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- 2015-11-20 A concentrated effort for battery safety
- “Water-in-salt” electrolyte enables high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion chemistries Lithium-ion batteries raise safety, environmental, and cost concerns, which mostly arise from their nonaqueous electr...
- 2015-11-20 Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition-Derived Graphene Glasses Targeting Wide Ranged Applications
- Direct growth of graphene on traditional glasses is of great importance for various daily life applications. We report herein the catalyst-free atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition approach ...
- 2015-11-19 Artificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Hydrogen Fuel Production
- Generating and storing renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean-energy economy. When the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) was established at Caltech ...
- 2015-11-19 Low-temperature-processed efficient semi-transparent planar perovskite solar cells for bifacial and tandem applications
- Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells are highly attractive for a wide range of applications, such as bifacial and tandem solar cells; however, the power conversion efficiency of semi-transparent de...
- 2015-11-16 Pd@Pt Core-shell Concave Decahedra: A Class of Catalysts for the Oxygen Reduction Reaction with Enhanced Activity and Durability
- We report a facile synthesis of multiply twinned Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra by controlling the deposition of Pt on pre-formed Pd decahedral seeds. The Pt atoms are initially deposited on the v...
- 2015-11-13 Extra adsorption and adsorbate superlattice formation in metal-organic frameworks
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a high internal surface area and widely tunable composition, which make them useful for applications involving adsorption, such as hydrogen, methane or carbon diox...
- 2015-11-13 More efficient together
- The solar-to-biomass conversion efficiency of natural photosynthesis is between 2.9 and 4.3% for most crops. Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis could help increase the appeal of biologically d...
- 2015-11-13 X-ray photoemission analysis of clean and carbon monoxide-chemisorbed platinum(111) stepped surfaces using a curved crystal
- Surface chemistry and catalysis studies could significantly gain from the systematic variation of surface active sites, tested under the very same conditions. Curved crystals are excellent platforms t...
- 2015-11-13 Current Issues in Molecular Catalysis Illustrated by Iron Porphyrins as Catalysts of the CO2-to-CO Electrochemical Conversion
- Recent attention aroused by the reduction of carbon dioxide has as main objective the production of useful products, the “solar fuels”, in which solar energy would be stored. One route to this goal ...
- 2015-11-13 Carbon/Silicon Heterojunction Solar Cells: State of the Art and Prospects
- In the last few decades, advances and breakthroughs of carbon materials have been witnessed in both scientific fundamentals and potential applications. The combination of carbon materials with traditi...
- 2015-11-13 Eldfellite, NaFe(SO4)2: an intercalation cathode host for low-cost Na-ion batteries
- The mineral eldfellite, NaFe(SO4)2, is characterized as a potential cathode for a Na-ion battery that is fabricated in charged state; its 3 V discharge versus sodium for reversible Na+ intercalation i...
- 2015-11-11 Tungsten Oxides for Photocatalysis, Electrochemistry, and Phototherapy
- The conversion, storage, and utilization of renewable energy have all become more important than ever before as a response to ever-growing energy and environment concerns. The performance of energy-re...
- 2015-11-11 Recent Advances and Prospects of Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) receive significant attention for electrochemical energy storage and conversion owing to their wide availability and the low cost of Na resources. However, SIBs face challe...
- 2015-11-11 Spectral splitting photovoltaics using perovskite and wideband dye-sensitized solar cells
- The extension of the light absorption of photovoltaics into the near-infrared region is important to increase the energy conversion efficiency. Although the progress of the lead halide perovskite sola...
- 2015-11-10 An in situ self-assembly template strategy for the preparation of hierarchical-pore metal-organic frameworks
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as a new type of nanoporous materials with tailorable structures and functions. Usually, MOFs have uniform pores smaller than 2 nm in size, limit...
- 2015-11-06 Stable ultrathin partially oxidized copper film electrode for highly efficient flexible solar cells
- Advances in flexible optoelectronic devices have led to an increasing need for developing highly efficient, low-cost, flexible transparent conducting electrodes. Copper-based electrodes have been unat...
- 2015-11-06 Inward lithium-ion breathing of hierarchically porous silicon anodes
- Silicon has been identified as a highly promising anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The key challenge for Si anodes is large volume change during the lithiation/delithiation cycl...
- 2015-11-06 Electrochemical Synthesis of Photoelectrodes and Catalysts for Use in Solar Water Splitting
- Electrodeposition combines electrochemistry and materials synthesis in a way that allows for the functionality of deposited materials to be controlled by atomic level electrochemical reactions. While ...
- 2015-11-06 Oligomer Molecules for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics
- Solar cells, a renewable, clean energy technology that efficiently converts sunlight into electricity, are a promising long-term solution for energy and environmental problems caused by a mass of prod...
- 2015-11-06 Electric Field Driven Dual Vacancies Evolution in Ultrathin Nanosheets Realizing Reversible Semiconductor to Half-metal Transition
- Fabricating flexible room-temperature ferromagnetic resistive switching random access memory (RRAM) device is of fundamental importance to integrate nonvolatile memory and spintronics both in theory a...
