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- 2017-06-19 Making Li-metal electrodes rechargeable by controlling the dendrite growth direction
- The long-standing issue of Li-dendrite formation and growth during repeated plating or stripping processes prevents the practical application of Li-metal anodes for high-specific-energy batteries. Her...
- 2017-06-19 Palladium-catalyzed carbon-sulfur or carbon-phosphorus bond metathesis by reversible arylation
- Compounds bearing aryl-sulfur and aryl-phosphorus bonds have found numerous applications in drug development, organic materials, polymer science, and homogeneous catalysis. We describe palladium-catal...
- 2017-06-19 Electrochemical reduction of CO2 to synthesis gas with controlled CO/H2 ratios
- The electrochemical carbon dioxide reduction reaction (CO2RR) to simultaneously produce carbon monoxide (CO) and hydrogen (H2) has been achieved on carbon supported palladium (Pd/C) nanoparticles in a...
- 2017-06-19 Electricity from methane by reversing methanogenesis
- Given our vast methane reserves and the difficulty in transporting methane without substantial leaks, the conversion of methane directly into electricity would be beneficial. Microbial fuel cells harn...
- 2017-06-19 Hierarchical porous carbons with layer-by-layer motif architectures from confined soft-template self-assembly in layered materials
- Although various two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials have been explored as promising capacitive materials due to their unique layered structure, their natural restacking tendency impedes electrolyte tr...
- 2017-06-19 Diffusion engineering of ions and charge carriers for stable efficient perovskite solar cells
- Long-term stability is crucial for the future application of perovskite solar cells, a promising low-cost photovoltaic technology that has rapidly advanced in the recent years. Here, we designed a nan...
- 2017-06-19 Temperature-regulated guest admission and release in microporous materials
- While it has long been known that some highly adsorbing microporous materials suddenly become inaccessible to guest molecules below certain temperatures, previous attempts to explain this phenomenon h...
- 2017-06-19 11% efficiency solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells with copper(II/I) hole transport materials
- Solid-state dye-sensitized solar cells currently suffer from issues such as inadequate nanopore filling, low conductivity and crystallization of hole-transport materials infiltrated in the mesoscopic ...
- 2017-06-19 Taming interfacial electronic properties of platinum nanoparticles on vacancy-abundant boron nitride nanosheets for enhanced catalysis
- Taming interfacial electronic effects on Pt nanoparticles modulated by their concomitants has emerged as an intriguing approach to optimize Pt catalytic performance. Here, we report Pt nanoparticles a...
- 2017-06-19 An autonomous organic reaction search engine for chemical reactivity
- The exploration of chemical space for new reactivity, reactions and molecules is limited by the need for separate work-up-separation steps searching for molecules rather than reactivity. Herein we pre...
- 2017-06-19 A two-dimensional Dirac fermion microscope
- The electron microscope has been a powerful, highly versatile workhorse in the fields of material and surface science, micro and nanotechnology, biology and geology, for nearly 80 years. The advent of...
- 2017-06-19 Real-time observation of cation exchange kinetics and dynamics at the muscovite-water interface
- Ion exchange at charged solid–liquid interfaces is central to a broad range of chemical and transport phenomena. Real-time observations of adsorption/desorption at the molecular-scale elucidate excha...
- 2017-06-19 Ruthenium(II)-catalysed remote C–H alkylations as a versatile platform to meta-decorated arenes
- The full control of positional selectivity is of prime importance in C–H activation technology. Chelation assistance served as the stimulus for the development of a plethora of ortho-selective arene ...
- 2017-06-13 Nanoimaging of resonating hyperbolic polaritons in linear boron nitride antennas
- Polaritons in layered materials—including van der Waals materials—exhibit hyperbolic dispersion and strong field confinement, which makes them highly attractive for applications including optical na...
- 2017-06-13 Organic hydrogen peroxide-driven low charge potentials for high-performance lithium-oxygen batteries with carbon cathodes
- Reducing the high charge potential is a crucial concern in advancing the performance of lithium-oxygen batteries. Here, for water-containing lithium-oxygen batteries with lithium hydroxide products, w...
- 2017-06-13 Possible absence of critical thickness and size effect in ultrathin perovskite ferroelectric films
- Although the size effect in ferroelectric thin films has been known for long time, the underlying mechanism is not yet fully understood and whether or not there is a critical thickness below which the...
- 2017-06-13 Ultrathin metal-organic framework array for efficient electrocatalytic water splitting
- Two-dimensional metal-organic frameworks represent a family of materials with attractive chemical and structural properties, which are usually prepared in the form of bulk powders. Here we show a gene...
- 2017-06-13 Organic narrowband near-infrared photodetectors based on intermolecular charge-transfer absorption
- Blending organic electron donors and acceptors yields intermolecular charge-transfer states with additional optical transitions below their optical gaps. In organic photovoltaic devices, such states p...
- 2017-06-13 Direct conversion of CO2 into liquid fuels with high selectivity over a bifunctional catalyst
- Although considerable progress has been made in carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation to various C1 chemicals, it is still a great challenge to synthesize value-added products with two or more carbons, s...
- 2017-06-13 Enhanced selectivity in mixed matrix membranes for CO2 capture through efficient dispersion of amine-functionalized MOF nanoparticles
- Mixed matrix membranes (MMMs) for gas separation applications have enhanced selectivity when compared with the pure polymer matrix, but are commonly reported with low intrinsic permeability, which has...
