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- 2016-10-02 Surface phononic grapheme
- Strategic manipulation of wave and particle transport in various media is the key driving force for modern information processing and communication. In a strongly scattering medium, waves and particle...
- 2016-10-02 Quantifying losses and thermodynamic limits in nanophotonic solar cells
- Nanophotonic engineering shows great potential for photovoltaics: the record conversion efficiencies of nanowire solar cells are increasing rapidly and the record open-circuit voltages are becoming co...
- 2016-09-21 Adsorbate-mediated strong metal–support interactions in oxide-supported Rh catalysts
- The optimization of supported metal catalysts predominantly focuses on engineering the metal site, for which physical insights based on extensive theoretical and experimental contributions have enable...
- 2016-09-21 In situ observation of self-assembled hydrocarbon Fischer–Tropsch products on a cobalt catalyst
- Fischer–Tropsch synthesis is a heterogeneous catalytic reaction that creates approximately 2% of the world's fuel. It involves the synthesis of linear hydrocarbon molecules from a gaseous mixture of ...
- 2016-09-12 Efficient and mechanically robust stretchable organic light-emitting devices by a laser-programmable buckling process
- Stretchable organic light-emitting devices are becoming increasingly important in the fast-growing fields of wearable displays, biomedical devices and health-monitoring technology. Although highly str...
- 2016-09-12 Advances in lithium–sulfur batteries based on multifunctional cathodes and electrolytes
- Amid burgeoning environmental concerns, electrochemical energy storage has rapidly gained momentum. Among the contenders in the ‘beyond lithium’ energy storage arena, the lithium–sulfur (Li–S) bat...
- 2016-09-12 Switching on electrocatalytic activity in solid oxide cells
- Solid oxide cells (SOCs) can operate with high efficiency in two ways—as fuel cells, oxidizing a fuel to produce electricity, and as electrolysis cells, electrolysing water to produce hydrogen and ox...
- 2016-09-12 Building devices from colloidal quantum dots
- The continued growth of mobile and interactive computing requires devices manufactured with low-cost processes, compatible with large-area and flexible form factors, and with additional functionality....
- 2016-09-12 Upscaling of integrated photoelectrochemical water-splitting devices to large areas
- Photoelectrochemical water splitting promises both sustainable energy generation and energy storage in the form of hydrogen. However, the realization of this vision requires laboratory experiments to ...
- 2016-09-12 Room temperature stable COx-free H2 production from methanol with magnesium oxide nanophotocatalysts
- Methanol, which contains 12.6 weight percent hydrogen, is a good hydrogen storage medium because it is a liquid at room temperature. However, by releasing the hydrogen, undesirable CO and/or CO2 bypro...
- 2016-09-12 In situ study of the formation mechanism of two-dimensional superlattices from PbSe nanocrystals
- Oriented attachment of PbSe nanocubes can result in the formation of two-dimensional (2D) superstructures with long-range nanoscale and atomic order. This questions the applicability of classic models...
- 2016-09-12 A highly active and stable IrOx/SrIrO3 catalyst for the oxygen evolution reaction
- Oxygen electrochemistry plays a key role in renewable energy technologies such as fuel cells and electrolyzers, but the slow kinetics of the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) limit the performance and c...
- 2016-09-12 Applications of hierarchically structured porous materials from energy storage and conversion, catalysis, photocatalysis, adsorption, separation, and sensing to biomedicine
- Over the last decade, significant effort has been devoted to the applications of hierarchically structured porous materials owing to their outstanding properties such as high surface area, excellent a...
- 2016-09-12 Scalable synthesis of silicon-nanolayer-embedded graphite for high-energy lithium-ion batteries
- Existing anode technologies are approaching their limits, and silicon is recognized as a potential alternative due to its high specific capacity and abundance. However, to date the commercial use of s...
- 2016-09-12 Seed-Mediated Synthesis of Metal–Organic Frameworks
- The synthesis of phase-pure metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is of prime importance but remains a significant challenge because of the flexible and diversified coordination modes between metal ions an...
- 2016-09-12 Facile fabrication of large-grain CH3NH3PbI3−xBrx films for high-efficiency solar cells via CH3NH3Br-selective Ostwald ripening
- Organometallic halide perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have shown great promise as a low-cost, high-efficiency photovoltaic technology. Structural and electro-optical properties of the perovskite absorbe...
- 2016-09-12 Synthesis of Oligoparaphenylene-Derived Nanohoops Employing an Anthracene Photodimerization–Cycloreversion Strategy
- The century-old yet synthetically underexplored anthracene photodimerization–cycloreversion reactions have been employed as the key steps to access highly strained aromatic hydrocarbons. Herein we re...
- 2016-09-12 The active site of low-temperature methane hydroxylation in iron-containing zeolites
- An efficient catalytic process for converting methane into methanol could have far-reaching economic implications. Iron-containing zeolites (microporous aluminosilicate minerals) are noteworthy in thi...
- 2016-09-12 Mass production of two-dimensional oxides by rapid heating of hydrous chlorides
- Two-dimensional (2D) nanoscale oxides have attracted research interest owing to their electronic, magnetic optical and catalytic properties. If they could be manufactured on a large scale, 2D oxides w...
- 2016-09-06 Soft-Nanocomposites of Nanoparticles and Nanocarbons with Supramolecular and Polymer Gels and Their Applications
- Gel-nanocomposites are rapidly emerging functional advanced materials having widespread applications in materials and biological sciences. Herein, we review syntheses, properties, and applications of ...
