- 2016-12-16 Biaxially strained PtPb/Pt core/shell nanoplate boosts oxygen reduction catal...
- An activity lift for platinumPlatinum is an excellent but expensive catalyst for the oxygen reduction reaction (ORR), which is critical for fuel cells. Alloying platinum with other metals can create s...
- 2016-12-15 Solution-based electrical doping of semiconducting polymer films over a limit...
- Solution-based electrical doping protocols may allow more versatility in the design of organic electronic devices; yet, controlling the diffusion of dopants in organic semiconductors and their stabili...
- 2016-12-15 An ultra-tunable platform for molecular engineering of high-performance cryst...
- Metal-organic frameworks are a class of crystalline porous materials with potential applications in catalysis, gas separation and storage, and so on. Of great importance is the development of innovati...
- 2016-12-15 Co-axial heterostructures integrating palladium/titanium dioxide with carbon ...
- Considering the depletion of fossil-fuel reserves and their negative environmental impact, new energy schemes must point towards alternative ecological processes. Efficient hydrogen evolution from wat...
- 2016-12-15 A metal-free electrocatalyst for carbon dioxide reduction to multi-carbon hyd...
- Electroreduction of carbon dioxide into higher-energy liquid fuels and chemicals is a promising but challenging renewable energy conversion technology. Among the electrocatalysts screened so far for c...
- 2016-12-15 High-throughput computational design of cathode coatings for Li-ion batteries
- Cathode degradation is a key factor that limits the lifetime of Li-ion batteries. To identify functional coatings that can suppress this degradation, we present a high-throughput density functional th...
- 2016-12-15 Directional interlayer spin-valley transfer in two-dimensional heterostructur...
- Van der Waals heterostructures formed by two different monolayer semiconductors have emerged as a promising platform for new optoelectronic and spin/valleytronic applications. In addition to its atomi...
- 2016-12-15 Activity targets for nanostructured platinum-group-metal-free catalysts in hy...
- Fuel cells are the zero-emission automotive power source that best preserves the advantages of gasoline automobiles: low upfront cost, long driving range and fast refuelling. To make fuel-cell cars a ...
- 2016-12-15 Oxygen vacancies enhance pseudocapacitive charge storage properties of MoO3−...
- The short charging times and high power capabilities associated with capacitive energy storage make this approach an attractive alternative to batteries. One limitation of electrochemical capacitors i...
- 2016-12-15 The renaissance of hydrides as energy materials
- Materials based on hydrides have been the linchpin in the development of several practical energy storage technologies, of which the most prominent example is nickel–metal hydride batteries. Motivate...
- 2016-12-15 Developing a scalable artificial photosynthesis technology through nanomateri...
- An artificial photosynthetic system that directly produces fuels from sunlight could provide an approach to scalable energy storage and a technology for the carbon-neutral production of high-energy-de...
- 2016-12-15 Tunable Wavelength Enhanced Photoelectrochemical Cells from Surface Plasmon R...
- Photocatalysis is a promising technology for renewable energy production. Many photocatalysis have realized the visible-light-driven catalytic activity. However, it is still difficult to achieve the e...
- 2016-12-15 The role of nanotechnology in the development of battery materials for electr...
- A significant amount of battery research and development is underway, both in academia and industry, to meet the demand for electric vehicle applications. When it comes to designing and fabricating el...
- 2016-12-09 Nanotechnology for environmentally sustainable electromobility
- Electric vehicles (EVs) powered by lithium-ion batteries (LIBs) or proton exchange membrane hydrogen fuel cells (PEMFCs) offer important potential climate change mitigation effects when combined with ...
- 2016-12-09 Sensitive electromechanical sensors using viscoelastic graphene-polymer nanoc...
- Despite its widespread use in nanocomposites, the effect of embedding graphene in highly viscoelastic polymer matrices is not well understood. We added graphene to a lightly cross-linked polysilicone,...
- 2016-12-08 Photocatalytic hydrogen generation from hydriodic acid using methylammonium l...
- The solar-driven splitting of hydrohalic acids (HX) is an important and fast growing research direction for H2 production. In addition to the hydrogen, the resulting chemicals (X2/X3−) can be used to...
- 2016-12-08 Centimetre-scale micropore alignment in oriented polycrystalline metal–organ...
- The fabrication of oriented, crystalline films of metal–organic frameworks (MOFs) is a critical step toward their application to advanced technologies such as optics, microelectronics, microfluidics ...
- 2016-12-08 Ultra-smooth glassy graphene thin films for flexible transparent circuits
- Large-area graphene thin films are prized in flexible and transparent devices. We report on a type of glassy graphene that is in an intermediate state between glassy carbon and graphene and that has h...
- 2016-12-06 Networking Pyrolyzed Zeolitic Imidazolate Frameworks by Carbon Nanotubes Impr...
- A high-performance nonprecious-metal oxygen-reduction electrocatalyst is prepared via in situ growth of bimetallic zeolitic imidazolate frameworks on multiwalled carbon nanotubes (CNT) followed by ads...
- 2016-12-02 Quantifying electronic band interactions in van der Waals materials using ang...
- High electron mobility is one of graphene’s key properties, exploited for applications and fundamental research alike. Highest mobility values are found in heterostructures of graphene and hexagonal ...