Tumor has been one of the most common causes of death worldwide, while chemotherapy is still the major tool for antitumor treatment. As a broad-spectrum anthracycline-type antitumor drug, doxorubicin (DOX) has been widely used in different types of tumors in clinical practices. Nevertheless, its serious side effects, including cumulative cardiotoxicity and dose-limiting myelosuppression, present significant challenges to the clinical application. Researchers have long been committed to finding routes to reduce the toxic side effects of DOX, whereas the strategies of combination antitumor therapies based on codelivery nanosystems have received wide attention. They can realize the targeted enrichment and on-demand release of drugs in the lesion area, reducing the adverse reaction of DOX to normal tissues through drug combination and reversing the multi-drug resistance (MDR) of tumor cells to a certain extent. In this review, we focus on the recent progress on the DOX-based combination antitumor therapies together with other chemotherapeutic agents (camptothecin, paclitaxel, cisplatin), genetic drugs (pDNA, siRNA, miRNA), gas molecules (NO, O₂, CO, H₂S, SO₂) or natural medicines (dexrazoxane, berberine, flavonoids). Besides, the current challenges and future trends of DOX-based combination therapies are also prospected.

Solar energy, as one of the cleanest energy sources, is a precious resource endowed by nature to humanity. The solar spectrum and radiation intensity have a direct impact on human production and life, and how to utilize sunlight more efficiently has always been a goal pursued by scientists. This review systematically introduces the materials that can be used for light regulation, as well as their synthesis methods, and optical properties, including static light manipulation materials (such as UV shielding agents, visible light regulation materials, and infrared light regulation materials), stimulus responsive intelligent light manipulation materials (photoluminescence materials, intelligent color changing materials, etc.), and biomimetic micro/nanostructure materials. And further summarized the effects of light manipulation (including light wavelength, light intensity, and light propagation direction) that can be achieved using different types of light manipulation materials (micro nano structures). Finally, the current application status and development prospects of light manipulation materials and technologies in energy-saving buildings (including smart windows), agricultural films, solar photovoltaic power generation, and other fields were comprehensively summarized.

Pervaporation is a membrane separation technology with the advantages of low energy consumption and easy operation. At present, the traditional polymer pervaporation membrane still lacks in separation performance and stability. Metal-organic framework (MOF) is a crystalline porous material formed by self-assembly of metal ions and organic ligands. It has unique properties such as selective adsorption of target molecules and molecular sieving effect. In recent years, many studies have shown that the introduction of MOF as a filler into the polymer matrix to construct mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) has a good effect on its pervaporation performance. Starting from different series of MOF, this paper discusses the types of MOF suitable for pervaporation mixed matrix membrane, analyzes the preparation methods and modification strategies of MOF-polymer mixed matrix membrane, and reviews the application progress of this kind of mixed matrix membrane in pervaporation (dehydration of organic solvent, recovery of organic matter from dilute solution, separation of organic mixture). The challenges in the research of MOF-polymer mixed matrix membrane for pervaporation are summarized, and its future development is prospected.

Chirality describes the geometrical feature of an object that cannot overlap with its mirror image and has been a crucial concept in chemistry and biology since the 19^th century. With the development of nanotechnology, chiral plasmonic nanomaterials are becoming the research focuses for scientists to develop chiral functional materials due to the special chiral optical properties and good biocompatibility. However, the relatively weak chiral signals limit their applications. Chiral plasmonic core-shell nanostructures combine the chiral plasmonic properties and core-shell structures, which is an effective strategy to amplify chiral signals. In addition, the core-shell nanostructure integrates the properties of both internal and external materials to complement each other, which can further improve the physicochemical properties and enhance the performance in various fields. This paper summarizes the design strategies of chiral plasmonic core-shell nanostructures based on the spatial distribution of chiral molecules, and reviews their applications in the fields of ultrasensitive sensing and chiral catalysis. We analyze the existing problems and their possible solutions, and make an outlook on their future development.

All solid-state sodium batteries have great potential for portable electronics, electric vehicles, and large-scale energy storage applications due to the low cost of sodium, high security, and high energy density. However, the development and large-scale application of all-solid-state sodium ion batteries urgently need to solve the problems such as low ion conductivity of solid electrolyte, high charge-transfer impedance on interface, insufficient interfacial contact, and compatibility issues between electrodes and electrolytes solid electrolyte. Herein, combining the latest reports with our research findings, the research progress and development trend of β-Al₂O₃ electrolytes, NASICON electrolytes, sulfide electrolytes, polymer electrolytes, and composite electrolytes were summarized. The latest achievements in interface characteristics, the modification strategies of the interface between the electrodes and solid electrolytes and modification methods for surfaces of solid electrolytes were reviewed. Finally, the development direction of interface modification strategy for solid-state sodium ion batteries was prospected. This review have contributed to understand the interface science issues of all solid-state sodium ion batteries and provides a theoretical guidance for the development and application of solid-state sodium ion batteries.

