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- 2016-09-06 Rationally Designing High-Performance Bulk Thermoelectric Materials
- There has been a renaissance of interest in exploring highly efficient thermoelectric materials as a possible route to address the worldwide energy generation, utilization, and management. This review...
- 2016-09-06 Nanoscale Electrochemistry of sp2 Carbon Materials: From Graphite and Graphene to Carbon Nanotubes
- Carbon materials have a long history of use as electrodes in electrochemistry, from (bio)electroanalysis to applications in energy technologies, such as batteries and fuel cells. With the advent of ne...
- 2016-09-06 Importance and Challenges of Electrochemical in Situ Liquid Cell Electron Microscopy for Energy Conversion Research
- The foreseeable worldwide energy and environmental challenges demand renewable alternative sources, energy conversion, and storage technologies. Therefore, electrochemical energy conversion devices li...
- 2016-09-06 Impact of Multifunctional Bimetallic Materials on Lithium Battery Electrochemistry
- Electric energy storage devices such as batteries are complex systems comprised of a variety of materials with each playing separate yet interactive roles, complicated by length scale interactions occ...
- 2016-09-06 Functional Scanning Probe Imaging of Nanostructured Solar Energy Materials
- From hybrid perovskites to semiconducting polymer/fullerene blends for organic photovoltaics, many new materials being explored for energy harvesting and storage exhibit performance characteristics th...
- 2016-09-06 Hierarchical Inorganic Assemblies for Artificial Photosynthesis
- Artificial photosynthesis is an attractive approach for renewable fuel generation because it offers the prospect of a technology suitable for deployment on highly abundant, non-arable land. Recent lea...
- 2016-09-06 Computation of Dielectric Response in Molecular Solids for High Capacitance Organic Dielectrics
- The dielectric response of a material is central to numerous processes spanning the fields of chemistry, materials science, biology, and physics. Despite this broad importance across these disciplines...
- 2016-09-06 Postextraction Separation, On-Board Storage, and Catalytic Conversion of Methane in Natural Gas: A Review
- In today’s perspective, natural gas has gained considerable attention, due to its low emission, indigenous availability, and improvement in the extraction technology. Upon extraction, it undergoes se...
- 2016-09-05 Gate-controlled topological conducting channels in bilayer graphene
- The existence of inequivalent valleys K and K′ in the momentum space of 2D hexagonal lattices provides a new electronic degree of freedom, the manipulation of which can potentially lead to new types ...
- 2016-09-05 Two-dimensional gallium nitride realized via graphene encapsulation
- The spectrum of two-dimensional (2D) and layered materials ‘beyond graphene’ offers a remarkable platform to study new phenomena in condensed matter physics. Among these materials, layered hexagonal...
- 2016-08-30 Fusing tetrapyrroles to graphene edges by surface-assisted covalent coupling
- Surface-assisted covalent linking of precursor molecules enables the fabrication of low-dimensional nanostructures, which include graphene nanoribbons. One approach to building functional multicompone...
- 2016-08-28 Identification of carbon-encapsulated iron nanoparticles as active species in non-precious metal oxygen reduction catalysts
- The widespread use of fuel cells is currently limited by the lack of efficient and cost-effective catalysts for the oxygen reduction reaction. Iron-based non-precious metal catalysts exhibit promising...
- 2016-08-28 Heterogeneous reduction of carbon dioxide by hydride-terminated silicon nanocrystals
- Silicon constitutes 28% of the earth’s mass. Its high abundance, lack of toxicity and low cost coupled with its electrical and optical properties, make silicon unique among the semiconductors for con...
- 2016-08-28 Lithium-ion battery electrolyte mobility at nano-confined graphene interfaces
- Interfaces are essential in electrochemical processes, providing a critical nanoscopic design feature for composite electrodes used in Li-ion batteries. Understanding the structure, wetting and mobili...
- 2016-08-28 Surface patterning of nanoparticles with polymer patches
- Patterning of colloidal particles with chemically or topographically distinct surface domains (patches) has attracted intense research interest. Surface-patterned particles act as colloidal analogues ...
- 2016-08-28 Anisotropic phase segregation and migration of Pt in nanocrystals en route to nanoframe catalysts
- Compositional heterogeneity in shaped, bimetallic nanocrystals offers additional variables to manoeuvre the functionality of the nanocrystal. However, understanding how to manipulate anisotropic eleme...
- 2016-08-28 Rapid water disinfection using vertically aligned MoS2 nanofilms and visible light
- Solar energy is readily available in most climates and can be used for water purification. However, solar disinfection of drinking water mostly relies on ultraviolet light, which represents only 4% of...
- 2016-08-15 Battery-free, stretchable optoelectronic systems for wireless optical characterization of the skin
- Recent advances in materials, mechanics, and electronic device design are rapidly establishing the foundations for health monitoring technologies that have “skin-like” properties, with options in ch...
- 2016-08-15 Two-Dimensional Colloidal Nanocrystals
- In this paper, we review recent progress on colloidal growth of 2D nanocrystals. We identify the four main sources of anisotropy which lead to the formation of plate- and sheet-like colloidal nanomate...
- 2016-08-15 Ultrastiff and Strong Graphene Fibers via Full-Scale Synergetic Defect Engineering
- Kilometer-scale continuous graphene fibers (GFs) with outstanding mechanical properties and excellent electrical conductivity are produced by high-throughput wet-spinning of graphene oxide liquid crys...
