- 2015-11-06 Stable ultrathin partially oxidized copper film electrode for highly efficien...
- Advances in flexible optoelectronic devices have led to an increasing need for developing highly efficient, low-cost, flexible transparent conducting electrodes. Copper-based electrodes have been unat...
- 2015-11-06 Inward lithium-ion breathing of hierarchically porous silicon anodes
- Silicon has been identified as a highly promising anode for next-generation lithium-ion batteries (LIBs). The key challenge for Si anodes is large volume change during the lithiation/delithiation cycl...
- 2015-11-03 Design principles for solid-state lithium superionic conductors
- Lithium solid electrolytes can potentially address two key limitations of the organic electrolytes used in today’s lithium-ion batteries, namely, their flammability and limited electrochemical stabil...
- 2015-11-03 Cycling Li-O2 batteries via LiOH formation and decomposition
- The rechargeable aprotic lithium-air (Li-O2) battery is a promising potential technology for next-generation energy storage, but its practical realization still faces many challenges. In contrast to t...
- 2015-11-03 Efficient and stable large-area perovskite solar cells with inorganic charge ...
- The recent stunning rise in power conversion efficiencies (PCEs) of perovskite solar cells (PSCs) has triggered worldwide intense research. However, high PCE values have often been reached with poor s...
- 2015-11-02 Quantum emission from hexagonal boron nitride monolayers
- Artificial atomic systems in solids are widely considered the leading physical system for a variety of quantum technologies, including quantum communications, computing and metrology To date, however,...
- 2015-11-02 Design principles for maximizing photovoltage in metal-oxide-protected water-...
- Metal oxide protection layers for photoanodes may enable the development of large-scale solar fuel and solar chemical synthesis, but the poor photovoltages often reported so far will severely limit th...
- 2015-11-02 Harnessing structural darkness in the visible and infrared wavelengths for a ...
- The development of a rechargeable battery technology using light electropositive metal anodes would result in a breakthrough in energy density. For multivalent charge carriers (Mn+), the number of ion...
- 2015-11-02 Integrating DNA Strand-Displacement Circuitry with Self-Assembly of Spherical...
- Programmable and algorithmic behaviors of DNA molecules allow controlling the structures of DNA-assembled materials with nanometer precision and constructing complex networks with digital and analog b...
- 2015-11-02 “Smart” Ag Nanostructures for Plasmon-Enhanced Spectroscopies
- Silver is an ideal candidate for surface plasmon resonance (SPR)-based applications because of its great optical cross-section in the visible region. However, the uses of Ag in plasmon-enhanced spectr...
- 2015-11-02 Fast diffusion of water nanodroplets on graphene
- Diffusion across surfaces generally involves motion on a vibrating but otherwise stationary substrate. Here, using molecular dynamics, we show that a layered material such as graphene opens up a new m...
- 2015-11-02 壳层隔绝纳米粒子增强光谱研究进展
- 李剑锋教授与田中群院士课题组合作撰写综述“Dielectric shell isolated and graphene shell isolated nanoparticle enhanced Raman spectroscopies and their applications”,近期发表于英国皇家化学会期刊Chemica...
- 2015-10-30 Development of Biochar-Based Functional Materials: Toward a Sustainable Platf...
- In this review, the formation mechanism of biochar in the pyrolysis of a range of biomass precursors is discussed in detail. Because biochar directly obtained from the pyrolysis of biomass has a limit...
- 2015-10-30 Non-Fullerene Electron Acceptors for Use in Organic Solar Cells
- The active layer in a solution processed organic photovoltaic device comprises a light absorbing electron donor semiconductor, typically a polymer, and an electron accepting fullerene acceptor. Althou...
- 2015-10-30 Nanostructured Electrolytes for Stable Lithium Electrodeposition in Secondary...
- Secondary batteries based on lithium are the most important energy storage technology for contemporary portable devices. The lithium ion battery (LIB) in widespread commercial use today is a compromis...
- 2015-10-28 World Record: Jülich fuel cell runs for more than 70,000 hours
- Jülich--Jülich scientists have set a new world record: Their fuel cell stack with high-temperature fuel cell is running now for over 8 years or 70,000 hours. That's longer than any other fuel cell wit...
- 2015-10-28 An aqueous, polymer-based redox-flow battery using non-corrosive, safe, and l...
- For renewable energy sources such as solar, wind, and hydroelectric to be effectively used in the grid of the future, flexible and scalable energy-storage solutions are necessary to mitigate output fl...
- 2015-10-28 Quantifying the density and utilization of active sites in non-precious metal...
- Carbon materials doped with transition metal and nitrogen are highly active, non-precious metal catalysts for the electrochemical conversion of molecular oxygen in fuel cells, metal air batteries, and...
- 2015-10-28 Defective titanium dioxide single crystals exposed by high-energy {001} facet...
- The cathodic material plays an essential role in oxygen reduction reaction for energy conversion and storage systems. Titanium dioxide, as a semiconductor material, is usually not recognized as an eff...
- 2015-10-28 Evidence of covalent synergy in silicon–sulfur–graphene yielding highly eff...
- Silicon has the potential to revolutionize the energy storage capacities of lithium-ion batteries to meet the ever increasing power demands of next generation technologies. To avoid the operational st...