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- 2017-01-10 Catalyst support effects on hydrogen spillover
- Hydrogen spillover is the surface migration of activated hydrogen atoms from a metal catalyst particle, on which they are generated, onto the catalyst support. The phenomenon has been much studied and...
- 2017-01-10 Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic transistors
- Thin-film field-effect transistors are essential elements of stretchable electronic devices for wearable electronics. All of the materials and components of such transistors need to be stretchable and...
- 2017-01-10 Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement effect
- Soft and conformable wearable electronics require stretchable semiconductors, but existing ones typically sacrifice charge transport mobility to achieve stretchability. We explore a concept based on t...
- 2017-01-10 Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible-light photocatalytic hydrogen production
- Scalable and sustainable solar hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting requires highly active and stable earth-abundant co-catalysts to replace expensive and rare platinum. Here we ...
- 2017-01-04 Femtosecond photo-switching of interface polaritons in black phosphorus heterostructures
- The possibility of hybridizing collective electronic motion with mid-infrared light to form surface polaritons has made van der Waals layered materials a versatile platform for extreme light confineme...
- 2017-01-04 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...
- 2017-01-04 Dynamic restructuring drives catalytic activity on nanoporous gold–silver alloy catalysts
- Bimetallic, nanostructured materials hold promise for improving catalyst activity and selectivity, yet little is known about the dynamic compositional and structural changes that these systems undergo...
- 2017-01-04 Enhancing photoluminescence yields in lead halide perovskites by photon recycling and light out-coupling
- In lead halide perovskite solar cells, there is at least one recycling event of electron–hole pair to photon to electron–hole pair at open circuit under solar illumination. This can lead to a signif...
- 2017-01-04 Highly crystalline 2D superconductors
- Recent advances in materials fabrication have enabled the manufacturing of ordered 2D electron systems, such as heterogeneous interfaces, atomic layers grown by molecular beam epitaxy, exfoliated thin...
- 2017-01-04 Selective nitrogen capture by porous hybrid materials containing accessible transition metal ion sites
- Selective dinitrogen binding to transition metal ions mainly covers two strategic domains: biological nitrogen fixation catalysed by metalloenzyme nitrogenases and adsorptive purification of natural g...
- 2017-01-04 Negating interfacial impedance in garnet-based solid-state Li metal batteries
- Garnet-type solid-state electrolytes have attracted extensive attention due to their high ionic conductivity, approaching 1 mS cm-1, excellent environmental stability, and wide electrochemical stabi...
- 2017-01-04 Origin of stabilization and destabilization in solid-state redox reaction of oxide ions for lithium-ion batteries
- Further increase in energy density of lithium batteries is needed for zero emission vehicles. However, energy density is restricted by unavoidable theoretical limits for positive electrodes used in co...
- 2017-01-04 Photoredox activation of carbon dioxide for amino acid synthesis in continuous flow
- Although carbon dioxide (CO2) is highly abundant, its low reactivity has limited its use in chemical synthesis. In particular, methods for carbon–carbon bond formation generally rely on two-electron ...
- 2017-01-04 Emergence of hierarchical structural complexities in nanoparticles and their assembly
- We demonstrate that nanoparticle self-assembly can reach the same level of hierarchy, complexity, and accuracy as biomolecules. The precise assembly structures of gold nanoparticles (246 gold core ato...
- 2017-01-04 Selective oxidative dehydrogenation of propane to propene using boron nitride catalysts
- The exothermic oxidative dehydrogenation of propane reaction to generate propene has the potential to be a game-changing technology in the chemical industry. However, even after decades of research, s...
- 2017-01-04 Interplay between defects, disorder and flexibility in metal-organic frameworks
- Metal-organic frameworks are a novel family of chemically diverse materials, which are of interest across engineering, physics, chemistry, biology and medicine-based disciplines. Since the development...
- 2017-01-04 Hybrid metal–organic chalcogenide nanowires with electrically conductive inorganic core through diamondoid-directed assembly
- Controlling inorganic structure and dimensionality through structure-directing agents is a versatile approach for new materials synthesis that has been used extensively for metal–organic frameworks a...
- 2017-01-03 Emissive Molecular Aggregates and Energy Migration in Luminescent Solar Concentrators
- Luminescent solar concentrators (LSCs) are light harvesting devices that are ideally suited to light collection in the urban environment where direct sunlight is often not available. LSCs consist of h...
- 2017-01-03 Solar Water Splitting and Nitrogen Fixation with Layered Bismuth Oxyhalides
- Hydrogen and ammonia are the chemical molecules that are vital to Earth’s energy, environmental, and biological processes. Hydrogen with renewable, carbon-free, and high combustion-enthalpy hallmarks...
- 2016-12-21 Energy and fuels from electrochemical interfaces
- Advances in electrocatalysis at solid–liquid interfaces are vital for driving the technological innovations that are needed to deliver reliable, affordable and environmentally friendly energy. Here, ...
