The role of cation vacancies in electrode materials for enhanced electrochemical energy storage: synthesis, advanced characterization, and fundamentals

P Gao, Z Chen, Y Gong, R Zhang, H Liu… - Advanced Energy …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
The incorporation of atomic scale defects, such as cation vacancies, in electrode materials is
considered an effective strategy to improve their electrochemical energy storage …

Solution-state nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy of crystalline cellulosic materials using a direct dissolution ionic liquid electrolyte

L Fliri, K Heise, T Koso, AR Todorov, DR Del Cerro… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Owing to its high sustainable production capacity, cellulose represents a valuable feedstock
for the development of more sustainable alternatives to currently used fossil fuel-based …

Calcium promotes persistent soil organic matter by altering microbial transformation of plant litter

IA Shabtai, RC Wilhelm, SA Schweizer… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Calcium (Ca) can contribute to soil organic carbon (SOC) persistence by mediating physico-
chemical interactions between organic compounds and minerals. Yet, Ca is also crucial for …

Investigation of amorphous carbon in nanostructured carbon materials (a comparative study by TEM, XPS, Raman spectroscopy and XRD)

SI Moseenkov, VL Kuznetsov, NA Zolotarev… - Materials, 2023 - mdpi.com
Amorphous carbon (AC) is present in the bulk and on the surface of nanostructured carbon
materials (NCMs) and exerts a significant effect on the physical, chemical and mechanical …

[HTML][HTML] Profex: a graphical user interface for the Rietveld refinement program BGMN

N Doebelin, R Kleeberg - Applied Crystallography, 2015 - journals.iucr.org
Profex is a graphical user interface for the Rietveld refinement program BGMN. Its interface
focuses on preserving BGMN's powerful and flexible scripting features by giving direct …

Effective passivation of exfoliated black phosphorus transistors against ambient degradation

JD Wood, SA Wells, D Jariwala, KS Chen, EK Cho… - Nano …, 2014 - ACS Publications
Unencapsulated, exfoliated black phosphorus (BP) flakes are found to chemically degrade
upon exposure to ambient conditions. Atomic force microscopy, electrostatic force …

[HTML][HTML] Quantification of the influence of increased pre-stretching on microstructure-strength relationships in the Al–Cu–Li alloy AA2195

BI Rodgers, PB Prangnell - Acta Materialia, 2016 - Elsevier
The effect of increasing pre-stretching to higher levels, than are currently used in industrial
practice, has been investigated on the strength, microstructure, and precipitation kinetics …

Origin of additional capacities in metal oxide lithium-ion battery electrodes

YY Hu, Z Liu, KW Nam, OJ Borkiewicz, J Cheng… - Nature materials, 2013 - nature.com
Metal fluorides/oxides (MF x/M x O y) are promising electrodes for lithium-ion batteries that
operate through conversion reactions. These reactions are associated with much higher …

The critical role of point defects in improving the specific capacitance of δ-MnO2 nanosheets

P Gao, P Metz, T Hey, Y Gong, D Liu… - Nature …, 2017 - nature.com
Abstract 3D porous nanostructures built from 2D δ-MnO2 nanosheets are an
environmentally friendly and industrially scalable class of supercapacitor electrode material …

Recombinant spidroins fully replicate primary mechanical properties of natural spider silk

CH Bowen, B Dai, CJ Sargent, W Bai… - …, 2018 - ACS Publications
Despite significant efforts to engineer their heterologous production, recombinant spider silk
proteins (spidroins) have yet to replicate the unparalleled combination of high strength and …