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- 2016-06-29 Charge Generation Pathways in Organic Solar Cells: Assessing the Contribution from the Electron Acceptor
- Photocurrent generation in organic bulk heterojunction (BHJ) solar cells is most commonly understood as a process which predominantly involves photoexcitation of the lower ionization potential species...
- 2016-06-21 Molecular Design of Benzodithiophene-Based Organic Photovoltaic Materials
- Advances in the design and application of highly efficient conjugated polymers and small molecules over the past years have enabled the rapid progress in the development of organic photovoltaic (OPV) ...
- 2016-06-21 Phosphonic Acids for Interfacial Engineering of Transparent Conductive Oxides
- Transparent conducting oxides (TCOs), such as indium tin oxide and zinc oxide, play an important role as electrode materials in organic-semiconductor devices. The properties of the inorganic–organic ...
- 2016-06-21 Electrically Responsive Surfaces: Experimental and Theoretical Investigations
- Stimuli-responsive surfaces have sparked considerable interest in recent years, especially in view of their biomimetic nature and widespread biomedical applications. Significant efforts are continuous...
- 2016-06-21 Advancing the Chemistry of CuWO4 for Photoelectrochemical Water Oxidation
- Photoelectrochemical (PEC) cells are an ongoing area of exploration that provide a means of converting solar energy into a storable chemical form (molecular bonds). In particular, using PEC cells to d...
- 2016-06-21 Water-mediated cation intercalation of open-framework indium hexacyanoferrate with high voltage and fast kinetics
- Rechargeable aqueous metal-ion batteries made from non-flammable and low-cost materials offer promising opportunities in large-scale utility grid applications, yet low voltage and energy output, as we...
- 2016-06-20 Failure mechanisms of single-crystal silicon electrodes in lithium-ion batteries
- Long-term durability is a major obstacle limiting the widespread use of lithium-ion batteries in heavy-duty applications and others demanding extended lifetime. As one of the root causes of the degrad...
- 2016-06-20 Nickel–vanadium monolayer double hydroxide for efficient electrochemical water oxidation
- Highly active and low-cost electrocatalysts for water oxidation are required due to the demands on sustainable solar fuels; however, developing highly efficient catalysts to meet industrial requiremen...
- 2016-06-20 Operando NMR spectroscopic analysis of proton transfer in heterogeneous photocatalytic reactions
- Proton transfer (PT) processes in solid–liquid phases play central roles throughout chemistry, biology and materials science. Identification of PT routes deep into the realistic catalytic process is ...
- 2016-06-20 Doping-enhanced radiative efficiency enables lasing in unpassivated GaAs nanowires
- Nanolasers hold promise for applications including integrated photonics, on-chip optical interconnects and optical sensing. Key to the realization of current cavity designs is the use of nanomaterials...
- 2016-06-20 Dual-Doped Molybdenum Trioxide Nanowires: A Bifunctional Anode for Fiber-Shaped Asymmetric Supercapacitors and Microbial Fuel Cells
- A novel in situ N and low-valence-state Mo dual doping strategy was employed to significantly improve the conductivity, active-site accessibility, and electrochemical stability of MoO3, drastically b...
- 2016-06-20 Near-field dielectric scattering promotes optical absorption by platinum nanoparticles
- Recent years have seen a surge of interest in tuning the optical properties of metals for a wide range of applications. In contrast to the well-studied plasmonic metals (mainly Au and Ag), which have ...
- 2016-06-20 Stabilizing lithium metal using ionic liquids for long-lived batteries
- Suppressing dendrite formation at lithium metal anodes during cycling is critical for the implementation of future lithium metal-based battery technology. Here we report that it can be achieved via th...
- 2016-06-20 Hysteresis-Suppressed High-Efficiency Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells Using Solid-State Ionic-Liquids for Effective Electron Transport
- An efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells (Pvs-SCs) of 16.09% has been achieved, the highest value reported for flexible Pvs-SCs to date. The outstanding performance is attributed to the superi...
- 2016-06-20 The role of electronic coupling between substrate and 2D MoS2 nanosheets in electrocatalytic production of hydrogen
- The excellent catalytic activity of metallic MoS2 edges for the hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) has led to substantial efforts towards increasing the edge concentration. The 2H basal plane is less a...
- 2016-06-20 Improved chemical and electrochemical stability of perovskite oxides with less reducible cations at the surface
- Segregation and phase separation of aliovalent dopants on perovskite oxide (ABO3) surfaces are detrimental to the performance of energy conversion systems such as solid oxide fuel/electrolysis cells a...
- 2016-06-20 Band structure engineering in organic semiconductors
- Organic solar cells tuned by blendingElectrical engineers can finetune the energetics of rigid photovoltaics and transistors by blending different semiconducting materials. However, it's hard to apply...
- 2016-06-20 Crystal symmetry breaking and vacancies in colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots
- Size and shape tunability and low-cost solution processability make colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots (QDs) an emerging class of building blocks for innovative photovoltaic, thermoelectric and ...
- 2016-06-20 Promises and challenges of nanomaterials for lithium-based rechargeable batteries
- Tremendous progress has been made in the development of lithium-based rechargeable batteries in recent decades. Discoveries of new electrode materials as well as new storage mechanisms have substantia...
- 2016-06-20 Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photoswitched conductivity
- Stable molecular switchesMany single-molecule current switches have been reported, but most show poor stability because of weak contacts to metal electrodes. Jia et al. covalently bonded a diarylethen...
