- 2016-02-23 Selectivity between Oxygen and Chlorine Evolution in the Chlor-Alkali and Chl...
- Chlorine gas and sodium chlorate are two base chemicals produced through electrolysis of sodium chloride brine which find uses in many areas of industrial chemistry. Although the industrial production...
- 2016-02-23 Selective Transformation of Various Nitrogen-Containing Exhaust Gases toward ...
- In this review we focus on the catalytic removal of a series of N-containing exhaust gases with various valences, including nitriles (HCN, CH3CN, and C2H3CN), ammonia (NH3), nitrous oxide (N2O), and n...
- 2016-02-23 Two-Component Polymeric Materials of Fullerenes and the Transition Metal Comp...
- In this review, we examined the interactions of metal complexes and metal surfaces with fullerenes. That information has been related to the formation of redox-active materials produced by electrochem...
- 2016-02-23 Hybrid Organic–Inorganic Perovskites on the Move
- Hybrid organic–inorganic perovskites (HOIPs) are crystals with the structural formula ABX3, where A, B, and X are organic and inorganic ions, respectively. While known for several decades, HOIPs have...
- 2016-02-23 Chemically Conjugated Carbon Nanotubes and Graphene for Carrier Modulation
- Nanocarbons such as fullerene and carbon nanotubes (CNT) in late 20th century have blossomed nanoscience and nanotechnology in 21st century, which have been further proliferated by the new finding of ...
- 2016-02-23 Photophysics of Hybrid Lead Halide Perovskites: The Role of Microstructure
- Since the first reports on high efficiency, solution processed solar cells based on hybrid lead halide perovskites, there has been an explosion of activities on these materials. Researchers with inter...
- 2016-02-23 Surface Properties of CH3NH3PbI3 for Perovskite Solar Cells
- Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted considerable interest because of their high potential for solar energy conversion. Power conversion efficiencies of the PSCs have rapidly increased from 3....
- 2016-02-23 Frequency comb transferred by surface plasmon resonance
- Frequency combs, millions of narrow-linewidth optical modes referenced to an atomic clock, have shown remarkable potential in time/frequency metrology, atomic/molecular spectroscopy and precision LIDA...
- 2016-02-23 Recent Advances in Electrocatalysts for Oxygen Reduction Reaction
- The recent advances in electrocatalysis for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) for proton exchange membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) are thoroughly reviewed. This comprehensive Review focuses on the low- and ...
- 2016-02-22 Two distinctive energy migration pathways of monolayer molecules on metal nan...
- Energy migrations at metal nanomaterial surfaces are fundamentally important to heterogeneous reactions. Here we report two distinctive energy migration pathways of monolayer adsorbate molecules on di...
- 2016-02-22 Three-dimensional porous hollow fibre copper electrodes for efficient and hig...
- Aqueous-phase electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide requires an active, earth-abundant electrocatalyst, as well as highly efficient mass transport. Here we report the design of a porous hollow f...
- 2016-02-22 Dissolution and ionization of sodium superoxide in sodium-oxygen batteries
- With the demand for high-energy-storage devices, the rechargeable metal–oxygen battery has attracted attention recently. Sodium–oxygen batteries have been regarded as the most promising candidates b...
- 2016-02-22 A highly active and stable hydrogen evolution catalyst based on pyrite-struct...
- Rational design and controlled synthesis of hybrid structures comprising multiple components with distinctive functionalities are an intriguing and challenging approach to materials development for im...
- 2016-02-18 Molecular docking sites designed for the generation of highly crystalline cov...
- Covalent organic frameworks (COFs) formed by connecting multidentate organic building blocks through covalent bonds provide a platform for designing multifunctional porous materials with atomic precis...
- 2016-02-18 Stable amorphous georgeite as a precursor to a high-activity catalyst
- Copper and zinc form an important group of hydroxycarbonate minerals that include zincian malachite, aurichalcite, rosasite and the exceptionally rare and unstable—and hence little known and largely ...
- 2016-02-18 A pentanuclear iron catalyst designed for water oxidation
- Although the oxidation of water is efficiently catalysed by the oxygen-evolving complex in photosystem II, it remains one of the main bottlenecks when aiming for synthetic chemical fuel production pow...
- 2016-02-17 Visualizing the orientational dependence of an intermolecular potential
- Scanning probe microscopy can now be used to map the properties of single molecules with intramolecular precision by functionalization of the apex of the scanning probe tip with a single atom or molec...
- 2016-02-16 Improved air stability of perovskite solar cells via solution-processed metal...
- Lead halide perovskite solar cells have recently attracted tremendous attention because of their excellent photovoltaic efficiencies. However, the poor stability of both the perovskite material and th...
- 2016-02-14 Why do batteries fail?
- Rechargeable batteries are found in a range of everyday devices, from shavers and laptops to cars and airplanes. Over time, these batteries can fail, either through a gradual loss of charge or through...
- 2016-02-14 What Is Moving in Hybrid Halide Perovskite Solar Cells?
- Organic–inorganic semiconductors, which adopt the perovskite crystal structure, have perturbed the landscape of contemporary photovoltaics research. High-efficiency solar cells can be produced with s...