Collaborative Innovation Promotion Program of Universities and Colleges (2011-Program)
News&Events
Home
>
News&Events
>
CEM Collections
CEM Collections
- 2015-09-18 From Multisite Polymerization Catalysis to Sustainable Materials and All-Polyolefin Composites
- The remarkable progress in olefin polymerization catalysis and polyolefin technology contributes to sustainable development in manifold ways and helps to meet the urgent demand of the growing world po...
- 2015-09-18 Model Approach in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Surface Reactions
- Heterogeneous catalysts are widely employed in technological applications, such as chemical manufacturing, energy harvesting, conversion and storage, and environmental technology. Often they consist o...
- 2015-09-18 Readily processed protonic ceramic fuel cells with high performance at low temperatures
- Because of the generally lower activation energy associated with proton conduction in oxides compared to oxygen ion conduction, protonic ceramic fuel cells (PCFCs) should be able to operate at lower t...
- 2015-09-15 A phosphorene–graphene hybrid material as a high-capacity anode for sodium-ion batteries
- Sodium-ion batteries have recently attracted significant attention as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries because sodium sources do not present the geopolitical issues that lithium sources might. ...
- 2015-09-15 The generalized Shockley-Queisser limit for nanostructured solar cells
- The Shockley-Queisser limit describes the maximum solar energy conversion efficiency achievable for a particular material and is the standard by which new photovoltaic technologies are compared. This ...
- 2015-09-14 Nano-socketed nickel particles with enhanced coking resistance grown in situ by redox exsolution
- Metal particles supported on oxide surfaces are used as catalysts for a wide variety of processes in the chemical and energy conversion industries. For catalytic applications, metal particles are gene...
- 2015-09-14 Monolayered Bi2WO6 nanosheets mimicking heterojunction interface with open surfaces for photocatalysis
- Two-dimensional-layered heterojunctions have attracted extensive interest recently due to their exciting behaviours in electronic/optoelectronic devices as well as solar energy conversion systems. How...
- 2015-09-11 The Renaissance of Halide Perovskites and Their Evolution as Emerging Semiconductors
- The recent re-emergence of the halide perovskites, of the type AMX3, derives from a sea-changing breakthrough in the field of photovoltaics that has led to a whole new generation of solar devices with...
- 2015-09-11 Amine–Oxide Hybrid Materials for CO2 Capture from Ambient Air
- Oxide supports functionalized with amine moieties have been used for decades as catalysts and chromatographic media. Owing to the recognized impact of atmospheric CO2 on global climate change, the stu...
- 2015-09-11 Covalent organic frameworks comprising cobalt porphyrins for catalytic CO2 reduction in water
- Conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) and other value-added carbon products is an important challenge for clean energy research. Here we report modular optimization of covalent or...
- 2015-09-11 Efficient Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with Graphene Electrodes
- Semitransparent perovskite solar cells are prepared by laminating graphene transparent electrodes on the top for the first time. The device performance is optimized by improving the conductivity of th...
- 2015-09-11 Covalency-reinforced oxygen evolution reaction catalyst
- The oxygen evolution reaction that occurs during water oxidation is of considerable importance as an essential energy conversion reaction for rechargeable metal-air batteries and direct solar water sp...
- 2015-09-11 Combined operando X-ray diffraction-electrochemical impedance spectroscopy detecting solid solution reactions of LiFePO4 in batteries
- Lithium-ion batteries are widely used for portable applications today; however, often suffer from limited recharge rates. One reason for such limitation can be a reduced active surface area during pha...
- 2015-09-09 Phagraphene: A low-energy graphene allotrope composed of 5-6-7 carbon rings with distorted Dirac cones
- Using systematic evolutionary structure searching we propose a new carbon allotrope, phagraphene, standing for penta-hexa-hepta-graphene, because the structure is composed of 5-6-7 carbon rings. This ...
- 2015-09-08 Flexible high power-per-weight perovskite solar cells with chromium oxide–metal contacts for improved stability in air
- Photovoltaic technology requires light-absorbing materials that are highly efficient, lightweight, low cost and stable during operation. Organolead halide perovskites constitute a highly promising cla...
- 2015-09-08 Three-terminal energy harvester with coupled quantum dots
- Rectification of thermal fluctuations in mesoscopic conductors is the key idea behind recent attempts to build nanoscale thermoelectric energy harvesters to convert heat into useful electric power. So...
- 2015-09-08 Characterization and manipulation of individual defects in insulating hexagonal boron nitride using scanning tunnelling microscopy
- Defects play a key role in determining the properties and technological applications of nanoscale materials and, because they tend to be highly localized, characterizing them at the single-defect leve...
- 2015-09-08 Highly efficient large-area colourless luminescent solar concentrators using heavy-metal-free colloidal quantum dots
- Luminescent solar concentrators serving as semitransparent photovoltaic windows could become an important element in net zero energy consumption buildings of the future. Colloidal quantum dots are pro...
- 2015-09-08 Large-area high-quality 2D ultrathin Mo2C superconducting crystals
- Transition metal carbides (TMCs) are a large family of materials with many intriguing properties and applications, and high-quality 2D TMCs are essential for investigating new physics and properties i...
- 2015-09-07 New electric storage material could put more zip in your Tesla
- BOSTON—The next electric car you buy might have a little extra zip. That’s because researchers have developed a new electric storage material that’s among the best at holding large amounts of charg...
