- 2015-09-21 Hyperbranched Self-Immolative Polymers (hSIPs) for Programmed
- Upon stimuli-triggered single cleavage of capping moieties at the focal point and chain terminal, self-immolative dendrimers (SIDs) and linear self-immolative polymers (l-SIPs) undergo spontaneous dom...
- 2015-09-21 Molecular helices as electron acceptors in high-performance bulk heterojuncti...
- Despite numerous organic semiconducting materials synthesized for organic photovoltaics in the past decade, fullerenes are widely used as electron acceptors in highly efficient bulk-heterojunction sol...
- 2015-09-21 Function-Led Design of Aerogels: Self-Assembly of Alloyed PdNi Hollow Nanosph...
- One plausible approach to endow aerogels with specific properties while preserving their other attributes is to fine-tune the building blocks. However, the preparation of metallic aerogels with design...
- 2015-09-18 From Multisite Polymerization Catalysis to Sustainable Materials and All-Poly...
- The remarkable progress in olefin polymerization catalysis and polyolefin technology contributes to sustainable development in manifold ways and helps to meet the urgent demand of the growing world po...
- 2015-09-18 Model Approach in Heterogeneous Catalysis: Kinetics and Thermodynamics of Sur...
- Heterogeneous catalysts are widely employed in technological applications, such as chemical manufacturing, energy harvesting, conversion and storage, and environmental technology. Often they consist o...
- 2015-09-18 Coordination tuning of cobalt phosphates towards efficient water oxidation ca...
- The development of efficient and stable water oxidation catalysts is necessary for the realization of practically viable water-splitting systems. Although extensive studies have focused on the metal-o...
- 2015-09-18 A porous proton-relaying metal-organic framework material that accelerates el...
- The availability of efficient hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) catalysts is of high importance for solar fuel technologies aimed at reducing future carbon emissions. Even though Pt electrodes are exc...
- 2015-09-18 Efficient direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion by in situ interface transforma...
- Photosynthesis is nature’s route to convert intermittent solar irradiation into storable energy, while its use for an industrial energy supply is impaired by low efficiency. Artificial photosynthesis...
- 2015-09-18 Dynamic kirigami structures for integrated solar tracking
- Optical tracking is often combined with conventional flat panel solar cells to maximize electrical power generation over the course of a day. However, conventional trackers are complex and often requi...
- 2015-09-18 One-Pot Synthesis of Carbon Nanofibers from CO2
- Carbon nanofibers, CNFs, due to their superior strength, conductivity, flexibility, and durability have great potential as a material resource but still have limited use due to the cost intensive comp...
- 2015-09-18 Nonstoichiometric Oxides as Low-Cost and Highly-Efficient Oxygen Reduction/Ev...
- This review has highlighted the recent advances in the development of nonstoichiometric oxides, ranging from simple oxide, perovskite, layered perovskite, and pyrochlore, for ORR and OER in MABs and L...
- 2015-09-15 A phosphorene-graphene hybrid material as a high-capacity anode for sodium-io...
- Sodium-ion batteries have recently attracted significant attention as an alternative to lithium-ion batteries because sodium sources do not present the geopolitical issues that lithium sources might. ...
- 2015-09-15 The generalized Shockley-Queisser limit for nanostructured solar cells
- The Shockley-Queisser limit describes the maximum solar energy conversion efficiency achievable for a particular material and is the standard by which new photovoltaic technologies are compared. This ...
- 2015-09-15 Efficient green methanol synthesis from glycerol
- The production of biodiesel from the transesterification of plant-derived triglycerides with methanol has been commercialized extensively. Impure glycerol is obtained as a by-product at roughly one-te...
- 2015-09-14 Nano-socketed nickel particles with enhanced coking resistance grown in situ ...
- Metal particles supported on oxide surfaces are used as catalysts for a wide variety of processes in the chemical and energy conversion industries. For catalytic applications, metal particles are gene...
- 2015-09-14 Monolayered Bi2WO6 nanosheets mimicking heterojunction interface with open su...
- Two-dimensional-layered heterojunctions have attracted extensive interest recently due to their exciting behaviours in electronic/optoelectronic devices as well as solar energy conversion systems. How...
- 2015-09-11 The Renaissance of Halide Perovskites and Their Evolution as Emerging Semicon...
- The recent re-emergence of the halide perovskites, of the type AMX3, derives from a sea-changing breakthrough in the field of photovoltaics that has led to a whole new generation of solar devices with...
- 2015-09-11 Amine-Oxide Hybrid Materials for CO2 Capture from Ambient Air
- Oxide supports functionalized with amine moieties have been used for decades as catalysts and chromatographic media. Owing to the recognized impact of atmospheric CO2 on global climate change, the stu...
- 2015-09-11 Covalency-reinforced oxygen evolution reaction catalyst
- The oxygen evolution reaction that occurs during water oxidation is of considerable importance as an essential energy conversion reaction for rechargeable metal-air batteries and direct solar water sp...
- 2015-09-11 Combined operando X-ray diffraction-electrochemical impedance spectroscopy de...
- Lithium-ion batteries are widely used for portable applications today; however, often suffer from limited recharge rates. One reason for such limitation can be a reduced active surface area during pha...