Graphical abstract templates for materials, energy and biology
55 editable graphical abstract templates with live 3D models: solar cells, batteries, catalysis, memory and spintronics, quantum and 2D materials, shape-memory alloys, metamaterials, structural colour and bioinspired surfaces, each quoting its papers.
Perovskite solar cell: from crystal to device
How an OLED makes light
Fibre-reinforced composites: from layup to strength
Tough hydrogels: sacrificial bonds that break so the gel does not
Sodium-ion batteries: abundant sodium, stored in hard carbon
Supercapacitor electrodes: zooming in on ions in carbon pores
Thermoelectrics: scattering heat-carrying phonons at every length scale
Hydrogen storage materials: four ways to hold H₂
Redox flow batteries: energy in the tanks, power in the stack
Nanozymes: nanoparticles that act like enzymes
High-entropy alloys: five metals, one phase+44more templates in this collectionSign up free to see allQuestions
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55: Perovskite solar cell: from crystal to device; How an OLED makes light; Fibre-reinforced composites: from layup to strength; Tough hydrogels: sacrificial bonds that break so the gel does not; Sodium-ion batteries: abundant sodium, stored in hard carbon; Supercapacitor electrodes: zooming in on ions in carbon pores; Thermoelectrics: scattering heat-carrying phonons at every length scale; Hydrogen storage materials: four ways to hold H₂; Redox flow batteries: energy in the tanks, power in the stack; Nanozymes: nanoparticles that act like enzymes; High-entropy alloys: five metals, one phase; Self-healing polymers: four ways to close a crack; Monolayer MoS₂: from one atomic layer to logic; Daytime radiative cooling: cooling under the sun with the cold of space; Silica aerogel: from sol to superinsulator; Shape-selective catalysis in zeolites: from pellet to pore window; Liquid crystals: order between solid and liquid; Crystal defects that shape materials; Memristors for brain-inspired computing: the synapse and its electronic twin; Triboelectric nanogenerators: turning everyday motion into electricity; Organic solar cells: non-fullerene acceptors climb past the fullerene ceiling; Solid oxide cells: one ceramic cell, run as a fuel cell or an electrolyzer; Aqueous zinc-ion batteries: taming the zinc anode, from electrolyte to cathode; Photocatalyst sheets: from one SrTiO₃ particle to a 100 m² hydrogen farm; Making ammonia: Haber–Bosch on iron versus lithium-mediated electrosynthesis; Phase-change memory: writing bits as glass or crystal; Two-dimensional magnets: magnetism, one layer at a time; Topological insulators: insulating inside, conducting at the edge; Ferroelectric hafnium oxide: a polar phase in a chip dielectric; MRAM: a bit stored in the spins of a tunnel junction; Shape-memory alloys: NiTi switches between austenite and martensite; Mechanical metamaterials: properties from geometry, not chemistry; Structural colour: photonic crystals colour without dyes; Transparent wood: take out the lignin, fill in a matching polymer; Superhydrophobic surfaces: the lotus effect, read on a protractor; Direct lithium extraction: picking Li⁺ out of brine; Breaking forever chemicals: four ways to cleave the C–F bond; Enzymatic PET recycling: the right enzyme at the right temperature; Electrochromic smart windows: glass that tints on demand; Low-carbon cement: less clinker, and CO₂ back into the concrete; How the zebrafish heart rebuilds itself; The Drosophila circadian clock; Bacteriophages against biofilms; CRISPR diagnostics: find a sequence, light a signal; Cell-free protein synthesis: DNA in, protein out; Hydrogen embrittlement of steels: trap the hydrogen before it finds the crack; Chemically strengthened glass: a log of the ion-exchanged surface; Bulk metallic glasses: outrun the crystal; Electronic skin: soft sensors that stretch, press and feel; Lead-free piezoceramics: a family tree that grows d₃₃; Quantum sensing with NV centres: one defect in diamond, read by light; Upconversion nanoparticles: two infrared photons in, one visible photon out; Molecular solar thermal storage: sunlight kept as strain, released as heat; Gallium liquid metals: a metal you can pour, print and stretch; Atomic layer deposition: building a film one layer per cycle.
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Together they follow 317 published papers; each template’s page lists its own, with DOIs, and the figure credit names them too.
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