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- 2016-10-28 Formaldehyde stabilization facilitates lignin monomer production during biomass depolymerization
- Practical, high-yield lignin depolymerization methods could greatly increase biorefinery productivity and profitability. However, development of these methods is limited by the presence of interunit c...
- 2016-10-28 Thermally enhanced photoluminescence for heat harvesting in photovoltaics
- The maximal Shockley–Queisser efficiency limit of 41% for single-junction photovoltaics is primarily caused by heat dissipation following energetic-photon absorption. Solar-thermophotovoltaics concep...
- 2016-10-28 Donor polymer design enables efficient non-fullerene organic solar cells
- To achieve efficient organic solar cells, the design of suitable donor–acceptor couples is crucially important. State-of-the-art donor polymers used in fullerene cells may not perform well when they ...
- 2016-10-24 Towards stable and commercially available perovskite solar cells
- Solar cells employing a halide perovskite with an organic cation now show power conversion efficiency of up to 22%. However, these cells are facing issues towards commercialization, such as the need t...
- 2016-10-24 Dynamic creation and evolution of gradient nanostructure in single-crystal metallic microcubes
- We demonstrate the dynamic creation and subsequent static evolution of extreme gradient nanograined structures in initially near–defect-free single-crystal silver microcubes. Extreme nanostructural t...
- 2016-10-24 MoS2 transistors with 1-nanometer gate lengths
- Scaling of silicon (Si) transistors is predicted to fail below 5-nanometer (nm) gate lengths because of severe short channel effects. As an alternative to Si, certain layered semiconductors are attrac...
- 2016-10-24 Methane production from coal by a single methanogen
- Coal-bed methane is one of the largest unconventional natural gas resources. Although microbial activity may greatly contribute to coal-bed methane formation, it is unclear whether the complex aromati...
- 2016-10-24 Heme biomolecule as redox mediator and oxygen shuttle for efficient charging of lithium-oxygen batteries
- One of the greatest challenges with lithium-oxygen batteries involves identifying catalysts that facilitate the growth and evolution of cathode species on an oxygen electrode. Heterogeneous solid cata...
- 2016-10-24 Super-dry reforming of methane intensifies CO2 utilization via Le Chatelier’s principle
- Efficient CO2 transformation from a waste product to carbon source for chemicals and fuels will require reaction conditions that effect its reduction. We develop a “super-dry” CH4 reforming reaction...
- 2016-10-24 A sulfur host based on titanium monoxide@carbon hollow spheres for advanced lithium–sulfur batteries
- Lithium–sulfur batteries show advantages for next-generation electrical energy storage due to their high energy density and cost effectiveness. Enhancing the conductivity of the sulfur cathode and mo...
- 2016-10-24 Molecular transport through capillaries made with atomic-scale precision
- Nanometre-scale pores and capillaries have long been studied because of their importance in many natural phenomena and their use in numerous applications. A more recent development is the ability to f...
- 2016-10-20 From Fullerene–Polymer to All-Polymer Solar Cells: The Importance of Molecular Packing, Orientation, and Morphology Control
- All-polymer solar cells (all-PSCs), consisting of conjugated polymers as both electron donor (PD) and acceptor (PA), have recently attracted great attention. Remarkable progress has been achieved duri...
- 2016-10-20 Organic Optoelectronic Materials: Mechanisms and Applications
- Organic (opto)electronic materials have received considerable attention due to their applications in thin-film-transistors, light-emitting diodes, solar cells, sensors, photorefractive devices, and ma...
- 2016-10-20 Electrocatalysis by Mass-Selected Ptn Clusters
- Mass-selected Ptn+ ion deposition in ultrahigh vacuum (UHV) was used to prepare a series of size-selected electrodes with Ptn (n ≤ 14) clusters supported on either glassy carbon (GC) or indium tin ox...
- 2016-10-20 Structure Design and Performance Tuning of Nanomaterials for Electrochemical Energy Conversion and Storage
- The performance of nanomaterials in electrochemical energy conversion (fuel cells) and storage (secondary batteries) strongly depends on the nature of their surfaces. Designing the structure of electr...
- 2016-10-20 Single Molecule Nanoelectrochemistry in Electrical Junctions
- It is now possible to reliably measure single molecule conductance in a wide variety of environments including organic liquids, ultrahigh vacuum, water, ionic liquids, and electrolytes. The most commo...
- 2016-10-20 Structure sensitivity of Cu and CuZn catalysts relevant to industrial methanol synthesis
- For decades it has been debated whether the conversion of synthesis gas to methanol over copper catalysts is sensitive or insensitive to the structure of the copper surface. Here we have systematicall...
- 2016-10-20 Nanoscale structural oscillations in perovskite oxides induced by oxygen evolution
- Understanding the interaction between water and oxides is critical for many technological applications, including energy storage, surface wetting/self-cleaning, photocatalysis and sensors. Here, we re...
- 2016-10-20 Microbial synthesis of highly dispersed PdAu alloy for enhanced electrocatalysis
- Biosynthesis based on the reducing capacity of electrochemically active bacteria is frequently used in the reduction of metal ions into nanoparticles as an eco-friendly way to recycle metal resources....
- 2016-10-20 Magnetoelectric interaction and transport behaviours in magnetic nanocomposite thermoelectric materials
- How to suppress the performance deterioration of thermoelectric materials in the intrinsic excitation region remains a key challenge. The magnetic transition of permanent magnet nanoparticles from fer...
