- 2015-06-05 Efficient inverted polymer solar cells employing favourable molecular orienta...
- Improving the power conversion efficiency of polymer-based bulk-heterojunction solar cells is a critical issue. Here, we show that high efficiencies of ∼10% can be obtained using the crystalline poly...
- 2015-06-05 Flexible supercapacitors based on paper substrates: a new paradigm for low-co...
- Paper-based supercapacitors (SCs), a novel and interesting group of flexible energy storage devices, are attracting more and more attention from both industry and academia. Cellulose papers with a uni...
- 2015-06-05 Carbon cycle in advanced coal chemical engineering
- This review summarizes how the carbon cycle occurs and how to reduce CO2 emissions in highly efficient carbon utilization from the most abundant carbon source, coal. Nowadays, more and more atten...
- 2015-05-31 High-performance photovoltaic perovskite layers fabricated through intramolec...
- Published Online May 21 2015 Science DOI: 10.1126/science.aaa9272 The band gap of formamidinium lead iodide (FAPbI3) perovskites allows broader absorption of the solar spectrum compared to conventiona...
- 2015-05-31 High-performance green flexible electronics based on biodegradable cellulose ...
- Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7170 doi:10.1038/ncomms8170 Published 26 May 2015 Today’s consumer electronics, such as cell phones, tablets and other portable electronic devices, are typica...
- 2015-05-31 Antimony-doped graphene nanoplatelets
- Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7123 doi:10.1038/ncomms8123 Published 22 May 2015 Heteroatom doping into the graphitic frameworks have been intensively studied for the development of metal-fr...
- 2015-05-31 External stimulation-controllable heat-storage ceramics
- Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7037 doi:10.1038/ncomms8037 Published 12 May 2015 Commonly available heat-storage materials cannot usually store the energy for a prolonged period. If a...
- 2015-05-31 Spatially and temporally resolved gas distributions around heterogeneous cata...
- Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7076 doi:10.1038/ncomms8076 Published 08 May 2015 Visualizing and measuring the gas distribution in close proximity to a working catalyst is crucial for unders...
- 2015-05-31 Electrochemical polymerization of pyrene derivatives on functionalized carbon...
- Nature Communications 6, Article number: 7040 doi:10.1038/ncomms8040 Published 06 May 2015 Electrochemical energy-storage devices have the potential to be clean and efficient, but their current...
- 2015-05-31 In-operando high-speed tomography of lithium-ion batteries during thermal run...
- Nature Communications 6, Article number: 6924 doi:10.1038/ncomms7924 Published 28 April 2015 Prevention and mitigation of thermal runaway presents one of the greatest challenges for the safe op...
- 2015-05-27 Hydrogen purification: MOF membranes put to the test
- Tina M. Nenoff Nature Chemistry 7, 377–378 (2015) doi:10.1038/nchem.2218 Published online 30 March 2015 http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n5/full/nchem.2218.html Membranes are key components for...
- 2015-05-27 OXYGEN-EVOLVING COMPLEX
- The state of manganese Anne Pichon Nature Chemistry 7, 465 (2015) doi:10.1038/nchem.2275 Published online 20 May 2015 http://www.nature.com/nchem/journal/v7/n6/full/nchem.2275.html Proc. Natl Acad. Sc...
- 2015-05-27 The critical role of phase-transfer catalysis in aprotic sodium oxygen batter...
- Better understanding of the chemistry of rechargeable metal–oxygen batteries is needed to fulfil their potential. It is now shown that proton phase-transfer catalysts drive Na–O2 batteries, transpor...
- 2015-05-03 Conducting polymer nanostructures for photocatalysis under visible light
- Visible-light-responsive photocatalysts can directly harvest energy from solar light, offering a desirable way to solve energy and environment issues1. Here, we show that one-dimensional poly(diphenyl...
- 2015-05-03 Picosecond energy transfer and multiexciton transfer outpaces Auger recombina...
- Fluorescence resonance energy transfer (FRET) enables photosynthetic light harvesting1, wavelength downconversion in light-emitting diodes2 (LEDs), and optical biosensing schemes3. The rate and e...
- 2015-05-03 Combined biomass valorization and hydrogen production in a photoelectrochemic...
- In a typical hydrogen-producing photoelectrochemical cell (PEC), water reduction at the cathode (producing hydrogen) is accompanied by water oxidation at the anode (producing oxyge...
- 2015-05-03 Highly emissive platinum(II) metallacages
- Light-emitting materials, especially those with tunable wavelengths, attract considerable attention for applications in optoelectronic devices, fluorescent probes, sensors and so on. Many species eval...
- 2015-05-03 Supramolecular ferroelectrics
- Supramolecular chemistry uses non-covalent interactions to coax molecules into forming ordered assemblies. The construction of ordered materials with these reversible bonds has led to dramatic innovat...
- 2015-05-03 Assembling molecular Sierpiński triangle fractals
- Fractals, being “exactly the same at every scale or nearly the same at different scales” as defined by Benoit B. Mandelbrot, are complicated yet fascinating patterns that are important in aesthetics...
- 2015-05-03 Stabilizing triplet excited states for ultralong organic phosphorescence
- The control of the emission properties of synthetic organic molecules through molecular design has led to the development of high-performance optoelectronic devices with tunable emission colours, high...