ε-Caprolactone is a key monomer for the synthesis of poly(ε-caprolactone) (PCL) with good biocompatibility and biodegradability, and relevant polymer materials could be applied in pharmaceutical, medicinal, and packaging applications. Green and economic synthesis of ε-caprolactone is vital to popularize such eco-friendly polymers, and selective oxidative lactonization of 1,6-hexanediol into ε-caprolactone remains to be developed. In this review, different routes for the synthesis of ε-caprolactone such as Baeyer-Villiger oxidation of cyclohexanone and oxidative lactonization of 1,6-hexanediol are comparatively analyzed. According to whether electron acceptors (oxidants) are added to the reaction systems, the related advances of oxidative lactonization of 1,6-hexanediol are summarized, and the advantages and disadvantages of the corresponding reaction systems and catalysts are reviewed. The development trend of oxidative lactonization of 1,6-hexanediol into ε-caprolactone is also proposed.

The non-solvent induced phase separation (NIPS) method has significant advantages including easy processing and tailorable membrane structure in the preparation of nanofiltration membranes with high-flux and selectivity. Increasing attention has been drawn from the membrane field to further improve the precise separation and permeability of the membrane. In this review, the effects of the thermodynamics and kinetics on the membrane structure and properties during the NIPS process are systematically described, and the research progress is summarized to illustrate how the polymeric membrane materials including polysulfone and polyethersulfone affect the membrane structure and separation performance. Furthermore, the characteristics of amphiphilic block copolymer materials and their outstanding advantages in the fabrication of high-flux nanofiltration membranes are comprehensively reviewed. Finally, the potential research focus is proposed to inspire the membrane community to develop high-performance nanofiltration membranes via NIPS in the future.

With the development of aerospace, nuclear technology and the wide use of nuclear energy, the requirement for the performance of nuclear radiation shielding materials have gradually increased. Since the high energy and strong penetrating ability of neutrons and gamma rays produced by nuclear reactions, they are of great harm to human beings and the environment. Therefore, the research on neutron and gamma radiation shielding materials has become a hot research topic of radiation protection. Rare earth elements have been gradually attracted considerable academic attention, and applied to research and development of neutron and gamma radiation shielding materials owing to their high neutron absorption cross section and high atomic numbers. This paper briefly introduces the application of rare earth materials in radiation shielding materials, and introduces the interaction mechanisms of rare earth elements with neutrons and gamma rays. According to the different types of substrate materials, the rare earth based neutron and gamma composite shielding materials can be divided into three categories: rare earth metal based, rare earth polymer based and rare earth glass based materials. The research progress of these three kinds of rare earth based radiation shielding materials is introduced respectively, and the possible problems and prospects of rare earth materials for neutron and gamma shielding radiation are analyzed.

Silver nanomaterials have been widely used in catalysis, medicine, environment and other fields due to their high catalytic activity, fine biocompatibility, unique physical and chemical properties. This review first introduced the species, properties and synthetic strategy of silver nanomaterials, summarized controllable synthesis method in detail, and discussed the new achievements of machine learning in the synthesis of silver nanomaterials. Then, we reviewed the applications of silver nanomaterials in the environment such as pollutant removal, sterilization and virus inactivation, sensor and so on. Based on this, the species, controlled synthesis and environmental applications of silver nanomaterials were reviewed and prospected in this paper.

Recent research has revealed that PAA-based advanced oxidation processes (AOP) can simultaneously destroy developing micropollutants in water while having a greater disinfection efficacy than PAA alone. This paper summarizes the activation mechanism of PAA-based AOP and its use in water disinfection. According to recent study, UV/PAA has a good treatment effect in the cutting-edge problems of water disinfection, such as the removal of algae and algal toxins, the inactivation of fungus and antibiotic-resistant bacteria, etc. It is awaiting more investigation. There are few AOPs in the realm of water disinfection that activate PAA in other ways, but they have significant research promise. Identification of potential disinfection by-products found in AOP of PAA may also become a focus of future research.

Cardiac troponin I (cTnI) is a biomarker closely associated with acute myocardial infarction (AMI) and is considered as the "gold standard" for the diagnosis of AMI. A variety of cTnI detection techniques have been developed, including antibody-based and aptamer-based detection methodology. Aptamers are short DNA or RNA sequences that can specifically bind to the target, and have been used in the development of cTnI detection platforms due to their advantages of good stability, easy synthesis and low cost. In this paper, cTnI detection methods are divided into optical detection and electrochemical detection according to the signal transduction mode. This review introduces the current research progress of aptamer-based cTnI sensing technology, describes the detection principle, performance, advantages and disadvantages of various methods, summarizes cTnI sensing technology and prospects its development in home testing, hoping to provide reference for the development of more sensitive and portable cTnI sensors.