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- 2016-02-01 Single-Crystalline Ultrathin Nickel Nanosheets Array from In Situ Topotactic Reduction for Active and Stable Electrocatalysis
- Simultaneously synthesizing and structuring atomically thick or ultrathin 2D non-precious metal nanocrystal may offer a new class of materials to replace the state-of-art noble-metal electrocatalysts;...
- 2016-02-01 A transparent bending-insensitive pressure sensor
- Measuring small normal pressures is essential to accurately evaluate external stimuli in curvilinear and dynamic surfaces such as natural tissues. Usually, sensitive and spatially accurate pressure se...
- 2016-02-01 Electrical control of the valley Hall effect in bilayer MoS2 transistors
- The valley degree of freedom of electrons in solids has been proposed as a new type of information carrier, beyond the electron charge and spin. The potential of two-dimensional semiconductor transiti...
- 2016-01-29 Spectral Features and Charge Dynamics of Lead Halide Perovskites: Origins and Interpretations
- Lead halide perovskite solar cells are presently the forerunner among the third generation solution-processed photovoltaic technologies. With efficiencies exceeding 20% and low production costs, they ...
- 2016-01-29 Ion Migration in Organometal Trihalide Perovskite and Its Impact on Photovoltaic Efficiency and Stability
- Organometal trihalide perovskites (OTPs) are emerging as very promising photovoltaic materials because the power conversion efficiency (PCE) of OTP solar cells quickly rises and now rivals with that o...
- 2016-01-29 Toughness and strength of nanocrystalline graphene
- Pristine monocrystalline graphene is claimed to be the strongest material known with remarkable mechanical and electrical properties. However, graphene made with scalable fabrication techniques is pol...
- 2016-01-29 Direct observation of triplet energy transfer from semiconductor nanocrystals
- Triplet excitons are pervasive in both organic and inorganic semiconductors but generally remain confined to the material in which they originate. We demonstrated by transient absorption spectroscopy ...
- 2016-01-29 Enabling an integrated tantalum nitride photoanode to approach the theoretical photocurrent limit for solar water splitting
- The feasibility of photoelectrochemical (PEC) water-splitting cells relies on the development of high-performance photoanodes. Significant progresses have been made in the discovery of narrow bandgap ...
- 2016-01-28 Uranium-mediated electrocatalytic dihydrogen production from water
- Depleted uranium is a mildly radioactive waste product that is stockpiled worldwide. The chemical reactivity of uranium complexes is well documented, including the stoichiometric activation of small m...
- 2016-01-28 Structure sensitivity in the nonscalable regime explored via catalysed ethylene hydrogenation on supported platinum nanoclusters
- The sensitivity, or insensitivity, of catalysed reactions to catalyst structure is a commonly employed fundamental concept. Here we report on the nature of nano-catalysed ethylene hydrogenation, inves...
- 2016-01-28 Perovskites for Photovoltaics in the Spotlight: Photoinduced Physical Changes and Their Implications
- Organic–inorganic halide perovskites are in consensus to revolutionize the field of photovoltaics and optoelectronic devices due to their superior optical and electronic properties which are unpreced...
- 2016-01-28 Na-Ion Battery Anodes: Materials and Electrochemistry
- The intermittent nature of renewable energy sources, such as solar and wind, calls for sustainable electrical energy storage (EES) technologies for stationary applications. Li will be simply too rare ...
- 2016-01-28 Making and Breaking of Lead Halide Perovskites
- A new front-runner has emerged in the field of next-generation photovoltaics. A unique class of materials, known as organic metal halide perovskites, bridges the gap between low-cost fabrication and e...
- 2016-01-28 Lewis Acid–Base Adduct Approach for High Efficiency Perovskite Solar Cells
- Since the first report on the long-term durable 9.7% solid-state perovskite solar cell employing methylammonium lead iodide (CH3NH3PbI3), mesoporous TiO2, and 2,2′,7,7′-tetrakis[N,N-di(4-methoxyphen...
- 2016-01-28 Effects of Light and Electron Beam Irradiation on Halide Perovskites and Their Solar Cells
- Hybrid alkylammonium lead halide perovskite solar cells have, in a very few years of research, exceeded a light-to-electricity conversion efficiency of 20%, not far behind crystalline silicon cells. T...
- 2016-01-28 A Long-Term View on Perovskite Optoelectronics
- Recently, metal halide perovskite materials have become an exciting topic of research for scientists of a wide variety of backgrounds. Perovskites have found application in many fields, starting from ...
- 2016-01-22 Nanometre-thick single-crystalline nanosheets grown at the water–air interface
- To date, the preparation of free-standing 2D nanomaterials has been largely limited to the exfoliation of van der Waals solids. The lack of a robust mechanism for the bottom-up synthesis of 2D nanomat...
- 2016-01-22 Active sites of nitrogen-doped carbon materials for oxygen reduction reaction clarified using model catalysts
- The right kind of dopantThe oxygen reduction reaction is an important step in fuel cells and other electrochemical processes but is still largely dependent on precious metal-containing catalysts. Rece...
- 2016-01-22 Visualizing band offsets and edge states in bilayer–monolayer transition metal dichalcogenides lateral heterojunction
- Semiconductor heterostructures are fundamental building blocks for many important device applications. The emergence of two-dimensional semiconductors opens up a new realm for creating heterostructure...
- 2016-01-22 Optimal metal domain size for photocatalysis with hybrid semiconductor-metal nanorods
- Semiconductor-metal hybrid nanostructures offer a highly controllable platform for light-induced charge separation, with direct relevance for their implementation in photocatalysis. Advances in the sy...
