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- 2016-12-21 Sustainability and in situ monitoring in battery development
- The development of improved rechargeable batteries represents a major technological challenge for this new century, as batteries constitute the limiting components in the shift from petrol (gasoline) ...
- 2016-12-21 Photovoltaic concepts inspired by coherence effects in photosynthetic systems
- The past decade has seen rapid advances in our understanding of how coherent and vibronic phenomena in biological photosynthetic systems aid in the efficient transport of energy from light-harvesting ...
- 2016-12-21 Energy conversion approaches and materials for high-efficiency photovoltaics
- The past five years have seen significant cost reductions in photovoltaics and a correspondingly strong increase in uptake, with photovoltaics now positioned to provide one of the lowest-cost options ...
- 2016-12-21 The path towards sustainable energy
- Civilization continues to be transformed by our ability to harness energy beyond human and animal power. A series of industrial and agricultural revolutions have allowed an increasing fraction of the ...
- 2016-12-21 Materials for solar fuels and chemicals
- The conversion of sunlight into fuels and chemicals is an attractive prospect for the storage of renewable energy, and photoelectrocatalytic technologies represent a pathway by which solar fuels might...
- 2016-12-16 Biaxially strained PtPb/Pt core/shell nanoplate boosts oxygen reduction catalysis
- An activity lift for platinumPlatinum is an excellent but expensive catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is critical for fuel cells. Alloying platinum with other metals can create s...
- 2016-12-15 An ultra-tunable platform for molecular engineering of high-performance crystalline porous materials
- Metal-organic frameworks are a class of crystalline porous materials with potential applications in catalysis, gas separation and storage, and so on. Of great importance is the development of innovati...
- 2016-12-15 Co-axial heterostructures integrating palladium/titanium dioxide with carbon nanotubes for efficient electrocatalytic hydrogen evolution
- Considering the depletion of fossil-fuel reserves and their negative environmental impact, new energy schemes must point towards alternative ecological processes. Efficient hydrogen evolution from wat...
- 2016-12-15 A metal-free electrocatalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to multi-carbon hydrocarbons and oxygenates
- Electroreduction of carbon dioxide into higher-energy liquid fuels and chemicals is a promising but challenging renewable energy conversion technology. Among the electrocatalysts screened so far for c...
- 2016-12-15 High-throughput computational design of cathode coatings for Li-ion batteries
- Cathode degradation is a key factor that limits the lifetime of Li-ion batteries. To identify functional coatings that can suppress this degradation, we present a high-throughput density functional th...
- 2016-12-15 Directional interlayer spin-valley transfer in two-dimensional heterostructures
- Van der Waals heterostructures formed by two different monolayer semiconductors have emerged as a promising platform for new optoelectronic and spin/valleytronic applications. In addition to its atomi...
- 2016-12-15 Solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films over a limited depth
- Solution-based electrical doping protocols may allow more versatility in the design of organic electronic devices; yet, controlling the diffusion of dopants in organic semiconductors and their stabili...
- 2016-12-15 Activity targets for nanostructured platinum-group-metal-free catalysts in hydroxide exchange membrane fuel cells
- Fuel cells are the zero-emission automotive power source that best preserves the advantages of gasoline automobiles: low upfront cost, long driving range and fast refuelling. To make fuel-cell cars a ...
- 2016-12-15 Oxygen vacancies enhance pseudocapacitive charge storage properties of MoO3−x
- The short charging times and high power capabilities associated with capacitive energy storage make this approach an attractive alternative to batteries. One limitation of electrochemical capacitors i...
- 2016-12-15 The role of nanotechnology in the development of battery materials for electric vehicles
- A significant amount of battery research and development is underway, both in academia and industry, to meet the demand for electric vehicle applications. When it comes to designing and fabricating el...
- 2016-12-15 The renaissance of hydrides as energy materials
- Materials based on hydrides have been the linchpin in the development of several practical energy storage technologies, of which the most prominent example is nickel–metal hydride batteries. Motivate...
- 2016-12-15 Developing a scalable artificial photosynthesis technology through nanomaterials by design
- An artificial photosynthetic system that directly produces fuels from sunlight could provide an approach to scalable energy storage and a technology for the carbon-neutral production of high-energy-de...
- 2016-12-15 Tunable Wavelength Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Cells from Surface Plasmon Resonance
- Photocatalysis is a promising technology for renewable energy production. Many photocatalysis have realized the visible-light-driven catalytic activity. However, it is still difficult to achieve the e...
- 2016-12-09 Nanotechnology for environmentally sustainable electromobility
- Electric vehicles (EVs) powered by lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) or proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells (PEMFCs) offer important potential climate change mitigation effects when combined with ...
- 2016-12-09 Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanocomposites
- Despite its widespread use in nanocomposites, the effect of embedding graphene in highly viscoelastic polymer matrices is not well understood. We added graphene to a lightly cross-linked polysilicone,...
