemostatic bandages based on nanoclay electrospun membrane is an effective candidate hemostat in practical application.
The potential safety hazards and limited lithium resources of lithium‐ion batteries (LIBs) have restricted their practical application. Potassium‐ion batteries (KIBs) are a novel energy storage technology with great cost advantages and are a promising alternative to LIBs. However, because of the large ionic radius of K+, the common anode materials used in LIBs exhibit a large volumetric expansion and structural collapse in the process of charging and discharging in a KIB. In this work, the prepared nitrogen‐doped porous carbon fibers (P‐CFs) from bombyx mori silk cocoons via a simple KCl activation and high‐temperature carbonization method. The P‐CFs possess a large specific surface area and one‐dimensional porous structure, offering facile storage and fast transport channels for K+ ions. When used as an anode for KIBs, the P‐CFs exhibit a high reversible specific capacity of 275 mAh·g−1 at a current density of 0.1 A·g−1 after 500 cycles and even retain a capacity of 100 mAh·g−1 after 5000 cycles at 2 A·g−1. This study demonstrates a simple strategy for the low‐cost synthesis of nitrogen‐doped porous carbon fibers from an environmental friendly biomaterial, with excellent electrochemical performance as an anode for KIBs.
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