- 2015-09-11 Covalent organic frameworks comprising cobalt porphyrins for catalytic CO2 re...
- Conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) to carbon monoxide (CO) and other value-added carbon products is an important challenge for clean energy research. Here we report modular optimization of covalent organic frameworks (COFs), in which the building units are cobalt porphyrin catalysts linked by org...
- 2015-09-11 Efficient Semitransparent Perovskite Solar Cells with Graphene Electrodes
- Semitransparent perovskite solar cells are prepared by laminating graphene transparent electrodes on the top for the first time. The device performance is optimized by improving the conductivity of th...
- 2015-09-09 Phagraphene: A Low-Energy Graphene Allotrope Composed of 5-6-7 Carbon Rings w...
- Using systematic evolutionary structure searching we propose a new carbon allotrope, phagraphene, standing for penta-hexa-hepta-graphene, because the structure is composed of 5-6-7 carbon rings. This ...
- 2015-09-08 Three-terminal energy harvester with coupled quantum dots
- Rectification of thermal fluctuations in mesoscopic conductors is the key idea behind recent attempts to build nanoscale thermoelectric energy harvesters to convert heat into useful electric power. So...
- 2015-09-08 Characterization and manipulation of individual defects in insulating hexagon...
- Defects play a key role in determining the properties and technological applications of nanoscale materials and, because they tend to be highly localized, characterizing them at the single-defect leve...
- 2015-09-08 Highly efficient large-area colourless luminescent solar concentrators using ...
- Luminescent solar concentrators serving as semitransparent photovoltaic windows could become an important element in net zero energy consumption buildings of the future. Colloidal quantum dots are pro...
- 2015-09-08 Direct mapping of Li-enabled octahedral tilt ordering and associated strain i...
- Self-assembled nanostructures with periodic phase separation hold great promise for creating two- and three-dimensional superlattices with extraordinary physical properties. Understanding the mechanis...
- 2015-09-08 Large-area high-quality 2D ultrathin Mo2C superconducting crystals
- Transition metal carbides (TMCs) are a large family of materials with many intriguing properties and applications, and high-quality 2D TMCs are essential for investigating new physics and properties i...
- 2015-09-08 Flexible high power-per-weight perovskite solar cells with chromium oxide–me...
- Photovoltaic technology requires light-absorbing materials that are highly efficient, lightweight, low cost and stable during operation. Organolead halide perovskites constitute a highly promising cla...
- 2015-09-07 New electric storage material could put more zip in your Tesla
- BOSTON—The next electric car you buy might have a little extra zip. That’s because researchers have developed a new electric storage material that’s among the best at holding large amounts of charg...
- 2015-09-07 CO2 Hydrogenation to Formate and Methanol as an Alternative to Photo- and Ele...
- In this Review, we have described CO2 hydrogenation as an alternative method for so-called artificial photosynthesis to produce fuels, such as formate/formic acid and methanol, with good selectivity a...
- 2015-09-07 Waltzing with the Versatile Platform of Graphene to Synthesize Composite Phot...
- As such, we have attempted to cast a panoramic review of graphene-based photocatalysis, which has covered a systematic understanding of the multifarious roles of graphene in boosting the photocatalyti...
- 2015-09-06 Printable Solid-State Lithium-Ion Batteries: A New Route toward Shape-Conform...
- Forthcoming flexible/wearable electronic devices with shape diversity and mobile usability garner a great deal of attention as an innovative technology to bring unprecedented changes in our daily live...
- 2015-09-06 Highly thermally conductive and mechanically strong graphene fibers
- Graphene, a single layer of carbon atoms bonded in a hexagonal lattice, is the thinnest, strongest, and stiffest known material and an excellent conductor of heat and electricity. However, these super...
- 2015-09-06 Identification of active sites in CO oxidation and water-gas shift over suppo...
- Identification and characterization of catalytic active sites are the prerequisites for an atomic level understanding of the catalytic mechanism and rational design of high-performance heterogeneous c...
- 2015-09-02 Electrocatalytic reduction of carbon dioxide to carbon monoxide and methane a...
- The electrochemical conversion of carbon dioxide and water into useful products is a major challenge in facilitating a closed carbon cycle. Here we report a cobalt protoporphyrin immobilized on a pyro...
- 2015-09-02 Low-Bandgap Near-IR Conjugated Polymers/Molecules for Organic Electronics
- In this Review, we discuss the scientific origins, practical approaches of designing the low-bandgap polymers/molecules, and their associated physical properties. We then provide a synopsis of major a...
- 2015-09-02 Noncontact Atomic Force Microscopy: An Emerging Tool for Fundamental Catalysi...
- Although atomic force microscopy (AFM) was rapidly adopted as a routine surface imaging apparatus after its introduction in 1986, it has not been widely used in catalysis research. The reason is that ...
- 2015-09-02 Insights into Electrochemical Reactions from Ambient Pressure Photoelectron S...
- The understanding of fundamental processes in the bulk and at the interfaces of electrochemical devices is a prerequisite for the development of new technologies with higher efficiency and improved pe...
- 2015-09-02 Plasmon-induced resonance energy transfer for solar energy conversion
- In Forster resonance energy transfer (FRET), energy non-radiatively transfers from a blue-shifted emitter to a red-shifted absorber by dipole-dipole coupling. This study shows that plasmonics enables ...