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- 2016-06-11 High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-fullerene acceptor
- Solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPV) offer the attractive prospect of low-cost, light-weight and environmentally benign solar energy production. The highest efficiency OPV at present use low...
- 2016-06-11 A stable room-temperature sodium–sulfur battery
- High-energy rechargeable batteries based on earth-abundant materials are important for mobile and stationary storage technologies. Rechargeable sodium–sulfur batteries able to operate stably at room ...
- 2016-06-11 Integration of metal-organic frameworks into an electrochemical dielectric thin film for electronic applications
- The integration of porous metal-organic frameworks onto the surface of materials, for use as functional devices, is currently emerging as a promising approach for gas sensing and flexible displays. Ho...
- 2016-06-11 Efficient hydrogen evolution in transition metal dichalcogenides via a simple one-step hydrazine reaction
- Hydrogen evolution reaction is catalysed efficiently with precious metals, such as platinum; however, transition metal dichalcogenides have recently emerged as a promising class of materials for elect...
- 2016-06-11 Interfacial control of oxygen vacancy doping and electrical conduction in thin film oxide heterostructures
- Oxygen vacancies in proximity to surfaces and heterointerfaces in oxide thin film heterostructures have major effects on properties, resulting, for example, in emergent conduction behaviour, large cha...
- 2016-06-11 First-principles quantum dynamical theory for the dissociative chemisorption of H2O on rigid Cu(111)
- Despite significant progress made in the past decades, it remains extremely challenging to investigate the dissociative chemisorption dynamics of molecular species on surfaces at a full-dimensional qu...
- 2016-06-07 Avoiding short circuits from zinc metal dendrites in anode by backside-plating configuration
- Portable power sources and grid-scale storage both require batteries combining high energy density and low cost. Zinc metal battery systems are attractive due to the low cost of zinc and its high char...
- 2016-06-07 111 oriented gold nanoplatelets on multilayer graphene as visible light photocatalyst for overall water splitting
- Development of renewable fuels from solar light appears as one of the main current challenges in energy science. A plethora of photocatalysts have been investigated to obtain hydrogen and oxygen from ...
- 2016-06-07 Self-assembled molecular p/n junctions for applications in dye-sensitized solar energy conversion
- The achievement of long-lived photoinduced redox separation lifetimes has long been a central goal of molecular-based solar energy conversion strategies. The longer the redox-separation lifetime, the ...
- 2016-06-07 The structural and chemical origin of the oxygen redox activity in layered and cation-disordered Li-excess cathode materials
- Lithium-ion batteries are now reaching the energy density limits set by their electrode materials, requiring new paradigms for Li+ and electron hosting in solid-state electrodes. Reversible oxygen red...
- 2016-06-06 Interface strain in vertically stacked two-dimensional heterostructured carbon-MoS2 nanosheets controls electrochemical reactivity
- Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer numerous advantages for electrochemical energy storage and conversion due to fast charge transfer kinetics, highly accessible surface area, and tunable electronic ...
- 2016-06-06 Large-scale ordering of nanoparticles using viscoelastic shear processing
- Despite the availability of elaborate varieties of nanoparticles, their assembly into regular superstructures and photonic materials remains challenging. Here we show how flexible films of stacked pol...
- 2016-06-06 Photoelectrochemical water splitting enhanced by self-assembled metal nanopillars embedded in an oxide semiconductor photoelectrode
- Production of chemical fuels by direct solar energy conversion in a photoelectrochemical cell is of great practical interest for developing a sustainable energy system. Various nanoscale designs such ...
- 2016-06-06 Freestanding three-dimensional core–shell nanoarrays for lithium-ion battery anodes
- Structural degradation and low conductivity of transition-metal oxides lead to severe capacity fading in lithium-ion batteries. Recent efforts to solve this issue have mainly focused on using nanocomp...
- 2016-06-03 Water splitting–biosynthetic system with CO2 reduction efficiencies exceeding photosynthesis
- Artificial photosynthesis steps upPhotosynthesis fixes CO2 from the air by using sunlight. Industrial mimics of photosynthesis seek to convert CO2 directly into biomass, fuels, or other useful product...
- 2016-05-31 Simultaneous and coordinated rotational switching of all molecular rotors in a network
- A range of artificial molecular systems has been created that can exhibit controlled linear and rotational motion. In the further development of such systems, a key step is the addition of communicati...
- 2016-05-31 An elastic second skin
- We report the synthesis and application of an elastic, wearable crosslinked polymer layer (XPL) that mimics the properties of normal, youthful skin. XPL is made of a tunable polysiloxane-based materia...
- 2016-05-31 Proton transfer dynamics control the mechanism of O2 reduction by a non-precious metal electrocatalyst
- Many chemical and biological processes involve the transfer of both protons and electrons. The complex mechanistic details of these proton-coupled electron transfer (PCET) reactions require independen...
- 2016-05-31 Soliton-dependent plasmon reflection at bilayer graphene domain walls
- Layer-stacking domain walls in bilayer graphene are emerging as a fascinating one-dimensional system that features stacking solitons structurally and quantum valley Hall boundary states electronically...
- 2016-05-30 Self-assembly of noble metal monolayers on transition metal carbide nanoparticle catalysts
- Tough core-shell catalystsOne approach for increasing the activity of precious metals in catalysis is to coat them onto less expensive earth-abundant transition metal cores such as nickel, but often t...
