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- 2014-04-16 US 2014 Fiscal Year Budget offers recovery hope
- For US science agencies, the worst may be over. After a year of pitched budget battles, which began with an across-the-board cut and ended with a government shutdown, Congress displayed a rare moment ...
- 2014-04-16 2014 ACS Spring Meeting: Chemistry & Materials for Energy
- Most recently, the 247th American Chemical Society (ACS) National Meeting defined a theme of “Chemistry & Materials for Energy”, primarily focused on advanced materials and chemical process involved...
- 2014-04-16 Real-space imaging of interfacial water with submolecular resolution
- The interaction of water with the surfaces of solid materials is ubiquitous. Many remarkable physical and chemical properties of water/solid interfaces are governed by H-bonding interaction between wa...
- 2014-04-16 Proposed photosynthesis method for producing hydrogen from dissociated water molecules using incident near-infrared light
- Prof. Jinlong Yang’s group of Hefei National Laboratory for Physical Sciences and College of Chemistry and Material Science at USTC recently reported a new photosynthesis method for producing hydroge...
- 2014-04-16 A metal-free organic–inorganic aqueous flow battery
- On January 8, 2014, Nature published a latest research progress with a title of “A Metal-Free Organic–Inorganic Aqueous Flow Battery” developed by Prof. Michael J. Aziz’s group at Harvard Universi...
- 2014-04-16 Full open-framework batteries for stationary energy storage
- New types of energy storage are needed in conjunction with the deployment of renewable energy sources and their integration with the electrical grid. We have recently introduced a family of cathodes i...
- 2014-04-16 Dynamical resonances accessible only by reagent vibrational excitation in the F + HD→HF + D Reaction
- Prof. Chunlei Xiao’ group of the State Key Laboratory of Molecular Reaction Dynamics, DICP of CAS has recently reported on a combined crossed-molecular-beam experimental and theoretical study on the ...
- 2014-04-16 Main-group compounds selectively oxidize mixtures of methane, ethane, and propane to alcohol esters
- Much of the recent research on homogeneous alkane oxidation has focused on the use of transition metal catalysts. Here, researchers report that the electrophilic main-group cations thallium(III) and l...
- 2014-04-16 Nanostructured hydrotreating catalysts for electrochemical hydrogen evolution
- Progress in catalysis is driven by society's needs. The development of new electrocatalysts to make renewable and clean fuels from abundant and easily accessible resources is among the most challengin...
- 2014-04-16 Photoelectrochemical hydrogen production from biomass derivatives and water
- Hydrogen, a clean energy carrier with high energy capacity, is a very promising candidate as a primary energy source for the future. Photoelectrochemical (PEC) hydrogen production from renewable bioma...
- 2014-04-16 Hybrid Electric Energy: Self-Charging Power Cell Converts and Stores Energy in a Single Unit
- Researchers have developed a self-charging power cell that directly converts mechanical energy to chemical energy, storing the power until it is released as electrical current. By eliminating the need...
- 2014-04-16 Ruthenium-catalysed alkoxycarbonylation of alkenes with carbon dioxide
- This work demonstrate the feasibility to use carbon dioxide and alcohols for alkoxycarbonylation processes of olefins without any additional strong reductant. A number of aliphatic olefins as well as ...
- 2014-04-16 Asymmetric synthesis from terminal alkenes by cascades of diboration and cross-coupling
- The catalytic enantioselective diboration of terminal alkenes, combined with Pd-catalysed cross-coupling, provides aflexible platform for the construction of a broad array of chiral compounds from non...
- 2014-04-16 Rhodium-Catalyzed Intermolecular C–H Silylation of Arenes with High Steric Regiocontrol
- The intermolecular, rhodium-catalyzed silylation of arenes that we report here occurs under mild conditions, with arene as the limiting reagent and with regioselectivities that complement or surpass t...
- 2014-04-16 Solar-induced direct biomass-to-electricity hybrid fuel cell using polyoxometalates as photocatalyst and charge carrier
- The current polymer-exchange membrane fuel cell technology cannot directly use biomass as fuel. Here we present a solar-induced hybrid fuel cell that is directly powered with natural polymeric biomass...
- 2014-04-16 Dye-sensitized solar cells with 13% efficiency achieved through the molecular engineering of porphyrin sensitizers
- A dye that both maximizes electrolyte compatibility and improves light-harvesting properties has been designed for dye-sensitized solar cells. In cells based on the cobalt(II)/(III) redox mediator, us...
- 2014-04-16 Molecular artificial photosynthesis
- The replacement of fossil fuels by a clean and renewable energy source is one of the most urgent and challenging issues our society is facing today, which is why intense research has been devoted to t...
- 2014-04-16 Recent advances in semiconductors for photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting
- Photocatalytic and photoelectrochemical water splitting under irradiation by sunlight has received much attention for production of renewable hydrogen from water on a large scale. Many challenges stil...
- 2014-04-16 A nanophotonic solar thermophotovoltaic device
- The most common approaches to generating power from sunlight are either photovoltaic, in which sunlight directly excites electron–hole pairs in a semiconductor, or solar–thermal, in which sunlight d...
- 2014-04-16 Direct observation of the transition from indirect to direct bandgap in atomically thin epitaxial MoSe2
- Quantum systems in confined geometries are host to novel physical phenomena. Examples include quantum Hall systems in semiconductors1 and Dirac electrons in graphene. Interest in such systems has also...
