- 2015-11-20 A concentrated effort for battery safety
- “Water-in-salt” electrolyte enables high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion chemistriesLithium-ion batteries raise safety, environmental, and cost concerns, which mostly arise from their nonaqueous electro...
- 2015-11-20 Reversibly Switching Bilayer Permeability and Release Modules of Photochromic...
- We report on the fabrication of photochromic polymersomes exhibiting photoswitchable and reversible bilayer permeability from newly de-signed poly(ethylene oxide)-b-PSPA (PEO-b-PSPA) diblock copolymer...
- 2015-11-20 Direct Chemical Vapor Deposition-Derived Graphene Glasses Targeting Wide Rang...
- Direct growth of graphene on traditional glasses is of great importance for various daily life applications. We report herein the catalyst-free atmospheric-pressure chemical vapor deposition approach ...
- 2015-11-19 Artificial Leaf Harnesses Sunlight for Efficient Hydrogen Fuel Production
- Generating and storing renewable energy, such as solar or wind power, is a key barrier to a clean-energy economy. When the Joint Center for Artificial Photosynthesis (JCAP) was established at Caltech ...
- 2015-11-19 Low-temperature-processed efficient semi-transparent planar perovskite solar ...
- Semi-transparent perovskite solar cells are highly attractive for a wide range of applications, such as bifacial and tandem solar cells; however, the power conversion efficiency of semi-transparent de...
- 2015-11-16 New class of materials for organic electronics
- Joint project details charge transport in polymeric carbon nitride for first timeDate:November 12, 2015Source:Freie Universitaet BerlinSummary:Polymeric carbon nitride is an organic material with inte...
- 2015-11-16 Pd @ Pt Core-shell Concave Decahedra: A Class of Catalysts for the Oxygen Red...
- We report a facile synthesis of multiply twinned Pd@Pt core-shell concave decahedra by controlling the deposition of Pt on pre-formed Pd decahedral seeds. The Pt atoms are initially deposited on the v...
- 2015-11-13 Extra adsorption and adsorbate superlattice formation in metal-organic framew...
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have a high internal surface area and widely tunable composition, which make them useful for applications involving adsorption, such as hydrogen, methane or carbon diox...
- 2015-11-13 More efficient together
- The solar-to-biomass conversion efficiency of natural photosynthesis is between 2.9 and 4.3% for most crops. Improving the efficiency of photosynthesis could help increase the appeal of biologically d...
- 2015-11-13 X-ray photoemission analysis of clean and carbon monoxide-chemisorbed platinu...
- Surface chemistry and catalysis studies could significantly gain from the systematic variation of surface active sites, tested under the very same conditions. Curved crystals are excellent platforms t...
- 2015-11-13 Current Issues in Molecular Catalysis Illustrated by Iron Porphyrins as Catal...
- Recent attention aroused by the reduction of carbon dioxide has as main objective the production of useful products, the “solar fuels” in which solar energy would be stored. One route to this goal i...
- 2015-11-13 清华大学在石墨烯应用技术方面取得进展
- Tactile sensing system based onarrays of graphene woven microfabrics: electromechanical behavior andelectronic skin application Nanomaterials serve as promising candidates for strain sensing due to un...
- 2015-11-13 Eldfellite, NaFe(SO4)2: an intercalation cathode host for low-cost Na-ion bat...
- The mineral eldfellite, NaFe(SO4)2, is characterized as a potential cathode for a Na-ion battery that is fabricated in charged state; its 3 V discharge versus sodium for reversible Na+ intercalation i...
- 2015-11-11 Tungsten Oxides for Photocatalysis, Electrochemistry, and Phototherapy
- The conversion, storage, and utilization of renewable energy have all become more important than ever before as a response to ever-growing energy and environment concerns. The performance of energy-re...
- 2015-11-11 Recent Advances and Prospects of Cathode Materials for Sodium-Ion Batteries
- Sodium-ion batteries (SIBs) receive significant attention for electrochemical energy storage and conversion owing to their wide availability and the low cost of Na resources. However, SIBs face challe...
- 2015-11-11 Spectral splitting photovoltaics using perovskite and wideband dye-sensitized...
- The extension of the light absorption of photovoltaics into the near-infrared region is important to increase the energy conversion efficiency. Although the progress of the lead halide perovskite sola...
- 2015-11-10 An in situ self-assembly template strategy for the preparation of hierarchica...
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) have recently emerged as a new type of nanoporous materials with tailorable structures and functions. Usually, MOFs have uniform pores smaller than 2 nm in size, limit...
- 2015-11-06 Electrochemical Synthesis of Photoelectrodes and Catalysts for Use in Solar W...
- Electrodeposition combines electrochemistry and materials synthesis in a way that allows for the functionality of deposited materials to be controlled by atomic level electrochemical reactions. While ...
- 2015-11-06 Oligomer Molecules for Efficient Organic Photovoltaics
- Solar cells, a renewable, clean energy technology that efficiently converts sunlight into electricity, are a promising long-term solution for energy and environmental problems caused by a mass of prod...
- 2015-11-06 Electric Field Driven Dual Vacancies Evolution in Ultrathin Nanosheets Realiz...
- Fabricating flexible room-temperature ferromagnetic resistive switching random access memory (RRAM) device is of fundamental importance to integrate nonvolatile memory and spintronics both in theory a...