- 2016-11-28 The evolving quality of frictional contact with graphene
- Graphite and other lamellar materials are used as dry lubricants for macroscale metallic sliding components and high-pressure contacts. It has been shown experimentally that monolayer graphene exhibit...
- 2016-11-25 Nonstoichiometric acid–base reaction as reliable synthetic route to highly s...
- Perovskite solar cells have received worldwide interests due to swiftly improved efficiency but the poor stability of the perovskite component hampers the device fabrication under normal condition. He...
- 2016-11-25 Direct and continuous strain control of catalysts with tunable battery electr...
- We report a method for using battery electrode materials to directly and continuously control the lattice strain of platinum (Pt) catalyst and thus tune its catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction...
- 2016-11-24 Triarylamine: Versatile Platform for Organic, Dye-Sensitized, and Perovskite ...
- Triarylamine (TAA) and related materials have dramatically promoted the development of organic and hybrid photovoltaics during the past decade. The power conversion efficiencies of TAA-based organic s...
- 2016-11-23 Ionic solutions of two-dimensional materials
- Strategies for forming liquid dispersions of nanomaterials typically focus on retarding reaggregation, for example via surface modification, as opposed to promoting the thermodynamically driven dissol...
- 2016-11-22 Structure of a model TiO2 photocatalytic interface
- The interaction of water with TiO2 is crucial to many of its practical applications, including photocatalytic water splitting. Following the first demonstration of this phenomenon 40 years ago there h...
- 2016-11-22 Hybrid organic–inorganic inks flatten the energy landscape in colloidal quan...
- Bandtail states in disordered semiconductor materials result in losses in open-circuit voltage (Voc) and inhibit carrier transport in photovoltaics. For colloidal quantum dot (CQD) films that promise ...
- 2016-11-22 Enhanced electron extraction using SnO2 for high-efficiency planar-structure ...
- Planar structures for halide perovskite solar cells have recently garnered attention, due to their simple and low-temperature device fabrication processing. Unfortunately, planar structures typically ...
- 2016-11-22 Perovskite-perovskite tandem photovoltaics with optimized bandgaps
- We demonstrate four and two-terminal perovskite-perovskite tandem solar cells with ideally matched bandgaps. We develop an infrared absorbing 1.2eV bandgap perovskite, FA0.75Cs0.25Sn0.5Pb0.5I3, that c...
- 2016-11-18 Ultrafine jagged platinum nanowires enable ultrahigh mass activity for the ox...
- Improving the platinum (Pt) mass activity for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR) should optimize both the specific activity and the electrochemical active surface area (ECSA). We show solution-synthe...
- 2016-11-15 Spin-Dependent Transport through Chiral Molecules Studied by Spin-Dependent E...
- Molecular spintronics (spin + electronics), which aims to exploit both the spin degree of freedom and the electron charge in molecular devices, has recently received massive attention. Our recent expe...
- 2016-11-15 Free Electrons to Molecular Bonds and Back: Closing the Energetic Oxygen Redu...
- Nanomaterial science and electrocatalytic science have entered a successful “nanoelectrochemical” symbiosis, in which novel nanomaterials offer new frontiers for studies on electrocatalytic charge t...
- 2016-11-15 Conjugated Polymer Zwitterions: Efficient Interlayer Materials in Organic Ele...
- Conjugated polymer zwitterions (CPZs) are neutral, hydrophilic, polymer semiconductors. The pendent zwitterions, viewed as side chain dipoles, impart solubility in polar solvents for solution processi...
- 2016-11-15 Advanced Electrochemistry of Individual Metal Clusters Electrodeposited Atom ...
- Metal clusters are very important as building blocks for nanoparticles (NPs) for electrocatalysis and electroanalysis in both fundamental and applied electrochemistry. Attention has been given to unde...
- 2016-11-15 Designing Micro- and Nanoswimmers for Specific Applications
- Self-propelled colloids have emerged as a new class of active matter over the past decade. These are micrometer sized colloidal objects that transduce free energy from their surroundings and convert i...
- 2016-11-15 Earth-Abundant Heterogeneous Water Oxidation Catalysts
- Water oxidation is a key chemical transformation for the conversion of solar energy into chemical fuels. Our review focuses on recent work on robust earth-abundant heterogeneous catalysts for the oxyg...
- 2016-11-14 Helical edge states and fractional quantum Hall effect in a graphene electron...
- Helical 1D electronic systems are a promising route towards realizing circuits of topological quantum states that exhibit non-Abelian statistics. Here, we demonstrate a versatile platform to realize 1...
- 2016-11-14 Defects in perovskite-halides and their effects in solar cells
- Solar cells based on perovskite-halide light absorbers have a unique set of characteristics that could help alleviate the global dependence on fossil fuels for energy generation. They efficiently conv...
- 2016-11-14 All-printed magnetically self-healing electrochemical devices
- The present work demonstrates the synthesis and application of permanent magnetic Nd2Fe14B microparticle (NMP)–loaded graphitic inks for realizing rapidly self-healing inexpensive printed electrochem...
- 2016-11-14 Material design and engineering of next-generation flow-battery technologies
- Spatial separation of the electrolyte and electrode is the main characteristic of flow-battery technologies, which liberates them from the constraints of overall energy content and the energy/power ra...