- 2016-06-20 Crystal symmetry breaking and vacancies in colloidal lead chalcogenide quantu...
 - Size and shape tunability and low-cost solution processability make colloidal lead chalcogenide quantum dots (QDs) an emerging class of building blocks for innovative photovoltaic, thermoelectric and ...
 - 2016-06-20 Promises and challenges of nanomaterials for lithium-based rechargeable batte...
 - Tremendous progress has been made in the development of lithium-based rechargeable batteries in recent decades. Discoveries of new electrode materials as well as new storage mechanisms have substantia...
 - 2016-06-20 Covalently bonded single-molecule junctions with stable and reversible photos...
 - Stable molecular switchesMany single-molecule current switches have been reported, but most show poor stability because of weak contacts to metal electrodes. Jia et al. covalently bonded a diarylethen...
 - 2016-06-20 Near-field dielectric scattering promotes optical absorption by platinum nano...
 - Recent years have seen a surge of interest in tuning the optical properties of metals for a wide range of applications. In contrast to the well-studied plasmonic metals (mainly Au and Ag), which have distinct absorption peaks, tuning the absorption peak of small (2 support, thereby exhibiting wel...
 - 2016-06-20 Hysteresis-Suppressed High-Efficiency Flexible Perovskite Solar Cells Using S...
 - An efficiency of flexible perovskite solar cells (Pvs-SCs) of 16.09% has been achieved, the highest value reported for flexible Pvs-SCs to date. The outstanding performance is attributed to the superi...
 - 2016-06-11 High-efficiency and air-stable P3HT-based polymer solar cells with a new non-...
 - Solution-processed organic photovoltaics (OPV) offer the attractive prospect of low-cost, light-weight and environmentally benign solar energy production. The highest efficiency OPV at present use low...
 - 2016-06-11 A stable room-temperature sodium-sulfur battery
 - High-energy rechargeable batteries based on earth-abundant materials are important for mobile and stationary storage technologies. Rechargeable sodium–sulfur batteries able to operate stably at room ...
 - 2016-06-11 Integration of metal-organic frameworks into an electrochemical dielectric th...
 - The integration of porous metal-organic frameworks onto the surface of materials, for use as functional devices, is currently emerging as a promising approach for gas sensing and flexible displays. Ho...
 - 2016-06-11 Efficient hydrogen evolution in transition metal dichalcogenides via a simple...
 - Hydrogen evolution reaction is catalysed efficiently with precious metals, such as platinum; however, transition metal dichalcogenides have recently emerged as a promising class of materials for elect...
 - 2016-06-11 Interfacial control of oxygen vacancy doping and electrical conduction in thi...
 - Oxygen vacancies in proximity to surfaces and heterointerfaces in oxide thin film heterostructures have major effects on properties, resulting, for example, in emergent conduction behaviour, large cha...
 - 2016-06-11 First-principles quantum dynamical theory for the dissociative chemisorption ...
 - Despite significant progress made in the past decades, it remains extremely challenging to investigate the dissociative chemisorption dynamics of molecular species on surfaces at a full-dimensional qu...
 - 2016-06-07 111 oriented gold nanoplatelets on multilayer graphene as visible light photo...
 - Development of renewable fuels from solar light appears as one of the main current challenges in energy science. A plethora of photocatalysts have been investigated to obtain hydrogen and oxygen from ...
 - 2016-06-07 Self-assembled molecular p/n junctions for applications in dye-sensitized sol...
 - The achievement of long-lived photoinduced redox separation lifetimes has long been a central goal of molecular-based solar energy conversion strategies. The longer the redox-separation lifetime, the ...
 - 2016-06-07 The structural and chemical origin of the oxygen redox activity in layered an...
 - Lithium-ion batteries are now reaching the energy density limits set by their electrode materials, requiring new paradigms for Li+ and electron hosting in solid-state electrodes. Reversible oxygen red...
 - 2016-06-07 Avoiding short circuits from zinc metal dendrites in anode by backside-platin...
 - Portable power sources and grid-scale storage both require batteries combining high energy density and low cost. Zinc metal battery systems are attractive due to the low cost of zinc and its high char...
 - 2016-06-06 Interface strain in vertically stacked two-dimensional heterostructured carbo...
 - Two-dimensional (2D) materials offer numerous advantages for electrochemical energy storage and conversion due to fast charge transfer kinetics, highly accessible surface area, and tunable electronic ...
 - 2016-06-06 Large-scale ordering of nanoparticles using viscoelastic shear processing
 - Despite the availability of elaborate varieties of nanoparticles, their assembly into regular superstructures and photonic materials remains challenging. Here we show how flexible films of stacked pol...
 - 2016-06-06 Photoelectrochemical water splitting enhanced by self-assembled metal nanopil...
 - Production of chemical fuels by direct solar energy conversion in a photoelectrochemical cell is of great practical interest for developing a sustainable energy system. Various nanoscale designs such ...
 - 2016-06-06 Freestanding three-dimensional core–shell nanoarrays for lithium-ion battery...
 - Structural degradation and low conductivity of transition-metal oxides lead to severe capacity fading in lithium-ion batteries. Recent efforts to solve this issue have mainly focused on using nanocomp...
 - 2016-06-03 Water splitting–biosynthetic system with CO2 reduction efficiencies exceedin...
 - Artificial photosynthesis steps upPhotosynthesis fixes CO2 from the air by using sunlight. Industrial mimics of photosynthesis seek to convert CO2 directly into biomass, fuels, or other useful product...
 


 
                    
          
 
