- 2016-01-04 Sustainable Life Cycles of Natural-Precursor-Derived Nanocarbons
- Sustainable societal and economic development relies on novel nanotechnologies that offer maximum efficiency at minimal environmental cost. Yet, it is very challenging to apply green chemistry approac...
- 2016-01-04 Inorganic Solid-State Electrolytes for Lithium Batteries: Mechanisms and Prop...
- This Review is focused on ion-transport mechanisms and fundamental properties of solid-state electrolytes to be used in electrochemical energy-storage systems. Properties of the migrating species sign...
- 2016-01-04 Efficient luminescent solar cells based on tailored mixed-cation perovskites
- We report on a new metal halide perovskite photovoltaic cell that exhibits both very high solar-to-electric power-conversion efficiency and intense electroluminescence. We produce the perovskite films...
- 2016-01-04 Antenna-coupled photon emission from hexagonal boron nitride tunnel junctions
- The ultrafast conversion of electrical signals to optical signals at the nanoscale is of fundamental interest for data processing, telecommunication and optical interconnects. However, the modulation ...
- 2016-01-04 Ultralow effective work function surfaces using diamondoid monolayers
- Electron emission is critical for a host of modern fabrication and analysis applications including mass spectrometry, electron imaging and nanopatterning. Here, we report that monolayers of diamondoid...
- 2016-01-04 Observation of a hot-phonon bottleneck in lead-iodide perovskites
- We study the carrier dynamics in planar methyl ammonium lead iodide perovskite films using broadband transient absorption spectroscopy. We show that the sharp optical absorption onset is due to an exc...
- 2016-01-04 The classical and quantum dynamics of molecular spins on graphene
- Controlling the dynamics of spins on surfaces is pivotal to the design of spintronic and quantum computing devices. Proposed schemes involve the interaction of spins with graphene to enable surface-st...
- 2016-01-04 Chemical vapour deposition of zeolitic imidazolate framework thin films
- Integrating metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) in microelectronics has disruptive potential because of the unique properties of these microporous crystalline materials. Suitable film deposition methods ...
- 2016-01-04 Water reduction by a p-GaInP2 photoelectrode stabilized by an amorphous TiO2 ...
- Producing hydrogen through solar water splitting requires the coverage of large land areas. Abundant metal-based molecular catalysts offer scalability, but only if they match noble metal activities. W...
- 2015-12-30 Urchin-like CoP Nanocrystals as Hydrogen Evolution Reaction and Oxygen Reduct...
- High-performance electrocatalysts with superior stability are critically important for their practical applications in hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) and oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). Herein, we...
- 2015-12-28 Diketopyrrolopyrrole Polymers for Organic Solar Cells
- Conjugated polymers have been extensively studied for application in organic solar cells. In designing new polymers, particular attention has been given to tuning the absorption spectrum, molecular en...
- 2015-12-28 Recent Advances in the Inverted Planar Structure of Perovskite Solar Cells
- Inorganic–organic hybrid perovskite solar cells research could be traced back to 2009, and initially showed 3.8% efficiency. After 6 years of efforts, the efficiency has been pushed to 20.1%. The pac...
- 2015-12-28 Nano-Bioelectronics
- Nano-bioelectronics represents a rapidly expanding interdisciplinary field that combines nanomaterials with biology and electronics and, in so doing, offers the potential to overcome existing challeng...
- 2015-12-28 Atomic scale simulation of carbon nanotube nucleation from hydrocarbon precur...
- Atomic scale simulations of the nucleation and growth of carbon nanotubes is essential for understanding their growth mechanism. In spite of over twenty years of simulation efforts in this area, limit...
- 2015-12-28 A self-healable and highly stretchable supercapacitor based on a dual crossli...
- Superior self-healability and stretchability are critical elements for the practical wide-scale adoption of personalized electronics such as portable and wearable energy storage devices. However, the ...
- 2015-12-28 Porphyrin Cosensitization for a Photovoltaic Efficiency of 11.5%: A Record fo...
- Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) are promising for utilizing solar energy. To achieve high efficiencies, it is vital to synergistically improve the photocurrent (Jsc) and the photovoltage (Voc). In ...
- 2015-12-25 Enzyme-Responsive Polymeric Vesicles for Bacterial Strain-SelectiveDelivery o...
- Antimicrobial resistance poses serious public health concerns and antibiotic misuse/abuse further complicates the situation; thus, it remains a considerable challenge to optimize/improve the usage of ...
- 2015-12-22 Self-assembling biomolecular catalysts for hydrogen production
- The chemistry of highly evolved protein-based compartments has inspired the design of new catalytically active materials that self-assemble from biological components. A frontier of this biodesign is ...
- 2015-12-22 Macroscopic and Strong Ribbons of Functionality-Rich Metal Oxides from Highly...
- The strong interest in macroscopic graphene and/or carbon nanotube (CNT) fiber has highlighted that anisotropic nanostructured materials are ideal components for fabricating fiber assemblies. Prospect...
- 2015-12-22 Graphene synthesis: On-the-spot growth
- Large single-crystalline graphene monolayers have been synthesized on a Cu–Ni alloy using a local precursor feeding method with an enhanced growth rate. The fast production of wafer-scale single crys...