This is a review of atomic pair distribution function (PDF) analysis as applied to the study of
molecular materials. The PDF method is a powerful approach to study short-and …

Rechargeable battery technologies have ignited major breakthroughs in contemporary
society, including but not limited to revolutions in transportation, electronics, and grid energy …

The trade-off between activity and stability of oxygen evolution reaction (OER) catalysts in
proton exchange membrane water electrolyzer (PEMWE) is challenging. Crystalline IrO2 …

The difficulty in characterizing the complex structures of nanoporous carbon electrodes has
led to a lack of clear design principles with which to improve supercapacitors. Pore size has …

Molten ZnCl 2 hydrates are ionic liquids at room temperature, which exhibit intriguing
physical and electrochemical properties. Continuous efforts have been devoted over several …

Self-organized solitons confined to an optical resonator would offer unique capabilities for
experiments in communication, computation and sensing with light. Here, we report the …

Hard carbon possesses the ability to store Li, Na, and K ions between stacked sp2 carbon
layers and voids (micropores). We have explored hard carbon as a candidate for negative …

In this critical review we examine the current state of our knowledge in respect of the nature
of the active sites in copper containing zeolites for the selective conversion of methane to …

MXenes are a rapidly growing class of 2D transition metal carbides and nitrides, finding
applications in fields ranging from energy storage to electromagnetic interference shielding …

Metal fluorides, promising lithium-ion battery cathode materials, have been classified as
conversion materials due to the reconstructive phase transitions widely presumed to occur …