Advances in lithium–sulfur batteries: from academic research to commercial viability

Y Chen, T Wang, H Tian, D Su, Q Zhang… - Advanced …, 2021‏ - Wiley Online Library
Lithium‐ion batteries, which have revolutionized portable electronics over the past three
decades, were eventually recognized with the 2019 Nobel Prize in chemistry. As the energy …

Angle-resolved photoemission studies of quantum materials

JA Sobota, Y He, ZX Shen - Reviews of Modern Physics, 2021‏ - APS
The physics of quantum materials is dictated by many-body interactions and mathematical
concepts such as symmetry and topology that have transformed our understanding of matter …

Lightweight metallic MgB2 mediates polysulfide redox and promises high-energy-density lithium-sulfur batteries

Q Pang, CY Kwok, D Kundu, X Liang, LF Nazar - Joule, 2019‏ - cell.com
The lithium-sulfur battery, despite possessing high theoretical specific energy, faces
practical challenges of polysulfide shuttling and low cell-level energy density and hence …

Rediscovering the crystal chemistry of borides

G Akopov, MT Yeung, RB Kaner - Advanced Materials, 2017‏ - Wiley Online Library
For decades, borides have been primarily studied as crystallographic oddities. With such a
wide variety of structures (a quick survey of the Inorganic Crystal Structure Database counts …

[HTML][HTML] Modern microwave methods in solid-state inorganic materials chemistry: From fundamentals to manufacturing

HJ Kitchen, SR Vallance, JL Kennedy… - Chemical …, 2014‏ - ACS Publications
In the materials manufacturing sector, energy efficiency, sustainability, and economic
viability have become increasingly important to industry and society in recent years …

Experimental verification of a negative index of refraction

RA Shelby, DR Smith, S Schultz - science, 2001‏ - science.org
We present experimental scattering data at microwave frequencies on a structured
metamaterial that exhibits a frequency band where the effective index of refraction (n) is …

Review of the superconducting properties of MgB2

C Buzea, T Yamashita - Superconductor Science and Technology, 2001‏ - iopscience.iop.org
This review paper illustrates the main normal and superconducting state properties of
magnesium diboride, a material known since the early 1950s but only recently discovered to …

Two-Dimensional Anti-Van't Hoff/Le Bel Array AlB6 with High Stability, Unique Motif, Triple Dirac Cones, and Superconductivity

B Song, Y Zhou, HM Yang, JH Liao… - Journal of the …, 2019‏ - ACS Publications
We report the discovery of a rule-breaking two-dimensional aluminum boride (AlB6–ptAl–
array) nanosheet with a planar tetracoordinate aluminum (ptAl) array in a tetragonal lattice …

Superconductivity of Metallic Boron in

J Kortus, II Mazin, KD Belashchenko, VP Antropov… - Physical Review Letters, 2001‏ - APS
Boron in MgB 2 forms stacks of honeycomb layers with magnesium as a space filler. Band
structure calculations indicate that Mg is substantially ionized, and the bands at the Fermi …

Superconductivity of : Covalent Bonds Driven Metallic

JM An, WE Pickett - Physical Review Letters, 2001‏ - APS
A series of calculations on MgB 2 and related isoelectronic systems indicates that the layer
of Mg 2+ ions lowers the nonbonding B π (pz) bands relative to the bonding σ (sp xpy) …