- 2017-03-09 Highly selective and active CO2 reduction electrocatalysts based on cobalt ph...
- Electrochemical reduction of carbon dioxide with renewable energy is a sustainable way of producing carbon-neutral fuels. However, developing active, selective and stable electrocatalysts is challengi...
- 2017-03-09 Ultrafast fluxional exchange dynamics in electrolyte solvation sheath of lith...
- Lithium cation is the charge carrier in lithium-ion battery. Electrolyte solution in lithium-ion battery is usually based on mixed solvents consisting of polar carbonates with different aliphatic chai...
- 2017-03-09 Unlocking the capacity of iodide for high-energy-density zinc/polyiodide and ...
- Highly soluble iodide/triiodide (I-/I3-) couples are one of the most promising redox-active species for high-energy-density electrochemical energy storage applications. However, to ensure high reversi...
- 2017-03-09 Nanostructured material-based biofuel cells: recent advances and future prosp...
- During the past decade, biofuel cells (BFCs) have emerged as an emerging technology on account of their ability to directly generate electricity from biologically renewable catalysts and fuels. Due to...
- 2017-03-09 A two-dimensional conjugated aromatic polymer via C–C coupling reaction
- The fabrication of crystalline 2D conjugated polymers with well-defined repeating units and in-built porosity presents a significant challenge to synthetic chemists. Yet they present an appealing targ...
- 2017-03-09 Efficient oxygen reduction catalysis by subnanometer Pt alloy nanowires
- The common knowledge is that Pt and Pt alloy nanoparticles (NPs) less than 2 nm are not desirable for oxygen reduction reaction (ORR). However, whether the same trend is expected in Pt-based nanowires...
- 2017-03-09 Low-bandgap mixed tin–lead iodide perovskite absorbers with long carrier lif...
- Tandem solar cells using only metal-halide perovskite sub-cells are an attractive choice for next-generation solar cells. However, the progress in developing efficient all-perovskite tandem solar cell...
- 2017-03-09 Evidence for anionic redox activity in a tridimensional-ordered Li-rich posit...
- Lithium-ion battery cathode materials have relied on cationic redox reactions until the recent discovery of anionic redox activity in Li-rich layered compounds which enables capacities as high as 300 ...
- 2017-03-09 The rapid evolution of highly efficient perovskite solar cells
- Perovskite solar cells (PSCs) have attracted much attention because of their rapid rise to 22% efficiencies. Here, we review the rapid evolution of PSCs as they enter a new phase that could revolution...
- 2017-03-08 Electrolyte additive enabled fast charging and stable cycling lithium metal b...
- Batteries using lithium (Li) metal as anodes are considered promising energy storage systems because of their high energy densities. However, safety concerns associated with dendrite growth along with...
- 2017-03-08 Colloidal alloys with preassembled clusters and spheres
- Self-assembly is a powerful approach for constructing colloidal crystals, where spheres, rods or faceted particles can build up a myriad of structures. Nevertheless, many complex or low-coordination a...
- 2017-03-03 Unravelling surface and interfacial structures of a metal-organic framework b...
- Metal-organic frameworks (MOFs) are crystalline porous materials with designable topology, porosity and functionality, having promising applications in gas storage and separation, ion conduction and c...
- 2017-03-03 Self-assembly of electronically abrupt borophene/organic lateral heterostruct...
- Two-dimensional boron sheets (that is, borophene) have recently been realized experimentally and found to have promising electronic properties. Because electronic devices and systems require the integ...
- 2017-03-03 Interface confined hydrogen evolution reaction in zero valent metal nanoparti...
- Interface confined reactions, which can modulate the bonding of reactants with catalytic centres and influence the rate of the mass transport from bulk solution, have emerged as a viable strategy for ...
- 2017-03-03 High performance of a cobalt–nitrogen complex for the reduction and reductiv...
- Replacement of precious noble metal catalysts with low-cost, non-noble heterogeneous catalysts for chemoselective reduction and reductive coupling of nitro compounds holds tremendous promise for the c...
- 2017-03-03 2D metal carbides and nitrides (MXenes) for energy storage
- The family of 2D transition metal carbides, carbonitrides and nitrides (collectively referred to as MXenes) has expanded rapidly since the discovery of Ti3C2 in 2011. The materials reported so far alw...
- 2017-03-03 Lithium battery chemistries enabled by solid-state electrolytes
- Solid-state electrolytes are attracting increasing interest for electrochemical energy storage technologies. In this Review, we provide a background overview and discuss the state of the art, ion-tran...
- 2017-03-03 An efficient and pH-universal ruthenium-based catalyst for the hydrogen evolu...
- The hydrogen evolution reaction (HER) is a crucial step in electrochemical water splitting and demands an efficient, durable and cheap catalyst if it is to succeed in real applications. For an energy-...
- 2017-03-03 Chemical Modification of Semiconductor Surfaces for Molecular Electronics
- Inserting molecular monolayers within metal/semiconductor interfaces provides one of the most powerful expressions of how minute chemical modifications can affect electronic devices. This topic also h...
- 2017-03-03 Molecular Modeling of Thermodynamic and Transport Properties for CO2 and Aque...
- Molecular simulation techniques using classical force-fields occupy the space between ab initio quantum mechanical methods and phenomenological correlations. In particular, Monte Carlo and molecular d...