- 2015-12-18 Hybrid Perovskites for Photovoltaics: Charge-Carrier Recombination, Diffusion...
- Photovoltaic (PV) devices that harvest the energy provided by the sun have great potential as renewable energy sources, yet uptake has been hampered by the increased cost of solar electricity compared...
- 2015-12-18 Strategies for the Conversion of Lignin to High-Value Polymeric Materials: Re...
- The field of lignin-based polymeric materials and composites has seen great growth in the past 10 years, although the field still has room to grow. To develop bio-based polymeric materials to replace ...
- 2015-12-18 Nitrogen-doped mesoporous carbon of extraordinary capacitance for electrochem...
- Carbon-based supercapacitors can provide high electrical power, but they do not have sufficient energy density to directly compete with batteries. We found that a nitrogen-doped ordered mesoporous few...
- 2015-12-18 Zintl Clusters as Wet-Chemical Precursors for Germanium Nanomorphologies with...
- [Ge9]4- Zintl clusters are used as soluble germanium source for a bottom–up fabrication of Ge nanomorphologies such as inverse opal structures with tunable composition. The method is based on the ass...
- 2015-12-18 Synthesis of borophenes: Anisotropic, two-dimensional boron polymorphs
- At the atomic-cluster scale, pure boron is markedly similar to carbon, forming simple planar molecules and cage-like fullerenes. Theoretical studies predict that two-dimensional (2D) boron sheets will...
- 2015-12-18 Visualization of O-O peroxo-like dimers in high-capacity layered oxides for L...
- Lithium-ion (Li-ion) batteries that rely on cationic redox reactions are the primary energy source for portable electronics. One pathway toward greater energy density is through the use of Li-rich lay...
- 2015-12-15 Avalanching strain dynamics during the hydriding phase transformation in indi...
- Phase transitions in reactive environments are crucially important in energy and information storage, catalysis and sensors. Nanostructuring active particles can yield faster charging/discharging kine...
- 2015-12-15 A universal self-charging system driven by random biomechanical energy for su...
- Human biomechanical energy is characterized by fluctuating amplitudes and variable low frequency, and an effective utilization of such energy cannot be achieved by classical energy-harvesting technolo...
- 2015-12-15 Flexible thin-film black gold membranes with ultrabroadband plasmonic nanofoc...
- Solar steam generation has been achieved by surface plasmon heating with metallic nanoshells or nanoparticles, which have inherently narrow absorption bandwidth. For efficient light-to-heat conversion...
- 2015-12-15 Inverted polymer fullerene solar cells exceeding 10% efficiency with poly(2-e...
- Polymer solar cells have been spotlighted due to their potential for low-cost manufacturing but their efficiency is still less than required for commercial application as lightweight/flexible modules....
- 2015-12-15 Non-precious alloy encapsulated in nitrogen-doped graphene layers derived fro...
- Non-precious metal based catalysts are emerging as the most promising alternatives to Pt-based ones for hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) due to their low cost and rich reserves. However, their low ef...
- 2015-12-15 Stability assessment of alternative platinum free counter electrodes for dye-...
- Platinum (Pt)-free counter electrodes (CEs) are economical alternative components of dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) that have attracted much interest and become the focus of research, with an incr...
- 2015-12-15 Ordered Porous Pd Octahedra Covered with Monolayer Ru Atoms
- Monolayer Ru atoms covered highly ordered porous Pd octahedra have been synthesized via the underpotential deposition and thermodynamic control. Shape evolution from concave nanocube to octahedron wit...
- 2015-12-11 Two-dimensional transition metal dichalcogenides as atomically thin semicondu...
- The discovery of graphene has ignited intensive interest in two-dimensional layered materials (2DLMs). These 2DLMs represent a new class of nearly ideal 2D material systems for exploring fundamental c...
- 2015-12-11 Versatile ternary organic solar cells: a critical review
- The power conversion efficiency (PCE) of organic solar cells has been constantly refreshed in the past ten years from 4% up to 11% due to the contribution from the chemists on novel materials and the ...
- 2015-12-11 Nanoscale intimacy in bifunctional catalysts for selective conversion of hydr...
- The ability to control nanoscale features precisely is increasingly being exploited to develop and improve monofunctional catalysts. Striking effects might also be expected in the case of bifunctional...
- 2015-12-11 A highly reversible room-temperature lithium metal battery based on crosslink...
- Rough electrodeposition, uncontrolled parasitic side-reactions with electrolytes and dendrite-induced short-circuits have hindered development of advanced energy storage technologies based on metallic...
- 2015-12-11 A Schiff base modified gold catalyst for green and efficient H2 production fr...
- Formic acid (FA) dehydrogenation is an atom-economic method for H2 production, while diluted FA with extra additives is generally required in heterogeneous dehydrogenation of FA. Here, we report a nov...
- 2015-12-08 High-efficiency polymer solar cells with small photon energy loss
- A crucial issue facing polymer-based solar cells is how to manage the energetics of the polymer/fullerene blends to maximize short-circuit current density and open-circuit voltage at the same time and...
- 2015-12-08 “Water-in-salt” electrolyte enables high-voltage aqueous lithium-ion chemis...
- Lithium-ion batteries raise safety, environmental, and cost concerns, which mostly arise from their nonaqueous electrolytes. The use of aqueous alternatives is limited by their narrow electrochemical ...