- 2016-12-02 11.4% Efficiency non-fullerene polymer solar cells with trialkylsilyl substit...
- Simutaneously high open circuit voltage and high short circuit current density is a big challenge for achieving high efficiency polymer solar cells due to the excitonic nature of organic semdonductors...
- 2016-12-02 Platinum single-atom and cluster catalysis of the hydrogen evolution reaction
- Platinum-based catalysts have been considered the most effective electrocatalysts for the hydrogen evolution reaction in water splitting. However, platinum utilization in these electrocatalysts is ext...
- 2016-12-02 Multifunctional non-woven fabrics of interfused graphene fibres
- Carbon-based fibres hold promise for preparing multifunctional fabrics with electrical conductivity, thermal conductivity, permeability, flexibility and lightweight. However, these fabrics are of limi...
- 2016-12-02 Multiple nanostructures based on anodized aluminium oxide templates
- Several physico-chemical effects and properties in the solid state involve nanoscale interactions between adjacent materials and morphologies. Arrays of binary nanostructures can generate intimate int...
- 2016-12-02 Ultrathin metal–organic framework nanosheets for electrocatalytic oxygen evo...
- The design and synthesis of efficient electrocatalysts are important for electrochemical conversion technologies. The oxygen evolution reaction (OER) is a key process in such conversions, having appli...
- 2016-12-02 Surfactant-free single-layer graphene in water
- Dispersing graphite in water to obtain true (single-layer) graphene in bulk quantity in a liquid has been an unreachable goal for materials scientists in the past decade. Similarly, a diagnostic tool ...
- 2016-12-02 Gaps induced by inversion symmetry breaking and second-generation Dirac cones...
- Graphene/hexagonal boron nitride (h-BN) has emerged as a model van der Waals heterostructure as the superlattice potential, which is induced by lattice mismatch and crystal orientation, gives rise to ...
- 2016-12-01 Biredox ionic liquids with solid-like redox density in the liquid state for h...
- Kinetics of electrochemical reactions are several orders of magnitude slower in solids than in liquids as a result of the much lower ion diffusivity. Yet, the solid state maximizes the density of redo...
- 2016-12-01 Microsupercapacitors as miniaturized energy-storage components for on-chip el...
- The push towards miniaturized electronics calls for the development of miniaturized energy-storage components that can enable sustained, autonomous operation of electronic devices for applications suc...
- 2016-12-01 Gating of Quantum Interference in Molecular Junctions by Heteroatom Substitut...
- To guide the choice of future synthetic targets for single-molecule electronics, qualitative design rules are needed, which describe the effect of modifying chemical structure. Here the effect of hete...
- 2016-12-01 Catalytic Transformation of Lignocellulose into Chemicals and Fuel Products i...
- Innovative valorization of naturally abundant and renewable lignocellulosic biomass is of great importance in the pursuit of a sustainable future and biobased economy. Ionic liquids (ILs) as an import...
- 2016-12-01 Nanoarchitectures for Metal–Organic Framework-Derived Nanoporous Carbons tow...
- The future advances of supercapacitors depend on the development of novel carbon materials with optimized porous structures, high surface area, high conductivity, and high electrochemical stability. T...
- 2016-12-01 Metal-complex chromophores for solar hydrogen generation
- Solar H2 generation from water has been intensively investigated as a clean method to convert solar energy into hydrogen fuel. During the past few decades, many studies have demonstrated that metal co...
- 2016-11-28 The influence of large cations on the electrochemical properties of tunnel-st...
- Metal oxides with a tunnelled structure are attractive as charge storage materials for rechargeable batteries and supercapacitors, since the tunnels enable fast reversible insertion/extraction of char...
- 2016-11-28 Nanomechanical electro-optical modulator based on atomic heterostructures
- Two-dimensional atomic heterostructures combined with metallic nanostructures allow one to realize strong light–matter interactions. Metallic nanostructures possess plasmonic resonances that can be m...
- 2016-11-28 Tuning charge and correlation effects for a single molecule on a graphene dev...
- The ability to understand and control the electronic properties of individual molecules in a device environment is crucial for developing future technologies at the nanometre scale and below. Achievin...
- 2016-11-28 A stable lithium-rich surface structure for lithium-rich layered cathode mate...
- Lithium ion batteries are encountering ever-growing demand for further increases in energy density. Li-rich layered oxides are considered a feasible solution to meet this demand because their specific...
- 2016-11-28 Reducing the efficiency–stability–cost gap of organic photovoltaics with hi...
- Technological deployment of organic photovoltaic modules requires improvements in device light-conversion efficiency and stability while keeping material costs low. Here we demonstrate highly efficien...
- 2016-11-28 Enhanced stability and efficiency in hole-transport-layer-free CsSnI3 perovsk...
- Photovoltaics based on tin halide perovskites have not yet benefited from the same intensive research effort that has propelled lead perovskite photovoltaics to >20% power conversion efficiency, due t...
- 2016-11-28 Doped polymer semiconductors with ultrahigh and ultralow work functions for o...
- To make high-performance semiconductor devices, a good ohmic contact between the electrode and the semiconductor layer is required to inject the maximum current density across the contact. Achieving o...