- 2017-04-05 Separation of Semiconducting Carbon Nanotubes for Flexible and Stretchable El...
- Electronics that are soft, conformal, and stretchable are highly desirable for wearable electronics, prosthetics, and robotics. Among the various available electronic materials, single walled carbon n...
- 2017-04-05 Pore-Scale Geochemical Reactivity Associated with CO2 Storage: New Frontiers ...
- The reactivity of carbonate and silicate minerals is at the heart of porosity and pore geometry changes in rocks injected with CO2, which ultimately control the evolution of flow and transport propert...
- 2017-04-05 Thieno[3,4-b]thiophene-Based Novel Small-Molecule Optoelectronic Materials
- Because of the tailorable photoelectric properties derived from judicious molecular design and large-area and low-temperature processability especially on flexible substrates, design and synthesis of ...
- 2017-04-05 Visualizing excitations at buried heterojunctions in organic semiconductor bl...
- Interfaces play a crucial role in semiconductor devices, but in many device architectures they are nanostructured, disordered and buried away from the surface of the sample. Conventional optical, X-ra...
- 2017-04-05 Real-time impedance monitoring of oxygen reduction during surface modificatio...
- Improvement of solid oxide fuel cells strongly relies on the development of cathode materials with high catalytic activity for the oxygen reduction reaction. Excellent activity was found for perovskit...
- 2017-04-05 Revealing the reaction mechanisms of Li–O2 batteries using environmental tra...
- The performances of a Li–O2 battery depend on a complex interplay between the reaction mechanism at the cathode, the chemical structure and the morphology of the reaction products, and their spatial ...
- 2017-03-31 A reversible lithium–CO2 battery with Ru nanoparticles as a cathode catalyst
- Li–CO2 batteries have attracted wide attention owing to their high energy density and ability to utilize carbon dioxide. However, current Li–CO2 batteries still suffer from several unresolved proble...
- 2017-03-31 Fundamental insights into interfacial catalysis
- Surface and interfacial catalysis plays a vital role in chemical industries, electrochemistry and photochemical reactions. The challenges of modern chemistry are to optimize the chemical reaction proc...
- 2017-03-31 Arylation of hydrocarbons enabled by organosilicon reagents and weakly coordi...
- Over the past 80 years, phenyl cation intermediates have been implicated in a variety of C–H arylation reactions. Although these examples have inspired several theoretical and mechanistic studies, ar...
- 2017-03-30 Extremely efficient internal exciton dissociation through edge states in laye...
- Understanding and controlling charge and energy flow in state-of-the-art semiconductor quantum-wells has enabled high-efficiency optoelectronic devices. Two-dimensional Ruddlesden-Popper perovskites a...
- 2017-03-30 Low-temperature hydrogen production from water and methanol using Pt/α-MoC c...
- Polymer electrolyte membrane fuel cells (PEMFCs) running on hydrogen are attractive alternative power supplies for a range of applications, with in situ release of the required hydrogen from a stable ...
- 2017-03-30 Status and prospects of polymer electrolytes for solid-state Li–O2 (air) bat...
- Li–air batteries have drawn considerable attention due to their high energy density and promising implementation in long-range electric vehicle and wearable electronic devices. Nevertheless, safety c...
- 2017-03-30 Active sites for CO2 hydrogenation to methanol on Cu/ZnO catalysts
- The active sites over commercial copper/zinc oxide/aluminum oxide (Cu/ZnO/Al2O3) catalysts for carbon dioxide (CO2) hydrogenation to methanol, the Zn-Cu bimetallic sites or ZnO-Cu interfacial sites, h...
- 2017-03-23 Periodic potentials in hybrid van der Waals heterostructures formed by supram...
- The rise of 2D materials made it possible to form heterostructures held together by weak interplanar van der Waals interactions. Within such van der Waals heterostructures, the occurrence of 2D period...
- 2017-03-23 Recent Advances in Ultrathin Two-Dimensional Nanomaterials
- Since the discovery of mechanically exfoliated graphene in 2004, research on ultrathin two-dimensional (2D) nanomaterials has grown exponentially in the fields of condensed matter physics, material sc...
- 2017-03-23 Reversible Hydrogenation of Carbon Dioxide to Formic Acid and Methanol: Lewis...
- New and sustainable energy vectors are required as a consequence of the environmental issues associated with the continued use of fossil fuels. H2 is a potential clean energy source, but as a res...
- 2017-03-20 Solvent-switchable continuous-breathing behaviour in a diamondoid metal–orga...
- Understanding the behaviour of flexible metal–organic frameworks (MOFs)—porous crystalline materials that undergo a structural change upon exposure to an external stimulus—underpins their design as...
- 2017-03-20 Solar-driven reforming of lignocellulose to H2 with a CdS/CdOx photocatalyst
- Lignocellulose is Earth’s most abundant form of biomass and its valorization to H2 is a key objective for the generation of renewable fuels. Solar-driven photocatalytic reforming of lignocellulose to...
- 2017-03-20 Photoelectrochemical water splitting in separate oxygen and hydrogen cells
- Solar water splitting provides a promising path for sustainable hydrogen production and solar energy storage. One of the greatest challenges towards large-scale utilization of this technology is reduc...
- 2017-03-20 Direct solar-to-hydrogen conversion via inverted metamorphic multi-junction s...
- Solar water splitting via multi-junction semiconductor photoelectrochemical cells provides direct conversion of solar energy to stored chemical energy as hydrogen bonds. Economical hydrogen production...