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- 2013-10-06 New energy materials: Light on a roll
- The creation of flexible, large-area light-emitting devices using roll-coating equipment is reported in Nature Communications. The devices are produced in an uninterrupted fashion in air, presenting a...
- 2013-10-06 New energy materials: Switchable storage
- A catalyst that can reversibly use carbon dioxide and hydrogen to store energy is reported online in Nature Chemistry. The catalyst converts these simple compounds into formic acid, a promising hydrog...
- 2013-10-06 Integrated technologies: Paintable batteries
- The fabrication of rechargeable lithium-ion batteries, whose components can be engineered into paint formulations and spray-painted directly on a variety of surfaces, is described in Scientific Report...
- 2013-10-06 Solar water splitting: Taking a leaf out of leaves' book
- Xinchen Wang and co-workers synthesised hollow nanospheres that mimic the photosynthetic structures found in the leaves of plants. The photosynthetic structures aim to optimise the capture and distrib...
- 2013-10-06 New-generation solar cell: Shining a light on biofuel cells
- The way in which a photosynthetic protein can be used in an integrated photobiofuel cell is reported in a study published in Nature Communications. The work illustrates how illumination of the cell re...
- 2013-10-06 Integrated technologies: Bend me shape me
- A method for producing stretchable, bio-compatible metal electrodes that can be soldered to conventional electronic devices is reported in Nature Communications. This could allow realization of flexib...
- 2013-10-06 Nature's 10-Ten people who mattered 2013-Henry Snaith
- Prof. Henry Snaith, the physicist at the University of Oxford, UK, amazed materials researchers by massively boosting the efficiency of solar cells (creep above 15%) made with perovskite semiconductor...
- 2013-10-06 Science's top 10 breakthroughs of 2013 – perovskites solar cell
- A new breed of materials for solar cells burst into the limelight this year. Known as perovskites, they are cheap, easy to make, and already capable of converting 15% of the energy in sunlight to elec...
- 2013-10-06 Fast-track solar cells - perovskites
- Perovskites, a class of semiconductor material still in its infancy, makes solar cell that reaches the 15% conversion milestone. Researchers started using organometal trihalide perovskite semiconducto...
- 2013-10-06 Recycling rice husks for high-capacity lithium battery anodes
- The theoretical capacity of silicon (4200mAh / g), is approximately 11-fold of currently widely used graphite anode (375mAh / g). So it is now considered the most promising lithium-ion battery anode m...
- 2013-10-06 High-performance perovskite-sensitized solar cells: 15% power conversion efficiency
- Following pioneering work, solution-processable organic-inorganic hybrid perovskites, such as CH3NH3PbX3 (X = Cl, Br, I), have gained attention as light-harvesting materials for mesoscopic solar cells...
- 2013-10-06 Role of point defects on the reactivity of reconstructed anatase titanium dioxide (001) surface
- Titanium dioxide, better known as a semiconductor oxide, is an important material for the study of solar energy conversion. It shows promising prospects in the research of preparation of organic solar...
- 2013-10-06 Molecular hydrogen formation from photocatalysis of methanol on TiO2 (110)
- On July 19, 2013, Prof. Xueming Yang of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues reported and published their newest progress of Molecular Hydrogen Fo...
- 2013-10-06 Chemists welcome newest member of nanocarbon family - A grossly warped nanographene and the consequences of multiple odd-membered-ring defects
- A new family of nanocarbons has emerged with the growth of the first non-planar nanographene. Chemists from Boston College, US, and Nagoya University, Japan successfully synthesized a grossly warped n...
- 2013-10-06 Design of vanadium oxide structures with controllable electrical properties for energy applications
- Most recently, a review article of Design of Vanadium Oxide Structures with Controllable Electrical Properties for Energy Applications written by Prof. Yi Xie’s group was published on Chemical Societ...
- 2013-10-06 Capture and conversion of CO2 at ambient conditions by a conjugated microporous polymer
- Dr. Weiqiao Deng of Dalian Institute of Chemical Physics of the Chinese Academy of Sciences and his colleagues recently reported a class of cobalt/aluminium-coordinated conjugated microporous polymers...
- 2013-10-06 The 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting focuses on Green Chemistry
- The 63rd Lindau Nobel Laureate Meeting, dedicated to chemistry, has just ended. 34 Nobel Laureates met more than 600 outstanding young researchers from all over the world in Lindau. They all exchanged...
- 2013-10-06 Single-atom catalysis using Pt/graphene achieved through atomic layer deposition
- As reported on Scientific Reports, Prof. Leroy Cronin’s group of University of Glasgow, UK recently demonstrated a practical synthesis for isolated single Pt atoms anchored to graphene nanosheet usin...
