- 2016-08-04 A redox-flow battery with an alloxazine-based organic electrolyte
- Redox-flow batteries (RFBs) can store large amounts of electrical energy from variable sources, such as solar and wind. Recently, redox-active organic molecules in aqueous RFBs have drawn substantial ...
- 2016-08-04 Controlling nanowire growth through electric field-induced deformation of the...
- Semiconductor nanowires with precisely controlled structure, and hence well-defined electronic and optical properties, can be grown by self-assembly using the vapour–liquid–solid process. The struct...
- 2016-08-04 Ultrasensitive molecular sensor using N-doped graphene through enhanced Raman...
- As a novel and efficient surface analysis technique, graphene-enhanced Raman scattering (GERS) has attracted increasing research attention in recent years. In particular, chemically doped graphene exh...
- 2016-08-04 Wood-Derived Materials for Green Electronics, Biological Devices, and Energy ...
- With the arising of global climate change and resource shortage, in recent years, increased attention has been paid to environmentally friendly materials. Trees are sustainable and renewable materials...
- 2016-08-04 Influence of Ancillary Ligands in Dye-Sensitized Solar Cells
- Dye-sensitized solar cells (DSSCs) have motivated many researchers to develop various sensitizers with tailored properties involving anchoring and ancillary ligands. Ancillary ligands carry favorable ...
- 2016-08-04 Stabilizing a Platinum1 Single-Atom Catalyst on Supported Phosphomolybdic Aci...
- In coordination chemistry, catalytically active metal complexes in a zero- or low-valent state often adopt four-coordinate square-planar or tetrahedral geometry. By applying this principle, we have de...
- 2016-08-04 Polymer-Based Organic Batteries
- The storage of electric energy is of ever growing importance for our modern, technology-based society, and novel battery systems are in the focus of research. The substitution of conventional metals a...
- 2016-07-29 The O2-assisted Al/CO2 electrochemical cell: A system for CO2 capture/convers...
- Economical and efficient carbon capture, utilization, and sequestration technologies are a requirement for successful implementation of global action plans to reduce carbon emissions and to mitigate c...
- 2016-07-29 Stabilizing electrodeposition in elastic solid electrolytes containing immobi...
- Ion transport–driven instabilities in electrodeposition of metals that lead to morphological instabilities and dendrites are receiving renewed attention because mitigation strategies are needed for i...
- 2016-07-29 A rhodium/silicon co-electrocatalyst design concept to surpass platinum hydro...
- Currently, platinum-based electrocatalysts show the best performance for hydrogen evolution. All hydrogen evolution reaction catalysts should however obey Sabatier’s principle, that is, the adsorptio...
- 2016-07-29 Pentlandite rocks as sustainable and stable efficient electrocatalysts for hy...
- The need for sustainable catalysts for an efficient hydrogen evolution reaction is of significant interest for modern society. Inspired by comparable structural properties of [FeNi]-hydrogenase, here ...
- 2016-07-29 Structural and compositional dependence of the CdTexSe1−x alloy layer photoa...
- The published external quantum efficiency data of the world-record CdTe solar cell suggests that the device uses bandgap engineering, most likely with a CdTexSe1-x alloy layer to increase the short-ci...
- 2016-07-29 2D materials and van der Waals heterostructures
- The physics of two-dimensional (2D) materials and heterostructures based on such crystals has been developing extremely fast. With these new materials, truly 2D physics has begun to appear (for instan...
- 2016-07-29 Nanostructured transition metal dichalcogenide electrocatalysts for CO2 reduc...
- Conversion of carbon dioxide (CO2) into fuels is an attractive solution to many energy and environmental challenges. However, the chemical inertness of CO2 renders many electrochemical and photochemic...
- 2016-07-27 A nanomesh scaffold for supramolecular nanowire optoelectronic devices
- Supramolecular organic nanowires are ideal nanostructures for optoelectronics because they exhibit both efficient exciton generation as a result of their high absorption coefficient and remarkable lig...
- 2016-07-27 Large-scale chemical assembly of atomically thin transistors and circuits
- Next-generation electronics calls for new materials beyond silicon, aiming at increased functionality, performance and scaling in integrated circuits. In this respect, two-dimensional gapless graphene...
- 2016-07-27 Reversible phase modulation and hydrogen storage in multivalent VO2 epitaxial...
- Hydrogen, the smallest and the lightest atomic element, is reversibly incorporated into interstitial sites in vanadium dioxide (VO2), a correlated oxide with a 3d1 electronic configuration, and induce...
- 2016-07-27 Spectroscopic evidence for a type II Weyl semimetallic state in MoTe2
- In a type I Dirac or Weyl semimetal, the low-energy states are squeezed to a single point in momentum space when the chemical potential μ is tuned precisely to the Dirac/Weyl point. Recently, a type ...
- 2016-07-27 Pursuing prosthetic electronic skin
- Skin plays an important role in mediating our interactions with the world. Recreating the properties of skin using electronic devices could have profound implications for prosthetics and medicine. The...
- 2016-07-22 Layered and scrolled nanocomposites with aligned semi-infinite graphene inclu...
- Two-dimensional (2D) materials can uniquely span the physical dimensions of a surrounding composite matrix in the limit of maximum reinforcement. However, the alignment and assembly of continuous 2D c...