Luting Zhu

Westlake University · Engineering

Uncontrollable bleeding is a crucial factor that can lead to fatality. Therefore, the development of hemostatic dressings that enable rapid hemostasis is of utmost importance. Hydrogels with injectability, self-healing ability, and adhesiveness hold significant potential as effective hemostatic dressings. Herein, a composite hydrogel was fabricated...

Elastic carbon aerogels show great potential for various applications but are often hindered by structure-derived fatigue failure, weak elasticity with low compressibility, and low stress and height retention. Herein, we demonstrate a super-elastic and fatigue-resistant nanochitin-derived carbon honeycomb with honeycomb-like anisotropic microstruct...

Remarkable progress has been made in the development of carbonized chitin nanofiber materials for various functional applications, including solar thermal heating, owing to their N- and O-doped carbon structures and sustainable nature. Carbonization is a fascinating process for the functionalization of chitin nanofiber materials. However, conventio...

The increasing use of microwaves in wireless communications has caused severe electromagnetic pollution. As the frequency range for wireless communication is expanding, it is highly desirable to develop a microwave absorber that can smartly and reversibly tune its absorption and transmission properties on demand to transmit required frequencies and...

Sustainable biomass-derived carbons have attracted research interest because of their ability to effectively absorb and convert solar light to thermal energy, a phenomenon known as solar thermal heating. Although their carbon-based molecular and nanoporous structures should be customized to achieve enhanced solar thermal heating performance, such c...

With the increasing use of microwaves, the functional design of carbon-based microwave absorbers has gained attention toward overcoming severe electromagnetic pollution, owing to the lightweight and broadband absorption properties of these absorbers. The key functions for realizing strong microwave absorption include good impedance matching to the...

Semiconducting nanomaterials with 3D network structures exhibit various fascinating properties such as electrical conduction, high permeability, and large surface areas, which are beneficial for adsorption, separation, and sensing applications. However, research on these materials is substantially restricted by the limited trans-scalability of thei...

Humidity sensing plays an important role in diverse applications in the fields of agriculture, healthcare, skincare, and environmental monitoring. With the advent of the “trillion sensor” society, there is a growing demand for humidity sensors that can be made from abundant and renewable resources. Cellulose, the most abundant and renewable bioreso...

Biomass-derived three-dimensional (3D) porous nanocarbons have attracted much attention due to their high surface area, permeability, electrical conductivity, and renewability, which are beneficial for various electronic applications, including energy storage. Cellulose, the most abundant and renewable carbohydrate polymer on earth, is a promising...

Three-dimensional porous and defect-rich nitrogen-doped nanocarbon is successfully prepared by facile pyrolysis of crab shell-derived chitin nanofiber paper, delivering promising performance in both photosensing and energy storage.

Bi-layer organization of dissimilar two-dimensional (2D) nanosheets has aroused great attention because of their unique physicochemical properties, fascinating functions, as well as potential applications in portable and wearable electronic devices. In this study we showed that several types of 2D nanomaterials were capable of being exfoliated by g...

Despite great advantages of chitin for water purification, current researches have lacked the intensive study for the utilization of chitin in high-flux filters. To tackle this, we proposed, for the first time, a facile method for the construction of multifunctional nanoporous chitin ultrafiltration membranes derived from renewable marine resources...