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- 2015-05-03 Exploiting chemically selective weakness in solids as a route to new porous materials
- Weakness in a material, especially when challenged by chemical, mechanical or physical stimuli, is often viewed as something extremely negative. There are countless examples in which interesting-looki...
- 2015-05-03 Conducting polymer nanostructures for photocatalysis under visible light
- Visible-light-responsive photocatalysts can directly harvest energy from solar light, offering a desirable way to solve energy and environment issues1. Here, we show that one-dimensional poly(diphenyl...
- 2015-05-03 Picosecond energy transfer and multiexciton transfer outpaces Auger recombination in binary CdSe nanoplatelet solids
- Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) enables photosynthetic light harvesting1, wavelength downconversion in light-emitting diodes2 (LEDs), and optical biosensing schemes3. The rate and e...
- 2015-05-03 Combined biomass valorization and hydrogen production in a photoelectrochemical cell
- In a typical hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), water reduction at the cathode (producing hydrogen) is accompanied by water oxidation at the anode (producing oxyge...
- 2015-04-15 An ultrafast rechargeable aluminium-ion battery
- A rechargeable aluminium battery with high-rate capability that uses an aluminium metal anode and a three-dimensional graphitic-foam cathode was reported. The battery operates through the electrochemi...
- 2015-03-02 Dysprosium-doped cadmium oxide as a gateway material for mid-infrared plasmonics
- Edward Sachet, Christopher T. Shelton, Joshua S. Harris, Benjamin E. Gaddy, Douglas L. Irving, Ste...
- 2015-03-02 Molecular length dictates the nature of charge carriers in single-molecule junctions of oxidized oligothiophenes
- Emma J. Dell, Brian Capozzi, Jianlong Xia, Latha Venkataraman & Luis M. CamposTo develop advanced materials for electronic devices, it is of utmost importance to design organic building blocks with tu...
- 2014-10-29 Fulleropyrrolidine interlayers: Tailoring electrodes to raise organic solar cell efficiency
- A major challenge in organic solar cell design is the trade-off between oxidative stability and work function of the metal cathode. Prof. Todd Emrick’s group in University of Massachusetts found that...
- 2014-10-11 2014 Nobel Prize in Chemistry was disclosed
- In October 8, 2014, the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences has decided to award the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2014 toEric BetzigJanelia Research Campus, Howard Hughes Medical Institute, Ashburn, VA,...
- 2014-10-10 A long-lasting concentration cell based on a magnetic electrolyte
- A concentration cell is composed of two equivalent half-cells made of the same material but differing in the concentration of reactants. As these concentrations equilibrate, the increase in entropy is...
- 2014-10-10 Lateral epitaxial growth of two-dimensional layered semiconductor heterojunctions
- Two-dimensional layered semiconductors such as MoS2 and WSe2 have attracted considerable interest in recent times. Exploring the full potential of these layered materials requires precise sp...
- 2014-10-10 Vertical and in-plane heterostructures from WS2/MoS2 monolayers
- Layer-by-layer stacking or lateral interfacing of atomic monolayers has opened up unprecedented opportunities to engineer two-dimensional heteromaterials. Fabrication of such artificial heterostructur...
- 2014-10-10 Self-assembling hydrogel scaffolds for photocatalytic hydrogen production
- Integration into a soft material of all the molecular components necessary to generate storable fuels is an interesting target in supramolecular chemistry. The concept is inspired by the internal stru...
- 2014-09-14 Ultrafast charge transfer in atomically thin MoS2/WS2 heterostructures
- Van der Waals heterostructures have recently emerged as a new class of materials, where quantum coupling between stacked atomically thin two-dimensional layers, including graphene, hexagonal-boron nit...
- 2014-09-14 Mass-selected nanoparticles of PtxY as model catalysts for oxygen electroreduction
- Low-temperature fuel cells are limited by the oxygen reduction reaction, and their widespread implementation in automotive vehicles is hindered by the cost of platinum, currently the best-known cata...
- 2014-09-14 Lateral heterojunctions within monolayer MoSe2–WSe2 semiconductors
- Heterojunctions between three-dimensional (3D) semiconductors with different bandgaps are the basis of modern light-emitting diodes, diode lasers and high-speed transistors. Creating analogous heteroj...
- 2014-09-14 In situ detection of hydrogen-induced phase transitions in individual palladium nanocrystals
- Many energy- and information-storage processes rely on phase changes of nanomaterials in reactive environments. Compared to their bulk counterparts, nanostructured materials seem to exhibit faster cha...
- 2014-09-14 Redox shuttle mechanism enhances photocatalytic H2 generation on Ni-decorated CdS nanorods
- Photocatalytic conversion of solar energy to fuels, such as hydrogen, is attracting enormous interest, driven by the promise of addressing both energy supply and storage. Colloidal semiconductor nan...
- 2014-09-01 Size, Dimensionality, and Strong Electron Correlation in Nanoscience
- In electronic structure theory, electron–electron repulsion is normally considered only in an average (or mean field) sense, for example, in a single Hartree–Fock determinant. This is the simple mol...
- 2014-09-01 Organic/Inorganic Hybrid Materials: Challenges for ab Initio Methodology
- Organic/inorganic hybrid structures are most exciting since one can expect new properties that are absent in either of their building blocks. They open new perspectives toward the design and tailoring...
