Collaborative Innovation Promotion Program of Universities and Colleges (2011-Program)
News&Events
Home
>
News&Events
>
CEM Collections
CEM Collections
- 2016-08-04 Polymer-Based Organic Batteries
- The storage of electric energy is of ever growing importance for our modern, technology-based society, and novel battery systems are in the focus of research. The substitution of conventional metals a...
- 2016-07-29 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
- The physics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures based on such crystals has been developing extremely fast. With these new materials, truly 2D physics has begun to appear (for instan...
- 2016-07-29 Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO2 reduction in ionic liquid
- Conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels is an attractive solution to many energy and environmental challenges. However, the chemical inertness of CO2 renders many electrochemical and photochemic...
- 2016-07-29 The O2-assisted Al/CO2electrochemical cell: A system for CO2 capture/conversion and electric powergeneration
- Economical and efficient carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration technologies are a requirement for successful implementation of global action plans to reduce carbon emissions and to mitigate c...
- 2016-07-29 Stabilizing electrodeposition in elastic solid electrolytes containing immobilized anions
- Ion transport–driven instabilities in electrodeposition of metals that lead to morphological instabilities and dendrites are receiving renewed attention because mitigation strategies are needed for i...
- 2016-07-29 A rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydrogen evolution activity at high overpotentials
- Currently, platinum-based electrocatalysts show the best performance for hydrogen evolution. All hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts should however obey Sabatier’s principle, that is, the adsorptio...
- 2016-07-29 Pentlandite rocks as sustainable and stable efficient electrocatalysts for hydrogen generation
- The need for sustainable catalysts for an efficient hydrogen evolution reaction is of significant interest for modern society. Inspired by comparable structural properties of [FeNi]-hydrogenase, here ...
- 2016-07-29 Structural and compositional dependence of the CdTexSe1−x alloy layer photoactivity in CdTe-based solar cells
- The published external quantum efficiency data of the world-record CdTe solar cell suggests that the device uses bandgap engineering, most likely with a CdTexSe1-x alloy layer to increase the short-ci...
- 2016-07-27 A nanomesh scaffold for supramolecular nanowire optoelectronic devices
- Supramolecular organic nanowires are ideal nanostructures for optoelectronics because they exhibit both efficient exciton generation as a result of their high absorption coefficient and remarkable lig...
- 2016-07-27 Large-scale chemical assembly of atomically thin transistors and circuits
- Next-generation electronics calls for new materials beyond silicon, aiming at increased functionality, performance and scaling in integrated circuits. In this respect, two-dimensional gapless graphene...
- 2016-07-27 Reversible phase modulation and hydrogen storage in multivalent VO2 epitaxial thin films
- Hydrogen, the smallest and the lightest atomic element, is reversibly incorporated into interstitial sites in vanadium dioxide (VO2), a correlated oxide with a 3d1 electronic configuration, and induce...
- 2016-07-27 Spectroscopic evidence for a type II Weyl semimetallic state in MoTe2
- In a type I Dirac or Weyl semimetal, the low-energy states are squeezed to a single point in momentum space when the chemical potential μ is tuned precisely to the Dirac/Weyl point. Recently, a type ...
- 2016-07-27 Pursuing prosthetic electronic skin
- Skin plays an important role in mediating our interactions with the world. Recreating the properties of skin using electronic devices could have profound implications for prosthetics and medicine. The...
- 2016-07-22 Layered and scrolled nanocomposites with aligned semi-infinite graphene inclusions at the platelet limit
- Two-dimensional (2D) materials can uniquely span the physical dimensions of a surrounding composite matrix in the limit of maximum reinforcement. However, the alignment and assembly of continuous 2D c...
- 2016-07-22 Self-assembly of graphene ribbons by spontaneous self-tearing and peeling from a substrate
- Graphene and related two-dimensional materials have shown unusual and exceptional mechanical properties, with similarities to origami-like paper folding and kirigami-like cutting demonstrated. For pap...
- 2016-07-22 Single-layer MoS2 nanopores as nanopower generators
- Making use of the osmotic pressure difference between fresh water and seawater is an attractive, renewable and clean way to generate power and is known as ‘blue energy’. Another electrokinetic pheno...
- 2016-07-22 Hierarchical MoS2 tubular structures internally wired by carbon nanotubes as a highly stable anode material for lithium-ion batteries
- Molybdenum disulfide (MoS2), a typical two-dimensional material, is a promising anode material for lithium-ion batteries because it has three times the theoretical capacity of graphite. The main chall...
- 2016-07-22 Molecular-scale dynamics of light-induced spin cross-over in a two-dimensional layer
- Spin cross-over molecules show the unique ability to switch between two spin states when submitted to external stimuli such as temperature, light or voltage. If controlled at the molecular scale, such...
- 2016-07-22 Collapsed polymer-directed synthesis of multicomponent coaxial-like nanostructures
- Multicomponent colloidal nanostructures (MCNs) exhibit intriguing topologically dependent chemical and physical properties. However, there remain significant challenges in the synthesis of MCNs with h...
- 2016-07-22 Photocatalytic oxidation of methane over silver decorated zinc oxide nanocatalysts
- The search for active catalysts that efficiently oxidize methane under ambient conditions remains a challenging task for both C1 utilization and atmospheric cleansing. Here, we show that when the part...
