- 2017-06-02 Rationally designed mineralization for selective recovery of the rare earth e...
- The increasing demand for rare earth (RE) elements in advanced materials for permanent magnets, rechargeable batteries, catalysts and lamp phosphors necessitates environmentally friendly approaches fo...
- 2017-06-02 Virtual substrate method for nanomaterials characterization
- Characterization techniques available for bulk or thin-film solid-state materials have been extended to substrate-supported nanomaterials, but generally non-quantitatively. This is because the nanomat...
- 2017-06-02 Solid-state ensemble of highly entangled photon sources at rubidium atomic tr...
- Semiconductor InAs/GaAs quantum dots grown by the Stranski–Krastanov method are among the leading candidates for the deterministic generation of polarization-entangled photon pairs. Despite remarkabl...
- 2017-06-02 Dye-sensitized solar cells for efficient power generation under ambient light...
- Solar cells that operate efficiently under indoor lighting are of great practical interest as they can serve as electric power sources for portable electronics and devices for wireless sensor networks...
- 2017-06-02 Unified model for singlet fission within a non-conjugated covalent pentacene ...
- When molecular dimers, crystalline films or molecular aggregates absorb a photon to produce a singlet exciton, spin-allowed singlet fission may produce two triplet excitons that can be used to generat...
- 2017-05-26 Three-dimensional holey-graphene/niobia composite architectures for ultrahigh...
- Nanostructured materials have shown extraordinary promise for electrochemical energy storage but are usually limited to electrodes with rather low mass loading (~1 milligram per square centimeter) bec...
- 2017-05-26 Mesoporous metallic rhodium nanoparticles
- Mesoporous noble metals are an emerging class of cutting-edge nanostructured catalysts due to their abundant exposed active sites and highly accessible surfaces. Although various noble metal (e.g. Pt,...
- 2017-05-26 Efficient hydrogen production on MoNi4 electrocatalysts with fast water disso...
- Various platinum-free electrocatalysts have been explored for hydrogen evolution reaction in acidic solutions. However, in economical water-alkali electrolysers, sluggish water dissociation kinetics (...
- 2017-05-26 Tuning colloidal quantum dot band edge positions through solution-phase surfa...
- Band edge positions of semiconductors determine their functionality in many optoelectronic applications such as photovoltaics, photoelectrochemical cells and light emitting diodes. Here we show that b...
- 2017-05-26 Diffusive and martensitic nucleation kinetics in solid-solid transitions of c...
- Solid–solid transitions between crystals follow diffusive nucleation, or various diffusionless transitions, but these kinetics are difficult to predict and observe. Here we observed the rich kinetics...
- 2017-05-26 New Blatter-type radicals from a bench-stable carbene
- Stable benzotriazinyl radicals (Blatter’s radicals) recently attracted considerable interest as building blocks for functional materials. The existing strategies to derivatize Blatter’s radicals are...
- 2017-05-26 Controllable cyanation of carbon-hydrogen bonds by zeolite crystals over mang...
- The synthesis of organic nitriles without using toxic cyanides is in great demand but challenging to make. Here we report an environmentally benign and cost-efficient synthesis of nitriles from the di...
- 2017-05-26 Electrolyte design strategies and research progress for room-temperature sodi...
- Electrolyte design or functional development is very effective at promoting the performance of sodium-ion batteries, which are attractive for electrochemical energy storage devices due to abundant sod...
- 2017-05-22 Formation of printable granular and colloidal chains through capillary effect...
- One-dimensional conductive particle assembly holds promise for a variety of practical applications, in particular for a new generation of electronic devices. However, synthesis of such chains with pro...
- 2017-05-22 Pore configuration landscape of granular crystallization
- Uncovering grain-scale mechanisms that underlie the disorder–order transition in assemblies of dissipative, athermal particles is a fundamental problem with technological relevance. To date, the stud...
- 2017-05-22 Real-time atomistic observation of structural phase transformations in indivi...
- High-temperature phases of hafnium dioxide have exceptionally high dielectric constants and large bandgaps, but quenching them to room temperature remains a challenge. Scaling the bulk form to nanocry...
- 2017-05-22 Underwater Leidenfrost nanochemistry for creation of size-tailored zinc perox...
- The dynamic underwater chemistry seen in nature is inspiring for the next generation of eco-friendly nanochemistry. In this context, green synthesis of size-tailored nanoparticles in a facile and scal...
- 2017-05-22 Direct Conversion of Methane to Value-Added Chemicals over Heterogeneous Cata...
- The quest for an efficient process to convert methane efficiently to fuels and high value-added chemicals such as olefins and aromatics is motivated by their increasing demands and recently discovered...
- 2017-05-22 Homogeneous Functionalization of Methane
- One of the remaining “grand challenges” in chemistry is the development of a next generation, less expensive, cleaner process that can allow the vast reserves of methane from natural gas to augment ...
- 2017-05-22 Structural Studies of Hydrographenes
- As a result of the unique physical and electrical properties, graphene continues to attract the interest of a large segment of the scientific community. Since graphene does not occur naturally, the ab...