- 2017-01-17 A Grand Avenue to Au Nanocluster Electrochemiluminescence
- In most cases of semiconductor quantum dot nanocrystals, the inherent optical and electrochemical properties of these interesting nanomaterials do not translate into expected efficient electrochemilum...
- 2017-01-13 Texturing in situ: N,S-enriched hierarchically porous carbon as a highly acti...
- Facile yet rational design of an efficient reversible oxygen electrocatalyst is critical for many renewable energy conversion and storage technologies. Here we report a simple and general synthetic pr...
- 2017-01-13 Combining theory and experiment in electrocatalysis: Insights into materials ...
- Electrocatalysis plays a central role in clean energy conversion, enabling a number of sustainable processes for future technologies. This review discusses design strategies for state-of-the-art heter...
- 2017-01-11 Suppressed decomposition of organometal halide perovskites by impermeable ele...
- The area of thin-film photovoltaics has been overwhelmed by organometal halide perovskites. Unfortunately, serious stability concerns arise with perovskite solar cells. For example, methyl-ammonium le...
- 2017-01-11 Improved ethanol electrooxidation performance by shortening Pd–Ni active sit...
- Incorporating oxophilic metals into noble metal-based catalysts represents an emerging strategy to improve the catalytic performance of electrocatalysts in fuel cells. However, effects of the distance...
- 2017-01-11 High power rechargeable magnesium/iodine battery chemistry
- Rechargeable magnesium batteries have attracted considerable attention because of their potential high energy density and low cost. However, their development has been severely hindered because of the...
- 2017-01-11 Homogeneous Transition Metal Catalysis of Acceptorless Dehydrogenative Alcoho...
- The different types of acceptorless alcohol dehydrogenation (AAD) reactions are discussed, followed by the catalysts and mechanisms involved. Special emphasis is put on the common appearance in AAD of...
- 2017-01-10 Slow cooling and efficient extraction of C-exciton hot carriers in MoS2 monol...
- In emerging optoelectronic applications, such as water photolysis, exciton fission and novel photovoltaics involving low-dimensional nanomaterials, hot-carrier relaxation and extraction mechanisms pla...
- 2017-01-10 A stable lithiated silicon–chalcogen battery via synergetic chemical couplin...
- Li-ion batteries dominate portable energy storage due to their exceptional power and energy characteristics. Yet, various consumer devices and electric vehicles demand higher specific energy and power...
- 2017-01-10 3D nitrogen-doped graphene foam with encapsulatedgermanium/nitrogen-doped gra...
- Flexible electrochemical energy storage devices have attracted extensive attention as promising power sources for the ever-growing field of flexible and wearable electronic products. However, the rati...
- 2017-01-10 Catalyst support effects on hydrogen spillover
- Hydrogen spillover is the surface migration of activated hydrogen atoms from a metal catalyst particle, on which they are generated, onto the catalyst support. The phenomenon has been much studied and...
- 2017-01-10 Intrinsically stretchable and healable semiconducting polymer for organic tra...
- Thin-film field-effect transistors are essential elements of stretchable electronic devices for wearable electronics. All of the materials and components of such transistors need to be stretchable and...
- 2017-01-10 Highly stretchable polymer semiconductor films through the nanoconfinement ef...
- Soft and conformable wearable electronics require stretchable semiconductors, but existing ones typically sacrifice charge transport mobility to achieve stretchability. We explore a concept based on t...
- 2017-01-10 Ti3C2 MXene co-catalyst on metal sulfide photo-absorbers for enhanced visible...
- Scalable and sustainable solar hydrogen production through photocatalytic water splitting requires highly active and stable earth-abundant co-catalysts to replace expensive and rare platinum. Here we ...
- 2017-01-10 Activating lattice oxygen redox reactions in metal oxides to catalyse oxygen ...
- Understanding how materials that catalyse the oxygen evolution reaction (OER) function is essential for the development of efficient energy-storage technologies. The traditional understanding of the O...
- 2017-01-10 Hollow Nano- and Microstructures as Catalysts
- Catalysis is at the core of almost every established and emerging chemical process and also plays a central role in the quest for novel technologies for the sustainable production and conversion of en...
- 2017-01-10 The mechanics and design of a lightweight three-dimensional graphene assembly
- Recent advances in three-dimensional (3D) graphene assembly have shown how we can make solid porous materials that are lighter than air. It is plausible that these solid materials can be mechanically ...
- 2017-01-10 Exploiting a robust biopolymer network binder for an ultrahigh-areal-capacity...
- High-loading electrodes play a crucial role in the practical applications of high-energy-density batteries, which are especially challenging for lithium–sulfur (Li–S) batteries. Herein, a mechanical...
- 2017-01-10 Synthesis of single-crystal-like nanoporous carbon membranes and their applic...
- Nanoporous graphitic carbon membranes with defined chemical composition and pore architecture are novel nanomaterials that are actively pursued. Compared with easy-to-make porous carbon powders that d...
- 2017-01-04 Femtosecond photo-switching of interface polaritons in black phosphorus heter...
- The possibility of hybridizing collective electronic motion with mid-infrared light to form surface polaritons has made van der Waals layered materials a versatile platform for extreme light confineme...